The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

COMMERCIAL 4. MONETARY NEWS

MONDAY NIGHT.

THE monetary world appears to have recovered
in a great measure from the panic with which it
was afflicted the previous week. The value of
public securities has been gradually advancing,
and money for commercial purposes has been con-
siderably easier, and the apprehension that the
Bank of England would again increase the rate of
discount has been for the time allayed, notwith-
standing that we have no victories by sea or land
to record ; nor can political affairs in the East be
said to be in a more favourable position, though
some weight may be given to the proffer of peace
by Russia, as indicative of her intentions to suc-
cumb to the Western Alliance. This apparent
restoration of confidence has had a beneficial effect
upon all descriptions of investments, though the
uncertainty which still prevails as to the future,
prevents any speculative operations in mercantile
affairs. A great advantage, however, is gained by
the diminished apprehension of monetary difficul-
ties, as there is no present reason to fear that any
real ground for alarm will arise. The returns of
the Bank of England on Friday, again show a
diminution in the stock of bullion to the extent
of £179,564 ; but this is owing to the recent arri-
vals not being included in the account ; and, as
the shipments to the Continent are not so large as
heretofore, we may shortly anticipate an improve-
ment. The circulation has increased no less than
£443,465, and an increase in " other securities" of
£765,122, shows that the Bank of England has
been extending its accommodation.
In the manufacturing districts there is still
great depression, though not to the same extent
as immediately after the declaration of hostilities
with Russia. Merchants are evidently disinclined
to enter into any speculative transactions, though
it must be clear that very little difference can be
created by the stoppage of trade with Russia, so
long as it is open in every other quarter. The
amount of exports was comparatively trifling, so
that the whole would be no great loss, while much
of it will, no doubt, be carried on through other
channels. The decline in prices has led to a notice
from the spinners at Stockport to reduce the wages
of their operatives, taking off the increase which
was made last year, when the men struck for an
advance. The ill success of the movement at
Preston will, it is hoped, prove a warning to the
working class ; and if the reduction be followed up
in other places, it may check the weekly supplies
which encourage the disaffection at Preston.
The rise in the Corn Market has proved but of
short duration, as on Friday there was again a
general decline, not only in this market, but many
others. This ha. 4, no doubt, been caused by the
recent large arrivals, and the continuance of fine
weather for the growing crops, which promise an
abundant harvest. The rise has, however, had a
beneficial effect, in enabling several large holders,
who stood to lose heavily, relieving themselves to

a considerable amount, as the sales have been very
large during the previous ten days. As for the
extent of the decline, it would be difficult to state
it with accuracy, so much difference of opinion
exists amongst those in the trade. We quote from
four circulars issued on Friday. One stated Flour
to have declined in price 6d. to Is. per barrel ;
another circular said ls. to Is. 6d. ; a third ls.
6d. to 2s. ; and a fourth 2s. to 2s. 6d. per barrel.
Who shall decide, when doctors disagree ?
Owing to continued purchases on the part of the
public, and to the scarcity of stock, prices in the
SHARE MARKET have been steadily improving each
day all week, and close this evening at the best of
the week. An advance of from four to six per
cent. has taken place throughout the list. We
annex prices 7—Caledonians, 261 -1 7 64c 7 61 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 611 2111 2 ; London
Stock, 97 8 ; Sheffield Stock, 201 ; Midland Stock,
60 4 s 60 591 60 4 4 594 ; Dover Stock, 174 1
13-16 ; Shrewsbury and Chester gar. pref. 8 per
cent., 164: Dutch Rhenish, 4 1-16 d ; Royal
Insurance, 14p.
The advices from St. Petersburg state that an
amount in gold equal to about six millions of silver
roubles, or nearly £1,000,000 sterling, has been
removed from the fortress, for the purposes,. it is
to be presumed, of the war. Allegations were at
the same time circulated that a total equal to about
£19,000,000 or £20,000,000 sterling remained.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the Ist of April gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits ... 24,445,788; Increase £21,901
Other deposits ... 11,037,153; Decrease 55,073
Rest ... 3,757,508; Increase 13,371
On the other side of the account—
Government securities £11,607,616; Decrease £184,500
Other securities ... 16,522,726; Increase 765,122

Notes unemployed ... 098,255; Decrease 635,280
The amount of notes in circulation is £21,684,240,
being a increase of £443,465 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £14,449,718,5h0wing
a decrease of £179,564, when compared with the
preceding return.

SALES.

OPst [OPTION. PRICES.

