The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-12 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATION.

THE triumph
ipf an Election just won should not
make us forgetful of the sinews of constitutional
strength, and the prudence of providing for similar
triumphs whenever the occasion shall arise. It has
become a political axiom that " the battle of the
constitution is to be fought in the Registration-
courts ;" and every,succeeding year shows the im-
portance of the Conservatives attending to this
necessary branch of their public duties.

For the Counties the first point to be attended to
is, for those whose names are not on the register,
and who are entitled to be so, to send in their claims
to the overseer of the parish where the property is
situate, on or before to-morrow week, the 20th inst.
This will apply to all owners of freeholds of the
annual value of £2, and leaseholders and tenants-
at-will of £5O a-year. Those who are now on the
register, but who have changed their residence
during the year, must give notice of the same.
For Cities or Boroughs all rates or taxes made
prior to the sth of January must be paid before
the 20th, whether applied for or not. And notice
must be given to the overseer of all changes of resi-
dence since the last revision. All persons are en-
titled to be registered who have occupied premises
rated to the relief of the poor to the extent of flO
annually for one year previous to the 31st of July.
Every person entitled to be on the register should

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examine the lists on the church doors the first three
weeks after the last day of July, and, if his name be
omitted, should send in his claim to the overseers,
and also object to any names improperly placed
there.

A due attention to these particulars would secure
imphs of Conservative principles at future

many

elections.

THE

MAYOR'S BANQUET TO THE
CANDIDATES.

On Saturday evening, his Worship the Mayor enter-
tained the successful and unsuccessful Candidates for the
Borough, at a sumptuous banquet in the Town-hall.
Although one of our contemporaries has furnished its
readers with a garbled report of the proceedings, we do
not wish to follow the example. It has never been our
custom in such cases to give a pretended report of that
which was meant to be strictly private, and to which no
reporters were invited. We can only say that all the
candidates accepted of the Mayor's hospitality, and that
nothing occurred to interfere with the harmony of a festive

occasion

It is stated in the Albion, of yesterday, that, at the
Mayor's banquet, " out of 54 present, perhaps 15 were
Liberals." This, however, could not have been the fault
of his Worship, as he sent to each committee an equal
number of invitations. Mr. Robertson Gladstone, Mr.
Eyre Evans, Mr. Joseph C. Ewart, Mr. C. E. Rawlins,
Mr. R. W. Ronald, Mr. Charles Robertson, Mr. James
Crosfield, Mr. James Macrae, and other members of the
Liberal party were invited, but declined the invitation.
The impartiality of the Mayor throughout the election
has been acknowledged by all, and we deem it cur duty to
correct the impression which the statement in the Albion
is calculated to produce.

THE NUNNERIES QUESTION.

PROTESTANT PETITION FROM LIVERPOOL

The following petition was signed in one day by upwards
of eight hundred individuals belonging to the congrega-
tion assembling in St. John's Church, in this town. We
have pleasure in recording this eminently practical con.-
elusion to the lecture of the respected incumbent, the
Rev. W. F. Taylor, reported in the last number of the
Standard, and we hope the publication of the form of
petition may stimulate other congregations to do some-
thing before the 20th instant, when the important ques-
tion, inaugurated by Mr. Chambers, will come again
before the House of Commons. The petition from St.
John's congregation has, we believe, been entrusted to
our worthy representative, Mr. Horsfall, and its presen-
tation to parliament will form a fitting introduction to his
duties. The petition runs as follows :

TO THE

OUSE OF COMMONS FARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

The Petition of the undersigned Ministers, Wardens, and
Members of the Congregation of St. John's Church, Liverpool,

Humbly sheweth,—That your petitioners are deeply thankful
to Almighty God that their lot has been cast in this favoured
land of civil liberty and religious freedom; and are sincerely
desirous that the same blessings should be enjoyed by every
individual in the British empire.
That of late years a considerable increase has taken place in
the United Kingdom of those establishments called Nunneries,
to which places young and inexperienced females are allure:7
encouraged to take vows under pretence of which they ar
deprived of their personal liberties, and persuaded to
their property in favour of the Court of Rome.
That the Canon Law of the Church of Rome (Council of
Trent, Sessinn xxv., 1. xvii.) plainly admits the

