The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LORD ASHLEY AND THE ENDOWMENT OF ROMANISM.
I —Turning to the other suggestion for the pacification of
Ireland, there are few of you, I suspect, who will not take
large exceptions to plans for encouraging the Roman Ca-
tholic religion (cheers), fostering its colleges (cheers),
and endowing its priesthood. (Cheers.) Such measures
as these involve great concessions of principle without
any compensation or proportional benefit ; those who
argue them on the highest ground declare them to be sin-
ful : those who assume the lower maintain that they are
useless in one respect and perilous in another. (Cheers.)
That they are useless as a means of conciliation is mani-
fest from the events of the last twenty years (loud cheers),
and especially in the late legislation for the College of
Maynooth. (Cheers.) The fact is, our statesmen lie
under a grievous mistake ; they seek to govern the people
through the priests, whereas they should endeavour to
control the priests through the people. (Cheers.) De-
pend upon it, the difficulty is not in the Irish nation,
which is panting for spiritual emancipation ; but in the
sacerdotal and monkish orders (loud cheers), who, re-
versing the piety of Aaron, stood between the living and
the dead—the living word of God, and the dead congre-
gation. (Loud cheers.) Only protect life and limb, free
discussion and Irish Bibles, and you will soon cease to be
perplexed with inquiries how Ireland is to be governed.—
. Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea."

—Lord Ashley's Speech at Bath. -
THE REV. BAPTIST NOEL.—The evening I attended
St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, Mr. Noel preached up-
on the kingdom given to the Son of Man. (Daniel vii.,
22.) He is certainly a most interesting and delightful
preacher ; altogether extemporaneous ; mild and per-
suasive in his manner, yet sufficiently. impressive, and
sometimes powerful, having a very clear and consistent flow
of thought ; decidedly evangelical in doctrine, though less
deep and instructive in doctrine than I had expected.
His great beauty of appearance, his soft, and gentle,
and musical voice, and his dignity of manner in the pul-
pit, add also much to his power as a preacher. And with
the single exception which I have made—which to me is
not a small exception—he fulfilled all the expectations
which I had formed of him as a preacher, both from pre-
vious information and from his address on Friday evening.
There is no cause for wonder in the popularity of such a
man, so devoted, humble, and faithful, among all who
love the truth of the gospel. There is no clergyman in
London, I think, who has greater influence in the religi-
ous community, and certainly no one whose ministry and
character unite more valuable properties and qualifications.
In the afternoon I attended a church in the neighbour-
hood of my dwelling; a strange contrast indeed it was to
St. John's in everything but its equally unfurnished ap-
pearance, though it is a new church : a hundred poor
people, perhaps, were scattered over it, to listen to a ser-
mon absurdly written, above their comprehension in its
inflated style, and containing little indeed in sentiment
which could benefit them had it been far more simple. It
is a fact, in London and everywhere, that the preaching of
the gospel gathers a congregation and makes a full church,
and a veiled and darkened gospel empties it. And I re-
joice that it is so. It is one of the securities which God
has provided for the preaching of his truth ; against the
coldinfluence of mere formalism and self-righteousness in
the church. From this church I went unedified, except
in the increased delight with which I returned, for the
evening service at St. John's. Here, again, I was ani-
mated and refreshed by divine truth faithfully proclaimed.
Mr. Noel preached on the word of God, from Ephesians
vi., 17, a bold and most interesting exhibition of the im-
portance and influence of the Holy Scriptures to the Chris-
tian and the Church, with an especial reference to the
present efforts of the enemy to take from us the Bible,
and to substitute some invention of man in its place.
Like other evangelical brethren in England, he feels the
vast danger of this hostility or indifference to the word 'of
God, which the Oxford party have attempted so earnestly
and so secretly to spread abroad, and which you find
rather as the waters of a morass, than as the distinct
flowing of any one stream ; and like many others whom I
heard afterwards, he lifted up his voice against them this
night with great solemnity. The audience was very large.
Every foot of room, from the outside step to the second
gallery, seemed to be occupied: And though he was
more than an hour in his sermon, the multitude stand-
ing throughout the chapel seemed unfatigued.—Dr. Tyng,
of New York.
LORD ASHBURTON AND THE CURRENCY BILL.—Lord
Ashburton has published a pamphlet on the financial and
commercial crisis from which the country is now suffering,
in which he plainly and unequivocally declares his opinion
that the Bank Charter Act of 1844 has proved a failure, and
that it would be difficult to form an estimate of the im-
mense losses, both of the Exchequer and of individuals,
which have ensued from its operation. With regard to
the operation of the existing law, Lord Ashburton ob-
serves, that as the amount of bank-notes must at all times

