The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

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TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1853.

THE WEEK

THE clear bright weather which prevailed for
some short time, was rudely broken in upon
early on Saturday by a tempestuous gale from the
N.W., which did considerable damage, and raised
more swell in the Mersey than was caused by the
gales about Christmas. So violent was the
gale and heavy the swell about the middle of the
day, when it was high water, that even the Wood-
side ferry-boats could not make the passage, nor
land their passengers; several of the trips which,
ordinarily, are performed in five minutes, occupying
nearly two hours.

It was predicted by the Rev. SIDNEY SMITH, of
facetious memory, that little improvement would
take place in Railway management until a Bishop
or a Railway Director was killed. This has at
length been realised on the Great Western Railway,
where, on Thursday, within a few miles of Pad-
dington, the express train went to smash, and one
of four directors who were in the carriage was
killed on the spot. The details of the accident will
be found in another column. They present some
extraordinary features, and show, if possible, more
forcibly than before, the importance of having a
direct and available communication between the
guard of the train and the driver of the engine. In
the case before us it is difficult to imagine what
might have been the extent of the calamity, had the
driver not reversed his engine, owing to his being
aware of something wrong with the carriages. Such
a calamity demands a searching investigation ; and
there is no doubt that it will undergo the fullest
inquiry.

The Select Vestry have been found fault with by
Mr, MANSFIELD, the stipendiary magistrate, for
administering out-door relief improperly, and
admitting able-bodied paupers into the house when
sufficient employment may be obtained outside.
The lesson was not received in good part, and
elicited a somewhat angry discussion. There are

many

who would be inclined to attribute this

manifestation of ill temper to a consciousness of
the rebuke being deserved. It is clear that allega-
tions male on such respectable authority should
be inquired into, and if true, a remedy ought to be
found for such an abuse of the public funds. A
committee of inquiry would have been far wiser
than'an ebullition of petulance as to the manner in
which the complaint was made; at the same time it
may be thought that Mr. MANSFIELD could have
found a less unpalatable mode of calling attention
to the subject.

In the amusements of the week the attractions
at the Philharmonic Hall have taken the lead. The
first concert for the season of the Philharmonic
Society took place on Wednesday, and was well
attended, and on Thursday the performances of
Mr. THOMAS'S unrivalled band were resumed. It
is almost impossible to eulogise too warmly the
exquisite harmony which delights the frequenters
of these cheap concerts, for it has been observed,
by the first musical judges, that for all those
qualities which constitute the perfection of orchestral
music, the band of Mr. THOMAS was never equalled
in Liverpool, and perhaps not elsewhere.
This loyal town had a visit on Thursday from
the veritable Dr. WISEMAN, whose elevation to
episcopal rank, and his fulmination of a Papal
Bull, led to the celebrated Durham letter and the
agitation on the Romish aggression. A contempo-
rary states that, owing to the improved tone of
feeling amongst us, the scarlet-robed pretender
was received with joyous animation and hearty
cheers of welcome, instead of indignant execrations.
The improved tone of which our contemporary
speaks was scarcely to be tested by the loiterers in
Copperas-hill, most of whom stared as they would
have done at an ape.

Great preparations are making for the celebration
of the centenary of RoscoE on Tuesday next, and
the most lively anticipations are indulged in as to
the whole affair going off with eclat. The town
will be honoured with the visit of several of the
celebrities of the day, and all seem united in the
wish to do honour to the memory of one who was
himself an honour to the town.

THE ROMISH BRIGADE.—The government have
dealt with the Brigade simply with a view to rob it
of its talent and efficiency; and this, so far as Mr.
Keogh's brilliant talents and Mr. Sadleir's aptitude
for intrigue are concerned, they have most effec-
tually accomplished. As respects the perverts to the
Aberdeen heresy, it seems to us that they are in a
very critical fix. Henceforward they stand not on
public favour, but upon ministerial patronage.
They are placemen or—nobodies. Mr. Sadleir is
already politically poisoned by Lord Aberdeen's
golden pill. He has lost his seat, and without a
seat he can't hold his place in the Treasury.
Rumour gives him the Clerkship of the Crown in
the Queen's Bench, vacant by the death of Mr.
Pierce Mahony. But ministers may possibly give
him nothing. In that case, the practice of Lord
Aberdeen will bear a strong resemblance to that
attributed to Richelieu, who is charged with having
invited disaffected opponents to conciliatory closet-
ings, in the midst of which they suddenly vanished
through a trap in the floor, and broke their necks,
in a fall of a hundred feet. Dublin Evening Herald.

THE GRAND JURY AT CLARE have, we rejoice
to say, ignored the bills which charged as mur-
derers the soldiers engaged in repelling the hired
Popish assassins who attempted to slay those very
soldiers at Six-mile-bridge. This finding is in the
very teeth of poor old Judge Perrin, who actually
laidit down as law that soldiers, when opposed by
a riotous mob, should do all in their power to render
such mob amenable to the law; but that troops are
never justified in firing unless the mob close in upon
them : when, of course, they would not be able to
use their arms at all. The Peace Society, it is sug-
gested, will entertain the poor judge at breakfast,
and vote him a testimonial consisting of a gruel
basin, bearing the pacific interpretation of the law
as rendered by the aged lady on the bench. Cer-
tain Papists, who looked forward with eagerness to
the hanging of at least a leash of the English
soldiers charged, are understood as being in a very
desponding way at the finding of the Grand Jury.
—Church and State Gazette.

UNCHRISTIAN LEGISLATION.—When Sir Robt.
Inglis urged that our Indian empire contained a
vast number of religious persuasions, " which
would, on the same principle, be entitled to repre-
sentation in that house," the announcement was
received by the Ministerialists with loud cheers.
The animus of the party is plain ; it is shown by
an attack upon the Clergy in Canada ; upon the
Clergy in Ireland by strengthening the hands of
their adversaries ; and now, by another not less
deadly, the admission of the Jews. These are, it is
true, a small party; so would be a Mahometan, or
a Turkish, or a Greek party there, a supposition by
no means improbable ; little formidable in them-
selves, perhaps, but every little party admitted
there swells the nucleus of those already unfavour-
able to the Protestant Church of this country. The
Presbyterian, the Independent, the Unitarian, the
non-believer, the Romanist ; all small in themselves;
feathers light as air, 1 y union and multiplication,
able at last to break by
horse's back.—Morning
Herald.

MAYN 00TH COLLEGE.--We believe entirely that
the Popery of Dr. M‘Hale and Mr. Lucas is nothing
in the world but the true Popery of the Romish
Church and the infallible fruit of Popish teaching.
We acknowledge also that Popery is naturally en-
couraged by a seminary founded for encouraging
it ; but, at the same time, it cannot be denied that
these prospective developments were carefully con-
cealed at the time the endowment was proposed.
The simple truth is that Papists, while struggling
doubtfully against the instinctive repugnance of
Englishmen to their tenets and practices, made
large professions of innocence and good intent,
disguised their views, reserved their designs, and
received every instalment of relief with such ex-