The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND.
_ _

A T the GENERAL MEETING of this CORFORA-
/-1 TION, duly convened, and held at the Institution, 11th
January, 1853,

WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., M.P., in the Chair,
A Report of the state of the Funds of the Charity having been
read and approved of,
It was resolved,—That the
speedily as possible.
Moved by Mr. G. G. 114)1INBY, and seconded by Mr. Wsr
BENNETT,

nnual Report be published as

And resolved,—That the thanks of this Meeting be presented
to William Brown, Esq., M.P., the President ; to the Rev.
Augustus Campbell, M.A., Mr. Walter F. Mac Gregor, Mr.
William Oxley, and Mr. Henry Steele, the Vice-Presidents; to
Mr. Thomas Mills, the Treasurer; and to the Rev.• Edward
Hull, the Chaplain ; for their attention to the interests of this
Institution; .also to the-Physician, the Surgeon, the Visitors,
the Auditors, and the Committee, for the attention they have
bestowed upon the duties which have devolved upon them;
also, to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have presented
Donations in aidbf the Funds of this Charity.

. ,
Resolved,—That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to
Messrs. John Smith and E. Tertins Kearsley, the Chapel-
wardens, for a Donation of Five Guineas, usually paid for
keeping the Wardens' Accounts.

The Chairman having vacated the Chair, it was moved by
Mr. JAMES LISTER,

And unanimously resoltied,—That the best thanks of the
Meeting be presented to William Brown, Esq., M.P., for his
able conduct in the Chair.
The following Officers were appointed for 1853:
WILLIAM BROWN. Esq., M.P., President.
Ven. ARCHDEACON BROOKS,
Mr. EDWARD MOON, Vice-Presidents.
Mr. ABRAM GARTSIDE,
Mr. JOHN GREY,
Mr. THOMAS MILLS, Treasurer.
COMMITTEE.
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Mr. James Aikin. hlr. Roger Lyon Jones.
Mr. Harmood Banner. Mr. E. Tertius Kearsley.
Mr. Charles B. Banning. Mr. William Langton.
Mr. Robert Benson. Mr. James Lister.
Mr. William Bennett. Mr. John Lockett.
Rev. Thomas Bold. M.A.
Mr. Thomas Bourne. Mr. Walter F. Mac Gregor
Mr. J. B. Brancker.
Mr. Thomas A. Bushby.
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Mr. William Flewker.
Mr. Robertson Gladstone. Mr. Joseph S. Rushton.
Mr. Henry Steele.
Mr. Henry A. Grey.
Rev. Edward Hull, M.A. Mr. Arthur Thompson.
Mr. F. A. Hamilton. Mr. James Aspinall Tobin
Mr. George G. Hornby.
Mr. Fred. S. Hull.
Mr. Robert Hutchison. Mr. Chas. H. Williams.

GREAVES' celebrated PORTLAND BLUE LIAS,
and ROMAN CEMENT.
WAREHOUSE. 20, COLLEGB-LANE, LIVERPOOL.
THOMAS WYLIE, SOLE AGENT.

TIIHE Undersigned gives NOTICE to all whom it
11 may concern, that he will no e-responsible for any debts
contracted by JAMES SESS RALL, deceased, Printer, in
the Strand, London, lat e Husband of the present Mrs.
Emma Spry Carrall, t. Alban's Terrace, Kennington.
CHAS. BUCKTON.

Liverpool, 1511 i January, 1553

AT the ANNUAL MEETING of the TRUSTEES
of the LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY, LUNATIC
ASYLUM, and LOCK HOSPITAL, held in the Board-room of
the Infirmary, on Monday. the 10th day of January, 1853;
EDMUND MOLYNEUX, Esq., President, in the Chair;
The Treasurer having read the Report, and made a statement
of his Accounts,

was unanimously Resolved,
That the Accounts for the past jest, with the Report, be
printed, and presented to the Ti,sfees and Subscribers as soon
as practicable.

That the thanks of thi . eeting be given to Edmund Moly-
neux, Esq., for acce ' g the office of President for the past
year, and for his 13,s , some donation of One Hundred Guineas-
That James Bourne, Esq., be the President for the ensuing
year.

That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to Mr. Alfred
North, for the attention which he has paid to his duties as
Treasurer, and that he be requested to continue in office during
the ensuing year.

