The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-14 00:00:00

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. T. D. RICE,
And his Last Appearance but One.
THIS present FRIDAY, Feb. 14th, 1810, the Entertain-
ments will commence with a New Drama (never acted
here), written for Mr. Rice, entitled
THE PEACOCK AND THE CROW !
Mr. Podge, Mr. Til übryßice, in
which he will sing a new version of his celebrated song,
" Sich a Gittin' up Stairs."
To which will be added a new laughable Interlude, called
NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS.
Admiral Kingston, Mr. Tilbur • Miss Moreton,
mond. Mrs. Ray-
y
In the course of the evening, a variety of Dancing, by
Mademoiselle Chevallier and the Misses Thomassin and
Lidia ; and a popular Song, by. Mr. F. Gardner.
To conclude with the laughable Negro Farce, written ex-
pressly for Mr. Rice, entitled
THE SARCOPHAGUS
Ginger Blue, Mr. T. D. Rice, in which he will introduce an
entirely new version of " Jim Crow."
TO-MOR.ROW (Saturday a of Entertainnts,
in which Mr. TO.` (D Rice will), appeartubeing his Lastme Ap-
pearance.
On MONDAY next. Feb. 17th, Mr. J. L. IT.N.TTON,
who is engaged for a limited period, will appear ; and, in
consequence of the various applications at the Box-office,
JACK SHEPPARD will shortly be represented for a few
Evenings only.
Tickets and places for the Boxes may be had of Mr.
,BRE-cc, at the Box-office, from Eleven till Three o'Clock.
Ones, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Gd. Second Price at Half-past
ght : Boxes, 9s, ; Pit ls. ; no Second Price to the Gallery.
Doors to be open at Half-past Six o'Clock, performance to
commence at Seven precisely.

DUCROW'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.

4,260 PE
Overflowed the Amphitheatreß
'S toONS
witness the present
TGRAND SPECTACLE, which will be continued
HIS EVENING (Friday), and TO-MORROW (Satur-
day), February 14th and 15th, 1840.
The performances commence at Seven o'
clock, with the
New Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacle of
BUONAPARTE'S PASSAGE of the DESERTS,
Or THE FRENCH IN EGYPT and SIEGE OF ACRE.

Ducrow's new and splendid
SCENES IN THE CIRCLE,
Commencing with a Grand Equestrian Pageant, introducing
the whole of the Stud, Male and Female Equestrians in rich
attire, and in which the beautiful Steed Pegasus wiil appear,
under the title of the Equestrian MASKED BALL !
LE PETIT DUCROW and the Infant Actors.
The extraordinary Exercises of the beautiful Horse ALFRED,
instructed by Signor Hillier.
Mr. HICKEN'S pleasing Extravaganza.
Tie -Wonders of THE TWO OLYMPIANS, Sig. Hillier
and Sig. Cinicelli, whose extraordinary performances have
astonished every beholder ; &c. &c.
With the interestinr, Afterpiece of
THE FARM OF 7BROTONNE.

Places for the Boxes can be secured from Eleven to Three

A GRAND MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT will be
given at the Theatre-Royal, On Tuesday Evening, the
25th inst. the profits of which will be equally appropriated
to the DISPENSARIES and INFIRMARY.
The Orchestra will be on the same scale as at the Subscription

Concerts.
Leader Mr. HERRMAN.
VOCAL PERFORMERS .
MISS MARIA B. HAWES, Miss WHITNALL,
Mr. DODD, and Mr. STItETTON.
INSTRUMENTAL :
Violoncello
A plan of the Boxes will lie at Mr Weiss's Music Saloon,
on and after Monday next, where places may be taken.
Tickets for the Boxes, 6s ; tipper Boxes, 4s ; Pit 3s ; and
Gallery 2s each ; may be had at the usual places, and at the
Box-office of the Theatre on the day of the Concert.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The letter of "J. C." shall appear in our next. We shall
feel obliged if our correspondents will write on one side
only of their paper.

