The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

We can, from experience, highly recommend Mr. Eggle-
ston's Vegetable Paste as a cure for the tooth-ache.—See adv.
The Rev. George Dover, M.A., curate of Chesterfield, has
been appointed to the new church in Naylor-street, to he
called St. Bartholomew's. Mr. Dover was for some time
curate at Huddersfield, where he endeared himself to the in-
habitants by his zeal and activity amongst the poor, and he
has been selected by the trustees on account of his high cha-
racter, and his fitness for such a peculiar district. The
church is to be consecrated on the 9th of February next. The
ecclesiastical character is preserved in its architecture, and it
will seat about 1200 persons.

LECTURE ON THE GERMAN LANGUAGE.-Mr. Bertin-
champ delivers his second lecture this evening in the Royal
Institution. A numerous attendance may be expected .to
wait on the learned professor.

WALSALL.—On Weditesday the new writ arrived from
the under sheriff by the 12 o'clock train, and the day of no-
mination is fixed for Monday—the day of poll for Tuesday
next.—Staffordshire Gazette.
THE THREE CARACCI.—The three beautiful pictures, to
which really the Liverpool public have become attached, are
to leave next week. We advise all those who have not in-
spected them to visit the Union Rooms without delay. We
believe more than a thousand persons have attended within
this last week. The collection at the Post-office Rooms are
splendid specimens of the old masters. There is a modern
one of a national character which will stir up many an Eng.
lish heart.

Fashionable arrivals at the Grand Junction Hotel :—The
Most Noble the Marquis of Downshire, the Earl of Hills-
borough, Lord Bramberstone, the Lady Heron Maxwell,
Captain Needham and family, Colonel Cameron, Captain
Mainwaring, R.N., Captain Byng, Major Mahone, Miss St.
Leger, Captain Drummond, J. H. Sugden, Esq., Captain
Doyne and family, Sir George Cornwall, Captain Adams,
Mr. and Mrs. Hay and family, General Burgoyne, Mathew
Deane Freeman, Esq., H. Ponsonby, Esq., the Right Hon.
Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, H. John Porter, Esq., D. Allender,
Esq., Robert Napier, Esq.
BRITISH PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—The committee of
this association have just issued an address at the close of the
first year of their labours. We extract from it a startling
statement as to the progress which Popery has lately made in
this country :—Popish colleges, monasteries, mass-houses,
nunneries and convents have one by one sprung up around
us, till their number is alarming. In the year 1814, there
were only forty-five Papal chapels in England and Scotland ;
but now, within an interval of only sixteen years, they have
increased to five hundred and twenty-two. Popish proces-
sions are openly paraded in defiance of the statute called the
Emancipation Act; shows and pretended miracles are openly
exhibited ; in our colonies there are no less than twenty-
three Bishops and two Superiors of Missions from Rome,
with numerous assistants, many of whom are receiving
public support and pay from our government; in London,
the " Catholic Institute" has been established, directed by
all the Vicars Apostolic of Britain, a peer of the realm being
the president, and all the Romish bishops and priests of Bri-
tain and the colonies, and the Romish peers and members of
parliament the committee. The machinery, in full operation
at home and abroad, zealously and perseveringly employed,
and conducted with an unexampled unity of design—every
measure undertaken being originally concocted at Rome, and
thence proceeding, through the agency of Jesuits, in every
direction—presents a formidable engine for working and ad-
vancing the scheme of Popery. When is added to this, the
influence of Popery in high places, the distinctions which are
every day being bestowed on Papists—distinctions of honour,
emolument, and power—it will not surely be deemed an ex-
travagant supposition that unless some check be speedily in-
terposed, the supremacy of Popery will again be established
in all our civil and ecclesiasiical departments. The spread
of Popery in its religious rna,k, and the influence of it in its
political aspect, are perceived and deplored by many, who
nevertheless withhold their support from the Protestant As-
sociation, lest in joining they should become, or at least be
considered political partisans. It is to such especially that
the committee would appeal ; requesting them to reflect, that
the principles of the Protestant Association are emphatically
religious and scriptural. It desires not to have any con-
nexion with politics, as partaking of party feeling; but see-
ing that religion is employed by Romanists to injure our Po-
litical fabric, and that the influence they po'
litics is employed to undermine our Protestant Institutions.
it is impossible effectually to check their advance, except by
meeting their assaults in both directions. To enlighten the
victims of Popish darkness, is a most important object and
duty.

