The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

"But, as Protestants, and on behalf, not only of the
members of our own Church, but of multitudes who, while
holding the same faith, are separated from her by differ-
..

ences on non-essential questions, we on.
scheme or proposition for connecting the Romig
hood with the State, whether by a spoliation of t
blished Church, or by means of funds derived from the
national treasury. _ _

h priest-

" From your lordship's support of Lord Ellesmere's
motion, and of the Maynooth endowment of 1845, we
gather, that you are prepared to establish the Romish
priests in Ireland, either by hanfling over to them a por-
tion of the property of the Established Church,--or, if this
course shall present difficulties, or the funds
_so attainable

shall prove inadequate, then to supply the deficiency ou
of the general taxation of Ireland, Scotland, and England
It cannot be necessary to prove, that to provide any ade•

quate endowment for the 2000 priests of Ireland, a very
considerable annual payment would be required out of the
national exchequer. _ _

large "part of"lrela'rid; the most determined opposition.
With the Bible in their handa, it is impossible for them
to regard Popery in any other light than as dishonouring
to God and dangerous to the souls of men. Hence they
would regard its national adoption as an act, not only
morally wrong and indefensible, but partaking of the cha-
racter of a national sin. , _ _

On such awful topics we desire to speak with caution
as well as charity. But we dare not close our eyes to the
tremendous fact that a visitation of the most fearful kind
has recently been sent upon the empire, and that its com-
t I mencement was seen to take place at the very time when,

he very p

encouragement of Popery had just been given.- except
among men who do not even profess a belief in the Scrip-
tures,, and who consequently deride the idea of a superin-
tending Providence, it might have been expected that the

strange proximity of the act of 1845 and the judgment oi
1845, 1846, and 1847, would at least have given rise to a
degree of doubt and hesitation ; though, beyond this feel-
;Tier of doubt-and hesitation, we refrain from any expres-

sign of sentiment.
" Knowing that your lordship is not of the class to
which we have alluded, we regret to find.that your opinions
in 1827 and 1845 have undergone no change. But we can
assure your lordship, that the various feelings which we

grees, by so many of the electors of Middlesex as to ren-
der it more than doubtful, whether the relation into which

your lordship purposes to enter, can, under these circum-

obedient and very humble servant,

HENRY HOARE

" The Lord Robert Grosvenor, &c

@tntral ;frlisztllant).

The university of Oxford has granted £5OO for the
Scotch and Irish.
Upwards of £12,000 worth of grain left Ramsey har-
bour (Isle of Man), on Thursday.
The amount subscribed at Hull for the Irish is upwards

of £BOOO.
The Bishop of Ely, says a London paper, has purchased
for a few shillings, an old dirty picture, which turns out

le a genuine

Court, DUTY FREE.—The fii,sf entry of foreign wheat,
under the new act, suspending the 4s. duty, was passed at
the Hull Custom-house, on Wednesday, when 720 qrs.
from St. Petersburg, were admitted duty free.
Miss Matilda Brew, aged twenty-six, daughter of Major
Brew, has been committed for trial on three charges of
obtaining goods from tradesmen in Uxbridge under false
pretences. - She is held to bail-L. _ _ • _

OPENING OP THE PORTS.—The locks have been taken
off the bonded warehouses in this port during the present
week, but there was not much grain to release. The ex-
ports from Gloucester to Ireland are now very considera-
ble ; and the purchases of grain here for that destination
—some say on behalfof government—daily become larger.
Gloucester Chronicle.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND HIS LABOURERS.—During
the past week Sir Robert Peel has directed that the wages
of the labourers employed on his estate be augmented
from twelve to fifteen shillings per week. This generous
step on the part of the right hon. baronet has, we believe,
been taken in- consequence of the present dearness and
scarcity of food.
The Rev. Disney Robinson, who was found guilty of a
libel upon- a Mrs. Jane Barker, at the last Gloucester
Assizes, was brought up for judgement in the Court of
Queen's Bench, on Monday. The rev. gentleman made
an apology, and promised _to pay £5O towards the ex-
penses, which conditions were accepted on the part of the
plaintiff, and the proceedings ended.
A meeting of agricultural labourers was held on Tues-
day, at Bicester, Oxon, for the purpose of considering the
distress which they experience from the lowness of wages
and the high prices of provisions. In the course of the
proceedings, it was stated that the highest wages received
by any of them did not exceed 9s. a week, and that many
labourers did not earn more than 4s. a week.

