The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

roselytise were really being
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ve may almost SF
has been sedulously taught to shun

for centuri

alien anii hogtile to both their temporal and eternal
welfare. His present emergency, however, has
levelled all distinctions of creed, and taught him
better and more charitable feelings. He sees the
much vilified Protestant minister—the heretic whom
he has been schooled tc

FAST SAILING.-The new steam-ship Viceroy, com-
manded by Captain Stokes, and now on the Glasgow and
Liverpool station, arrived in the river on Saturday, '
.ast made the passage from Greenock in about fifteen hours.
early The amount received in collections and subscriptions at
ae to re- the Baptist Chapel, Myrtle-street, on Sunday, after a
thout dis- j sermon by the Rev. J. Lister, for the distressed Irish,

est and to cm

bring-

ing food to the desolate cabin

firs of Ifis dying fellow-

d giving

lieve and to

wag

tinction of Creed or (

such a

minister to be complained of—to use the words of
Lord Roden in reply to his lordship, the ex-chan-
cellor,—" if, whilst administering relief to a dying
man, he should speak to him of the concerns of
his soul ? "

At the Council Meeting to-morrow, a motion will be
brought forward to increase the salary of Mr. Wyberg,
the treasurer, from £5OO to £lOO per annum : a proposi-
tion which will no doubt be assented to unanimously.
The Rer. L. Formby, 8.A., has been licensed by the
Lord Bishop of Chester to the Perpetual Curacy of
Formby, vacant •by the resignation of the Rev. Isaac
Bowman, M.A.
Six Howard Douglas having been named as one of the
trustees in a proSpoctus of the Colonial, Foreign, and
Assurance Company, we are requested to. state
',as given no authority for his name being so. used.

We are not at all certain that his Lordship, and
those who prompted him in this matter, are not per-
fectly justified in their fears of proselytism, as the

testant clergy of Ireland w
population. The humane zeal displayed- by that
clergy in the awful crisis in which they have to'act

ro-
t

suffering P

must win upon the affections of a susceptible and
warm-hearted people. Perhaps that very zeal may
contrast rather inconveniently with the cows(

On Sunda}, last, the sum of £BO was collected for the
relief of the distressed, at St. John the Evangelist's
Church, Hope-street, after a sermon by the Rev. Henry
H. Higgins. Half the amount has been given to the Li-
verpool Charitable Society.
SR. BA1; THOLOMEW'S
,CHURCH

ie congrega'

—On Sunday last, the
on. made an appeal to

J.;'eland, by the agitating priesthood of their
own communion—the reverend and right reverend
tools of the mendicant leader of the Repeal Faction.
A starving people naturally ask at a time like the
present,, whilst receiving the means of subsistence

s.edpoo; in•lre-

m bands which they have been taught to regard

of enemies, where are the shillings and
which have been extracted from their

e advancement of in
amelioration of their cond

land and gcotiand, when the sum of £l7 3s. was col-
lected at the doors in aid of the fund for their relief.
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.-At a
Board of Examiners, held at the Board-room, in • the
Observatory, on Tuesday, Captain Wm. H. Crevow, of
Liverpool, and late of the brig William Murray of this
port, and Captain John Ellis, of Scilly, and late of the
brig Martha of Liverpool, were examined and found duly
qualfied for first-cless certificates as masters, which were
accordingly granted them.

objects—the fees received at stations, at weddings,
at christenings, and upon other religious pretexts.
They find little of these funds forthcoming in the
hour of trial, and their own priesthood,to whom they
have been taught to look up as to something little
less potent than their God, powerless for their extri-
cation from suffering and the horrors of famine.
And as they glance from their own wretched state
to the comparative comfort of the flocks of the
Protestant clergy, to whom such exactions do not
extend, they are led to inquire, and,. as the result
of such inquiry to suspect, that there must be
something rotten in a system, which in their own,
as in every country throughout the globe, steeps
the masses of the population in ignorance, poverty,
and crime.

THE WEATHER.—On Tuesday night, we were visited
in this neighbourhood with rather a severe storm of wind.
A great deal of rain fell, on Wednesday and Thursday.
From Friday morning up to Sunday night the weather
was clear and frosty. About nine o'clock on Sunday night
sleet commenced falling thickly, and yesterday morning
the ground was covered with snow ?cveral inches thick.
It will, however, quickly disappear, as a thaw soon after
set in.

