The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

THE OATH OF SUPREMACY.

(From the Standard)
A case of great delicacy and of no less importance is
likely to offer itself at the assembling of Parliament.
More than one or two noble lords have expressed their
doubts as to the safety of taking the oath of supremacy'
in the actual state of the law as illustrated by the practice
of the executive. By the oath of supremacy, Protestant
peers and Protestant members of the House of Commons
are required to swear that " the Pope bath no powerr,
authority, jurisdiction or superiority, ecclesiastical or
spiritual, within these realms." This oath must be swore
by every Protestant peer and member of the House of
Commons, and, being Protestants, they will of course
swear (as by law they are required to do) " according to
the common meaning and acceptation of the words without
equivocation or mental reservation." Now the question
is, can any Protestant unequivocally deny upon his oath
that the Pope " has any power, authority, or jurisdiction
within this realm ?" While the power of the Pope and
his delegates was exercised in' defiance of law and in COw
tempt of the authority of the crown, men taking the oath
might satisfy their consciences by the consideration, that
what is not done lawfully may be regarded as not donee
and even this was a plea approaching to casuistry : ban
how can any one solemnly swear that the Pope hat I.
power, authority, or superiority in this realm when "-
law recognises his ecclesiastical appointments and the e 5.
ecutive admits his titles of nobility ? In the Act con'
monly called the Charitable Bequests Act, 7 and 8 Vie'
chap. 97, sections 15, 17, and 18, recognise archbishops
and bishops in holy orders of the Church of Rome, 65
such; sec. 2 of the same Act empowers the Queen in
council to appoint ten commissioners.
This power the Queen exercises by appointing, under
her sign manual, among others Archbishop Murray.
as such archbishop (which is plainly an recognition of the
Pope's authority), and places this Archbishop Murray is
order of precedence above the Earl of Donoughtilorf'
plain recognition of the Pope's superiority. But this d
not a mere barren concession, which might be regs%.
as a slip in the copyist of the instrument bearing her
_± his
jesty's sign manual, for the Earl of Clarendon exc,abge'he-
addressing the Romanist bishops as "My Lords,' givenY
terms of the Act referred to, and by the precedence lOf
to an archbishop of the Pope's creation before an ear
the creation of the sovereigns of these countries.
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The activity, as well as the existence of the " tee oi
authority, or jurisdiction, and superiority" of the •-•
Rome "in this realm," is further illustrated by the late
triumph given to Mr. Archbishop M'Hale in the matter
of the provincial colleges. By the• Pope's command, sug—
gested by M'llale, Dr. Murray has been compelled t:
withdraw from his seat at the Education Board. No
what conscientious man, with these facts before him, can
safely swear that the Pope has no power, authority, juris-
sealonr ourselves, that we
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Commons have been for some time meditating upon
difficulty with painful anxiety.
ARCTIC EXPEDITION OF DR. RAE.

(From the Guardian.)
Whoever will take the trouble to cast his eye over ITT_
modern map of North America, will see the line of toc_.
northern coast distinctly marked out from Behring
Strait eastward, to nearly the 90th meridian of west lon-
gitude. Here the line will begin to fail him. The con:
tinuous margin sinks away into broken indications.
peninsula, abutting from a blank, a coast line abruptly
ceasing, a few traces here and there, at first in hesitating
intervals, and finally breaking up into a dotted line, serve
to show that we have passed the boundaries of certaint9;
and are once more in the regions of the unknown an
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imaginative—the Hyperboreaus of modern geographY:
These are the last strongholds of Fancy, the utinosl
fortalices of her invaded territory. Cold, bleak, desolate,
and tenantless, they form no inapt emblem of her position
in this fact-seeking and investigating age. And even
these dreary realms are grudged to her sway; inch 1)1
inch, before the slow though certain advance of her elle'
mies, she has been driven further within the polar circle..
