The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

In the course of two months' there will be a t

communication between Manchester and London, via
Normanton. The Telegraphic Company arc at present

building a central station behind the Bank of England, in
the city of London, to which wires from every telegraphic
station in the metropolis will be brought. 'Our contem-
porary adds :—" When the telegraph is fairly in operation,
which it will be shortly, we shall soon experience the ad-
vantages it will confer upon this community, in the early
information we shall, through its agency, receive con-
cerning elections, foreign news, the corn market, the
money market, the share market, mercantile affairs, divi-
sions in the houses of parliament, prices current, shipping
arrivals, railway intelligence, &c., Sic."

POLITICAL GOSSIP,

Captain A'Court has resigned his pretensions to Tam-
worth.

NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME.-Mr. Buckley, the pre-
sent Member, retires ; and Lord Brackley, finding his
chance in South Lancashire hopeless, is seeking shelter
here.

TEN HOURS BILL.—We hear it rumoured that a large
'establishment in Bolton, is about to follow the example
of Messrs. Horrocks, Miller, and Co., in this town, by
working ten hours daily ; and that it is very likely that
the ten hours system will be extensively adopted in other
towns.—Preston' Guardian.

DERBY ELECTION.—On Wednesday, the Hon. F. L.
Gower was elected member of parliament for the borough
of Derby. Mr. M`Grath, a chartist, was also nominated,
but, on demanding a poll, the Mayor requested him to
deposit £2O. This was not complied with, and Mr.
Gower was declared duly elected.

Charles Crompton, Esq., the barrister, has announced
himself a candidate for Newport. In his address, he de-
clares himself in favour of an extension of the suffrage—
shortening of the duration of parliaments—the ballot, and
state grants for education." He is opposed to " grants of
public money for the purposes of religious endowments,
and will support any measure for the abolition of Church
Rates."

ELECTION MOVEMENTS IN YORKSHIRE.—At Scarbo-
rough, Sir John V. B. Johnstone, one of the present
sitting members, has announced his intention to offer
himself for the renewed suffrages of the electors. Sir
Frederick Trench retires, and will be succeeded by the
Marquis of Normanby's son. Both candidates, it is said,
are secure.—At Whitby, Robert Stephenson, Esq., the
son of George Stephenson, the eminent engineer, is an-
nounced as the nominee of Mr. Hudson, Major Beresford
having resigned his intention of soliciting the suffrages of
the electors. At Knaresborough, Sir Charles Slingsby, a
Conservative, refused to stand a contest. The lion. W.
S.Lascelles and Mr. Westhead are considered safe.

"No POPERY. "—They must raise nowifie-e;;more
loudly than ever, "No Popery !" (Great cheering.) If
Lord Lincoln, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, or any other
such favourers of Romanism, should solicit their votes at.

the next election, then respond, "No Popery !" (Loud
cheers.) Let their representatives in Parliament be men
who would cry `: No Popery !" Crowd round the hust-
ings at the election, and shout "No Popery !" (Cheers.)
He intended to cry as long as he lived, both on the plat-
form and in the pulpit, "No Popery !" (Renewed cheers.)
As they loved civil and religious liberty, as they loved Old
England and her institutions, as they loved liberty of
speech and of conscience, as they loved the Gospel, which
brought peace in time and glory in eternity, then cry " No
Popery !"—From the Rev. Mr. Blakeney's speech at
Nottingham.
A deputation has waited on Lord John Manners to ask
him to become a candid ate for Liverpool, and his lordship has
consented, if a requisition be presented to him ' • butwe sus-
pect it will not be so numerously signed as to induce his
lordship to stand a contest. In a letter to the deputation,
he avows his principles, including the education of the
people in accordance with the intention of ministers, op-
position to the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church
in Ireland from the national exchequer, the removal of
vexatious excise restrictions, the reduction of customs du-
ties to that point which will combine the greatest amount
of revenue, including the existing impolitic and enormous
duty on tobacco, which acts as an incentive to smuggling,
and tends to deprive the honest trader of his just profits ;
a revision of the bank charter act, and the separation of
the banking and issue departments, and placing the latter
under the superintendence of some controlling authority,
which shall be responsible to the executive government
and to the legislature.

