The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

On Thursday Mr. Rushton suspended a police-officer
for not using proper care and respect, in stopping a res-
pectable man, who was going home along Fox-street, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock on Sunday morning week.
UNWHOLESOME CELLARS.—On Tuesday Mr. Rushton
fined fifteen persons 20s. each, for permitting unwhole-
some cellars to be occupied as dwelling-houses, and stated
that he was determined to carry the law into execution.
On Friday a person, who had become surety for a beer-
seller, was ordered to pay 40s. and costs, in which penalty
the tatter had recently been mulcted, but was unable to
pay. Mr. Rushton said that he should enforce the law,
which was imperative, in all such cases.
DEFICIENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—On Friday
a number of parties were fined by J. Bramley-Moore,
Esq., in penalties varying from £5 and costs to ss. and
costs, for having fraudulent scales, weights, and measures
in their possession.
RAID UPON THE BEGGARS—On Tuesday, a considerable
number of beggars were brought before the magistrates
charged with this offence. In almost every case the pri-
soners were Irish mendicants, and the selection of gaol or
Ireland was offered, but the later was invariably declined.
With the exception of a few cases suited to the work-
house, the prisoners were sent to gaol for periods of
twenty-one days. .

STREET ROBBERY.—On Wednesday Jane Smith and
William M'Quay were committed for trial on a charge of
robbing a man in Lime-street of £lO and a purse. The
person robbed was purchasine some oysters at a stall,
when the female prisoner came up and contrived to ab-
stract from him his purse and money. She was appre-
hended the following day in company of the male prisoner,
and the purse and money found in her possession.
THEFT OF A GOLD WATCH.—On Friday, at the police-
court, a man named William Culcheth, who keeps a small
cooperage in Great Howard-street, was brought to the
bar, on a charge of stealing a watch. Sergeant Cecbish-
ley, of the detective force, said that, in consequence of in-
formation he had received, he and another officer went to
the prisoner's place, and met him leaving the shop of Mr.
Woolfe. a watchmaker next door. The prisoner was

asked if he had purchased a gold watch from a person
named Sam. The prisoner denied that he had done so.
The officer then went to Woolfe's, and asked him if the
prisonel• had purchased such a watch from him. Woolfe
said he had not, but that he had three other watches,
which he had obtained from the prisoner. Culcheth then
said he had one gold watch at home. One of the officers
went to his house, and there found a watch (produced.)
The initials on the back had been taken off, and the
name-plate altered—alterations which the prisoner said
had been done by Woolfe. Woolfe, on being asked, de-
nied having seen the watch. Upon the prisoner was
found a small Geneva watch, corresponding in description
with one stolen in Glasgow in June last. A superbly-
dressed young female, named De Burgh, who lived in
Bolton-street, said the watch produced was hers, and that
it had been stolen from the parlour table, on the previous
Tuesday week, after her return from a ball, by a Jew
named Sam, who used to visit the servant girl. The
watch cost 23 guineas. Evidence was given showing the
prisoner had bought the watch from Sam (who had since
emigrated), for £9 and a silver watch. The prisoner was
committed for trial, and Woolfe was required to find bail
to appear when called upon.

Dtstruct 3etus.