ANTI CORN-LAW NONSENSE.—The Morning Chronicle
has the following paragraph :—" The Opertative Anti Corn-
Law Association of Liverpool have distributed three thou-
sand copies of the annexed pithy questions :—" Does dear
bread bring high wages ?—Bread in 1840, is double the price
that it was in 1835. Are wages doubled ?—No ! Cheap bread
and down with the Corn Law "! ! ! Perhaps some other
questions may occur to the readers of the above very honest
interrogatories. Are the labourers always better off in pro-
portion as bread is cheaper ? Bread was but two-thirds of
the price in 1835 than it is in 1811. Were the labourers one-
third more prosperous in 1835 than they are now ? Wheat
is now but two-thirds of the price that it was fourteen months
ago. Are the labourers one-third better now than they were
fourteen months ago ? Have not the labourers to pay for
many other things as well as bread ? If they have, why is it
assumed that the price being doubled, wages should alter in
the same proportion, in order to make the labourer's condi-
tion equal ? But the most important question is this.—lf
you employ the labourers in foreign countries to grow the
corn for English consumption, how are you to find employ-
ment and wages for the English labourers who now raise the
corn for English consumption !—Morning Post.
REASONS FOR FAVOURABLE COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS.
—With respect to general commerce connected with manu-
facturers, we can now only state that our favourable im-
pressions arise from these causes principally. I—That most
of the raw materials of manufactures are held at low prices.
2—The stocks of goods in foreign markets are not large ; and
they are, generally speaking, laid in-at unusually low rates,
which must act favourably for the exporters in realizing sales.
3—The manufactures of the continent have been paralysed
by numerous bankruptcies—twelve principal firms in the
single town of Magdeburg—and cannot enter into successful
competition with those of England for want of confidence
and power—especially in the spinning departments. 4—Our
great customers in the United States manifest a power and a
willingness to buy ; the last packet-ship left Liverpool with
a freight of £l,BOO, whereas many of the preceding vessels of
the same class went out of dock with £5OO, £6OO, or £7OO
freight. We anticipate that this power will continue at least
equal to what it is at present. s—The Australasian colonies
have been crippled by scarcity of provisions, and enormous
high prices of the necessaries.of life ; the West India colonies
by deficient produce ; and the Canadian, by deranged cur-
rency and political disturbances. The force of all these
untoward influences is lessening, and these colonies will have
more power to consume manufactures. 6—The plantations
of sugar, cotton, and indigo in the East Indies, are, we be-
lieve, in a thriving, prosperous state, and the various markets
in that quarter may be expected to continue good. 7—China.
If our ministers do not neglect the commerce of England as
Lord Castlereagh did at the general peace, there will be an
opening for Britishyade in this quarter, of an extraordinary,
we might say, of an unprecedented, character. One of our
missionaries, who speaks the Chinelklanguage and has lived

many years in the country, reports -7!tat-he-saw----z;elour
hundred vessels employed in the coasting trade on the north-
eastern shores of China, of from 260 to 500 tons burthen
each. The carriage of tea from the province in the north,
where it is produced, to Canton, in the south, for the con-
venience of delivery to the English, costs 600,000 dollars
annually. Nearly all this may be saved by our having a
settlement at Chusan ; and the interchange of commodities
may be exceedingly increased from that centre. We have no
hesitation in saying that it is quite possible for our trade with
China, within a short term of years, to be increased in a more
rapid progression than that which marks the decennial aug-
mentation of our trade with the United States.—Circular to
Bankers.