Sea Island 9 6)25
Stained 92}
floweds 4 6i
Mobile 4 6-3;
New Orleans. 3 8
Pernams, tim.l 6I 64;
Bahia, &C.
72\
Demptian erara,&c, 7
6 9i
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Madras
Bengal I

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fApl. 7 this yr.

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12960 233000
6901 11740
340 7540
620 9430
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knowledge of the Bible, he had no hesitation in saying
that if they brought a single Roman Catholic priest to
the platform that night, they would not have one single
verse stated correctly. (Hear, and applause.) There was
a tendency, at the present moment, in the Church of Rome
to make the Bible the rule of faith for a Roman Catholic.
Now, he must let a cat out of the bag. (Laughter.) The
Pope had given a commission for the purchase of an
accurate copy of the Scriptures ; and the Rev. Mr. Ken-
drick, Roman Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia, was just a
man cut out for the work. What had he done ? He was
an excellent Greek and Latin scholar, and he had taken
up the work, and had issued an edition of the Bible as an
authority for the Roman Catholics of America. (Dr. Butler
showed the important and Protestant alterations which he
had made from the original Douay version, and continued:)
But it was, perhaps, as well that he should lay before them
weat were the sentiments of Cardinal Wiseman as to the
Bible. In writing the book from which he (Dr. Butler) was
about to read them an extract, no doubt the Cardinal thought
that he was going to Rome, never again to return to this
country; for if he bad imagined that he was to have come
back again to England, he would not have published such a
document as was contained in the following extract. The
speaker then read the following extract from a recently pub-
lished work of Cardin ii Wiseman on the free circulation of
the Scriptures. Speaking of this country, the Cardinal said,
"Though the Scriptures may be here permitted, we do not
urge them on our people. We do not encourage them to read
them. We do not spread them to the utmost among them."
What did the Cardinal mean? "Though the scriptures may
be here permitted I" Did he forget that the Scriptures were
the Word of Almighty God ? That they were the property
of every man, woman, and child—that every descendant of
fallen Adam had a right to their unfettered perusal, and to
exercise his privat'e judgment upon them just in the same
manner as every child of man had the privilege of breathing
the air of heaven ? (Loud cheers.) They mast, therefore,
protest against any cardinal, Roman Catholic bishop, or priest
who could make use of the impious and anti-Christian lan-
guage, "The Scriptures are here permitted to be read."
(Hear and cheers.) The Cardinal said, "Though the Scrip-
turns may he here jeerinitted, we do !not urge them on our
people." Plain speaking this. "We do not encourage them
to read them." Very plain ! "We do not spread them to
the utmost among them." Why, was any Roman Catholic—
and he would appeal to such if they were present—encou-
raged to read them ? (Hear and cheers.) What was the
obvious effect of thus keeping hack the Scriptures ? If they
took away from a man the revelation made to him by God,
they took away from that man all the reasons he had to know
God. Suppose :or a moment that we had no Bible, how
should we ever have known of the fall of Adam—of the atone-
ment—and of its acceptance for our sins on the part of our
Heavenly Father? The rev. doctor, in continuation, pro-
ceeded to re'ate the position in which he was placed with re-
gard to the Bible, when he was a priest of the Roman Catholic
Church. He said his instructions were to this effect. He
was to destroy every Protestant Bible and holy Protestant
work that he could lay his hands upon. Brought up, as he
had been, in a colony, which was very superstitious and at-
tached to St. Peter's. he had been, for a certain period in his
life, devoted to the Church of Rome. After relating an anec-
dote in connexion with the death of a Protestant soldier in
the hospital of the place where the speaker was stationed,
and who bequeathed to him (Dr. Butler) a religious tract,
entitled "The Sinner's Friend," he remarked, that he stored
up this tract, hut did not read it for some time afterwards.
In course of time, he was, in the Providence of God, in the
greatest possible mental distress ; and in afflictions such as
these, they all knew that the human heart would have re-
course to anything for relief. In this situation he
was first induced to take up this tract, and this was•
the first time that he ever took up anything of a Pro-
testant character to read, and, from the perusal of that
tract, he received great consolation. From a perusal of that
tract, he saw as clearly as the light of day, that the peincip:es
of the Church of Rome were wrong and anti-Curisnune
(Cheers.) The reverend doctor, in continuation, related se-
veral circumstances, personal to himself, in proof of the anti-.
scriptural and tyrannical spirit of the Church of Rome, and
then remarked that he now came to a most important period
in his life. When in Rome, it came to his knowledge that in
reference to the appointment of the Roman CatholicArchbee
shop of Malta, the Cadinats had promised to the Popish King
of Naples that the Pope would not appoint any person Arch-
bishop except one recommended by the King. At the same
time he discovered that at the very moment when this pro-
mise was made a document was also forwarded to the English
Ambassador at Florence, that no appointment would i-e
made except that recommended by the English Go-
vernment. He (Dr. Butler) obtained possession of tlia,
document forwarded to the King of Naples, as well as
the promise made to the Queen of England, through
her Ambassador at Florence. They were sent to England,
