The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-01 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Papers from the Cape of Good Hope to 20th October, state
that another conflict had taken place between the settlers at
Port Natal and the Zoola tribes, in which the latter were
signally defeated. These unfortunate settlers were in hopes
that Natal would be declared a British colony, when they
would receive souse protection from the local government.
The Graham's Town journals allude with satisfaction to the
appearance of the first volume, in the Dutch language, of a
complete collection of official documents relative to the inter-
course between the settlers at the Cape and the .Ahorigines
since the first establishment of the colony, viewing it as the
first step towards a tight understanding of the true interests
and position of this colony, which they affirm, and perhaps
with much truth, are strangely misunderstood in this country.

NEWFOUNDLAND.
(From the Newfoundland Public Ledger, 'Nov. 20.)
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We have left ourselves very little space for remark; but it
will be seen that the general current. of opinion among the
Eng',eh and Colonial journolists, whether ministerial or con-
serva,ive, runs not only strongly in favour of, but altogether
with :he decision of Mr. Justice Lilly—that the House of
Assembly in Newfoundland has no such absurd, uuconstitu-
tional, tyrannical jurisdiction over the liberty of the subject,
as that which it has assumed and exercised—,even though the
House of Commons possessed it, which is nowhere admitted.
Chief Justice Bourne has not yet delivered his opinion
upon the pleas for and against the privileges of the Assembly,
in the case of Dr. Kielley against the Speaker and certain
other members, to which we adverted in our last ; and the
greatest anxiety still therefore prevails. We are at least.,
however, fortified with one moral conviction, that, as a British
judge, if his lordship' entertain a single doubt upon the mat-
ter. that doubt will be given in favour of the liberty of the
subject.
'i, he House of Assembly has gradually crept on from one
iniquity to another, and is now hardened in its vices. If it
can drag a venerated judge of the Supreme Court from the
bench whilst in the exercise of his judicial. functions, treat
him with brutal violence, and commit him to prison for
having, upon a writ of habeas corpus, ruled the discharge of
a respectable fellow-citizen, committed to the common gaol
under an illegal warrant frurn the Speaker;—what is there to
prevent that House of Assembly from committing, upon
some frivolous pretence, the governor of the island to the
same common gaol, which has been declared to be unfit for
any human being ? Clearly nothing but the military, the
physical force which his Excellency could instaetly summon
to his aid ! A biutally ignorant and ferociouse 'House of
Assembly, lawfully possessing. the powers and privileges
which the House of Assembly in Newfoundland claims to
possess, would, beyond every other institution which it is
possible to create, be the greatest curse under the canopy of
heaven !
The Newfoundland Patriot, which is the organ of the
priests' party, affects to he amazed at the assertion which we
put forth on Friday, that where Papal dominancy was suffered
to exist, it would invariably be found destructive of rational
British liberty. But does any body really doubt the truth
of our remark? So far as regards Newfoundland, the his-
tory of the last six years abundantly confirms it—confirms it
not only in the convictions of the Protestants themselves,
but in the conviction of every candid and respectable Roman
Catholic, many of whom are painfully convinced of the truth
of all that we have stated.
If we could believe the Patriots sincere, we should be
pleased at the apparent return to something like the dictates
of reason and humanity in their tardily expressed disappro-
bation of the act of mutilating an editor who had opposed
that Papal ascendancy which he condemns as subversive of
human liberty. But seeing that, all along, the subject has
been one of indecent exultation, we would counsel them to
atone for all this by an open acknowledgment of the perpe-
trators of the foul offence committed at Saddle-hill in 1835,
that the atrocious villaine may he brought to justice. Besides,
there is the reward of £l5OO offered fur the discovery of the
ee's eiders upon that occasion—a sum which would more than
ge•`` -' --- e:efrl least
put them in statu quo. But, as we have ouser'ved before,
" refugee Ribboumen" know well how to keel) their secrets;
and, besides, it is not the trilling sum of £l5OO that would
tempt them ,to divulge a secret crime to which a priest had
been a party, or of which the priests' party had been the
instigators. Our readers will excuse this reference to mat-
ters which personally concern the editor of this paper; but
we have introduced them as relevant to a mode of defence to
which we have thought we might with propriety reply.
It is admitted by the Patriot that the Catholic religion, as
it is here exercised, is what we charged it to be, " a religion
of politics," and we are told, that it is compelled to be a reli-
gion of politics, " for its own protection!" Now, this is what
a half-cracked priest, of the name of Ivers, told the public the
other day—that so long as there was a Church supported by
the state, or something to that effect, it was the duty of the
Catholic priest to agitate. Agitate about what ? Why, to
agitate about the existing constitution of Great Britain, and
to agitate it to its downfall. What else ! Is there any- class
of Protestant Dissenters to be found agitating in this colony ?
Not one of them; as a body they are loyal "to the back-
bone," and yet they enjoy no greater immunities or privi-
leges than do their Roman Catholic fellow citizens. Is there
any necessity for the religion of Dissenters being " a religion
of politics," for their own protection ? The Dissenters do
not think so; neither ought the Roman Catholics. They
both enjoy all that toleration which as peaceful Christian
communities is necessary for them; and if they want any-
thing more, we hope they won't get it.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DORSET COUNTY
CHRONICLE AND SOMERSETSHIRE GAZETTE.

