The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-21 00:00:00

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Mr. Alderman EVANS said, that Mr. Chapman having
resigned, he did not think they could do better than bring
their late chairman, Mr. Benn, with his great experience,
once more into the committee.
Mr. ATKIN said he should like much to see Mr. Benn in
the committee.

Mr. Chapman's letter was then ordered to be entered on
the,books, and the committee separated.

THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN VERSUS THE

PORT OF LIVERPOOL,

Our contemporary the Manchester Guardian never, we
observe, leo slip an opportunity of emitting the rancorous
and spiteful feeling with which he regards the people and
the port of Liverpool. Why such a feeling should exist in
the mind of the leading organ of our cotton-spinning neigh-
bours, we know not. His various gifts as a journalist and a
prophet, a philosopher and a wit, are, we believe, fully ap-
preciated by our fellow-townsmen, who are willing upon all
reasonable occasions to listen with due decorum to his sage
vaticinations, and to admire the profundity of his acquaint-
ance with arithmetic. And yet he lOoks upon us in return
with a malignant hostility which is perfectly unaccountable,
and never fails to do his feeble utmost of injury whenever an
occasion presents itself for levelling a misrepresentation or a
slander against our town.

We bare one of these emanations of paltry spite before us
in his Wednesday's publication, and we quote it entire for
the purpose of enabling our readers to judge of the spirit
from which it emanates :

" FLEETWOOD versus LIVERPOOL.—We have had our
attention called to the widely-differing rates of charges on
the carriage of goods to Manchester, from ports in the north
of Ireland, vid Liverpool and vid Fleetwood ; and two freight
notes are now lying before us, which sufficiently illustrate
the principal points of difference. In both cases the goods
were from Belfast. The material items in these notes we
subjoin :

(LIVERPOOL NOTE.)
Goods. ' Rate. Paid on. Cartage. Total.
Butter, 15 cwt. 1 qr. .. 9s. .. 20s. 8d... Is. 4d... £1 9 0
(FLEETWOOD NOTE.)

Paid on. Total.
Butter, 22 cwt. 2 qr. 14s. 6d. £1 9 6
The ' rate' is the charge per ton between Liverpool and
Manchester ; the paid on' shows, in each case, the freight
from Belfast to the English port, with all dock and port
charges. In the Liverpool note there is a charge of Is. 4d.
for cartage, which, we believe, is is. 6d. per ton : in the
Fleetwood note there is no corresponding charge ; the goods
being transferred, at the quay. from the hold of the vessel to
the railway lurry on which they are conveyed to Manchester.
The total charge for the freight, &c., of this butter, from
Belfast to Manchester, is, via Liverpool, about ls. 9d. per
cwt. ; vid Fleetwood, less than ls. 4d. per cwt. ; being a dif-
ference of about Bs. per ton between these two routes from
the ports in the north of Ireland. The goods come from
Fleetwood to Manchester by railway ; whilst from Liverpool
they come by water conveyance. The great difference in
the cost is, doubtless, chiefly due to the heavy dock and port
charges at Liverpool ; but the matter is one of some impor-
tance to those importing goods, especially provisions, from
the north of Ireland."

We dare say the grocer's boy who accommodated our
friend with the two documents, upon which he has founded
this venomous attack upon the port of Liverpool, was quite
as ignorant of the meaning of the various terms therein, as
the Guardian himself. Our contemporary says that " the
paid on' shews in each case the freight from Belfast to the
English port, with all dock and port charges ; " and whilst
making this gratuitous assumption, we presume that the
Guardian believed it to be true. We have, however, the
satisfaction of assuring him that it is not true. The sum of
20s. Bd., which, because stated to be " paid on," he con-
cludes to be the freight and port charges of l 5 cwt. 1 qr. of
butter from Belfast to Liverpool, Is nearly 10s. more than
such freight and charges would amount to by steamboat be-
tween the two ports, as the Guardian might easily have dis-
covered if he had been as anxious to learn the truth as to
fling up his heels against us ; and his attack, therefore, and
his argument as well, go for nothing, except what they are—
viz., an emanation of spiteful ignorance. We dare say the
porter at any Manchester coach-office, or any Old Quay
carter, for a gratuity of a pint of ale, would be able to inform
the Guardian that the mystic words " paid on " in a freight
note mean just—paid on, and nothing else in particular.

days ago between two A duel with swords took place a few
Ladies of Paris ! The fair combatants, who are known for
their wit, beauty, and fashion, quarrelled about an affair of
love, and a hostile meeting was the consequence. One of the
ladies was wounded, but we learn not dangerously.

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—We much regret to be obliged
to record one of the most fiend-like outrages that we have
heard of for a long time. Some evil-minded wretch, having
gained admission to the Flax Spinning Mill at Beer's-bridge,
placed a bar of iron between the cogs of a wheel attached to
an upright shaft, by which, when the mill was set on, a
horizontal shaft was smashed, and other parts of the machi-
nery seriously damaged.