and laid before the government, which led to a special
messenger, Colonel Hankey, being sent as the bearer of
despatches to the Court of Rome. He (Dr. Butler) accom-
panied the colonel in his interview with the cardinal at Rome,
and, in the cardinal's presence, the box containing the de-
spatches was opened for the first time since leaving London.
The two documents, the one promising the appointment of
the Archbishop of Malta, on the nomination of the King
of Naples, and the other promising the appointment on.the
nomination of the English Government,. were both sub-
mitted to the cardinal, but be was silent In reference to
both. Failing to reply, the colonel then said, "Lam oraered
by my government to receive from you at this moment a
paper signed by the present Pope, and in which he shall
pledge himself and his successors, that the choice of the
appointment of the bishop of Malta shall rest with my
government. If I do not get this paper. signed, lam in-
structed to withdraw our consul from. Rome, to request all
English residents to leave Rome, and. to declare, on the part
of our government, that she is resolutely determined to assert
her I ight s." Itwas then that the cardinal broke silence, but his •
reply was, that it could not be signed, as the Pope was very ill.
This was Pope Pius the Ninth. lie said that the Pope had
received the holy sacrament, and was dying. "Oh," said'
the old colonel, " dying or dead, you.always profess to have
a head in Rome, and I must have this paper signed." (Loud.
cheers.) He (Dr. Butler) was a witness of the cardinal's
taking the papers from Colonel Hankey's hands, and return-
ing with them signed by the dying Pope a short time after-
wards. It was a positive fact that both the hands and arms
of the Pope were supported whilst signing these papers which
England demanded, and when they were signed, the old
colonel remarked to the cardinal, " What do you think of the
infallibility of your Church now??' (Loud cheering.) The-
rev. doctor then referred in detail to the more immediate
reasons which had induced him to leave the Church of Rome.
When he returned from Malta, where he was stationed, he
first commenced the work of controversy, and he then
discovered on reading, that the so-called fathers of the
Church of Rome—as be said in the outset of his remarks—.
were in reality not Roman Catholics, but Protestants. Having.
read so much, and studied deeply, he saw nothing before him
but to leave ber communion. In doing this, he had to make
great personal sacrifices. He had a pension granted to him
for life whilst he remained at Malta, and a house and garden
to live in. The speaker, after some further remarks, referred
to his connexion with this town before he actually withdrew
himself from the Church of Rome; and dwelt with much
force on the persecuting spirit to which he was exposed..
When be resigned the situation he held in connexion with St.
Anthony's Roman Catholic Chapel in this town, they must all
know bow he was treated. They might ascertain it by
referring to the Standard, the Mail, or the Mercury. A
deputation of Roman Catholicswaitedupon the Popish Bishop-
to prefer a charge against his moral character, but the bishop's..
answer was, " Ishaye not the slightest charge to-make against
this man."" The bishop well knew, much as he was opposed
to him, that he had no charge whatever against him: But,.
in addition to the persecution which he had to submit to in
this town at the time, it had recently been placarded in the
West of England that he left Liverpool indebted to almost
every tradesman in the place. Again, it had been stated in
Liverpool that he was dead, and a copy of a newspaper, con-
taining this announcement, was sent to all-his relations in
Ireland, accompanied by a communication that his death
was a. warning to all apostates. (Cries of "Shame.") Well,
three weeks ago a letter had been written by the so-called
Catholic Bishop of LiVerpool calling him an abandoned cha-
racter ; but he could only now say to his Protestant friends,
shat,sby God's grace, he had been enabled to overcome every
sort. of persecution. (tremendous cheering.) He had no
wish at present. to dwell further on the abominations of
Popery ;, but he could state things to them which would har-
row up their feelingesufflcient to make them pull down every
Roman Catholic chapel in Liverpool. God forbid, however,
that he should have any such feeling. (Hear.) He was
now a Protestant minister. He belonged to the Protestant
Reformation Society, and he bad only, to add thathe had as
great a horror of Tractarianism and Puseyism as he had of
Popery iteelf.. (Great cheering.) Hg would, tell:them an
anecdote respecting Puseyism. About the time he was ad-
mitted into the. Protestant Church, he had an interview with
Dr. Pusey, who-advised him to continue to go to confession, as
usual, and to.receive absolution from one of his (Dr. Pusey's)
friends. (Hear, hear, and shame.). That, was a proof that
they bad as much to fear from tractarianism as. from actual
popery.. They might depend upon it, that if ever again he
felt disposed to confess his sins to man, rather than to his
God,.be should once more resort to St. Anthony's, in Liver-
pool, rather than to the votaries. of puseyism.. He trusted in
God that he might he spared to enjoy the privileges he now
possessed as a Protestant, and, in conclusion, he earnestly
asked of them to give their support to. the Protestant
Reformation Society. Let them do what they could in its
behalf.. either by annual subscriptions or by taking collect-
ing cards, and he fervently prayed for God's blessing on their
efforts. At the conclusion of his speeche the rev. doctor was
greeted with loud and protracted cheering.
A. collection was then made, during which a hymn was sung,
and the proceedings closed shortly before eleven o'clock.