In a paper read at the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic
Society, Mr. Gutzlaff says that the mass of the Chinese
people know nothing of the politics of their country, and
are scarcely aware that they are governed by a prince of
foreign descent. Mr. Gutzlaff never heard of any denim-
ciations against the Tartars, except amongst the literati
and a few bigotted Chinese.
On Wednesday week, as some parties were engaged
turning a vessel in the river idle, close to the wharf at
Bawtry, they brought to the surface a piece of sacking,
which on examination was found to contain the body of a
male child, apparently full grown. To the sacking was
tied a brick, and the body had the appearance of having
been immersed for about a week. .
"

.... -
John Richards, a poor man of Gellyhave, has perished
on the mountains between that place and Merthyr Tyd-
vil. He'went to Merthyr to obtain medicine for his sick
wife ; he was asthmatical, and it is supposed that the ex-
ertion of ascending the mountain in haste had so over-

ground, where he perished of the cold. His body was not
discovered for some days, when hundreds of colliers gene-
rously left their work to seek for the missing man.
The lady of the late Dr. Southey has written a letter to.
the Athenceue, in which she accuses Mr. Howitt of wil-
fully calumniating her husband, because she had refused

to furnish him with information relative to the doctor's
habits and familiar scenes. Mr. Howitt, in reply, says
that Mrs. Southey has formed her opinion of his work
from a review in the Athenaeum, which is not favourable
to her husband ; but that he has not said one word de-

rogatory to his (Mr. S.'s) character.
A few days ago, a number of people had assembled at
North Maving, Shetland, to the funeral of a woman.

of the hOUse, and had prevented the free running of a
brook at the back of the barn; but the water suddenly

which fell in, smothering the deceased's so.n,.whose father

alive, only survived twenty-four hours.
WRECK OF THE SIRIUS.—An inquest was held on Tues-
day on the bodies of two men that had been washed on
~., 4.1.

ie Irish

Ae on t

numoer of lives 10!L WO, liaLccax. -
coast behaved well, in endeavouring to save fives am:

perty. It appeared also, from the general tenor or rue
evidence, that the captain, mate, and crew conducted
thp.,..pives in a cool and proper manner, and that the fog
,ster. The verdict was, " Found

was the cause of -the di

drowned."
The. Dundee papers relate a sad and fatal accident with
nantla lama. The three children of a shoemaker in the

3d were

p. when a

and they were all invOlv.ed in fl.

father immediately ran to their assistance, and succeeded
in extinguishing the fire ; but one of the children, seven
f age, died next day, and another was scarcely ex-

who was at the time confined to bed from disease, and
was a horrified spectator of the desolation caused by the
explosion, has since died.
A food riot took place in Aberdeen on Friday week. The

rying with them a black 11;g, and after moving certain

them that shipments of grain would in the mean time oe
suspended. Throughout the day there was much excite-
..,o.,4. constables were sworn in. Towards

windows broken, and
with stones; but the latter having made
a sally, about fifty men, " and a great number of women,"
were secured, which ultimately led to peace.
EXTENSIVE THEFT.--On Friday, about eleven o'clock,
a young man, clerk in an extensive commission house, in
St. Vincent-place, drew from the Union Bank the sum of
£l2OO for his employers, which was received in £2O notes

ening a

_
to the amount of £6OO, and in £5 notes to the amount of
£6OO. Having occasion to do business at the Com-
mercial Bank, a few yards distant, he put the money in
the outside pocket of his Taglioni, but he had scarcely
been a minute in the Commercial when he found that the
his pocket on entering the door
...ft is inpposed to I

money which he felt in

had been abstractec

done by a well-dress&
young man entered it.-
MALT AND SUGAR.

lug been
fellow who left the banlas the
Glasgow Constitutional,
-A- correspondent of_ the Times
the result of an experiment he

:ive produces o

brewing, ascertained exactly by the saccharometer—one
hundred and forty pounds of Jamaica sugar to one quarter
of malt. Malt cost £4 3s, ; sugar £2 18s. 6d. ; £1 4s. 6d.
being the difference in favour of sugar at the present

_ .
0
price of both articles: The sugar produced about half a
pound gravity per barrel more than the malt, which was
of good quality. Malt, therefore, to come into competi-
capar. ouzht not to ha mnr,. fhn. sgs. per

quarter. At any much higher price the use of sugar in
brewing is certain ; and a most splendid article of ale can
he made from it, using half suynr i..ic "

