The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-17 00:00:00

ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE PRO
TESTANT ASSOCIATION ON THE RECENT
POPISH APPOINTMENTS IN THE STATE.

ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble petition of the undersigned humbly showeth,
—That your petitioners beg leave humbly to approach your
Majesty, with the unfeigned assurances of our loyalty and
attachment to your Majesty's person and government. We
earnestly desire and pray for the security of your Majesty's
Throne, the prosperity of your reign, and the maintenance
of that pure and reformed religion which is committed to your
Majesty's care as temporal head of the Church ; and there-
fore cannot but view with alarm and apprehension, the dan-
gers to which these great national blessings are exposed, from
the pernicious counsels of those who are at present honoured
with your Majesty's confidence in the administration of pub-
lic affairs.

We have observed with deep concern that your Majesty
has been advised so far to depart from those Prostestant
principles, which the law of England has made the condition
of the succession to the throne, as to confer on members of
the Church of Rome high and influential situations in several
of the public departments of the state ; for example, in the
Admiralty, the Treasury, and the Board of Trade. And this
concern is further increased by the fact that one of these in-
dividuals has been admitted to the rank and privileges of
your Majesty's most honourable Privy Council; the first
instance, we believe, on record of such a departure from the
principles of our constitution since the deliverance of this
country from Papal tyranny in 1688.
It is, moreover, to be deplored that this preferment should
be conferred on men who are subjects of the See of Rome,
at a time when that apostate Church has openly threatened
the extinction of the established religion of this country, and
is now seeking, by means of deep-laid conspiracies and secret
intrigues, again to bring the people of these islands in sub-
jugation to the Roman Pontiff.

- In conclusion we would humbly remind your Majesty, that
the throne to which your Majesty has succeeded, and the
form of government under which we are priviledged to live
are based on Christian principles, that this nation has once
been delivered by a signal interposition of Divine Providence
from Popish tyranny and arbitrary power, and that if we are
so forgetful of former mercies as to surrender any participa-
tion in the government of the state to the partisans of an
idolatrous and anti-Christian Church, there remains no-
thing but a fearful looking for of Divine judgments; we may
expect to be delivered into the hands of those who hate us ;
and your Majesty's reign, instead of being a happy and pros-
perous, may be made a period of trouble and calamity too
painful for the mind of any loyal subject to contemplate.
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Majesty
will be graciously pleased to cancel these appointments,
fraught, as we believe them to be, in their ultimate results,
with such imminent danger to the Church, the country, and
the Throne.

And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray
&c. &c.

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—The demand for goods since our last has under-
gone a visible improvement, and on Tuesday, especially, the
market exhibited a much firmer tone. Various circum-
stances contributed to this end. The apprehensions as to
the failure of the harvest have almost vanished ; the money
market is much easier ; and the Liverpool steamer, which
arrived at Liverpool, on Sunday, from New York, had
brought favourable accounts of the commercial markets in
the United States.
BRADFORD MARKET.—We had a fair attendance of buyers
in the Piece Hall to-day, and an average quantity of business
was done on recent terms. There was a steady demand for
Yarn'at former rates, all attempts to improve the price being
unavailing. The transactions in Short Wool were to some ex-
tent, and the prices were firm, but the market for Long
Wool was very flat.
DEWSBURY.—We had an improved demand for goods in
our Blanket and Shoddy Hall, on Monday, but the range of
prices may be considered at stationary.
HECKMONDWIx.E.—The Blanket Hall continues to be well
attended by the merchants. The demand for blankets is ge-
nerally good, and prices remain firm.

YORK WOOL MARKET, SEPTEMBER 12.—We have had a
tolerable supply of wool, and a fair attendance of buyers ;
the transactions of the day have been rather dull, and several
lots remain unsold. Prices may be quoted nominal upon
our last quotations.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 13.—There has been
more inquiry for most descriptions of Long Wools this week,
and sale have been considered at former limits • that this
should be the case in the present depressed state of the
money market, can only be accounted for by the scanty
supply at market. Blanket and Clothing Wools are in fair
demand, at late quotations.
BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—The linen trade still remains
moderately good, with a fair demand for home consumption.
The drill season is just commencing, and bids fair for a
brisk trade.

SADDLE WORTH.—The Woollen Cloth trade is rather dull,
very little being done for exportation, and the hands on an
average have not more than four or five days' work per week,
and some are wholly unemployed.
OLDHAM.—The hands of several of the cotton mills where
they have been partially employed for six months have this
week commenced working full time. Indeed the hands in
all the mills expect to be at full work during this and
next week. Other trades are in a moderate state.

HEYWOOD. —There is not a town in Lancashire where the
factory operatives have been so badly off as at Heywood ;
yet trade has improved here, and the hands have commenced
working full time at nearly all the mills. The chartist agita-
tion has been a bad thing for many of the operatives ; a
great number have been obliged to leave the town since the
holiday.

SILK irRADE.—On Saturday last, papers were posted up
in several warehouses in Manchester, stating that they were
wanting weavers. On Monday manufacturers were seeking
weavers in various towns. There has not been a better pros-
pect at this season of the year for many years past. There
is a brisk demand for checked sarcenets ; indeed, all sorts of
work are much wanted, and silk weavers appear to be doing
very well.

The Foreman, having ascertained the sense of the jury,
then stated that they were unwilling to proceed without hear-
ing further evidence.
The Coroner said in that case they had better endeavour to
ascertain the abode of the parties.
Mr. Bowen was then recalled, when he stated that the de-
ceased's sister resided in Buckingham-street, Strand, and that
her attendance could be easily procured.
By the Coroner—Do you know the name of the gentleman
who lodged in the house ?

