The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-17 00:00:00

POLICE. COURT.-Y- ESTEIVDA.Y.

MONEYED PAUPERS.—A man, having the appearance
of a mechanic, named Thomas Morris, was brought before
Mr. Rushton, charged by an officer of the Workhouse
with having gone to that establishment and requested a
bed for the night,-he representing that he was a stranger
and quite destitute. He was admitted ; but on being
searched (which is a rule of the house in such cases), the
sum of 13s. 6d. was found upon his person. The pri-
soner in his defence stated in fluent and somewhat orato-
rical language that he had come from the south of Ireland
in search of work, which it was difficult to find iu his own
country. He wag a stranger here, and was not aware that
he had committed any offence against the law, by merely
asking for shelter for the night. With respect to the
money he thought it no harm to retain it to pay for hie
support while he searched the town further for a situa-
ation. Mr. Rushton read that part of the poor law which
applies to such cases, and which was to the effect that if
any party applied at a workhouse for any kind of relief,
they must be searched, and if money were found upon
them, it was to be taken and paid over to the Poor-law
Guardians, and the party imprisoned if he represented
himself as pennyless. In this case the prisoner had quite
enough to meet his necessities, and the lavi must take its
course. The money must be paid to the Guardians, and
the offender be sent to gaol for twenty-one days.
SHOP BREAKING.—Two boys, John Waters, and John
Carlton (both of whom had been seven times before corn-
mitted), were charged with having at half-past three yes-
terday morning, broken into. the shop window of a hair-
dresser in Vauxhall-road, and stolen a snuff-box and two
shaving brushes. No one slept on the premises. They,
were committed for trial.

DETAINING MONEY.--A decent-looking man named
Thomas Rushton was charged by his employers. Messrs._
Halsall and Clare, Waterloo-road, with having received
£5 for the payment of wages, which he had detained. It
appeared that one of the partners had given him an order
to draw the money on Saturday night, and told him to re-
turn with it. He did not return. When apprehended
lBs. was found upon him, and it appeared that a con-
siderable part of the whole amount was due to himself,
and that he had got drunk. Prisoner said he never in-
tended to keep the money, and would return it. The
complainants said they did not press the case against him,
and Mr. Rushton discharged him with an admonition.
MINOR OFFENCES. James M'Coy, Patrick Moore,
and James Thompson, were charged by Edward Dwerry-
house with having, on Sunday morning, knocked him
down at the top of London-road, and robbed him of some
small amount in money and an iron tobacco-box. There
was some difference as to the part taken in the offence by
two of the prisoners and the other. The two first-named
were committed for two months, and the other for one
month.—A girl was committed for a month for stosiling
cotton from premises in Stone-street, Great Ho4ard-
street. The complainant said that girls came to steal the
cotton sometimes in gangs of twenty at a time, and that
he had in vain asked the aid of the police. It appeared,
however, that a police patrol was appointed for the streets,
but that the complainant wanted a watchman on his
premises, to be supplied from the force.—Mr. Rushton
said that everything possible was done to suppress this
kind of robbery ; but the main offenders were the re-
ceivers—the marine-store dealers—whom he punished
severely, when they were detected, by imprisonment and
loss of their licenses. He committed the prisoner to gaol
fora month.—Ann Rigg, for robbing a man of 45., one
month.—Margaret Fletcher, for robbing Joseph Fletcher
of a sovereign, in Dickenson-staeet, three months.—
John Parry, stealing a copper funnel at the Brunswick
Dock, three months.

THE LIVER THEATRE.—This little theatre was re-
opened last evening by Madame Warton, whose troupe
have gained so enviable a position in the estimation of the
Liverpool public. As the entertainments were not re-
stricted to the " Poses Plastiques," but comprised a
variety of amusements, an unusual attraction was pre-
sented. A more full notice of the company shall be fur-
nished to our readers on a future occasion.

THEATRE-ROYAL, 1261:11AMSON-SQUARE.—Last even -
ing the first representation of the Italian Opera Company
took place at this theatre. The play was " Norma," and
as far as we can judge from what we have heard, the com-
pany deserves great praise. The prima donna, Signora
Montenegro, has a considerable continental reputation,
and after the first air—" Casta diva "—was rapturously
applauded by the audience. Her voice is still excellent,
and she has a most brilliant execution. We defer further
comment until we have heard IMO et the company,

THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION.

