The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.-MONDAY

CLOSING PRICES. Caledonians, 161; East Lancashire,
16 11 3 ; Leeds Stock, 69* ; Ditto Fifths, 6* dis.; Leeds
and Thirsk, 14 15-16; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
30 29i; Midlands, 57a; Northwestern, 12* 12j dis. ; Gooles,
202; West Riding Union, 21*.

LONDON CORN MARKET—MoNtoAy.
We have a moderate show of English Wheat. At the com-
mencement more money asked, which checked sales, ultimately
a clearance effected at last Monday's rates. Foreign very firm.
Barley, Beans, and Peas have experienced moderate sale at
quite former terms. The supply is large, but fine rules at an
extreme price. Flour and malt are unchanged.
English White Wheat 428. to 495. per quarter.
„ Red Ditto. 4os. to 455. „
Barley, Malting 325. to 365. „
„ Grinding 24s. to 265. „
„ Distilling 2ss. to 288. ~
ARRIVALS.

Wheat
Barley
Oats ..
Malt..
Flour
Beans
Peas ..

English. Irish. Foreign
. 4810 3565
. 2874 1910 4498
. 2842 15231 37120

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-MONDAY

Sugar not cheaper, and little doing. Refined :GOOd home
trade; brown lumps, 445. 6d. —The demand for Coffee is
better. Native good ordinary, 39s.—In Tea little doing, but no
decline.—Free sales in Rice, at stiffer rates.—Fish Oil more in
demand ; Cod, .4'33 per ton —Linseed sells less freely at 36s.—
Indigo in fair demand, at previous value.—Cotton dull, but
prices unchanged.—Tallow firm and good demand; fine new
Y. Russian, 365. to 365. 6d., on the spot.

LONDON CATTLE MARKET.-MONDAY

Supply of Beasts large; trade firm at last Monday's prices.
Inferior Sheep sold slowly and cheaper; prime Downs not
lower. Choice Calves sold better than on Friday. Beasts,
4144 ; Sheep and Lambs, 20,870 ; Calves, 141 ; Pigs, 350.—Beef,
2s. 6d. to 3s. Bd.; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, 2s. Rd. to
4s. 4d. ; Pork, 3s. to 3s. Bd.—Arrivals : Holland Beasts, 360 ;
do. Sheep, 570; do. Calves, 150; Scotch Beasts, 500; Norfolk
and Suffolk, 2400; Leicester, Lincoln, and Northampton, 2050.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Castle Eden, from Calcutta, at Gravesend, Feb. 29,
Auguste, from Callao, at Deal, Feb 29.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION.

Last evening, a lecture was delivered on the subject of
Maynooth, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, by
the Rev. Fielding Ould.

The LECTURER commenced by stating the importance
of the subject. It was, he argued, a religious, and not
a political question, though, in the world, it was treated
almost exclusively in the latter capacity. There was a
great inconsistency in the endowment by a Government
professing what our Protestant one does, and exacting
from Roman Catholic members of Parliament a stringent
oath not to injure the Church as by law established.

At the late meeting in the Collegiate Institution on the
subject of the revocation of the grant to Maynooth, three
aspects of the question were fully examined, viz., that it
was wrong on the grounds of 1, History ; 2, Policy ;
and 3, Principle. That he might not detain them, there-
fore, by insisting on that which was sufficiently admitted
already, he would confine himself to replying to some of
the most prominent objections which were brought to the
eprsent re-opening of the question and disturbance of the
grant. These he would classify under three great heads.

I. Illegality. There are some who consider that the
withdrawal of the grant would be illegal, in consequence
of the stipulations of the Act of Union of 1800. Now,
there are only three acts of Parliament which refer in
the most remote degree to Maynooth ; and the objection
is sustained by some of them. The first of these is the
act of 25 Geo. 111., establishing the College of Maynooth;
but the main object of that was to enable the Roman
Catholics to found a college out of their own resources.
The second act is the Act of Union, in which no mention
of Maynooth whatever is made; and it is only alleged to
be noticed by implication when provision is made that
Irish charities should be supported for twenty years at
the average of the preceding six years. In 1799, how-
ever, the grant was withdrawn, that is only one year
before the Act of Union was passed. The third act on
the subject was Sir Robert Peel's of 1845, enlarging the
grant, and attaching it to the Consolidated Fund. In
this there is no compact whatever. Thus the only three
acts on the subject are silent respecting a compact or
conditions. There is, however, a precedent of the with-
drawal of government support. The Protestant Charter
Schools, which in 1807 had so much as £43,000 granted
to them, had their support withdrawn, after they had
been a century in existence. Most of them are in a con-
dition of decay, and many of them quite closed in conse-
quence.
Danger.—The dangers of withdrawing the grant
were strongly stated in a leading article of the Times a
few months ago, from which the lecturer quoted freely.
The endowment was then stated not to go far enough,
for that the priests should be paid as well, and the present
is characterised as the " fragment of a policy." There is
also the threat that the Protestant Church will be injured
by the agitation of the question ; but of this he had no
fears, as a good cause is always benefited by investigation.
Some said that as Roman Catholics pay taxes, they are
entitled to t:-.e support of their educational institutions
but tax-paying only entitles to protection of life, liberty,
and property ' • and this they possess as well as others.
The argument goes too far, for it would prove that the
schools of the Church Education Society ought to be
supported, and indeed those of Jews, Independents, or
Mormons. The statements of the Right Hon. Fox
Maule and Lord John Manners were examined, both of
whom disapproved of the grant, but would refuse to in-
terfere with the present condition of the question.
111. Inexpediency.—We are told of the state of Ire-
land, and asked dare we interfere with the Maynooth
grant at the present time ? We may reply, look at Ire-
land, and see what Maynooth teaching has aided in effect-
ing. The recent murders in that unhappy country speak
of the system with trumpet tongue; and the Lord Chief
Justice, in his charge to the jury in trying some of the
prisoners, did not hesitate to give the priests credit for
fomenting the work of slaughter. Is it justice, we ask,
to the Roman Catholics of Ireland to supply them with
teachers of this class ? On this subject the lecturer spoke
at great length, and noticed in strong terms the doctrines
taught in Maynooth.
This, he said, was but a first step in the right direction.
Another was the withdrawal of all endowments from
Roman Catholic bishops in the colonies ; then the expul-
sion of the Jesuits; the suppression of monasteries, &c.
The lecturer concluded with an appeal to Nonconformists
to co-operate with us in promoting principles which both
happily possess. The members of the Church of England
Institution were also addressed in reference to their
peculiar duties at present' nd in general.

HISTORIC SOCIETY.—The fifth meeting for the present
session will be held in the Collegiate Institution, on
Thursday evening next. There are three candidates for
membership to be balloted for, and two papers to be read.
The first is a continuation of Mr. Mortimer's account of
the Earls of Chester, the Norman earls to be treated of
on this occasion. The second is an account of a Lanca.
shire charm to avoid evil influences, with a translation of
the whole from the cipher in which lc is written, by John
Harland. Beg, of Manchester.