CITY OF DURHAM.—There are three candidates in the
field for the city of Durham, namely, Mr. Granger, who
applies for re-election ; Captain Wood, a Conservative,
who comes forward under the auspices of the Marquess of
Londonderry ; and Mr. Spearman, of Newton Hall, a
Whig-Radical free-trader. The difference which unfor-
tunately occurred among the Conservative party when Mr.
Bright was returned not having been reconciled, that
bond of union which is so essential to the success of any
cause is wanting, and Captain Wood's return is therefore
problematical, and the more so as the Conservative party
have formally resolved to " withhold their support from
any candidate presenting himself under the influence of
the Marquess of Londonderry." It is to be regretted
that a powerful party should be thus divided against itself,
and thereby sacrificing its own interests. Forbearance on
the one side,and a becoming spirit of conciliation manifested
on the other, might do much to accomplish that desirable
object; and, in a great national cause, personal feelings
ought to be merged in the higher considerations of public
duty.

A WORTHY SON.—Amongst the numerous new candi-
dates who are offering themselves to the electors of Great
Britain, are many men of true Protestant and patriotic
spirit ; and amongst the foremost of these it is with ex-
treme gratification we notice a son of the noble Duke of
Newcastle, Lord Charles Pelham Clinton, who is a candi-
date for the suffrages of the electors of the borough of
Sandwich. His address to the electors is a candid,
straightforward, and manly declaration of principles.
Like his father, but unlike his brother (Lord Lincoln),
he is a Protestant and a protector of British industry ;
and he is neither ashamed nor afraid to avow that he is
so :—" A zealous supporter of the Protestant constitution
of this empire, (says the noble lord,) I shall endeavour.to
protect our religious institutions from all hurtful changes
and encroachments, and support any measures' which
may add to our strength in this respect ; whilst at the
same time I would give every man the free exercise of his
religious principles, being no advocate ' for intolerance
either in religious or other matters. lam decidedly
averse to any further concessions to the Roman Catho-
lics ; and shall oppose any proposed endowment of the
Romish priesthood, either in this country or in Ireland."
These sentiments are worthy the son of the noble Duke
of Newcastle. Ile makes no reservation, but boldly
declares the principles on which he asks their suffrages,
and those principles are such as every constituency ought
to require in the candidate for its favours.
" OLLIVIER'S PARLIAMENTARY REGISTER FOR CON-
TESTED ELECTIONS."—ThiS is a carefully prepared and
useful little work, showing by arrangement in columns
the population of each place, the result of the general
election of 1841, and the subsequent returns ; the number
of votes on the register, and the numbers polled by each
candidate, with the politics or distinction of opinion of
the latter pointed out—all at a glance. There are also
blank columns intended to be filled up with the names of
candidates at the forthcoming election, as they announce
themselves, the numbers they may poll, the return when
made, and the result of the contest, whether gained by a
Conservative or a Whig. At the present momentous
crisis in the affairs of the county, the work, which is of
very moderate price, will be interesting to all who inte-
rest themselves (as who does not
who i
nin
ie nationalo
legisla-
tion, and especially to electors
representhustings.atives from candidates who have before appeared
at the