Thirty years ago, no map could have presented the coat
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line of which we have already spoken between Behring
Straits and the Committee Islands—a line of many hun-
dred miles. There was, indeed, a vague rumour of the
existence of a polar sea and a northern coast. Cooke had
gazed into it through Behring's Straits; Hearne and
Mackenzie had cherished a hesitating hope that it was
indeed the sea which had formed the northern boundary'
of their travels. All, however, was yet misty and roman-
tic. But, in 1817, the report of a great movement in the
ice which blocked the eastern coast of Greenland once
more set on foot the long-cherished but long-neglected
idea of a north-west passage to the Pacific. Ross, Parry,
Franklin, soon became names little inferior in notorietf
to Baffin, Davis, and Hudson. Before the close of 10
the long line of northern coast, as far eastward as the
Castor and Pollux river, and Dease and Simpson's fur'
thest point, had become the legitimate property of ota
Atlas.
Further to the east, however, all was yet uncertain'An interval of about 10 degrees still separated the twoboundariet of the known world. Successive expeditionS
had thrown a shadowy light over this interval. Large,
tracts of land were known to exist north of the genet's)
direction of the coast line ; but whether these formed °
peninsula, connected by some narrow isthmus with the
main land, or whether they constituted some vast island'
or collection of islands—the Australia and Oceania of the
northern hemisphere—was a point still open to the die'
cussion of theorists and the discovery of navigators. Thst:
point has been for ever closed by Dr. Rae's report. 131
a laborious coasting journey, he has placed it beyond e
doubt, that Boothia Felix, and consequently North So;
merset, and therefore probably the land over against
Melville Island, compose a vast continent, connect&
with the main land of North America by a narrow neck
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of land, much in the same way as that continent is itself
connected with its southern complement.
A glance at the map will show the importance of this
discovery. It closes one possible channel of the north'
west passage. Two entrances seemed to lie open to th'e
Polar Seas. Davis' Strait conducted through Bainni
Bay into Lancaster Sound and Barrow's Strait ;
thence along Parry's first route to Melville Islam]. There,
however, the sea had been found apparently impractica'
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whether entered from Barrow's Strait, through Prince
Regent's Inlet, or by the more direct though more ditty
gerous straits of Hudson, and the Fury and Hecla.
wguine minds could not but hope for an open sea connect'
ing this gulf with the strait discovered by Simpson 933(
Dense, in 1839, and bearing their name. Dr. Rae ha
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shown that no such sea exists ; that the gulf and the
strait are separated by a barrier of solid land.
Such is the general issue of his expedition. Its detail:
are as yet scarcely discernible in his brief report. In if
we can see little more than that the usual hardships t_)l
the northern discoverer were encountered with the usu°'
manfulness, and vanquished by the usual perseveranef:
Nothing, however, of the terrible sufferings of Captain
Franklin's expeditions meets our eye. Through the
provident care and constant watchfulness of their princ":„
pal, the party, though often on short allowance, apPe.°:
seldom to have been actually in distress for food. This'
indeed, is sufficiently evinced by the fact that they re'
turned to Fort Churchill with eight bags of pemmican'
and four hundredweight of flour still remaining.
The toil and delay of a long voyage round Alelvilic,
Peninsula, and through the Fury and Hecla Strait, we;
avoided by the classical expedient of dragging the boo',
across the isthmus from the innermost cove of Repelsvt
Bay. The whole distance was forty miles, but for abo°
thirty-five of these their labour was lightened by a survG
cession of lakes and rivers, which enabled them to 11_„°'
the boats. The arctic sea thus attained, Dr. Rae 13P;'ii
ceeded to explore first westwards, and then eastwards,
he had succeeded in tracing the whole line of coast vi-lete
connects Boothia Felix with the southern shore of the
Fury and Hecla Straits. The whole time employed '1,4
something more than a year. The expedition left F°6
Churchill, in Hudson's Bay, on. the sth of July, it"
and returned on the 6th of September, 18-17.

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The old Irish woman who as we stated last week had
been committed for begging with £l6 in her possession,
had received £5 Bs. for parish relief.
On the sth of November, Henry Woodward, a boy of
fifteen, was so much injured by the accidental explosion
of fireworks in the pocket of his trousers, that he died on
Sunday.
In the case of the young man killed by the explosion of
a cannon, thrown into a bonfire on the sth instant, in
•Toxteth-park, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of
feloniously killed by some person unknown."
deputation of West India merchants from Dublin,
Liverpool, Glasgow, Bristol, Leith, Edinburgh, and Tri-
-nidad, had an interview with Lord John Russell on Satur-
day. Mr. Shand and Mr. Sandbach were the representa-
tives far this town.
