The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-13 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

et lef.l
DIVORCE IN 1857.—" THE TALBOT CASE!' L
by " Cujus." London : Ward •and Lock, flee
street.
The time which has elapsed_since the final On
I,
cation in the case to which this publication
refers, can have done . but little :to efface fr'.ai
public memory the leading features of a trloi
almost without parallel in the causes celebre et
s
any nation, Whatever view the enquirer
deduce from the evidence in the heverat iiivestiof
tions before Irish and English cow is Of 1.'14
spreading over a peritid of four years, and closig"o
in the decision of the House of Lords, no eve e
fail to be painfully impressed with the aspent °l,et
case which must involve on one side or the eltmer
falsehood and crime of the most amazing ehareactbef
SOme of the incidents of the Talbot case, `4O
formed part of the plot of a French romance, to.
Ainsworth felon• story, would, in ry'eff
bility, be set down as even exceeding the
wide limit of- exaggeration and extravaga9ro.
which criticism concedes to such 101
ductions. If the decision tlae final tribl:d 50
were a just one, then Talbot House contflinerpoel
inmate whose open, unscreened, end ceo,.. e
guilt can only he described in such lant dt
2,118,;806
that in which Juvenal has branded with In° be
of " Messaliana." If' the other view of the ,oceo
a true one. then a conspiracy against an in' ;411d,,
woman has existed, concocted by her own 110'05
supported by • several suborned witnesses.,xt
assisted by the testimony oftnore than one
of religion, the details and the method of `ci, of
can scarcely bear allusion, not to si3esi the
description. The character of such a case, itt3h.,fore
terrible alternative which it offered to thosn to
whom it came for consideration, must IP,"hevthe
-
have justified the unusual course pursue"
press of this country. In any ordinary eaoter
any case even approaching :in ordinary 6139,r,ithe
—it would be Scarcely a fitting application "f
tba
a'rency of the press to make it a censor of
final decision pronounced by the highest„,iff
in Eoglancl. No common qu,stion coati Pi: of
the discussion of evidence, the investigate
private character, the suggestion of 113., the
absolutely felonious to 'parties involved,,!berie
columns of a newspaper, after the del,
decision of the House of Lords had put inl.-setei
all judicial investigation. But the Talbot
one which so completely exceeded the 111;
order and precedent in itself as to illstica tP
boldest departure from the usual con: sane pert-',f
part of the press and the public. Where °'"
or the other—and not the principal part
'
e):
but numbers of others involved as witnessetr;iil:
stand convicted, by the decision, of enortneustrieo`A
those who were bound by relationship s AO"
ship to either side, were unquestionably orr
toe
in holding no judgment final
believed a word remained to be said. or an all°
merit. suggested, on which an appeal to the 1;)tiole
might yet be founded We have no irate c°f
whatever of pursuing an enquiry into °will)
founded on the additional arguments fur"is„borilf
the volume now before us. But it is onlY
to a. most unhappy woman to recommend
have ever considered her •melancholY tte,
so long 118"
read attentively the views which are 6"";itstie:
effectively urged in this volume. It is 0111.9ej
to the writer to say that -ke has charnPir;
cause in such a manner that no one scu.,`"
these letters can fail to be struck with nvi".7 oof 10#
points he urges, or can honestly 1.-4151 tha, Yl,llll/31;
remains perfectly satisfied with the ileets',?; toe the
House of Lords. He has a fair "I:0 ,6
heard ; and many'of his strongest artz.nt.'„-ali
now heard for the first. time, for alto ;;bed
I
earlier letters of " Cujus" have been pub!. ted
the Standard yet the
.discussion soon sole)'6,:111
an extent beyond the limits of newspaper
and the greater part of the present volutsePl.l
therefore for the first time in the shape iu
aw °ifer
now lies before us. So earnest and able n° Doe
to the tribunal of the people will at least,
be listened to, and deeply considered „aiio'
There is a yet more important question "101
absolutely must be speedily considered.
more
r 1; L6`oll
pt,
of divorce remains still a subjeet of
Th
based dissatisfaction to the public ti,",tiP,ietu4l
any other of the many anomali©e of
which the happiness of communities is on""
~',of
Will our legislators have something to 55.741,1
this subject in the coming session? It mlesBl
reasonably hoped that we have done for
with playing at soldiers. The people a D...:01
may fairly expect that what concerns theciffeo,,e:e
happiness will be allowed to tako Preeeti.le
• 964
the necessity for " Opening up" any enutiffiete°,),
or ten thousand miles away. As we htia"e sue 031;,1
vindicated our national, honour in a a re-dispil'o
places, where no one seemed very much ~,eriv'tb;
to call it into question, we may, now, f f°ooo
remember that the national honour has letriet
vindicated at home by the remedying of $11,,fete,,,0
social abuses and the purifying of our legiy;elP,e
from many a deep stain. °
After all the stf
ic
which has been directed to the question 04),t,
years, and the amount of able writinga
it has had devoted to it, we ne,,et 1"o
enter into any proof to show t--d
subject of the laws relating to divorce, II „vlileie
marriav contract generally, is one Of Ouster of tilts
can least afford to bear delay on the Pa,:.,001 o.
legislation in taking some steps to renaiti°-
present anomalous and evil-engendering nOt"