PROTESTANTISM AND OUR REPRESENTATIVES

IN PARLIAMENT,

The Rev. G. S. Faber, master or Sherburn Hospital,
Durham, has addressed a letter to the Durham Advertiser
with reference to the silence of the two candidates for
North Durham as to their views respecting the encourage-
ment of Popery. " There seems," says the rev. gentleman
"no very intelligible reason, why Mr. Liddell and Mr.
Shafto should not declare their sentiments and purposes
on this vital point, whether it be viewed constitutionally
or religiously. Constitutionally, what has already been
done strikes plain persons as a manifest infringement of
the Protestant English constitution settled in the year
1688, and as a violation of the conditions upon which the
present ROyal Family was called to the crown. Religiously,
the matter wears a still more serious aspect : and it is
more especially, therefore, on this ground, that electors
may justly expect to be informed of the sentiments of
their candidates, in order to the disposition of their votes
should there be a contest. Both Church and State have
alike solemnly declared the Romish Theological system
to be " superstitious and idolatrous" : and, though mem-
bers of parliament are no longer required, personally and
individually, to make declaration ; yet the declaration
itself plainly remains in all its original force, inasmuch
as the Sovereign of this realm is required to make at his
coronation, as an essestial condition of the tenure by
which he holds the crown to the exclusion of the House
of Stuart, now, I believe, represented, through the House
of Savoy, by the Duchess of Modena.
Under such circumstances, it is difficult to conceive a
more daring insult to Almighty God, and one more likely
to call down the wrath of heaven upon:this nation, than,
first to declare Popery to be idolatrous, and next to vote
pecuniary supplies and to hold out every encouragement
for the better and more extensive propagation of this same
declared Idolatry.
The question of daring insult to God, be it observed,
does not rest upon the abstract question • whether Popery
be, or be not, an Idolatrous System : though, if, in reruns
natura, there be such a thing as Idolatry, small doubt can
exist in any rational mind on that point. But it rests upon
an explicit declaration, both by Church and State, that
Popery is Idolatry. To make and retain this declaration,
as is still done, both in the public documents of the Church
(which, as it has been well observed, are, politically, an
Act of parliament), and in the required coronation oath of
the Protestant Sovereign of this realm ; and then, in the
face of such declaration, to vote the public money and to
hold out every encouragement for the support and propa-
gation of Popery thus officially designated: is such a
daring insult to the Almighty, that I, for one elector, at
least, have not sufficient nerve to give my vote in support
of any candidate however valuable in other purely secular
respects, who is prepared to go into Parliament with the
full intention to offer this insulting defiance to God. Were
I so to act, I should be a partaker in other man's sins.
In the present state of parties, I little regard the secular
politics of either Mr. Liddell or Mr. Shafto ; but, like a
large and increasing number of true Protestants, 1 cannot
view with equal indifference the religious part of the ques-
tion. ::.'here certainly
_seems no reason. why those two

estimable gentlemen should in
Mr. Farrer, and distinctly inform us electors, wliethE
they approve or disapprove of the grant to Maynooth, and
whether they will support or oppose any further conces-
sions to Popery of any description whatsoever."

follow the example of

June 22,1847,

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUMMARY

The pressure for money is again lighter this week,
although some demand existed on Friday, for the purpose
of prepaying the instalments on the Irish loan. That was
the last day on which such prepayment could be made, in
order to secure the full rate of five per cent discount. It
is understood that the largest portion- of the remaining
£4,080,000 of the loan is now paid up in this way. The
bank of England discounts freely bills having three months
to run, at five per cent, and good first-class bills can be
done at the same rate in Lombard-street. The highest
rate now given for money, at " call," is 41- per cent. Bul-
lion has ceased to be exported to the United States as 3
remittance for grain ; and from the large orders for manu-
factured goods which have lately come out from that
country, the probability is great that we shall not be called

upon to transmit specie for our next year's supply. A
sound commercial authority in New York offers the fol,

lowing remarks to a correspondent :
" The importations from England to this country thi!
fall will be large, and will absorb all the exchange tha'
the balance of our cotton crop and shipments of flour and
grain from our past harvest can make, therefore the Bank
of England need not fear any further demand for gold fthis country, provided your harvest be a good one, and
it be not, we cannot send you any large amount of either
flour or corn until next November. Under these circuto"
stances, I am certain that, even supposing your harvest
to prove a failure, exchange will not be down sufficientli
low in this country for the next six months to admit of
gold being imported to a profit."

The effect of this, and of similar advices, and the pur-
chases making for American account, has produced a
better feeling in the manufacturing districts, notwithstand-
ing a further advance in the cotton market. The increased
activity, however, is not to any very perceptible amount,
or sufficient to induce a return to working full time. Bet"
ter prices, however, are being given both for goods and
yarn.