That the thanks of t
cians and Surgeons o

be presented to the Physi-
ary, Lunatic Asylum. and
;.e of their arduous duties;

Yibcrpoot faiNtrbi.

TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 18, 1853.

THE

WEEK

THE continued unsettled state of the weather—in

which rain

eems to have predominated, with

barely the interval of a few hours' sunshine--has

imparted a dulness to general conversation, in
which complaints of discomfort and fears for the
next harvest find The wind has

luent vent.

several times veered to the westward, and a breeze
from the north has once or twice inspired hopes of

a change, to be soon disappointed ; so that the
-wise have given up their prophetic talent
in despair, and the mass have settled down into
calm endurance, philosophically deciding that it
cannot well be worse, and therefore that any change
must be for the better.
The dispute between the Town Council and the
Dock Committee as to the treatment of Messrs.
BAKER and So .s, with reference to their tender for
constructing the new Docks at \Yapping, has led
to much comment out of doors, not always favour-
able to the latter body. There is a strong opinion
that the Committee have not acted jusdy, if even
legally, in availing themselves of a clause in their
advertisement which is generally understood to
bear a different signification. There seems also a
growing desire that the outlay of the large funds at
the disposal of the Dock Committee should have
the benefit of competition, a result which has not
been arrived at by the course which has been pur-
sued. At the meeting of the latter body, on
Thursday, they at first resolved to ignore altogether
the right of veto which had been exercised by the
Town Council ; but on second thoughts they
determined to suspend all further proceedings
until a special meeting of the Council had given
their decision upon the subject. _

weather

The long disputed Pike question seems likely
to form a subject of public discussion, and form
once more a fertile theme for municipal contention.
At the adjourned meeting of the Town Council, on
Wednesday, the Chairman of the Water Committee
said that, notwithstanding all the advantages which
had been enjoyed by their Engineer in the choice of
contractors, the position of affairs was far from
being satisfactory. The Engineer had been obliged
to preside as arbiter over the many disputes which
had arisen with the contractors, and though con-
fident hopes were expressed that he would arrive at
an equitable and satisfactory conclusion, the public
revive their old fears, and many think that the
scheme is also destined to prove a sinking fund in
which the corporate prosperity of Liverpool will
ultimately be engulphed. No one will dispute the
advantage and necessity of an ample supply of pure
water to the populous community of this important
town, but there is a dread of paying too dear for the

whistle, and recent circumstances have tended in
no degree to allay the apprehensions which have
been generally entertained.
On Thursday morning some excitement was
created by the report that a sailor had been mur-
dered on board an American vessel lying in the
river. It appeared, however, that it was a drunken
quarrel between two sailors—an American and a
Spaniard—both of whom used their knives, and the
former fell a victim to the stabs of his antagonist.
The latter was taken into custody and ultimately
committed for manslaughter, having been prevented
from taking the law into his own hands by com-
mitting suicide. It is much to be lamented that
the cowardly practice of using murderous weapons
should have superseded the ancient mode of settling
violent disputes by the less dangerous appeal to
hard fists. In this case, however, neither of the
offenders was an Englishman.
The consecration of the new church at Fairfield,
Friday, by the LORD BISIIOP of the diocese,
uy congregation, many of

drew to

aer a gooa

whom came from a long distance, attracted, no
doubt, by the great beauty of the edifice and its in-
ternal decorations, of which we gave a lengthened
description last week. It is one of the pleasing
signs of the times, that the multiplication of dwell-
ings for our increasing population is accompanied
with the extension of church accommodation, Ano-
ther gratifying event of the week was the annual
meeting of the Liverpool Working Men's Church
Association, at which it was stated by the Rev. Dr.
BAYLEE, at whose suggestion the association had
been established, that a considerable income had
been raised by the working men of this town, for
the laudable purpose of providing the pastoral mi-
nistrations of the clergy. They had nobly responded
to the call, and the want was not so much in the
requisite funds, but in clergymen to undertake the
duty. The meeting was presided over by the Rev.
Rector CAMPBELL, and the Rev. Dr. M'NEILE
forcibly demonstrated the little that had been done
for Divine worship by the all-professing Radicals.
At the banquet given at Manchester to Mr. IN-
GERSOLL, the American Minister to this country,
Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., with his usual want of taste,
took the liberty of sneering at the graceful allusions
which the Earl of DERBY made at the Liverpool
dinner, to the House of Lords, an institution which,
in compliment to the guest of the day, had its re-
flex, he observed, in the American Senate. The
ill-conditioned Quaker was not, however, permitted
to pass without a rebuke from the Mayor of Liver-
pool, Mr. HoLmE, who was also a guest, and who
entered into a manly and able justification of the
absent Earl. The American Minister must have
had an ample opportunity of comparing the society
of the two towns, and have quite convinced him-
self that in Manchester he had got into different
company.