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of young females ticelve or sixteen years of age being
"compelled or allured" into these places, or being led
to take the step in "ignorance" of the fearful personal sacri-
fice they are about to make.
That it is plainly stated by a canonized saint of the Romish
Church, " St. Alphonsus Liguori (Spouse of Christ, p. 551),
that young females are sometimes " compelled by their parents,
against their will," to enter into nunneries, and that when
once in, "it is impossible to escape."
Under these circumstances,_ your petitioners humbly pray
your Honourable House to take such measures as shall apply
the provisions of the clause in the Emancipation Act, for " the
gradual suppression and final prohibition of Jesuits and other
Romish fraternities" to societies of females bound by religious
vows, as being institutions essentially at variance with the genius
of the freedom of the British Constitution; and that, mean.
while, all such places be subject to frequent visitation and
inspection by Her Majesty's justices of peace or of royal
commissioners appointed for that purpose.
And your petitioners will ever pray.

THE ADMIRALTY have ordered three new screw
of-battle ships and three fifty-gun screw frigates to be

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—Necessary alterations in this
leviathan screw-steamer will detain her in ail probability
till the 11th of August. Having succeeded in rendering
the Great Britain as fine a clipper sailing ship as she is a
steamer, it is now indifferent whether she be placed under
canvass or steam. Combining both in the most perfect
manner, she will take advantage of favourable winds and
disregard adverse, making rapid progress in light winds
and calms, where sailing ships can make little or none
whatever. Under these circumstances it cannot be
doubted she will perform the voyage in a remarkably
short time, and bring Australia as near by the Cape of
Good Hope as it is by Egypt and Singapore.
THE .MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—At the
sccond Police-court, yesterday, the four prisoners, Richd,:
Thomas, William Beresford, William Reed, and John.
Leatherby, were placed at the barL charged with ;
derous assault, committed upon Police-officers Thomas
Ireland, (553,) and Edward Hutchins, (43,) on the night
of the 2nd instant, or morning of the 3rd, in a cellar in
Roscoe-street. The details of the case have already ap-
peared in the Standard. The policemen assailed, with
other members of the force, went to the cellar in question
g: maltreatedoh ra t t
tier.ey
to take the prisoner Thomas into custody, on a charge of
being concerned in a disgraceful " row," which took
place adout an hour-previously, Finding the door of the
cellar locked, the officers, without a warrant, forced an
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come intruders, and, with a poker and a flat iron, frac-
Hutchins, ultimately ejecting the police, and proceeding
to Brldewell to prefer a charge against the officers of hay-
Snowball, who appeared for the prisoners, contended that
did to resist the illegal intrusion ;'but the magistrates -
took a different view of the case, and the prisoners were
accordingly committed for trial. Police-officers Ireland
and Hutchins were sufficiently well to be in attendance,
though they are still suffering from the effects of the
assault.

DISGRACEFUL FACTION FIGHT IN LIVERPOOL.—The
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has become notorious for its party feuds, which daily give
rise to the most disgraceful scenes of riot, disorder, and
bloodshed. It appears that on the evening of Sunday a
" row" arose in Albert-street, in the course of which the
roost Oligerous modes of warfare were resorted to, and
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where an Irish interpreter
was in requisition, one of the witnesses who came to
prove,, an alibi being unable to perform that easy task in
1 Various persons belonging to the Orange party
indicated by bandaged caputs and bruised brows
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ringleader, was
ordered to enter in his own recognizances in X2O, and to
obtain two sureties in £lO each, to be of good behaviour
for the space of one calendar month; William Kelly was
interrogated ga
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ordered to pay a fine of 403., in default to go to prison for
two months ; John Curran, to enjoy the same fate as Kelly,
and Thos. Lavell, to pay 10s. and costs, or go to aaol for
twenty•one days. Ann Kelly, wife of William Kelly, Ca-
tharine Herbert, a female with a baby at her breast, and
John Loftus, a lad who fought on the Papist side, were
discharged.

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