The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

deep calculating Jesuit at almost every turn of our streets
—to perceive that the friends of Protestantism are not
asleep at their posts, but are taking the proper steps for
laying before the public the real principles of their oppo-
nents. Eugene Sue bas done much to unmask the sinis-
ter and deadly designs, the secret and diabolical plottings
of some of the followers of Ignatius Loyale, and Mrs.
Sherwood in the work before us exhibits, with equal
power, with no less interest and effect, and with much
greater regard to Protestant truth, the mysterious ma-
chinery, of which these devoted sons of " the Church "
have everywhere the control, and which they bring to
hear with never ending perseverance, not only to main-
tain the terrors of Rome over the minds of those of whose.
fealty she is not as -ured, bat evermore to bring fresh
proselytes to her fold, and to add to her wealth and secu-
lar power. The hero of the volume is the son of a high
and noble family in this country, who after being edu-
cated for the established church, and having unfortunately
received such instruction as would almost form the
groundwork for a euperstructure of any or all of the fatal
delusions of Popery, is introduced into the society of a
wily Jesuit, who, by little and little, instils the poison
into his mind, and the infatuated youth is led on from
false doctrine to the worst of crimes—be forsakes his
home—imbrues his hands in blood—becomes " The Monk
of Cimies "—and when almost abandoned' to despair
throngh the recollection of his baseness and' impiety, is
discovered by his friends, who joyfully receive him back
to the bosom of his family, and he becomes at last, when
his mind is allowed fair play, a devoted preacher of the
everlasting gospel, within the pale of the CHurch of
England. The story is worked out with considerable ef-
fect, the interest never flags, atul a number of con'erover-
sial dialogues are carried on with great ability, and dis-
play the wethness of error, when confronted with the holy
light of scriptural truth.
The volume,. as a specimen of typography, is very Cre-
ditably got up by the publisher, and is sold at a peite
which, we imagine, would not have sufficed a few years
since to pay for the very elegant binding in which the
work appears. A beautiful steel engraving adorns the
pages.

Guide to the Ball-room, and IllugtrAted Polka Lesson
Book. London C. Mitchell, Red'Dion Court, Fleet-
street.
A learned doctor once informed the.- world that the
sight of a number of people dancing suggested to his
mind the question whether or not they' were lunatics ;
and there are, doubtlen; many grave people in the present
day who regard it as a light and frivol,,its amusement.
People danced, however, before the Flood, and have
danced ever since; ancl'as it is Rely that-we shall con-
tinue to dance for some generations to come; it becomes
almost a necessary part of education to learn to dance
well. To assist the learner to attain this accomplishment,
and to place those who are already familiar with it in
possession of the latest ilances and figures—tb bring up
their reading, as it were, -to the present period—is the.
object of this pretty and excellent little book.

the slope lies the stream whereof we have spoken already,
not sinuous or fringed with alders as of yore; but straight
as an arrow, and fashioned into the semblance of a canal.
It is spanned on the part which is directly in front of the
windows, by a bridge on the skew principle, the property
of a railway company ; and at the moment you are gazing
on the landscape in a sort of admiring trance, an enormous
train of coal and coke waggons comes rushing by, and a
great blast of smoke and steam rolling past the house, ob-
scures for a moment the utilitarian beauty of the scene.
That dissipated, you observe on the other side of the canal
several staring red brick .buildings, with huge chimney-
stalks stinking in the fresh, frosty morning air. These
are the factories of your host, the source of bis enviable
wealth and yonder dirty village which you see about half
a mile to the right, with its squab Unitarian lecture-room,
is the abode of his honest artisans. Nevertheless, you see
nobody stirring about. How should you? The whole
population is comfortably housed, for the next twelve
hours at least, within brick, and assisting the machinery
to do its work. No idleness now in England. Had you,
indeed, risen about five or six in the morning, when the
clatter of a sullen bell roused you from your dreams of
Jemima, you might have seen some scores of lanterns
meandering like glow-worms along the miry road which
leads from the village to the factories, until absorbed
within their early jaws. That is the appointed time- for
the daily emigration, and until the taskrrork is done, no
straggling whatever is. permitted. The farthest object in
view is a parallelogram Bastile on the summit of a hill,
once wooded to the top,- and well known to- the rustics as
the place where the fullest nuts and the- richest May-
ffcrwe a might be gathered, but now in turnips, and you
are told that the edifice is the Union Workhouse.—
Bled-wood's Magazine. _ _ . .