Preston, Decenaher24, 1838.
SlR,—The following is a copy of a regular Rockite notice,
which has just been forwarded to this parish, by letter bear-
ing the London post-mark. It clearly shows, that if our ma-
gistrates are only to be employed in watching the proceed.
logs of those political incendiaries who at e going throughout
the land, without authority to check them, we shall very soon
be in as bad a state in this country as they are in Ireland.
I am, Sir, faithfully yours,
OCTAVIUS PIERS.

(Cory.)
"A PROCLAMATION OF BLOOD AND FIRE,
"To all Churches, States, and People, on the Sea Sand.'

"0 REMEMBER.

"Samson sent 300 Foxes with Firebrands into the Philis-
tines' corn-fields, because they robbed him of his natural
ri:,hts, and God declares Samson more justifiable than them
—so now the Gentiles and Heathen starve the poor, why
tm, 7vel ye if every man turns after Samson, " for these are
the days of Vengeance, when all shall be fulfilled," under
" MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ, Sec.

"JESUS CHRIST.
"CHOLERA, BLOOD, FIRE, and Co.
" Extra Executors.
" Earthquakes, Panicks and Co. Witnesses."
"P.S.—The above was directed to "The Parish Sexton,
Clerk, and Beadle, Preston-cum-Sutton, Dorset."

