The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

DOCTOR MACHALE AND LORD CLIFFORD,

A letter from Doctor Macx ALE to Lord CLIFFORD in reply
to his Lordship's recent brochure, exhibits a full-length
picture of the Popish bigot, and the jesuitical equivocator.
The Christian charity of the titular Archbishop of TUAM will
not admit a Protestant of any description to be a Christian
at all, and he rebukes his lay communicant, Lord CLIFFORD,
not merely for admitting the British Protestant to be a
Christian, but for applying the term Christian to himself,
instead of Catholic. The former we know is the language of
the Apostles—the latter the language of the Popes. But let
us hear the Acatholic doctor:—

" You must be aware (quoth this usurper to the lay peer of
his communion) of the offensive oath that is still taken by
some of your lordship's companions on the same benches,
associating with our holy religion the guilt of idolatry. Yet,
with these facts staring you in the face, you must adopt a new
and accommodating phraseology, and, instead of styling him-
self a Catholic, your letters are to be considered as ' addressed
by a British Christian in communion with the See of Rome,
to a British Christian not iu communion with the See of
Rome!

" I, too,am for burying in oblivion the angry remembrance
of ancient bigotry, not, however, at the expense of altering
the ancient and apostolic language of the church. Catholic
is a term hallowed in that creed which we lisp from our infancy;
it was considered by St. Augustine as one of the most efful-
gent of the characters of the church. Your lordship will not
forget that in Italy, of which you are so fond, Christian and
Catholic are so identified that to him who is not the latter,
the phrase applied to the people generally is ' NON E CHRIS-
TIAN° ;' and lest your lordship should not deem popular
phrases correct theological standards, allow me to remind you
of the language of St. Cyprian, that ' he who is not in the
church of Christ is not a Christian.'"
This is plain speaking. The Church of Rome, in the Doc-
tor's vocabulary, is "the CHURCH OF CHRIST" spoken of by
ST. CYPRIAN —erg o, WHOSOEVER IS NOT OF THE CHURCH
OF ROME, IS NOT A CHRISTIAN !
What will your Liberal Roman Catholics say of this doc-
trine of the church in the 19th century ? Is not her spirit
very much mitigated ? Yes; as much as the Ethiop's hue,
or the leopard's spots, or the tiger's ferocity, or the serpent's
venom.

CONTINENTAL FARE FOR CONTINENTAL WAGES.—
" At the beginning of winter, the peasant fares well : eats
wholesome rye-bread," [in common with the horses] " and
plenty of it. Towards spring, his stores, never well hus-
banded," [how can they be, when the horse is considered the
superior animal of the two, and his demand is so much more
extensive ?) "begin to fail, and the coarse
_rye-flour is eked
out with a little chopped straw • " [coarser sort of food] but
when the season is prolonged, ;his position is reversed, and
it is the straw which becomes the chief ingredient of the loaf
which is to fill and not nourish his body ' [herring soup]—
4'somuch so that on exposure to fire this wretched bread "
" will ignite -and blase like a torcb."—Zetters
from loan
the Ralik, by a Lark.

