The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

Rumours of dissensions in the cabinet, touching the I IMPORTATION OF ITALIAN MUSICIANS AND MlCE-
dissolution, prevail in the dubs; it is said to be a struggle Boys.—A few slights since another band of poor savoyads
between the Greys and the bßedfords. -The Irish Secre- were landed at FOlkstone :from the Princess Helena
taTy, Mr. Labouchere, is said to be bent -on resigning. steamer. The hand consisted of 50 wretched-looking
The new Poor Law for Ireland is thezreat bone of con- ragged beings, who are to wander about our streets and
tention. perambulate the country as musicians or mice-boys. They
The corn markets, which a fortnight ago,were reported were landed in charge of a man who had the modesty to
as falling throughout the country, are again on the ad- offer 4s. 6d. for a lodging for the whole of the party for
Nance ; and, after this last attempt at -moderate prices, one night. Eventually they found a resting-place in some
most parties appear to have yielded themselves to the stables, where they huddled together like so many swine.
conviction, that all hopes of such a blessing, at least until We think some means should be adopted to put a stop to
the next harvest, must now be abandoned. Unfortu- such a cruel traffic.
nately, this fact goes far to deprive us of any hope of THE. IRISH ENGLAND.—SeveraI hundred unfortu-

THE GREAT-WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.—We believe we
may now venture to state that this noble vessel has ceased
to be the property of a Bristol Company. We hear that
Captain Chappell, Secretary to the West India Mail Steam.
Packet Company, has completed the purchase of her, for
the sum of £25,000, exclusive of her plate. The Great
Western will leave her berth on this present Saturday
morning, and proceed to Pill for the purpose of shipping
her paddles, previously to going to Southampton. From
that port she will sail for a five months' voyage, and, at
the expiration of that period, we hear that it is the Com-
pany's intention to lay her up, and expend a large sun -
upo.n. her (report says £10,000) in repairs, refitting,

amelioration of mriafinancial difficulties. , nates, in addition to the swarms that have already been Bristol Mirror.
SUSPECTED MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Considerable ex- thrownupon Newport, Monmouthshire, have been brought The learned recorder of Hull, Matthew Talbot Baines,
citement was cauqpil in Warminster on Monday by an oc- over from the south of Ireland by collier vessels. Many Esq., Q.C., took care, in his address to the grand jury, cis
currence which led to the suspicion of a murder perpe- are afflicted with fever, and ail have gaunt tokens of Friday last, to remove any suspicion which might have
trated by a father on his son. The name of the former is famine. Upwards of one thousand poor creatures have existed of his participation in the editor of the Leeds-
Matthew Keene, a pensioner, who lived in the neighbour- been relieved within a very short time, but several Mercury's abhorrence of thekGovernment scheme of Na-
hood. The lad was found in a water-ditch, with his head deaths have occurred.--Among the crowd' of applicants tional Education. Though we expected that such would
under the water, and suffocated ; and the father was dis- for relief at St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol, on Friday last, be the case, we confess we were rasher apprehensive that
consfirdoemrateixonprseawaioluill;dhihmasveelfpwreitvhenaltedl
thteheellearnneedas-
was one person who, it has been ascertained, placed fif-
covered near him, with his throat' cut, and dead.
gentlemanfamily
CHEAP METROPOLITAN TRAVELLING.—On Monday, teen sovereigns in the hands of a companion before pre-
omnibuses commenced running from Battersea to Hoxton, renting himself as a " starving Irishman." demanded at such a juncture. In charging the grand
greatlyn
li
pmopsrsoi
hvleed
toprospectsconceive
anational
subject
greater tion a
conveying passengers the entire distance, about nine miles, IRON STEAM-SHIPS.—William Crawshay, the great jury, the learned recorder said—" I, for one, rejoice
for sixpence. The Ant and Bee steam-vessels, running iron merchant, in a letter to the London Times, of last
from Loudon Bridge to the West-end, reduced their fares week, says,—" I hope that the rapid breaking up of the
for i
t ja over
quite
to one halfpenny ; and the Citizen -sham-boat Company Tweed steamer, a wood-built ship, and the consequent
limit education at
importance. So far from wishing to
commenced running their vessels to Hammersmith, dreadful loss of life, will be contrasted in the public all, if I had my own will, I would make it accessible to
every human being ; because, in proportion as you dm' -
Wandsworth, and Putney, at reduced fares. mind with the holding together for six months (and pro- every
the blessings of a sound religious and moral
FORGING THE GOLDSMITHS' STAMP.—At the Glouces- bably until got off), and the consequent preservation of
education, in exactly the sameproportion do you provide
ter Assizes, on Saturday, Josiah Gregory, a silversmith, every soul on board, of the Great Britain steamer, an iron-
for the dearest interests of the üblic at large.
