The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

I.C:iVerpool tailVarV. TUESDAY 31ORNING, NOV. 30, 1852. ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC. The United States mail steamship Arctic, Capt. Luce, which left New York on the 13th instant, arrived in the Mersey on Thursday morning, at half-past one, with THE past week has been here, as well as in London , seventy passengers. one in which the feeling amongst all classes has Bl T zt h o e n s o t n ea;) i l ie -sh f i t p rnoon Canada t r he eac l l 2 ie ti d l her wharf at East been almost wholly political , the c onsideration of I The Hon. Thomas Baring, having recovered from his mere commercial matters and of the ordinary busi- indisposition, has come value of home in the Arctic. Property to about sixty th o usand dollars ness of life having been absorbe d b y the g reat was d e stro y ed, b y an incendiary fire at 'Charleston, on the question at issue before Parliament, —what is to be 17th. Dr.Wainwrioht, late Secretary to the House of Bishops, the future policy, and what set of men the rulers, has been consecrated Bishop of New York. for some time to come , o f this countr y . To capi-It was rumoured that an exp edition was fitting t a li s ts nothing is more essential than a strong out tlie a t o t t seize n o n c S u t b . a Domingo, tt e i c i a s l a s t p a l t a e c m e e o t f l t r e e f nd th e e z v r o e c u e s i p for Government, with clearly defined and intelligible Septexpenditure of the en Uni issuedted States, from July 1 to Sep. 30, 1852, has be. The were p r inciples ; and, on the ground that it is thus esse n- 16,686,919 dollars, and the expenditure 13,860,268 dollars. tial to the trading world, as a guide to their opera- —From the Lobos is the dates extend to the 20th lions, to be in possession of the policy of the new u ti l i t e . ATmheeriPeaenruvveisasnelgsowvehrinehmelnlatdhavdistfeedreitlhcehLrltaenrsd islands 0 for Government,—especially in a crisis when extensive guano.—The commodore of the American man-of-war on fthetem affordingstation had protectionoffi ei a! y notified any that Americanlie should vessels fih s p t a r e i n financial changes are believed to b e in contempla tion,—it has been very generally thought that the curing guano without the sanction of the Peruvian autho proceedings of the Free Trade party have been reirt!easn.iseT a h s e t at South an A e m v e e r r ican continent was in a more dis mistimed, and savouring of factiousness. For months past this party have been complaining that the Earl of DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI have kept the country in the dark as to their intention ; yet, since the commencement of the session, it seems to have been their study to prolong the country's uncer tainty. Mr. VILLIERS'S motion was intended to extract only from the Ministry a vague declaration, which would have committed them to nothing save the carrying out of what are called Free Trade principles, without defining what are such princi ples, and in what direction they are to be eitended. It has resulted only, as most intelligent people ex pected that it would, in depriving the country for a week longer of that definite knowledge of the pro posed policy of the Government which has been so long desired. Since the defeat of Mr. VILLIERS and his friends, their object seems to have been di rected towards dictating to the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER the items of a financial scheme, THE WEEK. AUSTRALIA. The latest accounts from the Australian gold fields are of even a still more exciting nature than any we have yet printed. Mount Alexander appears to be exhaustless, sending, in one week, 144,207 ounces of gold to Geelong, representing the large sum of £432,721. But this is only a specimen of the district. On a rough calculation, which is rather under than over the mark, the Victoria diggings yielded in the month of August about 246,000 ounces of gold; and this, too, in the rainy season, and with not a very considerable increase of their mining population. Every mail brings fresh marvels :—" One place, ' a flat,' between Adelaide Gully and Wattletree Flat, on the road leading from Forest Creek to Fryer's Creek, has obtained colonial celebrity by a party of four Adelaide men, who had gone there ' prospecting,' turning up 1501bs. weight of pure gold in one morning between breakfast and dinner. That is to say, £6,000 worth of sterling money obtained in one hole in the course of one morning. An other hole has, of course, been sunk immediately, closely adjoining ' the claim' of these lucky fellows, and here, too, the daily yield averaged from six to nine pounds weight of gold. In the whole line of the gullies and flats in that vicinity, the diggers have been eminently successful. Many in the neighbourhood have taken nine, twelve, and twenty pounds weight in ' pockets.' but, of course, the 1501bs. of gold we have quoted above stands a s y et unpa which is already known to be comp lete in all its relleled in the history of gold finding. Seven tons of gold main features, and upon the approval of which by were lying idle at Adelaide Gully for want of horses to take them to Melbourne, and more was fast accumu the country the Government are prepared to stand lating. At New Bendigo Flat, Forest Creek, one ' party' or fall. Thus, Mr. MACGREGOR has given no tice took 121bs. weight from one ho le, and four Germans gained 2 that it is his intention to press fo r a reduction of sidell b s t . of to the picture i ictnuroen-e week," The &e. But prosperity i e r f t yaroofth the the Tea duties, altogether regardless of the circum- miners has had a bad effect on their orals. There are accounts of drunkenness, rows, thievin m g, and robberies. stance whether such reduction at present is consis- Gangs of mounted bushrangers, with pistols in their hands tent with a due regard to the financial position of stoppings to their faces. are infesting all the roads, and travellers and gold transports, unless the escorts the country. Mr. Wm. EWART has given notice are strong and well-armed." of a motion for Thursday next, for the abolition of THE Melbourne Argus contains the account of a new the duties on butter, cheese, eggs,hams,and p o ultry, railway company , to be called the Melbourne, Mount Alexander, and Murray River Company, with a branch Other members will, no doubt, propose shortly to Williamstown. The proposed capital is £750,000, in equally taking reductions, the granting of any one 37,500 shares of £2O each. of which may render impossible the carrying out of A letter dated Geelong, July 3, 1852, says :—" The golden prospects of aggrandisement have staggered and the Government policy as a whole. Such a course still stagger. Hardly a day passes but I hear of people is regarded very generally on 'Change as unfair ; making fortunes. Our late salesma n, after a month's absence, came down with £230 worth of the precious and strong opinions are entertained that what is metal. He was one of a party of six, and the gold ob most wanted at the present movement is a consoli- I tained by the lot amounted to £1955. Of course some of the party were up longer than a month. I think it dation of our entire commercial system, which, as I most likely I shall be off with the same party early in left by the measures of the Free Tra d e p art y , is most October. They have been up twic e, and have each time been lucky ' • three out of the six are worth £ lOOO each, anomalous, and based upon no intell i gi ble p rinci p le an d this in about eight months." whatever. Even avowed Whigs do not hesitate to PROVISIONS IN AUSTRALIA.