Mr. Quarme, late editor of the Lancaster Gazette, is a
candidate for the vacant coronership in this county, and
is a gentleman well qualified to discharge the duties of
the office. The election will take place at Preston ; and
all the electors—freeholders of the county—will have to
go there to vote, in the event of a contest.
A large and respectable meeting of the overlookers of
power-looms in factories was held on Monday night, at
the Millstone Tavern, Manchester, to oppose any inter-
ference with, or alteration of, the Ten Hours Act, with a
view to the extension of time. A memorial to Sir George
Grey was also adopted, embodying the sentiments con-
tained in the foregoing resolutions.
The check and gingham factory of Mr. Richard Peck at
Wigan was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The whole of
Mr. Peck's books, accounts, &c., have been destroyed.
The stock was valued at about £3OOO, and it is unfortu-
nate
that he is only insured to the amount of £lOOO in the
West of England. Checks and ginghams, to the value of
about £5OO were secured, and conveyed to a large room in
the Commercial-yard, but many of them are in a damaged
state. The place is insured to the amount of £4OO in the
Sun Office, and belongs to the Rev. B. Powell.
Mr. Crouch, the celebrated moss land potato grower,
of Winmarleigh, near Garstang, has been honoured with
an order from her Majesty for some of his potatoes. He
will receive for them at the rate of £lOO an acre, and be-
sides this he is entitled to place over his door the royal
arms, the same as other tradesmen honoured by the royal
patronage, and this in particular excites a good deal of in-
terest in the neighbourhood, where it is said such a thing
as a farmer being so honoured was never before known in
Lancashire.—Lancaster Gazette.

PROPOSED RE-VALUATION OF THE COUNTY RATE.
—At the adjourned annual sessions for the county, held
at Preston, on Thursday, Mr. Wilson France stated that
in the year 1847 there was £389,000 worth of property not
assessed for the county rate, and he moved :—" That in
compliance with a resolution of the Court of Annual Ses-
sions, holden on the 19th of March, 1841, a new valuation
of rateable property within the county be made, for the
purpose of preparing a fair and equal rate, according to
the late act Bth and 9th Vic. chap. 111., entitled an act to
amend the law relating to the assessing of the county
rate."—The following eleven gentlemen were elected the
committee :—Messrs. Dawson, Satterthwaite, Ffrance,
Peel, Hull, Lawrence, Ashton, Birley, Ainsworth, Brandt,
and Neilson. Mr. Ffrance then moved that the first
meeting of the committee should take place on Wednes-
day, the 14th of March, at the constabulary office, Pres-
ton. This motion was agreed to.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Thursday, at the Borough
Court, Manchester, two men, named John and Samuel
Newton, were charged with being concern in a robbery
from the shop of Mr. 011ivant, silversmith, Exchange-
street, in that town. Samuel Newton had been detected
on the previous day offering several articles of plate for
sale, and being taken into custody, the police went to the
shop of Mr. 011ivant. where John Newton wes employed,
and arrested him. After some hesitation, he confessed
that he had given his brother the articles of plate to dis-
pose of. 'John Newton was employed 'by Messrs.
011ivant in the capacity of porter, and once a weekilwas
left with the other porters in charge of the shop for the

purpose of cleaning it. The police, having plaCed the
two brothers in custody, proceeded to the house where
they lived, and there found, in a strong box up stairs, arti-
cles of plate and jewellery, consisting of silver cups, cruets.
candlesticks. brooches, &c., amounting in value to be-
tween £7O and £BO. The case assumed a serious aspect
against the prisoners, and they were remanded, in order
that further discoveries of property might be made.

CORRESPONDENCE,

LOSS OF LIVES IN MINES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—The recent lamentable colliery accidents have
suggested to my mind a mode whereby similar casualties
may be materially prevented. _

. .
From experiments just made with the Gutta Percha
Tubing, I find that its power of conducting sound is so
extraordinary, that a conversation may be distinctly car-
ried on through a tube at the distance of even three
quarters of a mile. If, therefore, this tubing be carried
down the shaft to the various workings of the mine, and
the extremit;es furnished with a mouth-piece and whistle,
an instant communication, in case of danger, may be made
between every part of the mine and the men at the mouth
of the shaft.

Feeling- that we enjoy many comforts which are pur-
chased at great risk to the poor miner, and that it is our
duty to protect him as far as we can, I shall be glad if
you will give publicity to this in your paper.
Yours, obediently,

T. B. SMITHIES,
7, Bache's-terrace, City-road, London,

19th Febivari, /849•

CHURCH OF OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—I shall esteem it a favour if you will spare room,
in your next publication, for the few accompanying re-
marks upon the effort now making to provide an institu-
tion, in which the youths who come amongst us, in pur-
suit of business advantages, may find facilities for the
exercise of their social affections and intellectual facul-
ties, free from the contagion of vicious society or latitu-
dinarian literature.

