The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

FIRST VISIT TO BROCKET.

(Front the John Bull.)
On the oaks of the Brockets the moonlight is dying,
And morning's first glimmer is faint on the mead ;
O'er the blue lake's cold bosom the day-breeze is sighing,
When down from the North comes a courser at speed.

So gaunt is her form, that the ribs are in danger
Of action for trespass, from saddle and girth ;
The visits, if any, of corn to her manger
Are much like the visits of angels to earth.

Yet on goes her rider, the farther, the faster;
His years, though soon numbered, have made him aware,
That CHIFNEY'S great self would admit him his master
At " coming the pace," on a skeleton mare.

In basket before him lie, piled in their beauty,
Fair joints of fat mutton ; and, fairer than those,
The loin of an ox that, in summer did duty
As guard of the meads where the Whissendine flows

The curls on his brow, which no beaver is shielding,
His trade's cheap pomatum preserves in their form ;
But the blue of his jacket is silently yielding
To more than one soaping and many a storm.

Though lonely his road, yet a whistle may cheer it;
That rural elixir was known long ago ;
So he kindly breathes out, as the rooks are to hear it,
The Handel-like music of " Jemmy the Crow.'

But the tune dies away, and he feels some few twinges
Of awe, when the door brings a close to his toil ;
Yet still must he wait, that the rust on its hinges
NSMay yield to the magic of feather and oil.
It is done : from the lintel the spiders have started ;
For suns have gone down—and some Ministers too—
Since last, in their sight, bolt and stape were parted
To welcome the coming of tradesman in blue.
It is done : and the basket and bearer admitted :
The shade of Achilles might envy the boy
To whom, after years of dull leaguer, submitted
The bower of a Paris, the gate of a Troy.
It is done : and the breast of that young one is swelling •
For him and his master bright days are in store ;
As the Peer whom they serve, must now victual from
Welwyn,
And quarter his teeth upon Windsor no more.

Why is the heir to the British throne the subject of one of
the most useful kings of which our globe can boast ?—He is
Prince of W(h)ales, the herring is king of whales I

POSTPONED FROM TUESDAY TO WEDNESDAY
(PRIVATE,.) [l!]
REFORM ASSOCIATION OFFICE,
ORRELL-PLACE, LORD-STREET.

December 11th, 1841.
Sta,--You are particularly and earnestly requested to at-
tend a Meeting of tieformers, at Mr. Eastwood's, Royal
Hotel, Dale•street, on Wednesday nest, the 15th inst., at
twelve o'clock, to receive a report from the Registration
Committee, and to consider of the re-appointment of a
Reform Committee for the ensuing year, with other matters
connected therewith.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM RATIIBONE, Chairman

Eli t Etimpool 'tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1841

We live in an age of universal toleration ; we pique
ourselves upon the fact, and, for our part, we should
be the last to desire any change in our institutions
which would give it a different complexion. Our an-
cestors, borrowing from their Popish forefathers,
seemed to think that mind could be brought into uni-
son with mind by the intervention of a merely physical
machinery, and were very well disposed to apply the
screw to thumb or jugular as the occasion might re-
quire ; but a better condition of feeling and a sounder
state of opinion began to exert their influence ; re-
strictions against thought began gradually to be re-
laxed; and a penal code against diversity of sentiment
on all, even the most sacred subjects, happily no longer
exists in this country.

It does not follow, however, because toleration has
been thus so widely extended, that the things tolerated
have altered their nature, or that some of them are less
obnoxious or injurious now than when they were the
object of the severest prosecution. No such conse-
quence can be legitimately drawn ; the only fair con-
clusion is, that the age is less advertent and more
liberal.

There is another inference, however, and that is,
that since the State has relieved itself of the burthen
of looking after things which it once regarded as
worthy of all its solicitude, individuals in their private
capacity, or collectively, have a duty of watchfulness
cast upon them of a much more stringent kind than
they ever bad before.

The civil ruler is now reluctant to put forth his
powers against even the filthy and blasphemous sect of
the Socialists ; and this proves—what ? Not surely
that Socialism is not a hideous monstrosity and satire
upon the godlike being, man, which should call for the
exposure and denunciation of all good men ; but that
toleration is now carried to the very highest pitch,
while the things tolerated have in no degree altered
their original character.