—By the last accounts the g ive this direction to their wishes as to the policy to prices of provisions went , to adopt th e expression of a Sydney correspondent , " up and down" like a barometer. be adopted at this crisis. On the 11th of August flour sold at Forest Creek at £l2 Of purely local politics we have li ttle that is of per bag; sugar at ls. Gd. per lb.; salt was 25., tea 45., cheese 3s. 6d., ham and salt pork 45., beef Bd. per lb., interest, the most startling being the presentation biscuits 2s. Gd. per lb. About the same time the quota of a petition, signed by Mess rs. Wm. RArHnoNE, tions in the Melbourne market were :— Flour (at the mills. that is to say minus carriage), £25 ; wheat Bs. and jun., and ROBERT WILSON RONALD, against the I oats 7s. 6d. Good cattle sold at 12s. per cwt., sheep 11s. The price of butchers' meat was risi n g g enerall y , but flour return of Messrs. TURNER and MACKEN ZIE at the and bread were not expected to rise higher, since the recent election for Liverpool. The petition, a copy markets were more freely supplied. The Launceston and of which will be found elsewhere i n our columns, Hobart Town markets rem ained almost unchanged ; wheat at 9s. and first flour at £24 ; barley 55., potatoes £4. complains that the sitting members, by themselves At Hobart Town there was an advance of ls. generally on and agents, were guilty of bribery; that gross cor- the Launceston prices. ruption and treating notoriously prevailed ; and prays that the election should be declared null and void. The proceeding is generally regarded as one i THE cht DANISH tte s thatS U the Grand . d —, ' lL Ltri o cr c b • r e r e g n h b e u r r A h razh a - s of those absurd emanations of ill-temper which r assen e t t ed s to a the settlement of the Danish succession accord ing to on such occasions are frequently in the habit ing to the London convention of the Bth of May. of being guilty of. The Free-traders,.however, A MANUFACTURER IN WURTEMBURG has invented a mode of applying a surface coating to sheet-iron, which shake their heads myteriously, and even talk of enables it to take freely the mark of a slate-pencil. It is startling facts which their committee have disco- said to be much lighter, and much less liable to injury, than a common slate. vered. They have got the money, too, it is boasted . ; THE SUPERIOR ROYAL TRIBUNAL OF BERLIN has although,:if we had to choose the most improbable recently declared itself in favour of coercive measures to be adopted against the editors of journals, and other party named as the leading " victim" on the occa- p er iodical publications, who refuse to point out the source sion, we should certainly not look for him amongst from which they receive their articles.—Voss Gazette. representatives of Abercromby "Ward. A Roensit PERVERT.---It is stated that the Countess Hahn-hahn, authoress of " Jerusalem and Babylon," and Last night's proceedings in the House of Corn- other works, whose recent conversion to Romanism made mons, however, will probably decide whether the some noise, has just entered the Convent of the Order of the Good Shepherd, at Angers, in France ; and will, after whole affair is, or is not, a sham. The Hull petition, due probation, found a similar convent in Coblentz or we learn, will most certainly be proceeded with, and Cologne. as certainly result in seating our townsman, Mr. SLAVERY IN BRAZIL ANT) CUBA.—A parliamentary paper just published shows that only one vessel contain- B R AMLEY-MOORE, as one of the members for that ing negroes landed in June, 1852, on the Brazilian coast, port. The Derby case, also, was to be brought be- but that the importation of negro slaves into Cuba amounted to 4118 in the period between theist of January fore the house last night, on the motion of Sir A an d the 9th of October of the current year. COCKBURN ERICSSEN'S CALORIC SHIP.—The New York papers m ention that Ericssen's caloric ship would be teste d about A report has been current on 'Change during the the Ist of December, but it is now stated that she is not week, of a fracas, represented to have taken place expected, under any circumstances, to make the passage to Europe in less than 14 or 15 days, so that, in the between two members of the Council. From the facts present stage of the alleged invention, its competion will which have reached us, we are able to say that the be against sailing ships, and not against the existin g circumstance has been much exaggerated , and in no steamers. Ai way affects the character of the Council as a body. dentGhEa R s lA. pa—rdTohneedMlgneitoeundremannnre soldiers, der ti s lat de th ta e :n P e r:s a i i --- hard labour at La Calle, in the province of Constantine, for having assisted in opposing an attack of the Arabs on a military post. A month ago 50 condemned soldiers at Bona were also pardoned, for their good conduct in re cent engagements in the same province. HORRIBLE Dome—The Santa Clara Register gives the following particulars of a duel which occurred between a Mexican and a native Californian, about a game of monte, and Colt's navy revolvers were the weapons used in combat. Nine shots were fired, and four of the balls took effect in each of the combatants. Both parties ex pired immediately, and they were each ushered into the presence of their maker to answer for the murder of the other. After the second or third shot, the Californian crawled on his hands and knees nearer his antagonist and fired, in order to make sure of his victim. HATS IN GERMANY.—Hats are again playing an im portant part in public life. The police in Munich are confiscating that variety of the article known as the " Calabreser," or Hecker hat, generally worn by banditti i n melo-dramas. Those of a brown colour are especially proscribed ; the Munich authorities have already seized 200 of this sort. The white and grey varieties are for the moment tolerated ; but travellers will do well to avoid any singularity in this article, as even " wide awakes" may be misconstrued. ASSASSINATION IN PARIS.—A shocking case of assas sination has just occurred. M. J. Lecoq de Marslay, of Nantes, belonging to a good family in Brittany, arrived -.6 in Paris a few days since with his sister, Madame John Lust much Fishly, and took lodgings at 31, Rue Tronchet. On the ..ee have manifested day before the fatal occurrence he complained of an _...nines went on on Monday in uneasy feeling about his head. His sister ordered a cup ...g places very nearly the same as on the of chocolate for him at eight in the morning. The con- The following are the numbers of the votes cierge went into the apartment at that hour, and found *----4 by the latest intelligence : Madame Fishly lying dead upon the floor. Her brother 7.714,585 had killed her with a sword, and had given himself several dangerous wounds in the chest with the same weapon. He was found kneeling by her aide in a weak Majority The Corps Legislatif met on Thursday, and M. Fould, that be is in a state of insanity. Minister of State, read a message of the President, in GREECE.—King Otho arrived in Athens on the 4th of which he says that the Government will only change in November, and was received, in spite of the lateness of form . that devoted to the great int erests which are brought t he hour, by an immense concourse of people, whose un forth'by intellect and carried out by peace, it will, as in ceasing acclamations were of the most enthusiastic cha the past, maintain itself within the limits of moderation. racter. Two days before the King's arrival great excite- This message was received by unanim ous acclamations of me nt was caused in the town by the arrival of an English " Vive l'Empereur ! " The Corps Legislatif will go in a courier, London, in nine days from having given at body to Saint Cloud on December I st, to present to Louis Trieste £lOOO for a special steamer to bring him to the Napoleon the official result of the vote. Isthmus of Corinth, which he crossed on foot, in order not The Austrian government still objects to the French to lose the time necessary to procure a conveyance. He President assuming the title of Napoleon 111., and many was the bearer of the protocol of the Conference of London notes on the subject have passed between the Minister of on the subject of the succession , the result of which the F ore ign Affairs and the French Ambassador in Vienna. court and the nation generally are much satisfied with. A curious light is thrown upon the policy of the present ruler of France, by the fact that while the protest of the BELGIUM.—The Central Section, charged to examine Due de Chambord was ostentatiously printed in the the bill on the press, met on the 19th. The first part of columns of the Moniteur, numerous arrests were made in art. 1, which relates to verbal offences and abuse against the provinces of persons concerned in the distribution of foreign sovereigns, was rejected by the section, but it adopted the remainder of the article. The government the document. The government perseveres in its intention of giving expressed its readiness to consent to this modification. strength to the navy. Orders have been given that two The chamber has unanimously passed the budget for ways new line of battle ships shall be completed next year, and and means for 1853, amounting to 123,224,250 f. The a screw frigate of tne first class built. minister of war has demanded an extra supply of The Tottionnais mentions two rumours as being c urren t 8,450,000 f. for the budget of 1852, to cover the expenses at Toulon. One is that the Mediterranean fleet will of the military works which were commanded to be ex shortly be sent to Civita Vecchia to bring the Pope t o ecuted for the national defences. France ; the other is, that it will be sent with the future ITALY.