and Edward Bynes, his shopman. were convicted of forg- built ship. A comparison of the situation of th ground- for
HAS VOLUNTARYISMPDONE FOR EDUCATION .--
Goldsmiths ing the mark for stamping silver used by the Company of ing of the two vessels might probably be favourablegr to
The Rev. R. Burgess at a meeeing in London, last week,
Goldsmiths at Exeter, within whose district Gregory's one or the other ; but under any circumstances I am in-
shop was situated. They had carried on the practice for dined to believe that had the Tweed been an iron-built said, `lt was stated by Mr. M'Cullock that in 1833, the
stoeitapilions number
was o6fl children
; eninr inthDeissNeraitteiorns' alscsheohoolsols of
itall as
w
a considerable time. Gregory was sentenced to imprison- ship, every soul on board would have been saved, and
de-
ment, with hard labour, for eighteen months, and Bynes much, if not all, of the imperishable part of the cargo
for twelve calender months. . also. The boilers, which are of similar construction to 324,045 ;up to 1833, then, what had the voluntary system
yet
tas with muchall itnhdeeeb exertions
to
.ona then
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BlLL.—Among the mem- an iron vessel, are still standing entire."
hers who voted, on Wednesday, in favour of this bill EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—On Thursday, a meeting done? Nobody had done more for education than the
fWoretshleeyiranss,unthdaeycoamehmooursi;tyy
going into committee were Lord Sandon, T. Thornley, "of the members and friends of the Leeds sub-division of
W. Brown, J. Bright, J. Brotherton, W. Ewart, Lord the British Organisation of the Evangelical Alliance" Wesleyans could make it appeared that last year they had
P
R. Grosvenor, Sir J. Jervis, Lord J. Russell, &c. We was held in the Music Hall, Leeds ;Sir Culling Eardley only 30,686
in England was reckoned at 1,200,000,
30,686 children in the daily schools. The number
find among those who voted against it, Sir H. Douglas, Smith, Bart in the chair. The admission was by ticket,W
of
J. Tollemache, W. T. Egerton, W. B. Ferrand, Capt. and there w" as a large attendance of the dissenters of which gave only one child to 40. As to government in-
Gladstone, Right Hon. H. Goulburn, G. Hudson, Hon. Leeds and the neighbourhood present. We believe six- terterence, when they called on it to repress and punish
G. D. Ryder, Col. Sibthorpe, &c. pence each was asked at the doors for the admission of crime, they could not debar it fromlspending
NARROW ESCAPE OF A MULTITUDE FROM DROWNING. persons who were without tickets. The proceedings preveLt it. But he would ratli
tpileeied. onHley
ltoootkheed cfhorurarchtdh;atotothhtaehdreubeaocqsinwgertehcoesme moneyto
—On Easter Monday, an overloaded canal boat, on the commenced at six o'clock, and did not conclude till after mterferance. fa fa t, the contrerleami,dti'lisinspaBecsitistaonnwceasthaa pl.
pmaraeatsiurvelz
canal between Tipton and Birmingham, was upset by the ten. Amongst the speakers, besides the chairman, were
foolish pranks of some young men. Thirty or forty per- the Rev. Dr. Bates, of Glasgow • the Rev. J. A. James,
sons on the roof were shot into the water, and the boat of Birmingham ; the Rev. T. Scales, of Leeds ; the Rev, as the greatest blessing
sank. For some time, upwards of one hundred and Jos. Hargreaves, of Sheffield, &c. No resolutions were The people had shamefullybeenge'ver leefallen. the country.
