The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

THE LIVfI.POOL I'ANDARD.

A brig now loading at Preston, for New York, is tha
first vessel cleared from that port foi' America,
On Friday evening the mayor of Manchester entertainer'
a select party of friends at a dinner party at his house,
" The Priory " Pendleton. Among the guests were G,
H. Lawrence, Esq., mayor of Liverpool, Edward Rush-
ton, Esq., and the town-clerk of Liverpool.
A man was found sticking fast in the chimney in Mr.
Callender's house, in Manchester. He descended the
chimney on Saturday night, for no good purpose, and was
not found till Sunday morning. A bricklayer had to de-
molish the chimney in order to release him.
At the Chester assizes on Friday, an action was brought
.by Captain Sharp, of Clifton_ Park, against W. W. Perry,
Esq., of Rock Ferry, to recover the sum of £72, alleged
to have been paid by the plaintiff, for the benefit of the
defendant, so long ago as 1841. It appeared that the
money paid was for a deed of confirmation in some land
transactions; but although several amounts had been de-
livered by the plaintiff, nothing was mentioned of the
amount in question, until shortly before the action. The
jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
MEETING OF COUNTY MAGISTRATES.—On Wednes-
day, at Preston, a court of annual sessions was held, T.
B. Addison, Esq., in the chair. The committee appoint-
ed to procure a site for the new county lunatic asylum in
the hundred of Salford presented their report, from which
it appeared that they had agreed to purchase 40 acres of
land from Mr. Milne, at the rate of £2OO per acre. Mr.
Fletcher moved the adoption of the report. Mr. Ashton
seconded the motion. The Chairman stated that the esti-
mated cost of building the two new asylums was from
£llO,OOO to £120,000. In carrying out their arrange-
ments he trusted the committee would not lose sight of
economy. The report was then passed. Mr. Marshall
thought that as much expense was now being incurred in
the alterations at Kirkdale and Preston gaols, it was de-
sirable to borrow money rather than levy a rate for the
cost of the new asylums. The Chairman thought that for
a rich county like theirs to borrow money would be-stoop-
ing too much, when they could raise the required sum by
a rate of 6d. in the pound on the county assessment.
Ultimately, the subject was adjourned to the next sessions,
in July.

THE JESUITS.—At a late meeting of the Blackburn
Association in aid of the London Hibernian Scociety, the
Rev. R. Macklin, incumbent of Christ Church, Derby, is
reported to have made the following observations :—" He
showed how in all ages the object of Popery and of Satan
had been the same—to oppose, and, if possible, destroy,
the Word of God. If the Word of God could once be got
rid of by the Jesuit, he would have immediately accom-
plished his own purpose. Give the-Jesuit the rising ge-
neration, and he will accomplish all in the next generation
he desires. The Jesuit is a subtle universal enemy, to be
found everywhere and in every station, from the prince to
the lowest wretch that walked the streets at night. Priests
and laymen were alike Jesuits, and this was a fact that
should be remembered. The Jesuits would be found in
your tradesman, your servant, your mechanic—every-
where did he insinuate himself; and such an intimate
acquaintance with every description of characters did the
Jesuits obtain, that at the college of Rome were kept re-
gistries of all the enemies of Popery, to be ready at any
time to further the views of the agents. As a proof of the
various disguises assumed by Jesuitism for its evil pur-
poses, the rev. gentleman related a circumstance which
had occurred to the Rev. Mr. Close, of Cheltenham,
within the last month. Mr. Close was riding out one day,
when a stone got into his horse's foot. He dismounted
to take out the stone, and was going about it rather clum-
sily, when a man who had been breaking stones on the
road offered to take the stone from the horse's foot. He
did so speedily ; and when the man got up, Mr. Close
looked in his face, and said ' I have seen you before.' The
man denied it, and asked where ?' Mr. Close, who
knew he was right, persisted in his assertion that he had
seen the man before : it was during last summer, at Rome,
in a priest's garment, and he had spoken with him • and
Mr. Close wound up by saying you are Father So-and-so.
The man was so astonished at the recognition, that,
though it was a prime point in the Jesuit's education that
he was ever to face his enemy unmoved, he changed coun-
tenance, and said, I beg of you not to make this public,
as I am here on a particular mission.' "

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MERCURY AND THE NATIONAL CON-

FESSION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—The writer who insults the Christian feelings of this
town by his ribald and infidel attacks on the appointment by
her Majesty of a day of humiliation before Almighty God for
our national sins, is again, in his Mercury of yesterday, pur-
suing the same insulting course; and yet this man takes fre-
quent occasions to inform his readers that he is a Churchman!
Probably the best way in the ultimate result would be to let
him go on, and give him rope enough, though one's feelings
revolt from perusing his dull and pointless lucubrations. The
only process that can correct determined dullheadedpess in
his case, is in actual and rapid progress—i.e., reducing the
amount of grist. I have been credibly informed that " our
circulation", which until lately he used to boast so much of,
has fallen off to the very insignificant tune of three thousand
copies weekly, say 3,000! ! I could not credit my informant
scarcely when he told me so, but I dared not gainsay him, as
he had better means of knowing than myself,- he being con-
nected with one of the Liverpool papers. Be that fact exagge-
rated or otherwise, I have ocular proof, capable of being ascer-
tained by any party inclined to turn to the files and count over
the advertisements, that the Mercury in this, his best source
of revenue, is being forestalled by the Atom& and Standard.
For instance, the Mercury numbered, on the 27th November
last, 419 advertisements ; but in yesterday's number it had
fallen to 353—here is a falling off of 66! ! The Standard, on
the other hand, taking the nearest corresponding dates, had
on the Ist December 132, but on Tuesday last 203 !—here, on
the contrary, is a gain of 71 ! ! In other words, the Mercury
has fallen off 16 per cent., and the Standard has risen 54 per
cent. ! !

Let the people of Liverpool continue to prove to this scoffer,
by this means, that they disown any fraternity with his stolid
ribaldry, and they will very soon bring him to a sense of at
least public decency.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
A DISGUSTED READER OF THE MERCURY.

April 34, 1847. _ _
[We received our correspondent's letter too late for in-
sertion in the STANDARD last week. Though the cal-
culations are gratifying to us, yet " A Reader of the
Mercury" has by no means chosen the periods which
would have exhibited most decisively our progressive
success. It is perhaps unnecessary to allude to the
subject further than to say, that had some of our re-
cent publications—last week's, for instance—been se-
lected and contrasted with those published a year ago,
the remark elsewhere, that our advertisements have
increased within the last twelve months nearly a hun-
dred per cent., would have been proved correct to the
letter, whatever interested parties may say to the con-
trary.—ED. L. S.]

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