In our last we gave a br;ef report of the proceedings at the
first annual meeting of this excellent charity ; and as, pro-
bably, not many of our readers are acquainted with the com-
modious and substantial building which has been erected to
carry out the benevolent objects of the subscribers, we have
been induced to procure a description of it, which we sub-
join :

The building is situate at the lower ends of, and between,
Parliament and Greenland streets, immediately adjoining
(eastward) St. Barnabas' Church.
....

The wh'ole of the building covers an area of 1130 superficial
yards, and cost, according to Mr. Bateman's estimate with
addition, a little above £4OOO.

The accommodation, as regards arrangement and conve-
nience, is superior to anything of a similar kind in the king-
dom, and is chiefly on one floor,—a great desideratum in
hospitals for patients maimed or injured by falls, bruises,

The principal entrance is from Flint-street, by a pede
merited porch, where the building rises the height of two
stories above the basement, in which division, on the grounc'
floor, are—one side of the vestibule, house surgeon's room and
bed-room, and a very neat and commodious committee-
room. On the other side of the vestibule are—a spacious
staircase, matron room, and store-room attached, &c. &c.

The basement floor underneath contains a large and spa-
cious kitchen, with cooking apparatus of different kinds,
scullery, larder, pantries, wine-cellar, &e. On the upper
floor, communicating with the principal or ground floor by
the staircase already mentioned, are, en one side of it—two
wards for female patients, with nurse's room attached,
housemaid's closet, &c. On the other—matron's bedroom,
and servant's ditto, &c., &c.

In the back part of the building, which is one story high,
and a basement on the ground floor, are the wards, nurse-
rooms, &c., on each side of a corridor, 13 feet wide, which
communicates by folding-doors with the vestibule of the
front building; and again, by another vestibule, of nearly the
same width, at the lower end, which leads out by a lodge-
door to Greenland-street.

Four wards contain respectively beds for eight patients,
and two for four, making, in all, in this division, 40 beds.
A peculiar feature in the arrangement of the wards of this
hospital are passages, 7 feet wide, between them, with the
nurse-rooms at their extremities ; in which passages are four
small closets, communicating with the wards by double
doors ' • in these are contained the patients' excretions, &c.,
thereby preserving the purity of the atmosphere of the wards.
This we consider a most important improvement on the old
system. .

The whole of the wards are thoroughly lighted, heated, and
ventilated. The ventilation is the most perfect that possibly
can be imagined ; each patient, in winter or summer, is sup-
plied with a sufficient quantity of pure air of a suitable tem-
perature, while the vitiated air is constantly drawn off at the
height of the ceiling, by flues communicating with a room in
which a stove is kept constantly burning.
At the extreme lower end of the building, and communi-
cating with the corrider, are, a large and well-lighted oper-
ating theatre, with bath-loom, consultation and waiting-
room attached.

There are also in connection with the above apartment a
large and commodious pupil's room, laboratory, and water-
Closets.

On the side of Greenland-street, communicating with the
lower vestibule inside and flight of steps externally, are the
porter's waiting-room and bed-room.
In the basement floor, underneath the above apartment,
are washhouse, drying-closets, laundry, and other conveni-
ences, all communicating with the apartments in the front
basement, by a corridor of the same width as the upper.
It is right to state that the plans of the building were fur-
nished gratuitously by Messrs. Cunningham and Holme, and
have given the greatest possible satisfaction.
[At the meeting of the Dock Committee yesterday, it will
be seen that an annual subscription of £lOO per annum has
been voted to this excellent institution.]

THE NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION

(From the Rev. Robert James M` Ghee's last Letter to
_ _ Lord Stanley.)
_

Ist —lnstead of protecting the rights of conscience, it has
grossly violated them ; and not those of Protestants alone,
but of the unfortunate Roman Catholic population, whom it
was especially intended to protect.
2dly.—lt has totally failed to conciliate or satisfy the Ro-
man Catholics of Ireland.