THE SOUP KITCHENS.—During the winter season, when
employment is scarce, provisions dear, and all the sufferings
of the poor enhanced by the severity of the weather, we be-
lieve we are correct in asserting, that none of our excellent
charitable institutions is found more effectual in the abate-
ment of human misery than that which, at a merely nominal
price, dispenses supplies of warm and nourishing food. That
the subscriptions to the funds of the soup committee have
been liberal, we rejoice, while we confess that we shall have
an increase of gratification in finding this liberality doubled
and quadrupled in years to come. There is always, in spite
of the most energetic exertions of benevolence, a large sum
of misery in the back ground, and, if we cannot quite banish
suffering altogether, we could wish, whatever other priva-
tions may be endured, that none among our fellow-beings
should have to endure the pangs of hunger. Many, we have
no doubt, have been saved from starvation by the operation
of this charity, which, we trust, will always have munificent
support. We have heard that some few parties have ex-
pressed discontent, that a portion of the subscriptions are
not returned to them in tickets for distribution. The worthy
individuals who desire such return have, we think, conceived
erroneous impressions of the working of the charity. It
might be sufficient to say in reply, that the objects of the
committee and of those who support them have been ad-
mirably carried out under the existing system ; but it may
be necessary to show, that the rule which has been required
would positively subtract from the utility of the institution-
The subscriptions are for the purpose of enabling the com-
mittee to sell to the poor, at a price far below what it would
cost them, a wholesome and palatable food. The purchase-
money received from the poor, and that arising from the sale
of tickets, is absorbed into the general fund. It is reason-
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into the hand of poor creatures who solicit alms as he passes
on his way. He may feel that it will be more beneficial to
give soup tickets than money, in which case the proper course
is, to purchase the tickets with what he would otherwise have
distributed amongst the craving needy. If he were to re-
ceive back one-third of his subscription ; and, supposing this
to be general, the consequence would be, either that the
operations of the institution would be curtailed to that
amount, or the subscribers would be called upon to contri-
bute the deficiency, in which latter case, to reverse an old
saying, they would be merely putting money into one pocket
which they would have to take out of the other. Indeed,
we feel certain that the charity would be supported to its pre-
sent extent, the difference to the subscribers would be just
nothing, while the committee would be put in the unpleasant
situation of appearing to exact a greater amount of subscrir
tions. At present all goes smoothly, the objects of the chianti
are fulfilled, while it matters not to the subscribers where
they get their tickets, since they must be paid for either
through increased subscription or by purchase, otherwise the
institution will lack support, an alternative which we are se°
not one of them will desire.—Courier.

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RELIEF OF THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF THOSE WHO
PERISHED IN THE THAMES STEAM-VESSEL.—Alderman
Pixie yesterday stated to the Lord Mayor that a distinguished
member of Lloyd's had signified his willingness to receive
subscriptions for the distressed widows, orphans, and other
relatives of the unfortunate crew who perished in the Thames
steamer on the 4th of January. It was, he observed, unne-
cessary to detail the particulars, as the public papers had so
fully stated the nature and horrors of the disaster; but his
great object in coming forward on this occasion was to assure
his Lordship, and through his Lordship the public, that the
necessities of the relatives of the poor fellows who were lost
were very great, and had unquestionable claims upon the
sympathies of all good men. The Lord Mayor expressed
high gratification at the exertions which the highest charac-
ters in the city were determined to make to raise a subscrip-
tion for such objects as the alderman so humanely repre-
sented, and stated that he bad no doubt of the result.—Times
of Wednesday.—[ln addition to the above, we have the gra-
tification of stating, that the Queen, with her usual benevo-
lence, has liberally remitted thirty pounds to be added to the
fund collecting in Liverpool, for the widows and children left
by the unfortunate crew of the Thames.]
THE LAST SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT.—On Tuesday the
last subscription concert of the season took place, and was
fashionably and well attended. Some disappointment, how-
ever, was experienced in consequence of the non-appearance
of Herr Koenig, who was announced to perform on the cor-
nopeau between the first and second parts. An explanation
was given to the gallery, which had not been informed upon
the subject of that gentleman's non-appearance, the otherparts
of the house having been freely supplied with a circular, con-
taming the correspondence between Mr. Ashton and Herr
Koenig, who having, on the 20th instant, accepted an en-
gagement to be present at the concert on Tuesday evening,
was compelled, in consequence of arrangements with the
lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, to relinquish his engagement
with Mi. Ashton, though, according to Herr Koenig's state-
ment, Mr. Eliason had permitted him to appear in Liver-
pool, but, for some reason unexplained, he (Mr. Eliason)
was compelled to retract the permission. This appears to us
to completely exonerate Mr. Ashton from blame, and it ap-
pears to us that Mr. Eliason is the only person on whom it
should rest. Mr. Ashton, we believe, would be the last man
to countenance an imposture of any kind. But to the con-
cert :—The overture to Masaniello was admirably played.
The trio " This Magic-wove Scarf," from Barnet's opera of
the " Mountain Sylph," was delightfully sung by Miss Ro-
mer and_ Messrs. Makin and Harrison. We cannot say
much for' Mr. Harrison's " All is lost now." Wood and
Templeton have made too vivid an impression upon our
minds to relish this charming composition from any but able
voices. Miss Romer, in the aria " Prendi per me," quite
charmed her hearers. 'Horseley's " Tempest" was cleverly
sung by Mr. Mackin. The Grand Duet by Mrs. and Miss
St. Albin was the leading feature of the evening. Of Mrs.
St. Albin it is needless to speak : her brilliant, execution and
great taste is too well known to require comment. Miss St.
Albin appears to beainoM promising pianafortiste. The chorus
"'Now trump," was encored. "La ci darem" was deliciously
sung by Miss Romer and Mr. Machin. It really was very
capitally done. The second part commenced with a pleasant
little interruption, which on subsiding was succeeded by
Weber's " Jubilee" overture. The duet " Lova and War,"
by Mr. Machin and Mr. Harrison, went off flatly. The
song " Young Spring" was encored, Miss Romer sung it
very charmingly. Thalberg's Prayer, from Mose in Egitto,
by Mrs. St. Albin, quite electrified the audience, her execution
and power is astonishing. Mrs. St. Albin has no English
compeers of her own sex upon the piano-forte, perhaps few
foreign even. Mr. Machin's " Gather ye rosebuds," was
deservedly encored, as was also Herold's (not Rooke's, as in
the programme) " 'Tis really very strange." We have no
doubt there will 1;e in:my grumblers upon this occasion, in
consequence of Herr Koenig; but when the difficulties to be
encountered, and the many tastes to be gratified by the manager
of these concerts, are considered,—taking the series altoge-
ther, we have little hesitation in saying, that there is a debt
of gratitude due to him for providing some very delightful
entertainments; and if faults have existed, they are over-
whelmingly counterbalanced by the pleasure afforded. Few
men would take the trouble, Mr. Ashton has, for so little
profit. If the affair had been got up by a committee, we
suspect far less gratification would have been obtained.

