The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-23 00:00:00

mot,yNEux'S CHARITY.

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The Mayor was then appointed a trustee under an act of the
9th of Geotge the 4th, imituled." An act for enabling the trus-
tees of Mrs. Ann Molvheux's charities in Liverpool to great
buildings and repair .leases, and for. better vesting the estates
in them, for vesting the Exchange, and other purposes for thd
benefit of the charities. The appointment was to be made an-
nually, but since the .mal,oraliv of Mr. Currie, we understood,
the office h.. 1 been vacant. Ills worship Was appointed, not by
virtue of his office of mayor, but merely as one. of the council;

THE NEVI COMMISSION

The MAYOR observed they were aware that her present ma-
jesty was about to issue anew commission of the peace, and on
a former similar occasion they bad sent a list of gentlemen whom
they had recommended to the Secretary of State for the Home.
Department, who were appointed the magistrates for this bo-
rough. Unfortunately tuere were three vacancies by death,
awl one gentleman, it Char)es Bullen,Aeclined ti) qualify,
and desired that his name might be struck out. Mr. Henry
Moss, who had previously,
.neglected to quality,, in answer ro
letter on the subject from the Town•clerk, had expressed his
wish that his name should remain on the list.

The '/OWN•CLERK read the correspondence that had passed
between him and those gentlemen.
Mr. Councillor BLACKRURN then rose and said, he thought ft
desirable that the council should avail itself, of the privilege-
conceded to it, fur it was not tight to name four gentlemen to
be put on the commission to fill up the vacancies. He begged.,
to move, that they recommend Mr. Alderman Booth as one or,
the magistrates fur Liverpool.
Mr. Councillor BEND seconded the motion:

The 'MA vita was about to put the question, When
Mr. Councillor CuattlE said, the course pursued on a formed
occasion was to send up lists a names to the mayor, from which
choice was made.

Mr. Councillor IlastsnEri thought they should art on that
suggestion on the present occasion. it was very disagreeable
for one gentleman to object to another.
Mr. Councilior H. Hoimk.3 ,fraid, it would save time to go at
once to the vote.
The M !trim said, they might take the vote by ballot.
Mr. Alderman Bain% Iv proposed; that the vote should be by
ha.lot.

But it was afterwards agreed, that the gentlemen should first
by proposed, and then be made choice of, by each member
tint the witnes on piper ut the gentlemen for whom be• voted,-

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Mr. Aldernian E VANS then uninitiated Mi. James Aiken,
which was seconded by Mr. Councillor WALMSLLY.

Mr Councillor Hot.-T
proposed, seconded by Mr. Councillor .-
IL Mr. ltichard Houghton.
Mr. Alderman B A RCLA Y proposed, and Mr. Councillor R.Ams-‘,.i.,
DEN seconded, the nomination of Mr. Richard Haywood Joni'',
and
Mr.Councillor HORNBY proposed, and Mr. Councillor
seconded the nomination of Mr. Wiiliam. Dixon.

- airy,
There being five gentlemen nominattd,
Mr. G. H. .LswitEswg. rose and observed, he thought they
might recommend the whole live, who were all good and exesl44
lent men.
Mr. Cuuncillor EA RLE seconded the motion.

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s6AI .diconvedidle,yrmimaor. BHE:rtsnbvm.oved that the number be four only;,,
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On a division the numbers were— . - , alf,3"'
For Mr. Lawrence's motion that the number be.five 19' z
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For Mr. Beau's amendment l5 ~
Majority
—4
Mr. Alderman SHEI I then inquired whether he was priPsr
vented nominating another gentleman, and on bein.,answerfcfi:i'.
proposed Mr. Councillor Joshua Wnmsley. ~ ~
ci.vi lel'o r ii i G C :t
11. is seconded the nomination.'
in'MtrhhreenCgjuant council then proceeded to an election, by writing ther
names of the gentlemen for whom they voted on pieces of papetv:
which were collected and handed to-the Mayor. On the react- .
ing of the voting paper, it appeared that-the choice sir the coun-
cil had fallen on Mr. Booth, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Jones, Mr.
Aiken, and Mr. Dixon.
The huMbers were as follows:--Far :Mr Booth, 35, Mr..
Jones 32, Mr. Houghton 31, Mt. Aiken 31,.Mr. Dixon 27, and
Mr. Wahnsley (not chosen )9.
The council then adjourned, at ten minutes to two• o'clock,
to Wednesday, the 7th March next. . - - • . -