(From a Correspondent.)
The motion of Mr. B. Osborne in the House of Com-
mons last week, for a committee to consider the present
state of the temporalities of the Irish Church, was de-
feated by a majority of 67; and, in the course of the
debate, it was stated that the Irish Church which was
essentially a missionary church had signally failed. We
are inclined to question this statement, although it is
backed by the unimpeachable assertions of a great M.P. ;
for we feel that the slow but sure progress of this church
is one of the best guarantees for its permanent existence.
Those who understand the Irish Church question will
admit that Protestantism has had to contend with endless
difficulties in Ireland ; that it has had to contend against
the cherished bigotry of an ignorant and uninformed
people ; that it has been opposed by the almost despotic
power of an Irish priesthood, which has always pandered
to the prejudices of the populace ; that it has had to
combat with a huge spirit of intolerance, that has waged
war against it to the very knife; that it has had to over-
throw opinions planted in the minds of Irishmen while in
their cradles, and nurtured by them as they have been
nurtured by the milk from their mothers' breast ; that it
has had to enter their hovels as the religion of those whom
they call their Saxon oppressors, and whom they are
taught to hate and abhor with the deepest feelings of
animosity, as well as all that spring from them. We
say that those who know anything of the question
must know these things ; and when they are taken
into consideration, who will have the temerity to
say, that the Irish Church has signally failed. The
churchmen of Ireland comprise one-eighth of its inhabit-
ants, and the adherents to Protestantism in Ireland are
the most loyal, respectable, and best behaved of her citi-
zens. They are an honour to the sister land, and their
enlightened notions and elevated minds, their Christian
affections and philanthropic exertions augur more good to
the poor old country than all the schemes of Catholic
repealers, or all the agitating influences introduced
amongst the priest ridden hordes that bow before the
shrine of the idolized Catholicism.

" Death to the Saxon" is the cry of Popish Ireland,
and death to the Saxon's religion is a principle as cheer-
fully cherished as is the repeal of the union ; yet, against
all this manifested opposition, the Irish church has been
steadily progressing, and has gathered within its pale the
most intelligent and best informed of the Irish people.
We attribute the slow progress of the Irish church to
bigotry and ignorance, and we believe that that church
will yet gain the ascendancy, that the enlightened doctrines
of Protestantism will yet prevail, and that they will fully
develope themselves as the doctrines of religious Ireland,
when the Irish people become more enlightened and
better able to distinguish between truth and error.
We feel as much for poor Ireland as any of our enlight-
ened contemporaries, bat we think the way to benefit her
is not by depriving the church of its temporalities and
crippling its exertions, or by reducing its influence, or the
power it has at command. The more firmly the church
is planted in Ireland the less troublesome will she be—the
more Protestant the people of lieland become, so much
the more will,they be inclined to look upon England as
their friend instead of their foe. If the whole Irish peo-
ple were adherents to the Irish church they would be
better both socially, morally, and politicaily ; for instead
of being taught the doctrine which embodies blood to the
Saxon, they would be taught to respect all men—to be
industrious for their own welfare—and to think as
Christians rather than as savage hordes. If they were all
Protestants they would soon become intelligent, and their
intelligence would mark out for them a new course of
action, creditable alike to themselves and to the civilised
world.

Notwithstanding the foolish nomenclature of Reynolds,
the redoubtable hero of Dublin trickery, or the truckling
of the poor and imbecile Whigs, the Irish church must
be supported. If a blow be given to, that church it will
be felt in England, and will give an impetus to that dis-
graceful agitation which seeks to sever our glorious con-
stitution in church and state. No nation ever existed in
its glory for any length of time without a recognised
religion, as the history of the greatest nations that ever
existed' will prove; and if the unwise step is taken of
destroying either the connection between the state, and
the English and Irish church, we feel that it will be a
blow to England's greatness, and the first step towards
the annihilation of English ascendancy. Let every one
then, who values his country, his home, or his native
land, raise his voice against any wanton interference with
our constitution in church and state.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S LAST. NIGHT.
(BY EXPRESS.)

GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Maid of Iviasham (offered)
10 ~.1 „ Van Diemen
10 „ 1 „ Collingwood
14 „ 1 „ Tophana (taken)
15 „ 1 „ Giselle (taken)
15 „ 1 „ Clermont (taken)
20 „ 1 „ Bacchanalian (taken)
GOODWOOD CUP.
500 to 200 agst Canezou (taken)
4 „ 1 „ The Hero (taken and afterwards Oin
ST. LEGER.
6 to 4 on Flying Dutchman.
DERBY.
1000 to 25 agq Sweetheart
1000 to 30 „ William the Conqueror
40 „ 1 „ Decoy colt.