The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Journal says that a room at the Mercury-office, which was
always kept locked, has been opened by some unauthorised
person, and was found to be crammed full of printed copies
of the Mercury. Our contemporary may easily foist up an
extensive circulation by resorting to such expedients as this.
We have been requested to state, that the family of the late Dr.
Weatherill—who has fallen a victim to fever—are in a state
of great destitution ; and a benevolent gentleman has under-
taken to apply for their relief any money which may be en-
/rusted to him. If any of our readers feel disposed to assist
the object, we will hand their contributions to the gentleman
in question. _ _ .

.A 1 typographical mistakes were made in the excellent

letter ot4Niga," which appeared in the STANDARD last week.
In the second sentence of the second section, (if we may so

call it,) beginning " For your pity," instead of its present
rendering it should be "we will confess you have belied the
-nature of your Church, and allowed your amiability," &c.
Considerably lower down, and near the end of this section,
for " occurred" read " accursed." At the bottom of the
column, instead of " four" read " your ;" and at the begin-

ring of next column the same error is repeated. There
were several other errors which damaged the letter in a
literary point of view, and also one grammatical inaccuracy;
but these did not materially alter the sense.

An Operative Roper" assures us that cordage manufactured
from yarn spun by women is made in this town. He says—

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The hemp is previously
ich mangles, mutilates

pared for them by a machine,
1.1 breaks the hemp short, and

lity. Moreover, the'yaim is spun out'of cans,-which causes
to curl. The fibres of hemp have thus not the same bear-

ing as they have when spiyi by men in the ordinary way.
These facts ought to suffice in giving a decided preference to
band-spun rope, and put insurance companies upon their
guard, as vessels being - -
cause many disasters, inc

ith inferior cordige must

.ng the loss of life and immense

141-27'i; evidently what the world calls a " Philosopher,"
and as he appears somewhat vain of his infidelity and
glories in avowing it, we have no doubt that he passes among
his companions for a clever, highminded man. He must not
be offended, however, when we tell him that he has yet very
much to learn, and were he in a more docile frame of mind
we might endeavour to enlighten him. The question with
which he concludes his letter, betrays anything but a culti-
vated mind and a matured judgment, and leads us to suspect
that our correspondent is lamentably unacquainted with the
first principles of revelation, though he boastfully parades
his acquaintance with theology. When hehas carefully read,
and thoughtfully and honestly studied such works as Paley's
Evidences and Butler's Analogy, he will find, unless we are
grievously mistaken, that the Bible is not the only book
which asserts and proves that infidelity is inseparably con-
nected with folly.

John Bull, fun.;" will find the purport of his communication
given in one of our leading articles, which was written when
we received his letter.

to then

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TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 21, 1847

THE statesmanship of the present day, in push-
ing forward its inroads upon the Constitution, and
its antagonism to those principles which guided our
ancestors in framing that Constitution and build-
ing up and securing the social fabric of this empire,
works commonly by the aid of pretexts. Thus the
failure of the potato crop was the pretext for throw-
ing down the fence of protection, which for years
had stood between the native industry and agricul-
ture of Great Britain and foreign competition ;
and the recent disturbance of the relations between
the States of the Romish Church and Austria is
evidently about to serve as a pretext for a closer
approach, on the part of the Government of this
Protestant country, to Rome, and, as a certain
result, to Romanism. One of the most intelligible
forms of the protest which the nation has main-
tained against the Papacy since the Reformation—
a protest hedged round by the pains and penalties
of a prcemunire levelled against those who should
even propose to tamper with it—is about to be
withdrawn by the establishment of diplomatic rela-
tions with the Roman Court; and a Whig official
—Lord Minto—is already en route to Italy, armed,
no doubt, with the necessary powers to effect that
object. _ _ _ _ - -

It is some acknowledgment of the deeply-rooted
aversion to any traffic with Rome, which exists in

the Protestant mind of the British people, that the
project is set about with all the tortuosity, on the