Ebe kiberpool 'tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1340.

By the packet-ship Sheridan, which arrived here
yesterday, we have received New York papers to the
25th of January, inclusive. The Sheridan sailed on
the 26th. The non-arrival of the British Queen at New
York continued to be a source of great anxiety.
The money-market intelligence from the United
States is, upon the whole, of a favourable character.
In domestic exchanges there was an improvement on
all descriptions, but particularly on the Atlantic cities.
Philadelphia and Baltimore were down to 6 and less
per cent. At the South the rate was decidedly more
favourable than at New York : the shipments of pro-
duce from thence to Europe and the North are said to
he fast correcting the exchanges. most abundant, The crops were
but the prices were very low : so that
the amount to be realised will probably be less than it
was last year, or, at all events, very little greater.
In the New York money-market there was very
little complaint, though good paper, within a reasonable
time, could not be discounted. The standard of good
paper was much more circumscribed than formerly.
So little business, however, had been transacted,
during the previous six months, that the amount of
paper made had been very small, and that there was a
want of business paper. The better regulation of the
domestic exchanges had tended materially to relieve
the market. Foreign exchanges were kept down, so
that the banks stood in no fear of having their specie
drawn. There was no change in the rate of uncurrent
money. The United States Bank, which stood at 10
Was quoted at 6 per cent. There was no inducement
for exporting specie : on contrary, exchange from
Europe, as well as every other part of the world, ap-
peared to be in favour of the United States. Sterling
bills on London, of the first quality, for the packet,
were selling at 1071 ; but bills unindorsed were as low
as 106 and 1061.
The inquest on the bodies of those individuals who
Perished by the destruction of the Lexington, after
sitting eight days, was again adjourned. The pro-
ceedings continued to excite an intense degree of in-
terest. The papers are filled with melancholy details
Connected with this awful catastrophe.
The New York Daily Express of January 22, con-
tains an extract from the Augusta Age, in which it is
stated that the British Minister at Washington is in
correspondence with the Colonial authorities of New
Brunswick, on the subject of the recent movement of
British troops on the disputed territory. •
The same paper furnishes us with accounts to a
recent date, from the Sandwich Islands, where, it ap-
pears, a singular phenomenon had been witnessed.
The sea rose suddenly at Hilo, to the height of 15 or
20 feet, and fell in one mountain-wave on the shore,
sweeping away nearly 100 houses, with their tenants,
and their effects. There was no earthquake, nor any
visible cause to produce. the phenomenon. In a mo-
ment hundreds were engulphed, but only 11 were
VFive died afterwards from the injuries
Which they received in the water. Had the catas-
trophei happened at midnight, or had the people been
"8 4111Phibious, hundreds must have perished.
The New York Times, of Jan. 23 says, that the
difficulties which have hitherto retarded the settlement
of the North-Eastern boundary question, appeared to
be aggravated rather than removed by the late negoci-
ations and surveys. The Times then proceeds to quote
from the 'Montreal Herald, the following paragraph
In the Quebec Mercury of Thursday last we find the
following memorandum issued by His Excellency Sir John
Harvey, the Lieutenant Governor of the province of New
Brunswick. We do not know the motives which have in-
duced his excellency to issue it, but it may possibly be in
consequence of information he has received from the Imperial
Government, that, in the event of Messrs. Featherstonhaugh
and Mudge's report of their survey of the disputed territory
agreeing with the position already maintained by Great Bri-
tain, the whole energies of the empire will be called into
action to enforce our possession of it, even at the cost of a
war with the United States. Although these gentlemen have
not allowed the particulars of their report to transpire, it is
more than probable that its details are in the possession of
Sir John Harvey, and that they are in our favour. In case
of a general war, the recommendations of Sir John are ex-
tremely judicious, and we understand they were acted upon
with the most beneficial results during the war of 1812 and
the subsequent years."
MEMORANDUM.
I am desirous of impressing upon the inhabitants of the
frontier districts of this Province, that in the event of hos-
tilities with the United States, the most prudent course to
be pursued (on either side, for the measure to be effectual
must be reciprocal), would, in my opinion, be that of a strict
neutrality. Let the Borderers remember that as connected
with the war, if we should unhappily be compelled to engage
in one, no national object can possibly be advanced by any
display of hostile feelings towards each other—they might, it
is true, mutually subject each other to constant alarms, great
calamities, and distress—but their utmost efforts must be as a
drop of water in the determination of the national questions at
issue, which must be decided elsewhere by the naval and mi-
litary resources of the great powers engaged in the conflict.
And let the inhabitants of that Province repose with confi-
dence upon the protection of the parent State, which is alike
able and willing to throw her powerful shield over all who
have a just claim to her protection and defence.
The Toronto Colonist gives an account of the arrest
of two persons of the names of Livingston Palmer„'and
Hiram Munn—the former an American—on a charge
of conspiracy against the established Government of
the country. Other persons were also ordered to be
arrested on similar charges. It would thus appear that
the Upper Province of Canada is still infested by de.