Our mild and tolerant laws now take little or no no-
tice of the Order of Jesuits—an order once regarded
with horror by all Europe, and which continued to
disturb every country in which it found a footing, till
in 1773 it was suppressed by Pope Clement XIV., who
is supposed to have fallen a victim to their vengeance.
On the 6th of August, 1762, their institute was con.
demned by the parliament of France as contrary to the
laws of the state, to the obedience due to the sove-
reign, and to the welfare of the kingdom. In Spain,
where they conceived their establishment to he per-
fectly secure, they experienced an overthrow equally
complete. The example of the King of Spain was.
immediately followed by Ferdinand VI. of Naples,
and soon after by the Princes of Parma. They had
been expelled from England in 1604 ; from Venice in
1606; and from Portugal in 1759 upon the charge of
having instigated the families of Tavora and D'Aveiro
to assassinate King Joseph I. Frederick the Great of
Prussia was the only monarch who showed a disposi-
tion to afford them protection. No other Order in the
Church of Rome increased with so much rapidity to
wealth and power, or made such a figure in the world
as the Jesuits. When Loyola, in the year 1540, peti-
tioned the Pope to authorise the institution, he had only
ten disciples ; but in the year 1608, sixty-eight years
after the first institution, the number of Jesuits had
increased to 10,681. In the year 1710, the Order pos-
sessed 24 professed houses, 59 houses of probation,
340 residences, 612 colleges, 200 missions, 150 semi-
naries and boarding-schools, and consisted of 19,998
Jesuits. These were actually so many incendiaries
sent forth to embroil the nations of the world—to set
them, and to keep them fighting with one another.
From being the confessors of kings and of their mis-
tresses, and of ministers of state, they became ac-
quainted with the secrets of every cabinet. These
were communicated to their general at Rome, who was
either a tool of the Pope, or had the Pope as a tool of
his ; and thus he had the command of a machine by
which he could influence, and often guide the measures
of every court in Europe, except those who had thrown
off the Papal yoke ; and even some of these were more
influenced by the Jesuits than the world knew at the
time. D'Alembert compared the society to a naked
sword, the hilt of which was at Rome. Their influ-
ence in England was most pernicious, and was unin-
terrupted from the accession of Elizabeth to the re-
volution in 1688, for it was their incessant plotting
against the life and government of that princess that
laid her under the necessity of having recourse to ri-
gorous measures, which laid the foundation of those
discontents which agitated the country in succeeding
reigns. In Elizabeth's time, it was the practice of Je-
suits to assume the character of zealous Protestant
preachers with a view to create divisions—a practice Ave
are far from sure they have abandoned at the present
day. The preaching of the Puseyites is certainly
something which bears a very striking resemblance to
it.

This Order, as our readers are well aware, was re-
stored by the late Pope, Pius VII., who declared that
he should " deem himself guilty of a great crime to-
wards God, if, amidst the dangers of the Christian
Republic, (in other words, the cause of Popery,) he
should neglect to employ the aids which the special
providence of God had put in his power, and, if
placed in the bark of St. Peter, and tossed by conti-
nual storms, he should refuse to employ the vigorous
and experienced rowers who volunteer their services."
Such was the token of gratitude which Great Britain
received from his holiness for the favour she had shown
him, in the days of his humiliation, under the iron
yoke of Napoleon. But the society was originally