SUPPOSED MURDER NEAR SEVERN STOKE.—Early on
Sunday morning last, a man named Richard Kinton was
found lying dead on the turnpike road, about five or six
miles from this city, on the way to Tewkesbury. On his
shoulder were marks as though a waggon had passed over
him ; but from other appearances on his body suspicions
were raised that something else had a share in his death, and
other circumstances conspiring to render suspicion still
stronger, an inquiry was set on foot by Superintendents
Manton and Craig, of the county police, which resulted in
the apprehension of a labouring man named Tippin, who re-
sides, with his wife and three cildren, in a garret at Severn
Stoke.— Worcester Journal.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S NURSE.—The statement as to
the remuneration allotted to Mrs. Brough is not correct. A
liberal annual provision will be granted to this lady, an en-
signcy in the army to her eldest son, and the rest of the chil-
dren will be provided for. Although it is true that she has
hitherto been moving in a humble sphere of life, yet she is
in every respect treated by the royal establishment as a lady,
and will enjoy all the privileges attached to the honourable
situation which she is called upon to fulfil.—London Paper.
Her majesty has been pleased to appoint the right honble.
Alexander Lord Ashburton ; the Right Hon. John Nicholl,
judge advocate general ; George Carr Glyn, arid John Shaw
Lefevre, Esq.s, to be commissioners to conduct a strict in-
vestigation, with a view to ascertain in what manner exche-
quer-bills have been made out and issued since the remodell-
ing of the exchequer by the act of parliament, passed in the
fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late majesty King
William IV., and to point out whether any and what de-
fects are to be found in the existing system, and what addi-
tional checks and regulations can be established, with a
view to guard in future against the forgery of exchequer-
bills, or against the fraudulent or unauthorised issue of them.
THE SLAVE TRADE.—It is with unmingled feelings of
pride and satisfaction that we announce to the public the
conclusion and signature of a treaty by the five great powers
of Europe—Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, and
Russia—for the more effectual suppression of that greatest
of modern crimes—the slave trade. This important and holy
convention was signed yesterday, at the Foreign-office, by
the representatives of the Monarchs who are parties thereto.
It declares the slave trade to be piracy, and concedes. con

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firms, and extends the powers known as the. mutual right of
search. The stipulations entered into at the Congress of
Vienna are thus, after six-and-twenty years of succeeding
hopes and disappointments, of impotent negotiations and ill-
implemented conventions, fulfilled ; and the slave trade is
now, so far as Europe is concerned, a crime of the deepest
die by the law of nations.—Herald of Tuesday.

THE MINING SPECULATIONS.—BE CAVE.—The ad-
journed examination in this important case took place on
Tuesday week. Sir Charles Williams, in discharging the
bankrupt, admonished him in severe terms for the unfair and
deceptive means he had pursued in obtaining shareholders.
It appeared that the total loss upon the bankrupt's mining
transactions amounted to no less than £194,017, of which
£120,000 was sustained by fifteen clergymen. It appeared,
also, that while he was thus carrying on his speculations he
purchased from 20 to £24,000 worth of pictures ; arid that,
in 1828, when be had only £1 4s. at his credit with the Bank
of England, and about £4 in another bank, he gave away
about £7OOO in presents to his friends, and offered to dispose
of his mines for £20,000 or £30,000 at the moment that he
was about fingering an equal sum for certain shares in them.
The commissioner said that as there appeared no fraud or
deception in making out the accounts, he must pass the
bankrupt, but it would be for the creditors to judge for them-
selves, if they would coincide in that or adopt any other steps.
He hoped the exposure of this case would deter the public
from rashly engaging in similar schemes in future.
FEROCIOUS BRUTALITY.—To the catalogue of daring
crimes described in the public prints during the last few
months, we have to add the perpetration of an outrage com-
mitted a short time since near Cheddar, which, for the atro-
city of the act, and the savage barbarity with which it was
accompanied, surpasses, in extent of wanton cruelty, any-
thing which it has for a long time been our office to record.
A poor woman returning from market, after nightfall, to her
home, was suddenly accosted by three footpads, who fiercely
demanded her money. The poor creature instantly delivered
up the whole of her little treasure, the produce of her market
transactions ; but whether the ruffians were disappointed by
the smallness of the amount, and were resolved on rifling all
her under-garments, or whether they were solely influenced
by the promptings of diabolical ferocity, they literally strip-
ped her of every particle of clothing, and left her, in that
state of dreadful destitution, to the chance of casual charity,
or to perish by the way side, under the complicated agonies
of terror, cold, and tortured modesty. This surely is a case
calling for the vengeance of justice in all its severity.---Bath
Herald.