teventy persons were in great danger of being drowned, proposed, but several sentiments in favour of union the government never gave any neg d,up to
.1833
assistance, never furnished
but at length all were safely rescued, though drenched amongst different denominations of Christians were pro- a shilling for the purpose cf education. France applied
and in a miserable plight. posed. The general object of the meeting appeared to be between X 600,000 and £700,000 a -ear to this
purose ;
AN UNFORTUNATE HARE.—A hare was killed last to encourage the friends of the " Alliance "to continue even slow-moving Austria was beforey them • England was
week on the Railway near Barton Moss, by one of the in its ranks, and to obtain recruits for the same. the only country that saw, with folded arm' s , its people
railway trains. When taken up, it appeared to have only THE WESLEYANS.—It is astonishing to perceive the driven into eternity in hopeless ignorance."
three legs, and, on examination, it was found that one of amount of virulence and ignorance that is brought to bear FLUCTUATIONS IN THE FUNDS.—The quotationsff' °i/
fore legs had been cut o, as cleanly as if with a knife, against that highly-respectable body of Christians, known consols for money at the end of February, when the las
but that the cut had healed. It is supposed that this had as Wesleyan Methodists.—When the Dissenters find them account closed, was 904. From that point it graduall
been done in a previous railway accident, in one of pussy's acting in an independent course, they attack them with improved to 904 to 4 ; but immediately after the co
ncu 1 y -
excursions from the Worsley woods to.the Barton turnip all their available weapons of calumny and ridicule • but sion of the new loan of 4:8,000,000, the market began to
fields. ,
the next day the same Dissenters find they cannot blink exhibit much weakness, owing principally to the intelli-
THE JUDGMENT OF LEEDS ON THE GOVERNMENT the fact of the wealth, extent, and growing influence of gence from America, and the consequent export of bus_
SCHEME OF EDUCATION.—The nineteenth report of the the body, and they seek by every artifice to produce con- lion. From 904 to 4, the price of consols in the early
committee of the House of Commons enumerates four ciliation. For our own parts we are free to own that we Part of March, they declined to 874 in the middle of the
petitions from Leeds in favour of the Government look upon the resolution of the committee of privileges month, but afterwards rallied to 884, and suddenly fur-
scheme. The petition of the " Magistrates, Aldermen, of the Wesleyan body, as indicative of independence and ther advanced, on the announcement of the Russo-k rench
and Councillors" has 36 signatures attached to ; that of nobility. Feeling that the people must be educated, and convention, to 894. This rise was not long maintained,
the " Clergy and Ministers of the Gospel," 31 • that of that there is no radical evil in state assistance, when not and speculative sales continuing to increase, are-action to
" superintendents and teachers of Sunday school's," 351 ; connected with servility ; and finding that the authorised the old quotation took place. At the close of the month
that of the " inhabitants," 24,747. " Think of that, version of the Scriptures is alone to be read ; and that no of March consols stood at $Bl to a, and between • .
this time
Master Baines !"—Daily News. inspector will be allowed to enter a school in their con- and the 7th of April they declined to 874. On the Bth
The free church synod of Glasgow and Ayr has, on the nexion without the previous sanction of their body, they instant the bank directors having augmented their mini-
motion of Dr. Buchanan, resolved, by a majority of 60 have resolved to offer no further opposition to a plan mum rate of discount to 5 per cent., an additional fall of
to 16, to petition against the education scheme. This which is founded on liberality and based on truth. For nearly 2 per cent. followed ; and on the tll h
consols stood
synod is the largest provincial court of the body; and as this we find they are abused in almost every quarter. So at the low point of 854. Since then a re-action of 2 per
Dr. Candlish sat in it as a corresponding member, and much for liberality ! So much for Evangelical Alliance ! cent, has taken place, but that
a
improvement has not bee
voted in the majority, there can be little doubt that this —Birmingham Advertiser. fully supported; the price ha • tng again given way to 86.
