The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

TO THE REV. J. BAYLEE

have this morning received a note, signed " Charles
Maguinness, curate of Trinity Church," enclosing a news-
paper slip, with your answer to my manuscript note, which
was addressed directly to you on the Bth of May. Without
intending any offence to you, I must express regret that the
necessity which your previous silence, and the refusal of the
STANDARD to insert my note, put upon me of asking this
favour from a political opponent, should be availed of as a
reason for exports reflection. Difficult as it is for us all to
judge impartially of our own or our neighbour's spirit, I yet
apprehend that good men will not less deprecate the tone of
your's than of mine. But I shall not recriminate nor further
enlarge on this insignificant point.
You have put to me two irrelevant questions, which it
were quite fair I should decline to answer. From their insi-
dious tendency, however. I shall candidly reply to them when
I have remarked upon the inaccurate reference to my first
letter, by which both you and the editor of the STANDARD
have bespoken the prejudice of your own readers. You con-
sent to say I " designate the Church of England as the vain-
glorious first-born of the mother of harlots," with a mani-
fest hastiness of spirit and morbid sensibility, mistaking a
hypothetical for a positive proposition ! I do not " designate"
the Church of England, nor do I think it such as you assume.
I regard it as an integral of the Catholic Church, but no
more. My words are, " If" your's "be the prevailing opi-
nion of its ministers" (which I do not think is the case) in
respect to other Christian churches, " this exclusive bigotry
would justify" the designation. The sentiment I deliberately
repeat, with as much, and as disinterested sincerity of love
for its consistent members, as its most vehement partizans.
You ask me—

1. " Is that sentiment put forth by you as the opinion of
any body of persons with which you are connected, or is it
the mere expression of individual opinion?"
The previous step to justify this query would be, to an-
nounce whether on commission or individual responsibility
you put forth the primitive allegation which I assail. But I
answer, as the question rests upon a bare assumption of your
own, it is a nullity.

2. Have you, Within the last twelve months, consulted
with a Liverpool clergyman as to the possibility of obtaining
orders in our church ?"

To which plain and simple question I answer plainly and
simply, NO.

With this I might be content to await the advantage to
myself of a further challenge that should educe facts of a
quite opposite character. But I have no object of this kind,
nor will I fasten your inquiring to a date or a fact. I had
conversation upon that subject with a Liverpool clergyman
more than TWO years ago, arising out of a proposal Mat
came from him. An Irish gentleman, then and now incum-
bent in Liverpool, introduced the subject TO me in the spring
of 1839, representing the enlarged sphere of usefulness which
would be afforded me, should I obtain one of the nine new
churches that it was intended to build in the town and neigh-
bourhood, and which (as he was pleased to express himself)
my talent and respectability, he had no doubt, would en-
sure; and himself offered me letters to another clergyman
and the bishop of the diocese. That was the only " con-
sultation" I ever had with a clergyman upon the "possibility"
you mention. My sentiments and feelings upon the occasion
were given to that gentleman in a letter on the lOth of May,
1839, which you are at liberty to obtain from him for any
candid use, at his pleasure. Should he have mislaid it, and
concur with you in desire for its publication, I will take the
trouble to transcribe it, and forward the copy, on your pro-
mise that it shall be published totidem verbis.
Having answered the tangible points of your Socratic pre-
liminary, and supplied you with data for the scrutiny of my
claims to your condescension, " I," in my turn, " feel as-
sured that every person of real integrity of principle will
admit" that your open challenge, as to " the Church of
England being the ONLY branch of the Catholic church ex-
isting in England," is at my acceptance, and within my right
to oppugn. This I do; and call to you for proof.