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part of its authors and advocates, of a college of
Jesuits. His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth, in the
exercise of the political functions of his double
office of a political and spiritual potentate, has de-
parted from the course of his predecessors, by the
profession of a liberal and tolerant spirit. More
astute than they, he sees that the corporeal thral-

lin of his subjects may be relaxed with-out weaken-

ing the spiritual thraldom in which they are held.
Enervated Italy is sufficiently secured to his power
by the priestly influences to which every family
•

amongst its population is subjected. He finds that
a race of fiddlers and singers, lazzaroni and ban-
ditti, a bankrupt and a profligate aristocracy, and
an ignorant and superstitious populace, may be
allowed to waste their breath in vivas to the empty

name of liberty, so long as they are fast held by the
spiritual arm. Austria, however, fears both the
contact and example of such principles; and has
taken a step, perhaps unjustifiable, to protect her-
self from them; and Liberalism throughout Europe
forthwith expends its sympathy in behalf of the wily
power, the liberties of whose people are said to be
invaded. Rome stretches forth her hands as a sup-
pliant for protection and aid ; and the Whig rulers
of Protestant England, instead of boldly standing
forward and, in the name of their Sovereign and
her people, proclaiming to the aggressor their de-
termination that the faith of treaties shall be main-

tained, and the weak protected against the strong,
seizes the pretext offered, for another purpose—for
the purpose of glossing over, by an appeal to our
sympathies in behalf of the oppressed, a further
approach to fraternisation with Popery; for such,
however cunningly attempted to be concealed, is
the recognition of the temporal power of a sove-
reign, whose very title to his throne is based upon
the will of a spiritual confederation.
The utilitarian grounds upon which we are urged
to accredit an ambassador at Rome are thus set

forth, in a most jesuitical article, by the London
Mmes of Wednesday last :

" The truth is, thai' there is hardly a single Court o f
Europe with which it is of greater importance that we
should be in regular and legitimate communication than
this. The Pontifical dominions promise to be the birth-
place of that enlightened and liberal policy which is to re-
trieve the long degradation of the Italian Peninsula, and
which it is the interest of all philanthropists to promote.
Nor is the influence of their sovereign confined to his own
territories. As the spiritual head of a vast number of
British subjects, he exercises a certain controlling power
within these realms which it might indeed be thought very
desirable to transfer to more amenable hands, but which
it is the height of childishness to ignore. The influence,
such as it is, actually exists, not in force sufficient, as ex-
perience has often proved, to be weighed for a moment
against the suggestions of loyalty or patriotism, but with
quite enough in reality to deserve attention. And yet, for
the sake of a statute already condemned by sense and
reason, we have been contented to forego all the benefit
which might be derived from amicable relations with a
sovereign whose voice on certain points would be respect-
fully listened to by some millions of British subjects."

_
We request our readers' attention to the sentence
which we have printed in italics. The Roman
pontiff, our contemporary says, exercises, as the
spiritual head of avast number of British subjects,
a certain controlling power within these realms.
The constitution of England, however, is established
upon the decisively expressed principle that " the
Bishop of Rome has no jurisdiction temporal or
spiritual within this realm of England." And yet
we are recommended to sneak into favour with the
temporal sovereign, that he may be tempted to
exercise his spiritual influence for our advantage
and peace. The Queen of England is to stand
before the world in the character of an humble
suppliant, at the feet of his holiness of Rome, for
permission to wear her imperial diadem in quiet-
-1 The power of a foreign monarch is to be in-
, ked to her aid, whenever her Roman Catholic
subjects are rebellious or unruly ; and the confes-
sion is thus virtually to be made, in contradiction

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proscription of the law but our readers will probably be
of opinion that by the arrangement we now announce, her
Majesty's ministers have contrived rather happily to
escape the dilemma in which the imperative demands of
policy and the inevitable penalties of a prwmunire had
conspired to place them. The. Earl of Minty, who is now
on his road to Turin, will extend his tour to Rome, and,
though not accredited by any official introduction, or in-
vested with any formal representative character, will be
enabled by his presence at the Pontifical Court to facilitate
the circuitous intercourse between two states which have so
sensibly persisted in blocking up the ordinary channels of
a necessary communication. The position and connexions
of his lordship will 1? an immediate and sufficient guaran-
tee of his respnnsibility, and will confer upon him much

of that authority which it is as yet forbidden more directly
to delegate, while his known qualifications for such a
mission supply a complete assurance that the interests and
honour of England will be safe in his hands. In this
way it is expected that Ministers may be enabled to
communicate with a friendly state at a very critical
period of its fortunes, without rendering themselves
liable to the accumulated penalties which our ingenious
ancestors devised for treason. As soon as Parliament
meets THE LETTER OF THE LAW may be brought into
accordance WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE, and, after we
have graciously recognized the political existence of a
, • .

rower which at present commands the earnest and prac-
ti"al sympathies of half the population of the island, Lord
Minto may be boldly invested with a title befitting the
functions he must necessarily discharge."

Mean as Whiggery is, and ever has been of late,
anything so mean as this tortuous course—this
" ha,2py escaping from a dilemma"

member to ha.veheard of in its past history.

