The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-04 00:00:00

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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1840

The affairs of the east, in connexion with the
quadruple treaty, are daily assuming a more grave and
complicated character, and the question of war and
Peace is becoming one of greater interest every mo-
cneot• We learn that Mehemet Ali has refused to
submit to the terms proposed to him by the four
Powers, and has declared that he will repel force by
force, but that he will commit no act of aggression.
The crisis has, therefore, arrived. The alternative
upon which France has calculated is now staring us in
the face. Either the four poWers must insist upon
unconditional compliance with the terms which they
have proposed to the Viceroy of Egypt, or they must
give up their pretensions. Whatever may be the de-
termination of the governments of England, Prussia,
and Austria, there can be no doubt whatever as to the
resolution to which Russia has arrived. She, at all
events, will not yield one iota of the vantage ground
which she has gained. She' is proceeding with hei
gigantic armaments without interruption. She does
Uot sleep over her long-cherished designs upon Turkey
and the East. France is also making warlike prepara-
this on a scale of the greatest magnitude. The

'eeroy of Egypt is by no means idle. v It is said tha
!'e has an army of 150,000 men in Syria. But wha
4'l'4-Wand—the most deeply interested in the ultimate
I:;flits of the present dispute—what is England doing ?
here are our armaments—our naval preparations—
it' materiel of war ? What are our ministers doing ?
Lord Melbourne is lounging in the Queen's drawing-
l°°ll1----Lord Palmerston is, perhaps, employed in no
itter way than in adjusting his artificial curls—and
e rest of our precious ministers are giving themselves
I) to the festivities of a country life. We may well
"inc. What is to become of England under such a
lnistrY; and at a period when we are at war with
ei i!na, and threatened with war in North America,
wh
Ile Nye are embroiled with France and Egypt ?

We learn from the papers brought home by the
j,reat n'estern, that there is very little probability that
Quie President of the United States will acquiesce in
report of the commissioners who were lately em-
ofi Flo by the British government in the investigation
the affairs of the disputed boundary, which report
74R taken out by the President. Fresh difficulties are
likely to arise before this vexatious question can be
t7tisfactorily arranged. There is every disposition on
tle Part of the inhabitants of the northern states to
advantage of this question as the ground of an
Pell rupture with Great Britain. Canada has been
"g the object of American cupidity. The democratic
Party in the United States are prepared to hazard a
::ar at any moment for the sake of obtaining posses-
ill" of the adjoining provinces belonging to Great
Zitain• This feeling is openly expressed by the great
-.3458 of the working classes. It is true that the mer-
cantile and monied classes are anxious to cultivate
aMicable relations with this country. Self-interest
renders peace and goodwill the most desirable policy
t° these classes. But as they constitute, numerically
sPeaking, but a very small part of the population of
the United States, there is reason for apprehending
that serious impediments will intervene before the
boundary question can be finally set at rest. We do
t'°t fear any active opposition from Mr. Van Buren
and the goverpment; but we do fear the consequences
Which may possibly arise from the coercion of the loco
focos, or extreme democrats.

At present Great Britain exercises a powerful influ-
fttee over the social, political, and fiscal affairs of the
tinted States. The dependence of the planters in the
':iouth, and the commercial men in the north, upon the
"tish market, necessarily superinduces a desire for
peace on their part, while it gives this country a large
amount of control over the public decisions of those
r°dies. The ultra-republicans of the States do not
elish this control. They see that it interposes a bar-

"" against the working out of their deinocratical
1.1'11161)1es. They are, therefore, anxious for a rupture;
11d. We feel convinced that the commencement of hos-
-I'l Itlos between this country and any of the continental
I:wers would be the signal for a movement upon Ca-
da• The result of such a movement it would be
(14Illicult to speculate upon. The gross misgovernment
of
the Canadas by the Whigs has sadly crippled the
po
Avlv" of Grert Britain on the American continent.
th "tever may be the issue of the present dispute, it is
imperative duty of the government of this country
not
t() yield a single inch of a territory to which we now
i!'llear to have the most indisputable title. Fiat jus-
t taut mlum.