I remain, Sir,
J. B. M'CREA

Crescent, Waterloo, May 31, 1841

LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEN'S ESTABLISHED
CHURCH SOCIETY.
MEETING AT ALL SAINTS' CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—There is an inaccuracy in your report of the meet-
ing of this excellent society which was held on the 24th inst.
The rev. chairman is incorrectly made to class "Methodism"
with the God-denying heresy of " Socinianism." Being
present at the time, I can correct the error. His observa-
tion was, " The preacher who was bound only by this"—
alluding to a particular creed—" might iptroduce Socinian-
ism, Deism, or any other ism, until himself borne down to
destruction in the stream of error or infidelity, his congre-
gation were involved in the same perdition."

- It would be a source of unfeigned regret both to the re-
spected pastor of All Saints' Church and myself, if, by rea-
son of the remark in question, any untoward feelings should
have been excited in the minds of our respected non-con-
forming friends. I verily believe that the Weslovans, as a
body, have the " truth" ; and whilst I hold the Church of
England to be " a living temple of the living God, the pal-
ladium of British piety, and the glory of our land," I am
still ready, notwithstanding the misrepresentation of the

semi-popery of Puseyism' to hold out the right hand of fel-
lowship to all those " who love the Lord Jesus Christ in
sincerity."—l am, sir, yours most obediently,

JAS. :MATHEWS,
Secretary to the Liverpool Young Merl's
Established Church Society.
Clarendon-buildings, South John-street,
29th May, 1841.
[The mistake alluded to arose evidently from a misappre-
hension on the part of our reporter ; and, as it is very de-
sirable that such an impression as our correspondent refers
to should lie dissipated as early as possible, we insert his
communication with pleasure.—ED.]

ANTI-CORN-LAW FAILURE AT NORTHWICH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Norilarich, May 27111, 1841

SIR,—As corn-law and anti-corn-law meetings seem the
order of the day, 1 am unwilling that the welcome fact fur-
nished by an anti-corn-law assemblage last night in this
town should be lost to your readers.

It was mustered by the posting and parading ail over the
town of large and flaming placards, printed circulars, and
public notice last Sunday in a place here known as " the
Tabernacle," in which some dozen or two of dissenters meet
for preaching (!) and other purposes. This was the scene of
action. A large loaf and a smaller one were exhibited in
the course of the afternoon upon two poles, carried by some
rough lads of sixteen years of age, hired by the " league "
for the purpose. Lawrence Hayworth, Esq., a ,Liverpool
radical, yeas announced to preside, and that the meeting
would be addressed by many gesitlemen !!
The platform was occupied by six gentlemen—one Dignum,
a tailor; Mister John Sutton, a schoolmaster; a Mr. Green,
who was, I understood, lately a clerk in one of our lawyers'
offices; another gentleman, who wore shabby mourning, who
was, I understood, a dissenting preacher; " Robert Gorst,''
from about the Liverpool docks ' • and Mr. Heyworth. These
occupied the stage. Instead of acting fairly, by placing the
" whig-and-something-more" in the chair, as they had pro-
mised they would, they placed the lawyer's clerk there, who
is a Unitarian, the aforesaid Mr. Green ; and truly green he
seemed to be, for on getting up to announce what the meet-
ing was called for, he was at sea, until Mr. Dignum reminded
him, and then he began muttering something about a cheap
loaf, &c., and called up " Robert Gorst." Robert looked
around him, and then dashed off in a rhapsodical announce-
ment that he was for the repale of the corn-laws, those
haistly laws, he said, that had lowered down man to the
liaist of the field. Robert next tried his hand at Scripture
quotation ! and soon arrived at the conclusion that the
25,000,000 of people ought to share the estates of the
30,000 landlords ! Not by Scripture, nor the principal
of rason, could the reverse be justified, or the bone be
impartially held. He now turned sharply round to
the " rich man" from Liverpool, and said " Misther Hey-
worth ! 1 appale to you, Sir !" which made Misther Hey-
-1 worth laugh no little. Robert concluded by showing a lot of
crackers. (1 suppose sea biscuits,) not for the purpose, I
fear, of giving them to the poor creatures who were, with
open mouths, listening to Robert's logic.