—we never re-
What

infinite pains are to be taken to hoodwink a too-easy
people ! How this ambassador, without official
introduction, without any formal representative
character, is to draggle in the mire, into the pre-
sence of the representatives of the Roman Catholic
states of Europe, the degraded majesty of England !
Oh ! it is most rank and offensive.

But it is urged by the Time; that, whilst we
should " lose no time in candidly confessing our
convictions, and openly recording our decision"—
better that this candid confession and open record-
ing should he made before we thus crawled to Rome
on our hands and knees, instead of afterwards—there
is not much "ground for apprehension that the

Court of Rome will be backwarilin meeting overtures
of such a friendly spirit by a reciprocal obliteration
of discreditable and pernicious memorials." Happily
we are prepared with a reply to this confident pre- •
diction of the waiving of popish insolence and into-
lerance by the Court of Rome, in a letter to the
Times of the same day, addressed in reply to the
arguments of a correspondent—lgnotus—by a gen-
tleman who dates from Lincoln's-inn. Ignotus had
urged, in opposition to the course proposed—first,
that up to this hour the title of her gracious Ma-
jesty is unacknowledged by the Prince-prelate of
Rome ; secondly, that the sentences of excommuni-
cation levelled against the Queen of England and
her adherents are unrevoked by him ; and thirdly,
that, up to this hour, the bull in ccena domini, put
forth by Paul V., excommunicating, for disobe-
dience to the Roman pontiff; our Queen, clergy,
nobles, and such portions of the people as are not
Roman Catholics, and which sentence of anathema
is to be renewed afresh every Maundy Thursday, is
uncancelled and unrepudiated by Pius IX.
To the first two of these positions the reply
offered is of the most flimsy and equivocal descrip-
tion. The Queen is said to have been virtually re-
cognised by the fact that the Pope of that day
wrote a letter to George the Fourth, through Mr. Ca-
nning, announcing his elevation to the throne ! With
respect to the second matter—the excommunication
of Queen Elizabeth—it is urged that Queen Victoria
does not derive her title from Elizabeth ; and that
such excommunication "was grounded on her
(Elizabeth's) alleged illegitimacy, by reason of the
invalidity of the divorce of Queen Catherine, and
consequently of the marriage of Anne Boleyn."
The most material fact, however, urged by Ignotus,
is the non-withdrawal of the anathema from our
Queen and the Protestant people, for disobedience
to the Roman Pontiff—an anathema as valid now
as when first issued, levelled as much at Queen
Victoria and her subjects as at Queen Elizabeth,
because provision was expressly made for its inde-
finite renewal. What does the Jesuit correspondent
of the Times say to this ? Why, first, he pleads
that the anathema in 'question is only a "spiritual
denunciation of spiritual penalties," (including for-
feiture of allegiance, &c.,) against what the Church
of Rome holds to be a spiritual offence, i. e. sepa-
tion from its communion ;" and he asks " how can
this Bull affect diplomatic, political, and purely
temporal intercourse with the Court or Govern-
ment of Rome ?" The cancelling of this offensive
Bull, or an acknowledgment that withdrawal from
obedience to the Roman Pontiff is sanctioned by
the third General Council, he says ".seems to him
somewhat unreasonable !" So much for the pro-
mised concessions of Rome towards us, in return
for our acknowledging her, by accrediting an am-
bassador to her court. So much for the decency
and sense of self-respect involved in fondling the
temporal arm of a power, whose spiritual head
thinks it unreasonable not to be permitted once a
year publicly to consign to perdition our Sovereign
and ourselves !
But, it is- asked,—" What actual evil or danger
can result from the course proposed ?" And we are
reminded of the fact, that although ostensibly our
government is not represented at the Court of
Rome, we still communicate with that court through
some intermediate and indirect channel. The re-
ply is easy. We anticipate real tangible evil to
arise from the encouragement which would be given
by such a step, to the erroneous doctrines professed
by the church, of "the vast number of British sub-
jects," of whom the Times speaks, as acknowledg-
ing the Pope of Rome as "their spiritual head,"
and submitting to the exercise over them of " a
certain-controlling power." Will the Romish party
in England, or in Ireland, be less disposed to seek.
the extermination of Protestantism in the empire,
in consideration- of the concession which we are
urged to make to that spiritual head ? Certainly
not. We presume, too, that any diplomatic rela--
tions which we may establish with Rome must be
mutual; that if we have an ambassador at her
court, we must be prepared to receive a leg Ste •at
our own ; and we are yet to be informed •of any
such ecclesiastic being near to the throne of a pro-
testant sovereign without disturbance, distracted
councils, intrigues in high quarters, and jealousy
and discontent amongst the people being the re-
sult. We fear, too, the presence amongst us. of
such an ecclesiastic, in an official capacity, as afford-
ing a pretext for further steps in the same direc-
• tion ; and as providing the machinery, by which
the present " controlling power "' of the Pope in
this realm may be extended and rendered more