decesion will exercise a considerable influence over, or at THE MURDERERS OF MR. JOHN RILEY.—This unfor- In consol scrip the early bargains were about 4to 1 pre-
all events may be predicted as indicating pretty correctly, tunate gentleman, it will be remembered, was murdered mium, and as soon as the luau was taken, the price ad-
the opinions of the ensuing general assembly of the free on the 11th of January, while on his road home from vanced to 2 premium. This was not long sustained, ed, and,
church. The free presbytery of Arbroath have without Sheffield to Grimesthorpe-lane: On getting into his house under the pressure of sales, the quotation declined to 1
a vote come to a similar resolution. he exclaimed, " Mary, they have almost murdered me." discount; but the Russo-French convention brought the
WHOLESALE INCENDIARISM.—On Thursday night, a This was said-to his wife ; but he could not identify his Price from 1 discount to par to 4 premium. With the
fire broke out in an extensive farm yard at Burnham, murderers. He was attacked on the Monday, and died subsequent decline in consols scrip has, however, also kept
Essex, and whilst it was being extinguished, the persons the Saturday following. Early next day his watch was Pace, and from that point has gone down in about the
engaged in doing so, were half paralyzed by the sudden found, wrapped up in some cloth, in Mr. Riley's garden, same ratio, till it has in one case been quoted 4 discount.
bursting out elf flames on a second, and then on a third where it had been placed during the night. From infor- It has now a better market, being between 24 and 2 dis-
farm, so that there were at the same time, and scarcely mation received by Mr. Raynor, superintendent of police, count.—Times.
more than half a mile distant, the property at three farm he caused two men, named William Challiner and James THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION.—At a meeting in
homesteads all blazing. Altogether, eight or nine stacks, Bradley, of Grimesthorpe, to be apprehended on Saturday London, on Thursday, for the purpose of supporting
four barns, stables, and various other outbuildings, with week. It appears that the grounds of suspicion were, that the Government Education Scheme, the Bishop of Nor-
in one instance the dwelling of one of the labourers upon a Sheffield man had been discovered who had purchased wich stated that,—•' On a very low computation 2,125,000 -
the premises, fell a prey to the flames. Much of the pro- Mr. Riley's watch of the prisoners, and who, on hearing children ought to be found in tuis country in the schools
perty, it appears, was insured. of the murder, had gone and placed the watch in Mr. for the elementary education of the working classes • but
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—A most distressing event, Riley's garden, as before described. The man, it seems, that instead of this, scarcely more than 1,000,000 of
connected with the loss of the Tweed West India mail had kept the secret until Friday week, when he admitted children were to be found in them, so that considerably
packet, occurred at Southampton about a week since. A the facts of having purchased the watch, and placed it in more than 1,000,000 were left without the instruction they
poor woman, the wife of one of the crew of that ill-fated Mr. Riley's garden. The prisoners were taken before the had a right to demand. lie held in his hand a letter he
vessel, the mother of six children, and several months mayor on Saturday week, and remanded in order to corn- had received from a clergyman in Staleybridge, near Man-
advanced in pregnancy, dropped down dead on being told plete the evidence against them. It seems, at present, cheater, in which he stated that the district under his -
abruptly by a neighbour that the Tweed was lost, and that Bradley is suspected of having been the most guilty superintendence contained 10,000 immortal beings ; that
that all hands had perished. What renders the circum- party in the horrible transaefon. nine-tenths of his parishioners were in a state of avowed
stance the more affecting is, that the husband arrived THE M.P. AND THE TAILORS.—" Berkeley, Brothers," or practical infidelity ; and that there was not one single .
