The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-23 00:00:00

ROUSE ROBBERY.

James Heney, 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing
eight waistcoats, the property of Jas. Lewin. We furnished a
report of this case a few days ago, from the evidence at the
police court. The prosecutor's house was broken into, and

had he not been detected in it be would have ransacked it—
the family being from home. He had already been committed
to Lancaster Castle for felony for 12 months. He was
sentenced to be transported for 15 years.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE PROPOSED LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—I rejoice to observe in your last paper, that a public
establishment is about being formed in this town on a com-
prehensive plan, for the accommodation of the highest and
middle orders of Pi otestants, who feel reluctant to send their
children to the existing instiutions. So urgent do I, and
many other heads of large families, feel the necessity that now
exists for such an undertaking, that I would beg to suggest
to the gentlemen interesting themselves, how desirable It
would be at present, and during the building of the proposed
establishment to rent premises for the purpose of forming (aa
it were) the nucleus of the future, I hope, great and use-
ful institution. Many places in town might be found to an-
swer the purpose : one strikes me as exceedingly well calcu-
lated, situated in Pembroke-place, the house formerly oc•
cupied by Mr. Muspratt.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Liverpool, 15th. July.

' ENORMOUS LYING" OF THE RADICAL PRESS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sra,—l know not whether most excites the indignation of
an honest mind—wilful tergiveasation, or palpable falsehood ;
both are alike disreputable, and by whomsoever possessed,
reflect great discredit on their unhappy possessor. That
these two evils of a perverse character, prevail to a deplore-
ble extent in this our day, no one, 1 am persuaded, will
venture to deny ; for not only do we meet them united in
individual persons, but especially so in the pages of the
ultra-radical press. which are now become the convenient
vendors of vituperative abuse, both of public bodies, and
and private and individual worth.
A palpable instance of what I am here affirming now lies
before me, in what may be termed the leading article of the
Mercury paper for Friday, the 12th instant, wherein the
veracious writer, be lie who he may, it matters not to me,
has evidently fallen sadly deep into that mire of a disrepu-
table notoriety which so much characzerizes a scribbling eon•
temporary of congenial sentiments wth himself. In the
outset of the very wordy remarks made by the sapient writer,
relative to a sermon recently preached at St. Jutte'a Church,
by its highly gifted incumbent, the Ray. H. IVl`Neile, he has
the honesty to confess that what he affirms is from hearsay,
and so of course second-hand, but, by the way. admits all to
be true, and something more. As an ear-witness, however,
to what was advanced by the reverend gentleman, on the
occasion referred to, I must beg distinctly to deny much of
what the writer affirms, as altogether false; for not only was
there not anything like vaunting on the part of the rev.
preacher and his numerous coadjutors, but no such assertion
as that imputed, conveying any, even the most remote idea
of any actual change in the system of education pursued in
the corporation schools of this town. •
That the original motion of the common council, touching
scripture reading after school hours, was one of the many
preposterously concocted schemes of that body, of solonsis too
notorious to meet denial, and the fact of the r dicule, it sub-
sequently met from all pa: ties acquainted with it (not in our
town only), led to its final rejection, is equally notorious ;
the subject indeed was of too grave a character, reflecting as
it did, discredit on the wisdom of the council-room, to allow
of its continuance, and yet it is to be believed, that had the
public remained silent thereupon, it would have still dis-
graced the minute-book of their proceedings, and borne
testimony to the contemptible ignorance of a busy loquacity
which has so often displayed itself among that goodly civic
body. It is further alleged of the rev. gentleman that he
denied the existence of means whereby to ascertain whether
or not any actual change had taken place in the schools in
question ; this, I altogether deny, no such assertion was even
intimated, much less said by him •, the language used on that
occasion was to the effect, and I use them verbatim, that
" a change, he understood, had taken place, but that neither
he nor any of his brethren, the clergy of the church, had
been at the trouble to learn the fact. And do we wonder
at the apparent indifference thus exhibited by them ? By no
means so : it was a thing likely in men, loudly protesting as
they did against the introduction of a pro-popish and infidel
sy.stem of education, whereby the children of the poor, no
matter of what religious creed, or no creed at all, should be
taught in the principles of mere secular learning, without
any special or direct reference to their future and eternal
destiny. But what is the fact? why, that the rev. gentle-
man, in his extraordinary zeal and attachment for the < hurch .
has roused the ire, and excited to indignatiOn the bitter
spirit of a factious liberality ; active in every instance of
attack by his adversaries, with a fearless boldness charac•
teristic only of true courage, he has more than triumphed
over every foe ; and, finding themselves foiled in their speci.
ous attempts to render him, if it were possible, odious in
the eyes of the public, they are now endeavouring by eve
artifice, how they can best reduce his character to a level
with their own, which is one of bitter disappointMent and
reckless desperation.
Never before has Liverpool had to boast so bold and able
a defender of qur national religious principles ; and never
before did the hydra-headed monster of a spurious liberalism,
meet so much of just rebuke, as from the sarcastic lash of
that truly noble and intelligent-minded man. Would that
England could boast more of such like characters; and it is
gratifying to know that many, yea hundreds, have already
caught hold of the mantle of his bold and honest Protestant
principles, which shrink not from a loud and continuous
protest against every species of a spurious Christianity, be it
popish, sectarian, or semi-infidel.
July, 20, 1839.