stringent

It -would be well that British protestant& should

arouse themselves to resist this gross outrage upon
their feelings—this forerunner of further heavy
blows and great discouragement" to the established
religion and constitution of the realm. The plea
upon which it is urged al desirable that we should
have an ambassador at Rollie; is most preposterously
absurd and weak. What have we to do with the
petty intrigues of the petty dukedoms and states of
Italy ? Nothing. We may indeed stand by, in an
armed attitude, if necessary, to repress any attempt
by Austria to violate the settlement of Europe by
the extension of her influence in Italy. We may
carry our protest against such an attempt to the
gates of Vienna itself. But for us to profess any
care about what is ludicrously styled "the cause of
liberty"' in the Italian Peninsula, at the risk of
bringing about a disturbance of the peace of Europe,
would be to render ourselves the laughter of all
Europe. Liberty in the very hot-bed of Popery !
Liberty with Italians, who only breathe and walk
about at the will and capriee of the legion of priests
and monks who swarm over and blacken the land,
is likely to be as delusive a dream as ever the
world was befooled withal !

to her own declaration on oath, that no foreign
power shall exercise dominion or influence in the
direction of the internal affairs of her kingdom. A
humiliating ground, truly, upon which to defend
the recognition of the popedom by the presence at
Rome of an ambassador !
But, if the position in which we are urged to
place the sovereign and the nation is humiliating,
infinitely greater is the meanness by which we are
to seek that position. We are not boldly and
openly to declare that we are prepared to reverse
the course which we have adopted towards Rome
since the reformation ; we are not to approach the
Pope in a straightforward attitudq, with a straight-
forward message; but to wriggle and crawl into
his presence, in an attitude of whining self abase-
- ment, and low and selfish trickery—an attitude
:.half way between that of conscious knavery and in-
tending treachery. The same journalist, in the
same feeler which he has just put forth in behalf
of her majesty's ministers, says :
" It must have been long evident to attentive observers
of:ltalian politics that the current of events in that country
would not wait for the impending adjustment of our diplo-
matic relations with the court of Rome, but that circum-
stances would compel us to anticipate, in some fashion,
the obvious decision of so important a question. The
wisdom of our ancestors had bequeathed us a position of
considerable embarrassment, and some little delicacy war
-equisite to reconcile the necessities of the case with the

The proceedings of the Birkenhead Commis-
sioners, which will be found reported in another
column, ought to afford to the inhabitants of that
town further conviction, were it required, of the
hopelessness of any attempt to proceed to the com-
pletion of their dockworks, either with the resources
at their own command, or by means of the arrange-
ment proposed to them by the Birkenhead and
Lancashire Railway Company. The consideration
of the proposition in question, for which the spe-
cial meeting of Thursday was called, is, it will be
seen, adjourned for a fortnight ; and there seems
little prospect that it will be adopted by the bond-
holders, for whose benefit (?) it is ostensibly urged ;
or, if so adopted, that it can possibly be sanctioned
by the Legislature,

Under these circumstances it becomes seriously
the duty of the Commissioners to make the best of
the unfortunate position in which they are placed;
and; laying aside any feelings of mortified pride
caused by the failure of their original plans, to en-
tertain the proposition contained in the following

THE LiVERPOOL STANIAItD.

Mg!attlßfiMiM3TE

remarks and resolution of Mr. Bryans. That gen-
tleman, at the meeting on Thursday, stated that

" He rose to move a motion similar to that at the
last meeting, which had been withdrawn, relative to
the disposition of the board to treat with any responsible
party who might be willing and competent to undertake
the fulfilment of their engagements, and to secure them a
fair remuneration for what they had already expended on
the works. He was glad to find that most of the news-
paper press of Liverpool took the same view of the matter
which he did—viz., that they should transfer their powers
to such a body as the Liverpool Corporation or the Dock
Trust, who, if they undertook to carry out the designs of
the company, would be fully able to proceed with them.
This was the view taken by the Courier, the Standard,
and the Times, and he thought that it was
_quite correct.
He proposed a motion to the effect stated."