framed for putting down the Reformation, and had
proved itself the most important and useful of all the
Orders placed in opposition to that great revolt against
the Roman usurpation; and could not be dispensed
with. Jesuitism, therefore, was restored, and has ta-
ken root in the very heart of this country.
We cannot immediately lay our hand upon the Se-
creta Monita of this pious fraternity ; but the crooked
morals which they hold, and the insidious arts which
they practise, are so well known as to have become a
proverb in the world. Well, even this order is tole-
rated among us. They have their colleges at Stony-
hurst in Lancashire, and at Clongowes in Ireland, and
other institutions also in both countries ; and even the
provisions of the Catholic emancipation act with re-
gard to the registry of their names and establish-
ments in the sister country, have scarcely ever been
enforced. Here then is toleration with a witness ; the
law allows it ; the parties enjoy it ; and we are not
aware of any attempt being made to deprive them of
it. But does it follow from this that we have nothing
to apprehend from Jesuitry, and no need of any cau-
tion against the Order ? Certainly not. It is bound
by the same ties it ever was to " put down the Refor-
mation," hopeless as the task may now seem, to un-
dermine our church and creed, and to advance the in-
terests of the Papal See. The Society are still, as
ever, the devoted Janissaries of the Popedom ; and
without presuming to allege that it is they who have
burned the armoury in the Tower, or caused those
other great conflagrations which have recently taken
place, we have no hesitation in saying that we coincide
in sentiment with those who entertain violent suspi-
cion and jealousy of the Order, generally, and in our
mind connect much of the disturbances which have
taken place in Ireland, and of the successful march of
Popery and O'Connellism in this country, with their
machinations.
The Mercury, we perceive, in its number of Friday'
joins in with the miserable yelp of the limes against
the Rev. Mr. Ould for his allusion to Guy Fawkes at
the Bolton Protestant Meeting, and his inferences from
that traitor's designs to the possibility of similar de-
signs and practices being in operation at the present
day. But both journals are guilty of a palpable mis-
representation, inasmuch as they impute to Mr. Ould
the making of a general charge involving all Roman
Catholics, as if he looked upon all the members of
the Church of Rome as joining, or as being likely t°
join, in such atrocious proceedings, or as capable of
approving of them. Whereas he said nothing of the
sort, nor was anything further from his intention, as
we are well assured. What he did say was merely In
the way of warning, and had reference to the Possible
actualities of a party notoriously unscrupulous in the
use of means, and not to those of the Roman Catholic
body at large. It would seem, indeed, that the Jesuits
have got the command of a very powerful press In
this town, and that, on the slightest provocation, the
quills of their zealous employe's are ready to start on
end. The Times, the Mercury, the Journal, and, we
believe we may add, the Chronicle, i,re their very obe-
dient, humble servants. Is there nothing portentous
in this circumstance ? We do not say that any one,
or all of these clever papers together, would actually
set the Mersey on fire; but we say it is a remarkable
proof of Jesuitical activity, and adds new force to the
impression that Jesuitry is by no means a thing In
these days to be overlooked.

Lord Alvanley has been unintentionally
the author
of much good, inasmuch as he has drawn forth from
the Earl of Roden a short but very admirable pamphlet
in reply to his proposal for subsidising the Irish priests.
Of that project we know not whether we are to hear
more, nor if we are, what is to be its ultimate destiny ;
but if we felt the need of faithful counsel, and clear de-
monstration on the subject, we could not
.desire any-
thing beyond what we are favoured with by the noble
earl—a most competent adviser, and a witness above
all suspicion. His lordship has condescended to meet_
the noble projector on grounds of ordinary policy, and
to shew that if principle did not entirely forbid coinci-
dence with this scheme, yet that every consideration
of prudence and common sense would. This we look
upon as a very great effort not only of condescension;
but of patience, affability, self-control, self-denial, and
much considerateness for the weakness of othetS, on the
part of his lordship, who feels, we are well assured'"
deeply as any other, the utter impossibility of entertain-
ing such a plan for a moment, consistently with the
indispensable requirements of conscience and duty.
Tu think of making Ireland happy and prosperous
by paying the priests of Romanism would be a still
greater mistake than that of endowing Maynooth---a
greater mistake, inasmuch as it would be a far more
costly experiment, and proportionately disappointing
in its results. There are about 4000 priests in Ire-
land, who, at a moderate computation, receive £l5O
a-year each—without reckoning the bishops—on what
they call the voluntary principle ; which, however,
is
no further " voluntary" than that the sums paid could
not be enforced by legal process. Their total income,
therefore, is about £600,000 a-year, whilst the income
derived from tithe, or tithe-rent, by the established
clergy, does not exceed £300,000. To compensate the
priests, then, for their present emoluments would re-
quire a large sum ; but large as it is, it would, as Lord
Roden generously observes, be well worth while to pay,
if it could be done conscientiously, or if being done,
it would purchase all that peace for the country which
the favourers of the project seem to expect. But there
are two grounds of objection—first, that the govern-
ment-paid priests would still remain the sworn vassals
of a foreign potentate, and essentially unchanged in
their disaffection to a Protestant sovereign—priests
of Rome still, though in the pay of a Protestant
state; and secondly, that the purchase up of one
body of claimants, would by no means he a satisfac-
tion to another—the monastic orders, who would soon
take the place of the pensioned parties, collect all those
fees which their predecessors might have been induced
to abandon, and eventually so work their cause, and
so make themselves felt, that some future Lord Alvan-
ley would have to come forward with another budget
to still the new agitation, and make a new composition
for a little more peace with the Church of Rome.
Lord Roden has exhibited this, and many more argu-
ments in detail, with a view to shew the absolute folly
of such a bargain even upon the common-sense prin-
ciple of seeking an equivalent for one's money—a quid
pro quo in common dealing. But he does not leave
the case there : he does not omit to observe, that in
point of principle such a bargain would be a base one,
and inconsistent with every obligation we owe to our