've have received a copy of the supplement to the
ehie.4fia r-l'imes of the date of July 21. Its columns are
"z
der °ceupied with the details of an atrocious myr-
-4t had recently taken place in the colony, where,
extrare haPpy to say, such melancholy occurrences are
PerernelY rare. The names of the murderers were
e,ii,e°Pe Rose and Harry Blount. They had been
A .4"enined to expiate their crime on a public gibbet.
Ivh,,tl„t3r of matrons had been sworn in order to decide
tha-tler the former was pregnant. Their verdict was
vita 81te Was not. The particulars of this diabolical
e we
have given at some length in another part of

the paper,

The social missionaries, as they term themselves—or
the emissaries of the devil, as we should call them—
have been exceedingly active in this town within the
last six or eight months. They have been indefatigable
in their endeavours to multiply the number of converts
to- their infamous, filthy, and soul-destroying system.
'We have reason to fear that many weak-minded indi-
viduals have been led into their snares. Past success
has emboldened these infidels to assume a high tone of
defiance. They loudly proclaim that they cannot he
met in argument by any of the advoCates of the " old-•
fashioned system termed Christianity." Their pride,
however, is destined to sustain a humiliating blow.
We are glad to have it in our power to announce that
Mr. Brindley, whose eloquent denunciations of the
abominations of socialism have been so signally suc-
cessful in other parts of the kingdom, will once more

visit Liverpool. He is expected to deliver four lec-
tures in the Amphitheatre, in the course of next week.
The particulars will be duly announced in a day or two.
We have no doubt that success will attend his praise-
worthy exertions.

This day, we believe, is the annual licensing day for
this borough, and we are informed that Mr. H. Teapot
Atkinson, the factotum of his knightship the Mayor,
has signified his approbation of a list of some thirty
individuals—whole-hog men, of course—as entitled to
obtain new licenses. This game, as our readers are
aware, has been annually played since we have been
blessed with a Reform Town Council. Surely, the
respectable body of Licensed Victuallers will not fail
to remember these favours so bountifully bestowed
upon them, when the first of November arrives. If an
one of that respectable body favours a radical candidate
with his vote on that occasion, all we can say of such
a man is, that he deserves to have his property depre-
cated in value.

Manchester Guardian of Wednesday, while
commenting oa the recent trial of Hearne. v. Stowell,
a report of which appeared in our last publication,
remarks that " the imputation which he (Mr. Stowell)
cast upon Mr. Hearne was, in its nature, so incredible
as well as revolting, that no man whose judgment was
not utterly blinded by passion would have repeated it,
without making the most searching and careful inqui-
ries into its truth." In reply to this strange remark
we would observe that the " imputation" cast upon

Mr. Hearne was by no means of that "incredible"
nature which the Guardian assumes it to have been.
Revolting we acknowledge it to have been in proportion
to its truth. The charge brought forward by Mr.
Stowell was justified by the uniform practice of the
Church of Rome in all ages. The statements upon
which that charge was based were so consonant to the
tyrannical power assumed and exercised by the priests
of that persecuting and idolatrous church, and so much
in accordance with historical facts—that the wonder
would have been that Mr. Stowell, or any other indi-
vidual who knew anything about the Romish system,
should for one moment hesitate to believe them, duly
attested as those statements were. So far from the
narrative which Mr. Stowell related being " a story
which no dispassionate man would have believed for a
moment, except upon the clearest and most trustworthy
evidence," we venture to say that it was a tale which
carried with it, to every mind acquainted with the
spiritual despotism of the Church of Rome, a sort of
prima facie, intrinsic evidence of its truth. Besides,
it was supported by "the clearest and most trustworthy
evidence." How, then, could Mr. Stowell withhold
his belief ? If the editor of the Guardian persists in
asserting that the whole statement was improbable, let
him glance over the documents which we published in
our last paper, which documents contain the substance
of what the parties whose signatures are appended to
them were prepared to prove upon their solemn oaths.
The editor of the Guardian will find, from the state-
ment of the Rev. Hobart Seymour, that in various
parts of the county of SligO, of the county Mayo, and
of the county Galway, many hundred persons, members
of the Church of Rome, were witnessed by him. in the.
act of performing penances precisely similar to that
described by Mr. Stowell. The same gentleman states
that he has seen many hundreds of women—yes, of
women !—near his own residence, " drawing up their
petticoats around the lower part of their persons, so as
to expose the legs and thighs naked, in the presence of
hundreds of men and women, and then prostrating
themselves, and crawling on their naked knees and one
•hand, and then holding up their clothes with the other
hand, and thus crawling around what are called holy
wells or stations, till their knees were excoriated by the
gravel, or by sharp stones, and the blood streaming along
their legs." He adds that he has also witnessed many
hundreds of men performing a similar act of penance.
Mr. Seymour was uniformly informed by these persons
that such penances were imposed upon them by their
respective priests—the priests of the Church of Rome:
Nay, further, he was informed by a priest that " such
practices were not only sanctioned by the priests, but
were a very useful sort of religion." After such an
unequivocal voucher for the frequent imposition of such
flagrantly indecent and debasing. penances, can the
Guardian any longer venture to proclaim the story
related to Mr. Stowell, and repeated by him, as
incredible ?