With respect to the part which we have ourselves
taken, as referred to by Mr. Bryans, in recommend-
ing the sale of the works to the Dock Trustees of
Liverpool, we can assure the Commissioners and
our Cheshire neighbours that it has been prompted
only by a sincere conviction that such a course is
the best for the interest of the people on both sides
of the river. The Dock Trustees of Liverpool pos-
sess the means required to give an immediate sti-
mulus to the prosperity of Birkenhead—to save
that locality, in fact, from a decline as rapid as its
rise has been, and the owners of the vast mass of
capital invested in what now appears to have been
prompted by a too hasty estimate' of their posi-
tion, from embarrassment and ruin. That body,
moreover, as we have before stated, possess advan-
tages for the satisfactory working of the docks in
the pool which can belong to no other body. As
ancillary to the Dock Estate of Liverpool—as a por-
tion of the port of Liverpool—the docks of Birken-
head might be made to subserve largely the inte-
rests and the progress of the commerce of the
Mersey, to aid the development of the various
railways converging into the locality, and likely
still further to be extended; whilst the value of the
mass of household property at present half tenanted

d ruinously deprecialecr in value, could.not fail to

be increased by a measure which would in effect
unite Birkenhead and Liverpool as one community,
reflecting the prosperity of the one upon the other.
Such, we are convinced, is the opinion of nine-
tenths of the inhabitants of Birkenhead, who are
not directly interested in land or other specula-
tions, the basis of which has been the full carrying
out of the dock schemes, as originally projected
and planned. It seems to be feared by these par-
ties, that the Dock Committee of Liverpool would
convert the pool into a lumber dock merely; a
place for ship building yards, coal and slate wharfs,
&c., to be used by coasters bringing into our river,
and for outward-bound vessels taking on board,
ballasting and rough freight, such vessels passing
over to the Liverpool docks to complete their
cargoes. The warehouse company doubtless fear
the operation of such a conversion. We dare say
that the Dock Committee will be disposed to°use
the inner part of the pool for the above purposes•
for which it is calculated to be most valuable to
Liverpool. But how will the inhabitants of Bir-
kenhead and the owners of property there, the
warehousing company perhaps excepted, be in-
jured ? Not at all. On the contrary, a measure
which will concentrate in the pool a portion of the
timber and iron and the bulk of the ship-building.
trades; which will bring, in fact, to that side of the
river, by rail and in coasting vessels, the bulk of
the heavy trade of the port and the population'
employed by it, must be most beneficial, not only'
temporarily but permanently, by raising the value
of land in the neighbourhood to the scale of the
outskirt land on the Liverpool side, if not giving
it the value of some of the most expensive and
densely-built upon plots in the immediate vicinity
of our own docks. . .

TIIE LIVERPOOL SHAREBROKERS AND THE
PRESSURE OF CALLS FOR MONEY.

We cannot regard the nleeting of the Liverpool Share-
brokers, held on the 10th instant, and the resolutions
entered into, as either unreasonable or obtrusive. Few
men are placed in a position affording greater facilities for
acquiring a knowledge of the effect of the difficulties in
which railway shareholders are placed by the present strin-
gency of the money market, and the effect produced by
companies:pressing for calls at the present time, than share-
brokers are. Many a tale of ruinous sacrifice these gen-
tlemen could relate, as the result of their daily experience.
It is idle folly, 'then, to treat their resolutions, at their
late meeting, praying for a suspension of the carrying on
of those concerns which are not imperatively necessary to
admit of important lines, or connecting links of such lines,
being completed and opened, as the selfish prayer of in-
terested speculators. The fact is apparent and obvious that,
sooner or later, under the operation of our currency laws,
railway formation, like other branches of enterprise, must
be brought- to a dead lock. We may have capital, but
we have not a circulating medium to carry them on ; and
every effort made to fight against the impossibility of so
doing, only serves to embarrass and ruin, ►unfortunate
shareholders, guiltless, in nine cases out of ten, of any
fault more heinous than the neglect to take into account,
when embarking upon their various speculations', the fact
that we have a currency system, the workings of which
no man can foresee.

