The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

A FEMALE SAILOR,

At the Thames Police office in London, on Monday,
Mr. Alexander Hood, the master of the collier brig Per-
cival, lying in the river, came before Mr. Ballantine, and
stated that one of the apprentices, who was bound at
Newcastle, on the 4'h instant, in the name of William
Juhns, turned out to he a female, and he wanted to know
what was to be done with her, whether he would be jus-
tified in cancelling the indentures ?
Mr. B.llantine said the Register Office for Seamen was
the proper place to apply for that purpose. If the appren-
tice was a Woman the contract was no longer binding.
Did she do any duty on board ?

Mr. Hood.—Yes, sir; quite a smart lad, we thought
her—l mean him—that is, the female. She went up
aloft, reefed sails, arid did all the duties required of her.

Mr. Ballantine.—flow old is this female sailor?
Mr. Hood.--She said she was sixteen when she was
bound, but she his since told try wife, who was on board
all the passage, that she is twenty.

Mr. Ballantine.—And when did you discover that
your apprentice was a w. man ?
Mr. Hood.—Not till Saturday. My wife has since
taken off her sailor's jacket and trousers, and put her on
female wearing apparel. She is c. mpletely metamor-
phosed. I brought her ashore to-day, and left her at ts
respectable coffee-hou,e.

Ball,intine.—Well, I can't help you. Yon can
either take back this woman, who has been personating a
sailor, or leave her here.

SPREAD OF POPERY.

The subjoined paper has been prepared by the Rev. J.
R. CliTtrd, of Bristol. We are glad to infer from its be-
being marked No. I , that it is the first of a s-rtes.

" Fifty year., since there were only thirty Popish cha-
pels in Great Bs itAin: There are now 602 public chapels,
ten colleges, thirty-four convents, six monasteries, 776
missionary priests, besides many private chapels.—Catho-
lic Directory fur 1846.
"Toe Catholic Institute was established A.D. 1838;
its avowed object is the conversion of Great Britain to
Popery ; in order to render it more effectual, it was re-
cognized in April. 1845.—Catholic Directory for 1846.
" While the Catholic states of Europe have seen com-
pelled in self-defence to enforce the laws against the Je-
suits, the statutes hitherto in force against them in En-
gland are to be repealed. We may therefore expect that
their increase will be tenfold.

" It has been deliberately announced, that the Romish
priests are to be endowed by the State, so soon as the
public mind has been prepared for such an even,.
" Within the last few years, the Tractarian heresy has
drawn into the Church of Rome upwards of 100 members
of the Church of England, many of whom are clergymen.
and nearly all persons of considerable worldly intelligence.
This tact di-proves the assertion that in this enlightened
day we have nothing to fear from Popery.
" When, several years ago, the voice of warning was
raised against the tendency of Tractarianism, it was de-
cried as a needless alarm, and the parties who gave the
warning were denounced as mountebanks. Lamentable
facia have since proved who were right and who were

wrong.

•• Many of the clergymen of the Church of England
speak of the Romish Church and her priests in terms of
strong commendation. The result is the deadening of all
perception as to the essential difference between Protes-
tant truth arid Romish error.

"Notwithstanding the above facts. the most perfect
apathy prevails on the subject amongst Protestants."

STATE (IF TRA DI

MANCRRSTER•—The arrivals from the United States, which
reached us dint c the past week, are still occupied with notices
at the stater f the cotton crops, and the usual intelligence about
" the insec ," and the rd. a." ibis has had some influence at
Liverpool many of the spinners taking .right, and purchasing
Nreely. whereby the market has been driven up some id per
lb since our last We did not think, after the bitter experience

rue last ten years have read to our manufacturers, that the bait
would have taken so readily. Certain we are. that the state of
the market, arid of demand, will not bear such an advance in
the price or the raw material. There has been grvt activity in
Liver poo'. bu• there has not been the same degree of animation
in our riwir market; and, in point of fact, the state of aff irs
altogether is nearly a repetition of that which we reported last
week. For the same reason that we then mentioned, we abstain
from preten in 4 to quote the closing prices of our market.

HocnpALE.—The demand for Flannels has not been so good
s it was on the previous Monday whillprices have been much
The Wool market has been rather still, and the bust-
ransacted limited.

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