ExEcuTrox.—On Saturday, William Thompson, who
was found guilty at the late assizes. of the wilful murder of •
Lorenz Beha, a travelling watchmaker and jeweller, was.
hanged on the drop in front of Norwich Castle.
Lew BuzAxEns.—As a sheriff's-officer of Ros,shire was.
recently proceeding to serve summonses on two farmers,
he was met by a large crowd of men and women, who
stripped him almost naked, burned the summonses, and
turned him out of the parish. It is said that the. magis-
trates are determined to maintain the law, and, the mob
to resist it. .

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ROWING-MATCH took
place on Saturday, at Putney. When the signal was given
for the boats to, go on, the Oxonians started with terrific
effect. At once they shot ahead of the Cantabs, but
shortly after the Cantabs nearly got ahead of them. The
Oxford gentlemen were on the Middlesex side, and the
Cambridge gentlemen on the Surrey side. As they started
it was the almost universal impression. that both handled
their oars with precision and effect. After an exciting
struggle, amidst the cheers of their supporters, Oxford
won easily. The distance was about four miles and a-half,
which they performed in about seventeen minutes. One
of the Cantabs fainted.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-,--011 Friday, Adolphus
Harrison, alias Feistel, thirty-two, described as an agent,
and Alexander Desaux, sixty-three, baker, were tried for
misdemeanour, in having unlawfully conspired together to
procure the defilement of a young Belgian girl, named
Alice Leroy. The judge ordered Harrison to be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for two years. The other
prisoner, Desaux, was then placed at the bar, and he
pleaded guilty to the same count. He was ordered to enter
into a recognizance of £lOO to appear and receive judg-
ment when called upon to do so, and he was advised to
leave this country, which he stated it was his intention to
do at once.

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THE STRIKE OF THE NORTH-COUNTRY SEAMEN has
been completely abandoned. The Sunderland seamen gave
up on Monday, the North Shields men on Tuesday, and
the South Shields men went to their vessels on Wednesday.
A considerable fleet of collier vessels of a light draught of
water left the Tyne on Wednesday for London.
Loss OF THE PETREL STEAMER.—The screw-steamer
Petrel, trading between Hull and Rotterdam, had made a
good voyage, having left Hull on Wednesday week, and
was within 30 or 40 miles of Rotterdam, when she went
ashore on the Hinder. The weather was quite moderate
at the time, and the passengers and crew were got off in
safety. Shortly after the accident it came on to blow,
which naturally contributed to the injury of the ship, even
if she had not been beyond hope from the first. Captain
Dawson, of the Seagull, which arrived on Tuesday, reports
that he passed the Petrel on Sunday, and found that the
greater part of the cargo had been got out. There was no
possible chance but that she will go to pieces.
A LAW MASER—On Saturday, at the Marlborough-
street Police-comt, a member of parliament was fined £2
for being drunk, and for having assaulted a police constable.
THE COURT continues in town, but, according to pre-
sent arrangements, her Majesty and the Royal Family will
arrive at Windsor Castle, for their usual Easter sojourn,
on Thursday next. Her Majesty will hold a drawing-room
at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the 27th instant, and
a levee on Wednesday, the 3d of May.
THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL at Exeter-hall, on Wednesday
evening, for the benefit of the widows and children of the
workmen killed by the accident at the Crystal-palace, was
Tory steceSsluls