Miss Keale, an excellent local pianiste, gives a grand
concert this (Tuesday) evening. She has engaged the
very valuable services of Miss Emily Grant, Mr. G.
Weiss, and Signor Regondi, whose performance on the
guitar and concertina have excited much applause.
CHILD DESERTED.—On Tuesday a child, about a fort-
hight old, was found by a man lying in a field, near
onfithdown-lane. It was taken to West Derby Work-
house, from whence it was ascertained the mother, named
Finnigan, had absconded the day before.
, Mr. Benwell, the comedian and the poet laureate of the
censed victuallers, takes his farewell benefit, at the
tiTheatre Royal, on Friday. He has been before the Li-
verpool public as an actor for above a quarter of a century,
and has contributed much to public amusement.
DEATH FROM SCALDING.—On Tuesday fortnight an
Mfant, fourteen months old, named Peter Davies, who
'lived with his parents at 4, Lower Harrington-street, was
scalded by some hot broth, which he pulled over while
`Playing about, from the effects of which he died on
Friday.
DEATH BY FRACTURING A LIMB.—An inquest was
'held before Mr. Curry on Saturday, on view of the body
of John Rae, aged 57. On the 15th ultimo he fell at the
bottom of Brownlow-street, and broke his leg, He was
'taken to the Infirmary, where he died from the fracture
on Friday.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday morning, a man named
James Duncan, a stone-mason, employed at the new
'erections of Lime-street Railway Station, fell from the
tap of one of the new buildings, whilst he was assisting in
landing a stone cornice, and fractured his skull so severely
-that he died whilst being conveyed to the Northern Hos-
Pital.
DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION.—On Friday morning,
Pie Constable J. Chippendale, No. 101, whilst on duty
,ear Boundary-street, Kirkdale, found a man lying quite
dead upon a brick-kiln. There is no doubt but that he
had been there to sleep, and had been suffocated by the
smoke from the kiln. We believe that he was a native
of North America, and had been in distressed circum-
stances.
OUTRAGEOUS STREET ROBBERIES.—About 8 o'clock,
°II Sunday night week, Ellen Williams, servant to Mr.
Beauchamp, of Bootle, whilst on her way home from
Liverpool, was stopped by two men who knocked her
down, and robbed her of 9d., and a shawl pin. About 104
o'clock, on Monday night, Mr. William Price, of. King-
Street, Kirkdale, was stopped by four men in Boundary-
street, who demanded his money, but assistance being at
°and, they made off and escaped.
The annual grand concert of Miss Whitnall to-morrow
• evening will no doubt be numerously attended. The
talent of Mrs. Wood, the first of English singers, and the
Purity of tone and easy execution of the Messrs. Distin,
tile celebrated horn players will secure a full house, es-
liecially as Miss Whitnall and other good vocalists will
also appear. It will be seen that Miss Whitnall does
not intend to have stalls this year, but that the public
Will be admitted to the pit at half-a-crown each.
In our advertising columns to-day will be found a re-
Port signed by Mr. Ambrose Lace and Mr. John North,
In reference to an affair which, we understand, has pro-
'liked much excitement in the neigbourhood of Egremont
and New Brighton. We have great pleasure in referring
this document, which, it will be perceived, is completely
e,zeulpatory of Mr. Rowson, a gentleman whose high
character and respectability place him fat above the
lightest suspicion of intentionally violating the rules of
Justice or the courtesies of society.
ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT FROM DRUNKENNESS.—
AnotherA instance of death—the result of accident arising
out of drunkenness—occurred on Thursday night, at the
Northern Hospital. It appears that about a month ago a
'man named John Rae, aged 57 years, a joiner, living in
• Scotland-road, whilst in a state of intoxication, was stag-
lering along Commutation-row, when he slipped off the
-curb-stone, and broke his leg. He was taken to the Nor-
thern Hospital, where he continued under surgical treat-
ment ever since. A few days ago mortification took place,
and he died on Thursday night.
SUICIDE UNDER DERANGEMENT.—An inquest was held
on Saturday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of
Elizabeth Ward, a widow, who lodged in Denison-street.