and under all circumstances be determined by the amount
of bullion in the Bank, the reduction of the issues, when
the necessity which the law determines shall arise, must
be effected by withdrawing accommodation to the mer-
chants or to the Government; in the one case by refusing

public securities upon the market, and this -is to be pe-
remptorily persevered in without any discretionaiy power
to the directors to act according to peculiar circumstances,
although it is well known by practical men that very sel-

dom two conditions of the in-oney market exactly resem-
ble each other, and consequently require the same treat-
ment. This, indeed, is the palpable evil of the existing
laws—an evil upon which we have so often insisted, that
it leaves no power or opportunity for relief in peculiar
cases of emergency, that it is liable to such cases of trial
as were foreseen by the bankers of London when they ad-
dressed their letter of warning and remonstrance to the
Government in 1844—a warning which the Minister, in

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A boy belonging to a Scottish fishing smack, was lately
found floating on a ladder at the mouth of the river Tay.
The vessel foundered, and all the-crew were drowned, ex-
cept this lad, who clung to the ladder, upon which he
passed several hours before he was descried by a boat.

The fine old mansion, Ragley Hall, the next neighbour
almost to the archbishop's palace, and within sight of
Littlemore, the late scene of Mr. Newman's transition
state, has been taken, says the Oxford Chronicle, for the
purpose of being converted into a monastery.
The King of the Belgians has done Mr. Weale, the
scientific bookseller, of Holborn, the honour of presenting
him with a splendid gold medal, in acknowledgment of his
services, in publishing several scientific works, more espe-
cially the valuable papers of the Royal Engineers.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier's squadron has com-
menced assembling at Spithead. The Howe, 120 ; the
Terrible and Birkenhead steam frigates joined the St. Vin-
cent on Friday. The Queen and Caledonia are hourly ex-
pected from Plymouth.
The Bishop of Norwich, at a recent meeting to pro-
mote " ragged schools," observed that Mr. Peto, by edu-
cating the nevigators working on the railways in the
county of Norfolk, had beaten the beer-shops out of the
field.

ELOPEMENT.—Great distress has been occasioned in the
family of a gallant M.P. residing in this county, by the
clandestine departure of his daughter with a gay Lothario.
To aggravate the calamity her husband is on a bed of
sickness, and her young family will severely feel the loss of
a mother.--Noils Review.
Mr. Frederick Douglass, the negro-slavery abolitionist,
has arrived out in the United States. He says that he
was treated on the voyage with the greatest kindness by
the Christian passengers, and obsrrves, " I left republican
America a slave—l returned from monarchical England a
freeman."

A woman of the name of Anne Cleveland, and a man
named Hill, alias "Dolly," who cohabited together at a
disreputable house in London, have been committed for
trial at the next Central Criminal Court sessions, charged
with the wilful murder of nil infant son of the female pri-
soner.

NOVEL EPITAPH.-On a grave-stone recently put down
in a churchyard at Newchurch in Rossendale, is the fol-
lowing inscription :—" Here lies the body and soul of Ann
Gill, the wife of John Gill, who died aged ,
where she must sleep with the children of the resur-
rection."

The Tablet, the organ of the Roman Catholics, says
that when the Pope was informed of the defeat of Mr.
Watson's bill for the removal of the remnant of the
penal statutes, he said—" That puts an end to further ne-
gotiations for diplomatic relations with me. I will never
receive an ambassador from England while there remains
a vestige of those penal laws against the church."
DISTRESS AND MORTALITY.—About six hundred Irish
poor landed at Newport on Sunday week. Persons are
dying there at the rate of five or six in a day. Fever is
raging from one end of the town to the other amongst the
poor, and some respectable parties have fallen victims.
Captain Palfrey, of Dartmouth, who brought a great
many Irish over in his vessel, died on Saturday.

