The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

POLICE 1r COURT. - _ ESTERDAY.

EXTENSIVE HOUSE ROBBERY IN GREAT HOMER-
STREET.—It will be remembered that we last week no-
ticed a robbery of jewellery and plate from the house of
Mr. Harclisty, No. 207, Great Homer-street, and that
the parties in custody were remanded for a week. They
were again brought up yesterday. Their names are Glew,
Smith, Thornton, and Christopher. A gentleman, named
Henry Vessey, lodged in the house, a working jeweller
and dealer ; and while he and the rest of the family were
at church, on the morning of Sunday week, the premises
were broken into as it appeared, about noon• day. On
their return they found that a predatory inroad had been
made, and, on looking about, Mr. Vessey discovered that
his portmanteau and jewel-case had been broken open,
and nearly all the valuable contents, to the value of £4O,
taken away. A quantity of silver plate, belonging to
another party, was also missed; but the owner was not
present yesterday. Information was given to the police,
and the detectives traced out the supposed delinquents.
At the house of Glew were found a large quantity of false
and skeleton keys, crowbars, or " jerninies,U and other
implements for forcing locks or doors ; some of the jew-
ellery was also found concealed in a dog-kennel in the
yard. It did not, however, clearly appear that Glew was
aware of these articles being on his premises,—one of the
other prisoners, with whom he was seen to talk in the
street shortly beTore the robbery, being a lodger in his
house, and he himself never having been before a magis-
trate until this occasion. A witness stated that he had
with him a black and white dog, (which was produced in
court,) but a neighbour, called as a witness, said that he
was in the habit of going out with the dog, on Sunday
mornings, for two years ; and it appeared he was a foolish
amateur in " ratting" and dog-fighting. Mr. Rushton,
on hearing all the evidence, said he should commit Chris-
topher, Smith, and Thornton, for trial ; but should not
send them to prison that day. He stated that he would
accept of good bail, upon notice, for Glew. It was then
stated, by one of the detectives, that it was supposed that
Glew had been connected with another robbery in Tran-
mere. That locality being out of Mr. Rushton's juris-
diction, he told the officers that they might take him
into custody on the charge, if they thought fit.
THE BANK NOTE AND CASH ROBBERY OF £258.
The prisoners who were- brought up yesterday week (as
we briefly stated on Tuesday last), were again placed at
the bar yesterday. They were Rody Maher, an elderly
man; his son, and the wife of the latter; together with
their servant, a girl named Sharpe. It will be remem-
bered that Mr. Hunt, sailmaker, in Hanover-street. missed
from his counting-house the sum stated, on the Bth ult.,
including two £lOO Bank of England notes, a £lO note,
and an amount of silver. The female Maher was seen at
the time at Mr. Hunt's. The whole of the prisoners went
to the Isle of Man, and there one of the £lOO notes was
changed, and rather than be searched by one of our de-
tectives, Mrs. Maher gave him up the other note of the
same amount. She had put her name on the note which
she had changed at Douglas, as "E. Yates." The notes
were identified by a clerk of the Union Bank here, through
whose hands they had passed before being paid to Mr.
Hunt. The evidence as related to the old man and the
servant girl did not show that they had any cognizance of
the robbery. and indeed it appeared that each had hitherto
borne a good character. They were accordingly discharged.
The other prisoners were committed for trial. It trans-
pired that the female, a delicate-looking little person, was
suspected to be implicated in a robbery of a£lo and a £5
note, and £95 in other monies, from the Liverpool .Albion
office on the 18th of September, 1848. This case was not,
however, entered into, as the witnesses were not got to-
gether, and a remand regarding it was the result.

ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—An old stupid Irish-
man, named Robert Cain, charged Ann 11I`Giverly with
robbing him of £49 in cash—namely, a £2O note, a £lO
note, and 19 sovereigns. The complainant had gone into
a house of a certain description, in Harley-street, in com-
pany with a boy to whose pocket he had entrusted his
money for safety, and who was, as a matter of course,
soon cleaned out. None of the money was found, but the
circumstances were so suspicious against the prisoner that
she was committed for trial. The prosecutor said he had
come from Ireland with some cattle. His appearance and
dress did not indicate that he was worth half-a-crown.