3dly.—So far from producing concord or united education,
it has intruded more disunion—more discord—more acri-
mony—into the whole nation than any system of education
that ever was propounded in Ireland ; and this not only
among those whom it professed to reconcile, but it has gen-
dered strifes, where strife was never known, and separated
those who had never before felt the bitterness of even a dif-
ference of opinion on the subject. A few brief remarks will
evince the truth of these assertions.
As to its violation of the -rights of conscience of Protes-
tants, it has struck a blow at the very fundamental princi-
ples of our church—namely, the integrity and perfection of
the scriptures as the standard of all true religion—all sound
divine instruction for man. The free and unrestricted right
to use them—the blessing of scriptural education for our
children, that, like Timothy, " from a child they might
know the holy scriptures, which are able to make them wise
unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus."
These principles are incorporated with the very existence of
our church—and to compel us to co-operate in a system
which interdicts God's word in the national schools as a
school-book—and this to meet and justify the principle of
the Papal apostacy, that it is not a proper book for the edu-
cation of children—is to strike a blow at the very founda-
tions of our faith—to exact from us a surrender of principle
—to put in force the most unjustifiable tyranny on the part
of the government to which we neither can nor will submit.
It is not against Protestants alone that this is committed,
but against the whole Roman Catholic lay population of Ire-
land. The Board of Education was a most cruel invasion of
the rights of their consciences. I know how far this was
from your lordship's intention ; but I will explain, with your
lordship's permission. Your lordship labours under the la-
mentable misconception—which I believe is common to too
many British statesmen, even of those best informed in all
other subjects—you imagine that Popery is a system of reli-
gion in which priesthood and laity are all one body, with one
mind and one object. There are some points in which this
is true, but others in which it is totally erroneous. The
Romish hierarchy and priesthood are, by their system, an
incorporated body of tyrants, who keep up, by means of a
duplicity and imposture which they censider perfectly justi-
fiable, the most absolute despotism over the consciences of
the whole lay population. Some individuals are, of course,
less enthralled than others; but if they are not personally
the dupes and slaves of their priests, they are the dupes and
slaves of that esprit de corps which elevates the priesthood,
and renders all the laity slaves in form, at least, if not in
heart—the whole female population are enslaved to the most
abject condition. _

Now, one act of tyranny practised by the Papal priesthood
is the interdicting the Bible to the laity. The rule of their
church is absolute that the laity arc not to dare to have or
use the Bible without permission. This rule they pretend
sometimes to deny or evade : it is, in fact, like many other
of their India-rubber principles, which they dilate or con-
tract according to circumstances. They will swear to an ig-
nbrant liberal Protestant, that there is no such restriction in
their church—while, again, if a poor man dares to have a
Bible, without their leave, they will deny him the sacraments,
or. perhaps, drag the Bible from under his dying pillow, and
burn it on the road.

The grounds en which they exercise this despotic tyranny,
and the imposture by which they justify it to the people, it is
not now my object to prove—it is enough to state the fact.
The priests use their utmost effortstokeep the people in Scrip-
tural ignorance and slavery, and, therefore, they hate Scrip-
tural schools. But vast and growing multitudes of the
poor Roman Catholic people are writhing nnder this ty-
ranny over their consciences—they love Scripture instruc-
tion for their children, and long for it. 'When they
bad only schools in which it was given, they sent their
children to them in thousands ; for, as the priests had
no other schools at the time, they could not take
the children away. But now the Board of Education
has given the priests a power of supplying the people to a
considerable extent with their anti-scriptural schools ; and
thus, instead of promoting or protecting liberty of conscience,
it is a mere engine in the hands of the priesthood for spiritual
oppression—it joins with the priest to trample on this liberty,
and to enslave the consciences of the people. If your lord-
ship demands a fact that proves it to demonstration—that, at
this moment, in defiance of the tyranny of the priests, and
the co-operating despotism of the Board of Education, there
are more than 21,000 Roman catholic children in the schools
of our Church Education Society, and above 31,000 in those
of the London Hibernian Society, independent of the many
thousands far greater than those attending the schools of the
Irish Society—the schools of other societies, and of indivi-
duals, besides those who attend adult schools, and Sunday
schools in Ireland—so that to imagine that the national board
protects the liberty of conscience of the Roman Catholic popu-
lation, is the grossest delusion to be conceived. Mr. O'Connell
and the Popish members of the House of Commons may con-
tend for it, but why, my lord ? Because they must do as the
men to whom they are indebted for their seats command
them ; they must echo the voices of their spiritual and politi-
cal masters and the Papal hierarchy of Ireland. But there
are hundreds of thousands of poor Roman Catholics in Ire-
land, if their voices could be heard, and if they dared to
speak, who would drown the interested clamour of these po-
litical slaves to their priests, who are the tyrants and task-
masters of the people, with shouts for spiritual liberty and.
Scriptural education, that would make the walls of St. Ste-
phen ring to their foundation.
But again : your lordship's plan has not only signally
failed, and even counteracted your own intentions, in this
object, but you have totally disappointed your own ex-
pectations in conciliating the Roman catholics by this
system. What is the fact? There is not one living states-
man who has succeeded in sacrificing, so far as depends on
legislative measures, so much of the sound principles, the
property, and the government of the protestant church,
to conciliate the members of the papacy, as your lord-
ship; and there is not a living statesman whom they so
cordially abhor and so loudly vituperate and denounce. Your
lordship will justly say you totally disregard this, when you
are conscious of having done what you considered your duty.
I know your lordship's high and noble character and spirit. I
merely want to convince you how totally you have been de-
ceived. Your lordship only requires to be reminded of the
failure of this experiment of the National Board, by your
attention being called to the conflict on the subject between
Doctors Murray and Mac Hale, Archbishops of the Papal
apostacy in Dublin and Tuam. The one honestly denouncing
the board as a system hateful to the Papacy, because it inter-
feres at all with their religion—the otherjesuitically support-
ing it, because it helps Popery to deprive the poor of the
Bible. But your lordship will remark that there is one
whole province in Ireland from which the National Board is
totally excluded as far as Papal influence can effect it, so that
here, too, your lordship must admit the plan is utterly abor-
tive of even the one result in which you had not anticipated
it could possibly fail. _

