The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

We can, from experience, highly recommend Mr. Eggle-
ston's Vegetable Paste as a cure for the tooth-ache.—See adv.
The Rev. George Dover, M.A., curate of Chesterfield, has
been appointed to the new church in Naylor-street, to he
called St. Bartholomew's. Mr. Dover was for some timer
curate at Huddersfield, where he endeared himself to the in-
habitants by his zeal and activity.amongst the poor, and he
has been selected by the trustees on account of his high cha-
racter, and his fitness for .such a peculiar district. The
church is to be consecrated on the 9th of February next. The
ecclesiastical character is preserved in its architecture, and it
will seat about 1200 persons.

LECTURE ON THE GERNIA.N LANGUAGE.—Mr. Bertiu-
'champ delivers his second lecture this evening in the Royal
Institution. A numerous attendance may be expected to
wait on the learned professor.
WALSALL.—On Wednesday the new writ arrived tram
the under sheriff by the 12 o'clock train, and the day of no-
mination is fixed for Monday—the day of poll for Tuesday
next.—Staffordshire Gazette.
. THE THREE CARACCI.—The three beautiful pictures, to
which really the Liverpool public have become attached, are
to leave next week. We advise all those who have not in-
spected them to visit the Union Rooms without delay. We
believe more than a thousand persons have attended within
this last week. The collection at the Post.-office Rooms are
splendid specimens of the old masters. There is a modern
one of a national character which will stir up many an Eng-
lish heart.

Fashionable arrivals at the Grand Junction Hotel :—The
Most Noble the Marquis of Downshire, the Earl of Hills-
borough, Lord Bramberstone, the Lady Heron Maxwell,
Captain Needham and family, Colonel Cameron, Captain
Mainwaring, R.N., Captain Byng, Major Mahone, Miss St.
Leger, Captain Drummond, J. H. Sugden, Esq., Captain
Doyne and family, Sir George Cornwall, Captain Adams,
Mr. and Mrs. Hay and family, General Burgoyne, Mathew
Deane Freeman, Esq., H. Ponsonby, Esq., the Right Hon.
Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, H. John Porter, Esq., D. Allender,
Esq., Robert Napier, Esq.
BRITISH PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—The committee of
this association have just issued an address at the close of the
first year of their labours. We extract from it a startling
statement as to the progress which Popery has lately made in
this country :—Popish colleges, monasteries, mass-houses,
nunneries and convents have one by one. sprung up around
us, till their number is alarming. In the year 1814, there
were only forty-five Papal chapels in England and Scotland;
but now, within an interval of only sixteen years, they have
increased to five hundred and twenty-two. Popish proces-
sions are openly paraded in defiance of the statute called the
Emancipation Act ; shows and pretended miracles are openly
exhibited ; in our colonies there are no less than twenty-
three Bishops and two Superiors of Mis Luis from Rome,.
with numerous assistants, many of whom are receiving
public support and pay from our government; in London,
the " Catholic Institute" has been established, directed by
all tl.e Vicars Apostolic of Britain, a peer of the realm being
the president, and all the Romish bishops and priests of Bri-
tain and the colonies, and the Romish peers and members of
parliament the committee. The machinery, in full operation
at home and abroad, zealously and perseveringly employed,
and conducted with an unexampled unity of design—every
iheasure undertaken being originally concocted at Rome, and
thence proceeding, through the agency of Jesuits, in every
direction—presents a formidable engine for working and ad-
vancing the scheme of Popery. When is added to this, the
influence of Popery in high places, the distinctions which are
every day being bestowed on Papists—distinctions of honour,
emolument, and power—it will not surely be deemed an ex-
travagant supposition that unless some check be speedily in-
terposed, the supremacy of Popery will again be established
in all our civil and ecclesiastical departments. The spread
of Popery in its religious mask, and the influence of it in its
political aspect, are perceived and deplored by many, who
nevertheless withhold their support from the Protestant As-
sociation, lest in joining they should become, or at least be
considered political partisans. It is to such especially that
the committee would appeal ; requesting them to reflect, that
the principles of. the Protestant Association are emphatically
religious and scriptural. It desires not to have any con-
nexion with politics, as partaking of party feeling; but see-
ing that religion is employed by Romanists to injure our po-
litical fabric, and that the influence they acquire through po-
litics is employed to undermine our Protestant Institutions.
it is impcissible effectually to check their advaueara, t by
meeting their assaults in both directions. To enlighten the
victims of Popish darkness, is a most important object. and
duty.