SPRIGS OF SHILELLAGH.—At the police-court, yester-
day, two genuine specimens of the genus horno from the
Emerald Isle were brought up and charged with the
national failing of indulging in "a bit of a row." On
being asked by Mr. Rushton the usual question, " What
have you to say to this charge ?" one of the belligerents—
a short, thick-set, bullet-headed fellow, with the broadest
possible Milesian grin upon his countenance—answered
and s iid, " Och sure, this man (his companion in limbo)
os goin' to strike me wid his stick, which same not bein'
agreeable to myself I tuk the stick from him, and so we
went at it in rale earnest, and fair play." His companion
here exclaimed—" Och Mickey what a lie you tell. I
nivor struck you wid the stick. I'd scorn a mane action;
that I would." " You indeed," retorted his neighbour,
" you're as mane a man as ever I knew." Mr. Rushton :
" You will both be better of two days' imprisonment."
The parties were then removed.
BREAKING INTO A SHOP AND STEALING.—WiIIiam
Harrison, John Smith, Thos. Welsh, and John M`Guire,
all young men, were charged with having, at an early hour
on Thursday morning, broken into the shop of a man in
Lightbody.strect, and stealing two pairs of boots, a coat,
and other articles. One of the prisoners had also stolen a
pair of boots from another house. The evidence did not
affect M`Guire, and he was discharged. The other three
were committed.

BEGGING.—A number of beggars (all Irish) were hauled
up for pursuing their vocations. One sturdy fellow had
upon his person lls. 6d. Mr. Rushton sent him to gaol
for a month, and ordered that his money should he appro-
priated to his maintenance while in durance. On a man
and his wife (with a child) Gs. 2d. were found. The man
was sent to gaol for twenty-one days—the money to be
similarly appropriated. The woman and child were
ordered to be provided for in the workhouse. An Irish-
woman, charged with the same offence, on being asked if
she would go home, agreed to be passed, remarking—
quite out of the common run in such matters—that she
would cheerfully do so, and that she regretted much that
she had ever come to Liverpool.

Post-office orders may now be granted and paid at the
Old Swan. . .

CROWN BUILDING SOCIETY.--A building society was
formed in this town last night, under very favourable
auspices, and with influential patronage.
INQUEST.—An inquest was held at Birkenhead, yester-
day, on the body of Mary Jane Vaughan, daughter of a
milkman, living in Sandford-street, Birkenhead. 'lle
child, it was proved, died of diarrhoea.
THE NEW CLIPPER STEAMER, VICTORY.-At ten
minutes to twelve o'clock, yesterday, this fine new screw
steamer sailed on her first passage. She left the quay in
gallant style, and from the rapidity with which she passed
down the channel, she bids fair to be one of the fleetest
crafts afloat.

THE LATE T. D. LEWIS, ESQ.—With reference to a
paragraph which appeared in the Mercury and other
Liverpool papers of last week, we are enabled to state, on
authentic information, that the statements with respect
to the late lamented gentleman, and the disposition of
his property are incorrect. His will is entirely to the
satisfaction of Miss Lewis, his only surviving sister, who
is, we believe, largely benefited. Mr. Lewis alsa made a
munificent gift in his life-time to his old and constant
companion and friend T. S. Tarleton, Esq,
THE WEATHER, since our last week's notice has been
somewhat broken, with the wind chiefly from the east, or
south south east, accompanied b) occasional heavy rains,
especially in the night. The grain crops are all safely
under cover, and are almost all good in these districts.
A slight smut has appeared amongst the Swedish turnips
here and there; but generally speaking the crops of both
these and mange's are heavy and promising. One field of
eight acres, on the east side of Wallasey Church, is a
favourable sample. The grasses are abundant. We re-
gret to learn that the potatoes are affected by the rot,
after being gathered in apparent good condition ; but
there are some of excellent quality brought to market.
and we yet hope that there will be a larger keeping crop
than last year. The root, too, is of larger size. We have
seen one from 'Wirral' weighing 21- lb.
THE REPRESENTATION OF RODNEY-STREET WARD.—
The Times of Thursday, finding itself, we naturally as-
sume, the supporter of a losing cause, indulges in a strain
of vituperation scarcely worthy, we submit, of the exclu-
sive and ultra-refined class it professes to patronise or be
patronised by, whichever the case may be. Its personali- •
ties being, of course, unworthy of attention, we shall
simply confine ourselves to its misrepresentations. In-
stead of Mr. Jones being the confederation candidate, he
expressly and unequivocally declined on principle to be
nominated as their candidate, and had it not been for a
requisition (which we have seen) to which are appended
the names of all parties and classes, tories and radicals,
with the ambiguous modifications of both, merchants,
professional men and tradesmen, he would have persevered
in his express determination not to allow himself to be
put in nomination. That he will receive the support of
the confederation is not to be wondered at, for they could
not (had the selection rested with them) have found a
man better qualified to become the representative of the
interests of all parties. An opposer of the Pike scheme
from conviction, the result of research and experience, he
will be recollected, and from his address recognised, as
the gentleman who: replied to Mr. Samuel Hohne, in the
Liverpool Courier, some time back. lie is, as he honestly
and manfully avows himself, a " tory," and will on that
ground possess an undoubted claim to the support of
numbers who would not have opposed Mr. Hohne had a
candidate of opposite principles, and the nominee of the
confederation, been brought out. He is also a strong
advocate of dock-rating, and on other subjects takes what
is at present the popular cause.—Mail.
A RUNAWAY BRIDLOROOM.—Rather an extraordinary
scene took place on 'Wednesday, in Hove Church. In the
course of the morning, three carriages drew up in front of
the gate, from which alighted a bridal party—the bride-
groom, a gallant son of Mars ; the bride, a young lady of
interesting appearance, and :ler mother, and some female
friends. The Rev. Mr. Kelly was in the vestry, in
readiness to perform the ceremony ; and one or two
strangers came in to witness it. One of these was
a foreigner, and his presence seemed to have an ir-
ritating effect upon the gallant briddgroom, for, upon
seeing him, he very unceremoniously came up to him,
and asked what business he had there, and, without
waiting for a reply, took the party by the scuff of the
neck, and kicked him out of the holy edifice ! He then
proceeded to eject the other stranger, and having thus
cleared the ground, he approached the bride, and de-
manded of her if she loved him ? The young lady replied
that she did. The gentleman recalled to her recollection
that, some weeks before, she had said her mother forced
her into the match, and, after upbraiding her in violent
terms, lie rushed out of the church, leaped the wall of the
churchyard, and, taking no notice 'of the three carriages
in waiting to carry away the contemplated " happy
couple," ran home at full speed, leaving the bride and her
friends to ride home as they came.—Brighton Herald.

