The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Moyclape, a justiceoftbe peace of that otalnty. We re-
gret to say. Mr. Lauder has received a dangerous gun-shot
wound in the lefterm, the results of which cannot at pre-
sent be predicted,as the slug has not been extracted.

THE POTATO-CROP.—The reports respecting the condi-
tion of this crop are exceedingly satisfactory. The same
remark applies to a letter from the Rev. Charles Bushe,
respecting the crops around his rectory. Indeed, persons
who have been farming forty years say that •the potatoes
never in their memory presented so promising an appear-
ance. Whether it will please God to permit them to
prosper, we must leave to be proved in His own time ; but
at present they look as well as any one could desire. No-
thing can exceed the admiration with which the poor
country people gage on them. Again and again, in places
in which they have not themselves been able to plant,
they go to the fields in which they are growing, and they
take off their hats, as if in reverential gratitude, when
they behold them spring up with a vigour and a luxuriance
that
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their eyes have not for years been allowed to witness.
There was'a report in town on Tuesday that four persons
had been discovered sprinkling vitriol on the potato gar-
dens in the neighbourhood of the city, and, absurd as it
was, it obtained credence and circulation. The delin-
quents were said to have been emoloved by corn mer-

chants or flour factors. Now, bad as the merehants and
factors may be, they are not simpletons, yet simpletons
they should-be to put themselves in the power of people
who would be likely to betray them, or to suPpose. that
the iniquitous trick could be practised to a sufficient ex-
tent to serve them, or continued for any time without
detection.—Cork Constitution.
ROMISH ESTIMATE OF O'(

':ONNELL.—The following
are further extracts from the letter of Father Kenyon,
addressed to the Dublin Nation :—" Is it possible that
this nation can remain infatuated for ever ? O'Connell has
boasted - • lei - •

..aat he guided us, and his toadies have v,ouchec
every word he told us for fifty years.. Well, then, let W.
look about and calculate our obligations for the service.
Whither have we been guided ? Where and how has he
left us ? We have been guided, step by step, self-hood-
winked, to such an abyss of physical and moral misery—
to such a condition of helpless and hopeless degradation
as no race of mankind was ever plunged in since the crea-
tion. We are a nation of beggars—mean, shameless,
lying beggars. And this is where O'Connell has :guided

t-is.. - MiTh'Connell's death, in my deliberate opinion, has
been no loss whatever to the Irish nation. On the con-
trary, I think that Mr. O'Connell has been doing before
his death, and was likely to continue doing as long as he
might live, very grievous injury to Ireland ; so that 1 ac-
count his death rather a gain than a loss to the country.
He was the vaunted leader, the prime mover, the head
and front, the life and soul of a system of policy at once
) hollow and so corrupt, so bare-
izing

so servile and despotic

facedly hypocritical and dreadfully demorai. „, that
the very organs of the Government to which it pandered
laughed it into scorn. That his slavish minions, his
selfish followers, or his deluded dupes, should have
deemed his death a loss, I was prepared to learn ; but
that the Irish confederates whom he insulted, spurned,
and would have hanged—the representatives of the man-
hood of the nation which he was degrading, which he had
degraded into brutish beggary—that these should adopt
the error, and make it the foundation of a further and more
f Ltal mistake, this was an event for which I was utterly
unprepared—a midnight inundation from which I know
not where to hope for shelter. All seems confusion, and it
is intensely dark. If you justly respect a man, he must
be respectable in his totality. If a nation justly respects
him, he must be a benefactor—a blessing to that nation.
O'Connell is Snot such. He befooled this country before
his death, and he died politically impenitent. Ireland,
therefore, owes him nothing but forgiveness. If she gives

him more, and to the extent to whiCh she shall give-him
more, then in that proportion will she unsettle the princi-
ples of public morality, incapacitate herself from rewarding
honesty and fidelity, and brand herself with infamy through-
out the coming years."

doubted by either party; the star of agriCultural protection
was in the ascendant, and an immense majority was re-
turned by the county constituencies to enable. Sir R.Peel to
take Downing-street by storm. The Melbourne parlia-
ment of 1837 lasted about four years. The present par-
liament, which has endured for six years, has been a
memorable one. It was elected to protect the corn laws,
and it has enacted free trade into a law. It began by
hurling a Whig Ministry from office, and has ended by
ejecting a "Conservative" one with almost equal igno-
miny. Lord J. Russell, now in a nominal minority of
100, has actually encountered less opposition, and carried
his government with far greater ease since his last acces-
sion to power, than in the very plenitude of his popu-
larity, when, with a small but decisive majority on the
Ministerial benches, he refused to hold office "on suffer-
ance."

'VALUE OF PROTESTANTISM.—The Rev. John Dodson,
Vicar of Cockerham, near Lancaster, writes in the follow-
ing sterling style, to the Lancaster Gazette of Saturday,
with reference to the claims of Mr. Gregson, to the
suffrages of that constituency : —" Sir,—we want Chris-
tianity—we want Protestantism—and, if Mr. Gregson
will give us that—if he will give us our National Protes-
tantism, we care for nothing else. 1 frankly and sincerely
profess that, if Mr. Gregson had come to us as a Protes-
tant (` the very reverse of a Protestant,' I must consider
that man, who will not, by word and deed, in parliament
or out, by every legal and Christian means, witness, pro-'
tect, and contend for Bible truth, in opposition to Romish
error), I say, had he come to us as a Protestant, I, for one,
would have accepted him, in lack of a better man, what-
ever else he had been. On all other questions I would
have left him unfettered, and given him a ' carte blanche.'
He should have gone to parliament, as far as I was con-
cerned, free as air, to unfetter commerce—to liberalise
our• institutions—and to reform the church establishment
to his heart's content—levelling, if he pleased, its hierar-
chy—adjusting its revenues—and adinitting to their full
and free enjoyment every Christian sect ; nay, he might
have imposed on the nation an income-tax that would
confiscate half our property, or, if that would not satisfy
him, all of it ; I would have granted all to him, just in
return for his Protestantism : assured as I am that, if
this country is true to her God she will flourish, do what
you will with her ; and equally assured that, if she loses
her christianity, she will soon lose everything. I, as an
humble individual elector, shall vote for no candidate
who does not give a clear, distinct, and unmistakeable
Protestant pledge, solemnly and publicly. In my humble
opinion. the man who refuses to pledge himself on this
subject is already a traitor in intention. On the subject
of protestantism we can admit of no right to deliberate :
deliberation here is treason. This is a vital question—
a first principle—and must not be tampered with. We