But as to its great and avowed object—that of producing
a united system of instruction between Roman Catholics and
Protestants, your lordship does not require that a line should
be written on the subject. You have seen that it is hope-
less—yOu are convinced that it is impossible. You have
seen that the bishops and clergy of the church of Ireland,
with a few exceptions, which it would be too painful to
dwell on, have felt bound to set their faces decidedly against
the system, and though the Irish church has been crippled
and pillaged, and has never been reduced to such straits since
it was established in the country, and though it never was
so distressed for means to educate the people, still neither
power, nor intimidation, nor influence, nor persecution,
nor poverty, nor distress, have been able to force it
to co-operate in a system so utterly repugnant to its own
sound principle, and to the word and authority of God. But
while this system has separated Roman Catholics from each
other, and Roman Catholics from Protestants more widely
than ever before, it has produced results still more painful
and disastrous to our church. Surely there never was a time
when men who were anxious for her prosperity, ought to
have been more desirous to unite us in firm co-operation for
the maintenance of her very existence. But this plan, which
your lordship so disastrously introduced, has proved a very
apple of discord amongst us : it has superinduced a state of
things from which every true Christian, and every true
churchman, must recoil with heartfelt sorrow.

We were enabled a few weeks ag9 to announce that the sub-
ject of emigration to British colonies, as an affair of national
policy, was under the consideration of the Colonial-office.
We have now the satisfaction to state that the details of a
Government measure to aid the spontaneous desire to emi-
grate to those possessions are in the hands of Lord Stanley.
—ltforniny Herald.

are'abarked- in this cause. The great deeps are breaking
up, and the ark that is to ride out the storm must have skill
engaged in its construction, and wisdom and truth to preside
at its helm. The war of opinion is already begun ; and for
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. its safe direction, knowledge founded on scriptural truths
SlR,—Alreudy is the din of preparation resounding in the . must take the command. In the war, not the greatest war-
ears of expectant thousands ; already is the engrossing theme rior, but the schoolmaster, must marshal.the hosts to battle.
of the approaching celebration of the infant Prince of Wales It is he that is to train the minds which are to engage in this
occupying the thoughts of the loyal subjects of dear old S contest. It is he that is to train up orators and legislators,
England, while a strange spirit of apathy seems to pervade statesmen and rulers. Would the free spirits of our coon-
the once spirited, and, I believe, still loyal town of Liver- try, especially those of Liverpool. look to the defence of this
pool. A change appears to have come oer the spirit of her Cause, it is no dubious question where they must look. Their
dream, and we find her merchant princes and men of com- outposts must be free-schools; their citadels must be uni-
merce, her tradesmen and inhabitants generally, evincing a versities ; their munition must he the Bible; their pioneers
lethargic indifference to the event as remarkable as it is un- must be the religious schoolmaster and pious pastor; and
precedented. What! does not the second port in the king- the mighty engine that must hurl destruction upon the le-
dom possess a kindred spirit with the metropolis and
places gions of error, is the free press. Let the people do this—
of minor importance to join them in celebrating an event which can be done—by electing men cf honour, truth, and
so important as the induction of the heir apparent to Eng- religion ; and show the bigoted priest that we and our schools
land's protestant throne into the pale of the Christian are not to be guided by men who, when chance offers, will
church ? Away with such apathetic indifference, and let us compel us to bow down to idolatrous Rome's " proud and
devise some scheme, such as regaling the poor, and proclaim- tyrannical " altar of " superstition and bigotry."
ing a general holiday throughout the town, that we may tes- Yours, &c., CONSISTENCY
tify our cordial joy upon such an occasion, and stamp upon the future annals of Liverpool the loyalty of its inhabitants, ____
_
and the demonstration of their joy at so auspicious an event.
I am, Sir, your constant reader,
Liverpool, Jan. 191 h, 1842. A BRITON

TO THE REV. THOMAS YOUENS, D.D

Itrsv.'Sitt,—l have read, with all the attention I can com-
mand, both your pamphlet and the Rev.• Hugh Wisteile's
reply. My impression, however, is, that Mr. M'Neile has
placed your church in a dilemma from which at present I
see no way of escape. My opinion is, that you must either
give up the authority of the Council of Ephesus, or the Creed
of Pius IV.

Doubtless you will not let the matter rest here, and my
motive in addressing you is respectfully to suggest a more
careful examination of the premises, from which you draw a
conclusion which militates against the reformed faith.

