The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—A dish of very ill-cooked materials was served up in
the Courier newspaper of Wednesday last, by some party
styling himself " A Friend to the Pilot who weathers the
Storm," wherein I was sorry to discover an over-spicing of
invidious reflection upon certain suggestions made by Capt.
Gowan, of the steamer Falcon, for the purpose of inducing a
reduction in the rates of pilotage under peculiar circum-
stances. Ship-owners, however, feel very much obliged to
Capt. Govian for his valuable remarks upon the subject ; and
the reasonableness of the same is so completely obvious, that
no doubt occurs to my mind but the Pilot Committee will
see the necessity of modifying the scale of rates without loss
of time. For what can be more fair than that when a ship
takes steam the owners should have some reduction made in
the charge for pilotage, proportionate to the risk and trouble
from which the pilot is relieved in consequence. It is to be
hoped that the worthy commander of the Falcon will survive
the vulgarian attack made upon him in the Courier, and I
feel perfectly assured that it will not render him less effica-
cious in the sphere of his usefulness.—l am, respectfully,
sir, your obedient servant, H. W. H.

THE PROTESTANT ALMANACK AND THE
LIVERPOOL MERCURY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sin,—My attention has just been called, since I returned
from London, to a very high commendation of my Protestant
Almanack, from the Editor of Fraser's Magazine, for which
I beg to return him my sincere thanks; and also to some
scurrilous abuse of my Protestant Almanack, from the Edi-
tor of the Liverpool Mercury, to whom I beg also to return
my sincere thanks; considering radical abuse quite as valua-
ble as conservative praise. I would not say more than this,
were it not to shew the utter recklessness of truth in our
radical papers. I must not complain of the Rev. Hugh
W.Neile being mixed up in this abuse, which is due to me
alone, knowing, as I do, that the Mercury would not sell
unless the continued attacks upon that reverend gentleman
were persevered in ; therefore, however grovelling this may
be to contemplate, it is his living, and this is his excuse.
The Editor complains that I never hint at the fact, " that
during the reign of Elizabeth hundreds of Roman Catholic
priests were hung, drawn, and quartered, and that of the
laity many were subjected to torture, and some to death."
I never stated this, certainly, because it is false. What
says Sir Edward Coke on the subject?—" It may be noted,
from the authority of the celebrated Sir Edward Coke, that
in the five years' reign of Mary I. there were put to death
about three hundred persons for religion; whereas, in all
Elizabeth's time, the space of forty-four years and upwards,
there were, for treasonable practices, executed in all not
thirty priests, nor above five receivers and harbourers of
them ; and for religion NOT ONE."—Reformer's Library,
vol. 5, pace 553.
But, really, some minds are so habituated to slander, vi-
tuperation, and abuse ; lying seems so much an infirmity of
their nature, that truth in any shape becomes altogether un-
palatable to them.
And why so much beating about the bush ? why not name
these hundreds of priests who were hung, drawn, and quar-
tered ? Let us have matter of fact, Mr. Mercury. And
because I will not deny that Protestants have committed
crimes which the present generation would not attempt to
justify, " I have no great faith in the challenge which I have
given." It is because lam determined to uphold truth that
I make such statement; and I know, from the corruption of
human nature, fallen man is prone to persecution ; and I
should as much expect to find a nation without crime as the
Mercury with nothing but truth. But the difference is here.
If Protestants persecute, it is in direct violation of their re-
ligion; when papists persecute, it is in strict►conformity with
theirs. Respecting the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the
Editor of the Mercury says—" If his present Holiness were
monster enough to approve of that barbarous massacre, he
could not be fool enough to avow it in this manner." lam
prepared to prove that the medal in commemoration of that
awful massacre was recast in December, 1839 ; is the Editor
of the Mercury prepared to disprove such fact? If not, he
has stamped his Holiness a monster, and I doubt much if he
will approve of this Mercurial anointing.
Will the Editor of the Mercury, or any popish priest in
Liverpool, point out to me any of their works of authority in
which the massacre of St. Bartholomew is condemned as a
barbarous slaughter ? I will leave them to this research, and
remain, Sir, your obedient servant, JOSEPH CRISP.

