The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER THE BRITANNIA.

SEPT. 4, 1840
FOR HALIFAX.—Lord Falkland, Lady Falkland, Hon
Master Falkland and suite, Miss E. Hill,
Moore, Mrs. Macdonald, Miss Aitken, M
Bunker, Alexander Morris, Esq., Mrs.Mo____' .
Scadding, Fred. Paull, Esq., John Bogert, Esq_ „..__
E. Ross, Esq., James Farish, Esq., and Mrs. Farish, James
Osborne, Esq., and Mrs. Osborne. John Torrance, Esq.,
and Mrs. Torrance, Andrew Brand, Esq., W. H. Jeffery,
Esq., Edward Oliver, Esq. Count de Barreul, Wm. Lovett,
Esq., M. Worms, Esq., Rev. George Bradburne, J. Wood,
Esq., Ineutenant Blackburn, 85th regiment, E. Billing, Esq.,
R. F. Maitland, Esq., J. Greig, Esq., Rev. W. Sommerville,
Thos. G. Taylor, Esq., Edw. Nickols, Esq., John Fraser,
Esq., Rev. M. Ritche, Benjn. Davis, Esq., Jos. Rose, Esq.,
Robt. Watson, Esq., Mr. Jos. Thompson, Mr. Jno. Barker
Mr. J. Richardson, Mr. Geo. Barton, Mr. Gc
Mr. Wm. Johnson.
FOR BOSTON.—Alexander Brown, Esq.
family, Mrs. Cunningham, Alfred Waller
Waller, W. H. Clarke, Esq., E. Vt
Beck, Esq., S. Adams, jun., Esq.,
S. Oakford, Esq., E. H. R. Lyman, Esq
man, Esq., J. Lawton, Esq., J. C. Johnston, Esq
Long, Esq., J. H. Greene, jun., Esq., T. C. H. P
Esq., M. Joseph Bigwood, Esq., Charles Homer,
J. F. C. Vies. Esq., J. de Castro Foubla, Esq., R
Haller, Esq., David Been, Esq., Peter Allen, Esq., Ar
Hilliary, Esq., H. A. Newton, Esq., Richard A. Poole,
and Master Poole, Samuel Charlesworth, W.
Esq., Fletcher, Esq., J. W. Burke, Esq., and Mr. i
Franklin

s. Boy

Rev. 'Henry

rs. Bro

T. Tryon, Esq., Ed
D. B. Stracy, Es(

J. Moore Nor

The number of visiters to the Zoological Gardens, London
in the month of August, was 16,248, from whom upwards o
£6lO was taken.

HARD CASH.-"Musket balls, full bore," were a legal
tender in Massachusetts, in 1656, and were current for a
farthing a, piece, provided no man was compelled to take
above 12 at the time.

Mr. Richard Smith, of Broad-street, in this city, has suc-
ceeded in so crossing the bean as to produce a beautiful va-
riety, plump, fleshy, and of a fine flavour. It is a cross be-
tween a foreign common horse-beau and the broad-I
it is very remarkable to observe
which has taken place in six years
its stages, and pronounce it
Gazett(

radual improvemeu

We have seen it in all

great acquisition

By an act of the legislature, which became law on the 11th

August

Warden'arid Fellows," heretofore
Collegiate Church of Manches:

by•the Chapter of tl

_h to cease, end the warden is to be
Dean," and the Fellows Canons," of Mancheste

M ajesty

There is at .present the eldest son of a member of her
government, a youth of seventeen, wandering
about the streets without a shoe to his foot, and denied relief
by his father, and threatened with a police officer if he goes
to the house ! So much for whig-radical parental affection !

OXALIC ACID.—It may be important to mention, espe.
cially in this suicide-loving age, that two ounces of magne-

sia, mixed with about a quart of water, or the same quantity
of common whitening, thrown into the stomach by any means
(the stomach-pump being readiest and most preferable on
such occasions), will effectually neutralise and rendei inert
this most active poison.

Novue SCENE.—On Saturday last, the village -..
church of High Holyhead, presented a rather
pectacle. The Right Rev. Athanasius Abdelinesih, a Syrian
Jacobite bishop, from Diarbekir, in Mesopotamia, and his
interpreter, Mr. Joussuf Mussaili, from Aleppo, were on a
Ti,it to the Rev. Dr. Wolff, L.L.D., D.D., Curate of Iligh
Holyhead, with whom the bishop had contracted a friendship
when the doctor was in Mesopotamia. It having been pre-
viously announced that the right rev. bishop would present
himself at church that day, and would deliver an address in
the Arabic language, which Dr. Wolff would interpret, a very
great sensation was excited in the neighbourhood. The church
was crowded to excess, and many hundreds could not gain
admittance. The estimated number present was from two
to three thousand persons. The rev. gentleman congratulated
the Christian church. in England on the near affinity it bore
to the oriental churches, and alluded with fervent gratitude
to Dr. Wolff 's visit to Mesopotamia in the year 1823. After
service the rush to get a sight of him was immense, he being
dressed in the oriental costume, with a fine flowing beard.
The right rs2v. gentleman seemed to be highly
.pleased, and
kept continually bowing to the assembled multitude on his
return to the rectory house, accompanied by the churchwar-
dens and neighbouring gentlemen.--Leeds Intelligencer.

LITERARY NOTICE:

Sacred Poems. By Mary Anne Browne. LOndon : Hamil-
ton, Adams, and Co. ; Liverpool : Marples.