safely at Southampton in the Avon packet on Thursday are before the public once more with their disreputable school within the whole district in which a good edam-
last, being one of the persons whose lives were so provi- quarrels. The younger member of the firm having been tion was given. Then take a parish in this neighbour-
dentially saved. dunned by his tailors, Stultz and Co. for the settlement hood—that of St. Paueras ' • that parish was recently si.u.-
LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.—On Friday morning, of an account, rushes into print with a long correspond- veyed flora house to house by gentlemen connected with
between ten and eleven o'clock, as one of the labourers ence b: t A een himself and the patient tradesmen, from the City -NI• ion,
and among 25,000 inhabitants in one
of E. F. Colston, Esq., was passing near the newly' formed which Le deduces the conclusion that Lord Fitzhardinge district it vices found that' there were between 2 and 12 -
fish-ponds in Roundway Park (the seat of Mr. Colston), has been guilty of some villairams " unconstitutional " ye, r 3 of age more than 15,000childreeci
out
of
these
he discovered the body of that gentleman floating in the proceeding in declining to pay for a gay yeomanry uniform, but 7,000 w,re in the habit of al ti.:;Llinng school, whe-
water. Prompt assistance was obtained, but it was un- with which the gallant and brawny member decorated his ther Sunday or Cay school, so that there were more than
availing. It is supposed that the deceased, who was a brawny person. We do4't think the, public will care very 8,000 children between the years of 2 and 12 who were
magistrate for Wilts, was taking the shortest way by the much about this trumpery piece of business : the present Provided with t 0 education what ver. These things -
fish-ponds across a steep bank, upwards of twenty feet, quarrel may be summed up in half-a-dozen words. Mr. Proved the inefficiency of the voluntary system ; and let
when, either from apoplexy, to which he was predisposed, Grantley Berkeley declares that his noble brothu r inferen- them romember that the voluntary system had not stood
or from stumbling, he fell down into the water. Deceased tially promised to hear certain charges for yeomanry uni- alone and en iided in its work, but that, year by year,
was tall and corpulent, and by no means likely to recover forms and personal expences, to be incurred by the for- large grants had been given by the state to meet volun-
himself under such circumstances.—Bristol Mirror. mer : his noble brother practically den's); that any such tary efforts, and that in these grants dissenters and church-
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.—We are gratified to promise was made; and with le t a•s f oil tailors, writs men had alike shared."
perceive that Mr. Watson's Popish Bill was defeated in from one tradesman, and threats of writs from another, A JUST REBUKE.—The Times of Wednesday, with be-
the House of Commons, on Wednesday, a majority of 39 the M.P. thinks the case one for the edificatToa of the coming honesty and truth, makes the following remarks
having voted against allowing it to go into Committee, so world in general and the electors of We If; Gloucestershire about the shameful desecration of the Sabbath caused by
that the measure is rejected for the session. Lord Arundel in particular, and straightway indites a tong, long letter, the steeple chase in Paris on Sunday week.—" We pub-
boasted during the debate that the Romish Church would wherein he lays bare transactions inconceivably shabby, lisle
to-day an account of a steeple-chase which was run
continue to exist and flourish when the name of Protestant- and such that even we could hardly have believed of the near Paris on Sunday, and in which disreputable
ism should be forgotten ; but we do not attach much weight distinguished and moral Whigs of Berkeley Castle. We scene, we say it with shame, nearly all the actors were
to the predictions of one who may, after the example of presume the electors of West Gloucestershire will, for our own countrymen. It was only the locality in which it
his sire, Lord Shrewsbury, have been so besotted as to their own credit's sake, throw off the disgraceful conned- occurred that justified the title of a French steeple-chase
believe in the " lying wonders" of " the ecstatica." The tion between themselves and the Berkeleys at the very being given to apr o2eeding got up and carried through,
name of Protestant may, indeed, become extinct, but it is earliest opportunity. chiefly, if not entirely, by Englishmen. The horses, as
only when the proclamation . shall have gone forth,— INCONSISTENCY OF DISSENTERS.—The dispassionate well as their owners and riders, were, with very few ex-
" Babylon is fallen, is fallen," and when Papal Rome shall and reasonable among the dissenters cannot fail to re- ceptions, exclusively English ; and, there cannot be a
be no more.
