The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-13 00:00:00

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

LIE Go-AHEAD AGE.—The railroads of the United
Kingdom are now carrying passengers at the rate of fifteen
hundred million miles a-year--equal to eight times a-year
to the sun and back again !
GREAT MoRTALITY and consequent distress prevail in
Ramsey. Scarlatina is carrying off the children, and
English cholera many adults. A soup kitchen has been
opened.

BELGRAVIA. was, on Tuesday night, suddenly enveloped
in darkness ; to use the words of a cabman—" The lamps
vas lit, and all at vunse they vent out like vinkin." No
explanation is given of the awkward occurrence.
THE CABINET, it is understood, is now busily em-
ployed in preparing its promised measure of Parliamentary
Reform, and not even the pressing interests and
harassing perplexities of foreign politics will prevent its
being brought forward early in the session.—Economist.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Glasgow Free Press states
that whilst Mr. Sheridan Knowles is lecturing and preach-
ing with great vehemence against Popery, his son, Mr.
Richard Brinsley Knowles, a gentleman of high character
and great attainments," has become a Roman Catholic.
LIE MASTER OF THE ROLLS, on Friday, ordered the
sum of £250,000 to be transferred to Mr. Mackinnon,
M.P., and family ; and, also, that the additional sum of
00,000, and estates in Lancashire and Surrey, should be
transferred in the same manner, on or before the first of
May next.

fSTIIMIIS OF DARIEN.—We understand the most gra-
tifying intelligence has been received respecting the pro-
gress about being made in perfecting Sir Charles Fox's
plan for crossing the Isthmus of Darien. The English
government is to lend the most ample assistance ; America
has promised its entire co-operation ; and Sir Charles Fox
is now in France, in full expectation of obtaining the
approval and patronage of the Emperor. Mining Journal.
PRESERVATION OF STONE.—I think the publication of
the following recipe for preventing frost from acting on
newly-used Bath and Caen stone would be of service
to the architect, builder, and operative. I have tried it four
winters, and found it successful :—Take fresh burnt lime and
mix it to the consistence of whitewash : to one gallon of
this add one pint of common salt and a quarter of a pound
of alum. This is to be used similar to whitewash, and is
to be put on as soon as the lime is run, while it is yet
warm, and is then to be dragged off in the spring. I have
found this to answer well on blocks of stone fresh dug,
which usually feel the effects of the weather first when
they are equally exposed.—Correspondent of the Builder.
THE NAwan OF SITRAT.-Among the passengers by the
Ripon with the India and China mail, were several per-
sons belonging to the suite of the Nawab of Surat, who
came from Bombay to Suez in the East India Company's
steamer Ackbar, and, in order to shorten the sea voyage to

England, proceeded from Alexandria to Trieste in the
Austrian packet, accompanied by several of his friends
and servants. The rest of the suite came home in the
Ripon. Surat was the first place at which the Mogul
Emperors allowed the English to establish a factory in
India. The principal persons in Surat vvere fire worshippers.
The Nawab's servants were dressed in the picturesque
costume of their country ; one of them spoke English
fluently and grammatically. They cooked for themselves
on board the Ripon. The only thing they would eat which
had been touched by Christians was bread. They killed
the fowls they ate, and cut the throats of the sheep which
furnished flesh for their own table. The Nawab's object
in visiting England is to prosecute some claim which he
has on the British Government.

PROFESSIONAL PERJURY.—A man fell down stairs and
killed himself at Stow-on-the-Wold some time since,
and a surgeon named John Mageniss gave the following
evidence on the inquest :—" I was called in to the deceased
at two o'clock in the morning of Thursday last, and found
him dead, lying upon his back on the bed, dressed. The
body was cold. There were no marks of violence. I knew
deceased when in life, but never attended him profession-
ally. From my knowledge of him, the circumstances
as detailed in evidence, and having seen him after
death, in my opinion the cause of death was a disease
of the heart, probably accelerated by the fall, and the state
he was in." It subsequently transpired that this surgeon
had not seen the man at all. The coroner remonstrated
with him for volunteering such a false statement upon
oath, but the surgeon replied that he had got his guinea
for his evidence, and he meant to keep it. A warrant was
then issued to apprehend him on a charge of perjury, and
it was satisfactorily proved before the magistrates that he
really had never seen the deceased. The defence set up
was that he was drunk. He was committed for trial at
the Gloucester assizes.
THE WONDER OP THE AGE.—CASSELL'S WEEKLY
ILLUSTRATED PAPER, price One Penny, containing eight
pages, the same dimensions as the " Illustrated London
News." Number 1., though bearing date December 31,
will be ready for delivery December 14. It will be pub-
lished thus early to afford the public an opportunity of
purchasing what will be unhesitatingly confessed the
greatest achievement in the history of cheap literature.
Notwithstanding the low pirke at which this paper is pub-
lished, the first writers and artists will be engaged upon
it. No. I. will contain "The Arctic Crusoe : a Tale of
the Polar Seas," by Percy B. St. John ; with a splendid
Engraving of Young Robinson and Stop in the Cave, from
a Drawing by G. F. Gilbert—" Christmas and its Asso-
ciations," with two large characteristic Engravings by H.
Linton, from designs by Kenny Meadows —" Joel Kirk-
ham's first Experience in the American Backwoods," by
William Howitt—Portraits of Prince Menschikoff and
Prince Paskewitsch, with brief Notices—" The Russian
People," with engraved costumes of the various orders—
Engraving of the Turkish and Egyptian Fleets—ditto of
the Sultan's State Barge—History and Curiosities of
Almanacs, with Engraving—Chess, with engraved Prob-
lem—" How Young Newman was Cured of a Water-
cure"—Scientific Miscellanies, &c. Orders for this re-
markable paper should be immediately given to any
bookseller or newsvender.