MR. EGERTON'S BENEFIT AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.—
We beg to draw the attention of our readers who support the
theatres to Mr. Egerton's announcement, that his benefit
will take place on Monday next. Under the circumstances
in which Mr. Egerton is now placed, in respect to the
Theatre-Royal's patent, and considering the great outlay of
money which has taken place in rendering the Amphitheatre
a pleasant place of public resort, we think that some very
strong demonstration ought to be made in Mr. Egerton's
behalf. His theatre must be closed, if we understood the
matter rightly, almost immediately, and at a time when a re-
turn ought to be looked for. The case, therefore, presses
most hardly upon him. The public have bean highly grati-
fied with the entertainments at the Amphitheatre, as is
clearly shown by the excellence of the attendance. We trust
that those who have enjoyed themselves will not now forget
to show Mr. Egerton the estimation in which he is held, al-
though a stranger in Liverpool. The excellence of the
dramas produced, and the spirit with which they have been
put upon the stage, fairly entitle him to expect that pit,
boxes, and gallery, will be filled in every " nook, hole, and
corner." The bill of fare, to use a common expression, is
most attractive. " Mazeppa" has been prepared in a style
almostunparalleled in Liverpool, whether for scenery, dresses,
or decorations ; while the afterpiece of " Cherry and Fair
Star" has been got up regardless of expense. We hope that
Monday night will prove a real benefit.
FIRE IN LANCELOT'S HEY.—On Wednesday night,
about half-past eleven o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in
the office of Messrs. Vianna and Jones, in Lancelot's Hey,
which threatened to communicate with the warehouses ad-
jacent ; but by the timely arrival of the fire-engines it was
subdued, and confined to the above premises. The spirit-
vaults underneath, occupied by Mr. Cearns, were partially
damaged. The premises we understand are fully insured.
THE BOTANIC GARDEN.—We are glad to learn that the
Botanic Garden, with its conservatories and library, is now
rendered available to the respectable tradespeople of the
town, by the proprietors having judiciously determined to
issue to subscribers, family tickets, at one guine.t per annum.
We believe that this measure was adopted in order that all
might enjoy the healthful and elevating pleasures of this de-
lightful institution ; and we trust that the liberality of the
proprietors will be duly appreciated by the public.
STABBlNG.—Yesterday, at the police-court, two boys,
James Norris and Edward Williams, who had been remanded
from Monday, owing to, the illness of the person whom they
had assaulted, were placed at the bar charged with having
attacked a man named Chadwick. It appeared the com-
plainant, without giving provocation, was pushed in the street
by the prisoners and two others. He gave one of them a tap
on the head, when the prisoners assaulted him, and Norris,
who was seen with an open lack-knife in his hand, stabbed
him behind, inflicting upon him a severe wound, which had
confined him for several days. The prisoners denied the
charge •, but the evidence was clear against them. One of
them had been committed five times, and the other fifteen
times. They were committed for trial at the sessions.
MRS. WAYLEIT'S BENEFIT, LIVER. —Mrs. Waylett
takes her benefit at the Liver to-night, on the close of her
second engagement. Her bill is a very good one. Mrs.
Waylett's songs are gushes of melody, and are sufficient to