The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1853.

VARIETIES.

GENTILITY is said to be eating meat with a silver fork
when the butcher has not been paid. . .

IT would require several horses to draw all the strings
of a piano-forte to concert pitch, the strain upon them,
when in perfect tune, being about seven tons.
- •• -

" How IS IT," said one little miss to another, " that
John's never afraid, and I am ?"—" Because he's got a
Roman nose and feels safe ; don't you remember how we
read, that it has always been said that a Roman knows
—no danger ?"
THE ELEPHANT AT EXETER CHANGE.—This ele-
phant once nearly killed an Irishman for an insult offered
to his trunk. The act was rash in the extreme : " but it
was impossible," the Hibernian said, " to resist a nose
you could pull with both hands."—Hood.

AN ATTORNEY, about to furnish a bill of costs, was re-
quested by his client, a baker, to make it as light as he
could. "Ah :" replied the attorney, " that's what you
may say to your foreman, but it's not the way I make my
bread."

A Goon PRICE FOR A LADY'S TOOTII.—M. A.
Lenoir, the founder of the French Museum, relates that
during the transport of the remains of Abelard and Heloise
to the Petits Augustins, an Englishman offered him
£l,OOO for one of the teeth of Heloise !
INFIDELITY.—An Infidel, who had been attempting to
prove that men have no souls, asked a lady, with an air of
triumph, what she thought of his philosophy. "It ap-
pears to me, (she replied,) that you have been employing
a good deal of talent to prove yourself a beast."
FIRST BOY.--" Here's a pretty go, Bill ? Through
this coagulition Ministry, there arn't to be no more
transportation to the Diggins', by the old Bailey emi-
gration." Second (Jen) Boy.—" Oh, never mind,- old
feller ; they're going to let my sort into Parleyment ; and
as soon as I'm in I'll do summat for ye !"

RICH AND COMFOKTABI.E.-0110 of the wealthiest
farmers en the Connecticut tells the following story :
" When I first came to settle, about 40 years ago, I told
my wife I meant to be rich—all she wanted was enough
to make her comfortable.' I went to work and cleared
my land. I've worked hard ever since,—and have got rich,
as rich as I want to be. Most of my children have settled
about me, and they all have good farms. But my wife
isn't comfortable' yet."