ANTI CORN-LAW NONSENSE.—The Morning Chronicle
has the following paragraph :—" The Opertative Anti Corn-
Law Association of Liverpool have distributed three thou-
sand copies of the annexed pithy questions :—" Does dear
bread bring high wages ?—Bread in 1840, is double the price
that it was in 1835. Are wages doubled ?—No ! Cheap bread
and down with the Corn Law "! ! ! Perhaps some other
questions may occur to the readers of the above very honest
interrogatories. Are the labourers always better off in pro-
portion as bread is cheape t ? Bread was but two-thirds of
the price in 1835 than it is in 1841. Were the labourers one-
third more prosperous in 1835 than they are now ? Wheat
is now but two-thirds of the price that it was fourteen months
ago. Are the labourers one-third better now than they were
fourteen months ago ? Have not the labourers to pay for
many other things as well as bread ? If they have, why is it
assumed that the price being doubled, wages should alter in
the same proportion, in order to make the labourer's condi-
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tiou equal ? 'But the most important question is this.—lf
you employ the labourers in foreign countries to grow the
corn for English consumption, how are you to find employ-
ment and wages for the English labourers who now raise the
corn for English consumption !--Morning Post.
REASONS FOIL FAVOURABLE COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS.
—With respect to general commerce connected with manu-
facturers, we can now only state that our favourable im-
pressions arise from these causes principally. I—That most
of the raw materials of manufactures are held at low prices.
2—The stocks of goods in foreign markets are not large ; and
they are, generally speaking, laid in at unusually low rates,
which must act favourably for the exporters in realizing sales.
3—The manufactures of the continent have been paralysed
by. numerous bankruptcies—twelve principal firms in the
single town of Magdeburg—and cannot enter into successful
competition with those of England for want of confidence
and Dower—especially in the spinning departments. 4—Our
great customers in the United States manifest a power and a
willingness to buy ; the last packet-ship left Liverpool with
a freight of £l,BOO, whereas many of the preceding vessels of
the same class went out of dock with £5OO, £6OO, or £7OO
freight. We anticipate that this power will continue at least
equal to what it is at present. s—The Australasian colonies
have been crippled by scarcity of provisions, and enormous
high prices of the necessaries of life ; the West India colonies
by deficient produce; and the Canadian, by deranged cur-
rency and political disturbances. The force of all these
untoward influences is lessening, and these colonies will have
more power to consume manufactures. 6—The plantations
of sugar, cotton, and indigo in the East Indies, are, we be-
lieve, in a thriving, prosperous state, and the various markets
in that quarter may he expected to continue good. 7—China.
If our ministers do not neglect the commerce of England as
Lord Castlereagh did at the general peace, there will be an
opening for British trade in this quarter, of an extraordinary,
we might say, of au unprecedented, character. One of our
missionaries, who speaks the Chinese language and has lived
many years in the country, reports that he saw above four
hundred vessels employed in the coasting trade on the north-
eastern shores of China, of from 200 to 500 tons burthen
each. The carriage of tea from the province in the north,
where it is produced, to Canton, in the south, for the con-
venience of delivery to the English, costs 600,000 dollars
annually. Nearly all this may be saved by our having a
settlement at Chusan ; and the interchange of commodities
may be exceedingly increased from that centre. We have no
hesitation in saying that it is quite possible for our trade with
China, within a short term of years, to be increased in a more
rapid progression than that which marks the decennial aug-
mentation of our trade with the United States.—Circular to
.Bankers.