. . .
DORMANT TITLES.—The dormant Scotch title of "Earl of
Oxenford" will shot tly be revived in the person of the rightful
heir, a native of this city, and noW•residing not one•hundred-
miles from Leinster-street. The rental:Alf the estates, now iTC:
possession of the crown, is estimated at more than. £7O,(KX) per
annum, besides upwards of 10t).000 of ready cash,, pending the
decision (tithe Lord Chancellor. when the title is con Firmed—
which there is every reason to believe thereis no doubt.-- Warder:
A noble earl, who has long.passed his grand etituacterie; will,
it is rumoured, .shortly be united to. a distinguished vocalist.,
sometime since retired from .the .stage, residing in the vicinity.
of Connaught-terrace. .The venerable peer, whose countess,.
from whom he had long been separated, is lately deceased,
awaited but the freedom of widowhood. to offer Miss his
hand.—Herald.. [The. parties alluded. to are the Earl of Essea
and Miss Stephens, but we do .nut place any reliance on tbe..
tumour.] . . . .

AN A V-CIENT Rochdale parish church on Tues-
day, a couple were-married who-were-each about sixty-years of.
age: it was- the third-time of the-bride and the fourth time of
the bridegroom' being 'married.
Pn tcg oF LA Np AT WAK EII'ELD..-a respectable solicitor at
Wakefield has 'sui4:eedetriii selling some land in Thorne, for
one of his clients, to the direCtois of the Manchester and Leeds
railway, at the high iate'of £5OO per ai:re. A gentleman re.-
siding in Thome asks the same parties the still higher sum of
£l2OO per acre; and, 'if the bai6iin be not struck, will in all.
probability go ;jury 'upon the' Matter. or course there are`
circumstances iri the latter case JuSiifying the seemingly exor-
bitant price."' 'Land adjoining has been sold at a considerably
higher

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GitamAti Mona ot, Cuturtc Virestphalia, hams-
,are cured between Novernher .and March. The Ge• Mans pile
them up in .deej tubs,, co.veringthetn with lavers of salt, salt—
petre, aud_a sum!) quantityof bay leaves. In this situation they
let them temain about four or five days; when they snake a
strong piekje.t4
.541t.,apd water, with which they cover them
completely; and, at the expiration of three weeks, they take
them but of piCkle, soak them twelVe hours in clean well water;.
and.hang them for three weeks longer in, smoke, made. from the
juniper hushes, which in that countr,y.arealmudontiv met with,.
,—Ecenomist.

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whltzrewits,ehnsi reilxl;vmaincierri uwmist thanaceliet
tle attention, floes not Biel+t
abundant evidence of the wisdom and beneficence which preside
over the universe. We have only to turn up the soil at our feet.
to find in it innumerable seeds useful to inan; we have only to,
lout around us upon the surface of the earth, In see it stocked!
'with a variety of animals, conducive not Only 1111• our subsistence,_
but to our convenience and recreation. The sea also, awl, the.
air,. have their population ai our con-inland • and the more deeply,
we investigate the laws by whit It the whole system
of tsoitnal;
and vegetable life is governed, the more clearly we shall per..
ceive their complete and exclusive adaptation tt; the planeVun:
which they carry on their operalions.—Quarfrily Repieze.
A. BA RoN IN THE: WOR KHOCSE.—A Swedish baron, (Tharle*.
Kierulf, was admitted by direction of the presiding magistrate,
of the police-office, llary•le-M,tine, being found in a stale of;
destitution on the 24111 of November, into the Kensington:
Union. He died on the 2,4ifi u!t., aged 79, leaving by his
£5l) to the charity (the Unino, t £ll3 to the master. £5 'to the.
matron, for' mourning, rings, a tot tons concludes_ his. will, which,
he addressed to the inasier, Mr. French May God bless..
you for the kindn?ss you have shown tothe usfortutiateChterles
Baron Kierulf, brigadier general."