—On the 14th instant, there appeared in the viceroy to Algeria. O ffi cial Saroy Gazette a pastoral letter , sig n e d b y several A letter from Marseilles of the 20th instant states that, Piedmontese bishops, (among whom is the exiled Arch in consequence of the continual rain wh ich fell there for bishop of Turin, M. Franzoni,) threatening excommuni tl'e preceding 15 days, the waters of the Var had risen to , cation to all who shall henceforward peruse Liberal news publicly read from all the pulpits of Turin. an ex traordinary height, and had swept away two arches 1 papers, was of the bridge between St. Laurent and Nice. The pro- The churches were thronged with people on the occasion, gress of the stage coaches in that direction had conse- but no disturbance ensued. The Grand Duke of Tuscany quently been interrupted. has just ordered the expulsion of about one thousand It is announced that the Deputies will present their re- Lombard, Roman, and Neapolitan refugees. On the port on th e e lections to the Emperor, at St. Cloud, to- other hand, we are told that the accouchement of the and with it the liberation of morrow (Wednesday), and that on Thursday he wil l pro- D u chess is daily expected, ceed to th e T u il er i es and receive the three great bodies of the Madiais, "as an act of s" pecial favour. This is also the State, who will formally proclaim the Empire. The I confirmed by the statement of the Prussian Envoy to his unds rose rapidly during Thursday and Friday, and the I Government,: holding out hopes of speedy liberation. A 1 FOREIGN MISCELLANY. FOREIGN NEWS. INDIA OVERLAND MAIL. We have received, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, the following telegraphic despatch, dated, "Trieste, Nov. 26 " : '• The Austrian Lloyd's steamer Egitto arrived to-day with advices from Rangoon. " Prome was captured on the 9th of October by the force under the command of Commodore Lambert and General Godwin. " Very little resistance was made by the Burmese, the British loss only amounting to one man killed and six wounded. " Five thousand Burmese were posted at about six miles from Prome, but General Godwin did not wish to attack them until he was reinforced. " The Admiral had died of cholera, but the troops were particularly healthy. " The campaign was considered virtually at an end, and orders were expected hourly for the annexation of Pegu." out a garrison. CANADA."--A letter from Toronto says :—The rumour of Lord Elgin's recal gains credit, and we shall soon hope to have a governor who will not suffer himself to be made a mere puppet in the hands of the present ministry, such as we now have: The on dit is, that Lord Harriss is to succeed our present noble patron of rebels. By a provin cial statute, passed during the last session, the patronage of the rectories heretofore in the Crown, is vested in our Diocesan Church Society. A special meeting of the society was called for the 10:h instant, to decide how this patronage is to be exercised. THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT.—ScandaI, which is always rife on the other side of the Atlantic, says that Gen. Pierce is fond of " the bottle." This, however, has been denied; and a letter from Concord, N.H., to the Union, says:—" His habits are plain and unostenta. tious. His practice yields him a large income, and he is generous to a fault. It is said in Concord by those who know him well that he will spend his Presidential 25,000 dollars every year. The health of Mrs. Pierce is too feeble for housekeeping, and so, with their only child, a smart boy of a dozen summers, they board in the private family of W. 'Williams, a respectable citizen engaged in the ex tensive manufactory at this place of coaches, omnibuses, and railroad cars. The house is a most beautiful frame building, shaded by a line of noble old elm trees." THE FRENCH PRESIDENT.—The most alarming ru mours continue to be circulated regarding the Prince President. They are chiefly to this effect :—that he is actually, and has been for some time, suffering from a malady which seriously menaces his existence, and which may render his election as Emperor useless, as he cannot long enjoy his new dignity—that the vote of the 21st and 22nd will be the last of universal suffrage, as the very day after the proclamation of the empire the elective franchise will revert to what it was in the reign of Louis Phillippe —that a formidable and extensive disaffection exists in the army, and that the departure of a regiment recently for Rome has been occasioned by that fact—that a mu tiny had broken out at Vincennes on the part of a regiment against its officers—that the taxes will be in creased to an enormous amount for the next year—and that, notwithstanding the comparatively small reduction of the army, as announced in the Moniteur of Sunday, measures are even now contemplated for a considerable increase of the effective force—that the Prince of Join vine has been in the department of the Pas de Calais — and the most recent rumour of all was that on Monday, during a drive in the environs of St. Cloud in an open carriage, the horses took fright, and, in a word, that the President was very near becoming the victim of the same fatal accident which betel the lamented Duke of Orleans, in 1842. It was also rumoured that an attempt has been made to fire the fortress of Vincennes. These, however, are but a few of the many rumours that have been in cir culation. THE BLOOMER FASHIONS FOR 1852-3.—Mrs. Blooiner publishes the following information relative to the Bloomer fashions for the season, in the last number of the Lily, a monthly quarto, edited and published by her at Seneca Falls. :—We have several letters of inquiry about the style of making the short dress, and also what style of hat is to he worn the coming winter. It is a little per plexing to us to answer such questions, for we Know little about the fashions, and we do not wish to set ourselves up as a pattern for others. We are not aware that there Is any particular style for making the short dress, or any fashion for it. At least we have none, but wake ours just to suit our own fancy and comfort, and we hope others will do the same. We believe our dress will not differ materially from those worn by others, except in the length of the skirt and bodice, and in giving our selves room to breathe freely, and depending on our own muscles, instead of whalebone, for support. And this we consider all important, whether the skirt be long or short. Another important consideration which we urge upon our lady readers is, the supporting of under skirts by elastic suspenders (the same as those worn by men, and worn in the same manner), instead of letting them rest upon the hips. They are perfectly easy, and far pre ferable to " straps." We are happy to know that they are now worn to a considerable extent, and they will be generally adopted when their advantages become known. The prettiest style of cloak for the short dress is a full circle, or Spanish cloak. The sacque looks well, and is very convenient, as it leaves the arms free. Both bonnets and hats are worn. If a hat, the beaver is preferable, though they may be made of silk or velvet. The trousers are made mostly straight and plain, or with spring " bottoms," though some still prefer them full , and con fined at the ankle. The large number of ladies who at tended the meeting here on the 14th ult., dressed in short skirts and trousers, proved the falsity of the state ment mede by some of the papers, that this style of dress has become extinct. The number present on that occa sion was, by different persons, estimated as high as fifty, and these came from different sections of the state. Lucy Stone, whom all so much admired, we are happy to see, still adheres to this style of dress.—New f ork Herald. FRANCE. The election for the Emperor of France commenced on Sunday, the 21st instant, and continued throughout the day without the least excitement. The result has long been anticipated ; and therefore the voting had lost much of the interest which would otherwise have manifested itself. The election proceedings went on on amenonday in the different polling places very nearly the as on the previo us day. The following are the numbers of the votes as far as were ascertained by the latest intelligence : For Lillis Nap01e0n...... Against him ............ IRELAND. --- The Limerick Chronicle says that such is the rage among the peasantry for occupying farms, that in the barony of Owney and Arra, Tipperary, several hundred acres have been lately taken at £3 per acre. THE SIX.MILE BRIDGE VERDICT.