But has Lord Brougham or the Romanists who
rompt him any just rivlo- ' ' should

COMI

a,nt clergy of Ireland

ur to avail

themselves of their o

nt opportunities for the

eof proselvtisth ? (

t this very moment

envy at work for turning the accidental
poverty of our own labouring classes .to this very
account. Their Sisters of Charity perambulate
our streets, and dive into our cellars and courts
with bread or money in one hand and a Popish
tract or a ritual in the other. They fasten syste-
matically upon the last moments of our poor for

clom, an a

DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—An inquest
was held yesterday, before Mr. Curry, touching the death
of Edward Stephens, aged 47, a weigher at a 'rarehouse.
Shortly before eleven o'clock on Sunday night, deceased
was brought home to Roscoe-lane, much intoxicated, and
unable to walk. He was carried up stairs, and placed on
the floor, with a pillow put under his head. About six
o'clock yesterday morning, he was found quite dead.
Deceased was a hard drinker, and had on Sunday evening
taken ale and rum in large quantities. Verdict,—" Died
from excessive drinking."
ROBBERY FROM A SHOP. A smart-looking well-
dressed young man, named James Reece, was yesterday
charged at the Police-court with sundry robberies from
the shop of Mr. Briscoe, Oldhall-street, who had re-
cently employed him. It appeared that some suspicion
had arisen as to his honesty, and that in order to test it,.
two shillings and a: sixpence marked were put on a shelf
or recess, at the back of -the counter, where the small
sums received were put, until paid over to the cashkeeper.
This was missed, and the prisoner's lodgings being
searched, and he himself apprehended, the marked money
was found,—alsa,, in his box, glovas,, stockings, ribbons,
&c., of considerable value. The whole were identified

those who set us such an. example ought to be the
last to complain if they find it imitated.

and he was committed for trial at the present sessions.
PROPOSITIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR- IN
SCOTLAND AND IN IRELAND.—The Rev. W. Pollock,
Incumbent of St. Mark's, suggests, as a means of relief
even to the saving of life, in many parts of Ireland the
n,A-.l,l;2l.rnant of nn " Tvielt DnEc.4' Ilwronr". for the ash

We-rejoice at the elidence thus shown of an un-
easy' feeling on the part of Popery. It is an in-
telligible hint that the straw is moving, and that

wha‘i appears to us to be a merely tempora
may have been visited uflon unhappy and 1
Ireland for the eternal good of her popul

%lamity
iiehted

A correspondent of the London Tines has sug-

gested, as one means of lightening the pressure of
the existing scarcity of provisions, the adoption of
some voluntary pledge, by which domestic waste
may heprevented,and even the consumption itself

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of articles of domestic manufacture, which habitually
gives employment to the population, but for which they
can at home obtain at present no remunerative prices,
while at the same time all articles of food are of treble
price. He enumerates amongst the articles, knitted wool-
len stockings from Galway,Denegal, Connemara, and the
Rosses—celebrated for their texture and durability ; linens
woven in Ulster by people of both sexes, &c. He is not
favorable to bazaars on general principles, but thinks that
in the present emergency, such bazaar stocked with the
usual articles, and in addition to them those mentioned,
transmitted from Ireland by a committee, would result in
raising a large sum. Our respected townsman William
Mann, Esq., merchant, after alluding to the destitution in
Ireland and Scotland and the means, by Government, and
by subscription taken to relieve it, is of opinion that,
praiseworthy as both are in such an-emergency, subscrip-,
'''" "1" wv,..t body of the people who

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ges the holding of public meetings throughout would be desirous to give to the extent of their means, if
u hout the
at which statistical information could the opportunity were offered them. His suggestion is that
given with respect to the extent to which theth wa re-
collections should be made in every church thro g
kingdom, upon each Sunday morning, 111 e 3' I)
existing and available supplies of food are capable in
churchman our Boo k
would s,,crEibveedry
of being increased. Our contemporary remarks
upon this.proposition that— contributing according to his means : those who had gained
' There is a more appropriate quarter whence the exhor- much during the week might, in faith, give liberally ;
C thenom' Common
have Pray
the e ropportunity, and
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f
tation might proceed, and with the certainty of produc- whilst those who earn their subsistence within a more
ing a far higher effect than could be achieved either by limited sphere, would be enabled, in equal faith, to give
the press or by popular discussion. If the ministers of something to those who, in the inscrutable dispensation of
religion of all denominations, would devote a few minutes Providence, are perishing from hunger." He also sug-
upon any one occasion to an emphatic appeal to their gests the vesting of the amount collected in each diocese
congregations, showing that economy constitutes the only with the respective diocesans, they remitting it to the
immediate remedy for scarcity, (since, however readily head of the hierarchy in Ireland, to be by him appropri-
we may open our pursess and thus enable those to obtain ated, through the hands of the resident clergy, to such
food who may want it most, we cannot by that means in- parishes as are in the greatest need. and to all that need,
crease the stock,) the duty which each individual owes to without discrimination as to creed or otherwise. The
the great family would speediiy be recognized, and conse- suggestions are well worthy of immediate practical con-
(mixes 'night be obtained which, although imperceptible sideration by the clergy. .

the country