JACEMBER retains the original name assigned to it in
the /titian and first Roman Kt:lender adopted by Romulus,
in both which it was the tenth or last month of the year.
Its appellation is composed of Deeem, ten; and imber, a
shower. It was consecrated by the ancients to Saturn,
or, as some authors affirm, 'tb Vesta, the daughter of
Rhea ;- and in it the Romans held their Saturnalia, The
Saxons termed it winter-monal ; but after their conver-
sion to Christianity, they then, of devotion to the birth-
time of Cscrets-r," named it halig-monat, or holy month,
though this title, as we have before remarked, was ori-
ginally bestowed by them upon September. They ale°
called December midwinter-monat and giul erre i. e. the
former or first giul. The Feast of Thor, which they ce-
lebrated at the winter solstice, was called yuil, from ioi
or 0/, which signifies ale, and is now corrupted into yule.
This festival appears to have continead through part of
January. Brady remarks that the emblematical repre-
sentation of December was that of an 'old man, with a
grim countenance, covered with furs or a shagged rug,
with several caps upon his bead, and over them a Turkish
turban, his nose red, and that and his , eard, " pendent with
icicles ; • at his back he carried a bundle of holly and ivy :
and in one of his hands, which were in furred gloves, he
led a goat, in token of the sun entering the tropic of Ca-
prieorta‘ or wild goat, on this month. This was intended
to mark the winter solstice, or " that period when the
sun reaches its greatest decline, and is returning to its
former altitude and influence," which the goat aptly ty-
pifies, that animal being not only much prone to climbing,
which would denote the ascent of the sun, but its horns
being, according to ancient hieroglyphics, emblematical of
the heat naturally to be expected from each ascent.
Spencer pictures December thus :
"And after him came next the chill December;
Yet he, through merr7 feasting which he made,
And great bonefires, did not the cold remember;
His '3Nvtotra's birth ec'much his mind did glad.
Upon a shaggy bearded goa' he rode,
The sante wherewith Dan Jove in tender years,
They say, was nourished by the Idean maid ;
And i his hand a broad deep bowl he bears,
Of which he freely drinks a health to all his peers."'
—Sharpe's London Magazine;

MR. GLADSTONE'S I{ISE AS A STATF.SMAN.—Sir
Robert Peel, amongst his many qualifications for the
mastership of the nation, has a facui:y which will' often
be found in men who are born to command—that of
choosing their agents with saga-city. He had not been
unobservant of Mr. Gladstone 's parliarne-.tart' talents, or
of the ability he had shown in the year 1834 as Colonial
Under-Secretary'. He had probably seen, with admira-
tion, the union of such opposite qualifications in one man.
As soon as he was again in power, he seized the opportu-
nity to avail himself of Mr. Gladstone's services. But
he did not content himself with merely making him- the
offer of such an appointment as his prevous official sta-
tion would justify : he went much further, and constitu-
ted Mr. Gladstone his chief adviser and coadjutor in all
the difficult debates which arose-out of his proposed mo-
difications of our commercial laws. He made him, in
fact, his right-hand man, much to the astonishment of
those who had been accustomed to regard the new vice-
president of the board of trade as a sort of dreamy en-
thusiast, and who' predicted that he would utterly fail to
grapple with the laborious calculations and the multitu-
dinous varieties of information required in a discussion
embracing so many hundreds of minute subjects, with
each of which there were some one or more members-of
parliament intimately acquainted. That period, however,
in our modern political history was a series of surprises.•
Sir Robert Peel himself furnished the greatest surprise of
all. He developed powers of mind for which those who
had attributed to him mediocrity were utterly unpre-
pared ; and it was remarkable, that, although he selected
for posts in his government young, or-comparatively on'
known, men, they all seemed animated by a spirit similar
to that which had-inetamorphosed their patron, and each
achieved, in his several sphere, some unlooked-for sue-
Mr. Glatlatone's triumph was more signal than
any. He astonished the House of Commons by his un-
wearied assidnitr,..-the Deraevaranee with which he Dun.,
sued the business of his new office into its minutest de-
tails,- the readiness of his mind, the fertility of his re-
sources, the extraordinary information, so minute yet so
accurate, which he had amassed in connection with that
ander-current of 'commerce which flows in warehouses
and counting-houses, but of which the cabinet and the-li4
brary know scarcely the existence; while in the discharge
of the still more laborious duties of his office, in the re-
ception of deputations, the negotiation with important
interests, the arbitration of conflicting claims, and the
accommodation of multifarious details to a general and
comprehensive plan, be sustained, with honour to him-
self, a competition of mind with those to whom such sub-
jects were their daily business, if not their only thought :
a competition from which, from-the test being so much
more severe and so much more readily brought home to
him, success reflected still greater credit than the casual
victories in the• House of Commons. Nor was it merely
in the laborious handling of minute details that Mr. Gla-
dstone proved himself fit to hold the important post to
which he had been appointed. Throughout the discus-
sions in question, and, also, in subsequent sessions, when
he was at the head of the board of trade, he showed him-
self familiar, to an unexpected extent, with the great
principles of commercial legislation, whether those which
were about-to be abandoned, or those new ones, which, it
is probable, Sir Robert Peel had even then determined to
adopt : and., in his speeches on-the corn question, as well
as on those connected with the tariff, he infused a high
philosophic tone, which was- not to be found in the more
laboured dissertations of Sir Robert Peel or Sir James
Graham. In fact, whether upon these questions, or on
others of more general policy, he already impressed the
house and the public with that same idea of the elevation
of his mind and the superiority of his intellectual-powers,
which, it has already been stated, was one of the charac-
teristic consequences of his earlier orations on more ab-
stract subjects.—Fraser'a Magazine.