A KNOTTY POINT SETTLED.—First Juvenile Politi-
cian—" Wall, say, now the Demmycrats is in, wat do
youspose they'll do ?"—Second Juvenile Politician (scorn-
fully) : " Do, yer fool? Why 'nex Cuby and Canadee,
take the Givano Islands, 'nex Hingland, and bring
Halbert and \Victory over, and show 'em at Barnum's
—that's what they'll do."—First Juvenile Politician :
"They will .7—Hooray Demmycrats for ever !—say give
us a plug, will yer ?"
As AMERICAN WRITER remarks:—England breathes
withthe lungs of Birmingham and Manchester; herheart is
Australia ; her pulse is London 'Change. If plethora
threatens her, and there is congestion in the bellows, or
the furnace on fire, or if the boiler of the steam engine
threaten to burst, or rattle, she prescribes for herself the
medicine of the market. She discharges her accumulated
manufactures upon the nations of the earth. Trade has
increased all their avocations ; and now the noble lord
and the princely merchant can come together east of Temple
Bar. Society is thus fused into and polished by Commerce,
and more than all, Commerce opens up the track for the
Church to follow on to evangelize the world ; and nobly
does she now pursue the paths provided for her mission.
BEHAVIOUR IN COMPANY.—On the subject of beha-
viour in company, Legh Richmond gives the following
excellent advice to his daughters:—" Be cheerful, but
not gigglers. Be serious, but not dull. Be communica-
tive, but not forward. Be kind, but not servile. Beware
of silly, thoughtless speeches ; although you may forget
them, others will not. Remember that God's eye is in
every place, and his ear in every company. Beware of
levity and familiarity with young men; a modest reserve,
without affectation, is the only safe path. Court and en-
courage serious conversation with those who are truly se-
rious and conversible ; and not go into valuable company
without endeavouring to improve by the intercourse per-
mitted you. Nothing is more unbecoming, when one
part of a company is engaged in profitable and interesting
conversation, than that another part should be trifling, and
talking comparative nonsense to each other.
CROSSING THE DESERT.—I was amused at seeing our
passengers, immediately on reaching Alexandria, wind
great white shawls around their hats and hang green veils
over their faces. While crossing the Desert, although
the temperature was not above 70 deg. at noon, they per-
sisted in doing the same thing, and some of them even
protected their eyes with spectacles, although there was
no glare that would have made an infant wink. Accord-
ing to their ideas, they were in constant peril of having a
sun-stroke, and catching the opthalmia. My companions
in the van were inured to an Indian sun, and so we threw
aside all fears, and made merry from one side of the
Desert to the other. At the fourth station we stopped
an hour to breakfast. Here we found a spacious two-
story house, with a large dining-saloon, divan, &c., and
an excellent breakfast for thirty persons on the table.
There were several neat bedrooms for the accommodation
of persons who wish to make the journey slowly.—Bayard
Taylor's Letters.
YANKEE LEARNING.—The physician who attended
sic transit has arrived in this city and taken rooms at the
Tremont.—Boston Museum. The pugilist Whit fit has
gone to Boston, and hopes to see sic transit in gloria
mundi morning.—Springfield Post. He arrived safely,
but soon delta blow at sic transit, and beta hole in his
head.—Boston Bee. We understand that nihil fit him and
noctes head completely off.—Boslon Museum. That
must be a mistake, for sic transit was inter see Dr. Dieg
last evening and stayed till tecum.—Carpet Bay. Sic
transit came into our office this morning with a
" Carpet Bag." lie cum by rail, with the carmen.—Hart.
ford Excelsior. Oh unum sculls ! Sic transit drove a
to pone tandem temo ver from the eastward. He is visit-
ing his ante, Mrs. Die Terra, in this city, and will stay
till ortem. Dr. Dignos the Terris (Terrys). He like-
wise et super ‘ith us last evening. He eta beta pi.
The pugilist also cunt with him, and lambda man badly
in the street ; he cutis nos off, and noctem flat urna
flounder.—Hartford Republican. Silicit the whole of
you.—New York Tribune.
THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD AND SIR WALTER SCOTT.
In a life of Sir Walter Scott, recently published, his first
interview with the Ettrick Shepherd is thus amusingly
told :—One day, while Scott was still in Edinburgh, there
came into the city a brawny, rough fellow, driving a flock
of sheep. It was James llogg, who finding himself in the
capital, was seized with a violent desire to see himself in
print, and accordingly got somebody to strike off a few of
his verses, which, however, made no sensation. " Tue
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" set him to work at
imitating the old Scottish ballads ; and as his efforts were
warmly praised by Scott, he came down again from the
forest to pay his friend a visit. He, with William Laid-
law and others, was invited to dinner. The worthy shep-
herd appeared in his ordinary herdman's dress, with his
hands well tarred by a recent shearing. Not being accus-
tomed to the society of " grand folk," he had com-
muned with himself as to how he should act, and had
come to the conclusion that he ought to copy the lady of
the house in all things. Mrs. Scott, being unwell, re-
ceived her guest reclining on a sofa, and Jamie accord-
ingly, true to his principle, had no sooner made his best
bow, than he crossed the room, and stretched himself out
upon another. At dinner he ate, drank, laughed, and
chattered, amusing the guests by los strange, uncouth
jokes and remarks, and even songs. As the good wine
began to operate, Jamie grew familiar, and after tickling
everybody by his rapid advance from " Mr. Scott" to
" Shirra," " Scott," " Walter," and " Wattie," he at
last threw the company into convulsions :of laughter by
addressing Mrs. Scott as " Charlotte."
TEA AND ITS ADULTERATIONS.—AduIteration with
simple leaves of trees is innocent enough compared with
some of the abominations to which the competing prin-
ciple has resort, and can practise with impunity. On the
continent the natives have not waited for that propitious-
ness of site and climate which the Chinese tea-plant has
been proved to require. English tea having first served
them as a foliage, is next seized to satisfy our national
appetite. Many a wry face have our wandering country-
men made over the tea-pots of Rhineland and of Flan-
ders. A lady, a friend of ours, once met an old Belgian
peasant gathering leaves from some wayside trees and
hedges, a little distance out of Brughes ; and upon asking
him what he was storing so carefully in his basket, the
old man, taking her for a countrywoman, answered, to
' her horror, " tea for the English !" lie looked as old
in his task as Wordsworth's leech-gatherer. But al-
though it is sufficiently unpleasant to be mocked in our
pilgrimages in search of the picturesque by the very vege-
table kingdom, still, this is harmless, comparatively,
when we read the accounts given by Mr. Twining and
others of the villanous mixtures and disgusting ingre-
dients detected in the compositions of convicted spurious
tea-dealers in England. If it is difficult for the expe-
rienced to detect the true from the false, difficult teas
may defy the scrutiny of the public. When the company
were merchants, this system of adulteration did not and
could not exist. They had the first choice of all the teas
which were imported from the tea districts into Canton.
These were there submitted to the inspection of a gentle-
man, chosen from among the tea-brokers of London, who,
at the head of the regular servants of the company, care-
fully examined the teas several times previous to com-
pleting the purchase, and then fixed their valuation ; and
so great was then the confidence of the Hongmen in the
spirit of honourable dealing which always influenced the
company, that they invariably acquiesced in every reduc-
tion of price that was decided upon. Again, on being
exposed to sale in London, every chest of tea was sub-
mitted to another examination from the tea-brokers,
and their report published. These gentlemen were entirely
independent of the company, and could have been actu-
ated by no ulterior motive in the good report they did
constantly give. Inferior teas were thus rejected—adul-
terated teas impossible. Moreover, the cultivation of the
finest descriptions of tea was encouraged by the genero-
sity of the company. For the delicate flavoured black
souchong, which is now so rare, and only to be had in
England in the shape of a choice present from some
friend in China, the company paid higher prices than
were given for green tea, and pains were consequently
taken to foster its growth. And this the company did
without regard to profit. They imported some teas, as
they exported certain British productions (to pro.note re-
ciprocal commerce) at a positive loss ; confiding for
remuneration to their aggregate profits. But the free im-
porter, whose object is necessarily immediate gain, and
who is not sufficiently conspicuous before the public to
induce him to make generous sacrifices for the sake of
high character, can neither afford nor care to flatter the
discriminating tastes of the rich, or satisfy the demands
of the poor, by such rare principles of conduct. His ob-
ject is simply to get rid of his stock ; he has no feeling of
responsibilitysomewha
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sthat, experience,tt lwithoutatterly
some wholesale check upon private rapacity, the public
must unavoidably become victims to a system of almost
universal chicanery. Against this, the position, interest,
and honour of the company were ample guarantee. But
the artists, both of' China and England, have now full
swing, and, with all vegetable nature for their material,
and the entire population of the British isles and colonies
for their subjects, there is reason to believe, that when
they have destroyed our palates, they will soon be able to
compete openly with the genuine tea growth itself.—
Fraser's Maaazine.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the
real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but
as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite
in any statement of facts.
The Editor wishes it to he understood that he does not hold
himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his
correspondents.