The learned societies have resolved to celebrate
the centenary of the late Mr. WILLIAM ROSCOE,
on the 9th of March next, and special committees
have been appointed to confer together on the sub-
ject, in order to give the affair due éclat. The high
position which Mr. Rosco E's name obtained in
the literary world will, no doubt, draw together
most of the present celebrities to do honour to his
world .wide reputation.

THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING SWORN IN.—The
unexpected appearance of the Lord Lieutenant at
the Castle of Dublin, and his rapid departure, im-
mediately after being sworn into office, are ac-
counted for in this way :—lt was not convenient for
him to enter at once upon the duties of "the situa-
tion ;" but it was desirable to make sure of all the
Privileges and emoluments thereto annexed. But
the pay only commences from the moment when
h's Excellency, having kissed the book, puts on his
hat in the front of the Council Table. Dum
v !virnas vivamus. The time for serving his Sove-
reignn this office will, probably, be short. It is
h°unudnwise, therefore, to make the most of it. Three
a re-d andeighty-four pounds a week were worth
chops of tossing
fora
good wholesome forenoon in the
of the Channel.—Dublin Ereniny

Louis NAP°t -----
toN A ROMISII CANON.—A
piece of news has
sidered by the ultrached Paris which will be con-
nßeomanists who have given
their adhesion to the
emperor as a favourable
augury for the year iss7 The Pope's Nuncio has
e
received notice that the canons of the venerable
Church of St. John in the Lateran have signed an
address praying Napoleon in (as
usual with
hasthe ancient Kings of France) to accept was
the title of
beenl first canon of that cathedral, which
deno-
minated "the head arid the mother of t
Church !"The Church and State Gazettee Holy
a
" Louis Napoleon has become something inoresthyas,
imperial. He is now a right reverend. The Churchl
of Rome has exhibited its respect for Divinity and
divine offices by Well,
making him a "Canon! "
he used to make plenty when he eked out existence
in London by billard playina ; and the expert han-
dler of the governmental cue has, by the aid of
mock universalsuffrae and the Church,. managed
(in gambler's
may add here that this
phrase) to " cannon" society. We
re-
opened the old church of
for public service. The church ; on Sunday
exemplary Christian
t. Gene .eve
unclean Louis XV as .
, a settlement •
was founded by the
with heaven for
certain sins. The Revolution shut it t
but opened it as a Pantheon for the lPas a Church,
werebodiesdeposited
of great
were there
ep Tra
men. Of these, some who
with gorgeous honours, one day,
and cast into the common sewer the negsr d out
lThe
Bourbons restored the church ; Louis Philippe
re-
stored the Pantheon; and now Louis Napoleon has
once more re-opened it as a place of worship. A'
pinch of the dust, collected from the alleged relics
of the saint publicly burnt in the first revolution,
was preserved in one of the ecclesiastical edifices of
Paris. This was conveyed to the re-opened church
amid unheard-of pomp. Hundreds of priests
marched through the streets in procession, and
masses of troops did honour to them on the way.
The poor bit of dust was elevated in the church,
and saluted with clouds of incense, salvoes of artil-
lery, peals from the organ, violence of song from
the choristers, and with what a Chinese would call
a general "knocking of heads" from all who at-
tended the magnificent "spectacle uratis."

THE RE-ELECTIONS.—The Roman Clerk of
the Ordnance, in the Omnibus Ministry, has been
returned for Limerick under the powerful auspices
of Father O'Rourke, P.P.; the fact indicating suf-
ficiently the value of clerical denunciations of " the
traitors." Mr. Sidney Herbert, too, has been re-
commissioned by the electors of South Wilts to do
the work of the murderers of Madiai in a British
House of Commons. Mr. Charteris, one of the
small deer of the same herd, has been also elected
for Haddingtonshire ; and the Puseyite Chancellor
of the Exchequer is in a fair way of being similarly
dealt with in the University of Oxford.—Dublin
Evening

AN APPROPRIATE PRESENT FOR LOUIS NAPO-
LEON has been forwarded to that exemplary indi-
vidual from some of his admirers in Scotland. The
gift consists of a very ravenous eagle taken in
Strathglass. It is added that " a number of little
rabbits have been sent as food for the eagle during
the journey." This looks to us very much like
satire in action. The eagle, doubtless, represents
the imperial " loose man ;" and the rabbits are the
patient public whom he greedily devours.