The Liverpool Sharebrokers' Association ask for no
more, on behalf of their clients, than what every man is
doing in the conduct of his own business. They ask that
shareholders should not be compelled, in a crisis when
every prudent commercial man is contracting his opera,-
tiono, to raise money, at usurious rates of interest. to pro-
secute the various lines in which they are engaged, or, as
the alternative of refusing to do so, to sacrifice the pro-
perty, for which they have paid large sums, for a merely
nominal consideration. They require, as an act of justice,
that railway shareholders should not be held fast between
two fires—the restriction of the ordinary facilities of bank
accommodation on the one hand, and the rash haste of
railway managements on the other. Admitted that some
of the holders of railway stock have miscalculated their
means. So have other men. So have all commercial
men. So has the Bank of England itself. So has the
legislature miscalculated the means of the entire public.
The seasons have interposed to frustrate the best devised
schemes of profit. Man proposes, but God only disposes.
The directors of railway schemes ought not to be the only
parties exonerated from the ordinary casualties of human
projects.
We are not for a moment disposed to admit that to res-
cue other parties from the results of speculation—to white-
wash the prophets of unbounded prosperity from the re-
sults of their rashness—to keep the bubble of free trade
from bursting, or to afford the usual facilities for bill dis-
counters, and parties caught in the act of over-trading—
the whole machinery of railway formation should be stop-
ped working. We know too well the vast amount of in-
dustry dependent upon the prosecution of railway works,
which must by such a course be thrown upon its own re-
sources, or, more properlyrupon the property of the coun-
try for support. But a judicious limitation of such works
is quite possible—such a limitation as Mr. :Glyn, the
chairman of the North Western Company, has pledged
himself, and the vast concern which he represelits, to
support. Railway directors may carry to completion ne-
cessary works. They may do more, where their consti-
tuencies are men of assured wealth. But the new com-
panies, who can only carry on by sueing their shareholders,
should pause ; and the indignation and disgust of the
community will follow any attempt to coerce the share-
holders into a contrary course.

THE NEWCASTLE TRADE AND THE MONE-

TARY PRESSURE

Mr. Bell, M.P., has been instructed by a large and
influential meeting of coalowners, merchants, manufac-
turers, shipowners, and others interested in the trade of
the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and in the general trade
of the United Kingdom, to represent to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer the straits to which they were reduced,
owing to the unsettled state of the money market. The
reply of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was couched in
the following terms :

" I am afriiid that nothing in my power can prevent the con-
sequences of over-speculation and mistaken' calculation in
trading matters, and there is nobody who ,thinks that there is
any want of circulation, or extraordinary pressure on the money
market for houses in good credit."

It will be perceived that an amendment to Mr.
Bryans' proposition was moved by the chairman,
Mr. Mallaby, to the effect that no overtures should
be made by the Commissioners of Birkenhead to
the Dock Trustees, or any other body, and that the
resolution, on their part, of any proposal of sale
was regarded by a majority of the commissioners as
something approaching, in appearance, to " hawk-
ing" their property. At the same time, it was not
concealed that they would readily treat with the
Dock Trustees upon fair terms. The question,
therefore, now resolves itself into one of punctilio.
We beg to submit that the Dock Trustees of Li-
verpool can best of the two afford to waive such
trifling where the interests-of the commerce of the
port, which are those of the inhabitants on both
sides of the river, are so largely involved. There
need be no concealment of the fact, now, that the
Cheshire people have failed in the effort to convert
their property to the uses for which it is so admi-
rably adapted by nature._ Neither ought there to
be any disposition on the part of any class of the
people of Liverpool to twit them with such failure.
A' little concession on both sides would very soon
enable us to understand' each other, and to pull
together amicably in a united effort to promote the
commerce of both sides of the river, and the in-
terests of two communities which ought never to
have been divided.

What the world will say of a man, intrusted with the
important duties of Chancellor of the Exchequer, who
has the hardihood to say, "there is nobody who thinks
theft there is any want of circulation, or extraordinary
pressure on the money market for houserin good credit,"
we do not presume to guess. All that we can say upon
the subject is that hundreds of people of good credit feel
the pressure for money at the present moment. What
wonder, therefore, that the Coal Trader-feels it ? Yet
the • Times has the assurance to maintain that men
who raise coal from the bowels of the earth—who have
wages, royalties, freights. haulage, and other expenses to
pay, and of course to receive pay for their produce,—
have no right to be subject to the influence of a restricted
currency, or its results, a high price of discounts. He
says :