*Mr. Heyw'orth then said a few words, and the meeting
broke up. And now, Mr. Editor, of whom did this meeting
consist? Of about twenty-six poor men and women, who
appeared to have nowhere else to go. and who were
doubtless glad of an opportunity of being seated. Where
were our swarms of creditable watermen ? where our
hundreds of honest artisans ?—where our respectable shop-
keepers and tradesmen ? our wealthy rock and salt proprie-
tors ? our professional men, and our numerous gertry ?
Where were all these important classes of our town and
neighbourhood on this occasion, after all this exertion to get
it up? They know better. A more complete failure there
never was ; and this is the fact I wish your readers to know.
These anti-corn-law men will never surely try their game in
Northwich any more, where they found last night that the
people were too well instructed.—l am, sir,
Your obedient servant,
A YOUNG CONSERVATIVE.

♦N ADDRESS TO ANTI-CORN-LAW
CONSERVATIVES.

FELLOW COUNTRYMEN address you, because an ad-
ministration which has shown itself ready to disregard all
integrity of principle, and to adopt any line of conduct,
however inimical to the welfare of the country, ventures to
suppose that you will contribute to give it a longer tenure of
office, and that you will assist to protect it from a deserved
and threatened tate. Will you allow yourselves to be drawn
into the snare placed for you ? My sentiments agree with
yours—l am opposed to the present corn-laws; but this fact
should never induce me to forget that a desire to amend the
system now in operation is not the only qualification requi-
site in a parliamentary candidate. Must every other poli-
tical consideration be merged in your efforts to promote this
measure ? Will you sacrifice to the advancement of lhis
object the principles you have long cherished—principles
which, if acted upon at this juncture, might secure the
safety, happiness, and prosperity of your native land? Is it
your desire to remove (what we consider to be) an evil, by
the substitution of others more exceptionable in their cha-
racter, and vastly snore injurious in their effects ? Desert
the cause which is identified with the welfare of your country,
and you may, perhaps, procure " cheap bread." But how
dears price will that cheap bread cost? You must pay for
it in the wasteful expenditure of a reckless and profligate
government. You must pay for it in the increased taxation,
which will fall alike upon the incomes of the wealthy and
upon the earnings of poverty. You must pay for it in the
annual deficiencies of a mismanaged and exhaustedexche-
quer. You must pay for it in the thousand evils
spring from an administration destituteofevery senti-
ment of religion, justice, and patriotism—an ad ministration
bound by no laws but those of self-interest, consistent only
in inconsistency—an administration which has violated every
principle that deserves the esteem and respect of mankind.
This, fellow-countrymen, is what you will have to pay for
the " cheap bread" offered you by those whose promises
have ever been considerably in advance of their perform-
ances. Are you enatent to par such a price for it ? The

principles yo■ profe.s--- tii(se principles embodied in the
motto you have long ago adopted as your own—" Our God,
our Queen, and our Country"—forbid it. Thee let the elm-
duct and the solicitations of those who would seduce you
from the path of duty meet with the contempt which they
merit. So you will secure, for your country, the benefits of
a righteous government, and for yourselves the blessings of
posterity. _ _

I am, Fellow Countrymen,

Yoarl, 'cost 'sincerely,
AN ANTI-CORN-LAW CONSERVATIVi
Liverpool, May 31, 1841.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Stu,—Observing in this day's Albion a statement that
there are no loaves to he bought in Liverpool, for sixpenoe,
of the size of the English loaf exhibited in your window,
allow me to say, that I saw that identical loaf broken off
from several others, at a shop where it and others of simile-r
size are always to be had at the price quoted. Tho reality of
this assertion may easily be ascertained by weight.

The correspondent of the Albion has thus Unintentionally
paid a remarkable tribute to the fan proportions of the Bri-
tish loaf. I have no doubt but that many others, as well as
the gentleman who wrote to the Albion, world be ninth
benefitted by a little sober investigation.