The Bank of England meeting on Thursdtty passed over
without the anticipated notice being issued, so the Bank
Directors, it would seem, do not contemplate immediate
action on the rate of interest.

The Morning Post contradicts the statement which we
gave last week respecting the failure of Captain Warner's
experiments. "The writer," it says, "is inaccurate in
place, person, and fact. More we are not at liberty to
disclomt."

EXPORTATION OF BLACK LEAD.—The Mediator,
New York packet-ship, which left the London Docks on
Wednesday, carried out 100 tons of this article. The
exportation of black lead has been very peat by the
American ships lately, and the Quebec, just sailed, took
40 tons.

MESMERIC' POWER.—II has been said that this science
claims tqual power with that of Satan, bat a circumstance
which occurred lately at Carmarthen, shows that it is su-
perior to such authority : among the parties there sub-
mitted am', compelled to yield to mesmeric influence were
two printers' devils!
THE REDUCTION OY THE DUTY ON SPIRIIAW.—It ap-
pears from the official tables just published that a reduc-
tion of the duty of 7s. 100. per gallon has already led to
an increased consumption of nearly 40 per cent. By a
reduction of 33 per cent. of duty, there has been, in, the
present year, a clear gain to the revenue of £59,730.

The Gloucester Journal states, that the death of the
, person Page, Wyndham, or Weflesley, took place, not
on the 20th of June. as previously stated, but on the 29th
of August, at an inn on the bania of the Wye, between
the towns of Hay and Builtb, and he was buried on the Ist
of September.
The Worcester Journal adverts, with proper feeling, to
an instance which occurred in that county at a meeting of
a Board of Gaurdians. Toe education of pauper children
being discussed, only three guardians held up their hands
in favour of the measure. So much for poor-law philan-
thropy ! .

Di!: Lyell, the geologist, has expressed himself quite
dissatisfied with the story of the human bone said to have
been discovered in America, among the-remains of the
megatherium. Dr. Lyell is well acquainted with the lo-
cality of the alleged discovery, and it is his• opinion that
the bone found, as described, is nothing more than a rem-
nant of mortality washed out of some Indianzrave._

SUDDEN DEATH.IN A RAILWAY TRAIN:--On Satur-
day, a widow woman, named Ellen Thompson,-was re-
turning to-town by the Southampton Railway, in company
with her daughter, a servant living in the nelzhbourhood
of Cheapside, when shortly after leaving the Wandsworth
station in a second-class-carriage, she was taken suddenly
ill and expired without a st►uggle.