Mr. Thompson the gun maker of Birmingham, who was
found guilty of, and imprisoned for, supplying arms to the
chartists in the north, has beenliberated, upon entering into
his own recognisances for good behaviour.
Extensive stabling will be erected shortly in the immediate
vicinity of the course at Ascot-heath, for the express accom-
modation of the horses of her majesty, when the court pro-
ceeds from Windsor to the course.

MYSTERIOUS PROFESSION.—" Now, Tom," said the
printer of a country newspaper, in giving directions to his
apprentice, " put the ' foreign leaders' into the galleys, and
lock em up—let Napoleon's remains have a larger head—
distribute the army in the ease—take up a line and finish
the British Ministers'—make the young Princess' to run
on with the Duchess of Kent'—move the Kerry hunt' out
of the chase—get your stick and conclude the horrid mur-
der' that Joe began last night—wash your hands and come in
to dinner, and then see that allithe pie is cleared up.
DAGUERREOTYPE PAlNTlNGS.—lmprovements on the
new art invented by M. Daguerre are in progress. M.
Grehoff, of Moscow, has written to the Academy of Sciences
in Paris, that he has succeeded in rendering Daguerreotype
drawings ineffaceable, and sent plates possessing this pro-
perty. He has succeeded in obtaining drawings on copper
and brass plates, and annoEnces that he can transfer an en-
graved plate on copper, and engrave it afterwards, whether
in relief or in taglio. M. Hubert, architect, has also pre-
sented the academy with plates, prepared Recording to the
method of M. Fizeau, with chloride of gold, in order to give
more tone to the drawing. He is now applying this process
to old plates, as well as to the most recent. By a process,
which he has not yet communicated, he has succeeded in
colouring these plates, and has already obtained white, blue,
and yellow colours.

ETON.--It is more than merely rumoured that Dr. Haw-
trey, the head master, has given permission to Count Bat-
thyany to send his two sons to Eton College. The Rev. Doc-
tor has likewise given them permission, as they are Papists,
to attend (upon their arrival, at the termination of the pre-
sent vacation) the Romish chapel, at Ciewer-green, about a
mile and a half from Eton, instead of the Protestant chapel
attached to Eton College. We give this report as we have
heard it. Whether the Provost of Eton, who is of very
strong church principles, will allow the Protestant religion
of the ecclesiastical establishment over which he presides to
be, in this instance, entirely set aside, remains to be proved,
for it rests with the provost to permit or disallow the absence
of a scholar from the religious exercises of the school.—Cor-
respondent of the Times.

- ,
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—COACH ACCIDENT.—The Lon-
don and Aberystwith mail. on its way to Kington, was over-
turned on Monday morning last, near Strethough, going at
an extra pair of..
and horses,
Mr. andiio
Monk-
house, the.
the foot of Plinlimmon. In consequence of the snow-storm
the coachman had provided
postilion missed his way in c:p•oHrsesucigniii)glietsathieEedrs:
jo_athde, wwhheoriee,tournnoinneg
side, is a ravine of considerable depth, into which the coach
both gentlemen miraculously
irygjeeht t scratches and bruises ! rite
ha no and
stew, ooifn sAidbeerpyasswseittewrse
and yet
themselves off, and were not
he'.3°„:aceracrt h,Pteamwdnailti with
c'sdpnlijorgYsi ucteaai lifodeanwnt received
winasa situation.zoisittepde,railnodusproeeedea on its
the journey.
ty sury
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In a few hours the coach, &c.
It is a singular
Mr. II
coincidence that Hughes iseyor.--Ifere-
ford Times.

As the flowers of early spring :
For these fragile emblems, that wake thy tears,
Have a moral to brighten saddest years.
" Their bueless petals embrace, behold,

The germ of the future birth ;
Unsightly long, it shall yet unfold
The grace and adornment of earth.
To ripen this seed the blossoms give way,
And they draw fresh life from our own decay.

" So, e'en in suffering's keenest smart,

Who earnestly seeks shall find
A firmer stay for the stedfast heart,
And a hope for the thoughtful mind : •
These seeds, sown here, shall unfading blown
Where nothing of blight or decay may come !"