mark that Mr. Baines, and we fear Sir Culling Smith, are doubt that, had such a desecration of the Sabbath de-
THE FISHERMEN OF WHITBURN.—SERIOUS Loss qoitting.on the education question the ground they took Fended on the French themselves, it never would have
OF LIFE.—The fishermen of Whitburn went to sea on in the Anti-Maynooth controversy. They then said, happened. In their own country none of the persons
Thursday week to visit their lines, and were caught in the " Though there is an establishment of truth in the coun- concerned would have dared to outrage public opinion
violent hurricane that came on between eight and nine try, to which we are averse, that is no reason why we by an indecency for which there is no excuse, and which
o'clock. Five of the boats were not able to return to should tolerate the establishment of error also. There- seems to have been prompted by a spirit of vulgar
Whitburn ; one belonging to William Young got into fore we will cordially join with Churchmen, to contend bravado towards those rules of decorum which it is con-
Hartlepool,—when just on the point of landing, James against the Maynooth grant, as an endowment of Popery, venient for the unscrupulous to set down to the score of
Young, his son, aged 20, fell down from fatigue and ex- and because we dislike popery!' Dr. Reed and his prejudice. We are sure that not one of the individuals
haustion, and died. Another boat managed to get into friends wished to protest at the same the against the es- who rode his horse, or allowed it to run, in the steeple.
Black Hills. The crews of the two other boats, belong- tablishment of truth and the establishment of error. chase of Sunday week, would have ventured to take a
ing John Purvis and Cuthbert Dobson, were taken up But to this Sir Culling Smith and Mr. Baines would not part in such a pastime on such a day in England, unless
to
by the Adam White, scatooner, of Leith, and were landed consent; and therefore Dr. Reed withdrew, and began he were prepared to forfeit his position in society at once,
at Bridlington ; their boats went down soon after being " the Crosby Hall conference. Now, however ,
Humblest we fear and sink into a class with whom respectability of the very
abandoned. The fifth boat belonging to Cuthbert and that both Mr, Baines and Sir Culling Smith have gone rank would feel it a degradation to hold corn-
Edward Hutchinson, has never been heard of since, and over to Dr. Reed's view. Viewing this Educational panionship. We do not see that the distance of a fear
there is great reason to fear that she also has gone down, Scheme as—to use their own words—" a Subsidiary Re- hours' journey ought to make any difference whatever in
and that the three men on board in her have unhappily ligious Establishment," they insist upon it that it will be the manner of viewing a proceeding which would be fatal
perished. The poor fishermen who have returned home, more objectionable to establish or endow truth alone, than to character at home, and we therefore consider the par-
having lost their boats and their lines and fishing-tackle, truth or error unitedly. In 1845 they distinctly said, ties in this affair as blameable as if they had perpetrated
have now no means of livelihood, except through the- "We disapprove of a Church Establishment, but still their profanation of the Sabbath at Newmarket or Don.
charity of the benevolent.
more do we detest and abhor an establishmentofPopery." caster."
ST. BEES HOTEL.—On Saturday last, the timber was They now say, "If there is to be an extension of the ' A POSER.—In the course of Sir R. H. Inglis's speech
raised on' the New Hotel, St. Bees, belonging to Mr. Church Establishment by schools, there shall be an ex- on Wednesday, on Mr. Watson's Roman Catholic Relief
Thomas Tyson, builder, of this town, on which occasion tension of Popery also." "To exclude the Roman Ca- Bill, the hon baronet addressed the Attorney-General
he entertained his workmen with a sumptuous repast. On tholics,"—we use Mr. B.'s words,—" would be an ad- and said :—" What he wished to know was specifically
passing through the village, the other day, we were glad ditional reason for opposing the measure." Let men this :—By this bill, as it then, and as it originally stood
to find that the roofing was nearly finished, and on inquiry, once establish themselves on a false principle, and an un- (this part being untouched by any of the subsequent alter-
we were informed that the work will be completed in christian position. as has been so long the case with the ' ations of the hon and learned member), it was proposed to
about four months time. From present appearances, the Political Dissenters, and it is impossible to limit the repeal the whole of the statute of the 30th Charles 11.,
building will be both substantial and magnificent, and its depthsof error into which theYmaYnot bePermittedtosink. also to repeal the whole of the statute of the 25th of
position is such as to command a very good run of trade. ANTAGONISM OF POPERY AND, PROTESTANTISM.—In Charles 11., also to_ repeal the whole of the statute of the
The western front, on which is to be placed a broad and the House of Commons, on Wednesday, the Earl of second session of the 30th- of Charles H., entitled An
beautifully finished verandah, looks over the Solway, so Arundel,. son of the Duke of Norfolk, and of course a Ro- Act for the more effectually Preserving the King's Person
that the shipping, as well as the packets plying both ways, man Catholic, declared emphatically that the contest be- and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in,
either house of parliament, and his (Sir I lis's/
may be seen to advantage. The northern front, on which tween the Churches of Rome and England must go on,
is also to be placed a large verandah, is within a few yards until the " extinction of Protestantism was effected ;to point wasthis :—By the statute he mentioned the last
of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, and commands • which Mr. Plumptre replied as follows— ' They (the Pro- every person on being admitted to take his seat in either
a fine view of the Old Abbey Church, Bishop Grindell's testants) were Prepared,to onposethis measure (the Roman house of .parliament..was..to.xnalco a. certain declaration.