DR. M`NEILE'S SECOND LETTER TO PRIEST

POWER.

TO THE REV. MR. POWER.

SlR,—Above two months ago, on the 15th of February, I ad-
dressed a letter to you in the public press, and sent you, by the
post, a paper containing it. I need not now recapitulate the
circumstances which led to the writing of that letter, but I
must remind you of its contents. It contained a demonstra-
tion, on the authority of the Councils of the Church, that the
Creed of the Church of England was the Creed of the Church
Catholic, assembled, by representation, at Nice, A.D. 325, at
Ephesus, A.D. 431, at Chalcedon, A.D. 451, and at Trent, A.D.
1546 ; and that the Creed of the Church of Rome—the Creed
which contains all her differences from the Church of England
—was never heard of, as a Creed, until the year 1564. The
conclusion is inevitable. We of the Church of England are the
true Catholics, in strict accordance with the true antiquity ;
and you of the Church of Rome are modern sectarians, dating,
for all that is peculiar about you, no farther back than the
middle of the sixteenth century.
I invited you, with all courteousness, to show, if you could,
any inaccuracy in my statements, or any inconclusiveness in
my reasoning: and if you could not. I invited you to the frank,
and in that case honourable acknowledgment that your Church,
in all that is distinctive about it, is a novelty, introduced by a
Bishop of Rome in the year 1564.
I have been waiting for your reply ; so have many, very
many who have read my letter. As yet we have waited in vain.
SAINT PETER, ir. his first Catholic Epistle, in the third
chapter, at the 15th verse, wrote these words, "Be ready
always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason
of the hope that is in you." This supposes, as a matter of
course, that the follower of Saint Peter in the ministry of the
Church can give a reason; and it clearly makes it his duty to
do so.

I am at a loss to know how you reconcile your silence with
this duty. There is, indeed, one hypothesis which would ex-
plain your silence, but it would not throw an agreeable light
upon your conscientious discharge of a great Christian duty.
If you feel that you CAN not prove me wrong, and that you
WILL not acknowledge yourself wrong, the❑ of course you
must say nothing, and earnestly desire that my letter may be
forgotten as soon as possible. tinder these circumstances,
can you wonder that I should desire that my letter should not
be forgotten
But I have a still further object in addressing you again. I
wish to come to your assistance, and point out the best defence
that can be made in answer to the charge of novelty brought
against the Church of Rome.

You might argue, if you were competently informed upon
the subject, that the doctrines which distinguish the Church of
Rome from the Church of England, though not condensed into
a form of belief, and imposed by authority as a Creed, prior to
the year 1564, had nevertheless been taught with acceptance in
the Church for ages, as may be proved by reference to the
i-itings of many of her greatest and most distinguished
doctors. You might refer to A ItNOBILS and Sr. BASIL, and
ST. EPH RENI OF EDESSA and ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM, in
support of prayers for the dead. To ST. 0 PIATUS OF M LEVI S,
and THEODORET and ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, for the pri-
macy of the successors of Saint Peter. To ST. HILARY OF
POITIERS, ST. JAMES OF NISIBIS, and ST. PACIANUS, for
your doctrine of confession. To VICTOR OF ANTIOCH, and
INNOCENT I. for extreme unction. And in support of Lenten
Fasts and unbloody sacrifices, you might refer to ST. EPI-
PHA NIUS, and to ST. JOHN CH RYSOSTOM, which last writer,
in his llomii. vi. De ira, says—" Lent and the holy exercises
conjoined with it, are undertaken, that by them those crimes
being wiped away, which, in the course of the year, we have
committed, we may, with holy confidence, be made partakers
of the unbloody sacrifice."
More, much more of this kind you might urge; I could
prompt you through pages, chapters, volumes: but what then?
I admit all this; and I perceive in this the good and suffi-
cient reason which existed for the otherwise unaccountable
decrees of the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, from which
I furnished you with extracts in notes to my first letter.
Those Councils pronounced an anathema on any one who
should profess, write, or compose any other form of faith than
the Nicene Creed.. Why, it may be asked, were such decrees
necessary? The answer is obvious. Heretical opinions, de-
rived from Paganism and perverted Judaism, were advanced
and taught by so many individuals of eminence, that the
Church, in council assembled, felt it needful again and again to
protest against such innovations, and to keep her Catholic
creed pure from their debasing admiiture.
Happy would it have been for Christendom and for the world,
if this watchful wisdom of the assembled Fathers,—restricting
the faith of the Church to what could be proved by sore war-
rant of Holy Scripture,—had been practically attended to by
all their successors. We in England, though harassed long by
the abuses of the Church, and the aggressive pertinacity of the
Pope, never formally acknowledged your Creed. Our reforma-
tion of evils and falsehoods which had crept in among us was
completed before your Creed was composed. Queen Elizabeth
ascended the throne, and gave stability to what bad
been done in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI.,
A.D. 1559, five years before Pius IV. consummated the
apostacy of Rome. In an evil hour, a Bishop of Rome, despi-
sing the authority of the Church, and gathering togeth.tr the
leading heresies which had for years distracted her, arranged
them into a creed of twelve articles, added them to the Nicene
Creed, pronounced the thunders of excommunication against
all who refused to receive them, and thus exei;:ed all his over-
grown power, too successfully, alas ! to impose them as a creed
indispensable to salvation upon the conniving clergy and the
prostrate multitude.t