CONTEMPORARY PRESS,

WEST INDIA IMMIGRATION AND SIERRA
• - LEONE TRADE.

(From the London Journal of Commerce)

There is, we are glad to learn, a vessel now fitting
out in this port, with every attention to health, conve-
and comfort, for the conveyance of free Afri-
can labourers from Sierra Leone to the British West
Indies. We are not acquainted with the particulars
relating to this ship, farther than it will, after having
procured a sufficient number of emigrants at Sierra,
Leone, proceed first to British Guiana, where those la-
bourers who may so feel disposed will enter into en-
gagements for a limited period of service, and the ship
will afterwards proceed with the remaining emigrants
to Trinidad, and, if need be, to Jamaica. If this is
to be done at the cost of the West India colonists, it
betokens an earnestness in the cause of immigration
which, if energetically followed up, will retrieve the
planters from present distress and future ruin.
There are in Sierra Leone 36,000 liberated Africans,
the maintainance alone of whom annually costs this
country £25,000. These Africans literally eat the
bread of idleness. Within the limits of the British
settlement there is scarcely any demand for their la-
bour, and the Government has hitherto most pertina-
ciously refused to extend those limits. In the settle-
ment coffee can be only very partially cultivated; be-
yond it that plant could be and was extensively pro-
duced; but as that product, when raised beyond the
limits, is now admissible into this country on payment
only of the differential duty, its cultivation has ceased,
and the importation of British manufactures to the
value of the amount exported, lost.

nience

FAILURE OF THE GREAT WHIG-RADICAI,
DEMONSTRATION AT DUBLIN.
(From the Dublin Packet.)
Well, the long-threatened meeting for supporting
the tottering Whigs, and defeating Lord Stanley's re-
gistration bill, took place on Friday, and turned out,
as was expected from the very outset, a decided and
melancholy failure.

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the chairman,who invariably acts as

man-of-all-work to the Downing-street people' there
was present but, one nobleman, and be only a lord by
courtesy. That personage, together with about half-a-
'ozen brethren of the tail, constituted the staple of
le grand assemblage of Irish reformers.
No later than Friday it was pompously announced
Castle journals that the Duke of Leinster, not-
ling his refusal to sign the requisition, would

courtes
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attendance upon the occasion ; but the
ugh in Dublin, would have nothing to do
parties. Not even could he be prevailed upon
k from Dominick-street to the Theatre-royal, a
7e only of a few hundred yards, to co-operate in
.liernes of Mr. O'Connell. The truth is, his
had the audacity to perceive that repeal, though
igly kept out of view, was at the bottom of the
proceeding, and, therefore, doggedly persisted in
termination to remain at home. Such, also, was
resolve of the other titled requisitionists, all of
a, with the exceptions already mentioned, refused
it their characters by' any contact with the Kerry

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his
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a oratory too was of the most contemptible de-
ion. Stale abuse of toryism, and virulent de-
ations of Lord Stanley, were the leading charac-
cs of 'all the speeches,—the only one of which
the trouble of reading was that delivered by a
Englishman, named. Lethbridge, imported for
.7casion from Somersetshire. This gentleman,

nine his relationship with the noble house
of Derby, entertained his hearers with a very strange—
indeed,- an incredible story about a certain Somerset-
shire clergyman, whom he named to the meeting. The
clergyman in question, the Rev. W. Bernard Tatwor-
presented as having stated his conviction that
ere altogether wrong in their mode of deal-
ing with the lower orders of the people, who, he re-
marked, ought to have been treated after the manner
of hounds, and reduced to submission by the thong-
Whin.

thy, is
the whias

Now, if this statement be true, it is positively dis-
- It would be disgraceful in reference to any
tle less than infamous as applied to a Chris-
Let us hope, for the credit of human na-
e tale is a calumnious fabrication, and that
a monster can be found on the soil of free and
England. However, the fact is now before
ic, and Mr. Tatworthy is bound, for the sake
'n character, as well as that of his sacred pro-
) give immediate contradiction if it be false.
;, we shall soon have an opportunity of judg-
ing of the veracity of this Somersetsbire story-teller,
which, we suspect, after all, is entitled to little cre-
dence.