THE Sour KITCIIENS.—During the winter season, when
employment is scarce, provisions dear, and all the sufferings
of the poor enhanced,.by the severity of the weather,-we be-
lieve we are correct in asserting, that none of our excellent
charitable institutions is found more effectual in the abate-
ment of human misery than that which, at a merely nominal
price, dispenses supplies of warm and nourishing food. That
the subscriptions to the funds of the soup committee have
been liberal, we rejoice, while we confess that we shall have
an increase of gratification in finding this liberality doubled
and quadrupled in years to come. There is always, in spite
of the most energetic exertions of benevolence, a large sum
of misery in the back ground, and, if we cannot quite banish
suffering altogether, we could wish, whatever other priva-
tions may be endured,,that none among our fellow-beings
should have to endure the pangs of hunger. Many, we have
no doubt, have been saved from starvation by the operation
of this charity, which, we trust, will always have munificent
support. We have heard that some few parties have ex-
preesed discontent, that a portion of the subscriptions are
not returned to them in tickets for distribution. The worthy
individuals who desire such return have, we think, conceived
erroneous impressions of the working of the charity. It
might be sufficient to say in reply, that the objects of the
committee and of those who support them have been ad-
mirably carried out under the existing system ; but it may
be necessary to show, that the rule which has been required
would positively subtract from the utility of the institution.
The subscriptions are for the purpose of enabling the com-
mittee to sell to the poor, at a price far below what it would
cost them, a wholesome and palatable food. The purchase-
money received from the poor, and that arising from the sale
of tickets, is absorbed into the general fund. It is reason-
able to suppose, that the gentleman who subscribes a few
pounds to the charity, is still disposed to scatter a few pence
into the hand of poor creatures who solicit alms as he passes
on his way. He may feel that it will be more beneficial to
give soup tickets than money, in which case the
proper course
is, to purchase the tickets with what he would otherwise have
distributed amongst the craving needy. If he were to re-
ceive back one-third of his subscription; and, supposing this
to be general, the consequence would be, either that the
operations of the institution would be curtailed to that
amount, or the subscribers would be called upon to contri-
bute the deficiency, in which fatter case, to reverse an old
saying, they would be merely putting money into one pocket
which they would have to take out of the other. Indeed, as
we feel certain that the charity would be supported to its pre-
sent extent, the difference to the subscribers would be just
nothing, while the committee would be put in the unpleasant
situation of appearing to exact a greater amount of subscrip-
tions. At present all goes smoothly, the objects of the charity
are fulfilled, while it matters not to the subscribers where
they get their tickets, since they must be paid for either
through increased subscription or by purchase, otherwise the
institution will lack support, an alternative which we 44A sure
not one of theta will desire.—Courier. „„6„v-

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RELIEF OP THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF THOSE WHO
PERISHED IN THE THAMES STEAM-VESSEL.—Alderman
Pirie yesterday stated to the Lord Mayor that a distinguished
member of Lloyd's had signified his willingness to receive
subsCriptions for the distressed widows, orphans, and other
relatives of the unfortunate crew who perished in thel Thames
steamer on the 4th of January. It was, he observed, unne-
cessary to detail the particulars, as the public papers had so
fully stated the nature and horrors of the disaster; but his
great object in coming forward on this occasion was to assure
his Lordship, and through his Lordship the public, that the
necessities of the relatives of the poor fellows who were lost