have been betrayed upon it before : and may not, by
leaving it open to deliberate upon, incur the risk of being
)etrayed again. The candidate who is tied by his own

convictions to vote for Protestantism will never refuse a
pledge ; whilst he, who is not so tied, must tie himself by

his solemnly pledged word, or we dare not trust him ; or,
'in
,trusting him, we shall show that we can be guilty of a
1 . .

folly, where God's truth and honour are concerned, of
which we are never guilty, where we see our own private
interests to be at stake.'

AND CLERICAL NEWS

UNIVERSITY

It is said that the Rev. Dr. Carpenter, of St. Barnabas's
Church, Douglas, Isle of Man, has been appointed to the
incumbency of St, Thomas's, Birmingham.
It appears that Dr. Candlsh is likely to succeed to the
offices of the Free Church held by the late Dr. Chalmers.
It is said they were offered to Dr. Gordon, and declined.
The Rev. W. Bevan, of this town, has been appointed
secretary of the Evangelical Alliance, and will, in conse-

quence, reside henceforth in the metropolis.
Mr. Thomas Dunnett, son of Mr. Dunnet, of Hill
street, has again been successful in his exertions at Trinity
College, Dublin, having now added to his former honours
Vie qualification of a scholarship.
The first stone of a new church at Inskip in, the Fylde
was laid on Thursday. The patron, the Rev. W. Hornby,
vicar of St. Michael's on Wyre, has given £lOOO, and the
Earl of Derby £5OO besides the site.
BISHOPRIC OF NORWICH. - Friday's Gazette con-
tains an order in Council directing that from and after the
next avoidance of the See of Norwich, the Bishop suc-
ceeding thereto shall pay to the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners £5OO a year ; it appearing from a new return that
the income of the See exceeds the average annual income
of £4,500, determined by the Commissioners to be " suit-
able to the circumstances thereof." The same order abo-
lishes
_certain peculiar and exempt jurisdictions in the

same diocese.

LAZE BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN.-At a meeting
at Derby, for the purpose of determining the character
of a memorial to the late lamented Bishop Shirley, and
at which the Lord Bishop of Lichfield presided, it was
unanimously resolved, " that a church for the district of
St. Paul's, Derby, would at once be an appropriate ex-
pression of the general feeling, and an instrument of com-
mon and enduring benefit." It was, accordingly, agreed
to erect a church, capable of containing, at least, 600
persons, with a tablet commemorative of the circum-
stances under which it was built. A subscription was im-
mediately opened, and upwards of £l,2oocollected,

MANCHESTER BISHOPRIC.—The principle of this bill
has been affirmed by the lords, and will no doubt soon
become law. The appointment will be made immediately
after the passing of the bill, the endowment at present to
be £.3000, but which is shortly to be advanced to X4OOO
per annum. The population within the new see was, ac-
cording to the last census (now, of course, considerably
increased), 1,123,000, and the area comprised 1220 square
miles. The bishop appointed is not to have a seat in the
House of Lords, neither is any future junior bishop, un-
less his appointment should-be made to Canterbury, York,
London, Durham, or Winchester, which sees are always
to br represented in the lords. The bill also contemplates
the erection of a new archdeaconry of Liverpool to be an-
nexed to the see of Chester.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, MONDAY

THE CONSPIRACY CASE AT NEWTON
(Sittings in Banco.) _

THE QUEEN V. SELSIi-Y AND OTHERS.—This was a
proceeding against the defendant and persons of the names
of Quarrey, Cheeseman, (who is since dead,) Bowman,
Firth, Dawson, Wilson, and others, for conspiring to inti-
midate, by threats and other means, persons employed in
the manufactory of Messrs. Jones and Potts, engineers,
of Liverpool, from pursuing their lawful avocation. It
appeared that the defendants, who were employed by
Messrs. Jones, were dissatisfied because they employed
inexperienced hands to perform the work of journeymen
at reduced rates. Several of the journeymen struck in
consequence, and the defendants were appointed a picquet
to prevent the contented workmen from pursuing their
labour. The case was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe, at
Liverpool. The indictment on which they were arraigned
contained upwards of twenty counts, and the jury found
them guilty on the whole of them. The defendants now
appeared on the floor of the court, and the Attorney-Ge-
neral prayed judgment against them.—Mr. Knowles, who
appeared for Selsby and Quarrey, moved for an arrest of
judgment and a new trial, on the ground that the verdict
was against evidence, as it was given on the whole of the
counts, which were inconsistent the one with the other.—
Mr. aines and Mr. Watson made similar motions on
behalf of the other defendants.—Lord Denman deferred
the de.cision of the court until the learned judges had had
had an opportunity of consulting Mr. Baron Rolfe.