Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-22 00:00:00

SOMETHING the MATTER with the GAS. B)
Godfrey Turner. See WELCOME GUEST, No. 1, New Series
Saturday, 24th September. Price 2d. Weekly.

NEW SERIES OF THE WELCOME GUEST.
No. 1, Saturday, 24th September, Price 2d. Weekly.
die WELecodz GUEST having passed into the •hitnds_of a new
Proprietary, it will undergo a change in its appearance, and
be brought out in a greatly improved form, and most copiously
illustrated by " ' Pkiz " H. G. fine, Kenny Meadows, Harrison
Weir, T. M. Macquoid, C. H. Bennett, W. M'Connell, J. Deffet
Francis W. H. Prior, and Julian Portch.
Mr. Robert B. Brough is the Editor of the New Series, which
will embrace Contributions from the following well-known

Writers
George Augustus Sala,
William Brough. •
-Frank Talfourd. -
Watts Phillips.
Sutherland Edwards.
T. G. Hollingshead.
-John Lang.
Augustus Mayhew.
James Hannay.
John V. Bridgman.
Walter Thornbury.
Thomas Irwin.
Hain Friswell.
Frank Fowler.
Frederick Greenwood.

William Carleton

Edmund Falconer
Andrew Halliday.

John Cixenkord.
Edward Draper

James Greenwood.
Godfrey Turner.
G. L. Strauss, Ph. D.
Leicester Buckingham
J. C. Brough.
W. K. Sullivan.
William Dalton.
Robert B. Brough.

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CAT II 0 LIC NEWSPAPER
FOR. LANCASHIRE.

ON S ITERDAY, THE FIRST OF OCTOBER,
Will be Published, the First Number of the
" LANCASHIRE FREE PRESS,
AND CATHOLIC NEWS."

STEPHEN J

MEANT

Late of the Liverpool Journal and Daily Post; preTionsly
Assistant Editor and Chief Reporter of the Dublld- Priernanus
Journal ; and, in succession, Editor §f the Irish Tribune, and
Drogheda Argus.

The want of a Catholic journal in 'Liverpool and the great
towns of Lancashire has long been felt and deplored. Whilst
every other Interest in the community is adequately represented
at the press, it is sadly true that the Catholic people -have no
special organ—that their public ,apirif finds no voice—their
principles no exponent—their social and political rights no
defender.

Lancashire has justly been termed the great centre of Catho-
licity in England ; and yet all 'attempts! of establishing a
Catholic journal in the county have heretofore proved failures.
The cause of these failures it is beside the present purpose to
inquire ; they may have resulted from want of capacity, or from
want of capital, or frcm anon-appreciation of the true mission
of a Catholic Press ; but assuredly, the numerous institutions
around us, devoted to religion and education, and erected by
the voluntary contributions of the Catholic people, attest that
they cannot be attributed to a want of a Catholic public spirit.
Recognising the want, and feeling emvinced,that the Catholic
people of Liverpool, and of Lancashire generally, will support
a journal devoted to the advocacy of their rights, and the de-
fence of their principles, the Editor of the " LANCASHIRE PREU
PRESS" enters the field, resolved to make the proposed journal
a tlaorougl-1-- ' dent of C 'ic interests—not to

andPe toif bit:ste' his hope of su

lition of de:-

" THE LANCASHIRE FREE

honestly and fear

of local. and

shall be sought to be.obtained:only-by appealing to
stsnding, the reason, and the moral feelings Of its re

Le. uAder-
lers.;

vulgar abuse, no degrading personalities shall ever be permitted
fq pollute its columns; m fine, in all that concerns its manage-
ment nothing, shall occur unworthy of its mission, viz., to
Vindicate Catholic principles, to instruct, unite, and exalt the
people, and to claim for Catholics perfect equality with' all
other sections of her Majeaty's subjects.

To- the Irish people—those of Irish birth and of Irish race
resident in Lancashire, the new 'journal must be peculiarly
acceptable. Labouring to keep alive home loves and home
memories, it will strive at the same-time to inculcate-the new
duties that appertain to the land in which they live. Catholic
Education, and Religious Equality for the Insh people, shall
be strenuously advocated. Upon those Irish questions which
are so misunderstood in this country, " TneLArreAsfinta FREE
PRESS" will endeavour to create a sound public opinion---and
seeking to remove the prejudices, national and religious, that
unhappily exist, thus hasten the solution of the " Irish diffi-
culty." . _

Literature, Science, and Art shall form prominent features
in the arrangements of " THE FREE PRESS ;" and while thus
giving the new journal a high tone, rigid care will be taken to
exclude from its columns indecent advertisements and reports,
and everything which could impair its usefuluess as a CATHO-
LIC FAMILY PAPER.

" The important question'of Education in all its bearings, and
its intimate connection with the social and moral elevation of
the working classes, will receive from the " LANCASHIRE FREE
PaEss" the attention which the merits of so grave a subjeet
eminently entitle it to.

The progress and proceedings of the Catholic Young Men's
Society will be amply recorded, and the columns of the
journal will be ever open for the proper discussion of all
questions of Catholic interest in reference to that great

Organisation ; thus affording an opportunity of bringing out
the intellect and intelligence of the Catholic young men of
Liverpool, Manchester, and the other great towns of Lanca-
shire. Our Christian Doctrine Confraternities, our Societies
of St. Vincent de Paul., and other religious associations, shall
receive a due share of attention. .

The "LANCASHIRE FREE PRESS" will have correspondents
in London and Dublin, and in the principal towns of Lanca-
shire and Cheshire, and some of the ablest Catholic writers of
the—day_will be numbered amongstits_contrihuturs.
The commercial and manufacturing interests of Lancashire
will be duly attended to ; and market intelligence up to the
latest hour of going to press will be regularly chronicled.

Appealing to a large audience, and i•epre;enting an influen-
tial community, it must necessarily have a great circulation,
and will, therefore, be an excellent medium for advertisements.
The " LANC tsantE FREE PRESS" will be a full-sized News-
paper of eight pages and forty-eight columns. It will be pub-
lished every Saturday in Liverpool, Manchester, Preston,
Blackburn, Wigan, Warrington, St. Helen's, and other towns
of Lancashire, and will be delivered at the residence of sub-
scribers for 13s. per annum; stamped, 17s; 6d. rsingle copies
procured from newsvenders, 3d. each.
OFFICE, 12, OLD POST-OFFICE-PLACE, LIVERPOOL,