—On Thursday, th Lord Chief Justice pronounced the unanimous judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench on the application of the crown to quash the verdict of the coroner's jury. Rule refused. - - - A SMUGGLING LUGGER, armed, it is supposed, with eight guns, and manned by thirty-six desperate fellows, has been dropping quantities of tobacco on the Dublin coast. A large quantity has been discovered by the coast guard on Dalkey island. INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT.—A gentleman from the north of Ireland has just settled in Galway, where he is giving employment to a considerable number of poor weavers in the manufacture of calico—a new branch of trade in that hitherto neglected district. HORRIBLE DEATH.—John Macintyre, a boatman at Kingussie, had been grinding oats at a mill, when a plank giving way, he was precipitated some eight feet into a pig stye, where lie was stunned. He was found shortly after wards quite dead, and his body fearfully msngled, having been eaten away in parts by two pigs. CARRYING ARMS.—The names of 533 persot...., appear in last week's Gazelle, from whom the power of carrying or having arms is revoked by the Lords Justices, under the Ist Victoria, cap. 2. The proclamation is dated the the 10th of November, and signed by the Under-Secretary. RETRIBUTION.—An Irish paper says that a few nights since a fox, which is supposed to have been prowling about the henroosts at the Inniskeen station, on the Castleblaney railway, was cut in two by the night mail train, which does not stop at the station. THE WEATHER IN IRELAND.—Where's the use o' talkie' howsomever—sure not even the weather itself can be depended upon ! There it is now, thryin' the leaks in the roof, and dhrivin' the cat, stern-foremost, to the fire, with a heavy, dull, plasbin' rain ; and two hours ago it was dhry, with a tindency to frost, and could and bracin' as a soger's waistbelt, besides bein twice as wholesome. — Terry Driscoll. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday night Mr. James Montgomery, a respectable farmer, of Ballygarvey, near Ballymena, having been requested by his brother to shoot a dog which had hurt one of his children, took down his gun, and, to try whether it was charged or not, he urged a man who was beside him to hold a candle to the touch hole while he blew into the barrel with his mouth. In adopting this hazardous test some sparks from the candle came in contact with the powder, which discharged the contents of the gun into the head of the incautious vic tim, killing him on the spot. Deceased has left a wife and eight children to mourn his loss. TENANT LEAGUE MORALITY.—A few nights since a Presbyterian chapel at Scrigan, near Dungiven, was broken into, and considerable damage done to the re cords, and part of the communion vessels removed. The minister of the congregation, had, at the late election, dared to exercise the right of private judgment, and voted for Mr. Greer, an elder of his own Church, instead of for the two episcopalian candidates. This, it is supposed, is the reason why some desperate miscreants wreaked their vengeance on the church, as the Reverend gentleman is of a most unobtrusive and inoffensive disposition, and had never before given the slightest offence to his neighbours of any faith. AN IDIOT AND HIS BURIED MOTIIER.—A most affect mg incident has recently come under observation. There resides in Castlewellan, co. Down, a poor idiot, whose mother died and was buried about five weeks ago in Bryansford churchyard. The helpless lad was evidently deeply affected by the loss he had sustained, and last week, conceiving that his fond parent had not been interred as she ought to have been, and that her body was floating in water under the soil, he proceeded with wheelbarrow and spade to the grave, disinterred the remains, and carried them away. The operation was witnessed by several neighbours, who, when they attempted to interfere, were TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 , 1852. demand at the Bourse for the shares tif the Societe Gen erale de Credit Atobilier was so great that they stood at 1750 francs, being 1250 francs premium. AMERICA. letter from Rome of the 10th states that the agents of a French Company have offered the Papal Government 150,000,000 f. for the completion of the railway lilies pro jected in the Pontifical States, and that Cardinal Antonelli has taken certain surveys of a French engineer into serious Consideration. ROYAL CONFERENCE.—A letter from Vienna, dated the 20th instant, states that the Czar has made an appointment at Warsaw with the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia, both of whom will repair shortly to that city, to review troops and deliberate upon the state of Europe. EXHIBITION FRUITS.—The Lyonnese have lately received large orders, both from England and the United States. They admit that they have derived great advantage from the Great Exposition in London, as their siks and velvets became better known to the English people. Since that period the orders from England have considerably increased. DENMARK.—The Danish Popular Chamber, in its sit ting of the 17th, voted, after a long and stormy discus sion, an article of the conscription act, declaring that the troops raised in Denmark should never form part of the German federal contingent. This resolution is in direct contradiction with the principle of the unity of the mo narchy, which has lately been asserted at so great cost. DEEP SEA GOLD DIGGINGS.--A party of American adventurers are about to proceed with a steam-engine, and all requsite appliances, for the purpose of raising treasures from the Spanish vessel San Pedro, which was lost off Venezuela more than a century azo. It is sup posed that the vessel bad about 89,000,000 on board, which were sent by the Home Government to pay off troops in her dominions in the New World. Some two years since a portion of the present party discovered the wreck, and, with the aid of a little apparatus for the pur pose, succeeded in raising about 525,000. TURKEY.—There has been a terrible storm in the Ar chipelago, no less than thirteen vessels having been cast on shore at the Punta dei Barbieri, at the entrance of the Dardanelles. Five hundred houses have been destroyed by a fire at Constantinople, at which the Minister of War was wounded on the head by the falling of a beam as he was rendering assistance. The insurrection of the Druses is assuming, it is said, a serious form. The insecurity of the Syrian roads is greater than ever, and it is feared that the Bedouins meditate an attack on the two towns of Safet (Souf) and Tabaria (Tiberius), which are now with- obliged to withdraw, the idiot threatening their lives, imagining, it is believed, that they had some interest in the body and were resolved at all•hasards to obtain it. Finding they were unable to restrain him, the neighbours gave immediate information to the police, and in a short time the unfortunate idiot, who had the coffin placed on the wheelbarrow, and was on his way with it to the moun tains, was arrested, and was obliged to return. He was subsequently allowed, undcr surveillance, to carry off his wonderful burden, and it is stated that during three days and nights he proceeded in the manner described, among and over the mountains in the neighbourhood ; that lie dug three graves which did not seem to satisfy him, and that eventually exhausted by fatigue he reached Rostrevor, where he had the remains decently and carefully interred. ECCLESIASTICAL. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREVE RME:, T.—The Rev. Edward Weldon Tarleton, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. George's Church, Kendal, in the county of Westmoreland, on the nomination of the Rev. J. B. Meredith, the Incumbent. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTME NTS Rev. A. H. Ashworth, M.A., to be a Probationary Vicar-Choral of York Cathedral. Rev. W. Barham, M.A., to the Chaplaincy of the Cam bridge Borough Gaol. Rev. C. H. Cooke, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Bur ford-cum-Fulbrook, Oxon. Rev. A. E. Crowder, to the Episcopal Chapel, Dunse, Scotland. • Rev. E. W. Culsha, to the Stipendiary Curacy of the Holy Trinity Church, Runcorn, Cheshire. Rev. E. Davidson, to the Curacy of Gellygder, Glamor ganshire. Rev. J. C. de Tracy, to the Curacy of Thurgarton and Hoveringham, Notts. Rev. J. Fuge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Over Peover, Knutsford, Cheshire. Rev. W. Gabbett, to be Chaplain to the Bishop of Meath. Rev. G. Gibbon, to the Perpetual Curacy of Hartshiil, Warwickshire. Rev. T. Gurney, to the Rectory of All Saints' and St. Julian's, Norwich. Hon. and Rev. S. W. Lawley, to the Sub-Deanery in the Cathedral Church of York. Rev. J. Owen, Rector of Llanbedrog, to the Rectory of Llaniestyn, Carnarvonshire. Rev. G. Peake, to the Vicarage of Aston-juxta, Bir mingham. Rev. H. Philiips, to the Curacy of Crowle, Lincolnshire. Rev. J. Price, to be Chaplain of the West Herts In firmary. Rev. J. Prior, to the Curacy of Burley Dam, Cheshire. Rev. S. Rashleigh, to the Curacy of Harburton, Devon. Rev. J. Rowland, to the Incumbency of Tydweiliog, Carnarvonshire. Rev. P. H. Schoales, to the Perpetual Cure of Arva, in the diocese of Kilmore. Rev. C. C. Sharpe, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ince, in the county of Chester. Rev. J. P. Snow, to the Curacy of Edwinstowe, Herts. Rev. G. Thompson, to the Chaplaincy of the House of Correction, Wisbech. Rev. E. - Wilshere, late Curate of Chester-le-Street, and formerly Rector of St. Patrick and St. George's, Scarboro, Tobago, to the Chaplaincy of Gottenburg. Rev. W. Wright, M.A., Curate of St. Peter's Church, Worcester, to the Rectory of that parish. THE JERUSALEM BISHOPRIC. — In an address delivered by Dr. Gobat at the Malta Protestant College, on the sth instant, the Bishop stated that the terms on which the Anglican Bishopric at Jerusalem was founded, having been submitted to diplomatic consideration between the courts of England and Prussia, with the full concurrence of the highest ecclesiastical authorities in England, any seceders from the communion of the Christiana of the East, comprised in the Bishop's diocese, may now be received into communion with the Church of England in Jerusa lem, provided they make a declaration before the com petent Turkish authority, of their wish to be placed under the Bishop's jurisdiction, which secures for the proselyte the protection of England, Prussia, and the Sublime Porte. ACHILLI V. NEWMAN. DOCTOR NEWMAN, as our readers are aware, has obtained a rule nisi for a new trial in the ill-savoured ease of Achilli v. Newman. The doctor is a great scholar and a clever man ; and by exhibiting in this case a grievous lack of wisdom, consoles the world for his superior attainments in other respects. His first endeavour was to avenge the Church of Rome on a deserter from her ranks ; his second to vindicate himself from the charge of libel. In one thing, at least, he succeeded, and that is in damaging the Church of Rome in public opinion more than ten such doctors as himself will ever be able to serve her. In the course of the trial the plaintiff and defendant shrank into insignificance ; and the lax discipline (to say the very least) of the Roman Church was prominently set before the wondering eyes of the British people. The whole of the evidence on the Popisii side went to prove, without a blush, that a known and acknowledged ravisher, who had chosen the most solemn of Christian feasts for the perpe tration of his iniquity, was, in the very face of these facts. not only permitted to continue officiating as a priest of the church. but promoted to high places of responsibility and honour. In order to believe Achilli guilty, it was absolutely necessary to believe the Church of Rome to be the partner of his crimes—to be an accessory after the fact, and, by impunity, to er.couraze its guilty monk in the perpetration of fresh crimes. To believe him inno cent, we must stilt believe the Roluish Church to be guilty of iniquity, almost equally atrocious, of suborning per jurers, and setting its seal to a lie. There is no escap ing from the dilemma. Whether the accusation against Achilli be true or false, the Church of the Pope is equally guilty. One matter, however, was made quite apparent, unknown, perhaps, to some, but alarming to all fathers and husbands, whose wives and daughters pin their faith on the black army of the Vatican : a priest of most profligate habits, " a scandalous friar," may be allowed to continue in high office, preaching, confessing, and absolving, at the very time be is committing adultery. Achilli is nothing—Newman is nothing. But this as tounding fact has sunk deep into the public mind. It has been received as the moral of the trial. it was not, surely, the part of wisdom to recal it to the recollection. There is another pleasant little incident in this case, which goes to prove that whatever the Doctor and his party want in wisdom is made up in cunning. The motion for a new trial ought to have been made within the four first days of the term ensuing after the verdict had been pronounced. But no intimation what soever was given of such a course being taken. Dr. New man represented himself, on the contrary, as a resigned martyr, and his friends assailed the public for subscriptions to rescue him from a gaol. The notion of a new trial would have suspended public sympathy, and, therefore, it was kept a dead secret till the cash was extracted. Poor Paddy, who is ever ready with his mite for every thing in the world except—to pay his debts or his rent — was fleeced to the amount of many hundred pounds. The Newmanites now profess that the late verdict was a mis take, given against the weight of evidence, and on a new trial they are sure to win. In that case they will kill two birds with one stone, and gain both their cause and their subscription. Dr. Newman has written a book to show the " logical difficulties" of the Protestant side of the question ; perhaps he will now be kind enough to unravel this logical difficulty on the Popish side. In the case of the Doctor's success, how is poor Paddy to recover the amount of his subscription ?—Dublin Evening Mail. [ADVERTISEMENT.] PROPOSAL TO LIMIT COMMERCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. (Fromthe Liverpool Times,of Thursday,Nov. 25,1852.') The following memorial, on a subject to which we have already called attention more than once, has been drawn up for presentation to the Board of Trade, which is under stood' to be disposed to incorporate a company, with limited responsibility, to carry on commerce with the United States and British America. This is a scheme got up in London, and which, if authorized, will create a direct competition with the navigation of Liverpool, on terms which are alike unfair and impolitic. There is not a Liverpool merchant or shipowner engaged in this trade who does not risk every shilling he possesses on the re sult of his operations ; whilst this company, if it should be formed, will be able to expose all of them to a ruinous competition, without the slightest liability to discharge any engagement beyond the limits of his subscribed capital : "To THE COMMITTEE OF HER MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL APPOINTED FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF MATTERS RELATING TO TRADE AND FOREIGN PLAN TATIONS. " The Memorial of the undersigned Shipowners of the port of Liverpool. engaged in the trade between the the United Kingdom and Canada, SHOWETH,—That an application has been recently made to, and is now under the consideration of, your honourable board for a charter to the London, Liverpool, and North American Screw Steam. ship Company, formed for the purpose of carrying passengers and goods to and from ports in the United Kingdom and ports in Canada, and other ports of British North America and the United States. " That such application of the said company is for a special charter limiting the liability of the shareholders. " That your memorialists respectfully submit to your honourable board that the granting of such a charter would be an act of great injustice to your memorialists, and other shipowners engaged in the like trade. "That your memorialists have invested a large capital in British shipping engaged in the Canada trade, and are liable, to the full amount of their individual property, to make good their debts, engagements, and responsibilities as such shipowners;; that the effect of granting special privileges, as respects limited liability to the above com pany, would be to bring into unequal competition with the capital of your memorialists a large amount of capital without subjecting the proprietors of such capital to those risks and contingencies to which your memorialists are subject, in conimon with other traders; for, under such a charter, as soeght for, the above company will not be restrained in their business by the ordinary rules of com mercial caution, and may run the hazard of operations for the chance of profit, because, if unsuccessful, the extent of individual loss will be trifling, whilst the effect of such operations, carried on by such competing com pany, may be most injurious to your memorialists. "That all such charters have been considered in modern times contrary to sound policy; they are calculated to give a dangerous impulse to the spirit of gambling, and they greatly tend to discourage all private enterprise. "That there is nothing special in the circumstances of the above company; nor are there any requirements in the trade in which they propose to embark which call for departure from the general practice of your