I remain, Sir, yours, &c.,
Liverpool, 31st May, 1841. R. G. J.
[The writer of the above loter is well known to us, ant
his statement can be corroborated. The letter in the Albion
is a distinct proof that the anti-corn-law advocates hate so
sensible reply to any tangible argument on the subject.]

TO THE NVESLEYANS OF LIVERPOOL

DRAB. BILETIIREN,—I am informed that Lord Palmerston
and Sir Joshua Walmsley are, through their agents, soliciting
your votes and interest at the next parliamentary election.
What are the politics of these men as regards religion ? Don't
forget this .—Palmerston is one of the present government,
who brought forward, and supported, that infernal national
education scheme, which called down the just indignation of
the Wesleyan conference; Lord Palmerston is one of the
present government, who advised our blessed Queen to take
Roman Catholics as her advisers; this Lord Palmerston is
the supporter of Viscount Melbourne, the man who, by in-
troducing Robert Owen, the wicked socialist, to our blessed
Queen, caused socialism to hold up its head in triumph in
our land.--Who is this Sir Joshua Walmsley ? he is at the
head of the party who wish to take the Bible from all our
schools ; he is the friend and supporter of Dan O'Connell ;
he is connected with the party who encourage Popery in onr
land ; the party who have promoted the inspector of police,
who on being asked why he had not reported to Mr. Wbitty,
the superintendant, that a political meeting was held on the
Sabbath-day, headed by a son of Dan O'Connell, and friend
of Sir Joshua's, this Roman Catholic inspector said it was
such a trifling thing, that he thought it was not worth no-
ticing. Since, then, Sir Joshua's party have promoted him.
.Wesleyans! vote for no man who is connected with and sup-
ports infidelity and idolatry. As Lord Palmerston and his
party place Roman Catholics among the councillors of one
Queen, so Walmsley and his part} place Roman Catholics in
nearly every situation that becomes vacant; this sugar, tim-
ber, and corn law question is a bait made by O'Connell, and
made use of
_by Walmsley, Rathbnne, and the rest of his tail
in this town to catch you. With the Rev. James Dixon, let
us be determined never to vote for a man who does directly
or indirectly encourage Popery in our land.—From an ad-
mirer of John Wesley, though. _ _

A POOR SHOEMAKER

Mr. Robert Beattie, of 43, Russell-street, has requested
us to state, that he is not the person who put forth last week,
in the LIVERPOOL STANDA RD, an advertisement, cautioning
the public against trusting his wife—that he is in no way
connected with the advertiser, nor does he know him per-
sonally.

Nervous disease of the heart has generally been considered
as depending on some disarrangement 'of the stomach. That
this is generally not the fact, we have only to call attention
to the havoc this distressing affection makes on the constitu-
tion, and that in almost every instance of fresh attack, its as.
verity is increased, until it terminates in completely destroy-
ing the action of this important organ. We are gratified that
Mr. Cronin's treatment, which we have already noticed, has
been most successfully tested in five severe cases within the
last fortnight.—See Cronin on Disease of the Nervous
System.