government and religion.
We are ourselves induced to notice such a topic as
that brought forward by Lord Alvanley with much
reluctance, as it has a tendency to familiarise the mind
with a thought which cannot be justly viewed without
abhorrence. When we are asked to take Popish priests
into pay, we presume it is a fair question to ask, in
return, what they arc to he paid for. Is it for doing
good, or for doing harm ? As for the good—it cannot
be. We have sworn that they teach error; our Church
has pronounced it, and we have subscribed to it. Nor
is their false-teaching of a trifling or unimportant cha-
racter ; it is vitally, essentially wrong, and it produces
fruits the most bitter, the most injurious—fruits abso-
lutely poisonous to society. Can we—should we pay
them, then, for such labour of mischief ? Away With
the monstrous proposition ! We put it from us as an
abomination. But it is not for doing good that it is
proposed to pay Romish priests; it is that they may
abstain, in some degree, from doing harm. Their sala-
ries would be a sort of black-mail levied upon the state
for a certain amount of evil remitted, and the state
would thus acknowledge itself their vassal. 'What a ,
relation to exist between a government and its subjects .
Well has Lord Roden observed on this head—

" Our own laws should be obeyed and acknowledged as
supreme, and, if faithfully and firmly administered, they are
sufficient to repress any disorderly conduct on the part of the
priests of the Church of Rome. Deeply, I am convinced,,
would it grieve the heart of every true British Protestant, it
ever they should witness the day when it became necessary
to call in the aid of the Pope of Rome to assist our gracious
Queen in the government of
her subjects. If such a time
should ever arrive, ' the sun of England will indeed be set.'
- - - - - - . .

Now, we agree with his lordship in depreciating any
plan for " calling iu the aid of the Pope of Rome to
assist our most gracious Queen in the government of
her subjects"; hut, the plan, after all, is not so strange,
or new to us, as his lordship seems to think ; what
have the Whigs been doing for the last ten years, but
calling in the Pope's aid, or that of his priests (which
is the same thing) to assist them in governing Ireland,
ay, and England too ? We verily believe that Popish
priests and Jesuits have had a much larger share in

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.regime
of the Whigs than many are aware. We have, happily,
broken off the yoke of the oppressor for the present ;
°lit, the system, we :grieve to find, still has its
on advo-
icates. That it should be necessary to enter into con-
troversy
such a topic !—but the inveteracy of an evil
this
has, we fear, made it so. The best argument on
111.1 a head, however, will be a practical one, and will con-
'tat not in talking about it, but in actually governing
the country independently of Mr. Daniel 0' Connell,
o
r any of his myrmidons, either here or elsewhere. In
connection with this important point, we shall borrow
another excellent passage from the noble earl
4 which difficulties peculiar to Ireland," says his lordship,
stand in the way of a due observance of the laws,
"L be
interially diminished by a firm adherence to prin-
tiLe...lt is only when men's minds are tossed about, at one
ex'eje,bighly elated, at another deeply depressed, by falsely
or v`eit_i hopes and fears. that agitation is likely to succeed,i
ueouitie turbulent or alarming. Let the laws be tait
ionYtand impartially administered—let crime be diligently
fgut out and punished—let men be selected to fill the dif-
rent. situations under government patronage for their moral
;Ili:, intellectual fitness—let the appointments in the Esta-
to their
Church be conferred on men whose lives are devoted
sacred calling—let protection be afforded to life and.
Cray as far as in the government lies—and Nyhilst tolera-
' full and free, is extended to every religious sect, let
11,uragement and protection be given to the truth an I
troy no doubt but that Ireland will soon become different.
140 What she is, and make equal progress in civilization, in
,ralitY, and in religion, with other parts of the empire.
We have nothing to add to observations so sound,
tu truly liberal, and just. Popery is the curse and
ruin of Ireland, and with Popery, cost what it may, we
can have no peace, but what will be ultimately injuri-
°ins to ourselves. No peace-with Rome " must still
the motto on our banner, under all circumstances ;
lur 4
it is the only ensign that can conduct to any thing
Which can .be called peace, or preserve us from a truce
mote to be dreaded than open war.