honourable board in granting charters to joint-stock companies, and under which charters shareholders are liable to the full amount of their individual property. "Your memorialists, therefore, humbly pray that your honourable board will not grant a charter, with a limited liability, to the London, Liverpool, and North American Screw Steam-ship Company. "And your memorialists will ever pray, [The subject of Royal Charters is one equally as an goniatic to shipowners as to steam-boat proprietors.] AU RIC ,SSION. not make our own convictions or preferences the standard of our Catholicity. It is true, that, for the sake of that charity which is God's highest commandment to us, we would consent to the „omission ,of some words, which, however highly prized, we know, after'alt, to he the words of fallible men. But for ourselves , and considering only ourselves, we altogether depiecate the rebellion of our high Churchmen—egainst the Catholic comprehension , ruled by the committee of the Privy Council, and the attempts which they have been increasingly urging forward ever since to procure by Synodical action some change In oureeclesiastical constitution. But we make the supposition in order to point out the inevitable consequences of present success on the part of those who are driving matters to extremities. They claim the Prayer Book in certain parts as authorising, nay, enforcing, on pain of violated lava, these Romanising, not to say Romish practices. Let theta make good that claim; let them undeniably prove their point ; and what have they done ? Have they persuaded the church, as a body, to adopt the practices in question Or, have they sealed the doom of the portions of the Prayer Book in question ? We think that no sane roan, with both eyes open to the state of this nation, can hesi tate to decide that, if the conflict be brought to this issue, must the nation goback to the metliveval practices, andsuc cumb under the clerical domination now advocated by the Tractarian party ? Or, must the Prayer Book be altered? An alteration in the Prayer Book is as sure as that the waters of the Thames or the Mersey will find their vraY into the sea. Let the nation be convinced that to do honour to the Prayer Book, and to primitive antiquity at the same time, the general practice of the Church of England for the last hundred years is honestly sufficient; and the Prayer Book may anti will stand. But once con vince the nation that, in order to be honest and true to the Prayer Book, we must go back and adopt certain ecclesiastical practices of the tenth or twelfth centuries , and you will have consigned these portions of the Prayer Book to the tomb of the Capulets, or the kindred page° of the Missal. FRANCIS SHAND, Esq., seconded the resolution, which MEETING * . :AT THE AMPHITHEATRE We stated last7Tuestley, in our second edition, that a great meeting or the clergy and laity of Liverpool was then being held in the spacious Amphitheatre, " for the purpose of protesting against the practice of auricular con fession, recently introduced into the church in the diocese of Exeter, and elewhere, as inconsistent with the princi ples of the Reformation, and unwarranted by the teaching of the Church of England." The important events which have subsequently crowded upon us, have unavoidably compelled us to be more brief in our report than would otherwise have been the case ; but the following will be found to contain all the most prominent points of the proceedings. Every part of the vast building, pit, boxes, gallery, and stage, were densely filled. Adam Hodgson, Esq., was in the chair; and amongst those present were the Revs. Dr. M'Neile, H. 111arlen, Cyrus Morrell, C. P. Hobbs, W. B. Matthias, J. E. Blakenev, R. Brown, T. D. Barry, W. F. Taylor, J. R. Conor, W. M. Falloon, W. Rawson, T. C. Cowan, F. Parry, C. W. Lawrence, J. Macnaught, W. Brewster, J. Bardsley, A. Knox. Dr. Ilume, W. Pollock, H. Hamp ton, T. Robinson, F. Barker. Ellison, G. W. Warr, J. Hassell ' D. Hirsch, T. Moore, T. W. Moeran , J. J . Buller, W. H. Duck, C. J. Hamilton, W. C. Greene, C. Wright, S. Fenton, W. R. Jolley, J. Nadin, H. Car penter, J. Lester, J. Ireland, F. Power. D. Anderson, S. Minton, J. P. Jones. B. S. Clarke. H. Hindley, J. J. Butler, J. Marland, G. Alkar, Woodward, Folkstone, A. Willink ; Messrs. Adam Hodgson, David Hodgson, John Eden, C. Bushell, F. Shand, E. Cropper, John Campbell, W. Tomlinson, Geo. J. Duncan, Wm. Maples, Chas. Inman. Wm. Jones, Charles Mulvaney, Edward Cropper, J. K. Rounthwaite, T. D. Anderson, George Holden, H. Halhead. J. Tyrer, J. Miller, C. Cotesworth, E. Molyneux, W. Hall, George Duncan, R. C. Crosbie, J. Browne, William Jones, T. D. Headlam, Jas. Parker, J. C. Duncan, Sre. was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, described the The Rev. WM. POLLOCK, of St. Mark's, moved t he p ro ceedings which had taken place in the Diocese of Ex following resolution :—" That the teaching of the Church eter, and showed, from the correspondence with the of England affords no warrant for the practices referred Archbishop of Canterbury, that there was no legal remedy to in the first resolution," and proceeded, in a lengthened for the evil complained of. After an eloquent appeal for address, to show that our church gives not the slightest an expression of public opinion against the pollution of countenance to that Romish importation of the confes our wives and daughters, and the threatened outrage upon sinner against which they were then protesting; but that our liberties, Mr. Hodgson stated that the Rev. Rector rather, both by implication and direct statement, she Campbell, it was hoped, would have occupied the chair, absolutely repudiates and ignores it. He said the Church but a letter had been received from him, in which he ex of England notoriously provides her clergy with formal pressed his " reluctance to sit, as it were, in public judo- offices for the fulfilment of every kind of official function• ment on my brother clergymen, or act as their public accuser, without being judicially acquainted with all the If lam to celebrate our daily worship—if lam to achnie minutiae of evidence upon which the accusation is sister the Lord's Supper, or to give notice of its adnsinise tration—if I am to baptise the child, or the adult, in grounded. At the same time I sympathise with you public or in private—if lam to ask the prayers of the most heartily in your determination to resist every attempt, congregation for any—if lam to receive the public thanks: direct or indirect, to introduce the obligation of the con givings of others—if lam to marry the betrothed—if I fessional, and the practice to which it leads in the Church am to visit the sick—if lam to bury the dead—for all of Rome, the assumed right of questioning the most se roitunteankefomrme: and that h owi these duties the Church, rightly or wrongly, supplies me cret thoughts of the penitents, and suggesting the con- with a written form. Now, how is it, if the Church fession of crimes of the most loathsome and polluting nature. God forbid that the wives and daughters of confessor, that she has given me no formal instruction s England should ever be subject to such a system as this. iwnittehndaedwt whatever i no " confiteor" for the penitent, no absolution I trust that the husbands and fathers of England will rise for the priest ; ay, that she has even left me without 3 up in mutiny against it. * * * While, however, I form of absolution for the occasion, absolution being, sit if the Church thus denounce the ordinance of compulsory confession as confessedly on all hands the great benefit to be attained enjoined by the Church of Rome, I must not be misun by auricular confession ? After some further remarks, he derstood to disparage the practice of voluntary confession, continued—lt is said that the Church does unquestionab l y' or rather of friendly consultation, as permitted by the allow of private confession to a minister—and two in' Church of England, in cases of sickness, or previous to stances of this are insisted on. One is that which I lia°. a the reception of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. As already alluded to in the case of the sick ; the other is le in bodily sickness you seek the help of your medical ad her appointed notice of the intended celebration of the viser, so in spiritual sickness you seek the help of your habitually, an auricular Lord's Supper. Now, the first of these instances we spiritual adviser, rejoicing to receive from his lips the might, if so disposed, dismiss very briefly. Whatever t he a ssurance that, if truly penitent, your sins are forgiven Church may have advised or provided concerning the coo' on the terms of the Gospel, and your pardon sealed in fession or