„ 0 Letter
Lock, Flee

COMMISSIONER ROBERTS.

DEPARTURE OF THE TURKISH
FRIGATE.

21°1fUL'S CHURCH AND SCHOOLS AND MR.

Sir
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
qv, your excellent report of the proceedings
LbChurch Commissioners, which appears in
Ll' edition of Tuesday, I perceive that a Mr.
Cleuerts
has been making sweeping charges against
principalsoriti of the above church--charging them
g,rnes neglect of their duty in and out of the
tlicu• Feeling that statements have been made
%ose'llt knowledge of facts, I am bound to correct
e statements, as made public.
Ilati the early part of his declamatory speech he
kies that he is " a commissioner, a parishoner,
Pew owner" To question this, I cannot. But
to °question the small knowledge which he seems
De 3°ssese was gained by his attendance in his
litit'l ."klan says " he had ascertained, upon enquiry,
4te:"" to 200 persons, as a congregation, was in
de,ll' of the usual number," which shows, to a
Ig4i°nstration, that, in the outset of his tirade
Illi"t the clergy, rector, &c., we must bear in
tiri
that he had ascertained, upon enquiry, certain
Ittg,s which he wishes us to digest as facts. If
mar!ieherts" had attended divine service in the
Reuling evening at St. Paul's Church, he
er;a:cnnt have made such rash statements.
el:" ought rather to be give a to the eyes than
The - ear
above "
itng --ove number may be the extent of
.the
i4eßation in the morning; but in the evening
of ttilll,lV double that number, under the teaching
fqa ri„4ev. Raad, the incumbent. When he
kttell,;,,tat his position, in regard to the numberi
CitZ" the church, could not be held, afitertt
hae
1°;ItC1-e,s‘a!'ud pointed answers giVen by the e au .c
trowebill, he immediately flew to
114c,,LP:Oanaphell, quoted Acts of Parliament,
be
inleavoured to prove by such that the rector
4,el;tr from doing his duty. He also told us that
N:9 a Protestant, and thinks, I suppose, that
Pitsli at perfect liberty to "pitch into " the
tab'ris as he pleased. The English • proverb