SUICIDE OE A YOUNG FEMALE.—A melancholy and
disastrous occurrence, calculated to give rise to most pain-
ful feelings, occurred on board the Laurel steamer, during
the passage, on Friday night, from Glasgow to this port.
From the account of the occurrence which has reached us,
it appearS that a person, who has attained some notoriety

for keeping a house of an abandoned character in Queen...
street, engaged passages, from Glasgow, for six or seven
unfortunate young females on the occasion referred to.

During the course of the voyage the party indulged rather

freely in wine, and their conductor, perhaps apprehending
that some accident might occur, succeeded in inducing
them all to retire for the night, with the exception of one
of the females, named Elizabeth Nixon, belonging, it is
said, to Holywood. She had been in the cabin saloon for
some time, and in consequence, it would seem, of repeated
requests that she should go to rest like her companions,
she went on deck between eleven and twelve o'clock, while
the vessel was off Ailsa Craig. She was followed on deck
by the female who had the party in charge, and while the
latter was requesting the intervention of an American
gentleman, who was on deck, in order to induce her to go
below, she suddenly caught hold of a portion of the rigging
at that part of the vessel, and flung herself overboard into
the sea. The vessel at the time was going at full speed,
and all exertions to rescue the unfortunate creature, who
thus met an untimely and premature end, were entirely
fruitless.—Belfast Northern Whiq.

SECURITY FOR THE WORKING-CLASSES.—lnstances
are of almost every-day occurrence, by which the families

of industrious artisans" are plunged into deep and often

irremediable distress, through the destruction of their

little property by fire, occurring either in the. factories

where they work, or in their own dwellings, where they

are much-more exposed to risk from the -carelessness of

inmates or near neighbours. Hitherto the poor man has

not had an opportunity of protecting himself against los:

by having recourse to_ Fire Societies, owing to
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the tables- of risks not being calculated below a certain sum :
so that a mechanic who might desire to insure his house-

hold furniture, or the tools employed by him in his trade,
say to the amount of twenty or thirty pounds, could not
do so without paying as much as his rich neighbour for
insuring two or three hundred pounds. This is the true
cause why the working-classes have not largely availed
themselves of the benefits of fire assurance, so widely
extended amongst the wealthy. We are gratified, there-
fore, to perceive, by a prospectus of a plan from the
Atheneum Fire Office, that the directors of that office

have resolved to extend' the advantages of fire assurance,
so as to enable the poorest man to protect himself from

.
loss by effecting a small insurance at an insignificant cost.
Some idea may be formed of the inexpensiveness of the

means of security, when we say that for a quarterly pay-
ment of sixpence (less than one halfpenny per week) an
assurance may be effected with the Atheneum Fire Office

for £3O, upon household furniture, or for a quarterly pay-
ment of one shilling the assurance will include a sum
upon a workman's tools. We have great confidence in

this plan, which, we doubt not, will be taken up eagerly
by those classes for whose benefit it is designed, based as

it is upon sound commercial principles, and ;philanthropic
regard for the protection of the working-classes.—Sunday