It is as follows :—" Suppose that I address myself to ten
individuals with a view of proving to them that my opinion
is right. If by my arguments I satisfy two of them, it is
clear that my opinion is proved to. two of them ; but the
circumstance of its being proved to two is no criterion that
the two who agree with me are right, and that the eight dis-
senters are wrong. The probability is that the dissentients,
being more numerous, are in the right, and I and my two
friends are in the wrong, notwithstanding my proof." (p. 8.)
(Before noticing the above._ alloiv me to state that I take
exception to your mode, P. 7, of "proving a doctrine from
Scripture," but time will not allow me to enter upon it.)
Allow me to inquire, was the subject of your address capable
of demonstration?—because, if you established your point
by a legitimate process of reasoning—if you proved it to de-
monstration, it would be proved, and there would be art end
of the matter. It is of no consequence whether eight or
eight thousand individuals deny that two and two added to-
gether make four : their dissenting from the proof will not
alter the fact. It is, therefore, idle to talk of eight out of
ten being " probably" right on account of their majority,
after a given problem has been proved.
On the other hand, supposing the subject of your address
be such as will not admit of absolute or mathematical de-
monstration, it is obvious that your proposition lacks one of
its most important components, which gives it such an inde-
finite existence in the mind as to engender doubts, and almost
prevent our reasoning upon it ; and therefore it has an ap-
pearance of sophistry, which ought to be avoided by all Chris-
tian teachers. You leave us completely in the dark as to
your audience ! Are we to understand that they were all (so
far as may be) of equal intellectual power? equally acquainted
with the subject? not one of them willing to take your state-
ments upon trust I and each and every one of them equally
interested in the subject and its results? were they prejudiced
against you or prepossessed in your favour ? were they
equally indifferent alike to you and your subject, or was it a
mixed assembly ? Now, on none of these suppositions should
we be justified in concluding that the majority were probably
right on account of their number; because much would de-
pend upon your mode of address, and there would exist in
every mind to some extent the prejudice of self-love and
pre-conceived opinion. The majority of mankind regard
their opinions and their prejudices as personal property, which
in too many instances they leave with their children. But
again.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Ten o'clock

PROFESSOR OF POETRY

RETIREMENT OF MR. WILLIAMS

We have this moment been favoured with the fol-
lowing gratifying letter from the principal of Brase-
nose College, Oxford :

•• TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
" Brase-nose College, January 20, 1812.
" SIR,—A comparison has this morning been made of the
number of promises given in behalf of each candidate for the
Professorship of Poetry, when they were found to be—
" For Mr. Garbett
Mr. I,l:7illiams 1.2:1

Mr. Williams has in consequence withdrawn.
" We beg you to accept oar thanks for the intention ex
pressed by you of supporting Mr. Garbett, and to congratu-
late you on this termination of the contest.

" I am, Sir,
" For the Fellows of this College and myself,
" Your obedient faithful Servant,
" A. T. GILBERT, Principal."

The London Standard of last evening makes the same
return in a second edition, and publishes a letter from the
bursar of the same college, who gives a similar result of the

contest

Suppose, upon any given subject the dissentients or affir
matives were more numerous, and happened to be right, this
must be regarded as an accident, because the various interests
of man on the one hand, and the secret springs of action on
the other, prevent our admitting the probability that a party,
because the more numerous, are right; and this for three
reasons : first, the probability of truth or error would rise or
fill in proportion to the majority; and- secondly, because
right and wrong are not convertible terms; and lastly, be-
cause this mode of determining truth, would make that truth
in one place which was error in another. The Roman Catholic
creed would thus be right in Spain and wrong in England,
because in the former it is professed by the majority and in
the latter by the minority.
Another objection to your theory exists in our very nature,
which appears to have a natural aversion to pains-taking ex-
amination. It is much easier to swim with the tide than to
stem it ! Most men are afraid to dissent from the crowd,
forgetting that the mass are like Samson of old, deceived by
blandishments, and led to and fro by insignificant persons.
Man has been defined to be "an animal who thinks." The
misfortune is, that he does this by proxy. He has sight, but
generally uses it through the medium of spectacles manufac-
tured for him, and belonging to another person. He has a
head upon his shoulders, but lie too uses that of another, to
the exclusion of another.

WAR IN CEIINA.—Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane
has been selected by the Lords of the Admiralty to hoist his
flag and proceed immediately to China.
Enjoy the blessings of this day, says Jeremy Taylor;
God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly ;
for this day only is ours ; we are dead to yesterday, and we
are not born to to-morrow.