DESTITUTION OF THE POOR IRISH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—In the present heartrending condition of the poorer
classes in the South-west part of Ireland, it occurs to me
that the Irish Precursor Fund might be made available, if
the individuals under whose controul it is placed, could be
brought to compassionate the state of the wretched peasantry,
and consider the applicability of the means ; for how could
it be better or more patriotically employed, than in allevia.
ting the sufferings of those poor people, many of whom, in
better days, contributed to swell its amount ; or shall Protes-
tant sympathy for the hundredth time step foricard to rescue
them from wholesale starvation..? In every similar visitation
of agreat local evil, the spontaneous benevolence of a Pro-
testant public has promptly interposed, and, though I feel
there will be no lack of the same generous spirit upon the
.present occation, it is but reasonable to expect, that where
positive and disposable means exist, they may be ceded as an
auxiliary to the charitable design.
I hope the matter may be considered, and that the Pre-
cursor Committeee will mark its sympathy for the people's
necessities, and a sense of its own gratitude, by speedy ex-
ertion. I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
Liverpool, 22d July. J. IL

SHOWING OF FASHIONS.

IMPORTANT TO MILLINERS' ASSISTANTS.
On Thursday last a case was heard at the Court of Re.
quests, in which the plaintiff, a milliner's assistant, sought to
recover an amount due for wages, fro:n a ,nitlinet in humble •
circumstances, and in a small way of business, in Berry..
street, in this town. It seemed, the defendant advertised •
rather largely, for two assistants, and three improvers, in the_
month of. May last ; and the plaintiff, a Les etable looking .
young person, applied for, and obtained all the situations, .
which she filled, according, to the delendent's own testimony
in court, " to his entire satisfaction" during the time of mak-
ing-up and showing the fashions. Ile found no necessity for
another assistant, nor indeed, any " improvers" or appren-
tices. At the expiration of the gay season, it is supposed,
like Othello, he found
His occupation gone,"
or nearly so ; hence, it became very inconvenient to keep.on
this one assistant. With Shakspeare he could say, . .
" My poverty, and not my will consents"
to part with her, notwithstanding my puffing advertisement,
kindlier capabilities to assist me in my business. It appeared
there was no proper agreement between the parties, as to the
nature of work required ; and in order to effect a riddance
of this assistant, her usual sort of work being scarce, he re-
quired her to engage in other duties incompatible and unusual
for such individuals to perform, and upon being expostulated
with as to the impropriety of such request, he assumed
" his little brief authority' by ordering her " to quit his
house immediately," without offering to pay her any Wages for
the time she had been in his service. The assistant left, and •
sought to recover her claim through the Court of Request,
which was ordered accordingly. Thus ended this " shoWing
of fashings," which proved nothing more nor less than
" a flash in. the pan." Milliners' assistants would do well
to be cautious, how they engage in such service, as there. ire
many employers who only require additional hands at certain
periods of the year ; consequently, if they can obtain assist-- .
anee to serve their own purpose for the time, they care not -
how much inconvenience or loss they afterwards inflict upon.
such a class of people as milliners' assistants.