Times

THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CATTLE SHOW in London
commenced on Tuesday. It was only " less splendid"
than that of last year, but in usefulness, and in an im-
proved character on points of real importance, a decided
advance was discernible. The short-horns were the prin-
cipal features of the show, and carried off two gold medals
competed for in the cattle classes. The attention of the
visitors was early directed to one huge animal, which
towered about two feet higher than all his neighbours—a
five-and-a-half-year-old ox, bred by Sir Harry Verney
from the stock of Mr. Hayter, of Linslade, near Leighton
Buzzard. Much had been said beforehand of the extraor-
dinary qualities and symmetry of this animal, but it is
fair to say that a comparison of his appearance with that
of other animals in the exhibition did not bear out the
praises. His proportions were on a colossal scale, it is
true ; the ordinary specimens of the breed seemed quite
dwarfed in his presence; but, on the other hand, there
was an absence of all those " points" which are so much
desiderated by connoisseurs. Instead of the rotund,
barrel-shaped form, which is esteemed the perfection of
good feeding, this animal presented ridges of bone,
his skin being flabby about his loins, and there was
an absence of symmetry which must have struck
the most superficial observer. As might have been
expected, no prize was awarded. A very different
picture was presented in a red and white ox, exhi-
bited by Mr. Stratton, of Broad Hinton, near Swindon,
Wiltshire, aged three years and nine months, to which
was awarded the first short-horn prize and the gold medal,
as the finest ox in the exhibition. It is remarkable that
Mr. Stratton has also gained the first prize in the class of
steers a year younger, and that last year he was equally
successful in carrying off the gold medal, the first prize in
the first, as well as the first prize in the second class of
short-horns ; and that the animals which gained the
prizes in the two years were all by the same sire." The
Devons made a fair appearance, but the Herefords were

fewer in number and deficient in quality. The mustei:Of
Scots were unusually poor ; there were, however, some
really excellent first crosses. Among the sheep, South
downs came first, the other pure breeds being scarcely up
to the average. The pigs were as fat as usual ; Mr. John
Coate, of Hammoon, and Prince Albert dividing the
prizes: A show of roots by the Royal Dublin Society
were especially noticed, as showing the luxuriant green
crops produced by the fertile soil of the Emerald Isle.
The collection was magnificent, embracing all the different
varieties of mangold-Yrurzel, turnips of various kinds,
sugar-beet, parsnips, White and red carrots, potatoes, field
onions, flax-seed, ar.d several remarkable specimens of

ad-cabbagA.- Brae of these roots were euriosit

LIBERAL EXCLUSIVENESS.—Not a single Conservative
has been placed on the finance committee of the York
corporation ! ! And Mr. Alderman Rowutree, very inno-
ceatty said, it was all right, as there was no party feeling
in the council ! !—Yorkshire Gazette.
S CFFOCATION.—A remarkable case occurred at Elsecar,
near Barnsley, last week, a woman,. her two children,
and a lodger in the house, having been destroyed by the
escape of fumes of cyanide of potassium into the house
during the night time from an adjacent blast furnace.
THE O'CONNOR SWINDLE. —At the Lord Justices'
Court, on Saturday, the official managers appointed to
wind up the affairs of the National Land Company, were
appointed to execute conveyances of the several allotments
of the O'Connerville estate at Rickmansworth, in Hert-
fordshire, to the allottees, in the place and stead of Mr. F.
O'Connor, who had been found a lunatic
CAPTAIN WARNER, so well known.for his invention of
what was -milarly. te- 'd a

[ADVERTISEMENT.I
DAYLIGHT REFLECTORS.

TO TILE EDITOR OP TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
am instructed by M. A ÜBIN CHAPPUIS, the
Proprietor of the Patent Reflector Factory, 10, St. Mary-axe,
London, to request the insertion of the following statement,
the greatest part of which has already appeared in several of
the London and of the country newspapers, namely, Times,
Daily News, Advertiser, Observer, Atisenteuin, Builder, 4.e.
Having performed this duty, I feel confident the Liverpool
public will very soon detect on which side there is truth,
right, and might.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
E. BENOIST,
Manager of the Patent Reflector Branch Establishment,
6, Old Postoffice-place.
Liverpool, 26th November, 1853.

P 8.0 TES TA IVY

REFORMATION
____

SOCIETY.