Karrature.

NOTICES.

National Sin; what is it ? A Letter to the Right Hon.
Sir Geo. Grey, Bart., M.P., by the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, D.D. Hatchard and Son, London ; Arthur
Newling, 27, Bold-street, Liverpool.
_ _ _

WHAT is that " national sin," the existence of which we
are just now acknowledging in our churches, ani from the
just punishment of which by the hand of God we are
seeking by a special prayer to be relieved ? Such is the
important question which the rev. doctor has undertaken
to answer in the pamphlet before us. We are visited, as
a people, by pestilence and tribulation. " Paleness is on
many faces, and fear on many hearts; and lips unused to
pray are muttering on every side, Lord, have mercy.' "
The sin for which we are thus visited is committed by us,
as a people, not as individuals. It is a national act of
transgression of the law of God; and must be Icoked for
in the proceedings of the legislature, which can alone
place the nation in a position of antagonism against such
law. The rev. doctor thus proceeds in his inquiry
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" We are suffering under the righteous anger of God against
national sins t What sins? Confession wit out specification
is pointless and inoperative. What sins? What national sins
may our venerable Archbishop be supposed to have referred
to, when, in the special Prayer now before ns, he wrote, We
have departed from Thy commandments'? Surely this en
quiry is most urgent : for if we know not in what our rational
guilt consists, how can we make any attempt at national
amendment? and without amendment. all appearances and
expressions of repentance, however plausiule, are rank hypo-
crisy.
" What is our national sin? We may not look to the cha-
racter and conduct of individuals, however wicked, for an
answer. We may not look to national acts which have no
immediate bearing noon the law of God, pro or con. We must
look, then, to national acts which are direct transgressions of
the law of God. Are there any such? Is there a statute,
enacted by the representatives of the nation in their corporate
capacity, and carried into extcution by the government, in
direct and palpable violation of the law of God? Search and
see. If there be no such thing, we have no national sin to re-
proach ourselves with; and national humiliation is but a name
without reality, a pharisaic pretence at confession, without any
real fault specified, or any practical amendment attempted.
Let us he in earnest with ourselves, and with God. If there
be any act of our legislature administered by our government
in violation of the law of God, it should cease,—it should be
repealed,—there should be nu:ions! amendment —or else our
confessions and prayers are insulting mockery of Him who
chastens. It' we be chastened for national sin, upon what
principle is it that we can expect relief and forgiveness without
national amendment? If we be chastened for national sin,
and we wilfully and deliberately persevere in the commission
of that sin, what can we reasonably or scripturally anticipate
but more chastisement, and of increased severity ? "