mocratic rebels, who are plotting• for the destruction of
the Government.

The Toronto Mirror states that Sir George Arthur's
services had been dispensed with, and.that the Govern-
ment of Upper Canada would be administered by
Chief-Justice Stewart of Lower Canada, until a new
Lieutenant-Governor could be imported. The Clergy
Reserve Bill had passed the House of Assembly.
The Philadelphia National Gazette states that an
express had arrived at that city, in five days, from
Toronto, with despatches from the Governor-General
of Canada, for the British Minister at Washington.
The New York Times of Jan. 24 gives an account
of a great fire which had taken place at Wilmington,
on the 17th ultimo. The fire commenced near the
Court House, and spread with great fury to the sur-
rounding buildings in every direction. The whole
number of buildings destroyed was about 150. Half
a million of dollars is estimated to be the loss of pro-
perty.

The Times of the same date contains intelligence
from Tampico to the 3d of January. The news of the
capture of Metamoras, by the Texians and Federalists,
was generally believed at that place, although the Go-
vernment had not given any official announcement of
the fact. A body of 500 Government troops had left
Tampico for the North. Their destination was sup-
posed to be Metamoras.
The Daily Express of Jan. 25 informs us of an im-
portant Message which was sent down to the Houses
of Congress on the subject of the Maine boundary.
It is said to contain all the correspondence in reference
to the occupancy of a part of the disputed territory by
British troops.

We have been favoured, by a respectable firm in this
town, with extracts from private letters, dated Buenos
Ayres, NOV. 22, and Monte Video, Nov. 27. A letter,
dated Monte Video, Nov. 16, states that accounts had
reached that place indirectly from Buenos Ayres, to-
gether with copies of the Mercantile Gazette, in Which
a letter from Rosas was published, announcing that he
had, on the 7th of November, defeated the insur-
gents, amounting to about 1300 men, near Cliasco-
mas, and that he had killed about 200, and to en 250
prisoners. The rest were completely dispersed. In
the same letter it is stated that Reviera's position ap-
peared very critical, and it was very uncertain whether
he would retire upon the town, and there sustain a
seige. It was very clear, however, that he could not
keep the field much longer—the desertion from his
ranks being so very great. It is stated that the La-
valleja party were very confident, and spoke of Rivie-
ra's overthrow as a certainty.

A letter, dated Buenos Ayres, Nov. 22, says—" On
the 29th ultimo a revolution broke out in the south of
this province, which appeared at first to be rather a se-
rious affair for this government, and doubtless would
have been so had the insurgents not been betrayed by
one of their officers, who subsequently defeated them
with great loss, there being left on the field, it is said,
250 killed and wounded. The dispersed forces fled
to their main body, which amounted to about 700, and
embarked on board the French vessels of war. It is
thought they had proceeded to Entre Rias, to join La-
velle, who is opposed by Lopez of Santa Fe, and
Oribe, the ex-President of Monte Video, but with
what force we have not heard."