The necessity for some such provision is obvious and
urgent, when we consider that thousands of young men
annually arrive here, perfect strangers, separated from
the ties and influences of domestic life, with all the warm
and ardent feelings of youth craving for congenial society,
and the aspirations of inquiring minds impelling them to
the pursuit of knowledge ; while the judgment is too un-
matured, and the principles too unsettled, to discriminate
and choose between the wholesome provisions of sound
philosophy, and the specious fallacies (falsely so called)
which, with every collateral attraction, are offered to
their notice on all sides. And it is to be feared that by
far the greater proportion of them fall into associations
calculated to lead them into fatal error, and send them
forth to their future positions in the world sceptics in
religion, destructives in politics, and vicious in character
and habits, to spread the leaven of these evils through
all their subsequent connections.
It is, therefore, gratifying to find that the Churchmen
of Liverpool are beginning to perceive the necessity of
meeting the laudable desires of these young men, in a
manner which will guard against abuse, and will, while
affording every encouragement for the full developement
of those faculties and feelings which form the ornament

and happiness of our nature,maint4in also those sound
Church principles by which the sacred volume of revela-
tion is upheld above all human inventions, and the stu-
dent taught to seek for God in history, science, commerce,
and every other study and pursuit of fife.
And if the promoters of the Church of England Insti-
tution are careful to combine high literary advantages
with sound Church principles, there ran be no doubt that
they will meet with such support and assistance as will
enable them to render the institution worthy of its name,
and incalculably beneficial in diffusing the influence of
sound principles in civil and ecclesiastical polity through
a large portion of the middle classes of society.
Yours, &c., A SHOPMAN.
Feb. 22nd, 1849.

SOME ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE ENDOW-
MENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST-
HOOD. BY AN ENGLISH PROTESTANT.

SECTION TV

In every part of the Old and New Testament, we may
observe that one of the chief attributes ascribed to the
Deity is truth. He is described as " the God of truth"—

one who requires truth in the inward parts"—" in
whom is no variableness, neither the shadow of turning,"
&c., &c. On the other hand, the Devil is described by
the highest authority—our S ,viour himself—as " the
father of liars," and " a liar from the beginning." No-
thing can be plainer than these two perfectly antagonistic
principles ; and to fortify the Christian under any circum-
stances whatever, the same divine authority has com-
manded us " not to do evil that good may come," as if
to forewarn future generations against the " pious frauds"
of the Church of Antichrist.
There may be many rules for the line of conduct of
politicians and members of various creeds, which may be
modified by circumstances, and also by future conse-
quences ; but there is but one plain rule for the Christian.
That rule is to obey the commandments of Jesus Christ
under any circumstances, and not to diverge from the
straight line of our duty for any reasons of political and
(what is falsely termed) religious expediency. If we do
so, we may establish powerful churches on this earth,
but by so doing we cannot alter the character of Christi-
anity : the result will be, that we shall become disciples
of Antichrist.

The system of relics, pious frauds, mental reservations,
indulgencies, masses for the souls of rich men, &c..
which were brought so strongly into play by the Catholic
hierarchy during the middle ages of what was called
Christianity, no doubt produced great, zeal amongst its
disciples ; but it was a zeal without knowledge, founded
on fraud, and which must lead to the general and utter
corruption of any society which engenders it. It is an
attempt to call in the assistance f the Devil, who is the
father of lies, to aid in the wors pof God. It is a sys-
tem founded on spiritual pride, and of much the same
kind as Mahometanism, ready to make proselytes at the
point of the sword, when they obtain the power to do so.
We can obtain the distinguishing marks of false pro-
phets and teachers from the very words of Jesus Christ—

"Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes
of thorns, or figs of thistles?
" Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a
corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot
bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth

good-fruit.
" Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them

I shall confine myself in this paper to the fruits of the
frauds (pious as they have been called) upon the body of
the Catholic laity in Ireland, more particularly as con-
nected with the blasphemous invocations of God's name
upon the most trivial occasions.