Mr. Bowen—His name is Captain Bevan. He resided there
only three weeks. He packed up his things last night, and
said he was going off in the morning to shoot. I have no
notion whatever of what part of the country he has gone to.
Coroner—There is no suspicion whatever attached to the
conduct of the captain. The only reason for requiring his at-
tendance is that he may be able to throw some additional
light on the 'state of the deceased's mind. The better way,
perhaps, would be to adjourn the inquest until to-morrow,
and if the captain were not forthcoming, they could further
adjourn until some future period. He was aware that this
course would be attended with great inconvenience to many
of the jury, but he was sure that they did not mind it in the
discharge of a great public duty.
The jurymen were then severally bound over to be in at-
tendance at three o'clock this day, when the inquiry will be
resumed.

Yesterday evening Mr. Mopes, the father of the deceased,
expired at his residence, in Hemming's-row, St. Martin's-
lane. He had for some weeks been confined to his bed
through illness, occasioned, it is said, by sorrow for the loss
of his wife, and vexation at the publications in a libellous pe-
riodical, reflecting on the character of his family ; and his be-
ing made acquainted with his daughter's melancholy death
so affected him as to cause an almost immediate dissolution.

ADJOURNED INQUIRY.
(From the Morning Herald of Saturday.)
Mr. Payne, city coroner, and the jury assembled again
yesterday, at three o'clock, at the White Swan, Fish-street.
hill, to resume the inquiry touching the death of Margarei
Moyes. _ _

The evidence, yesterday, though voluminous, differed so
little from that adduced on the first inquiry, that it may be
advantageously condensed into a few sentences.
The Coroner, as soon as the names of the jury were called
over, said—l am told that a great many people, both yester-
day and to-day, have been up the Monument, and I think it
would be much more decent if the persons who have the care
of the structure prevented the wholesale admission of parties
for the present, who can have no other motive in view than
the satisfying an idle curiosity.
Mr. Croft, the surgeon, said he had examined the body,
internally, and that there was nothing to show that the womb
had ever been impregnated. There were some suspicious ap-
pearances, but as they might be caused by general debility of
the system, he could not positively state that the chastity of
the deceased had ever been violated.

The Coroner—From those al;;rances it would be cruel
to form any supposition militating against the deceased's
virtue.

Mr. Croft—lt certainly would.
Captain Bevan said he had lodged in the house of the
deceased's father for the last three weeks, and had observed
the depressed and dejected state of her mind. She was a
very reserved girl, and when he once inquired the cause of
her melancholy, she answered somewhat reluctantly, " My
mother has lately died, and my father is expected to die,
and then what will become of us ?" He knew of nothing
that could account for the fatal act but family misfortunes.
He had never given deceased any offence, and he left his
lodgings on the night of the melancholy transaction, at the
request of the family, who wished to have his apartments to
put the body in. He now came forward in consequence of
what he had read in the public journals, and he had no in-
tention of leaving town before the termination of the present
inquiry.
Mrs. Elizabeth Winkworth, the married sister of the de-
ceased, and with whom she had taken tea on Tuesday even-
ing, gave evidence very similar to that of her sister Chris-
tiana, examined on the first day. She said that deceased
was always of a very melancholy temperament, and that
when they last parted there was nothing unusual in her man-
ner, except that, though generally kind, she appeared more
warmly affectionate than ordinary. She never had a lover.
In answer to the Coroner—Neither deceased nor her fa-
mily had ever been annoyed by attacks in certain disgusting
and infamous weekly publications. There was no truth in
the current report that her father was dead.

This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner briefly
summed up, and the jury having consulted in another room
for a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict of " Temporary
Insanity."
The coroner, foreman, and jury, then signed a document,
addressed to the city lands committee, recommending the
erection of a railing around the gallery of the monument, of
sufficient height to prevent the recurrence of a similar catas-
trophe. _ _

Mr. Matthews, common councilman, said—l have no
doubt, after what has passed, but the city lands committee
will order the necessary arrangements to be made in the gal-
lery railings ; but if they do not, I shall take care to bring
the matter formally before the Court of Common Council.

The committee of the Protestant Association, deeply con-
cerned at the recent appointment of three members of the
Church of Rome to high and important offices in the State,
have felt it to be their duty to their Queen, their country, and
their God, to present to her Majesty, as temporal head of the
Church, the subjoined address ; and they would further en-
treat their Protestant fellow-subjects to testify, in like
manner, their sense of the injury which such appointments
are calculated to inflict upon the best interests of the com-
munity. The rapid progress which Popery has of late years
made in the land, and the untiring efforts by which she is
now, both openly and covertly, assailing the privileges and
blessings which this nation has long been permitted by a gra-
cious Providence to enjoy, cannot be regarded without se-
rious alarm by all who are anxious to maintain those civil and
religious liberties to which the unchanged and unchangeable
doctrines of Popery are diametrically cpposed. Regarding,
therefore, these recent appointments as another successful
step in the efforts of the Papacy to establish herself supreme
in the land, the committee of the Protestant Association
would urge upon their Protestant fellow-countrymen the im-
portant duty of humbly addressing their beloved Sovereign,
praying that she will be pleased to cancel these appointments
—fully sensible as they are that if the designs of the Church ,
of Rome be permitted to be fulfilled, this once Protestant 1
nation can only look for judgment and fiery indignation as a
just retribution for the surrender of those privileges with
which God has so abundantly blessed us.