COMMITMENTS, YESTERDAY.—Margery Johnson and
Ann Hill were yesterday, at the police-office, committed to
the sessions, to answera charge of having, on Saturday night,
robbed a carter named Christopher Batrersby of 14s. 6d. The
prisoners stopped Battersby in Church-lane, asked him to
treat them, and when he refused, Johnson put her arms
round him, and took from his pocket the money, which she
transferred to her companion. On her it was subsequently
found by an officer.—A black man, named Joseph Cooper,
was sent to take his trial on a charge of having stolen from
the person of Mr. James Bimpson, publican, of Scotland-
place, his watch. Mr. Bimpson, on Saturday night, was
making up his premises, when he fell into a fit, and the pri-
soner took advantage of the circumstance to extract from the
fob of the publican his watch. The prisoner was afterwards
apprehended by police-officer No. 113, on suspicion, and the
watch was found upon him.
LIVERPOOL DOCK BILL.---RUNCORN EXEMPTION
CLA usE.—Thuraday, the 20th ult., was a merry day in Run-
corn; the parish church bells were sending forth their plea-
sant sounds, and the venerable tower was surmounted with a
streaming banner—the quays and warehouses were decked
with flags, and the vessels lining the spacious docks testified
to the general feeling of rejoicing by displaying on their
masts and rigging their union-jacks, and pendants, and en-
signs. The cause of this public demonstration was the
coming into operation, on that day, of the Liverpool Dock
Act, which contains a clause exempting all vessels trading to
Runcorn, and not using the Liverpool Docks, from the un-
reasonoble exactions of the Liverpool Dock Trustees. Run-
coin is now a free port, entirely independent of Liverpool ;
and the Irish, Scotch, and Welch traders to the commodious
docks of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, and the Bridge-
water Trustees, at Runcorn, will now be exempt from all
dock dues whatever, which will be a consideration so im-
portant to freighters and ship-owners, that we shall expect
to hear of the Runcorn trade so rapidly and greatly increas-
ing as to make the 20th instant to be a day of long and grate-
ful remembrance in the town and port of Runcorn.—Man-
cheater Courier.

THE OLD TRICK BECOME QUITE STALE.—A few days ago
a young gentleman, son of Mr. Goodhind. supervisor, of Bol-
ton, was in Liyerpool, for the purpose of seeing a young lady,
a relative, embark for America. While in the dock-yard, a
man of good address and respectable exterior entered into
conversation with them, giving them the best of advice, and
seemingly interesting himself very greatly in their welfare.
The young lady having got on board, the accommodating
gentleman would stand cigars and a glass of brandy, and
forthwith they adjeurned to a neighbouring hotel. After
some conversation, the stranger began to talk about the great
number of pickpockets that infested the borough, and related
several instances of their dexterity, concluding with an appeal
to Mr. Goodhind to allow him to fold up his money, and
place it so that it could not be stolen. Mr. Goodhind, who
had suspected the man for some time, at once discovered his
intentions, and happening to have four or five papers in his
pocket which he could dispense with, resembling bank notes,
at once took them out, and handed them over to the man,
who folded them carefully up, and thrust them into his
clothes. Both, as may be expected, were anxious to depart,
and little ceremony was required. Mr. Goodhind examined
his papers on leaving the hotel, and found that his friend had
actually left him twopence in exchange ; so that he was bran-
dy, cigars, and twopence gainer by the exchange.

RIVAL. DOCTORS.-At the Police-court, on Friday, a lean
named Michael Sweeny, in the employ of " Doctor" Taylor,
of Marybone, whose liberality in supplying the town gratui-
tously with accounts of the many surprising, cures be has
accomplished on the afflicted lieges, is notorious, was placed
before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having " wilfully and
with malice aforethought,' defaced and disfigured the signs
fixed at street and entry corners, of a brother " son of
Esculapeus," " Doctor" Higgins, of Mersey-street, of simi-
lar celebrity, and one of which decorated the back entrance
to the complainants " medical institution." It appeared
from the evidence, that the defendant, with a certain instru-
ment, to wit, a white-wask brush, dipped in black coal tar,
had daubed and obliterated the letters on the aforesaid tiu
sign-board, inviting all who were ill, or fancied themselves
to be so, to lose no time in calling on the doctor, who, with
disinterested philanthrophv, and within the short space of an
hour, would " take away all the real (or imaginary) ailments,
and restore them not only to health, but to juvenility." The
defence was as modest as it was cogent. It was gravely
alleged by the defendant, that his own feelings, as well as
those of his master, were exceedingly shocked by the lan-
guage of the complainant's signs and advertisements, which
they considered (seeing that they called things by their right
names,) wholly unfit for publication, and moreover, deroga-
tory from the dignity and decorum of the profession. The
signs, some of which were exhibited in court amidst much
laughter, were, it was added, much damaged and deteriora-
ted. Mr. Rushton inquired if any one were present who
could speak to the amount of the damages sustained ? The
reply being in the negative, the aggrieved doctor himself
assessed it in evidence at the suns of fifteen shillings. The
magistrate stated that in law the testimony of the sufferer as
to damage precluded him from recovering the amount—an
intimation which was a bitterer " pill" to the doctor, than
any of his own to his patients. His rival practitioner's man
Friday was then fined 15s and costs for his delinquency, and
the parties left the court with as much mutual acid in their
visages as would stock the Apothecaries' Hall for a month.
Jesse Watts Russell, Esq., of Ilam-hall, has lately is-
vested £1,300 in the names of the Trustees of the Charity
at Ashbourn, for the widows of poor clergymen of the Church
of England, for the purpose of producing an increase of ten
pounds per annum to the income of the inhabitants of each
house on the foundation.