SIR JAMIS GRA Hasi.—lt appears, that Colonel Owen res..
tires front the representation of the Pembroke boroughs for Hie
express and patriotic purpose of enabling the right hon. baronet
again to take his seat in the House of Commons. &letter.
froman
The writ having been sent to Card'',
usheriff resides, 1 do not suppose we eat%
thel.o Ite
deputy says:—.‘
have the election before "Tuesday; but of this I can assure you,
Sir James is as certain of his seat as trite were already returned.
Opposition, I sin fully persuatled, there will be none, bLt
should any one be brought forward to try his strength with the
right hon: baronet, the opposition will be of too feeble a cast to
give us any concern, for of the voters in this loyal borough
ninety-nine out of every hundred will give their support to the
conservative candidate. That it is left to our boroughs to seat
Sir James Graham in the House of Commons is an honour
which we shall ever be proud of; nor can it be less flattering to
Sir James to lie brought in (as assinedly he will be) by the
united voices of the electors." Another letter says':--"Sir
James Graham will be supported by the leading men amiing
the •' old whig" party, as well as by the tories; so that his re-
turn is certain. On Wednesday the right hon. baronet can.
vassed Pembroke end Pembinke Dock, and met with the
greatest success. On Thursday he visited Tenby, where he was
received with, equal watinth."—Col. Owen, ii his .retiring ad,
dress, says:—" In retiring from the honour of IFlTherteLttoL You
in Nididinent, and in thus giving you an immediate opportuntty
of electing another representative, I have sacrificed private
gratification to a paramount sense.of public duty, delieving,.tis
I do, that the candidate who ofters,hmself to.)our
,uotica.
,and
"ho, trust, be t" object ofkriTirftn;iee,'ls 61.-thore edpa,
bie of rendering you effectual service, and that his election wilt
'be, in this time of difficulty, of the tuoit essential bege§t to ill
country.'

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FRIDAY MORNING; FEBRUARY 23, 18313

rjr T e PlAlica,ti9n of the STAND.%u eommertced this maul,

at 5 'q'eli)ek.

RELtGron PERSECUTION.--The zeal manifested by
the learned editor of the Mercury, in undertaking the
defence, Of: the Papists, or rather of Popery,•is a, .violent
as it is unaccountable. His distant:readers must labour
Under a conviction that he is himself a Papist—go ener-
.

getic is .his advocacy of Popery-. On the supposition
that the remarks on (11.1 Rev. H. M•Neile's.amplilet
were penned. by a Roman Catholic we recognise no in-
consistency- or discrepancy whatever in the articles on
which we commented in our preceding numbers. But
ushered into the world as these articles are with the

sign manual of the editor of the Me„icury, we feel sur-
prised at the enittusiasm which he betrays in favour of
Popery. He has been long known as the strenuous sup-
Porter of what are termed liberal pri,►ciples—as" the elo-

qoent " denouncer of sla%ery an I oppression in eery
shape—as the bitter enemy of what• is' designated
" Priestlkinfltience";—and as the opponent of every spe-
cies of superstition. That such a man should fall in
love with a system so illiberal, so oppressive, and so
childishly superstitious, as that or the Church of Rome,
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flay 'tvel.l excite our
.asfonislnnent.
But the Mercury flatly denies that Popery is such
tyrannical-system as we lia'.e described it to be. Nay,
he even asserts that it is a liberal system. How does he

, , .
prove this assertion ? We quote lii plods lot the sahe

of their, novelty. In reference to 'the charge of oppres-

sio!1 laid apinst the priests the Mercury says:
".It will not do (says the Rev. Pamphleteer) to plead that
the priests interfere only in spiriitialittings, because the tt hole
workini of the system is such as. to render an ecclesiaStical
interdict an.effectual engine of temporal oppression. In the
Popish system sincere faith and abject oppression are insepa-
rable." Again at page 12 of the same pamphlet, he thus re-
iterates hls charge that the catholic is a passive slave to his spi-
ritual. rulers, to whose bidding fits el nejiss he is bound to