Till then, the duty of Christian men among you was to pro-
test and reform. Since thee, their duty has been to secede.
The creed of Pope Pius IV. cannot be reformed. It admits of
no palliation. Amputation is the only Christian treatment of
it; the only process by which Rome can become Christian.
There is a difference between practical corruptions and (else-
hoods, however widely spread, in defiance of a Christian creed,
and the systematic adoption, by authority, of an unchristian
creed. There is a corresponding difference between reformation
and secession.

In England there was no secession. There was no sufficient
cause for any; because England's Reformation preceded
Rome's Apostacy.

In :559 the Church of England reformed her abuses; in 1564
t he Church of Rome stereotyped her heresies.

In connexion with this, I am anxious that my readers (I hope
you will enable me to say, in my next letter, our readers) should
have before them a specimen of genuine Christian antiquity,
and to this end I transcribe for their edification the following
passages from Tertullian—De Prwseriptione: " It is a maxim
not to be controverted, that what was first delivered is evan-
gelical and true; and what was afterwards imported is extra-
neous and false—id extraneum et falsum, quod sit posterius
mmissum. Again, "We are not allowed to indulge our hu-
mours, nor to choose what another has invented. We have the
Apostles of our Lord for founders, who were not themselves
the inventors or authors of what they left us; but they have
faithfully taught the world the doctrines which they received
from Christ. Therefore, if an angel from Heaven should
Area ch another gospel, we should say anathema to him. He-
r esies have arisen from philosophy and from human wisdom,
w hick is different from the spirit of Christianity. What is
there common between Athens and Jerusalem? Between the
academic groves and the Church ? Our lessons come from the
porch of Solomon, and teach us to seek the Lord in simplicity
of heart. Haring learned Christ and his Gospel, we must
indulge no curiosity—no farther inquiring. We believe: that
suffices. Our first maxim is, that nothing more is necessary."
This is much to the purpose, when compared with the histo-
rical facts which I have set before you. I wish you could be
induced to speak out. What can you be afraid of? Does not
discussion, when conducted in good temper and gentlemanlike
courtesy, elicit truth ? Backed as you are by what you con-
ceive to be infallibility, may you not succeed, peradventure,
in silencing the gainsayers? Or, are you under restraint?
Has your bishop forbid you? Or, have you had a hint from
his Eminence, the Cardinal, that a discussion on the subject
of antiquity is not likely to tend, at present, ad ecelcsice
utilitatem ?

I had designed a further exercise of generosity in enabling
you to trace some of your doctrines to a vet y early pet :od ; but
this letter is already too long. I must reserve for my next
a proof that some of your leading peculiarities were derived
from heathenism, and may be traced, with convincing clear-
ness, to the schools of Pythagoras and Plato.
Meantime I hope you will prove yourself an obedient
successor of Saint Peter, and give a reason for the hope that is
in you. Your silence is attended with some risk. My first
letter has been very largely circulated. Many and anxious are
the inquiries, "Well, has Mr. Power replied yet?" And some,
in their audacity, have ventured to insinuate that Mr. Power
can't reply, without betraying either himself or his cause or
both. Even Catholics, as you call them, begin to talk thus,
and the subject is so pressed upon them by zealous Christian
neighbours, that they are longing for the shield of yos' defence.
Hoping that you may be induced (better late than never) to
take this matter into serious consideration, and praying in all
sincerity that a saving blessing from on high may attend and
crown your deliberations, I have the honour to subscribe
myself, in the sense explained in my first letter,
A PRIEST OF TILE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
Aigburth, April2s, 1853. HUGH M'NEILE.

* DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF EPHESUS.
"These things having been read, the Holy Synod decreed,
that it should he lawful for no one to profess, to w,.te or to
compose, any other form of faith than that defined by the
Holy Fathers, who, with the Holy Ghost, had been assembled
at Nice."
"But those who shall have dared to compose, or to profess
or to offer, any other form of Faith to those wishing to be con-
verted to the acknowledgment of the ti nth, whether from
Paganism, or from Judaism, or from any sort of Heresy, that
these, if they were Bishops or Clergymen, that the Bishops
shonld be deposed from their Episcopacy, and the Clergy from
their Clerical office ; but that if they were Laymen, they should
be subjected to an `anathema.'" Mansi, vol. iii. p. 1362.
EXTRACT FROM THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON.
"1 he Catholic Faith delivered by the Holy
at Nice,)and by the Holy 150 Fathers, (viz., at Constantinople,)
also by the other most Holy and glorious fathers, (viz., at
hpliesus,) we guard, and according to that we believe. Elie
most 318 Fathers, (I.lz.
Bishops exclaimed, No person makes any other
e,xposition of faith. We neither attempt nor dare to do so.
For the Fathers. have taught, and writings preserved, those
things which have been set forth by them : and other than
these we cannot speak.'
'l'hose principles which have been set forth are sufficient ;
it is not lawful to make any other exposition."—MarPi• i• 2.
t submission surrendered to the Pope a power which
has proved, and is, in our own days, proving, an iron sceptre
indeed. The Archbishop of Paris has just quailed under its
stroke. It bids fair to try to the uttermost, perhaps to wear
out, the patience of mankind.

COLOURED STATUES.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—To your notice, last week, of the coloured statue by
Mr. Gibson, of Rome, I should be glad if you would add the
following remark, which will explain his object, namely,—to
make known to the British artists the Polychromatic style of
the Ancients. This emblazonry was common to the sculpture
and architecture of the Pelasgic style of art, which preceded the
Hellenie style in Greece, and'which still continued even during
the Hellenic era, after the fall of the Pelasgic dynasty in Greece•
Pausanius, in his Peregesis, has noticed 3,000 statues in his
travels in Greece, and most of those were in the Archnic style,
which was the Pelasgic of the symbolic colours.
With this explanation there can be no difference of opinion,
as it is only the revival of an obsolete style, and which our
critics had forgotten, for want of looking at the fountain head
of the history of art amongst the ancients.--I am, Sir, with

much esteem,
Liverpool, ?►pril 25, 1853.

SOL. GIBSON.

THE NEW CHURCH IN MYRTLE-STREET.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In passing up Myrtle-street the other day, I was in-
duced to turn into the new church in course of erection, con-
nected with the Orphan Boys' Asylum, and was much
pleased with the tower, as regards the size, winding stair, &c.
Now, I do not know whether it is the intenti3n of the com-
mittee to have a peal of bells put up in their steeple, but I
hope a provision will be made for such ; that is, by carrying
a circular stone-stair right to the top of the square part of the
tower, and putting in proper beams for the framing of the
bells, while building. A great mistake has been made in many
of the steeples in Liverpool, by not fixing the beams at the
proper time (while the walls were being carried up), and the
want of circular stone stairs; for instance, St. Martin-in-the-
Fields, a noble tower, built expressly for a peal of ten bells,
but, strange to say, without its circular stone-stair, and the
beams were actually put in after the tower was finished. The
zigzag wood-stair that goes up that fine tower at Walton is
most inconvenient, besides taking up a great portion of the
ringing chamber. At Leeds parish church, where there
is a peal of twelve bells, a circular stone-stair was obliged
to be built outside the tower some time after it was finished,
which shows plainly that the architects of St. Martin's, Walton
church, and Leeds parish church, and many others that I
could name, never could have visited those justly celebrated
steeples in London, built by Sir Christopher Wren and other
eminent architects. Indeed, we need not go from home,
for we have one of the finest and most convenient towers in
this part of the country, St. Nicholas'. Would that the
church was equal to the tower. The steeple in Myrtle-street
is admirably adapted for a peal of eight or ten bells, and some
philanthropic individual may, ere long, be induced to present
the institution with a peal of bells. We are miserably behind
London, and many other places, as regards our bells, having
only three peals, whereas London has upwards of sixty! and
new peals put up every year. Hoping Liverpool wiil not limg
remain in the background as regards music and bells,—l am,
Sir, yours, respectfully, It. 11.

PSEUDO -CONSERVATIVES.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

beg you will accept my cordial thanks, for the ve:j
pertinent observations you addressed to "A Protestant" cor-
respondent in the Standard of last week. My ors n experience,
unfortunately, enables me to verify all you have stated with
retard to that class of spurious Conservative-Protestants, who,
while they are loudest in declaiming against their political
or religious opponents, would still, to save a penny, patronise
the Pore, were he to become a shopkeeper; and who, while
the most noisy-tongued supporters of the creed which they
profess, will borrow the Conservative journal from some
unlucky and more conscientious Conservative with whom they
have contrived to scrape an acquaintance.

Now to my own case. I shall, for the nonce, call my neigh-
bour Mr. S. P. He is a wealthier man than myself; and,
although I consider I am a sound Churchman, and a staunch
Conservative, I must confess that Mr. S. P., with his fierce
denunciations, makes my most decided expressions of disap-
proval look exceedingly like milk-and.water. Yet Mr. S. P.
takes advantage of my acquaintance to dispense with sub-
scribing for the Standard, and regularly for years has been in
the habit of sending for the loan of my copy. The sound of
the newsman's horn who brings the paper of a Tuesday
morning has not yet died out of our terrace till a messenger
arrives " with Mr. S. P.'s compliments, and Mr. S. P.
would be obliged for the loan of the paper." The paper, be
it remembered, for which I have paid, and which I am
legitimately about to enjoy after breakfast, when it is snatched
from me with an effrontery that has never yet failed, because
I really cannot muster sufficient courage to stop what has
become an old custom, and what Mr. S. P. appears to regard
as quite a matter of course; although, Sir, sometimes my
indignation rises to a very high pitch indeed. If this is
inserted, I hope it will be read and well pondered by Mr. S. P.,
and every member of the miserable class to which he belongs—
fur I am afraid, Mr. Editor, that many of your subscribers
could each " a tale unfold," very much resembling my own.