A letter from Monte Video, dated November 27,
contains later intelligence than the above. It states
that about 900 or 1,000 of those who had been con-
cerned in the late revolution had gained the coast near
the Fayee, and embarked on board the French and
other vessels lying there, and that they had subse-
quently arrived at Monte Video, where they had been
armed and equipped. On the 26th of Nov. they sailed
to join Levalle in Entre Rias. About 100 of the first
Estancieras were among those who arrived at Monte
Video ; and about 600 to SOO men, under Diaz Velez
and others, had retired on Tandil. The armies on the
Monte Video side appeared to be quite inactive, which
could not be accounted for, as Echague was so much
more powerful than Riviera, The former had issued an
order stating that no more cattle would be allowed to
enter the town after the 30th of November.

The question of Church Rates has, we trust, been
set to rest, for the present Session at least, by the vote
of the House of Commons, on Tuesday evening last.
Mr. Duncombe's motion for leave to bring in a bill
" to relieve from the payment of ,Church-- Rates that
portion of her Majesty's subjects who conscientiously
dissent from the rites and doctrines of the Church of
England," was negatived by a majority of fifty-one—
the numbers being 66 and 117. This majority will,
we hope, deter any other member from mooting the
question for some time to come. The agitation " got
up" upon this subject has proved as unsuccessful in
its issue as it has been hypocritical in its nature.
Mr. Duncombe's motion was founded upon the case
of John Thorogood, (Thorough-bad would have been
infinitely more appropriate to designate such a charac-
ter), about whom so much has been said, during the
last year, in all the Radicalpapers in the kingdom. This
foolish man has been lauded as a martyr in the cause
of religious liberty. We shall presently prove how
unworthy he is of such an appellation. Upon the
case of this stubborn cobbler, Mr. Duncombe grounded
a motion the most preposterous in its character that
was ever brought before the House of Commons, even
in its reformed condition. He wished all those who
should make a declaration of their conscientious dissent
from the communion of the Established Church to be
exempted from liability to pay Church Rates. This
amounts to neither more nor less than a direct bounty
upon Dissent—a measure very unlikely to be enter-
tained by the great majority of the people of England.
This absurd proposition had no other foundation than
the indolence and contumacy of Thorogood, who
chooses to remain in Chelmsford Gaol, rather than pay
a just debt of 5s fid ! Both the foundation and super-
structure are well worthy of each other.
To the utter astonishment of Mr. Duncombe and
his Radical Associates, Lord John Russell rose to offer
his decided resistance to Mr. Duncombe's motion. He
completely demolished the whole case of Thorogood,
and proved that he was incarcerated, not for non-pay-
ment of Church Rates, but for refusing to appear to a
summons from the Ecclesiastical Court. He was com-
mitted for contempt. His claim, properly speaking,
was, not to be considered exempt from the payment of
Church Rates, but to be exempt from the jurisdiction
of a Court of Law—a privilege not enjoyed by any
other subject. Lord John Russell said, that he could
show no sympathy towards a man who had thus resisted
the law, and afterwards claimed to be exempted from
the consequences which his own obdurate folly and
presumption had provoked.
_ _