were very great, and had unquestionable claim's upon the
sympathies of all good men. The Lord Mayor expressed
high gritification at the exertions which the highest charac-
ters in the city were determined to make to raise a subscrip-
tion for such objects as the alderman so humanely repre-
sented, and stated that he bad no doubt of the result.—Times
of Weilnesday.—[ln addition to the above, we have the gra-
tification of stating, that the Queen, with her usual benevo-
lenCe, has liberally remitted thirty pounds to be added to the
fund collecting in Liverpool, for the widows and children left
by the unfortunate crew of the Thatnes.-1

THE LAST SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT.—On Tuesday the
last subscriptign concert of the season took place, and was
fashionably and well attended. Some disappointment, how-
ever, was experienced in consequence of the nos-appearance
of Herr Koenig, who was announced to perform on the cor-
nopean between the first and second parts. An explanation
was given to the gallery, which had not been informed upon
the subject of that gentleman's non-appearance, the other parts
of the house having been freely supplied with a circular, con-
taining the correspondence between Mr. Ashton and Herr
Koenig, who having, on the 20th instant, accepted an en-
gagement to be present at the concert on Tuesday evening,
was compelled, in consequence of arrangements with the
lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, to relinquish his engagement
with Mr. Ashton, though, according to Harr Komug's state-
ment, •Mr. Eliason had permitted him to appear in Liver-
pool, but, for some reason unexplained, he (Mr. Eliason)
was compelled to retract the permission. This appears to us
to completely exonerate Mr. Ashton from blame, and it ap-
pears to us that Mr. Eliason is the only person on whom it
should rest. Mr. Ashton, we believe, would be the last man
to countenance an imposture of any kind. But to the con-
cert :—The overture to Masaniello was admirably played.
The trio " This Magic-wove Scarf," from Barnet's opera of
the " Mountain Sylph," was delightfully sung by Miss Ro-
mer and Messrs. Makin and Harrison. We cannot say
much for Mr. Harrison's " All is lost now.". Wood and
Templeton have made too vivid an impression upon our
minds to relish this charming composition from any but able
voices. Miss Romer, in the aria " Prendi per me," quite
charmed her hearers. liorseley's " Tempest" was cleverly
sung by Mr. Mackin. The Grand Duet by Mrs. and Miss
St. Albin was the leading feature of the evening. Of Mrs.
St. Albin it is needless to speak : her brilliant execution and
great taste is too well known to require comment. Miss St.
Albin appears to be a most promising peanofortiste. The chorus
" Now trump," was encored. 144,,eldasem" was deliciously
sung by Miss Romer and Mr. Machin. It really was very
capitally done. The second part commenced with a pleasant
little interruption,
which on subsiding was succeeded by
Weber's " Jubilee" overture. The duet " Loy.; and War,"
by Mr. Machin and Mr. Harrison, went off flatly. The
song " Young Spring" was encored, Miss Romer sung it
very charmingly. Thalberg's Prayer, from 111056 in Egitto,
by Mrs. St. Albin, quite eleet rified.the audience, her execution
and power is astonishing. Mrs. St. Albin has no English
compeers of her own sex upon the piano-forte, perhaps few
foreign even. Mr. Machin's " Gather ye rosebuds," was
deservedly encored, as was also Herold's (not Rooke's, as in
the
programme)
" "l'is really very strange." We have no
doubt there will be many grumblers upon this occasion, in
consequence of Herr Koenig; but when the difficulties to be
encountered, and the many tastesto be gratified by the manager
of these concerts, are considered,—taking the series altoge-
ther, we have little hesitation in saying, that there is a debt
of gratitude due to him for providing some very delightful
entertainments; and if faults have existed, they are over-
whelmingly counterbalanced by the pleasure afforded. Few
men would take the trouble, Mr. Ashton has, for so little
profit. If the affair had been got up by a committee, we
suspect far less gratification would have been obtained.
