The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

SEMPER EADEM !

Of a truth Popery never changes. She is the same in
the year of IB49—the same mercenary panderer to the
ignorance and superstition of her dupes—as in the darker
ages. Imposture the most flagrant is holiness in her eyes,
so long as it fills her coffers. Bear witness to this fact
the following paragraph, wh;ch we extract from the letter
of a correspondent of the Times, dated Genoa, Jan. 28:—
"Sunday last was the annual Testa for blessinz all horses_

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asses, and mules, being the first Sund .y after the festa of St.
Antonio, the patron saint of all animals. There were hundreds
of horses and asses. decked not

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brought to the church of St. Antoni O-to be blessed by the
priest, who received in return a present from the owners of the
animals according to their respective ability and generosity.
In some cases it was ve y considerable. Should any accident
or misfortune befall any unlucky beast during the year, which
had not had the benefit of the priest's blessing, it w
attributed to that cause

present there 1:

a mortal blow."

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into confined lodging-houses; it thereforebecame the
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Mr. J. T. Ingham, of this circuit, is to succeed Mr. duty of the inhabitants of this town to discourage by
Ballantine, the stipendiary magistrate at the Thames every possible means in their power, the Irish immi-
police-office.
gration. The reverend gentleman was concluding
On Sunday last, after a sermon by the Rev. Robert his Remarks by expressing his conviction that it could not
Davies, the sum of £l5 was collected in St. Silas Church i be generally known that relief could be more effectually
in aid of the schools attached to that church. administered by the purchase of tickets from the society,
BIRKENHEAD HOSPITAL.—On Sunday, after sermons thanhyindiseriminatealms-giving,vvhenMr. Richd. Rath-
preached by the Rev. A. Knox and the Rev. H. Parr, at bone wished to enquire whether the public could purchase
St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, the sum of £39 was col- I these tickets, as he was not aware they were sold.—The
lected in aid of the funds of the above excellent charity. Rector explained, that what he meant by purchasing was,
ALEXANDER'S PREPARED PEAS.—ThiS is an excellent i that persons should join the society as members. He
went on to allude to the remark.: ~,,,t.;,,,,d ;,, ii,....---,-

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cuisine.

relative to the cholera, and trusted that while every pre-
caution would be made to avoid its approach, he would
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remind them that the fears of its devastations might be
overrated, in proof of which he gave the mortality of
1832 and that of 1834, when the cholera had left us. The
former return was two hundred less than the latter.
Typhus and influenza had been more seriously felt with us
than cholera ' • and it was these disorders he dreaded from
the influx of Irish. He would recommend (if he dare in
his worship's presence mention the word water, for he was
sure he must have had enough of the element to give him
the hydrophobia for the remainder of his life) a plentiful
supply of water, as one great means of insuring the public
health.

The Rev. Mr. WA RR seconded the resolution. He was
sure much good would result from the clergy taking the

matter up, as in his district lady visitors had' been tound
for all the vacancies, merely by an appeal made by him-
self to his congregation.

The Rev. F. 'PARRY moved the second resolution.
He described the objects of the society as two-fold, em-
bracing the duties of a mendicant as well as a provident
He insisted on the necessity of inculcating habits

society

bons were the result of improvidence. Referring to the
impolicy of indiscriminate relief, he said that in this town
imposition was practised to a fearful extent, and in proof
adduced an instance in which his name had been forged
for the purpose of obtaining relief. He had also been
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informed by Mr. Rushton that an office existed from
which forged begging petitions were to be had at any time
by the payment of a guinea. He believed the police were
on the alert to detect the managers of this place, but as
yet they had been unsuccessful.

Mr. PAYNE moved the next resolution, and made some
complimentary remarks relative to the exertions of a rev.
gentleman ofthe same name, in forwarding theobjectsofthe
society, in the St. Thomas's district.

The Rev. Mr. PAIN followed with a few appropriate
remarks.

RICHARD RATHBONE, Esq. moved the next resolution.
He regretted the falling off in the number of the visitors,
which was a few years ago 450; he thought every maens
were resorted to to make the society known, and did not

know what more could be done, unless the editors of the
newspapers would kindly assist the cause, by a few re-
marks in their columns.

The MAYOR, in. returning thanks for the usual compli-

but little known, and recommended all connected 1;i. hit
to use every means in their power to promote its objects
by making them public.

GENERAL TRADE REPORT,

MONDAY EVENING.
There seems to exist a feeling of emulation between the
cotton and wool trades as to which shall outstrip the
other; the remarks made with regard to both have the
same general bearing—that the manufacturers are busy,
and there is every prospect of things being much better
than they have been. The price of pig iron has gone from
40's to 50's ; and speaking of this article, a joke was perpe-
trated on 'Change to-day, (the absurdity of which may be
excused for the moral it conveys), on the possibility of the
products of the English iron mines ultimately buying up
the prolific diggings of the Californian and other El Do-
rados. This would be enough to wake from his slumbers
the stout old Greek who introduced iron coins to keep
the people from enervation by the luxury of riches. Jok-
ing apart, the fable may be realised in degree. Consols
seem desirous to " keep the pace," reached 934- to ion
Saturday, at which they closed for the 13th March, and
steadily for money at one point lower.
The SHARE market has been dull this week, the ac-
count being an overbought one. The Great Western
and Midland reports not being considered satisfactory,
these stocks are considerably lower. London stock is
to-day 136 8; Midland, 91 2.
There has been a very large business done in COTTON
TO-DAY, the sales amounting to 12,000 bales, at an ad-
vance of id. on Friday's prices. Spinners are taking the
proper step, as recommended by " Hindoo " in our last
two publications, of coming freely into the market, as
the only course left open to them, in order to secure suf-
ficient stock for their increasing wants, and to avoid the
danger of being otherwise left, with diminished resources,
at the mercy of speculators. Ihe argument that the
advance in Cotton has arrived at the point which may
diminish consumption, is proved erroneous by comparison
with last year at this period, when the price of fair Cot-
ton was id. higher, the prospects in the manufacturing
districts nothing like so good, and yet the market rallied.
We were informed by a commercial gentleman from the
States, that he had no doubt prices would rise further
there. The gold mines are not without an influence, and
if they cannot get advancing prices they will not sell, and
will doubtless ship for limits. There is no need of being
frightened at this. If Cotton advances here, it must
advance all over the world, and they cannot undersell us.
Moreover, an enhancement in value will stimulate the
production of the article, and bring it from all quarters,
and in the end be an advantage rather than otherwise to
the manufacturer.

The circular of Abram Gartsifle and Co., pub-
lished on the 3rd, notices an improvement in the Wool.
trade generally on the month, quoting an advance of id.
lb. on East India, and ld. @ 2d. on Alpacas. Since
then things have been much better: the London sales are
going very well, at an advance of fully 2d. ip• lb., particu-
larly for low Wools, which aritlTh,bot9r rMost than fine.