After exposing the knavery of those who resist the
payment of Church Rates, on alleged conscientious
scruples, Lord John Russell added to the consterna-
tion of the Radicals by announcing his willingness to
transfer the adjudication of Church Rate questions
from the Ecclesiastical Courts, and to bring them
within the cognizance of two justices of the peace,
substituting the alternative of an attachment on the
recusants' goods for imprisonment. This summary
mode of proceeding must he highly unpopular to the
factious Dissenters, as it would deprive them of the
opportunity of figuring as "martyrs" in the pages of
the Patriot and the rest of the Radical prints. We see
no valid objection to Lord John Russell's plan, if faith-
fully carried into execution. A more summary mode
of proceeding is greatly wanted in such cases.
Air. Hume was mightily offended at the declaration
, and launched forth into an
of the Colonial Secretary
abusive tirade against the Established Church, inter-
larded with the usual common-places about persecu-
tion for conscience sake and religious intolerance. He
did not venture to defend Thorogood's opposition to
the legal authorities of the country.
Mr. Baines chimed in with the member for Kil-
kenny, and heartily abused Lord John Russell for his
truckling policy. He made a most pitiful appeal to
the House of Commons on behalf of the " martyr"
Thorogood, insisting upon the cruelty of keeping him
so long in " durance vile." His appeal was, however,
unheeded. The house was not exactly in the humour
to sympathise with his obstinate client. The abuse in
which Mr. Baines indulged towards the Established
Church and the clergy was equally ineffectual. The
allusion of this ignorant, pragmatical, and essentially
vulgar-minded personage to the Rector of Chelmsford,
was conceived and uttered in the worst imaginable
taste. " How," exclaimed this pink of Dissent, "how
can the Rector of Chelmsford, with a quiet consci-
ence, repeat six times in the course of each Sabbath,

the prayer that his trespasses may be forgiven, as he
forgives the trespasses against him, when he hears in
mind that poor John Thorogood is, at his suit, dying in
a gaol." The propriety of this allusion will be at once
recognised when it is understood that the " martyr"
Thorogood, about whom Mr. Baines thus whimpers,
is not imprisoned at the suit of the Rector of Chelms-
ford at all, but at the suit of the Churchwardens! It
is well known that the Clergy have nothing whatever
to do with the institution of suits against those who
refuse the payment of Church Rates : and yet such
men as Mr. Baines and his superlatively " conscien-
tious" Dissenting friends always mix up the Clergy
with these proceedings. This plainly shows the
animus of their opposition to Church Rates. They
oppose them, not because they have any scruples of
conscience in the matter, but because their hatred of
the Clergy is unbounded and incapable of miti-
gation. Mr. Baines' insolent language towards the
Rector of Chelmsford is only part and parcel
of that grand scheme, upon which the political Dis-
senters have entered, for the entire demolition of the
Established Church. It was proved by Sir R. H.
Inglis that Thorogood was prompted to adopt the
course which has brought him into so much trouble
by a knot of grievance-seeking Dissenters, who sit in
solemn conclave in London, and issue their mandates
to their subordinates throughout the country. Indeed
Thorogood himself complains that he had been badly
advised. He had refused to appear to the citation in
consequence of a solemn assurance from the Secretary
of the Church Rate Abolition Society that the Com-
mittee would " move heaven and earth before he should
be committed." In a letter published in the Sun he
adds—" I forgive my prosecutors, as well as those who,
by giving me false counsel, have led me into greater dfili-
culty and suffering." This is very complimentary
language from the " martyr" towards his Dissenting
brethren. After leading him into the lurch they ap-
pear to have deserted him. The "moving of heaven
and earth" only amounted to a fruitless attempt to
send round the begging-box after the fashion of the
" Prince of Impostors"

But, if the consternation of the small fry of Radical
Dissenters in the House of Commons was great when
Lord John Russell got up to resist Mr. Duncombe's
motion, how much was it increased when Dr. Lush-
ington—the pet of the Dissenters—got up to vindicate
the existing law and its administration ! We can well
imagine the vacant stare of the member for Leeds
when that champion of religious liberty turned tail
upon his former friends. Dr. Lushington proved that
"no man could have brought John Thorogood into
the Ecclesiastical Court excepting John Thorogood
himself." Here was a shifting of the odium with a
vengeance ! It appears that the Ecclesiastical Courts
take no cognizance of claims for Church Rates amount-
ing to less than £lO. If Thorogood had appeared in
answer to a citation from the Ecclesiastical Court, the
case would have been dismissed with costs. In-
stead of this he was cited before two magistrates,
and appealed to the Ecclesiastical Court against
the validity of the claim made upon him for
the payment of Church Rates, for which he was
assessed, He voluntarily prayed the judgment of the
Court, for his impudent contempt of which he was
subsequently committed to prison.