DEATH FROM THROWING ORANGE-PEEL UPON THE
PAVEMENT.—A poor man died at Bristol last week from
the effect of injury he had received in falling backwards
from having trodden upon a piece of orange-peel when
walking up Redcliff-hill. On Tuesday, Mr. Lorymer, of
that city, also had a fall from a similar cause, and was se-
riously injured, so as to ,be confined to his bed.
POOR-LAW MANAGEMENT.—An inquest was recently
held at Deddington, on view of the body of Rose Davis,
a poor woman, when the following verdict was recorded :
—" That the deceased Rose Davis died from famine—that
is, from the want of the common necessaries of life ; and
that blame attaches to the medical and relieving officers
for neglect of duty."
A London surgeon, to whom the body of an extraordi-
nary dwarf, named Leech, had been sent for dissection,
has died from an accident which occurred to him while
engaged in that operation. He accidentally pricked his
finger with a lancet, and the poison produced by animal
putrefaction afterwards superinduced abscesses, which
gradually spread, and put an end to his life within a few
days. _

A Yorkshire paper states that a young lady, residing
near Holme, was lately attacked with violent pains in the
stomach, which afterwards transferred their seat to her
shoulder and arm, and did not terminate until, after seve-
ral month's illness, six needles came out of her, arm. It
is presumed that she must have accidentally swallowed
some needles, though she has no recollection of having
done so.

A HIGHWAY-WOMAN.-At noon, on Monday, as a
labouring man, named Pineham, was passing through one
of the streets in the neighbourhood of Wapping, a woman
named Hannah Haley asked him to give her a glass of
beer. He refused, on the plea that he had no money, and
she immediately knocked him down. She took 19s. from
his pocket, and she was captured by a policeman who
arrived opportunely. On Tuesday, she was committed
for trial from the Thames Police-court.

The draughts of mackerel within'the past week have
been unprecedently abundant; upwards of three hundred
thousand have been landed on the beach between Port-
land and Burton, Dorsetshire. Seven thousand were
shipped on board one small craft on Monday evening, for
Southampton, the owners hoping to be in time for the
first morning train from that place to London. So large
have been the quantities landed that spectators were per-
mitted to take with them as many as they chose gratui-
tously, the beach being strewed with fish.
THE Plum JUICE.—A city chemist, in New York, not
long since, analysed a bottle of imported champagne, sold
as ppre, and found in it one quarter of an ounce of sugar
of lead. A writer in the Observer states that a liquor
dealer admitted to him that on one occasion he purchased
of a country merchant a lot of whiskey, and before th
wprenensions ex-
merchant left the city, sold him bt
i
ed, and proved it factured into various kinds of wine

at from one to five

A FORTUNATE SPORTSMAN.—Last month a person of
the name of Macleod, residing at Rosehall, while out
shooting, was so fortunate as to kill twelve wild ducks
with one shot! In 1846 the same person accomplished a
feat which, we dare say, few others have done—he killed
two large eagles with one shot; and in March last, at one
discharge, he shot two swans. Sixteen birds thus fell at
three sho ts.—lnverness Courier.
CHEESE RETURNS. A return obtained by Sir P.
Egerton, the member for Cheshire, shows that the total
quantity of cheese imported into the United Kingdom
froth Europe during the year 1846, amounted to 249,663
cwt., and the quantity imported from the United States
to 1,901 cwt. The aggregate of the importations of
cheese amounted to 341,682 cwt. The different kinds of
cheese are not specified, nor are the exports of British
cheese adduced. 3,624 cwt. of foreigacheese were so ex-
ported in 1346.

n SUICIDE FROM LOSSES ON THE DERBY. Monday
morning,. Mr. Frederick Cruso, landlord of the Crown
and Sceptre, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone, poisoned
himself with prussic acid. He had latterly attended much
more to sporting matters, races in particular, than to his
business, and from his irregularity of living it was sus-
pected that his mind was disordered. He was a loser to
a considerable amount on the last Derby, and was to have
settled his bets on Tuesday evening, but it is supposed he
was- unable to meet them. After his death a razor was
found in his pocket.
COLOURED MINISTERS.—PubIic Interest was much ex-
cited on Sabbath by the preaching in town of two mini-
sters, both men of colour. The Rev. Mr. Clark, minister
of a congregation at Washington, most of whom are slaves,
preached in the afternoon in Dr. Candlish's church, and in
the evening in the Music-hall. The Rev. Mr. Gloucester,
from Philadelphia, preached in the forenoon and evening
in Mr. Begg's church, Newington. We understand that
both have been preaching much in England for the Metho-
dists and Independents there—the latter, especially, for
Mr. James, of Birmingham.—Edinburgh paper.
A strike for increased wages took place among the
slaters and plasterers of Berwick, a few days ago, owing,
it was understood, to the present high price of provisions.
Their wages, when in regular employment, were 17s. per
week, but from the nature of their occupation—their work
being frequently stopped for weeks at a time from varia-
tions of the weather—their earnings did not average on
the whole year more than 13s. 6d. per week. A meeting
of the masters was held, when it was agreed to assent to
their demand for 20s. weekly, and to charge the public 4s.
per day, instead of 3s. 6d., as formerly.
CONFLAGRATION AT CHELTENHAM.—A fire broke out,
on Monday night week, in the manufactory of Mr. John
Alder, upholsterer, Albion-street, Cheltenham; which
destroyed property to the value of nearly £5OOO. Besides
the very extensive workshops and warehouse, there was a
large quantity of mahogany and other valuable timber,
which was entirely consumed. Mr. Alder is stated to be
insured in the Royal Exchange office to the full extent of
his loss. The greatest sufferers, therefore, are the poor
workmen, of whom there are between 40 and 50, whose
valuable chests of tools fell a sacrifice to the flames.
SNOW STORM.—The Perth Advertiser states that on
Monday morning the whole Grampian range, as well as
the °chill. and Sidlaw hills, were enveloped to their base
in snow, and that even Kinnoull hill had clad its shoulders
in an arctic mantle. The snow on the lesser elevations
soon melted. The Kinross correspondent of the same
paper states that so intense was the cold that numbers of
swallows were found dead, in small clusters of six or eight,
under the thatch of houses and other places where they
had taken shelter. Many were observed, also, flying
about in a weak and disabled state, and in various in-
stances were, without difficulty, killed by th 6