Th • •
. The mystery which still overhangs the Exchequer
141 fraud, affords a fine opportunity for the invention
4:1 Propagation of tales, intended as solutions, of
0 aieli everybody is at liberty to believe just so much
r nothing at all, as he pleases. That there are " high
Parties involved whom it is the wish of the government
a screen," is one of these fictions, but one in which,
for `
°or part, we place no faith whatever. It contains
slanderous imputation, however, which we would
Gladly see repelled by some further disclosures.
It is to be presumed that Smith has by this time re-
aaled all that he knows of the business—an amount
w ick one should suppose, would leave nothing more
f 'lQr curiosity to desire ; yet the prosecution of the mat-
tebr, on the part of the crown, seems to have ended.
Pallo is discharged ; Beaumont Smith is sentenced
tol'a
transportation, and so the matter rests. With re-
gard to the money, there is not the least idea that any
Part of it will be recovered from the pprties, whoever
e.
geY Were, to whose plans the unfortunate Smith was
la t Powerful an assistant. On this head the London
'nes makes the following interesting observations :

or" To those who have been used sometimes to read and hear
theitY failures, whether mercantile or on the Stock-Exchange,
4;ee will appear nothing strange or unaccountable in the utter
.41"Pation of £300,000 without any gain to the parties ; nor
ii.n.Y,e.xpectation that a hoard could be discovered, even by
47eKing every single bill through all its stages to its ulti-
ate resting-place.
01" The present autumn has already witnessed several,, nay,
CeY failures, in London and the larger towns, of amount
Quailing, or even exceeding, the exchequer-bill fraud, and
each of which it might with quite as much propriety be
,fed, What can have become of all this money ?' We have
n bankers, once worth £300,000 or £lOO,OOO, now deficient
PZLhaps nearly as much ; booksellers, in a few years, minus
L;uu,ooo or £150,000 • and warehousemen who, in two years,
Zile dissipated £80,400 ! Yet none of these occupations
ter 80 easy and rapid a method of getting rid of money as the
heaveilreergain system on the Stock-Exchange. Where, then.
tin onder, that two or three persons, without exciting
Been
Y observation. should, in the time which seems to
ques-
have
tie,,en spent in the work, have got rid of the sum now in
'n ?—not £300,000, we apprehend ; but only such amount
is
enaY have been advanced on Exchequer-bills apparently of
at value ?"
So ranch as to the money; as to the parties, it does
eettainly seem passing strange that all other besides
Smith and Rapallo are yet unnamed. If Smith's con-
felsion is to be believed, other parties there certainly
*ere, and they more guilty even than himself. " Al-
la
red and beguiled by plausibility, power, and talent,"
lie Bays in his confession, " I became entangled beyond
et/cape, and while Exchequer bills were obtained from

me t 0 an enormous extent, I never derived benefit even
t° the small extent necessary to relieve me from my
()Tllparatively trifling embarrassments," From another
fart of his written statement it would appear that he
14'14 determined not to withhold any information what-
.
eYer of which he was possessed in connection with the
transaction, and it is presumable that he has since
Riven it. Some commiseration is due to the fate of
this unhappy man. He has been guilty of a tremendous
breach of trust which has been the means of defraud-

41g innocent parties to an immense amount; and yet
it appears that he sought nothing for himself, and with
ample opportunity to do so, forbore to make any pro-
vision against the day of discovery, which he knew
w°llld certainly come. Finally, he made no attempt
t° escape, and tendered to that justice which he had so
grievously wronged all the amends in his power. These
at least are circumstances of mitigation, and shew him
to be a man of some conscientiousness ; indeed, if his
N'n story be true, fatuity is the most remarkable
feature of his conduct.

