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

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.]