CAPTURE OF THIRTY-THREE SLAVE VESSELS.—The
following is an extract of a letter from the Cape of Good
Hope, Dated November 9, 1811 :—" Her Majesty's ship
Fantome, returned to Simon's Bay on the 24th ult., after a
six months' cruise on the coast of Angola, for the suppres-
sion of the slave-trade, having had the Brisk and Water-
witch under her orders, during which period they have cap-
tured 33 slave-vessels, and liberated 3,427 negroes—viz.,
Fantome, 16 vessels, and 1,340 negroes Brisk, 10 vessels,
and 1,136 negroes; and Waterwitch, 9 vessels, and 937
negroes.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF AN INFANT AND ITS MOTHER.
—On Wednesday night a long enquiry took place at the
Commercial Tavern, London, on view of the body of a male
infant, a month old, whose death was occasioned from the
severity of the weather whilst travelling, in the mother's
arms, from Bristol to London, by the Great Western Rail-
way. The mother was quite well on arriving at the end of
her journey, and was staying at the inn ; and in the course
of the inquiry the coroner sent for her, and the poor woman
accompaoied the officer up stairs to the door of the inquest
room. She then became faint, and was led into an adjoining
room ; becoming worse a surgeon was sent for, and Mr.
Fuller also attended her. In less than two minutes after the
latter gentleman had left the room, he returned very much
excited, stating that the mother had just breathed her last.
DARING ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.—Yesterday morning,
at 1 o'clock, the neighbourhood of Maida bill was thrown
ioto the utmost consternation and alarm by the cries of

" Murder ! Police ! Fire !" and the springing of rattles.
The inhabitants rushed to their windows ; and one gentleman
in his fright ran into the streets in a state almost of nudity.
It appears that some thieves on the previousevening ascended
the roollof a newly-built house opposite the Paddington Canal
Maids-hill, occupied by Mr. Anderson, the vocalist, and in
an attempt to get down the chimney, the robbers dropped a
dark lantern in that gentleman's bed-room. Being awoke
by the noise , he gave the alarm, but the thieves got clear oil.
The next day Mr. Anderson gave information at the station,
house of the circumstance, when he was assured attention-
should be paid to his communication ; however no additional
policeman was put on the beat, and in consequence, the
thieves attacked the policetnrn, and nearly murdered bim.
Half an hour elapsed before any other constable made his
appearance, notwithstanding that the cries for help were
heard in -Edgeware-road. At last two policeman appeared,
but the thieves had got off. Several serious robberies have
lately been committed in that vicinity, and at one house the
whole of the plate, worth nearly £l9O, was stolen and carried
off—Sun of Wednesday.

Another objection to your theory presents itself in the fact,
that its adoption has been an awful barrier to the happiness
of the human race. It was this that plunged Galileo into a
dun.eon. He was in the minority,—nay, did he not stand
alone, before all the wisdom, and science, and philosophy of
his day ? " Still it moves," was his exclamation, and he was
right!

Innumerable similar instances of the opposition of weak
and ignorant men to truths of the greatest magnitude and
importance, which have been drawn from nature's storehouse
by men who were themselves despised and theories rejected
—men whose memory after ages embalmed in the imperish-
able utility of the discoveries which the deep digging of their
master m►nds produced. They were ever in the minority,
and it was the reception and influence of the dogma you have
propounded which immured some of them in dungeons, and
laughed others to scorn.
Suppose we admit your theory, what would be the result?
It would he the funeral knell of Christianity : even its no-
minal professors form only a speck in proportion to the inha-
bitants of our planet. Could not an infidel wield your
argument against you with overwhelming force? The Chi-
nese adopted it when they barbarously murdered some of
your missionaries ! Suppose Voltaire addressing his coun-
trymen, and convincing eight-tenths of them that his dan-
gerous opinions were right, would you admit that the mino-
rity were in error ? You have already placed it upon record
that the probability is the more numerous are right ! Why
do you adopt a.standard in one case which you reject in a

REPRESENTATION OF DUBLIN.—The writ haS arrived—it
has been transmitted from the Hanaper to the High Sheriff
—proclamation has been made,. and the election will take
place—as we originally announced it would—on Monday next,
the 24th instant. Mr. Gregory is proceeding with his canvass
in the most triumphant manner; and we rejoice to say that the
dissatisfactions felt and the apathy manifested are rapidly
giving way to confidence restored, and zeal awakened. There
is no doubt, but that much indifference did prevail previous
to the opening of Mr. Gregory's canvass : and we hold them
no good friends to the cause, who would either deny it,
explaining it improperly away, or doubt its pernicious ten-
dency. But, thank Heaven, all jealousy and mistrust have
vanished, and are succeeded by an enthusiasm and energy
which more than compensates for the previous delay.-.7Dub-
lin Mail.

similar ?

But, as you apply your theory as a test, and thereby infer.
the error of the reformed faith, it is but fair that we should
examine whether the dogma we have propounded has any
warrant in Scripture.
We have no means of ascertaining, and therefore it would
be folly to speculate upon, the number in the antideluvian
world ; but we do know that only Noah and seven other
human beings escaped the awful destruction ! and we know
that Noah preached to them at least during a period of one
hundred and twenty years. Can you doubt that he and his
family formed an infinitessimal portion of the human race?
The event proved that they were right, but it was not until
the flood came that they were proved to be so.
When the cities of the plain were destroyed, it was a simi-
lar theory to yours which caused their overthrow, for had
TEN righteous ones been found, Sodom had not been de-
stroyed ! Would these ten not have formed a minority of
the inhabitants of Sodom ?