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No doubt

O'CONNELL AND DR. COOKE.
(From the Morning Herald.)
O'Connell is a sort of Falstaff in his way. With-
jut anything of the genuine humour and melloW vi-
vacity of the fat knight, he certainly understands, as
a lial's tavern preceptor did, the secret that " dis-
-is the better part of valour," and would rather
ith a dozen " Master Shallows" than with
,r. He can route a dozen giants of his own
As Falstaff made nothing of dispatching
in . buckram" when left to choose his own
place for the combat; but a bona fide chal-
,.orn one sinewy antagonist who insists upon do-
, battle in the face of day, and takes the proper
means to secure an equal advantage in the lists, causes
him to show the " white feather,', and to skulk even
from his favourite repeal question, like that animal in
heraldry whose tail is ignominously dependent.
A voice from the north has cowed the " roaring
)eal. Dr. Cooke, the chief man among the
as of Ulstcr—no mean antagonist—has
uown the gauntlet to O'Connell on the repeal
question—has offered hirn equal terms, " a clear stage
and no favour ;" but Daniel has declined to take it up.
The braggadocio of the south has fled from the " cock

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THE GREAT REFORM MEETING AT LEEDS.
(From the Leeds Intelligencer.)
Were there no other proof of the arrant humbug of
the meeting about to take place in Mr. Marshall's Flax
Mill, the use to be made of Mr. O'Connell on that oc-
casion would be sufficient to stamp its true character.
The authors of the meeting affect a more than ordi-
nary love of liberty. They would push the ministry
onward; they would enlarge ' the bounds of •demo-
cracy ; they would abrogate the reform act; and they
lay especial stress -upon what they term the rights of
conscience. And one of their instruments for effect-
ing these. instruments is O'Connell, decidedly the
greatest enemy to rational liberty now in existence.
This man, throughout his entire course, has pursued no
ends Imit.selfish ones. In every public act of his life
self has been the primary consideration. All his agi-
tations are accompanied by levies of money upon his
dupes. Fund after fund has been raised, and the
whole of the proceeds has been swept into his own
pocket. He pushed Catholic Emancipation to make a
trade of his talents and influence. He gave up his
practice at the bar, under the pretence of serving the
public, but in reality to quarter himself upon his poor
countrymen, who, by dint of bell, book, and candle,
are compelled to give the very bread they need to pam-
per their deceiver and misleader. He traffics in par-
liamentary seats ; he trades with the ministry, selling
them for lucre, while abusing them, the power derived
from his too confiding countrymen : affecting all the
while to be labouring for the overthrow of the very
percions with whom he maintains a secret and corrupt
understanding. The reader will find an instructive
reminiscence of some of the tricks of this consummate
charlatan in an extract from Mr. Oastler's " Fleet Pa-
pers ;" and it will be also seen that he has just evaded
a challenge to meet Dr. Cooke of Belfast, in discussion
on the repeal question, pressing into' that refusal as
much personal insult as his fertile mind suggested, yet
showing at once his fear and his meanness ; for well
does• he know that "Daddy Cooke," as he calls the
Doctor, is not the man to be set aside by a quirk or a
vulgar joke.
Now it is such an ally as this—the man who is do-
ing all he can to exclude the manufactures of the West
Riding from the Irish market, although immense
quantities of Irish produce of all kinds are daily con-
sumed in this district—ghat Messrs. Stansfield and
Marshall invite to hold forth at the hole-and-co ner
meeting in Mr. Marshall's mill, on Thursday next, the
ostensible aim of which is the promotion of the cause
of the .people
The fact is, that the meeting of Thursday is a delu-
sion upon the working-classes of this town and neigh-
bourhood. The managers aim at a monopoly of local
power. Mr. Stansfield (greatly to his own surprise,
we dare say) finds himself an alderman, a borough
justice, and West Riding magistrate. In the latter ca-
pacity he reaps little honour or comfort; the soil is not
congenial to the growth of such plants ; in corporation
matters he is more at home, and therefore he fancies
that he shall retain the honours and patronage attend-
ant thereon by making the burgesses believe that he is
toiling for their welfareAalbeit his desire is to uphold a
whig monopoly and the " swingeing"' borough-rate.
We rather think that he deceives himself. He is
" Yorkshire" to perfection ; but those he hopes to dupe
are "Yorkshire too," and the new movement will fail.
There will be a great splutter—a great deal of parade—
a volume of newspaper puff—and not a little of the
Messrs. Marshall's money will be squandered—and
these will be the only results. We do not think that
Mr. H. C. Marshall's views as to the representation of
the borough of Leeds in the House of Commons will
be one whit advanced by the conversion of the firm's
flax mill into a political debating shop.