BURNING OF A LETTER FROM THE QUEEN'S SECRE-
TARY OF STATE.—Our readers will recollect that a few
weeks ago we stated that the Beverly town-council had sent
up a memorial to the home secretary, to remonstrate with
him upon the nomination of several gentlemen of conserva-
tive principles to be justices of the borough without the leave
and approbation of their own sapient and intelligent body.
The result was at once anticipated by all sensible persons,
and the application caused some amusement at the expense
of the collective wisdom. Sir J. Graham's courteous reply
came in due course, informing the mayor that the council
had nothing whatever to do with the recommendation ofjus-
tices. A meeting of the town-council was forthwith con-
vened, and the mayor (de facto though not de jure) was in
the chair. Mr. Alderman Simpson moved that the memo-
rial sent to the home secretary, together with his answer, be
read—which was done ; and then it was moved by him, and
seconded by Mr. Fussey, that the reply be entered on the
minutes. Mr. Daniel Boyes moved, as an amendment, that
it be committed to the flames as an insult to the council;
and this was seconded by Mr. Edward Page, and carried by
ten to three ; and the beadle was called in, and the letter
handed to him by his worship, who forthwith put into the
fire, to the great amusement of the audience.—Hull Times.
It is now definitely arranged that the long expected nuptials
of his Highness Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, eldest son of his
Excellency Prince Esterhazy, ambassador at the British
Court from the Emperor of Austria and the Lady Sarah
Villiers, the lovely and accomplished daughter of the Earl
and Countes of Jersey, are to be solemnized on Saturday
week, the Ist of January. The marriage is to be as private
as possible, in consequence of the recent demise of the ven-
erable Earl of Westmorland, the maternal grandfather of the
fair betrothed. His Excellency Prince Esterhazy is, not-
withstanding reports to the contrary, likely to be present at
the ceremony, for his highness was to leave Vienna at the
close of the last week for this country, and it is expected will
arrive at Chandos House, the Austrian embassy, by Monday
or Tuesday next. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester has presented a very valuable armlet to the fair
fiancee, set with brilliants of the finest water, with the princely
ciphers in the centre of the same precious stones. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge has also presented her
ladyship with a costly souvenir,itis a splendid diamond aigrette.
It was originally intended by the Countess of Jersey to have
given a sumptuous dejeuner to a highly distinguished and
very numerous circle of friends on the interesting occasion of
the marriage of her beautiful daughter, and of course on a
scale and splendour suited to the elevated rank of the prince,
but from the circumstance before mentioned the wedding
party is to be very select.
DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND ALARMING FIRES IN DUN-
DEE.—About half-past nine on Thursday night, an alarm
spread that the mill at the West Wards, Scouringburn,
Dundee, belonging to Messrs. Wyllie and Johnson, was on
fire. In a short time the engines were on the spot, and the
efforts of the firemen were directed to the seat of the fire ;
but, finding that the flames burst forth with repulsive and
redoubled fury, they abandoned the spot, and immediately
commenced operations a few paces farther eastward. From
the combustible nature of the contents of the heckling house,
the fire rapidly spread, gutting the building. In an incredi-
bly short time after the fire at Wyllie and Johnson's mill
was discovered, an accident of a much more serious nature
occurred at the Gas Works—one of the tanks (gas-holders)
having exploded. The building in which the tank was placed
was instantaneously levelled with the ground, the walls of it
being thrown flat almost in a solid mass. Fortunately, the
only part of the works in which there were any of the work-
men, or any human being, was the retort house, closely ad-
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who were sitting in the retort house. Seven workmen em-
ployed there escaped with one exception,without injury, and
that slight. The effect of the shock upon the adjoining
buildings was dreadful. A number of the houses in Gas
Work Lane, and some in Blackscroft, have been unroofed.
The windows of Prince's-street Chapel and in houses as far
up as the Wallacetown Church have been smashed. In
almost all the houses along Blackscroft, they have met with
the same fate. In many instances, the window shutters
which were closed have been forced from their hinges, and
even cellar doors which were locked have been burst open.
The shock of the explosion was felt all over the town, and in
a great many places the gas was immediately extinguished by
it ; and, in the course of a very short time, the town, with
the exception of those parts of it supplied from the tank at
the west end, in the immediate vicinity of the fire at Wyllie
and Johnson's premises, was in darkness. The confusion
over the whole town was great ; some rushing to the fire at
the west and others to the fire at the east end, and none
knowing where the greatest injury might be done.—Dundee
Advertiser,