"If
" there are any branches of trade which might be supposed
free from the commercial pressure around them, the miners,
coalowners, and shipowners seem to stand a fair chance of that
delightful exemption."
Why these men should be exempt from " the commercial
pressure around them" it bothers us to tell; and it will
bother- wiser men.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH.—An inquest was held yesterday
on the body of Fanny Elizabeth Brown, a child aged 3
months. The mother, who lived as servant with Mr.
Peake, publican, Richmond-row, was taken ill, and de-
ceased (an illegitimate child) was left in charge of a young
woman and was found dead in bed. Verdict in accord-
ance-with the testimony of the surgeon who made a post-
mortem examination—died from natural. causes.
GARDEN ROBBERIES.—Two little boys residing in
Windsor were yesterday charged, by Mr. Hardman Earle,
with being found on Sunday in his garden in Smithdown-
lane. Mr. E. said he did not push for, any severity of
punishMent, as the prisoners had got nothing when they
were -apprehended ; but they belonged to a set from the
foundry at Windsor, who had frequently plundered his
KNOWSLEY.—The festivities at Knowsley, which corn- garden of fruit, and even plants, and he •should certainly
mence to-day. will be on a. most splendid scale. The take strong steps against any of them that might be here-
grand ball-room is magnificently fitted up. One of the after detected. The prisoners were put doewn.
greatest attractions will be the cricket match to-day, be- POLICE COURT, YESTERDAY.—The cases at the court
tween the Knowsley Club, assisted by the gentlemen and yesterday (and which in the absence of Mx. Rushton were
relatives of the noble earl now assembled at the hall, and eard• by Mr. Thomas Booth), were few and of little
the gentlemen of the Edge-hill Cricket Club. interest. Robert Morris, for stealing a pair of trousers
NOT A VERY HEINOUS IMPUTATION UPON THE LIVER- from Thomas Woodward, was committed for three
POOL DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the close of the discussion months.—Mary Sullivan, for robbing Thomas Farrington
at the Birkenhead Commissioners' meeting, on Thursday, of lls,—fourteen days.—Christopher Steed, for illegally
one of the commissioners (Mr. Thomson) expressed his pledging a pair of boots belonging to. William Atkinson ;
opinion that the Dock Committee of Liverpool " wished and -James Ryley, for being found with no good intent on
to get the Birkenhead Docks at the lowest price." The board of a. ship in the Salthouse Dock—Seven days each.
opinion is a very sensible one. We are all free traders ST. JAMES'S SCHOOLS.—In consequence of the popu-
now-a-days. and hence the Liverpool Dock Committee lation of the district of St. James's Church having greatly
wish to " buy in the cheapest market," and the Birken- increased, the schools are found far ,below the require-
head people to " sell in the dearest." When Mr. Thom- ments of the neighbourhood, and in consequence it has
son added " that is my view," he certainly did not intend
to cast an imputation upon .his brother commissioners of been determined to enlarge the present building. To
raise the necessary funds, as will .be seen from an an-
being behind the age. nouncement elsewhere, a committee has been formed to
EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet-
make arrangements for a sale of fancy work in October,
ing of the board of examiners, held on Tuesday, the 14th which we have no doubt will prove lucrative and
attrac.-
instant, Captain Joseph Cornforth, late master of the
of Liverpool, and at present of the ship Ganges, and in such a district as that of St. James's
tive. The need of education is now universally admittge,
was
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eneolst. be long without more efficient and
maritime affairs. proficiency in nautical astronomy, and THE PRINCIPALITY.—ROYALATTENTION.—HerMajesty
great circle sailing, &v., as to, entitle him to it. Mr. has been graciously pleased to. name H. R. H. the Prince
Walter John Colin Lang, first officer of the British and of Wales to be patron of the next Eisteddfod to take place
an,
North American royal .mail steam packet Hibernia, was at Abergavenny, in the autumn of 1848, on which oce
lion. H. R. H. the Prince of Wales gives a prize of twenty,
ofm
Sir the G time-
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dodf
five guineas for "the best critical Essay on the History of
examined, and from his knowledge in nautical astronomy-
and great circle sailing, was. found duly qualified far .•a
tGhreuffsrLadndguaapgec annadnL(itnedrativtLerrof
first-class extra master's certificate.
).Wt'aletsh'aftro
ST. JOHN THE-. BAPTIST'S. CHURCH, TOXTETFI-PARK.
Llwyd, (and dwilymaD4) accompanied nied with specimens
—This church, after the suspension of Divine service irbit
for many weeks, was re-opened on Sunday last ; and much both in the original, and, in,. a close (English or Latin)
gratified were we to hear of, and see the great things that translation of thePoems:-most characteristic of that,pe?
have been done in it during, the period that it has been lied." It is very gratifying. to her Majesty's Cambrian
closed. Its pews on the ground-floor had been attached
by dry-rot, or something like it, and had become in a very subjects to find that she does not forget the Principality.
of Wales, and that the ancient customs, language, and
tottering and crumbling condition. Everything; however,
literature of Scotland, do not engross more than a; share
is right with them now, and likely to continue so, if the•
of royal consideration,, but thht her attention and that of
plan adopted for their permanency only turns out as well• her royal son are also-bestowed upon the celtic inhabitants