The spirit of lying is so universal amongst the Roman
Catholic peasantry in Ireland, that no man who has been
long resident in the country ever expects to hear the
truth, unless in a matter of no interest to themselves.
The number of lies told daily in that country, and for
the truth of which they will call upon the great God to
witness in the most solemn manner, must be counted not
by thousands, but by millions. _ _ .

Lying is on the direct road to perjury ; and here I am
almost afraid to state the dreadful amount of crime in
this respect amongst the lower orders of Roman Catholic
peasantry. If an Englishman will attend any of the
hundreds of small courts at petty sessions in Ireland, he
cannot leave it without hearing some cases, and often
many, of flat perjury, clear and distinct—one man swear-
ing black, the other wllite. The weekly perjuries may
be counted by thousands.

In some cases perjury is defended as a means of saving
the life of a criminal, and for many other reasons. I
myself have conversed with a Roman Catholic peasant, in
the presence of his friends and neighbours, who acknow-
ledged that he had perjured himself to save a life. A man
was murdered ; he saw the fact and the blow, and swore
his back was turned at the time ! His neighbours ap-
proved of his perjury, under the circumstances.
In fact, wholesale perjury has become quite a joke
amongst some of the peasantry, who will tell you that
the rainy weather which usually occurs about the time of
the assizes is brought down by the " hard swearing."
The magistrates at petty sessions cannot in many in-
stances decide by evidence, as is the custom in England.
They- are obliged to decide from probability, and their
knowledge of the customs and habits of the country. In
fact, perjury is so common that both magistrates and
others have got accustomed to it, and do not regard the
crime with such horror as we do in this country ; and
prosecutions in every case would require new gaols in
every town for the multitude of prisoners.
Sometimes, indeed, a right-minded man will give vent
to his indignation ; and it may not be out of place here,
as a corroboration of my statements, to insert an extract
from the speech of a Roman Catholic barrister, presiding
at the quarter sessions at Newport, in the county of Mayo,
(the centre of M`Hale's district,) spoken out in public
court, and extracted from the Times newspaper of Feb.
3rd, 1849:

" I cannot allow the opportunity to pass without expressing
my regret at the scenes which are daily, nay hourly, occurring
in this court. It is melancholy to witness the de:iberate per-
jury which occurs in so many cases that come before me. Day
by day we see persons swearing, to an opposite statement of
facts—facts with reference to things which both parties have
seen with their own eyes,
.and which are immediately within
their own knowledge. It is melancholy—it is
_painful to wit-
ness such a state of things. Ido not believe there is a nation
in the world—pagan, heathen, or infidel—which has so little
regard for truth as the great bulk of the persons who frequent
this court. Icoyess that I frequently rejoice when the busi-
ness of the criminal side of the court commences, and I have
the assistance of a jury to aid in finding my way through such
a mass of perjury."

Let the Protestants of England consider these things
well, and behold to what a state these ignorant and de-
luded peasants have been brought by the teaching of those
priests who have sealed up the Bible, and opposed educa-
tion of any kind.
This system has already cost England many millions,
which have been received by the Irish, from the member
of Parliament to the Catholic peasant, with a thankless
ingratitude. It has produced a million of mendicants,
and a mass of perjury, fraud, and deceit, such as cannot
be rivalled in any part of the world ; and we have not yet
seen the end of it.
The question, however, is by no means a political one,
'orto be decided upon political grounds. It is a question
for every Christian between himself and his conscience--
whether he can continue to worship God in spirit and in
truth on this side of the Channel, and at the same time,
on the mere pretence of political expediency, supply funds
for the propagation of the very opposite doctrines in Ire-
land. "No man can serve two masterisa cannot Berra
God and Mammon." SENLIM,
Feb. 18th, 180.

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