We have had a steady demand for cotton throughout
the week; and quotations at the close may be set down n
Id. higher than last week for fair American. The tots'
sales of the week have been 36,400 bales, of which specu-
lators have taken 4,600 bales American and 1,000 Surat,
and Exporters 3,200 bales American, 200 Surat, and I,nuv,,„
Pernams. The total imports of the week were 36,4nn
bales. The stock in Liverpool is 502,150 bales, againSt
740,430 bales last year, leaving a deficiency of 238,220.
bales. We have thus only seventeen weeks stock of cotton,
should our consumption be the same as the corresponding
period of last year, viz., 28,514 bales per week. A conti-
nuance of short time working is therefore desirable until
we are assured of the prospects of the next crop.
The corn markets throughout the country have, this
week, been in a declining state, notwithstanding the efforts
made to spread abroad fears for the safety of the potatoo
crop, and to represent the cold and rain of the early Pail
of it as likely to continue, and be injurious to the wiles'
crops. The arrivals at this port, during the week, were
large, comprising chiefly Indian corn and meal, with up-
wards of 50,000 barrels of flour from America. Large
arrivals have also taken place at Cork, which not being
wanted there, are being transferred to English ports'
Friday's London market was influenced by advices said to
have been received from Holland, Belgium, and France,
which reported considerably advanced rates of wheat and
rye. Hence holders were firmer than in the country mar-
kets. The advices in question, however, so far as Francs
is concerned, are not borne out by other accounts. Th°
Courier de Lyons, of the 14th inst., we find reporting 8,11
immense fall of wheat at Marseilles—wheat of the flrs''
quality; which, fifteen days previously, was worth 30f.'
being sold at 20f. At Lyons, the fall was ten per cent'
The warehouses, it is said, are full of grain, and the quail;
are covered with it. At Marseilles, the fall in prices has
caused one extensive failure and numerous stoppages of
payment. One commercial house became bankrupt at
moment, when it possessed wheat to the amount 9
1,000,000 f. in the port. In consequence of this change in.
the aspect of the corn trade, the Tribunal of Commerce 0'
Marseilles is hourly occupied in deciding on accounts
brought by sellers against purchasers who refuse to receive
the corn bought by them. The same journal states that
the wheat in la Breese is in full blossom, and promises so
abundant harvest
Th

Antelope screw steamer arrived on Saturday, har-
ing sailed from'Rio on the 10th of May, and from Bah
on the 16th. Her passage home was protracted in conse'
quence of the inferior quality of the coals taken at Rif),
and she had to put into Cork, where she has been four,
days obtaining a further supply. The voyage out and
home, including the detention, was performed in 82 daYsi:
She brings the Jornal do Comercio from the3d to the
of May inclusive. ' The only political news is, that the -,
prisoners who were taken at Torres Vedras had arrived 9,"
Angola. Amongst them were Counts Bomfim and
Real. Lord Howden arrived on the Ist of May.
change 271, which is a considerable decline. Coffee /I'Z
risen 100 to 150 r. per arroba. The sales of the month
were 30,000 bags. The stock on hand 20,000 bags of xi'
descriptions. Prices firm. The arrivals small, especisilY
of the new crop. Sugar sales limited to a few cases f%
home consumption. Stock in hand 700 cases and a
barrels, the greater part Muscovadoes of indifferent quality;
In hides little doing—stock only about 3,000. ShipPi
scarce.

UNIVERSITY

AND CLERICAL NEWS•

A correspondent of the Preston Pilot states, that the
first sermon the late Dr. Chalmers ever preached was in
the Scotch Church, Chapel-lane, Wigan.
The Rev. W. Massie, of Goostrey, has been presented
by the Marquis of Westminster to St. Mary's Rectory'
Chester, vacant by the appointment of the Rev. Cool
Eaton to the Vicarage of Eastham.

A new church, capable of accommodating 300 in Tho
duals, is in the course of erection at Great Lever.
of Bradford has given the land, £l,OOO towards Ow
endowment, and £5OO towards the erection.
EMIGRATION OF BISHOPS.—The Rev.. Drs. Grey
Tyrrell, Perry, and Short, the newly appointed bishops 'to
the colonies and dependencies of the British crown, sre,3,o
be consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, on
29th instant, at Westminster Abbev. The BishoPo
London, Winchester, and Durham are to assist. ,
On Sunday evening week, great consternation was P7t,
duced amongst the congregation at St. Paul s, Newl,Fle
by the Rev. Mr. Wybrow falling down in the pulpit 'Oat
preaching. He was taken into the vestry, and in ab°j,
half an hour recovered. The rev. gentleman had faint'i,
n consequence of the heat, and his great exertion