school, the windings of the river Po, through Catholic Relief Bill) because they thought it was part of Every one knew, however, that under the act of 1829 the
grammar
h the noble lord told them was decidedly to make such a declaration had ceased, and
the flowery vales of St. Bees, as well as the great road that system which
by his church • t•P • obligationadmitted into .- t
forward agains • rotestantism that members were
leading into the village. On the eastern side of the house being carried
were alive to thissubject—they. could not making any such declaration. But that was not the case
is to be a large bowling-green, the extremities of which The Protestants
are to be planted with choice flowering and other fancy help seeing what had been going on on the part of Popery with respect to the declaration required by that statute
shrubs.
Fresh
and
salt water baths, hot and cold, are in this country of late years. Before the bill of 1829 was from the sovereign and by the Bill of Rights—a statute
also
to be fitted up, as well as good tabling, so that the I passed, they were told by the Roman Catholics, " Grant which no one, notwithstanding the spirit of innovation,
inhabitants in this locality, as well as tourists generally, us this bill to remove our civil disabilities (hear, hear), we porceptible in modern legislation, had had the hardihood
will soon have excellent accommodation for both man and will be thankful to you, and you will receive no further hitherto to touch. The sovereign, at the first meeting
horse.— Whitehaven Herald. trouble from us ;" but, from what they had seen of the of parliament after each accession, was bound to recite, in
A BOLD TOWN CLERK.—At a meeting of the Durham acts of the church of Rome since that time, could they say an audible manner, sitting on the throne, that declaration/
Town Council, last week, Mr. Tiplady, the town clerk, that the Roman Catholics were pacified by that measure ? and they all knew that their present most gracious Sover'
alluding to some circumstances relative to the election of He believed that reflecting men were of opinion that they eign, sitting on the throne, in the hearing of many whop
clerk to the magistrates—for which office Mr. Tiplady was 1 would be anything but satisfied with it. They believed, and he was then addressing,e recited that declaration soon aftl'
a candidate—said, with reference to an interview which he he thought it had been verified, that it would be a bonus her accession to the throne. He wished to ask whethe;
(Mr. T.) had had with Mr. Bramwell, a magistrate and for further agitation. And now they were told plainly her Majesty's Attorney-General would be pleased to state
member of the Council,—" I now say distinctly that, that the contest was going on, and should go on, until how far that famous Bill of Rights would hold good in 07,
in the interview in my office, you told me that they—who Protestantism was extinct, and Popery was reascendant. respect to bind the Sovereign, when this measure of th;
' they' were I cannot tell—that they have made it a party (Hear, hear.) That was the language of the noble lord, hon. and learned member for Kinsale (Mr. Watson) bas
question : I must stick to my party.' These were your who, he supposed, might be looked upon as a fair repre- repealed, as it now proposed to do, the whole of the
_o'_,
words.—Mr. Bramwell ; I never said them.—Mr. Tiplady: sentative of the church of Borne. But they who differed in which that declaration was included ? And whethai
These were your own words, used in my office. I most in opinion from the noble lord, entertaining for him as an anything would remain for the Bill of Rights to svora
distinctly repeat them ; and as solemnly as you repudiate estimable man every feeling of respect, were determined upon, so far as that declaration was concerned, which I e
them do I reiterate them, and assert that they are those to maintain that contest so far as they had strength and imposed upon the Sovereign, and which he trusted thea
which you uttered. (Hear, hear.)—Mr. Ald. Shields: power to do so. They believed that there was a steady house would recollect was a national testimony bor.!,
Well, what does it amount to ?—Mr. Tiplady : It amounts and increasing feeling in this country upon the subject, against the Roman Catholic religion (hear, hear). beU,:rs