M YSTERIOUS AFFA IR.—Aithe residence of E. Wode-
house, Esq. M.P. for West Norfolk, the lady's maid was
found on Monday in a private part of the premises, with
her throat cut in a most dreadful manner, and only a few
minutes after she had dressed her mistress, and bad been
observed in goo 3 spirits. A coroner's jury have returned
a verdict that she had cut her throat in a state of tempo-
rary insanity. . . . .

Oise night last week, as one of the Wesleyan local
preachers in the librton Circuit was returning home from
a village in the neighbourhood of Hertford, he was at-
tacked by a stout man, who. demanded his money: - A
struggle ensued for a few' minutes, and ended in the
preacher being robbed of 41d., with which the robber
made off, minus, however; one f his coat laps, which the
preacher had torn ofFin the struggle. In the pocket were
found three sovereigns and four half-crowns.
Two men, named Charles Pearse and Benjamin Smith;
have been committed for trial for a desperate attempt at
highw,v robbery and murder on a poor pedlar, near Hert=
ford. They had beard the-poor man say at a public-house
that he had sold all his wares: They followed him, and
on his refusing to give up his money, beat him horribly
about the head, and would have completed their intention
of murdering him, had not 'help reached him just as he
had given himself up for lost.
Two farms, of 296 acres, close to Wareham, were on
Thursday week, submitted to public sale at the Auction.
Mart, by Mr. Robins, and after aspirited competition, were.
knocked down at 12,700 guineas the Earl of Eldon being
declared the purchaser. It will be recollected these-
farms were possessed by the late Sir Claude Scott, Bart.,
who was the first to practice model farming and show
what could be done by his -new system. The Drury-
lane renters' shares were sold, at 66 guineas each,
bigher price than usual.
The 31st Regiment have arrived from India, after an
absence of twenty-one years. There are only two officers
and about thirty men left that embarked in 1825. This
distinguished corps was present at Moodkee, Ferezesbah,
Buddewall, Aliwal, and Sobraon, with the division of Sir
Harry Smith,—in all of which battles it was hotly en-
gaged, and suffered very severely. Twenty-eight officers
and 530 men formed the list of casualties, the whole
strength of the regiment before the battle of Moodkee
having been thirty-two officers-and 733 men.

INTENDED EXPORTATION OP SHAKSPEAR'S HOUSE
TO AMERICA. An Englishnsan,has addressed a letter to
The Times, in which he announces that Shakspear's
house is about to be removed to America. He says, "It
is with the greatest indignation that I have this day heard
from good authority that the house in which Shakspear
was born, at Stratford-on-Avon, which was advertised for
sale, which implied, as everybody thought, merely a change
of house-keepers, has been purchased for the purpose of
its removal to America, and that its removal is about te-
take place. Need I add another word to excite in the,
breast of every Englishman as much indignation as it does,.
sir, in your correspondent!'
A BOLD THIEZ.:—A clever attempt was made on Sa-.
tarday evening by a thief to steal .Z4OO worth of plate,-
the property of the late Lord Mayor. One of Alderman-
Xotinnanns nernmErs-wilS ernpinycn In !craning n can-, nt-tnn
private door of the Mansion-house, with the goods, and
as soon as a chest of plate was deposited on the driver's
boa a man bustled into the vehicle, and ordered the driver
to set off for the Brighton railroad. The cabman began
to,turia his horse round, but luckily one of the attendants
at the Mansicn-hotlse caught a glimpse of the cab, and
called out to the driver that there was something more for
him to carry. The thief inside immediately opened the
door at the far side, and disappeared in a twinkling.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTERIDY A QUACK DOCTOR,
On Friday an inquest was held at Hessle on the body: of
Mrs. Frances Riplingham Cox, the wife of Mr. Ashton
Cox, of that place, and of this town, tobacco manufac-
turer. The circumstance excited mach interest in Hassle
and also in this town, on account of the alleged cause of
death, it being rumoured that the same had been produced
by some nostrum administered by Mr. John Cattcn, of
Hutton Cranswick, farmer, who had volunteered to cure
something supposed to be a cancer upon Mrs. Cox'a right
arm, but her death followed-in nine days after the appli-
cation, which was intended to have prevented the ampu-
tation of the limb. The jury returned a verdict of • man-
slaughter against John Catton.—Hull Advertiser.
A STEAMER PACKED IN Boxes.—We understand
that Messrs. Miller Ravenhill, and Co., have just com-
pleted, in a novel manner, a beautiful little steamer for
the Austrian Government intended to be employed in the
canal of Venice, and occasionally, in fine weather, on the
Adriatic, contiguous to that romantic city. She is of
iron, 70 feet long, 12 feet beam, has a rudder at each end,
and her internal arrangements were made with-an eye to
the accommodation of persons of distinction. This vessel
was put up in frame, in the usual way; the plates were all
prepared and.adjusted ;. the cabins were completed, &c.;
and then the whole was- taken to pieces, packed in boxes,
and put on board a ship, bound for Venice, but now in
the East India Docks.