THE STARVATION LEAGUE

(From the Bristol Journal.)

Mr. Paulton, the worthy emissary of the Manchester white
slave-owners, delivered on Tuesday another lecture about
cheap bread in the Socialist den. The humbug of all this
crocidile philanthropy, in a set of grasping tyrants who grind
the faces of their own workmen, is now so well understood
by the working classes, to whom we gave a useful " Hint"
last spring, that Polish corn and Polish wages are now re-
ceived by them as convertible terms. This fact, coupled with
a rumour that the lecturer has been as soundly floored in se-
veral places as Robert Owen was last week in Bristol, caused
some rather ugly marks of impatience" in the meeting ;
and as the Chartists dearly love to hear themselves talk, the
" lecture" amounted to a general row, which terminated in
some one (wiser than the rest) stopping the gas • whereupon
the whole company groped their way on their heels or their
heads, or on all-fours, as they best might, out of the room.
Mr. Paulton and Mr. Owen may now take their departure
together for the regeneration of mankind in some other
place.
Of the rubbish which this lecturer gave about the corn
laws, it suffices to say that it has been refuted a thousand
times to the comprehension of all men of average sense, and
leaves untouched our argurment on " cheap bread," (14th of
March, 1840) wherein we proved that the repeal of the corn
laws would produce—

First. A general bankruptcy, from the export of bullion.
Second. A general famine,—from the cessation of the
growth of wheat in England with no adequate increase of it
abroad ; and from the resistance of the people abroad to the
export of it.
Third. That the agricultural population, four times as nu-
merous as the manufacturing, must all flock to the manufac-
turing market for employment.
Fourth. That the home market, which consumes three-
fourths of our manufactures, being at an end, our manufac-
tures would afford employment for only 1-12th of the people.
Fifth. That the states from which we bought corn could
not take our manufactures in exchange, because—what occa-
sions the corn to be cheap—the producers are Polish serfs
who have not a penny to lay out.

Sixth. That no other nations will or can take our manu-

ttires to 1-10th of the amount required

Seventh. That if they would, our operatives must work
for one shilling where they now receive five, and pay (sup-
pose) one shilling for bread where they now pay tvgo !
Eighth. That instead of paying one shilling they would
probably pay more than two : for corn would then be a
complete monopoly in the hands of a few millionaries, who
need only wait a few weeks to raise it to any price !!
We proved all these things : let any man who does not
make them his creed read over our argument. We are sick,
not more of the disgusting mendacity which raises all this
din about the corn laws, than of the stupidity of those who
suffer any man to stand up in public and utter it. The far-
mers seem to be in great want of thrashing machines.

A man of rank, hearing that two of his female relations
had quarrelled, asked, " Did they call each other ugly ?"
" No." " Well, well, I shall soon reconcile them."
Large flocks of wild geese have been seen in the neigh-
bourhood of Poulton-le-Fylde during the past week, a con-
siderable number of which have been shot, and sold at the
rate of 2s. 6d, each.

SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
—Last week we related a little anecdote which involved a
suggestion of the highest importance to all who contemplate
a plunge into the holy estate of wedlock. Since that period
another amusing tale has reached our ears, and it too occur-
red in the parish church of this town. Sometime ago a con-
ple presented themselves at the altar ; the bridegroom was a
hale-looking youth, and the bride, according to our inform-
ant, who has an eye for that sort of thing, was exceedingly
pretty. The first part of the ceremony went on smoothly and
properly ; but when the officiating priest put to the lady the
home question—" wilt thou take this man to thy wedded
husband 1" she dropped the prettiest courtsey, and with a
modesty which lent her beauty an additional grace, replied,
if you please, sir." Charming simplicity !—Blackburn
Standard.