DARING BURGLARIES NEAR OLDHAM, &c,

A series of most daring burglaries have been committed,
within a very weeks past, in the neighbourhoods of Oldham,
Ashton, and Stalybridge some of them accompanied with a
degree of coolness and &termination remarkably indicative
of the confidence of the burglars in their strength to overcome
any resistance made, on the part of the household, in the
dead of the night; and, altogether, evincing a resolute and
reckless spirit, very unlike what is usually manifested by the
common midnight robber. On the morning of Friday week,
about three o'clock, the family of the Rev. Joseph S. Rober-
ta! Evans, a magistrate of the county, who resides at Wood-
field, near Staylybridge, was attacked. Mrs. Evans, hearing
some one moving about in the house, and supposing that
one of the servants was taken ill, arose, went upon the land-
ing near her chamber door, and, looking over the balustrade
at the head of the stairs, she saw a man standing at the
kitchen door with a light. She called to him, and asked him
what he was doing there; and he replied, with a savag,e uath,
that be would murder her, if she did not getaway. She has-
tened back to her room, took a bunch of keys from the out-
side of the lock, locked the door inside, and then awoke Mr.
Evans, and told him there were thieves in the house. He
arose, and immediately loaded, with a ball, a single-barrelled
pistol, which he had in the room; and he had scarcely done
this when the thieves, or some of them, came to the bed-
room door, and attempted to force it open with a crowbar or
jemmy, making great efforts to accomplish this, as may be
inferred from the fact, that Mr. Evans observed the end of
the jemmy thrust, between the door and the jamb, into the
room, and saw that it was what is called a crow's-foot jemmy,
from its being forked at the wedge end. Fearing'the burglars
would succeed in forcing their way intothe room, Mr. Evans
said to them, "The first man that enters this room I'll
shoot him." A voice replied, "Shoot away, and bed--d."
The efforts were renewed, with great violence, to force
open the door, by prizing against it with the jemmy;
Mr. Evans resisting, as well as he could, by applying his left
leg and foot to the door, and bolding the handle down with
his left hand, while he repeated his warning, that he would
shoot the first man that entered.- Threat did not appear, in
the least, to deter the villians, and, as the same voice replied,
" Shoot away," Mr. Evans fired through the panel of the door,
the ball taking an oblique direction upwards, and penetrating
about half an inch into a wall about three or four yards be-
yond the door. The burglars—for, althouglere had been
only one voice heard, Mr. Evans could distill7uish the foot-
steps of several—now appeared to abandon all further attempts
to force their way into the room, and he heard them leisurely
descending the stairs. Mr. and Mrs. Evans then went to the
' window, threw it open, and cried, "Thieves! murder!" on
which some of the gang, who were stationed outside, and near
the angle of the house, said, "Oh 'ou are there, are you ! If
you don't go in, we'll murder you." After a short pause,
hearing no more of the thieves, and supposing them to have
decamped, he opened his bed-room door, and proceeded to
examine the house. The thieves, he found, had been ruin-
,. maging through every part of it: they bad carried away eight
bottles of wine and eight of brandy front the wine cellar sit-
. s ver spoons, two pistols, and as much money as they could'find
Mr. Erans's bureau. A considerable part of the furniture
the house was damaged front the violence with which it had
•been used. Four empty bottles were found in an adjoining
• * eld, where it is supposed, they staid to regale themselves
•:',11; after quitting the house. Three men have been apprehended
on the charge of being concerned in this and several other
_ burglaries in the neighbourhood, and have been committed
LNJ,s; for trial at the assizes. Their names are, James Shaw, Tho-
=as Greenwood, alias Hartley, and James Taylor.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.

On the 22d inst. the Lord Bisfiop of Ilerefoi'd collated the
Rev. William Vickers, M.A.. Rector of Chelton, Salop, to
the Arcbdeaconry of Salop, vacant by the death of the Vene-
rable Archdeacon Corbett. _

The Rev. T. Westmorland, 8.A., of Sidney Sussex Col-
lege,
Cambridge, to the perpetual Curacy of Chapelthorpe,
near Wakefield, on the nomination of the Vicar of Sandal
Magna.
The Rev. Charles Wilson Landor, M.A., to the Perpetual
Curacy of Over Whitacre, in the county of Warwick, void
by the death of Thomas Blytb, Clerk. Patron, Earl Digby.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed the ev. William
Hayward Cox to the Rectory of St. Martin's Oxford; void by.
the death of the Rev. John Hyde.
The Rev. W. K. Sweetland, to be Chaplain to the new
Union Workhouse, Newton Abbot.
We understand that the Rev. Wm. Barker, late Curate of
St. Mary Church, son of the late much respected and la-
mented Rector of Silverton, has been presented to the
Vicarage of Broadclist, in the gift of Sir T. D. Acland,
Bait., M.P.—Dorset Chronicle.
. The Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India have
appointed the Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A. Professor of
English Literature at King's College, London; the Rev.
Robert Eden, M.A., late Felow of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford; and T. H. Key, Esq., M.A., Professor of Latin
Literature at University College, London; to be Examiners
of Candidates for admission at Haileybury College, for the
ensuing term.
On Saturday last the Committee of Grosvenor College ap-
pointed the Rev. Daniel Race Godfrey, M.A., Michel Fel-
low of Queen's College, Oxford, and distinguished by the
highest classical honours (eldest son of the Principal), Head
Classical Master of that Institution.—Bulb
_Chronicle.

The Rev. Charles Woodcock, Vicar of Chadstuck, to the
Chaplaincy of the Chard Union Workhouse.
The Rev. I'. Morgan, to the Vicarage of Dingestow, with
Tragare,'Monmouthshire, vacant by the cession of the Rev.
W. Price.