A metal-broker's circular, with a statement of the business
of that department for the past year, has been handed us,
and from this it appears that the article spelter has engaged
a good deal of the attention of the speculators, its value
having risen from £23. 10s. per ton in January to £4O per
ton in December, but from which it has subsequently de-
clined to £37 and £37. ss. : the great increase in consump-
tion, the short stocks, and the decline in production have
been the chief causes of the rise. The sale of British iron
has been at very depressed prices in our markets, in conse-
quence of the heavy stocks ; and it is stated that there is no
prospect of improvement for the present, as pigs can be de-
livered in the Clyde for £2. ss. to £2. 10s. per ton. The
steady demand and the short stock of quicksilver; now not
more than 2,000 bottles, has induced the contractors to raise
the price to 45., and there is stated to be no chance of re-
duction for the present. The new feature in the tin market
is the quarterly sales by the. British Miners, one of which
takes place on the 27th instant, when 1,000 tons will be
offered. This is the second sale on this principle, which, it
is said, will greatly benefit the general trade.
POPISH IMPUNITY FOR FRATRICIDE.—The late intelligent
traveller, Mr. Eustace (a Romish priest), speaking of the
notoriously depraved state of morals in Italy, asks, " May it
not be ascribed to the corruptions of the national religion, to
the facility of absolution, ana to the EASY PURCHASE OF
INDULGENCES ?"—(Eustace's " Classical Tour in Italy,"
vol. iii., p. 342.)—0ne fact will furnish the best answer to
this enquiry. "At Tivoli (says Miss Graham, who spent
three months in the vicinity of Rome in 1819), a man was
pointed out to us who had stabbed his brother, who died in
great agonies within an hour. The murderer went to Rome,
purchased his pardon from the church, and rec ived a writ-
ten protection from a cardinal; in consequence of which he
was walking about unconcernedly—a second Cain, whose life
was sacred.—(" Three Months' Residence in the Mountains
East of Rome." By Maria Graham, p. 34. London, 1820,
Bvo.)—From the Church of England Quarterly.
RADICAL LOYALTY.—The Lord Mayor (Mr. O'Connell)
gave his first civic dinner yesterday at the Mansion-house.
The invitations were confined exclusively to the Aldermen and
Town Councillors, some members of his own family, and a
few gentlemen connected with the Liberal press. Nothing
occurred either in the nature of the toasts or the speeches
with which they were prefaced, that -calls for observation,
except that the health of his " Excellency the Lord Lieu-
tenant"—the Viceroy of—" our amiable and lovely little
Queen" (as Mr. O'Connell is fond of familiarly and im-
pudently designating her Majesty)—was omitted altogether.
If such a violation of decorum, and of decency as this bad
.been perpetrated by a Conservative party during the ad-
ministration of Lords Mulgrave or Fortescue, we should
have had the whole Liberal press teeming with indignant
articles in reprobation of the insult. On two occasions,
when the healths of .these noblemen were coldly or unkindly
received by the company, although respectfully proposed by
the President, the anger of our contemporaries knew no
bounds. They are silent upon the subject now, however.—
Dublin Mail, Wednesday.

When Moses uttered that important question,--" Who is
on the Lord's side," was he answered by the majority?
Elijah was dismayed at the majority when he prayed for
death, and fled like a fugitive to Horeb! But Elijah was
taught that majorities are not in themselves criterions of
froth ! When Isaiah, the bold protestor against the idolatry
of the Jews,—when Isaiah, the sublime prophet exclaimed,
" except the Lord of Boats had left us a very anzall remnant
we should have been like to Sodom and Gomorrah." He
knew that the truth was confined to few.

When Jeremiah was in " the loathsome pit ;" when the
three Jews braved the fiery furnace, and when Daniel was
cast into the den of lions, what supported them but the con-
viction that the majority were in error?

The Jewish church acted upon your dangerous dogma
when they crucified our Redeemer; they vainly thought that
the minority was so small that they could annihilate it with
the point of a spear, or destroy by nailing it to Calvary's
cross. The event proved how dangerous it is to trust to ma-
jorities as the test of truth

Mr. M`Neile well observes that " the Saviour argued with
many, but convinced few."

Are we not warranted, then, in rejecting your dogma
Arc we not justified in contending that numbers do not in
themselves afford even prima facie evidence of truth. Then
let every man remember Paul's exhortation,—" Prove all
things--hold fast that which is good."
Hoping that, in your reply to the Rev. Hugh M`Neile,
you will show us more tenable grounds for your opinion
which, as it at present stands, will be condemned as a fallacy.
I am, Rev. Sir, yours,
Liverpool, 121 h Jan., 1842. BA PTISTES.

MR. SLATER'S RESIGNATION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—The conduct of Mr. Slater, the titular councillor
for St. Anne's Ward, and the proceedings of the.town coun-
cil regarding such conduct, seem to have made but little
impression upon the minds of those whose duty it is to de-
mand the immediate resignation of that trust which they
had reposed in him, when he statedly informs them that he
is unable to exercise the duties of that trust.