The Rev. E. R. Jones, 8.A., late Scholar of Brasenose
College, Oxford, eldest son of the Rev. J. Jones, M.A., in-
cumbent of this town, was elected on Tuesday last to a Fel-
lowship at Queen's College, in that university.
HAIR OIL.—We have been requested by the proprietor of
the Liverpool Botanic Hair Oil to state that its properties
are of the most valuable nature. He states, that the use of
it completely prevents the hair from changing colour—that
it keeps the sealp moist. We are told that this oil has the
merit of aiding in the preservation of the eye sight.
DISCUSSION ON SOCIALISM.—We are informed that the
committee appointed to arrange the discussion on socialism,
between Mr. Brindley and Mr. Lloyd Jones, the socialist,
have placed in the hands of the Mayor the sum of £7O 3s 3d,
being the proceeds of the four nights' debate, after discharg-
ing the usual expenses. The amount is, we believe, to be
divided between the Infirmary and the Dispensaries.
GAME PIES :—THE RAINBOW.—Mr. Lawton, the pur-
veyor of the finest game pies in England, has commenced
making for the season. His fame is established far and wide,
and those who wish to place a delicious dish on their Christmas
tables, must lose no time in favouring him with their orders.
The Caledonia, British and North American royal mail
steamer, which left Liverpool on the 4th ultimo, arrived at
Boston on the 18th. She would sail from that port on the
Ist, and Halifax on the 3d, inst., and may be expected to ar-
rive here to-morrow.

MEETING OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.'-ThiS
body would assemble on Monday week, the first in the
mouth. The Message transmitted by the President would
be read on the next day. As copies of it would not reach
New York until the Bth, the packet-ship Independence pro-
bably would be detained until that day, to convey the Mes-
sage to Europe , in that case, she may be expected, with fair
winds, to arrive about Christmas-day. But, should the ship
have a long passage, the royal mail steamer, which will leave
Boston on the 16th instant, will arrive with the Message on
or before the 30th instant.

FIRE.—On Sunday morning, at three o'clock, a fire was
discovered in a warehouse in Wilde-street, belonging to Mr.
Jones, London-road. The alarm was the greater in conse-
quence of its being known that there was a quantity of blast
powder deposited on the first floor. The floor was on fire,
and an attempt was made to persuade Mr. Hewitt, on his
arrival with the fire-engines, not to enter the street, but that
excellent officer, considering that the speedy suppression of
the fire was the grand point, drove on. and in a few minutes
succeeded in gaining a position secure from danger in case of
an explosion. Mr. Jones arrived in a few minutes, and at
great personal risk, rushed to where the powder was depo-
sited, and flung it into the street. (four casks). The fire
was completely subdued in about an hour. It originated
among some straw, the lower part of the building being used
as a stable. Mr. Whitty, Mr. Maxwell, and other officials
were promptly on the spot. "
MALTREATMENT OF A MOTHER HY HER SOM.—Yester-
day, at the Police-court, a stout young man named George
Walkington, was charged by his mother, an old woman, with
gross abuse and annoyance of her on Saturday night. She
stated that' she lived in Redcross-street, and bad done a
great deal for the prisoner, and was willing to do the utmost
for him, if he would conduct himself with propriety, but
found it in vain. On Saturday night he went to her place
and demanded 3s. from her, which he would have squan-
dered had she given it him ; and on her refusing lie became
exceedingly violent, and assaulted her, and she was obliged
to send for the police-officers, when he struck and kicked
her. He had got married to a woman with whom he could
not live, and she had long supported him, and had his wel-
fare so much at heart that she would do so yet, if he would
behave himself, but he kept her in continual fear and misery,
so that she could not go to bed with her clothes off, lest he
might come in at any moment and attack her. She added
that he had spent all his week's earnings, 175., on Saturday
and Sunday, in drinking, and that drinking made him mad.
She did not think she could long survive his violence. Mr.
Rushton : "Oh yes, you will! You are still a stout woman,
and will live a good while if you do not distress yourself
about him. His conduct has been most disgraceful and un-
manly, and you must not trouble yourself further about him,
or interfere to get him released, otherwise he may some day
take your life. I will take him into keeping. He must pay
a fine of £5, or be imprisoned for two months for the
assault, and further find sureties to keep the peace, himself
in £3O, and two others in £2O each, or be further im-
prisoned for one month."
The Prince Wales is to be " the pet of the petticoats ".
according to his royal highness's nativity, by Raphael, in the
Prophetic Almanac, in which little work for 1842 it appears
at full length, together with 108 pages of useful and very
amusing articles, illustrated with a large coloured Hierogly-
phic on zinc, and an exquisite steel plate called "The Magic
Mirror." The successful position of Raphael's almanac has
enabled the proprietor so to improve it as to merit the appel-
lation of being " the best " of the smaller annuals. On
Winter evenings, " the laughable Wheel of Pythagoras " and
the Cabilistic Numbers; and in leisure moments, the poeti-
cal extracts, afford light and gratification.—(See advt.)