The great sin which he finds in the statute book is the
sanction given by the nation to the practice of idolatry.
God has said of images. " thou shalt not bow down to
them ;" and the legislature has set itself up to teach what
God has thus expressly forbidden.
"The College of Maynooth is a great national sin at this
moment. It is an act of England as a nation, in direct oppo-
sition to the law of God. For England to acknowledge her 81118
before God, without mention of this, shirkingis the wilful of
hypocrisy. To make mention of this in confession, without
any intention to forsake it, is insulting mockery. I stay not
to examine the arguments by which our national adoption of
Romanism has been justified. None of them rise higher than
a supposed air dealii:g between man and man; and nothing of
the kind, or of any kind, can justify wil.ul disobedience to
Almighty God. This is the point, and to this I would invite
the special attention of any who may dispute against what is
contained in this letter. What is sin? St. John answers,
' Sin is the transgres-ion of the law.' What says the law ?
God spake these words, and said,' Thou shalt not boto down to
them."'
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The writer proceeds to shew that not only does the
Church of Rome, which we are upholding, teach idolatry;
but it also tolerates the breach of another commandment,
which says, " thou shalt not steal." It is shewn from the
acknowledged text books of Maynooth College, that Ro.
manists tamper with this law; that they lay down a scale
shoving how far it may be broken with impunity ; what is
venial theft, and what constitutes it a mortal sin. For
example, Bailly's moral theology says :

"`Does a person sin mortally, who steals trifling sums from
one, or front several persons, which, when put together, make
up a considerable sum?'
"This is answered in the affirmative, but a caution is added,
in which the students are to:d to observe—
""l hat, according to many divines, a somewhat greater
quantity is required to be stolen, in order to constitute a mor-
tal sin, when the small thefts which make it up have been com-
mitted at different times, and on many individuals, than if they
were all committed at the same tine, and on the same person.
The reason is, because the loss having been inflicted in differ-
ent portions, the injury, according to the common sense of
mankind, is less. anti is not taken so ill.'
" Thus," Dr. 111'Neile remarks, " the people are t.ught, or, at
least, the future teachers of the people, the students in May-
nooth are taught, and this teaching is now a notional act, that
when thefts are distributed over a considerab!etitne, and com-
mitted against various persons, a somewhat larger quantity is
required to make them mortal sins. No definite measure of
time, or number of persons, or amount of increase in the mat-
ter of the theft is laid down; and, therefore, the thief himself
is left to his own discretion, to determine when he has com-
mitted a sin which must be confessed, and how Jong he has
confined himself to those only which snag be concealed without
incurring blame."

It is gross hypocrisy, he contends justly, thus to ac-
knowledge the national sin, and to take no steps to avoid
its commission. We ought to withdraw our endowment
of a religion, which transgresses against the law of God ;
and this he sh,ws to be perfectly practicable, notwith-
standing the objoctions urged against the attempt.

"But why is it impossible to erase from our Statute Book this
high offence against God, and to aim at the good of our human
Catholic fellow-countrymen by some more enlightened course
than encouraging them in their systematic suppression and
violation of the second comniandtnent? Who, or what, has
made it impassible? What the nation has done, the nation
can undo. The Act of Settlement, of 1688, was long looked
upon as inviolable; but that good which the nation had done,
was by the nation undone. Is the nation powerful to undo
good and do evil ? and has the nation no power to undo evil
and do good? The impossibility is imaginary • it is the off-
spring of unwillingness, and therefore it is the greater sin.
This great national sin ought to be repented of, and might be
forsaken. And until it is, Go I, whose commandment is wil-
fully violated, may well say to this nation, 'To what purpose is
the multitude of your prayers and humiliations before me?
Will you enter upon the Registry of your national acts
systematic violation of my holy law? Will you adopt, in a
friendly and liberal spirit, as you proudly call it, tin institution
provided for educating it in practices which I have solemnly
forbidden to all men as sins against me? Will you strengthen
and encourage this retie lion against me, and then come and
stand before me in this house, %N hich is called by my name and
say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this
house, which is called by my name, become a den of thieves
and idolaters in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith
the Lord.'
" In 1829, England, by a national act, incorporated an idola-
trous system into her civil polity. Three years after, in 1832,
England was smitten by pestilence. In 1845, England, by a
national act, adopted as her own the educational seminary of
an idolatrous priesthood. One year after, in 1846, England was
smitten by the Irish famine. causing disorder and confusion
in the coinmeicial world front the Oregon to the Ganges, and
wasting millions of the substance of Great Britain. Against
remons•rance, against the light of revealed trait, in defiance
of the plainest language of God's law, England has persevered,
in a friendly and liberal spirit,' to encourage idolatry; and
now, in 184 u, England stands aghast at a second visitation of
the Cholera. Cod is not mocked, whatsoever a nation soweth,
that shall it reap."