"Zeal makes a bad cause worse ;
Zeal in a good cause is commend Able."
111,:sir, am a Protestant, therefore I protest most
1r11,113, against the sweeping charges our friend
ski, °harts has brought'agtirist the clergymen of
to h,1111'9, wad district in which reside. Listen
ICI, extensive knowledge of the district :
Ne4i'eßged to state, as one residing in the
thetAg?ts of the district,.that Popery was increasing
an alarming extent. There were two
too .'t'r s-in the-church—one took-the-duty in the-
-I,''
ng, and another took the duty in the evening.
koic,l3tatement would not, I am sure, have been
'1,4 he exercise 1 a little more forethought.
Ita4i regard to the first assertion, that " Popery
thiatireasior, to an alarming extent," is, I believe,
t4,,"'t all fact. There is in close proximity to the
te
441 i. a Roman Catholic chapel, the worshippers
Of 1, 111 come from a distance. The neighborhood
zilop,lnxhall road and Marybene supplies rather
'4ll,,than three quarters of the congregation,
giatn.lg less than one quarter _for St. Paul's
are et. The residents of St. Paul's Ward
jChiefly. composed of Welch and
14' ‘s,ll--about an equal quantity cf each.
tt?int of fact, there are 43-many -Welsh residents
::Iquarter of the town as there are in the whole
eomile Ecclesiastical districts in Liverpool
Th wel •
Plil e, Principal occupation of the people is the
tapt,,uing of the mighty deep ; boatmen, pilots,
tls:418 and mates of coasters, and seamen. This
,liai,,eannot attend church—house to house
'tol.'"en is more suited—and I can .assure Mr.
VIA that, from personal experience, Mr. Reid
that most important part of his •duty. Early
kb, e Morning to late in the evening our pastor
4111'3 for his parishioners most assiduously.
Noost,his very district there are three places of
44-,;''''P—St. Paul's, the Welsh Chapel, and St
ie.,: Roman Catholic Chapel. Yet it isa district
40.,°F '`-`horrible degradation" to our friend Mr
yerts'
Npi-ln) he states another fact (?) when he
If the elerg yzuln as not doing their duty.
ttly "Jr. Roberts lazd not relied upon hear-
toa, he would have drawn a line of de
Civ.';ktion in his assertion when he said,
illstaff of eleraymen who'appeared to care for
~t(tth:et_c°, but to leave the flock in a great measure_
4tOn enar4,lB of the Town Missionaries and of t
to than Catholics." If he had applied these words.
fjorhiateumeyitical church not one thousand miles
I 41C,A. the, north end of Vauxhall road, he would
+neen most correct, but in this case he has
ia
mentably gone astray.
h"e facts are these—the Rev. J H Stafford, the
e°cNte, officiates in the morning, assisted by
1441' Rev. G. Read, and that is all we see or
it et the surrogate ; but the Rev G. Read assists
ltltitil'lrtting and conducts the evening service
'lout assistance, and also, at the present time
kß,llllducting a series of controversial sermons
it4,nat that system which, at the moment, he (Mr.
ip erts) hastsuch" horror" of. On the first Monday
th
month, the Rev. G. Read conducts a prayer
,"n" in the Church, attends his school twice
t'?i ethl,S'unday, rare. 4, missing; these, in conjunction
Of nOllSe to house Visitation, fills up the time
A°l4 worthy pastor.
tsl,l'egards the schools, SiindaY was the last the
Ilsi-"rs and scholars of St. Paul's school could
t1:411ile together (in the room so kindly allowed
itieklh., by the Rector. Now is the time,for our
4,t'", Mr. Roberts, to show his ph;lanthropy, by
411-1' ''et words. The children of St. Paul's require
111)(1' '"e to assemble in—one which will contain
100'i.4 300 to 500, the average attendance being
Aar Now is the crisis; let him assist to raise the
tio,4,from that degrading and demoralising post-
kw- 'to which he asserts it is placed. There are a
looh Persons trying to raise schools for such a
kikiltlous neighbourhood, but their cry is, " More
4w4tance." Societies are required inthis ward to
lecilt the working men in their search after know-
he' to counterpoise with those sinks of iniquity,
we find at' every corner of our streets
ketance is all that is required ; and if Mr.
,ertß will throw in his mite towards that end,
1(1111,7 doubt will do more good than all his oratory
tt6„" Perform without work.—Excusing for the
`llll° I remain, &c., M. G.
-,
-"Larch 11, 1857.

T
O THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN T1ME5.11411.,---• I am requested by Arif, captain of the
witl.?Mst frigate Geyvan Bahri (who is the only
P 11))): Qn board speaking English), to inform the
dp'le that the vessel will sail from Liverpool
tio 3', (Monday) on her voyage to Constantinople.
Ath.4lso desires me to say that the frigate will
No; ,the landing-stage about eleven o'clock this
,Ittat-L.11")g, end that she will fire a royal salute as a
of respect to the flag of this country, either
bat;Pe she reac hes, or when she is abreast of the
am, dear sir, yours respectfully,
J.H. WINN.