Dr. Lushington strongly repudiated the allegations
brought forwards by Mr. Baines, against the Rector
of Chelmsford. He very justly remarked, that the
Rector had just as much to do with the committal of
Thorogood as Mr. Baines himself.

It is to be hoped that, after this exposure, the public
will be no longer pestered with appeals on behalf of
John Thorogood. Let those who, by their mischie-
vous advice, helped him into prison, now help him out,
if they can. The anti-Church Rate humbug will be
soon exploded. Its selfish and unjustifiable nature
will bring it into universal contempt. The " consci-
entious " Dissenters have no more right to resist the
payment of Church Rates than they have to refuse to
pay rents for their tenements.

The following letter from the Bishop of Down and
Connor is peculiarly well-timed in the present days of
latitudinarianism. Bishop Mant teaches, in conformity
with the church of which he is so bright an ornament,
that the Roman Catholic Church in this country is a
sect and separation, and that the peculiar articles and
belief of that sect are superstitious and idolatrous.
Would that all our prdates were equally diligent in
banishing and driving away all erroneous and strange
doctrines. The principles of the reformation will soon
make way among the population if such admonitions
are multiplied, and if the same boldness is exhibited
by the heads of the church :

" TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND

AND IRELAND, IN THE DIOCESE OF DOWN AND CONNOR.

" Beloved Brethren,—ln the Belfast Commercial Chronicle
and the Ulster Times of February Ist, there is announced, in
very conspicuous characters, a ' Grand Oratorio and opening
of the new organ in St. Patrick's Chapel, Donegal-street,
Belfast, on Friday, the 7th of February, 1840.' In this an-
nouncement I perceive a temptation to you, in common with
the public at large, to contribute your countenance and pe-
cuniary aid to a sect of Christians who are in doctrine dis-
senters, and in worship separatists from the church of which
yon profess yourselves to be members. Allow me, then, as
your spiritual overseer, to remind you that, in the judgment
of that church, as well as of the legislature of the kingdom,
the peculiar articles of the belief and practice of the sect in
question, and especially ' the invocation or adoration of the
Virgin Mary,' which is to be a part of the promised exhibi-
tion, are ' superstitious and idolatrous ;' and, accordingly,
allow me to put you thus on your guard against a temptation
into which you might otherwise be led through inadvertence,
and to admonish you to ' touch not the unclean thing,' lest
you be ' partakers of other men's sins.'

" Your affectionate bishop and servant for Jesus' sake.
" RICHARD DOWN AND CONNOR."

A memorial to the Lords of the Treasury is now
lying for signature at the Exchange, Underwriters',
and other public rooms in the town, praying that Li-
verpool may be selected as the port from and to which
the steam-vessels to be employed in the conveyance of
the West India and Colonial mails shall depart and
arrive. This is a subject of the deepest interest to
every inhabitant of Liverpool, and we trust that the
signatures to the memorial will bear evidence to the
strong feelings entertained in reference to the matter
by the mercantile and other classes of our townsmen.
A copy of the memorial will be found in our adver-
tising columns. It enters fully into the peculiar claims
of Liverpool to a preference, and enumerates the de-
cided advantages, in every point of view, which this
port possesses above all others. We earnestly hope
that the application will prove successful.

THE WORKHOUSE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—l find an article in the Liverpool Courier of this day,
stating that the inmates of the Liverpool Workhouse partook
of the Mayor's bounty on Monday last, in celebration of the
Queen's marriage.
It is true that they were provided with a feast on that oc-
casion, not out of the " Corporation Fund," but at the ex-
pence of the " P arish." —I am, yours, respectfully,
WM. VtaLTHEW,
February 12lh, 1840. Overseer of the Poor.