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to this, that Mr. Bramwell is to be heard without inter- and they would meet their opponents face to face in that made by the first magistrate of the state—as a republi _a
ruption, it seems, and the town clerk is not. (Applause, contest, and would do all in their power to stand forward would call it, but, as he (Sir R. H. Inglis) said, by 7,
and interruption.) Mr. Bramwell has stated, in the course for Protestantism, and for the cause of truth. (Hear,) most gracious sovereign ; and being a declaration of Pr!oo
hof Rome might create, ciples enforced as one essential condition of the occupati of
of his observations, that I had informed some persons that He was not afraid that the dairy
ouse
he had promised me his vote. It is a falsehood.—Mr. as in times past, great trouble, much unhappiness and of the throne,—the principles on which the h 00
Bramwell : lam glad of that.—Mr. Tiplady : It is a base misery ; she might becomepersecuting church, and the Brunswick had been called to the throne. If the thr° 0.
athat there was • ared t
'falsehood. From what you said, and what transpired at noble lord seemed to think - were not occupied by them as Protestants, prep ,to
the time, I did not expect that, instead of remaining quiet, tion for her being so. He said that the church of Rome maintain the doctrines of Protestantism ; prepare but
carrying on that contest, and might be disposed, maintain not merely the doctrines of Protestantism, ual
and taking no active part in this business, you. should be might be
it convenient and found ' Protestantism • fesse'
that she had of that peculiar form of which was Pro e•
the person actually to establish a novelty in magisterial when she thought
on
in red r that you might not be deprived of the the power to do so, become a persecuting church. She by the Church of England, he (Sir R. H. Inglis) for 00e
voting, e
be disposed to give this country and others, in pro- knew not what right they had to the throne. Every of
opportunity of recording your vote in favour of Mr. Mar- might
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trouble, shall.—Mr. Bramwell ; you ought not to stigmatise me portion as she regained power, and such as might that heard him knew that they were a younger braoa_ tat
with that.—Mr. Tiplady : When you found that you could lead to great misery ; but when the noble lord spoke of the royal family of England who had been selected oafress
not be present personally to record your vote in favour of the result of the contest of Protestantism becoming , throne beoause they were Protestants, and on the
Mr. Marshall—which I, for one, should not have objected extinct under the foot of the church of Rome, he 1 condition of making this declaration. '1 hat deal-710a
' to, had you honestly told me—notwithstanding your state- (Mr. Plumptre) was not afraid of such a result. He was was a national protest against the Roman Catholic an_uoea
ments that von did not want to vote, you and another gen- satisfied that Protestantism was founded on a rock. He essentially interwoven with the constitution ; andnf held,
tleman I see present passed a resolution to do what—why only
of
Rome shrank from and deprecated the struggle which the tended tnat it was intended to be, and ought to oral of
to enable you, by the most unconstitutional means,inviolable.But this, to do , church
b the D 1
learned
that against which you had expressed such an antipathy," 1 not of that church were in- their measures promoting by the lion. and learned member, for the lion. anda.ca tld,
The matter terminated with no other result than that Mr. 1 advocating such a bill as that now before the house ; he member repealed the whole of the statute in wro.,la of
the Ps. a,
Tiplady persisted in saying that- Mr. Bramwell had
.used , took no part in such a measure—it was only parcel of that declaration was imposed, leaving, indeed,
as ,_ a (
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tively repudiated contest which was to be carried on against Protestantism Rights, but leaving it so that no declaration, he o
the words, whilst the latter geutlenarm posit verag'
them. unto the end, and on that ground he should oppose it." H. Inglis) apprehended, was binding on the So