Again, let the editor of the Guardian read the state-
ment of the Rev. Brabazon Ellis. He will there find
that hundreds of men, women, and children—yes,
children!—were habitually seen at a station in the dio-
cese of Tuam, on their bare knees, traversing first a
gravel walk, and afterwards a churchyard, covered with
rough flags, unevenly placed. This was done under
the superintendence of the Romish priest, in the open
day ! The statement read by Mr. Stowell may be
revolting and degrading, but is it any longer incre-
dible ?

Look, again, to the statement of Mr. Stoney. That
gentleman gives dates, as well as mentions the places,
at which the scenes which he describes occurred. He
says that, in one instance, he saw two women doing
penance by crawling over the stones and gravel of the
churchyard, on their bare knees, apparently suffering
great torture. In another instance, he saw, among
upwards of thirty persons doing penance, one indivi-
dual who was respectably dressed, crawling on his
bare knees along the rough and sharp stones, and
suffering great torture.

The testimony of Mr. Galaker and Mr. Crotty is to
the same effect. All these witnesses unhesitatingly
affirm that these degrading and revolting practices
were sanctioned by the Romish priests. The facts to
which they were prepared to depose, are capable of
being authenticated and corroborated by the testimony
of thousands of witnesses in different parts of Ire-
land. Are we not, therefore, justified in calling upon
the Guardian to retract its charge of incredibility as
applied to the statement read by Mr. Stowell ?
We perceive that the Guardian has based all its
remarks on the assumption that the falsehood of
the statement made by Mr. Stowell was proved
on the trial. We have no doubt that the example
which the Guardian has thus set will he extensively
followed by its radical contemporaries generally. We
shall find them ringing the changes on the terms
" inventing and circulating unfounded statements,"
" scandalous inventions,"—" ingenious device"—" an
invention, fabricated by some knave or madman,"—
and " gross fabrications." These are the polite and
courteous terms in which the Guardian indulges. But
what are facts of the case ? The charge brought for-
ward against Mr. Hearne has not been proved to be
a falsehood. There were witnesses in court who were
prepared to prove, if they had been called upon, that
the facts which Mr. Stowell related were actually wit-
nessed and duly attested.
Our London contemporary the Standard, has ex-
pressed a hope that the evidence prepared for the
defence will be carefully put upon record, and that the
matter may not b., allowed to rest. We have already
given the documents alluded to. They have been
copied both by the Times and Morning Herald. We
feel happy that we have it in our power to say that a
new trial will be moved for, when a different issue may
be confidently anticipated. The triumph, such as it is,
of which the Radical press is now making so loud a
boast, will be one of short duration. The truth will
ultimately prevail, and that to the utter confusion of the
surpliced tyrants of the Church of Rome.

Mr. CORN MARKET.—The present duty on wheat is 6s.Bd.
per quarter; on flour 4s. O'd. per barrel. The expected duty
this day is 2s. Bd. on the one, and Is. 74-d. on the other. The
quantity of bonded wheat in Liverpool is computed to be
about 133,208 qrs., and that of flour at about 131,679 barrels,
the whole of which will probabiy be entered for home con-
sumption.