preaching. f rd
The Bishop of Oxford presided at a meeting at 05-cas
on Wednesday, the object of which was to provide f°13.0
ito enable the new colonial bishops to establish schools elir
the dioceses to which they are about to commence tot,
spiritual labours. Some of the new bishops were prey
a the hall was crowded to excess.
_age
THE NEW DEAN OF MANCHESTER.—The Rev. Gu", a,
Hall Bowers, Rector of St. Paul, Covent-garden, Lorlu°o
has been presented to the deanery of Manchester, Ir.
by the demise of the Hon. and Very Rev. Williara
ee worth
dy dean
nra.bs
shall
b:
nO O
residencepe r ao nw:o,
bert, LL.D. The rectory of St. Paul, Covent-gar be
which is vacated by this appointment, is in the gift of t,
By the act of parliament passed since the last appoi°;
and
istthh
meat, it is provided that
Duke of Bedford,
less than nine months in
THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER,—We hear that it teas
Lord John Russell's intention to
have ap b gter
J. Slade, Vicar of Bolton, the first Bishop f —a" e-
° • b„ two
but in consequence of having been waited 11P°3 ths
the clergy, one a near relative, and the other frorn
Rev.
neighbourhood, to urge the appointment 'of the
Chancellor Raikes, he decided not to bestow the bisherble
upon either. It is highly probable that the veneirilleve,
Archdeacon Musgrave, Vicar of Halifax, and, we be• hoP
brother of the Bishop of Hereford, will be the first Bo
of Manchester.—Manehester Guardian. ev•
r
pointed the Rev.
DR. SCORESBY.—On Friday night this esteemed
gentleman was presented, at Bradford, by the oddfelio,i,
with a massive silver inkstand. A more important Ina
of the esteem in which he is held in Bradford, vril',„ol;
presented during this week, in the shape 'of an elegant
bible and prayer-book, the gift of the teachers and se" of
lars in the church schools ; and of a handsome serviceo,
plate purchased by public subscription. The plate 'ran
sists of a handsome tea and coffee service, includiagbio
elegant and massive tea-urn, a rich soup tureen, weig,,,od
upwards of 120 oz. ; the whole service being richly cm- ,
and embossed.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION: _Returns w". 01.
for by Mr. Evelyn Denison, respecting the ecclesia:scititp
commission show that the fees and emoluments Pa',„l in
counsel and solicitors by the commissioners amounteount
1845 to £3,637, and in 1846 to £4,770. The 1101, 010 t
paid to architects was, in 1845, £693, and in 1846, X;'000.
of which Mr. W. Railton, of London, received XiitOt
The amount paid to agents and surveyors was, i° wag
£2,363, and in 1846, £5,521. In 1845 seven sees (1 in
augmented to the extent of £8,349 altogether; teeter.,
1846, eight sees to the extent of £12,905, viz., ChicTifora,
£631 ; Hereford, £1,359 ; Lichfield, £825 10;
£3,463; Peterborough, £1,116 ; Ripon, .£2,l3°:,rtiol'"
chester, £1,820 ; and St. David's, £1,553. fte,,%sta""
have been sold to the amount of £38,257, and _,t
purchased to the amount of £24,700.
RESTITUTION OF TITHES TO THE CHuRCII:
Thursday a public meeting of the noblemen and F'stse
_ _

.v.
men connected with the lithe Redemption Trust, ecthe
lished for the purpose of regaining _ for tne ebuirueid
tithes now in the hands of lay impropriators, wstreole,V,'
their chambers in Abingdon-street.—Lord J. gni"
M.P. presided. The Rev. W. W. Malet read a -*VIVI
ened report of the operations of the society, fortl
it appeared that several lay impropriators had c094.„`-re
sated with the society, expressing a desire to resi, etti
tithes held by them for the purposes of the churl 1)3v.",
at a considerable sacrifice. A correspondence hated 11,1
entered into with Lord Lyttleton, who has intio39 1)P--
intention of supporting the society. Mr. Gladstoe, 03_
been appealed to with equal success. The rePoli t 11;
adopted.—The Bishop of Exeter said he looked 1'1)°,1 10,teb
society as one of the utmost importance, and he 113 01 t
doubt that it would accomplish the great object for reelela
it was established. He was aware that for theaPecl)3.o
his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury had .0,5 t)
‘t•-• Qoeiety. bishop could not itt hJetoeff
-nself with new s..et it gi A
feetly certain, but
of Exeter); and alf,
tld give the schell'oco,
,t from what hatija 19Ist
that they w().„.J.P,„
lin terms',_„ o',.

joining ti
to his high position connect I
the success of which was not
different with him (the Bisi

no hesitation in saying t
hearty support. He hal
of the holders of improy