ABERNETIM—The late Mr. Abernethy would never per-
mit his patient to talk too much. He could not succeed in
'silencing a loquacious lady but by the following expedient :
" Put your tongue out, madam." (The lady complied.) Now
keep it there until I have done talking."
The Thames Conservation Society is turning out a great
humbug. It was formed professedly for the benefit of in-
dustrious fishermen, and the amusement of genuine sports-
men. It now appears that one subscriber to the society, a
noble lord, netted, in one morning, 27' trout.
Timothy Higgins, secretary to the Ashton-under-Lyne
ChartiSt Association, charged with the possession of two
boxes of tire arms for illegal purposes, has been held to bail
to appear at the next Liverpool Assizes, himself .£lOO,
and two sureties in £5O each.
CABBAGE.—In one week, the enormous quantity of up-
wards of seven thousand dozens of cabbages have been cut in
the immediate vicinity of Wakefield, for.warious surrounding
markets ! The cabbage in the hands of the tailors has not
been taken into the calculation.
REPRESENTATION OF AYLESBURY.—Captair! Hamilton,
who is intimately connected with many of the leading con-
servatives of • the neighbourhood, is a candidate in that
interest for the • representation of Aylesbury in parliananat,
which is vacent by the premiture death of M r. l'raed.
ACCURATE DESCRIP HON.—Orator Duncan, it may here-
membered, received a severe injury from something in the
shape of cowskin, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Cin-
cinnatti. " Where were you hurt, doctor," said a friend,
" was it•near the vertebra?" " No, no," said the disciple .
of Galen, "it was near the Race-course."—Picayune.
The following remarkable providence, tending to show that
God is a God of providence, preserving his people in times
of danger from the hands of the wicked, as well as a God of
grace, saving their souls and bringing them to glory, is ap-
pended to the original life of Browne, the first Protestant
Archbishop of Ireland :—" Queen Mary having dealt severely
with the Protestants in England, about the latter end of her
reign, signed a commission for to take the same course with
them in Ireland ; and, to execute the same with
.greater force,
she nominates Dr. Cole, one of the commissioners, sending
the commission by this doctor, who, in his journey, coming
to Chester, the mayor of that city, hearing that her Majesty .
was sending a messenger into Ireland, and he being a church-
man, waited on the doctor, who, in discourse with the mayor,
taking out of a cloth bag a leather box, saying unto Min,
Here is a commission that shall lash the heretics of Ireland',
calling the Protestants by that title. The good woman of
the house, being well affected to the Protestant religion, and
also having a brother named John Edmonds of the same,
then a citizen in Dublin, was much troubled at his words;
but watching her covenient time, whilst the mayor took his
leave,' and the doctor complimenting him down the stairs,
she opens the box and takes the commission out, placing in
lieu of it a sheet of paper with a pack of cards, the knave of
clubs faced uppermost, wrapped up. The doctor coming up
to his chamber, suspecting nothing of what had been done,
put up the box as formerly. The next day, going to the
water-side, wind and weather serving him, he sailed towards
Ireland, and landed on the seventh of October, 1558, at Dub.
lin ; then coming to the Castle, the Lord Fitz-Walters, being
lord deputy, sent for him to come before him and the privy
council ; Dr. Cole, atter he had made a speech relating upon
what account he came over, presented the box to the bold
deputy, who causing it to be opened, that the secretary might
read the commission, there was nothing, save a pack of cards
with the knave of clubs uppermost, which not only startled
the lord deputy and council, but the do. tor, who assured
them he had a commission, but knew not Low it was gone ;
then the lord depty made answer, Let ns Lave another
commission, and we will shuttle the cards in the mean while.'
The doctor being troubled in his mind went away, and re.
turned into England and coming to the court obtained
another commission ; but, staying for a wind ut the water-
side, news came up to him. that the Queen was &ad; Pi
thus God preserve the ProtesPaute in Ireland.'