THE CFIARWIST SRECITLATION.—A. 'short time ago,
two pieces of land, one of which is situated at Herring-
gate, Herts, consisting of 104 acres, and the other at Red-
marley, Worcestershire, comprising about 160 acres, were
purchased by the Chartists for the purpose of the erection
of cottages upon them. During the last week, up to
Friday night, the sum of £13.031 4s. 9d. was raised, the
whole sum collected being £lB,OOO towards the object.
On the former estate thirty-six,cottages, with a school
have been built at an expense of £5,000, and which will
be taken possession of on the Ist of February. Early in
the ensuing year several cottages will be erected on the
latter estate. The Rev. Lord Wriothesicy Russell,
minister, of Chenies, in the neighbourhood, has been fre-
quently at Herring-gate, viewing the progress of the
undertaking.

MK HAPPY RECOVERY.—Recently a lime-burner, re-
siding about five miles from Carmarthen, received, as the
reward of a whole season of toil and anxiety, the sum of
«14., namely, two £5 Bank of England notes, and four
sovereigns. The treasure was put away in a chest of
drawers, and on the owner going to draw it forth some
time afterwards, he was thunder-struck and amazed on
finding that, although the gold was safe, not a vestige of
the notes remained. Search was made everywhere, and
at last the bank-paper was discovered, mumbled into
small fragments, in the sleeve of his wife's best gown
lying close at hand, where a mouse had made her nest.
The precious pieces were carefully collected, and a repre-
sentation of the circumstances being made to the auth-
orities of the great metropolitan bank, they forthwith
remitted to the fortunate lime-burner ten slaking sove-
reigns for his mutilated paper.
The Wolverhampton Chronicle publishes a curious
document connected with the chainmakers union to show
how the money of the members is disposed of. The fol-
lowing disclosure will, we trust, open the eyes of the
workmen who subscribe their hard earnings for such in-
famous purposes:—
Cutting 120 pair of bellows, at 11. each.......,
Cutting two horses' throats, 51. each ....
Breaking twenty windows, 10s. each
Burning two ricks down, 51. each .
New building cashier's house and shop, about
Ditto collector's house and shop, about

Total.. - • • • . £5lO
We believe that the attention of the Government will be
immediately called to this subject, with the view of adopt-
ing measures to counteract the spread of so dangerous a
combination.
A VESSEL DESTROYED BY SPONTANEOUS COM-
BUSTION.—On Sunday night, a vessel, named the James,
Mr. M`Kenzie master, was destroyed by fire off Shields
harbour, under remarkable circumstances. She had sailed
from Shields on the previous Friday, with a cargo of
coals, but owing to the boisterous state of the weather was
obliged to put back, and in attempting to re-enter the
harbour, struck on the bar, and afterwards drifted to the
Herd Sand, the crew having fortunately been taken off.
In a abort time she was discovered to be on fire, and
although several pilot boats put off to render her assis-
tance, it was found impossible to extinguish the flames,
which burnt with so much violence, that in less than an
hour her hull and masts were in a body of fire, lighting
up the coast and iron-bound rocks of Tynemouth Castle
with singular brilliancy. The flames raged several hours,
and the vessel was consumed to the water's edge. The
cause of the fire, there is reason to believe, was sponta-
neous combustion of the coals, the vessel having been
noticed to be filled with a gaseous matter a few hours
prior to her destruction. There was nothing else on
board that was likely to have occasioned the fire. She
was a brig, and belonged to Perth. Her los§ will amount
to seyeral hundred pounds.