This much I ehall say—that if ➢lr. S. P. does not take the
hint from this epistle, I shall in future stop the supplies, and
give him, in addition, a bit of my mind.

Blackwood has shown that Whig governments have been
better patrons of literature and the fourth estate than Tory
administrations; and I am half afraid that what is true of
Conservative leaders is likewise true of their followers.
Let me ask—How is it, that while the Radical sticks exclu-
sively, and through thick and thin, to his own journal, the
Conservative on the other band is too often found giving no
support, save the reading of a borrowed copy and empty words
of praise, to the newspaper which upholds his own creed,
while he heaps favours and bestows his cash upon those
members of the press whose opinions and designs he honours
in private conversation with the name of dangerous and
incendiary 7—l am, Sir, your old subscriber,
Liverpool, April 22, 1853. SENEX.

A GLANCE AT THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET
IN THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL.

No. I.

TN an age marked by the extraordinary material progress of
the one we live in, we have a right to expect that advance.
ment will be exhibited in the means of emigration.
Stimulated to: improvement by the remarkable Exodus
from Britain and the continental countries, ships and voy-
ages are both better capable of investigation now than they
were even a couple of years ago. A ship fitting out for
Australia then was one of the most melancholy sights that
could well be imagined. But London, the monopolist of
that day, has been taught a lesson. Liverpool, by the
introduction into the trade of some of the finest British
American ships, has shown how that trade ought to be
carried on ; has deprived the metropolis of its long enjoyed
and unmerited prestige; has conferred great boons upon
the passengers; and has inaugurated a new era in the
" strange, eventful history" of English emigration in the
nineteenth century. The " cribbed, cabined, and con-
fined" ships for Australia, which lay in the London docks
two years ago, have been to a great extent supplanted by
what, in comparison, we may with truth call the floating
palaces which are daily setting sail from the Mersey.
Roomy berths, light, ventilation, baths, and airy hospitals
are now enjoyed by the emigrant bound for the antipodes
—luxuries these at which the luckless passenger to
Port Philip in 1850 would stare with vacant astonish-
ment. Nor :less startling would be his surprise
at the accomplishment of the passage in eighty days,
as is now not unfrequently the case, remembering
that when he undertook the long voyage it always
occupied 110 days, and oftener still 120, or exactly double
the time which that glory of our own Australian fleet, the
Great Britain, took to steam out to Melbourne. Liver-
pool has seized the great bulk of the vast trade in Austra-
lian emigration. A new department has been added to
the features of interest, and to the sources of profit, in
our port. The question of paramount importance at the
present moment is, can we retain that trade ? and if so,
by the adoption of what means? We must not close our
eyes to the fact that jealousy and competition have been
awakened elsewhere. The Clyde is intent upon catching
and retaining all the emigrants from Scotland—a section
of our island which in the matter of emigration is of no
trivial importance, as may be imagined from the migra-
tory habits of its enterprising people. Our great metro-
polis is growling defiance at the northern port which has
stepped in and deprived it of a monopoly which it only
enjoyed too long. Bristol and Hull are looking with an
envious eye upon Liverpool; and at this very moment
Mrs. Chisholm is on the banks of the Mersey, raising her
silvery but indignant voice against alleged grievances in
the ships engaged in the Australian trade; of course
forgetting not, at the same time, to show how very
superior are the vessels with which she herself is connected.
All jealousy and opposition Liverpool may neutralise,
by simply doing justice to herself and the emigrant. Let
the shipowners and the authorities do what they can to
provide superior accommodation, and every facility and
ease for the emigrant who comes hither—not only while
he remains among us preparing for his voyage, but also as
far as possible while he is on the great deep. The Dock
Committee, the Police authorities, the Government Emi-
gration officer, and the Shipowner are the parties upon
whom they depend for comfort and justice. The first-
named body have done well in, as far as possible, appor-
tioning the Salthouse-dock for the Australian fleet. It is
hoped, and indeed anticipated, that ere long we shall see
the fleet wholly accommodated in that and the neigh-
bouring Canning-dock. Were such done, Liverpool would
soon attract hither the greater part of British emigration,
from the many facilities which it would provide for the
emigrant, including inexpensive and easy distances
between the hotels and lodging-houses and the docks, and
the consequent facility in visiting their ship. and in
getting themselves comfortably settled on board. Then
let our streets at the same time be cleared as far as pos-
sible of the hordes of wretches by whom they have been
too long infested—vagabonds, without any lawful occu.
pation, who lie in wait for the simple countryman, and
too frequently rob him of all the hard-won earnings with
which he bad probably designed to carry himself and his
family to the New World. The very height of local com-
petition which we have attained has been stigmatised as
the cause of much that was wrong and unjust ; but we
are of opinion that it must speedily work its own cure.
Excellence of arrangement, both in providing information
for the intending emigrant, and in making him healthy
and happy on the passage to the land of his adoption,
will undoubtedly be induced -by this competition which,
all must admit, presents to the view at the present mo-
ment an unlovely, as well as an attractive, aspect.
As the spring advances the tide of emigration is swelling
to an astonishing height. It is quite clear that thousands
at Relent M the mother country lig not contemplate