MR. EGERTON'S BENEFIT AT THE AMPIIITFIEATRE.—
We beg to draw the attention of our readers who support the
theatres to Mr. Egerton's announcement, that his benefit
will take place on Monday next. Under the circumstances
ill which Mr. Egerton is now placed, in respect to the
Theatre-Royal's patent, and considering the great outlay of
money which has taken place in rendering the Amphitheatre
a pleasant place of public resort, we think that some very
strong,
demonstration ought to be made in Mr. Egerton's
behalf. His theatre must be closed, if we understood the
matter rightly, almost immediately, and at a time when a re-
turn ought to be looked for. The case, therefore, presses
most hardly upon him. The public have bean highly grati-
fied with the entertainments at the Amphitheatre, as is
clearly shown by the excellence of the attendance. We trust
that those who have enjoyed themselves will not now forget
to show Mr. Egerton the estimation in which he is held, al-
though a stranger in Liverpool. The excellence of the
dramas prOduced, and the spirit with which they have been
put upon the stage, fairly entitle him to expect that pit,
boxes, and gallery, will be filled in every " nook, hole, arid
corner." The bill of fare, to use a common expression, is
most attractive. " Mazeppa" has been prepared in a style
almost unparalleled in Liverpool, whether for scenery, dresses,
or decorations ; while the afterpiece of " Cherry and Fair
Star" has been got up regardless of expense. We hope that
Monday night will prove a real benefit.

FIRE IN LANCELOT'S HEY.--On Wednesday night,
about half-past eleven o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in
the office of Messrs. Vianna and Jones, in Lancelot's Hey,
which threatened to communicate with the warehouses ad-
jacent ; but by the timely arrival of the fire-engines it was
subdued, and confined to the above premises. The spirit-
vaults underneath, occupied by Mr. Cearns, were partially
damaged. The premises we understand are fully insured.
Tut BOTANIC GARDEN.—We are glad to learn that the
Botanic Garden, with its conservatories and library, is now
rendered available to the respectable tradespeople of the
town, by the proprietors having judiciously determined to
issue to subscribers, family tickets, at one guinea per annum.
We believe that this measure was adopted in order that all
might enjoy the hthilthful and elevating pleasures of this de- .
lightful institution ; and we trust that the liberality of the
proprietors will be duly appreciated by the public.
STABRlNG.—Yesterday, at the police-court, two boys,
James Norris and Edward Williams, who had been remanded
from Monday, owing to the illness of the person whom they
had aurattulted, were placed at the bar charged with having
attacked a man named Chadwick. It appeared the com-
plainant, without giving provocation, was pushed in the street
by the prisoners and two others.' He gave one of them a tap
on the head, when the prisoners assaulted him, and Norris,
who was seen with an open jack-knife in his hand, stabbed
him behind inflicting upon him a severe wound, which had
confined him for several days. The prisoners denied the
charge; but the evidence was clear against them. One of,
them had been committed five times, and the other fifteen
times. They were committed for trial at the sessions.
MRS. WAYLEIT'S BENEFIT, LIVER. —Mrs. Waylett
takes her benefit at the Liver to-night, on the close of her
virs
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second engagement. Her bill is a very good one.
Waylett's songs are gushes of melody!, and are
" Fascinate sages.'
We perceive that Mr. Hoskins has consented to play Peter
Spyke, in the " Loan of a Lover." There will be doubtless
an excellent house.

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY

The annual general meeting of this company took place on
Wednesday, at the Cotton Sales-room, in the Exchange-
buildings. Charles Lawrence, Esq., chairman of the board
of directors, presided..
The report of the director-ft, and the accounts of the receipts
and disbursements, were read. These shewed, notwithstand-
ing the diminution of traffic and travelling, owing to the stag-
nation of trade and other causes adverted to in the report, a
considerable increase over the nett proceeds of the corre-
sponding period of last year. They were approved of by the
meeting.
A dividend at the rate of £5 per cent. was made for the
half year ending 31st December last; and a first instalment,
at the rate of £2 per share upon the £3OO shares, and of 4s.
per share upon the original quarter shares, being a portion
of the interest to which those shares (only) are entitled, was
likewise ordered to be paid to the proprietors of those shares
out of the surplus fund.
The attention of the meeting was then called by Mr.