THE STAFFORD-HOUSE ANTI-SLAVERY RE.
MONSTRANCE.—The Stafford-house address to the
ladies of the United States has provoked an effec-
tive reply, in the shape of an " Affectionate and
Christian Address of many Thousands of the Wo-
men of the United States of America to their Sis-
ters the Women of England." If it is not quite
sufficient, it is because recriminations never can be
else than inconclusive. Our fair cousins across the
Atlantic, directed by certain masculine authorities,
probe the sores of our social system with scientific
fidelity, and &dare the result with unsparing
plainness of speech. They point in triumphant
and rather shrill accents to the evils of Ireland, to
the universal ignorance of our lower classes, to the
unmerited poverty of our labourers and artisans,
to the terrible amount of irreligion, pauperism,
and immorality among us, and to the separation
between rich and poor, as evils that should shut
our mouths, and almost blind our eyes to the scan-
dals of our neighbours. For these dreadful parti-
culars they appeal, not to novels, but to grave
writers and parliamentary returns. Of course, they
conclude with an exhortation to our ladies to stir
heaven and earth for the mitigation and ultimate
cure of these evils. Such a document would be
valuable, even if it were not wholly candid and
true, simply because it is desirable that we should
sometimes see ourselves as others see us. But
there is a considerable amount of absolute truth in
the statements of our fair censors, and our own
countrywomen would do well to bow to the rod for
a while, and study with patience the lesson they
have brought on themselves.—Tinies.

INVASION OF ENGLAND.—We learn, from a
reverend. gentleman who last week had a long in-
terview with Changarnier, to whom he was intro-
duced by a mutual friend, that that distinguished
French general stated in the most positive terms,
in the course of conversation, that he can not only
pledge himself for the fact of Louis Napoleon's in-
tention to invade this country, but that we may
expect the Napoleonist purpose will be attempted
to be carried out in less than three months. Gen.
Changarnier further stated that he was acquainted
with all the plans of the Emperor, the latter having,
when President of the Republic, and when they
were on a friendly footing, often conversed with
him on the subject.—Morning Advertiser.

A PROTOTYPE OF THE ABERDEEN ADAIINIS-
TRATION.—A passage in "Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu's Letters" is marvellously applicable to
the present state of our national affairs. Alluding
to the coalition ministry of that period, (1757,) she
says to her correspondent,—

“ Your account of the changes in ministerial affairs does
not surprise me ; but nothing could be more astonishing
than their all coming in together. It puts me in mind of
a friend of mine, who had a large family of favourite ani-
mals, and, not knowing how to convey them to his
country house in separate equipages, he ordered a Dutch
mastiff, a cat and her kittens, a monkey, and a parrot, all
to be packed up together in one large hamper, and sent
by a waggon. One may easily guess how this set of com-
pany made their journey ; and I have never been able to
think of the present compound ministry without the idea
of barking, scratching, and screaming. 'Tis too ridicu-
lous a one, I own, for the gravity of their characters, and
still more for the situation the kingdom is in ; for, as
much as any one may encourage the love of laughter, it is
impossible to be indifferent to the welfare of one's native
country.”--(See Lord Wharncliffe's edition of " Lady
Montagu's Letters," vol. iii., p. 152.) _

To the above observations, Lord Wharnchffe
subjoins the following note :
~. _..

"'his story has been versified by Lord Byron, (" Don
Juan, canto iii., stanza 18,) but without any reference to
the source whence he drew it. Lady Mary introduces it
with some point, to illustrate her notion of the good un-
derstanding, which might be expected to exist among the
members of an administration composed of very discordant
materials ; Lord Byron, to describe the indifference and
cruelty of a corsair. Ills lines are these :

"A monkey, a Dutch mastiff, a mackaw,
Two parrots, with a Persian cat and kittens,
He chose from several animals he saw;
A terrier, too, which once had been a Briton's,
Who dying on the coast of Ithaca,
The peasants gave the poor dumb thing a pittance
These to secure in this strong blowing weather,
He caged in one large hamper all together."