Liverpool may well boast of her two Brownes—of Felicia,
who has long since left us to join those seraphic choirs whose
sublime strains she so sweetly emulated on her earthly pil-
grimage ; and of Mary Anne, who still lives amongst us to
cheer us with the divine harmony of sacred poesy. The
volume before us contains several pieces of a very high de-
gree of merit. Indeed, there is not one specimen which
does not rise far above mediocrity. We understand that the
profits of the work will be given in aid of the funds for the,
erection of St. Silas' Church, in Pembroke-place. It is de-
lightful to find genius dm rendered subservient to the cause
of religion. The deditatory lines to the Rev. H. M`Neile,
which have already appeared in our columns, are extremely
appropriate, and constitute a tribute worthy of the revered
Christian pastor to whom they are addressed, and to whose
spirited example and exertions the Church' of St. Silas will
chiefly owe its existence. We sincerely trust that the object
towards which the profits arising from the sale of these
" Sacred Poems" will be given, will procure for the volume
an extensive circulation. It will .be found a very suitable
present from one Christian friend to another. We make the
following extract :

NEHEMIAH, 11. IS

And they said, Let us rise up and build

We build a temple, Lord, to Thee,
An altar to Thy holy name :
The deaf shall hear, the blind shall see,
The dumb Thy wondrous praise proclaim ;
Here shall be holy springs of
The fountains of the Eternal Word;
Here shall the Spirit's inward strife
By Thy almighty power be stirred.
We build in faith--Thy promise saith,
A blessing rests on work like ours,
Here shall the soul be snatched from death,
And pride laid low, with all its powers.
Where two or three together meet,
In the blest sanction of Thy name,
Thy presence makes even sorrow sweet,
Thy Spirit lights a holy flame.
We build in hope—as sunbeams gild
The field where lies the hidden corn,
Hope hovers o'er the walls we build,
The shrines of mercies yet unborn.
We build in love—who bath discharged
Such task, by duty coldly bound ?
Our hearts, by heavenly grace enlarged,
Would wrap the whole creation round.
We build with prayer, and not alone
That Thou wilt make Thy promise true ;
There are petitions of our own,
A deed like this may well renew.
By every sorrow we have known,
By every chastening of thy rod,
May each be built, a living stone,
Into the temple of our God!

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

r HE REPEAL AGITATION
(From the Morning Herald.)

Few things are calculated to-impress an Englishman
,vith a lower estimate of the intellect of Roman Ca-
tholic Ireland, than the influence exercised by such a
person as Mr. Daniel O'Connell. The man has little
to recommend him, excepting the possession of a large
measure of physical energy. His eloquence (Heaven
save the mark !) is of the most bald and vulgar de-

His jokes, his pathetics, his stirring appeals
—or what are meant as such—are all stereotyped. They
occur in every harangue which he delivers. His life is
spent in grinding the same notes in the same manner
on his little rhetorical hurdy-gurdy. His one tune is
moreover a bad one, and badly played.
This wretched impostor has been, for the last six
weeks, babbling about a repeal of the union ; and the
theme would seem to possess deep attractions for his
Romanist auditories. Daniel has, it is true, played
fast and loose with this subject often before ; but there
is in the bare mention of it, even by faithless lips,
something infinitely seductive to the hereditary enemies
of England. Yet, by a repeal of the union—if no-
thing more than Daniel and his partizans avow—were
intended, Ireland would, assuredly, prove a loser to a
fearful extent. If the union were repealed—if the no-
bility and gentry of Ireland were again collected in
Dublin—Daniel and men of his stamp would (on the
assumption that property was to be allowed to exercise
its legitimate influence) be utterly extinguished.—
Nearly all the landed property of Ireland is in the
hands of Protestants ; and the weight of that super-
incumbent mass of wealth would speedily—if the re-
peal party entertained honest designs—extinguish the
flames of any agitation which Mr. O'Connell might
then raise.

scription

But the repeal party does not entertain honest de-
signs. That party might now, in the event of repeal
being carried, hope to command an almost exclusively
Romanist House of Commons in Dublin, together
with corporations converted into strongholds of offence
against Protestantism. The first movement of the re-
pealers would be, to confiscate the property of the Es-
tablished Church in Ireland ; and, then, to bring into
operation a sweeping system of plunder and assassina-
tion

—a system, of which Protestant landholders should
he the victims. Nothing, indeed, is more probable,
than that in the event of a repeal of the union being
carried, the Romanist House of Commons that might
assemble in Stephen's-green, would declare the fee-
simple of the soil of Ireland to be vested in the occu-
pants—in other words, in the Roman Catholic pea-
santry. Separation, in short, from England—separa-
tion by any means—is the object of the repealers.—
Their sole motive is inextinguishable hatred to Eng-
land, and to her Protestant institutions.

A repeal of the union, if aimed at in good faith,
would prove utterly ruinous to Ireland. The terms of
that union have been far more favourable to Ireland
than to England. These terms press severely at every
moment on all the industrious classes in Great Britain.
The labourers of England are, by means of boundless
importations of low-priced Irish labour, robbed of the
fair value of their toil. The farmers of England are
exposed to unfair competition with the growers of Ir-
ish corn—with the growers of corn which is produced
by means of cheap labour, and without the check of
heavy taxation in any shape. The labour-market and
the corn-market of England are thus invaded, greatly
to the injury of the classes whose natural privilege it is
to supply these markets. It is, of course, most desi-
rable that the industry of Ireland should be encour-

ged, but not at the expense of English industry. The
industry of Ireland ought to be lifted up—instead of
being permitted to pull down the industry of England.
A repeal of the union on honest terms would lead to
the exclusion from English markets of Irish labour-
ers, as well as of Irish corn, and farm produce of all
I'o the agriculturists and to the industrious
classes of England, the change would be most advan-
tageous. Reasons of. policy render it, of course, desi-
rable that the union with Ireland should be maintained
even on the present conditions. Our object is merely
to indicate that by these terms and conditions England
is, in many respects, a heavy loser.