spending the Christmas of 1853 in this little northern
island. It is equally clear that the labour movement,
originated by the dawn of the most extraordinary Exodus
ever witnessed in the world, is not yet at an end. The
old country, one sometimes cannot help fancying, must,
ere long, become as attractive to the labourer—and as
thinly populated—as the gold colony at the Antipodes.
Even the stagnant current of German life is being moved
by tidings of the far-off country, and the blue-eyed sons
and daughters of Fatherland are flocking in thousands to
the banks of the Mersey, there to take their departure for
a young land in which they will yet exercise a great power
—for the German is invariably an active and useful man
when abroad. The Dutch, too,—they who founded New
York,—are daily seen in our streets, side by side, with the
refugee from Hungary and the Roman States. Altogether,
the present year promises to be one of the busiest in
emigration which we have yet witnessed.
On visiting the Salthouse Dock the flags of several
houses engaged in the Australian trade may be seen wav-
ing among the masts. First there is the Falcon, belong-
ing to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co., which will sail on
the 10th of May, and which is one of the most beautiful
clipper ships in the port. One of the most pleasing
features in this vessel is the excellent light and ventila-
tion. There is a fine fresh current of air continually
rushing through the vessel, while one may be in his berth
and at the same time obtain a peep at the blue sky above.
In a long voyage like that to Australia we suspect this
must be a precious privilege, while, on the score of health,
it is very strenuously advocated as a necessity, by the
emigrant's friend and protectress, Mrs. Chisholm. The
second-class cabin is very nicely arranged—and is in every
respect like the first, so far as substantial comfort and
healthfulness is concerned. A plentiful supply of decan-
ters and glasses are fitted in a rack over the table, on
which, likewise, the plates and the necessary instruments
of gastronomic warfare are very nicely fitted. Stewards,
we should not omit to mention, will also be provided in
the second cabin—one to every twenty-four passengers.
The berths are large and roomy. The third-class
berths are partly fitted up in the same style as the
Government emigration ships, although this section
of the vessel is not less airy than the rest of the ship.
It is also well lighted. Indeed, for the purpose of fur-
nishing air and light, there are three great ventilators, in
themselves sufficient to supply more air than is legally
required by the act of parliament. Paper and pictures do
not adorn the walls of the Falcon saloon or second cabin ;
but there is, nevertheless, an air of quiet elegance, tho-
rough comfort, and respectability, about the ship, while
the plain and substantial fittings, though they do not look
quite so winning while in dock, will probably keep better,
and be more comfortable upon the voyage, than others
which have been highly decorated. We have noticed, in
connexion with one of the Clyde emigration ships, which
recently arrived out at Port Philip, that on one or two
occasions liquor and provisions, which it was found could
I be spared out of the ship's stores, were put up by auction,
and sold to the passengers. In the Falcon a fairer plan
appears to exist. A price-list of provisions, &c. is hung
up in several parts of the ship, which, of course, is strictly
adhered to during the passage ; so that the passenger may
know, before he secures a berth, what he has to pay for
goods bought in this manner on the voyage. When we
visited the Falcon, a few days ago. upwards of one
hundred and six berths were taken. Like those
whom she previously took out to Nugget Land, they
are a most respectable body of people—not a few of
them, we believe, being individuals in the middle rank of
life from Scotland. In connection with the Great Britain,
belonging to the same owners, we have pleasure in stating
that, in view of her intended departure in June, her sailing
powers are being greatly improved. Experience bas
pointed out to her spirited proprietors the defect which
alone prevented this noble specimen of naval architecture
from distancing all her competitors; and it is generally
believed that to the union of steam and sails which she
will soon command we may look for the quickest voyage
ever yet made by a ship in that fleet which can boast of a
Marco Polo.