Alston and Mr. Coglan to the following paragraph in the
report :
" The last circumstance which the directors will mention,
as having diminished to some extent the travelling by rail-
way, is the temporary want of confidence in the security of
that mode of conveyance. The directors deeply regret the
railway accidents which have occasioned this apprehension
in the public mind. In the sudden developernent and ex-
tension of this new mode of locomotion—in the marvellous
transition from a speed of ten miles to that of thiity miles an
hour—though we may regret, perhaps we can hardly wonder,
that newly-opened lines have not been altogether exempt
from accidents. The earnest attention of railway manage-
ments is turned to the consideration of the best means of
making railway conveyance as pre-eminently safe, as it is
decidedly cheap and expeditious ; and the directors have the
fullest confidence in the accomplishment of this great object,
if indeed, taking a fair comparison, it be not already attained.
It is a circumstance worthy of remark and congratulation,
that the frequency of accidents seems to be in no way con-
nected with the increase of traffic on any railway ; those
lines where the traffic is the largest in the kingdom having
'been for a long time almost free from these casualties. In
the last twelve months, one million and fifty-two thousand
passengers have been conveyed on the Liverpool and Man-
chester Line, with but one accident, which befel a passenger
who recklessly jumped out of a second-class carriage when
at full speed, to save a few miles' walking from the next
stopping-place. It would seem that the necessity for con-
stant vigilance and unremitting care on the part of the en-
ginemen, policemen, &c., owing to the almost continuous
movement of a large traffic, produces as its consequence that
habit of vigilance, and that intuitive caution, on which the
security of railway travelling must at all times materially
depend. Connected with this subject, the directors are
happy to refer to the General Railway Conference which was
held at Birmingham, on Tuesday the 19th instant, the object
of which was to consider and devise the means of increased
safety to railway travelling. The resolutions passed at the
conference have appeared in the public papers, and copies of
the proceedings may be 6btained at the Treasurer's office by
proprietors feeling an interest in the subject."
The thanks of the proprietors were unanimously voted to the
directors, and to their managers and assistants, for their
vigilant anti skilful management of the line, and for their
care and unremitting attention in these respects.
Charles Lawrence, Hardman Earle, Thomas Sands, and
John Cropper, jun., Esqrs., (nominated by the proprietors,)
and James Loch, Esq., (nominated by the Duke of Suther-
land,) being the five directors going out of office by rotation,
the first four gentlemen above-named were unanimously re-
elected directors.
It appears from the statement of accounts submitted to
the meeting, that the receipts for the half-year ending Dec.
31, 1840, were as following :—from the coaching depart-
ment, £81,713. 3s. 2d.; from the carriage of merchandise,
£54,901. 4s. 10d.; and from the carriage of coal, £2709. Os. 7d.;
mating a total of £139,323. Bs. 7d. The expenditure for the
same period amounted to £68,694. 75.; leaving a nett profit
of £70,629. Is. 7d.

BRITISH INDIA SUGAR COMPANY.—We shall soon see
this company before Parliament with its bill of incorpora-
tion. The shares, we hear, are to be allotted in a few days.
A more hopeful and profitable project was never yet launched
as a joint stock company. The profits for many years can-
not be less than from 50 to 70 per cent., and there is little
doubt the shares will be at a high premium shortly after
their allotment.—City Chronicle and Tea Dealers' Journal.
THE VICARAGE OF NEWCASTLE.---It is with feelings of
deep regret and disappointment that we announce that the
Rev. George Townsend has decided, after much hesitation,
and for reasons of paramount consideration, not to accept
theis pastorald charge of this large parish, which was placed at
the
risposal in the most handsome manner by the patron of
our ,:ving, the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. At the period of
be
ee:inouncement on the subject last week there seemed to
17_e sort of doubt that the worthy Prebendary was actually
- te r of
far a Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and such indeed he was as
feel 6 the Patron was concerned. The parishioners at large
consider that
that th
xceeire have great reason to deplore the determination
grace societ lit and most accomplished neighbour, for they
o take the retita
he, above most men, is eminently qualified to
our town, and, what is of far higher import,
oak jourNal. in the great cause of the Church.—Neiv-