°(}l,9lllteur James Audeoud died in the sixty fourth year
41" age, on the 13th March, at Geneva. He was one
lad great paltrons and promoters of art in that town,
,p
~as himself a celebrated enamel painter.
Ilitht:(-1 Francis Conyngham intends to purchase the
the In Of the late Lord Thomond. about to be sold in
11""mbered Estates Court. He has got the consent
t4titis trustees to purchase the whole estate by private
kttaet• lie purposes to reside in the county.—
I%iterforcr
411 ft1;14., IE
REGULATION FOR THE BANB.UPTCY COUE,TS.—
„N,;('N' has been received at the Liverpool District
„`
.°f Bankruptcy from the Lord Chancellor. The
t
ktlq Is made in pursuance of the Bankruptcy Act of 185
ects that service of all writs, notices, summonses,
11„qt warrants, rules, documents, and other proceedings
`ner,9lliring personal service on the party to be affmted
l'ke by shall be made before seven c'clock in the evening,
'l3t
elto.?rt Saturdays, when it shall be made before tw o
t„,vt,ift M the afternoon ; and if made after seven.n enthe
on any day except Saturdays, the service shall be
,`Ovo,:;‘,. as made on the lock following day, and if made after
in the afternoon on Saturday, the service shall
Tltrafierned as made on the following Monday. The order
4el directs that the offices of the chief registrar,
'`",tintarit, and master of the court of bankruptcy in
04,,t
thBll, and the offices of the registrar of the
of bankruptcy. shall be closed on Saturdays atdistrict two
oil the afternoon. ,Tba ,order is to come into operation
e 15th *fiApril.l

THE CURRENOY QUESTION.

COUNTY DUBLIN ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF SAUNDERS'S NEWS-LETTER

•
Sir a ,—I am .n Englishman, with strong Irish
sympathies, which I have evinced in emore ways
than one, although during my ten years residence
in this country I have never mingled in any party
or sectarian strife. In my own country, so long as
I resided there, I took a very active part in all the
great political and social movements of the day ;
but here I have been content to be a quiet observer,
and, I hope, learner.. This morning I attended the
nomination at Kilmainhatn, with the intention of
putting two questions to each of the can-
didates, on a subject of deep importance
to the whole community, whether English
or Irish. Protestant or Catholic —affecting alike,
though in different degrees, the lando*ner.with his
broad acres, and the humble tiller of the soil—the
merchant trading with all parts of the globe, and
the smallest shopkeeper—the great manufacturer
and the ingenious mechanic or labourer to whom .
he may give employment.. The subject to which
I refer is our monetary system—the laws which
regulate our vast system of !exchanaes. And,
having got thus. far, it is more than probableel that
the reader may throw down the paper in despair or
disgust, so little sympathy is there for subjects
of a . practical if not also of a party character.
Had I got a hearing in the court house to day,
the chances are that instead of invoking e round of
Kentish or any other fire, my few words would
have fallen still bore on the ears , of my audience.
And yet, sir, after many years of quiet study and
reflection, I venture to say that this question of our
money laws is second to none in importance to an
industrial community, such as Ireland is and
aspires to be. It so happened that Mr. Grattan,
the mover of Sir 0. Doraville, sounded the key-
note for my intended questions when lie dwelt on
the importance of measures calculated to encourage
the application of English capital to the resources
of this country. Permit me to say that one of the
chief of these measures will be a juster system of
currency and banking than now obtains. Ten
years ago, in the very winter of distress
and discontent in Ireland, I, with four of
my friends and partners, nothing daunted
by what we then unfortunately witnessed, brought
over a not inconsiderable amount of English capital
of our own, with which to employ Irish industry
in this city ; and if we did not succeed, as I think
_we were entitled to do, I attribute it mainly to our
defective money laws, which, regard more the
interests of the bullionists than Those . who, like
myself, are engaged in industrial pursuits. Be-
longing, as I do, to the commercial and manu•
facturing portion of the community, I know, and,
have 'been made, in common with thousands. of
others, to feel the importance of haying an accurate
standard of value, and a just and efficient measure
of exchange—neither of which do we now possess
I purposed to day to . have called attention
to the fact that our present money laws haye,
contrary to the expressed intent of. their authors,
produced great and frequent fluctuations in the
amount and value of the circulating medium,
thereby inflicting grievous loss on the commercial
classes, and destruction to productive industry;
and especially did I desire to direct the notice of
my auditors to two strange anomalies in our present
monetary system, which area these :—First, by
the existing Bank Charter Act, the Bank of Eng-
land is authorised to issue notes to the extent of
fourteen millions sterling upon- debt, and without
any gold whatever to represent that amount. Now,
if_these fourteen millions were only sufficient in
1844 when the act was passed, how much larger
an amount is now required, seeing that our foreign
commerce has more than doubled ; and that,
in addition, the number and value of our
internal exchanges• have largely increased with'
our, increseed,population (I speak of course of the
United Kingdom). Free trade itself has created
the demand for. an . enlarged circulating medium.
It haS greatly increased the number and amount
of exchanges to be made, whilst the act of 1844.
restricts the means of making them. In short, the
great curse of our present system is, that the
-exchanges are obliged to be regulated by the
amount of the currency, instead of the currency
being governed by . the number and amount of
exchanges to be- made by its instrumentality. The
scootirl great evil which I wished to notice was.
that the public was debarred, by the act of 1816,
from the free coinage of silver. From the
days of Charles 11. until the passing of that act,
the public, without restriction, might take to the
mint and get coined silver ore, or bars foreign
coin (Tr plate, the crown merely regulating the weight
and fineness, and the money so coined was legal ten-
der to any amount; whereas the act of 1816 restricts
the public from the exercise of what up to that
time had been aright, and confines the use of silver
as a legal tender to forty shillings. These few
remarks I wished to make as an introduction to
the two questions which I intended to propose to
ihe candidates this morning; but although at one
time I got what I took to.be an intimation from the
High Sheriff, that at the proper time I should be
allowed to put those questions—that time never
arrived ; and when I essayed to speak, the High
• Sheriff, in the midst of a perfect Babel of tongues
(we all congratulated ourselves it was no worse)
seemed anxious to conclude the business, and
proceeded to the show of hands. Hence, sir, my
reason for troubling you with this letter, in the
hope that although the candidates may not heed
the matter, it may possibly attract the at-
tention of others whom it concerns. The
two questions were framed as follows:-1.
Have you directed your attention to the Bank
Charter Act of 1844, and to the state of the cur-
rency generally, se) as to have formed a definite
opinion upon the subject, and if so, will you state
shortly what that opinion is? 2. Are you prepared
carefully to watch the proceedings of the House of
Commons' Committee of Inquiry into the effects
of the Bank Charter Act, and to use your best
exertions to place our monetary, system on - a just
and permanent basis am, Sir, yours respect-
fully. - . WILLIAM PARE.
Seville Iron Works, Dublin; 9th-April, 1857.
[Reprinted from Sdunders's News-Letter, of
Friday, April 10th, 1857.]