In the same dock lies the clipper-ship Lochiel, one of
the" White Star" line (Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson),
which will sail on Saturday next. This is a single-decked
ship, and is excellently lighted and ventilated. The berths,
even in the third-class, are roomy and agreeable, and a
great many have been taken. Those of the intending
passengers whom we have seen evidently belong to the
middle class of society ; and, whether attracted by the
northern name of the vessel or not, not a few of them are
from Scotland,—a country which appears to be sending
away from her shores a large number of the more re-
spectable and well-to-do classes. The Ann Dashwood, a
clipper-ship of 1,500 tons, belonging to the old-estab-
lished and familiar " Fox" line of packets, also lies in
the Salthouse Dock ; and is advertised to sail with a
limited number of passengers and specie early in the
coming month. In reviewing the several portions of this
fine vessel, we perceive with pleasure that the 'tween decks
were ventilated through the upper deck in such a way as
to introduce a copious supply of light at the same time.
The seats. even in the third class cabin, are very nicely
cushioned : while the water-closets, the hospital, &c., are
apparently in such excellent order as cannot fail to insure
a clean bill of health. We were especially struck on our
visit to this vessel by the particular way in which several
intending emigrants requested to know if there were baths
on board. It was evident that Mrs. Chisholm had not
been lecturing to no purpose, as many of the queries put
were evidently suggested by her remarks on Thursday
evening at the Mechanics' Institution. This is all right
and proper ; and, where the necessary provisions to insure
cleanliness and health do not already exist, we hope they
will as speedily as possible be supplied.
The Canning Basin has been much frequented during
the past week by the visitors to the Indian Queen, a new
vessel just completed in her fittings, and one of Messrs.
James Baines and Co.'s already-celebrated " Black Ball
Line" of packets, being, indeed, the sister ship to the
Marco Polo. She is rigged in precisely the same fashion;
but, both in the magnificent roof-promenade which she
possesses and in the internal decorations, we think the
Indian Queen by far the finer-looking vessel of the
two. Those who had an opportunity of admiring the
costly and elegant manner in which Captain Forbes's
vessel was fitted up will be surprised to find the chief
saloon of the Indian Queen, if any thing, superior in
grandeur and luxury to her predecessor. The de-
corative work is chiefly illuminated glass, in which
the story of the heroine, after which the vessel is named,
is elegantly pourtrayed. Every one will remember the
history of Poccahontas, who saved the life of Sir Edward
Smith (one of the early English settlers in America,)
when menaced by her father, the powerful Indian chief,
Powhattan. The illustrations have been designed by Mr.
Rainford, of Renshaw-street, and the stained glass sup-
plied by Messrs. Forrest and Bromley. The chief subjects
are—the first meeting of the Indian Queen and the Eng-
lish governor ; her warning him of impending danger ;
their discovery by the Indians ; and Poccahontas saving
the governor's life—the most touching episodes in the
history. Besides these there are other appropriate designs,
and a very tasteful one of the rose, shamrock, and thistle.
Panelled mirrors, velvet carpets, and crimson and green
upholstery, combine in giving the saloon and adjoining
boudoir an air of elegance and luxury. The other arrange-
ments of the vessel are also very attractive. A deck-
house extends almost the whole length of the ship, and con-
tains second cabins, sleeping berths, cook-houses, and
other offices ; while on the roof there is a clear promenade
extending from stem to stern. Her 'tween decks are
conspicuous in height, light, and ventilation. Baths and
every sanitary convenience are fitted. Well may Captain
Mills be proud of his vessel ; for the Indian Queen is
without question one of the richest and most noble-look-
ing craft that ever sailed from the Mersey.
At the GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION DEPOT at Birken-
head there are at present not more than forty inmates—
these being chiefly English, and from the agricultural
counties in the south. The Banker's Daughter will sail
with 400 passengers on the 4th of May, and will be
followed during the month by three vessels—the second
to sail on the 9th, the third on the 14th, and the last on
the 21st. We are glad to perceive that the chapel is being
considerably improved at present. A fitting porch is in
the course of construction, and accommodation is like-
wise being provided for an organ, which has been pro-
mised, and which will probably arrive in a short time.
The arrangements in the out-offices: too, have been much
improved of late. We were especially pleased to notice
the alteration in the water closets, and the arrangements
by which all the smoke in the immense establishment
is carried by a flue to a tall chimney, so that there is not
a particle lett behind to incommode or injure the always
interesting, and sometimes numerous family of emigrants,
gathered under the friendly roof of Ois emigrants' home.
We have only glanced at a few of the Australian ships
now in our port : a more extended notice we reserve for
our next.

SECRETS OF THE COALITION.

(From the Standard of Saturday.)

The Times of this morning, with its usual indiscretion,
charges the Conservative party with a conspiracy with the
Irish Brigade, the object of the alleged conspiracy being
to obtain the defeat of the ministry on condition of ex-
empting Ireland from the Income-tax.
. . . .

We are now in a position to disclose the following
revelation of the means by which the majority of De-
cember last, against Lord Derby's Government, was
obtained, and our readers will probably judge to whom
the charge of conspiracy is applicable.
A few days before the division on Mr. Disraeli's
Budget, which drove Lord Derby's ministry from power,
a meeting of the Irish Brigade was held, to determine the
course which they should pursue. One of the stipulations
demanded by some of that party was, that in the event
of a change of ministry, an Income-tax for Ireland should
not be proposed by their successors.
A right honourable gentleman who now fills a high
office conveyed a pledge to that meeting that an Income-
tax for Ireland would not be proposed by the party then
in opposition, in the event of their accession to power.
The pledge was conveyed to the meeting by three Irish
members, one representing a western county, the two
others representing southern boroughs.
We can further inform the Times that within the last
twenty-four hours, when the right hon. gentleman was
upbraided with the violation of his pledge, his reply was,
that he had pledged himself for
the old Whig ministry,,
and had given none for the Cabinet now in power.
Comment upon this transaction would be thrown away.

TELEGRAPH.—On Monday the committee on the Bri-
tish Electric Telegraph Company Bill declared the pream-
ble proved, the clauses seeking power to run over the
railways being withdrawn.
ELECTION COMMITTEES.—The followinghave been fixed
upon for decision, and there are many more to come :
Tuesday, April 26: Finsbury, Clonmell, Carlow. Wed-
nesday, April 27: Bolton, Totnes, Harwich. Tuesday,
May 10 : Clam (co.), Liverpool, Sligo. Wednesday,
May 11: Bury St. Edmunds, Peterborough, Durham.

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