CONVERSIONS FROM ROMAN ISM.—We have observed
lately frequent instances of persons publicly recanting the
errors of Popery, and embracing the Scriptural doctrines of
Protestantism. It will be seen from an advertisement, that
a special form of service, to be used on such occasions, has
been compiled by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, from one pre-
pared by the Archbishop Tenison, in the ).ear 1714, at the
command of Queen Anne ; the only addition being the
introduction of a few questions used and recommended by
the late Archbishop of Dublin. As the want of such a
form has long been experienced, we have no doubt there will
be a great demand for it.
ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH.—On Sunday last, two excellent
sermons were preached in this church by the Rev. John
Jones, and the Rev. J. H. Stewart, in behalf of St. Michael's
week-day and Sunday schools. The mayor, and several
members of the town council, were present on the occasion.
The collections amounted to £47 4s. 6d. The school chil-
dren attended at each service, and it was pleasing to hear
them sing the appropriate hymns chosen for the occasion. I n
the afternoon they were cathechised in the church, when
many of the congregation, as well as the parents of the chil-
dren, were gratified by their good answering in the Scriptures,
as well as their correct repetition of their hymns and cate-
chism. The pew rents, in this church, we are glad to learn,
are to be reduced from Ist February next. This will be a
great boon to the congregation and neighbouring inhabitants.
Hitherto the price charged was nearly uniform throughout
the entire church ; but in future a graduated scale will be
adopted, so that individuals in different circumstances of life
will be accommodated with pews or sittings in proportion to
their means.

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THE ALBION'S LATEST !-Our contemporary, the Albion,
has been robbing up his Latinity, and has made three dis-
tinct discoveries—first, that Fidus Achates is not Fides
Achates; secondly, that Fidus Achates kept bad company ;
and lastly, that Fidus Achates is not the Reverend Hugh
M`N elle. The Albion is right this time in his orthography ;
right,too in his identity ; but with respect to his second po-
sition—thc character of the Pius Eneas—there is nothing
in it.
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INQUEST ON A CHlLD.—Yesterday an inquest was held
before Mr. Curry, touching the death of Jane Griffiths, a
child of eleven years old. The deceased lived with her pa-
rents, in Thurlow-street. On Sunday evening, during their
absence, the deceased called in another little girl from the next
house to keep her company ; and while the former was pour-
ing some coffee from a kettle into a cup, her clothes ignited
at the bars of the grate, in which there was a brisk fire, and
she was soon in flames. Her companion endeavoured to ex-
tinguish them by throwing water upon her, but being unable,
called her mother, who extinguished the fire with a blanket,
but not before the deceased was so much burnt that she died
in a few hours. Verdict, " Accidental death."
STEALING A CHEESE.—At the Police-court yesterday,
two boys, William Tatlock and Michael Regan, werecharged
with having stolen a cheese. l t appeared that about six
o'clock on Saturday night, a police officer observed the pri-
soners, one of whom had a cheese ; and as, on being ques-
tioned, they gave no satisfactory account of it, he detained
them, and made inquiry in the neighbourhood, the result of
which was, that the cheese was identified as belonging to
Mrs. Ball, shopkeeper, Byrom-street, being marked B, and
missed from others similarly marked. One of the prisoners
stated that he had picked it up in the middle of the street—
saving it from being run over by a coach ! They were each
committed to gaol for three months.
REVENUE INQUIRY.—The commissioners Lord Granville
Somerset, Mr. Baring, and Mr. Pringle, arrived here on
Friday, to commence their examination into the state of
the revenue establishments. One main object of the inquiry
is to provide increased facilities for commerce; and, we un-
derstand, that in consequence of a communication to this
effect from Lord Sandon to the mayor, all the mercantile
associations of the town have appointed deputations to con-
sider matters to be brought before the commissioners. The
deputations meet daily at the rooms of the East India and
China Association, when the communications of facts or
suggestions for improvements in the present system may be
addressed to the chairman of the deputations.
THEFT FROM THE PERSON.—Yesterday, at the Police-
court, a young woman, named Mary Roach, was charged
with stealing a sum of money from the person of a gentleman
in the street. Mr. John S. Williams said he was a builder
in Birkenhead, and that on Saturday night, as he was passing
down Ranelagh-street, he was accosted by the prisoner. He
had scarcely spoken to her, telling her he would have no
communication with her, when lie missed his money, and
immediately told her she had robbed him of a half-crown and
two shillings. He detained her, observed she had the money
in her mouth, and called a police-officer, who took her into
custody. She screamed out murder, and collected a con-
, course of people. The officer searched her, but found no
money in her possession. On returning, however, to the
'r spot, after depositing his charge in the station-house, he
found the money amongst the stones. She was committed
for trial.