as it promises. , An communication with them from the of the southern part of. her dominions.
quarter whence the evil proceeded—the red stone founda- DREADFUL ACC/DENT ON BOARD OF A STEAMER.—
tion—is entirely cut off by an asphalte flooring, and iron. Yesterday, an inquest was held on the body of William
steps. The church has been re-painted, and its pews have. Doyle. Patrick M'lntyre, a fireman on board the steam-
been lined• anew with green cloth, and a very beautiful packet Queen Victoria, now in the Clarence Dock, said
curtain, attached to an extremely well-chosen cornice, the deceased, who was 37 years of age, was head engineer
shades the eastern window. Altogether, the building, on board. On Sunday night about eleven o'clock, when
which has a truly church appearance, looks remarkably they were on their passage from Belfast, and had got off
well. The organ is a well-toned one, and the singing ex- the Calf of Man, witness went to fire up. The deceased
tremely pleasing, being plain, simple, and• devotional. was then sitting between the engines. While witness
On the whole we have reason to congratulate-Mr. Hassell, was firing up, he heard a cracking noise,, and on looking
its minister, (who- rendered a very particular and interest- round he saw deceased under one of the beams of the
ing account of the repairs, improvements, &c., and their engine. Witness got hold of him and pulled him from
cost in,his sermon,) on the present condition of his church, under. He was quite dead, and his head was terribly,
and on• the means which have been so bountifully supplied crushed. There is a railing of about a yard high to pre-
to produce it. He has had a liberal congregation, and in- vent any one from falling under the beams. Witness
dustrious churchwardens, and liberal- ones too, if we may could not account for deceased being caught by the beam,
judge by the gift of the senior one,. Mr. Bird, who pre- except that he must have been looking whether there was
sented the church on this occasion with the cornice and any bilge water under them.
curtains—of which we have already made mention. THE `'MERCURY" AND ITS LOST STOCK.—We observe
CHRIST CHURCH.—DIVINE SERVICE ON WEDNESDAY a wicked- paragraph in a contemporary, to the effect, so far
EVENINGS.—We have heard with much regret that the as we• can understand it, that the proprietors of the
worthy and talented pastor of this large and popular place Mencury ha% been robbed by some designing scamp of
of worship and his congregation- attending on Wednesday some thousand copies of their paper. We should have
evenings have, for some time past, been greatly annoyed said- of the publics paper ,• for we have always been given
by the operations going on in the formation of the railway to understand that the public could not get on—could not
tunnel from Edge-hill to the North Docks. This tunnel "sleep o' nights" without its ordinary dose of that soporific
passes under the top of Hunter-street, in the immediate commodity. The Journal—our informant—intimates,
vicinity of the church, and not only have the sub- however, that the theft has been encouraged by theMereury
contractors erected a huge steam-engine opposite to the having selfishly withheld of late—kept, in fact, under back.
main gates of the edifice, which is itself a great obstrue- and key upon his own premises—a large stock of the
tion to persons wishful to attend the church, but the soporific commodity in question, in the shape of unsold
blasting of rock beneath is, notwithstanding urgent copies, to a perusal and to the comforting influence of
remonstrances, continued during service on those nights, which, none but the editors were admitted. Hence, per-
to the alarm of females and others of delicate nerves. It haps, the happy state of somnolency which these gentle-
is easy to conceive that many of these feel little inclined men have been recently enjoying. We are certainly dis-
to
repeat their visit, and that the attendance for so praise- posed, on all occasions, like all goad subjects, to see virtue
worthy and redeeming an object is consequently greatly rewarded and vice punished; but we must honestly say
reduced. This is not as it should be, nor is there any that, were we in the position of a juryman, and the
necessity that it need be, especially in a crowded district, abstractor of Mercuries before us for our verdict, we should
the population of which are chiefly poor, and whose desire deal leniently with him. It was considerate, at least on
for spiritual and moral instruction it were wise rather to his part, to diffuse the sleepy influence, which our con-
welcome than to discourage. Surely, the " blasting," at temporary evidently has been keeping so near to his
least, may be discontinued by proper arrangements, from editorialsanctorunt, amongst the trunkmakers, the grocers,
half-past six until nine o'clock on Wednesday evenings, and the tallow-chandlers of the neighbourhood, by whom
so that parties might have time (service commencing at it will be given to their customers and the locomotive
seven) to go, and to return to their homes, without world. Imagine the
.influence upon the inmates of a
annoyance. We feel certain that the directors of the second-class railway carriage of six or seven trunks lined
railway are not aware of the fact, otherwise they would not with the Mercury ! Happily neither the engine
that_ the
To them, therefore, we confidently refer the matter, in papers lost are the missing Tuesday's Mercuries, of which
the hope, that, without loss to themselves, they will be it has often surprised us that we have seen so few ; and
enabled, as far as possible, to
future complaint. remoYe all ground of which have, doubtless, been kept for the private perusal
of the editors and their few advertisers.