succumb :
" He (the catholic is 'under the absolute control of a fellow-•
man, directly, for all that'appertains to his preparat for eter-
nity, and indirectly, and of consequence, for all that appertains
to his temporal•liberty. In the homer (and Itom the native of
his 'Own case; this involves the whole) he cannot appeal to law;
.the will and word of his priest are absolute. Ile must submit.
"Hg-ditiri not plead his rights either as a candidate, [or eternity,
.or as a member ofrstkiely."! • .
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!,4 We shall test the truth of these sweeping assertions by .re-
ference to a few facts which cannot be controverted, and-which
prove, that even, in the dark ages, When "Popery had a Stronger
hold on men's minds 'than •it 'now has, Catholics, so far -from
yielding implicit obedience to their' s'pirdual guides, opposed
*their mandates aud ecclesiastical iuteidicts,' both by fOrce. of
• arguittent and the argtiment of torte. •
" In the reign_ol-John, in consequence of some be-
'tween that monarch .and Pope Innocent, the latter placed the
36110; .dotninions•under-au interdict, excontniunicaled.the mon-
arch, absolved all his vassals from their oaths of fealty,' and ex-
stunted all cftristianprinces and batons to unite in dethroning
-an imperious king and substituting another more worthy, by
'the authority of the aptistolic see. Innocent afterwards offered
the kingdom to
-Phillip, king of France, who summoned- a nu-
merous` force for the purpose of invading England. John's
subjects, however, notwithstanding the numerous aggressions
ithd'despotic character of their monarch, in despite of the pope's
interdict, and although his holiness had formally absolved them
from their allegiance, rallied round their proscribed kiug, and
"an army of sixty thousand men was formed, (sufficient, says
*the historian, to have defied all the powers of Europe.) With
•thii.furce the English, instead of waiting for the invader, sailed
across the .channeVeaptured a squadron at the mouth of the
Seine, destroyed the ships in the harbour of Fechamp,aud burn-
'ad the'town•of Dieppe.
'This is One instance out of many that we could adduce to
'show, that the catholics, so far from being the pasSive slaves of
rlheirctergy, actually defied the very head of.the Romish church'
'whet:l4e pragmatically interfered with their temporal concerns.
the reign of Edikard I. the imputed •absolute power of
tthe.Pupe:over.the English Roinan Catholics was again put to
the test,-and with a similar result.
Biiiiiface (says Lingard) began by asserting what he pre-
ttOnded 'the'Kitig.raust• know, that Scotland belonged [ruin an-
rienttimes, and did still belong, to the human See.
"4 In answer t.o the letter of Bootlace (continues Lingaid)
a parliament was summoned to tares at Lincoln. After some
debatea reply was Canted, which was signed and sealed by tine
hundred arid four Earls and ',litmus An the -name of the coin
'snonaity of England, amid which deserves to be transcribed, as
•it shows how accurately our aucestors,ouuld distinguish between
the spin ITUAt Also itssurinikt authority t'l the pontiff. After
eitxpressing ir astonishment at the tenor of the Papal rescript.
:and asserting that Scoilatird never belonged is temporals to the
:See of Horne, they declare that nor aforesaid Lord the King
...shall not plead before you .(the Pope,,) at.r submit in any man.
suer to your judgment, nor sutler his right to die brougia into
question Isv auv wgoity. tior send agents or procarators (Or that
inirpose to your court.' Chis menu-n*l.le -d0en0,,,,4
_concludes
in the following terms :—• Neil her do we,-nor will wo. permit,
'Ai we neithei can nor ought; our aforesaid Lokt-the tiang to do,
,Or Aelitettipt.to di,, even it he wished it, any of the thiii ewe_
:said ;—things which were never heard of, (sr claimed before,
;and which are co prejudicial to this realm:— -
;3, p. 317. -
" If .we had the 'requisite space, we would adduce many .ino_
.dern instances to show that Catholics are not such abject slaves
rtli their prieste tos the Rev. Mr. M•Neile has represented them
,•tO he. We tailthuremindhim that'the- revolted
_Canadians are
ge era !lye at ivolic s, although it has been stated from. official
okutkozity that the Catholic Bishop of Montreal and the Calisu-
r lie.clorgy have decidedly discountenanced and deprecated the
Ineurreetion.'"' •

In reference to this mode of proving that Popery is
-.,not tyrannical in its policy, we may well exclaim "Mat
tome statements are so obviously absurd, that it is a
.:waste of time. to give them attention, and follow them:
up by.inquiry." Indeed, we feellt incumbent upon us
to apologise to our readets for trespassing so largely:On
'their patience in noticing the miserable verbiage of•the
Mercury.
In the historical instances which the Mercusy hasoad-
' ,Auced for the purpose of proving his position we can dig.'
• kern nothing but a ,proof of the contrary—a proof of the
int,c4e.rable despotism of the Church of Rome and of the
.vassala,ge.of its lay members. The very act•of resisting
the power ,and disobey ing the mandates of the Pope
proves the truth of tire Rev. IL Mlie:le's-charges. The
Pope would never have ventured, to interfere with the
temporal concerns of Roman Catholic gesneuuneats,
un-
less he expected .to be obeyed: nor would the people
have been provoked to resistance, etollesi that interfer-
' ference had been gf tyrannical and oppres.sire charac-
ter. We would ask the editor of the Mercury whether
,the•revolt of the Poles proved the tolerance and libera-
, of tile Russian Autocrat ? Would an insurrection
among the slaves of the United States against their mas
tett' prove the kindness and meekness of the' latter
. 'These cases are exactly parallel with those cited by, the

ihreury.
It is said that. the Roman Catholic clergy' of .Mon•
Areal .‘ decidedly discountenanced and deprecated the
Anrreciioni,ln Canada.- The-y niav have ostensibly acted
loyal part, but our belief is that they :sect etly contented
= ihe rebellion. Their exhortations to their flotks, in all
prolability? were $OO coed in the same sense as many