.910 n Friday afternoon deceased was found, by a female, in
er room, in a standing position, by the bed-post. Wit-
nessh shook her, and asked her to go to bed, but got no
reply.witn;sB,Ohen this being stated to the stepfather of the last
hang-
ing to the bedpost up
stairs, and found the deceased hang-
xost by a silk pocket handkjeurlcyhilaefs.t,aSernebinde. was dead.
Deceasedin lost her husband
in
asoundstaroocfmmind.
LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL It
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finally arranged that the Liverpool and Manchester
,cultural Societies unite, that the society be designated
" The Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural ocieti '''
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and that its operations extend to the whole of South
Lan-
cashire and North Cheshire, and all such other partsas‘ -are within thirty miles (in a direct line) of Newton-in-
"the-Willows. That the Earl of Derby and Wilbraham
Egerton, Esq., be requested to A.ct as joint patrons. That
the members of both committees form a committeefortnhe
Present year, and that the first annual meeting and show
of cattle be held in Manchester, and the second in Live!!!
1/POl. A meeting of the united societies will be held on
the 18th instant, at Newton, to arrange the rules, and
'adopt such measures as may be necessary for carrying out
the amalgamation of the two societies.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—In consequence of the eleva-
ilon of four gentlemen from the Council to be aldermen,
there are vacancies in the following wards :—Castle-street,
Rodney-street, Great George, and Abercromby. For
'Castle-street Mr. George Holt has been brought forward
to succeed Mr. John Holmes, and will most likely be re-
'„,turned without opposition. For Rodney-street Mr. Geo.
Booker, a highly respectable and most intelligent gentle-
man, has announced himself a candidate, and the Radicals
have announced their intention of proposing Mr. Lewin
111 opposition to him. Mr. J. Rogers, a worthy trades-
rnan, is in the field for Great George Ward, and is opposed
the Council board long since, and we hope now to see
hint there. For Abercromby Ward Mr. R. Cardwell
Gardner is the conservative candidate, but it will be per-
ceived from an advertisement, that Mr. Robertson Glad-
atone will be also brought forward.
COLLISION BETWEEN THE QUEEN VICTORIA STEAMER
,AND THE ISAAC ALLERTON.—On Wednesday morning
last, an alarming collision took place between the Queen
Victoria, Dublin steamer, and the ship Isaac Allerton,
from New Orleans. The Queen Victoria left the Clarence
Dock shortly after ten o'clock on Tuesday night last for
Dublin, having 12 cabin and 186 deck passengers on board.
kbout half-past four the following morning, when near
the Skerries, (Dublin and Howth coast), a vessel (after-
Wards ascertained to be the Isaac Allerton) was seen at a
short distance. The weather was at that time clear, and
signal lights were shown on board the Queen Victoria, to
Indicate
seeing
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atnhde steamerfe.
of a coilnlisaiofne)v; cmalLe6d,:tocustirioeuarogr
there was a possibility
five times, " Hard a port."
of the sailing struck the steamer on the larboard paddle-
box)w with terrific force, producing a shock which spread
the utmost consternation and alarm amongst the passen-
gers and crew. The starboard anchor of the ship became
hooked into the steamer's paddle-wheel, and the vessel
was held fast for some time. In the confusion some of
the steamer's passengers got on board the ship, thinking,
they would there be in greater safety. Both vessels
.
Lnumped together for some time, but at length were dis-
entangled. The steamer's engines were so injured that
they did not work ; she did not, however, leak. One of
the paddle-boxes and part of the frame-work, &c., were
smashed, and the principal engineer injured, but not
seriously, by a wound on the scalp. The Isaac Allerton
blade for port immediately, and arrived here on Wednes-
t' y evening. She brought 20 of the steamer's passengers.
The lost her jib-boon, cutwater, and part of her rigging.
e steamer arrived here on Thursday morning in tow of
a tug-boat. Some exaggerated accounts of the accident
vvere given out ; but there is no reason to believe that a
Single life was lost.
, It will be seen that Mr. Williams, of Ranelagh-street,
oas on sale a delightful estate, and one of the most splen-
did mansions near Liverpool, at Allerton.
PRESTON'S CELEBRATED WREXHAM GINGERBREAD.
have been favoured with a sample of this delicious
roorceau ; and we can predict that its exquisite flavour
Will soon render it an indispensable part of the desert ta-
ble. The advertisement announces from whom it may be
'obtained, and the vendors are the sole proprietors of the
original receipt.