LANCASHIRE ce YORKSHIRE RAILWAY
NEW STATION, SANDHIL4,S.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,-No sooner do railway shares in the course
of natural events attain a fair value, than directors
grasp the earliest opportunity to create new capital,
issue new shares, 4c, thereby effectually counter-
acting the improvement manifesting itself ; and no
sooner is a new station opened than some imposi-
tion is attempted on the public. lam led to these
remarks by the course adopted, and persiSted in,
as regards the new Sandhills station, opened on
the Ist April. On the morning of that day the
first class charge to Seaforth was 4d,it was changed
in ft few hours to Sd, without the privilege being
allowed of taking a return tialist at the usually
reduced rate. Now, the fare from Titheharn street
to Seaforth, first class return ticket, is lid, and ,it
appears unreasonable that the Kirkdale and
pay a shilling,
con-
venient, tsriai filo
uci,dt obNev hcoorl
pt he
Ise tat toi en ts very con-
when Bd, considering the reduced distance, might
be.deemed a fair charge. I know the inutility O
addressing secretaries or directors on these sub-
jects, and perhaps a remark from you with this
insertion, may have a wholesome effect.,--Yours,
April 11th, 1857. VIATOR.

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in the spring and summer of the year, is the. Prevalence of
bugs. Many means have been tried to prevont or extermi-
nate them, but all hitherto ineffectually. Cleanliness may
check but cannot eradicate them, Mr. R. Greer, late one
of the 'Liverpool sanitary officials, after intense study and
deep research with many practical experiments, in the usual
pursuit of his official avocation, has at length discovered the
great desideratum," Greer's Patent Anti 13ug Lotion,'! is
an unfailing exterminator of bugs, fleas, &c. It is eleati,
simple in application, agreeable in smell, and perfectly
innexions save to insects. To be bad at the Anti Vermin
Office, 49, Brownlow hill, Liverpool, in bottles at Is, 2s,
each,--40.4