The numerous friends of Captain Fayrer will be rejoiced
to learn, that, on Friday, he received official notice of his
appointment to the command of the steam-frigate Forth, one
of the splendid ships belonging to the West India Steam
Navigation Company.

THUNDERSTORM.—A thunderstorm visited the metropolis
on Thursday evening, extended over a large space in the sur-
rounding country, and was even more violent at a distance.
In the forest of Berkshire, huge hailstones fell amidst terrific
thunder and lightning, and injured several mansions. Ac-
counts of the storm have been received aiso from Porstmouth
and Brighton. In the metropolis, William Taylor, a hair-
dresser, was struck speechless by a flash of lightning, while
sitting at his shop-door.

SANDIP:Rs.r.—The thunder-storm of Thursday was ac-
companied, in the vicinity of the Royal Military College at
Sandhurst, by a violent fall of hail, which in a few minutes
completely destroyed almost every pain of glass in the ex-
tensive front of the public buildings of the college, along the
whole fine facade of above 900 feet, as well as the front of
the professors houses, 26 in number, sod tke south face of
the governor's house. Vie are sorry to hear that the da-
mage thus sustained by the buildings of this national institu-
tion is estimated at above £BOO.

" TIIERE'n AN ESPECIAL PROVIDENCE FOR LITTLE
CIIILDREN."—One of the miraculous escapes from death by
accident, which, good folks say, children and drunken men.
alone are favoured with, took place on Sunday week, at the
White Hart, Cletnent's-lane, Strand, London. The wife of
the landlord of the above house was, on Sunday afternoon,
visited by a female friend, who brought with her a little son,.
aged three years. Whilst the friends were chattering in the-
front room of the second floor, one of the windows of which.
was open, the restless urchin climbed unperceived upon e,
chair placed immediately inside the open window, and felt
through it a height of thirty-five feet. A woman passing on
the opposite pavement saw the accident, and, stepping aer
the lane, caught the child by the clothes in its descent,
too
but
its weight, increased by the momentum of its fall, was
on
to.
much for her, and she was forced to let the child fall
the pavement. The fall, however, was broken, and, thoith
the child was taken up insensible, and conveyedto king'.reeeyered.
College Hospital, Carey-street, it soonsface alone was injured,
partially
None of its limbs were broken ;
and the treatment of the medical
°the child was discharged
so successful that, on Monday,
safely cured. itfficers of the hospital Was
intend establishing a.
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That coat has a collar to it, which a tailor
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might work three days upon. It has nothing of the puri-
tanical cut about it. It has bzrttsns, too, and skirts which
would wrap round a dozen such withered, skin and grief,
mortals as you will meet with on an anti-corn-law platform,
of the wretelled semi-animate beings to which

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