THE LAW RELATING TO APPRENTICES.—A few weeks
ago, a case was heard at the Borough Court, Bolton, relating
to an apprentice in the service of Mr. Kirkman, ironfounder,
of that town, in which Mr. Taylor appeared for the defence:
and objested to the jurisdiction of the court, on the ground
that no apprentice-fee had been paid ; and that, therefore,.
according to a recent decision in London, the master had,R,?:
the power to compel the services of the apprentice;e:bly
The
magistrates, however, said, that they should act
error ;
with their former decisions, until convinced of then'
and they committed the young man to prison; ,on the
application of Mr. Taylor, liberated him onb
ail, hut
in order
that an appeal against the conviction might be tried at the
however, was aban-
doned quarter sessions. The appeal, t the Borough
by Mr. Taylor ; and on Monday last,
a_ apprentice in
Court, a young man, named James Keenev, "
- Deansgate,
and said, that
the service of Mr. William Higson, ironmonger,
ith neglect of work,
: e. Mr. Tay_
Great Bolton, was brought up, charged a "
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wouldhe now took toorky
jurisdictionvery in such cases. With
that the bench had no ,had taken the opinion of Mr,
regard to the former case, 0
alluded to, in which the judges
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worth said,
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upon smnwhere
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, and they asked Mr. Taylor
decide -
if, in order to the question at mice, it would not be
might leave.dgtheseli'reemplovment • - .
better in the former case, to procure a mandamus. Mr. Tay-
lor replied, that it would he too expensive ; and he did not
think it necessary, as the magistrates had power to commit.
The magistrates consulted together, in the private room, for
about half an hour, and, on their return, said that Mr.
Taylor might proceed with his case. Evidence was then
gone into, showing the general misconduct of Keeney ; and
he was committed to hard labour for two months.—Manches-
ter Guardian.—
[With reference to the cases here adduced,
we may state, that at our police-court yesterday, a master
made an application to Mr. Rushton, the stipendiary magis-
trate in writing, touching the conduct of a refractory appren-,
tice, with a view to his being punished ; and, that Mr. R.
still abiding by his former opinion, stated, that as no pre-
mium Or a ppi entice fee wrs paid, he could not ajudicate in.
the case—adding, that in taking apprentices in future the
applicant should require a premium, however small—even a
shilling would be sufficient to bring him within the jurisdic-
tion of the court.)

If he refuses to resign, after publicly avowing that he can-
not fulfil the duties of councillor, and that refusal be sup-
ported by law, I prognosticate a speedy clearance of the
council chamber. But there will be one method of remedy-
ing this palpable evil—by the public inquiring, previous to
any future elections, whether the candidates be men of ho-
nour and confidence.

If Mr. Slicer has had the audacious presumption to offer
his invaluable services for the town's weal, and knowing, at
the same time, that he could not fulfil his proffered services,
would not such conduct be considered, by the law, as an
imposition on the public?

l3ut, if he is now compelled to leave the borough in con-
sequence of some unforeseen event, his first care should be
a resignation of the trust into the hands of those from whom
he received it.

It now behoves every individual to emerge from the cold
shade of neglect in which they have allowed themselves to
lie dormant, and use such clear measures as will prevent a
repetition of such disgraceful proceedings.
In conclusion, sir, I crave permission for a little additional
space, for a few lines, which, though they are not directly
connected with the prelude, yet they are concomitant with
the subject generally, and may prove useful to the unbigoted
part of the municipal electors. It is a most mischievous and
absurd idea, but one that has prevailed, if it do not still pre-
vail, that a common councillor is not required to possess
great talents, that he may be a dull and plodding man, that
he may be dull in his moral sensibility, that he need not be
a religious man, and yet may very well discharge the duties
of his office. But if Heaven has given any mean a greater
share of talent, virtue, or piety, let them know that they
cannot choose a better man ; neither can he choose a nobler
field for action, than that of town-councillor. And let such
a man enter this field, not to go through the dull round of
prescribed duty,—let him throw himself into this sphere of
action with his whole mind and heart, with every, wakeful
energy of thought and kindly fervour of feeling. -to think
and to act, to devise and to do all that his powers permit,
for the minds of the many youths of both sexes, who are
committed to his first charge; and to transmit them to the
second charge of masters, who will labour to win their affec-
tions, to quicken in them the love of scriptural knowledge,
to inspire with every noble impulse the breast of ingenuoused
youth, and to raise up sound scholars for literature, devoted
pastors for the church, patriotic citizens for this
country,
and glorious men for the universe. Let councillors do this,
and none shall leave brighter signatures upon the record of
honoured and well-spent lives. To the friends of scriptural
education, as well as the actual labourers in its cause, I must
say, in fine,—for the future, pass the watchword.—" Press
onward " The spread of scriptural knowledge gave birth
to civil liberty; the increase of such knowledge must give it
stability and security. The fortunes of the civilised world