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up third class, or goods train, had arrived within a short
distance of the station, and the train had not yet stopped,
when a man named William Gilley, foreman of the plate-
layers of that division of the line, and who had come up as a
passenger, imprudently jumped out of the train. The unfor-
tunate fellow not being aware that anything else was approach-
ing, instead of jumping off on the same side as the station,
did so on that next the road, at which moment the York
passenger train was coming up at the rate of at least 30 miles
an hour. Before poor Gilley could reach the ground he was
caught in the back by the buffer of the engine by which the
York train was being drawn, and with such fearful violence
was the shock, that his body was seen by the guards of the
goods train apparently to fly to the extent of between 30 and
40 yards. It had not reached the ground the second time
before his body was again caught and hurled forward by the
front of the engine, the driver of which endeavoured to stop
the speed, but was wholly unable to do so before the entire
train, consisting of nearly 30 carriages, had passed over him.
The guards of the goods train instantly ran to the spot, at
least 60 yards from the place where the poor fellow had
jumped out, and notwithstanding the dreadfully shattered
appearance of his body in every part, life was not then quite
extinct, and he breathed for a few seconds after. The body
of the unfortunate man, who was 28 years of age, and single,
was conveyed by the goods train on to Aylesbury.
ROTES FOR SMALL GARDENs.—Continue to make any
alterations that are required while the weather continues
open. Occasionally sweep aad roll lawns, and clean walks.
Plants in frames require constant attention to see that they
are not suffering from damp ; pick off all dead leaves and give
them all the air possible. Keep plants in greenhouses as dry
as possible, and give them air at every fitting opportunity.
Train and tie up bard-wooded plants, such as Camelias, and
Epacrises ; keep the pots free from moss ; when it appears,
scrape it off and put a little fresh earth on the surface in its
stead ; this will not only add to the neatness of the plants,
but be beneficial to them as well. Pelargoniums that are re-
quired to bloom early may have more water allowed them,
and if the pots are filled with roots should have a shift. Con-
tinue to bring forward a few bulbs and other plants for esrly
flowering. Look to Hyacinths in water-glasses, and occa-
sionally give them fresh water. Light a slight fire to dry the
house if required.