BREAD FROM WHEAT MEAL.—It i 3 stated by a cor-
respondent of the Salisbury Journal, that bread is made
and sold at Mere, containing the whole of the produce of
the wheat without any dressing, and that the price is only
81d. the 41b. loaf, while the other bakers' bread is lOd.
and 11d. It is a matter of surprise that the former de-
scription of bread is not made and sold in this city; but
instead of such being the case, there is a difficulty in ob-
taining it, even if ordered, and the same price is charged
as for other bread. Bread from wheat meal is recom-
mended as both wholesome and nutritious; it is in fact
highly conducive to health.
THE MENACED DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSES OF
SHAKSPEARE AND OF BAXTER (the Author of the
Sainte Rest).—lt is already known that the house which
Shakspeare was born in, is in the Sale-market; and we
now learn, in addition, that the house of Richard Baxter,
(the author of the Saints' Everlasting Rest,) is about to
be pulled down ; which has induced Mr. G. R. Withen
Baxter to address a letter to Lord Morpeth on the sub-
ject ; and his lordship's letter, in reply, simply asks
" what the Government can do, where the property does
not belong to the state ?" Mr. Baxter as simply and
briefly replies, " buy it ;"—and there the correspondence
ends.

THE JEWISH MEAT TAX.—The Jewish Chronicle, of
Saturday, has a long article on this subject, and complains
strongly of the great extra price which has to be paid by
the Jews in consequence. Our contemporary says, "The
laws of the Jewish faith demand that our meat is to be
killed according to certain rules ; the observance of these
laws necessarily entails a certain amount of expense on
the congregational boards, who have to watch over their
strict execution. That, therefore, meat, (lawful to eat,)
must be somewhat higher in price than that generally
sold, is but just and natural. No Jew, who feels consci-
entiously bound to eat lawful meat, can find fault with a
trifling addition to the general price, required to defray the
expenses incurred by the board, to pay the officers per-
forming the duties appertaining to cur sacred observances.
But we complain of the enormous abuse of this, to a cer-

FOR THE

tain extent, unavoidable taxation ; we complain'of the un-
just increase of this tax by the cono'regation hoards, who
derive an annual profit from this heavy meat tax ; we

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June 1, 1547:

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY.

The improvement of the money market has now assumed
a decided character ; and we may congratulate ourselves
with safety that the severest point of the pressure, under
which we have been labouring, is over. It is not at all
likely, however, that commercial affairs can return to their
ordinary activity, or that parties who have been suffering
will be relieved at once. A few months of cautious and
forbearing conduct will, no doubt, yet be required before
everything is set right ; and we must remember that the
cause which has most contributed to restore us—the
weather—is proverbially fickle. The crops throughout the
country are thriving ; but it ought to be borne in mind
that they are not yet reaped and housed.
The market for our leading staple—cotton—has been
animated throughout the week, and a large business has
been done at higher prices than last week. American
was quoted on Friday, id. to id. higher; Surat, to
d. ; and Brazils, about kd. The sales for the week, ended
Friday, were 39,000 bales—of which 10,300 American, and
700 Surat, were on speculation, and 3,370 American,;Bo
Surat, and 890 Pernams, were for export. The imports
for the week were only 2,066 bales.
By the arrival of the Caledonia, with dates from New
York to the 15th instant, we have little that is decisive
with respect to the produce of the cotton crop, the reports
being conflicting, but on the whole not favourable. In
Louisiana and Mississipi the low lands were flooded, and
the season backward. From New Orleans, however, the
accounts are more favourable. There was little doing in
the market, prices being too high for the English buyers,
and money plentiful. The receipts up to the 12th inst.
(the 35th week of the season) had been 1,640,550 bales,
against 1,847,284 in 1846, and 2,233,451 in 1845. The
exports to Great Britain were, respectiiely, 590,376 in
1847, 696,159 in 1846, and 1,104,000 in 1845. The stocks
were, 1847, 537,808, 1846, 560,633, and 1845, 384,698
bales. There were loading for Great Britain 78 vessels,
against the same number on the corresponding date of
1146, and 77 in 1845.