THE PREVAILING SCARCITY

I an
—We are informed, says
1..0 received the

as many of
patronage our r eader so
fdr
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batililteya.st oAf asilmariglaernvuotlnubnetraroyf
utnhdeehrtigalikienstgr:ansk,s in our no-
which prevailed at
e royalty,aw ar
e aware,
-d
the beginning of the present century. ~ We, the under-
signed,. deeply impressed with the distress which prevails
amone a m... - mimhpr of .our fellow-countrymen in Great
uvreir4 gtehnee rdaelalyrthadopted, under the

a great, 1111111UVI V.,. ---
Britain and Ireland, from the want of necessary subsis-
tence, and observing that the prices of food are rising,
think it our duty to pledge ourselves to reduce in
ntio our fa-
, —..n,ticable, the consumn of

bread and flour, and
mines, as far as may be prau'''-'"--' ---- ---"...t,L.,,- -•
ire,'write the co-operation of allthost
_._ tn Aoperation 44. rs 1,67,-.9.11t

ho may concur wit

emergency-"
ENTIRE, DisAFFVAHANCE OF Tme LIGHT OF -ALL ICA-
- yew.), cralpQ hn‘r. Qvzont away all that

Feb. 2, 1841.

How To SAVE THE Foon.—lt has been calculated that
the people might produce for themselves five million qrs.
of wheat betiZre next harvest, simply by eating brown
bread: It is well known that out of 112 lbs. of wheat;
28 lbs. are taken in the shape of brans and coarse flour.
Now, if the brans only were taken out, which would in ne
case exceed 7 Ibs., there, would be left 104 lbs. of nutri-
tious, flour—more who': some and more digestible, as every
man can testify, than the fine flour now used ; so that, as
104 exceeds by one-fourth, twenty million quarters (which.
is believed to be about our consumption) would, if dressed
thisway, produce as much flour as twenty-five millions.—
Salisbury Journal.
THE POTATO DISEASE OF 1847.—Mr. James Barnes,
of Bicton, Sidmouth, in a letter to the Gardener's Chro-
nicle, expresses his " fears that the disease will be emir
more serious this year than the last, having observed the'
old enemy lurking about to a greater extent than has
hitherto been known." He cannot see any prOspect of a
crop from either spring or late planted tubers. A similar
disease, he states, has attacked the Jerusalem Artiehokes.
The Cork Reporter says that a gentleman residing is the
neighbourhood of Kinsale planted in a hotbed aboutthree
months since, a quantity of potatoes of the quarry kind,'
and on examining the produce, a few days ago, which,. by
the forced growth, had far advanced to maturity, he found'
them black and diseased. The gardener of the Speaker'
of the House of Commons says that he has discovered
disease in the forced new potatoes.

POPERY.—The Tablet of last week contains the follow-
ing :—" The Blessed Sacrament carried in the streets for'
the first time since the Reformation. Progress of the
Rev. Hardinge Ivers's mission at Kentish-town." The
fact thus paraded, is stated in the following terms ; the
signature of Miles Gerald Keon being affixed to the com-
munication :—" It is only the other day that—for the first
time, perhaps, in England since the Reformation—the
Holy Eucharist was carried through the streets of a Lon-
don suburb, with the lights blazing, and in full procession,
to visit the death-bed of a faithftll departing. The sen-
sation created among the Protestants in the neighbour-
hood is indescribable. With recollected looks, the women
bowed and the men took off their hats, as they beheld,
for the first time, with what awful and profound venera-
tion Holy Church surrounds the Adorable Sacrament."
SEIZURE OF THE " BLACK CAT" SCHOONER.—A sei-
zure was made last night week in the River Thames, near
to Limehouse-hole, where a nearly new vessel, called the
Black Cat, Capt. J. Davies, had been for some days re-
ceiving her cargo, the greatest activity being manifested
on the part of the shippers to get their freight on board.
About ten o'clock, Mr. Davies, detective officer, went
dawn to Limehouse, with assistance boarded the vessel,
and found several cases containing muskets and bayonets.
Upon turning to the,entries outwards at the Custom-
- .

Davies, had been entered as being destined fArGibraltar,
hut her real destination'was Portugal,- for which. country
the crew bad been engaged. The vessel.wasintended, on
the following morning, at four o'clock, to be towed by
steam-vessel down to Erith, where nearly 4,000-b&rrels of
gunpowder were ready to be shipped.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The programme of then
arrangements for this season has just been issued. The
operatic company before Easter consists of Mesdames Cas-
tellon, Sanchioli, and Montenegro—the latter a- stranger
here ; Signor Gardoni, from Paris ; Signor Fraschini
(both tenors), and Signor Superchi (baritone), all new tc;
this country ; Signor F. Lablache and as basses, Herr.
Staudigl and Signor Lablache. Jenny Lind, as prime
donna, will appear " immediately after Easter," in Meyer_
beer's " Camp de Silesie," and another of his admired
chefs d'teuvres. Mendelsshon will visit England for the
-..nose of bringing out an opera expressly composed for
'eatre, the libretto by Scribe, to be founded
„Jere's " Tempest," with the following powerful.
Miranda, Madle. Jenny Lind ; Ferdinand gierior