THE BRITISH NOAH'S ARK; OR, THE EARL OF ABERDEEN
AND HIS "HAPPY FAMILY."
(Lines suggested by the foregoing History.)
A Ministry most wondrous to be seen,
Has lately started up to rule our nation !
A Presbyterian man, named Aberdeen,
Is the prime leader of the congregation.
Though he was once, in days of yore, a Tory,
He now with Whigs cloth lovingly unite ;
And with bewitching smiles (so goes the story)
Tries to win over Cobden, Muntz, and Bright.

In Booth, his Cabinet most comical
To England doth no lasting good portend,
For here each of the sects political
May find a patron and a zealous friend.
Gladstone and Molesworth, (0 how very droll !)
Osborne, the wily Peelites, and Lord John,
All meet in solemn conclave, cheek by joie !
A most amazing sight to gaze upon.

Papists and Presbyterians in one fold
Are penn'd with Churchmen low and Churchmen high,
With Puseyites and Nonconformists bold,
Who, when at large, each other do defy.
If such a motley band in peace abide,
And don't most fiercely fight, and `scream and scratch.'
Then Aberdeen, their noble chief and guide,
Must be, throughout the earth, without a match

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.—Those who are op-
posed to capital punishments being inflicted under
any circumstances, will not refuse, we hope, to be
enlightened by a circumstance in connection with
the murderer, Horler, who was executed on Monday
for cutting his wife's throat. He stated to the
chaplain of the prison that, when he committed the
crime, he thought the penalty for it was transpor-
tation; and that he never could have completed
the crime had he dreamed his own life would have
been taken ! He probably knew that, since 1843,
not less than thirteen individuals, sentenced to
death for most inhuman murders, had had their
sentences commuted to transportation.—Church
and State Gazette.—ln taking a similar view of
this subject the Morning Post says :—" It has
become almost a custom to commute to transpor-
tation the penalty affixed by the law to murder. Of
convictions at the Old Bailey alone, no fewer than
thirteen such commutations have taken place—they
are those of William Stolzer, October, 1843;
Edwin Dwyer, November, 1843; Mary Farley,
April, 1844; Augustus Dahlias, June, 1844; John
Smith, Aug., 1846; William Newton Allnut, Dec.,
1847; Mary Ann Hunt, Aug., 1847 ; Annette
Meyers, Feb., 1848; William Tomkins, May, 1848;
George Nl`Coy, Dec., 1849; S. A. Jordan, Oct.,
1849 ; Anne Merrett, April, 1850; and William
Smith, Nov., 1851.

DEATH OF FRANCESCO MADIAI.—Death has
hanads asteltasat tineramrkinantfedinftahme
ysutffiperninnghs
which no time will efface. We have seen in the
is of
Np
le
.1. sMe c audt ol ari s'
last few years many events to make us question the
Progress of mankind, and even to doubt the secu-
rity of the noblest conquests of liberty, of know-
ledge, and of toleration. The progress of free go-
vernment has been brutally arrested by anarchy
and by despotism. The most cultivated and ener-
getic nations of Europe have shrunk into so servile
a condition that liberty is denied to every power of
society, except to the arrogant pretensions of spi-
ritual domination. But, in the long list of these
follies and crimes, we have read of nothing more
extraordinary than that a humble and inoffensive
Christian man should have been brought to a lin-
gering death, by the will of his Sovereign, because
ue
Duke l Ve
he dared to profess that evangelical faith which is
the sacred consolation and firm hope of the most
religiouskn ew
not andn,it
hed tti,huacat
fteedeling
porstiLoneopoofldE,
Grandro r
of Tuscany, received the intelligenlwcaes, that
buthish
victimence
was beyond the control of human
forth the name of Madiai is indissolublyasso
bigotry
associated
with his own. It N% as to satisfy his personal .
and superstition that he allowed the course of jus-
tice to be turned aside, the source of clemency to
be sealed, and the remonstrances of Europe to be
repelled. The Church of Rome, acting through his
authority and mistress of his will, has shown her-
self as unrelenting as in the worst ages of her do-
minion ; and this Grand Duke stands last in the
detestable list of those rulers who have taken away
the lives of their subjects for conscience sake,—Times,