Our corn market, during the week, has continued to
decline, notwithstanding the arrivals were small, both
foreign and coastwise. On Friday, wheat was 3d. to 4d.
per 701b5.. below the prices of the previous Tuesday,
Stettin being offered at 12s. 9d., and American red at 12s.
Western canal flour was ls. to 2s. per barrel cheaper,
having been sold at 435. Oats were lower ; and yellow
Indian corn, at 575. to 565., attracted no buyers. The
advices from the continent of declining markets, with the
favourable prospects of the next harvest, both at home and
throughout Europe, seem to have paralyzed speculators,
whilst they are inducing consumers to keep out of the
market, except for such sparing supplies as are sufficient
for their immediate wants. The opinion is becoming very
general with all parties that much further reduction must
be made, even before the harvest is over; and that, should
it prove anything like A favourable one, we shall have prices
very low, as was anticipated, under our present free trade
system.

The advices per steamer state that the canal was opened
on the Ist instant, but the arrivals of provisions of all
kinds had, up to the last dates, been small, a portion of
the cargoes sent forward having, it was supposed, been
detained to supply the wants of the country along the line
of navigation. Prices were high, S 7 81c. to S 7 87c.
being the ruling figures, and 441 for delivery in August.
The shipments of bread stuffs from America, from Sep-
tember Ist, 1846 to May Bth, 1847, had been, flour,
1,685,724 brls, corn meal 455,666, wheat 1,570,614 bush.,
corn 11,245,775 bushels, rye 39,769 bushels, oats 294,9,35
bushels, barley 138,540 bushels. At New Orleans, from
which we have advices to the 7th inst., flour was quoted
4?f6 121 c. for Illinois, and 86 37ic. for St. Louis ; Indian
corn 69c. per bushel. The advices from Montreal, up to
the 12th inst., state that the season was very backward,
and that the farmers had got little or no field work done.
The last week—Whitsuntide—during which business in
the cotton manufacturing districts is generally suspended,
was an unfavourable one for testing fully the effect of the
decline of the corn markets, and the relaxation of the
money pressure upon manufacturing activity. At Tues-
day's market, in Manchester, however, we observed a
much improved feeling amongst both manufacturers and
merchants, which has continued during the week. The
rise in the cotton market, against which some of these
parties protest as caused solely by speculation, and to put
down which short time has been so freely resorted to, has
interfered to prolong the present dulness. It is consi-
dered impossible, however, by parties of experience, that
either buyers or manufacturers will be disposed to hold
out long, in the face of the now ascertained fact of a short
crop of cotton, their own decreased stocks, the wants of
some foreign markets, and the orders already arrived for
goods. So soon as ever prices can be established at a
remunerative nature, and in conformity with the price of
the raw material, we shall have, no doubt, a revival of
activity, and our working classes regaining gradually their
usual state of moderate comfort.

IMPORT AND ENTRY FOR CONSUMPTION OF
BREAD STUFFS,
MONTH ENDED STH MAY.

The Government return, just published, gives the fol-
lowing as the imports during the month ended sth May :

Corn and grain from foreign countries, 933,611 quarters
2 bushels ; from British possessions, 847 quarters 5 13:11s.;
total, 930,45 S quarters 7 bushels. Of this quantity 446,082
quarters 6 bushels was Indian corn. The meal and flour
from foreign countries was 615,936 cwt. 19 qrs. 12 lb. ;
colonial, 15,090 cwt. 17 lb.: total, 628,026 cwt. 2 qrs.
1 lb. Of this quantity 138,771 cwt. 2 qrs. 25 lb. was
In-
dian meal.—The entries for consumption were--foreign
corn and grain, 942,011 quarters ; colonial, 1112 quarters
6 bushels ; total, 943,123 quarters 6 bushels • of which
446,082 bushels 6 quarters were Indian corn. 'The entry
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