absolution of the sick is wholly inapplicable to heaven." the case of persons in health, for whom she has made n° The Rev. Dr. M`NEILE moved the first resolution : such provision, and it gives no warrant whatever for that " That it is in evidence before this meeting that practices, which we are this day complaining of,—the setting uP el irreconcileable with the Reformation, have been intro which confession as an ordinary means of grace• grid duced into the Church in the diocese of Exeter—practices an habitual observance among our people. But, besi de t strongly confessional resem f t b he ling Church of, if not aßome; andctually ident hat, itical wnste aith, d thof e whet are the facts of the case, even as regards the sink o meeting with immediate repudiation, they have been themselves ? Why, in the first place, I defy any one to s a nctioned, or at least screened, by the diocesan; and prove that the special confession, advised in partic ular cases, is auricular confession, that is, to a priest only that, in consequence of this, the practices in question are There is not one word in the rubric to show that the defended and claimed as in accordance with the teaching sick man may not be surrounded at the time by hi e of the Church of England." In the course of a long and family and his friends, an idea which is rather favoured eloquent speech, which was repeatedly and loudly than otherwise by the whole structure of the service il cheered, the Rev. Dr. said :—"against Romanism, and question. which is that of a social service—there is tin perly so called, I have never hesitated, honestly and one word to show that the minister demands, in the rig openly, and earnestly to contend. It is condemned by our church theologically, and it is injurious in the highest of his office, to receive the sick man's confession ; IT! degree to the country politically. Every educated Eng- yet, again, that he is to put a single question to him al ';':' goes along. So far, then, in the confession of the al°'" lishman, and especially every English clergyman, should such as it is, there is not even the shadow of a Pr e ; ; endeavour to keep the people of this country instructed in cedent for any auricular confession. But secondly , it '',", the obnoxious principles of the Romish system, antago only, as I have said, for special and extraordin ar, nistic as it is to England, essentially so, both in Church and State. But our present position is different. We cases that at. any i p s rov o i n s l i y on are here in opposition to members of our own church. I discharged his ordinary duty by the sick bed, 81 " .. have been accused of not denouncing, as it deserves. the has failed to reach the soul of the sick by the o rdina Tractarian movement in our church. I confess I have consolations of the Gospel ; it is only when he sees t ha t, not denounced it. I have been more disposed to weep in whlsenmaade, ministerany cohialfsessfiirsol there still remains some secret sorrow which he ean e 't secret over the defection of our brethren than to aggra comfort, some aching bosom wound which he caon ° ,., vale our differences by public exposure. Much, I think, soothe or heal ; it is only then at last that he is at libel'' , very much, ought to be borne, before such an appeal es to say one syllable about confession to the sick n 3 1 0; this is made—before the direful extremity is resorted to " " of open exposure and indignant protestation. We have Here, long course of spiritual treatment and consolation for says the rubric, after having first prescribe,' 0,,r: not courted this conflict. We are the assailed, not the Binary cases, " here shall the sick man be moved to make assailants.—The very large and very influential body com a special confession of sins, if he feel his conscience tr ey posed of sincere churchmen of moderate views and habits bled with any weighty matter." Nor even then d o es 3 13 ; have been influenced by such considerations, and have solution follow as a matter of course, but only "if, d hitherto practised a very praiseworthy forbearance. The humbly and heartily desire it." Surely all this, provia e . ' comparatively small, but active and energetic body, corn as it is, only for the dying, and for them only under ei f# posed of what are called High Churchmen, appear to cumstances which are of such rare occurrence, that 01 have looked on all such considerations as little better ministers never meet with them in the whole of the,l than Infidel compromises ; and have urged on their own ministry—this " special confession," I say occasion 11, exclusiveness in a temper and tone which it is difficult to distnutuich from an excommunicating intolerance. How a`l.4aaa , but not in any "aa aa of neeeeeity a vric"'" 4 % long this state of things might have lasted it is difficult to auricular confession, or as necessarily to be followed e ,s say. But there is a limit to true Christian forbearance. by any form of absolution—this voluntary confession , tS,",; without questioning on the one hand or penance on '''. That limit has been overpast. The bounds of a fair other,—surely all this does not afford the slightest con; Christian comprehension have been burst. And a plac e tenace to those who would make auricular confessio n the is claimed amongst us, not only for varying interp rets- ordinary rule of the church, both for the whole an d l ' si g Lions of the teachings of our church, but for that strong sick ; who would bring habitually whole and sick, Yeliio hold—the strongest of the Roman schism — the auricular and old, male and female, under the despotic tyranolt s 'ne they exclaim, and is confessional. t it come s it c e omeen are to this ? now rouse Aredou . W wives at ! polluting drill, and the judicial sentences of th e '''' r fessional. and daughters to be cross-examined in private by our Of The resolution was seconded by the Rev. T. Bate-es clergymen ? Are they to be assisted by leading ques- and carried unanimously. tionings to tell all their evil thoughts and tempers, tioo' and make known our domestic history as it stands in- T. D. ANDERSON, Esq., moved the third resole t ee " That it is the bounden duty of the members of ~/ i e separably connected with those thoughtsand tempers ? Aro , opinion as will render the repetition of such prat morally impossible. an° we indeed to have the confessional, that climax of imposture, Church of England to give such utterance to PatiYee where one human being is exalted into the place and pre- t This was seconded by DAVID HODGSON, Esq" " rogative of the sin-pardoning God, and another human 1 being degraded below the level of the most ebject carried amid loud applause. slave ?" The Rev. Doctor proceeded at great length to cbAi r ' • b s e to re t q h u e es L te n d rd to ß t i r s a h n o s p m o it f a th c e op d y io o e f e t s h e e , ashenciveti the The Rev. H. H. HAMPTON moved—" That the rebid and the fact of the introduction of Auricular Confession, and its strong resemblance to the Romish Confessional m lut a i ti on in all but name, and went on to remark on the third part Grace the Lord Archbishop of York, together wi tu ptaif of his resolution as more immediately touching the that his lordship as diocesian, and his grace as iv e ";011' united, earnest, and respectful petition of this 10 , e ,: o poe question of Confession in our own Church. " English men set a high value upon their reformed church, and rites, will be pleased to adopt such measures as t ° ,," 0 301 entertained a sincere and respectful affection for their cafe to us and others such further measures as i i :,„"i e for spiritual pastors and teachers. In cases of conscience, with propriety adopt to render it morally impos e for requiring for a right application of the rules of morality a more detailed acquaintance with the Word of God than a any clergyman of our church so far to forget and t 0 to te, introduce among our wives and daughters. wha t o 0 sake the standard of the Reformation as to att e s - w e ll' layman feels himself possessed of, a Christian Englishman may, and frequently and gladly he does, avail himself of Englishmen are determined never to endure, that 5 ,7 08 1. the friendly counsel of his pastor. Especially with hold of mediaeval corruption—the auricular confess:l% .110 reference to the state of mind in which it is right to THomas EDEN, Esq., seconded the motion, whit partake of the Lord's Supper; if a Christian layman , carried with rapturous applause. under any peculiar circumstances, cannot fully satisfy than ic l The Rev. Dr. M`NEILE then moved a vote of s ee himself, so as to be able to obey the parting command to the chairman, which was carried by acclamation' ment of his loving Saviour, with a quiet mind and a full the CHAIRMAN, in responding, said