The pamphlet concludes with the following beautiful
appeal :
"It may yet please God (for lie is long suffering, and of ten-
der mercy, to spare this nation for another trial, to give a pre-
sent lengthening of tranquillity, and e% en to create and make a
national willingness to forsake national sin. Then, indeed,
confession would be honest, and humiliation real, and prayer
available.

"For this some are now sighing and crying' in secret.
They are grieved, not so much for the calamities felt or threat-
ened, as for the sins committed ; not so much for the damage
to be sustained by man, as for the dishonour done to God.
These are heard in heaven, and may yet prove a blessing upon
earth. Queen Victoria, whom God preserve, has many such
subjects, and their prayers for her are not cold and empty
forms, but the warm and affectionate pleadings of loyal and
loving hearts. They pray for you, Sir, and for all in authority
under the Queen, that youj may have grace, wisdom, and un-
derstanding to execute astice, and to maintain truth; that so,
we and all our fellow-subjects may be quietly and godly
governed.
"They pray also.for the multitudes of their fellow creatures,
and especially their fellow countrymen, among whom the com-
mandments of God are made void by the traditions of men ;
that now, while intel:igence on every subject is diffused, this
best of all subjects may not prove an exception; but that,
reading and thinking for themselves, discriminating between
genuine catholic antiquity and modern Roman innovation, and
emancipated from that deadly slavery which makes the light
that is in them darkness, by turning what they esteem reli-
gion into actual sin; tiny may have peace, and liberty, and
purity in the glorious gospel of the grace of God."

Past and Future Emigrat;on ; or, the Book of the Cape.
Edited by the Author of " Five Years in Ktifirbind."
London : Thos. Cawley Newby, Publisher, 72,

mer-street, Cavenoish-square.. 1849. 1 vol., pp. 379.
THE present state of affairs at the Care of Good Hope,
and the exciting events of the recent Kafir war, give a
peculiar interest to any evidence, on the subject of the
colony, which bears upon its face the impress of truth
and experience. The author of the work before us—a
military man, who has recently returned to this country—
has evidently had not only personal opportunities for
forming the judgment at which he has arrived, but has
devoted himself to a searching examination of official
records, and the writings of previous authors. The
result has; been the addition of another damning page to
the history of colonial mismanagement, and the injurious
policy pursued by the Colonial-office.
In the opening portion of the work, we are placed in
possession of a succinct account of the rise of this settle-
ment, its colonization by the Dutch, its subsequent an-
nexation to the British empire, and its chequered progress
up to the period of the Kafir outbreak of 1834 and 1835.
Every step of that progress the writer shews, very clearly,
to have been checked by the vacillation and meddling
which has characterised the conduct of successive Colo-
nial Secretaries. Exposed to continual irruptions upon
their territories by the savage Kafir tribes, the settlers
have been doomed to see all the syrr p-.thies of the Go-
vernment at home, and cf - 'are, ' of the pseudo.
philanthropists of England, enlisied on the side of their
murderous and treacherous enemies. The ear of the
Colonial-office has been possessed by unknown commu-
nicators of tittle-tattle; the colonists have been held up,
in private representations and on public platforms, as
aggressive tyrants, seeking ever to spoil of their lands the
' poor aborigines" ; and, upon such evidence, even the
pressing entreaties of such men as Sir Harry Smith and
the late Governor, Sir Benjamin D'Urban, in behalf of
the adoption of more vigorous 'measures to prevent the
continual robbery and massacre of the farmers, have been
contemptuously disregarded. The result has been a na-
tural one. The cattle of the settlers have been continu-
ally driven off, their houses levelled to the earth, and
frequent butcheries committed. without any salutary
measure of retaliation being adopted, until the Kafir
chiefs and population were encouraged to form the con-
clusion that the Colonial Government and troops were
incapable of offering resistance or making retaliation.
The mockery of a negociation, and a promise of restitu-
tion, never performed, have alone attended each fresh
outrage.
In 1834.5 the injuries thus inflicted upon the colonists
are thus summed up :-5,438 horses ; 111,418 head of

cattle ; 156,878 sheep ; 455 houses destroyed. By these
losses, 7.000 of her Majesty's subjects were in one week
driven to utter destitution. The cost of the war which
was waged in 1836 to check these outrages, was £249,790;
yet the weak and insane policy of the Colonial-office im-
mediately neutralised, by its let Tent concessions, the les-
son whit h had been soucht to be impressed upon the
savages. The cost of the Kafir war of 1847-8 is estimated
at not much under three millions sterling !

The writer does not appear to regard the missionaries
as without blame in preventing the adoption of measures
to secure order in the colony, or to think highly of their
success in converting the Kafir population, but theFe
opinions, from a military man, we are inclir►ed to receive
with caution. Upon the latter point be says:—