ROMANCE FROM AMERICA.—A young female, possessed
of great beauty, and most elegantly attired, whose name ap-
peared on the charge-sheet as Ellen Rosalind Holmes, was
brought before Mr. Duffy, at the Henry-street police-office,
by police-constable 127 C, who stated that at a rather late
hour the previous night he was on duty in Sackville-street,
and hearing a noise in Elephant-lane he went to ascertain the
cause ; he saw four or five girls along with, or rather encir-
cling the prisoner ; they were abusing each other, and caus-
ing a great disturbance ; when they saw him coming they all,
with the exception of the prisoner, ran away ; but the pri-
soner refused to go, telling him she was a lady, though he was
hardly inclined to believe the statement in consequence of her
conduct ; so the short and long of the matter was, that he
took her to the station-house, and charged her with being
disorderly in the street. The prisoner, in reply to Mr.
Duffy, stated that she was a native of New York, where her
friends, who she said were highly connected, reside, and that
about two years ago a titled English gentleman (she refused
to tell his name) was introduced into her family. He paid
her great attention for some time, and wanted her to marry
him privately ; but this she at first refused to do, telling him
her father could give her a princely dowry, and that she was
willing to become his wife with the consent of her parents.
He refused this, and continued to press his addresses with
such zeal, that she in a moment of weakness was induced to
elope with him ; and in order to prevent a discovery, she put
on male attire, and pas-ed as his lordship's page. He
brought her to Europe, and visited the " Eternal City"
(Rome), where they passed some months, and thence they
travelled Germany, Spain, and all the continental countries ;
at last they came to the great English " Babylon" (London)
where she doffed her page's apparel, and was introduced into
the first circles of society, where she passed as the bride of
her destroyer ; they came to Dublin a short time since, when
shortly afterwards he departed, she knew not whither, leav-
ing her in a very distressed state, so far as her mind was
concerned, but with a tolerably large purse to support her.
The occasion of her being out so late was, that she beard his
lordship was stopping at Kingstown, whither she went to
search of him, but without succeess, and on her return, she
was attacked by a number of girls, from whom she was com-
pelled to defend herself in the best manner she could ; she
was willing to pay any penalty that might be imposed on her
for the improper manner in which it was stated she had con-
duced herself. Mr. Duffy said her story, if true, was very
strange, and ordered her to enter into her own security to
keep the peace, which being done, the fair but unfortunate
daughter of the "land of liberty was at once discharged.
—Dublin paper.
MANUFACTURE OE GAS.—From the Mechanics' Maga-
zine we extract the following specification of the patent re-
cently taken out by Mr. Grafton for an improved method of
manufacturing gas :—" Enrolment-office, Nov. 4, 1841.—A.
double retort is built of fire bricks, a the form of an oven,
divided in a transverse partition in the middle ; beneath each
retort there is a furnace fitted with doors, &c., in the usual
manner. The whole of the retort is covered by an arch,
which the patentee calls "a heat retaining arch," furnished
with apertures communicating with the flue. From the re-
torts the gass passes to what is called " a decomposer," also
provided with a heat-retaining arch, and divided into four
chambers by longitudinal brick partitions ; in the first of
these chambers there is a number of transverse metal divi-
sions, which descended to within one-third of the bottom ;
the other chambers are filled with ignited coke or charcoal.
On entering the decomposer, the gas passes through the
whole of the chambers by means of openings at either end
of the partitions, alternately ; and being freed from impuri-
ties in its passage, is drawn through the exit pipe attached to
the last chamber by an exhausting apparatus. In this pipe
there is a shield of fine wire gauze, to prevent accidents from
the ignition of the gas as it leaves the decomposer. The
claim is-1. To the manufacturing of gas in double retorts,
arranged in the manner described.-2. To increasing the
heat of such retorts by the application of a heat-retaining
arch.-3. To passing the gas through a decomposer, either
detached from, or combined with, the retort.-4. To the
application of an exhausting apparatus to the decomposer, to
facilitate or compel the passage of the gas through it ; toge-
ther with the wire gauze guard, interposed in the pipe be-
tween the exhausting appaaratus and the decomposer."
THE BOY JONES.---This lad, whose repeated intrusions
into the palace have created so much interest, has again
returned to London, and reached the abode of his parents on
Sunday night. It appears that he has been on a voyage to
Bahia. in the ship Tiber, Capt. Ramsay, of which Messrs.
R. and G. Benn, respectable merchants of Liverpool, are the
owners. He arrived in Liverpool in the ship on the 30th
ult. When he left he proceeded on foot to London, with
only 2s. 6d. in his pocket to subsist upon during a journey
of 210 miles. The money he had was soon exhausted, and
he subsisted during the last few days of his journey by pick-
ing a few turnips from the fields, and sleeping in barns and
outhouses during the night. He reached home quite ex-
hausted. It is due to the lad to state that he never alludes
to bis visits to the Palace, and is reluctant to converse with
any one upon the subject.

AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE IMPORTED
Into Liverpool, from the 14th to the 20th inst. inclusive.
FROM IRELAND.
Cows. sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lambs,
1457 2384 2645 3 38
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