he had only t° O S confidence in God's mercy, he will very naturally make the meeting cordially for the order and attention... Ads the circumstances known, as far as necessary, to his which the whole of the proceedings had been cond7th, clergyman, and ask his judgment as to what the Word He should take care to forward to the Lord Bishel - siee.: of God says in such cases. Or if, in extreme sickness and diocese and to the Archbishop of York the resel l oil probable approach of death, a Christian man should call to mind any grievous sin against God hitherto unrepented which had been passed by so very important an nu of, or any trangression against a fello w- cr eature un- A m f e t r e o r u a as sitting of f requited, he may earnestly desire to know , from a mind dispersed. better informed than his own , an d not weakened b y sickness, what the Word of God says t o such a case as ---- his. To this end lie may under such urgent circumstances , if he be so disposed , inform his m i n ister of the real secret of his case, and desire to hear from him the formal nearly five hours, the va st assObif announcement of God' merciful pardon to the penitent. WARRINGTON. of , So far, well. Every sincere and painstaking pastor APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF CONSTABLE be . o n ri.,°: tr, rejoices to render his best assistance on such occasions, the appointment of chief constable of the borel Vv ss not as having dominion over the faith of his people, but made by the watch committee •J. S. M`Miella el t ° 'il ler as being a helper of their joy ; not as cognisant of all lington Salop, being the successful' candidate. their sins, and giving a judicial pardon, but as consulted were 50 ' applications for the office. s o (0 fie , . •ret on some particular point, and giving en enlightenedthe elee-essae NORTH-WEST WARD.—On Tuesday, .„. r. r 41 e. scriptural judgment. I think, however, I may truly say councillor for the north-west ward, in place oft us e rre:pcl that a determination exists among the thousands of the recently elected an alderman, took place in r .nc eri r sS lay members of the Church of England, that private hall. The candidates were Mr. John Tickle, g:Lscia r s igle confession of their sins to clergymen shall not form any Mr. Jas. Kerfoot, licensed victualler. The eson'il e 'rfr o s; part of their practice or the practice of their families ; the early part of the day was very spirited, bu t i '3e an tes that to be questioned and examined by clergymen on the kept the lead and finally beat his opponent by t, 75. 001‘ subject of their private sins against God is an ordeal to the numbers polled being—Tickle, 107; Kerf e° tin g t Of which they never will submit ; and that to perform BOARD OF GuARDIANS.—The weekly roe c oodesai special acts of penance at the bidding of clergymen is an place on Wednesday, at the workhouse, Mr', ot Bu r t tof obedience which they never will render. This is the chairman, presiding. The returns showed 0: 0 e ol ie ra intelligible. Its foundations are immovable. Holy the week 1491 persons had been relieved , e o d t Oa Scripture, the practice of the primitive church, sound £77 3s. 6d. ; 137 vagrants had been relieved, d Ol i o& reason, honour, independence, purity, the Christian were 147 inmates in the workhouse ; com pare deet e l3s # delicacy which shrinks instinctively from every temptatation to evil, instead of dwelling upon it, and corresponding period last year, there was a gre g e oiei• both in the number of paupers and the cost 0 1 r b o, examining it, and defining it, and expressing it in words—all are in favour of this determination. Is lane© in the treasurer's hands, 1:566 17s. 4d. d p l ; oil there anything against it ?Is any part of the Book of BURGLARY.—At the Sessions-house, on Al e ?, ° Da' e tlol Common Prayer against it? Yes or no ? (Loud cries of Terry and Wm. Drinkwater (both young in e `;', to e„'" 0 0 0 ; "No, no.") The time is come when this must be fully offenders, Drinkwater having just finished a xis to investigated, and very decidedly answered. The age of imprisonment, to which he was sentenced at to e rie i lt! carelessness is passed, and practical earnestness is the spring assizes), were charged with burglariou,,/,, tb e isiP order of our day. Voices are raised, on either side of this the house of Richard Garnett, at Warringto n ' " 0 01. question, with a resolution that will not be silenced. instant, and stealing a quantity of wearing aPP;yes. e Some, with all the zeal of a devotee, are demanding the prisoners were committed to the Liverpool as s ' tr e le ; auricular confessional as an integral part of the English Church, and essential in their view to the full development BOILER PLATES.—The largest and heaviest - . - ale", c eil / i ; of Catholic truth and Christian holiness. Others, with ever made in England, or in Europe, w ere 00 ,1 ;0 all the fervour of enlightened love towards God and man, week at Messrs. Hood and Cooper's, Wo w° of are repudiating the foul abuse, as disgraceful in itself, and Each plate when finished weighed upsOr ds $' 4 11' 0 degrading in its effects—calculated to transform our spiri- 10 cwt. ,yo al", eight tual Zion into a cage of unclean birds—our houses of A GAMEKEEPER VATC HER SHOT I , ; , tli, d t.- AND \ do p e o d"; prayer into dens of thieves. Suppose, now, that it be —A diabolical outrage wss perpetrated _ or pio f.O found, on inquiry and close examination, that all that is of Wednesday last, or early on 1 hursda r y s n ier ele2 o o, , :ji required of Englishmen by the formularies of their church game preserves of Lord Hawke, of ... N o Y,X,'"l‘sittl 0 b;' l ,o is what they have no conscientious objection to, and what, near Doncaster, by which the keeper, J c if er wit'.' o f WO in point of fact, many of them—under the circumstances, a watcher were shot in a desperate enco co ltt ro i s siolt r or tif , and with reference to the spiritual duty referred to—have of poachers. The information of the e rn." hol.".0 0 41 been, and are in the habit of doing ; the proof of this will atrocious deed, which was known at ail e t ";: 0 s e a i r t' se lf be highly satisfactory. I think this can be proved. I morning, spread consternation throughout think, as I have said, it will be proved this day in this place. But on the other side, and to bring matters to a as early as three o'clock :in the mor n i l ; in 6 g coo c o ,l ii : practical issue, suppose the contrary to be proved. Sup- called up Mr. Astwood, the superintcn t _ ss i s rs l " .. . o oN. pose it made plain and undeniable to the candour of the the division, to obtain his advice a . d' the en . % o ptc; t! nation that a few passages in the Book of Common Prayer hood. Lord Hawke arrived . in Doncastielr..,,eool3,l4,lo,ostl;lol first step taken was to place a watch at _ an y 5 05 0 justify auricular confession, that they have for many, the town, for the purpose of interceartsioos ~ many years been practically neglected; but that now beingduces poP 11 0 persons who might arrive in these __. to , bf o li t ma de prominent, they do warrant a clergyman in privately appears that the poachers had not c e c or noo fee e : pe rri fe o examining into the private sins against God of individuals, and, at seven o'clock, Astwood, both male and female, in appointing private penances to be performed, and in pronouncing judicial absolutions. lordship declared that he was afraid o_ e i r ed, ' 0 0 3 ,,e 0 „ Suppose all this fairly and thoroughly established, so that thither, that the keeper would have eA,', s , sy s als; no man of unprejudiced mind shall be able to deny ' it ;and nee ~e - re, watcher also. At the time, However, ~,,,, li v e e l what then ? Are Scripture, and primitive practice, and Hawke, proceeded to the scene of a . t , 11,e e fo u r t o ri th,e f lot o # ol press, our reporter had not returrncad Jr' z ette. - &ch s el a Prpi) reason, and honour, and independence, and purity and this frightful outrage.—Doncaste cd tha t ' - 31 51. 1f 'pl . delicacy, all to give way and hide their diminished and Mercury adds—" We are inform iii9 ,ye t .o s o t . , before the unchangeable infallibility of tile Prayer Book ? keeper, has, in all probability, lostbothwattle Le e o ,P. De ~. 0.1 We make this supposition, not because of any hesitation possibly yet lose his life. The e:e-etweslato_eatio),oc' or misgiving upon the subject ourselves ;on the contrary, shots in him, although they are not 2 e l re tig,.r,ii we are fully persuaded in our own mind that no such Seven poachers and seven watches c 7 , w hile . charge against our own Church can be established. It is would 1 affray. All the poachers were arm " true,:iudeed, that we, cr at least some among us, " i " the watchers possessed arms.l DISTRICT NEWS•