DEATII FROM A WOUND IN THF. HEAD—SURGICAL
CASE.—An inquest was, on Saturday, and, by adjournment,
Yesterday, held before P. F. Curry, Esq., on view of the I
body of a boy. 9 years of age, named John Garland. A youth, i
named Connolly, was in custody, on suspicion of having I
caused his death. The prisoner's brother, Abraham Con-
'lolly, said he was an apprentice at Messrs. Rodick and Co.'s,
merchants. About three months ago he and his brother had
some words at home, and after going out, the latter threw a
stone at him in Hale-street, at the bottom of which there are
some steps into Dale-street. He evaded the stone by going
off the parapet, and it bounded towards the steps. Directly
after he heard a boy screaming, and saw him with his hand
to his head. Some persons collected, and said the boy was
hurt. Witness went away, and did not see him afterwards.
It appeared that the deceased, who lived with his parents, in
Bachelor-street, went home, and had the wound dressed. He
was attended by several doctors, including Mr. Baylis and
Mr. Murphy. Mr. C. 0. Baylis, surgeon, said he called to
see the deceased, Dr. Murphy was then going to perform
an operation on his head. Ile was wounded on the left fore-
head—the wound had imperfectly healed—the bone was
much discoloured—and there was evidence of disease of the
brain. The operation was performed by Dr. Murphy. A
portion of the bone of the skull was, on removing the scalp,
found absorbed. Four days afterwards he called, by request
of Mr. Murphy, and found a portion of the brain had come
through the opening made by the trepanning. The disease
of the brain and of the bone of the skull was, no doubt, the
cause of death—produced by external violence. Mr. Ley-
cock said he attended the deceased about ten days. He
found inflammation of the brain, and applied the usual re-
medies. After ten days he considered him convalescent, but
on again visiting him, found he had been trepanned, and a
soft substance protruding through the opening. He called
two surgeons from the Dispensary in consultation, and used
the usual means, but the patient died on Friday, from hernia
of the brain, which frequently followed trepanning, but could
not be foreseen by the operator. He could connect the
cause of death with the wound and inflammation of the brain,
for which he was first called,—nor could he say whether the
operation was necessary or not, as it was performed several
days after be was first called in. When lie left off first visit-
ing him, the wound was quite healed. Mr. Cooper, surgeon,
made a post mortem examination. lie found a large wound,
evidently made for surgical purposes. The skull was exposed.
There was a considerable hole of an angular shape, having
more the appearance of bone removed by ulceration or ab-
sorption than by surgical operation. Trepanning had been
performed, and he found a large cavity in the brain, and an
ulcerated hole in the dura mater corresponding with that in
the skull. He described other appearances. Matter pre-
vailed throughout the whole of the cavities of the brain, and
was one of the most extensive cases of abscess of the brain he
had ever seen. The abscess was the cause of death. It was
not of frequent occurrence from natural causes, but more
frequently from blows or wounds of the skull. A blow given
two or three months ago might produce it. The jury re-
turned a verdict to the effect, that the deceased died of the
abscess, but how produced there was no evidence. The pri•
soner was discharged.