WORKLNG MEN'S BRANCH

pop .med the "long range," died sud-
.ne st resolution, _ r. arsonage said he
denly last week, having been a day previously in the ap- would explain the principles and object of the Reformation
....
parent enjoyment of health. It appears that recently Society. " Its name," he. observed, "is significant, and
Captain Warner was very sanguine of coming to some carries our thoughts to the dark days of Bloody Mary,
who, according to the. undeniable testimony of the his-
arrangement with the Turkish Government for the use of
t
his invention; and whether the excitement arising fromorian Hume, put Cranmer, and Latimer, and Ridley, and
this expectation had any connexion with his sudden death I many other excellent men to death for their Protestant
is not known. 1 principles. By Protestant principles we simply mean
SHARPERS IN A RAILWAY TRAIN, &c.—No fewer ,those leading doctrines of the Gospel which
were disentombed and brought to light from the sepul-
than six "schools" or gangs of London sharpers have been
chre in which Rome had buried them. Not to enumerate
making the tour of Scotland this autumn, and playing at
a
thimbles, cards, and other fraudulent games, to entrap all, which would occupy much time, he had selected the
the unwary, both in railway trains, and at fairs, markets, following :—Man's total ruin by sin ; the efficacy
and other places of public resort. 'Their tricks are sup- of the Holy Spirit to quicken and convert his
ported by great skill and address, and there is reason to soul; man's acceptance, first and last, before God only
believe that their visit has proved a very lucrative one.—
through the merits of our Saviour Christ; the sanctifies-
Scotsman. tion of the believer ; the freeness and sovereignty of
DEATH FROM THE BIM OF A RAT.—An inquest was grace : these, and other kindred truths, constitute, in our
held on Friday, at Bristol; on the body of John Thomas judgment, the distinguishing doctrines of our never-to-
Barry,be-forgotten Reformation. To establish these principles,
aged six months. A fortnight ago the mother was
awoke by the cries of the infant, and, on lighting a candle, our English forefathers willingly shed their blood, rather
she found that the child had been bitten by a rat just than submit to Rome, because they could not surrender
under the right eye. There were marks remaining of the justification by faith alone, or admit of any but the one
rat's claws and teeth, and also a great quantity of blood. Mediator; neither could they believe bread to be flesh, or
wine to be blood; they could not bow down to images, or
The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased died, from
injuries occasioned by the bite of a rat." speak of purgatory except as a pernicious delusion; and
they would not ascribe to a fallible man the unerring
ACCIDENT TO TWO BISHOPS.—On Friday, as the Bishop
wisdom of the one living and true God. In this sense
of Natal and Graham's Town were proceeding to Cuddesdon
Palace, to meet a party at the Bishop of Oxford's, the we are Protestants, and every upholder of scriptural truth
will protest against Popish errors and corruptions, which
carriage was upset near Wheatley, and the right rev.
brethren were extricated from their perilous situation by are as irreconcilable with the word of God as they are
being helped out through the window, as the door could destructive of immortal souls. , Our movement is
not be opened. Their lordships sustained no injury, and based upon Holy Scripture, and in unison with the
recorded sentiments of the Established Church ; for
as the Bishop of Oxford's cornage, returning also from
Oxford, reached the spot shortly after the accident, their we conceive that the great religious principle of the
Protestant Reformation is plainly stated in the sixth
lordships were enabled to proceed to their destination
without much delay.
article of our Church. It is this : "Holy Scripture con-
TIME'S INROADS ON THE BENCH.—During the last
taineth all things necessary to salvation ; so that whatso-
taken place among the ever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby, is
four years great changes have ,
ud not to be required of any man that it should be believed
ges of our
j Supreme Court. We believe that so many
as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or neces-
sho
apprt at
o period siments t the bence thencommch ha
encementve not occurofrthe Court in ed within so
sary to salvation." We hold that it is the right of every
1552. No fewer than nine judges have taken their seats
man to hold and exercise his private judgment upon Scrip-
on the bench since the beginning of the year 1850, in
ture, which is the only infallible rule of faith. Conse-
,
place of the following seven members of the Court, viz., quently, we sympathise with our Roman Catholic fellow-
Lord President Boyle, Lords Jeffrey, Dundrennan, Mac- :townsmen, who are under the dominion of a system which
kenzie, Moncreiffi Anderson, and Fullerton, who have
'has ever been hostile to the word of God : they hate the
been removed by death ; and two other judges, viz., Lords light, their deeds and intentions being evil ! When
i Martin Luther, the great reformer, gave to the world
Medwyn and Cunninghame, who have resigned.—Scottish
Record. i his translation of_ the New Testament, the historian re- _ .. ___

marks, "The Reformation was thenceforward taken COST OF A PEERAGE.-A parliamentary return has
of his hand, God showed himself, and man was seen as
been printed of the persons to whom, and for what ser-
vices, the sum of £420, charged in the civil contingencies nothing !" And our confidence is not in man, but in the
for 1852, was paid, and the names of the several persons j use of those weapons which are mighty through God to
the pulling down of strongholds. We are determined
receiving the same for the patent creating General Lord
not to 'heed those who advisequietness, and counsel
Fitzroy Somerset a baron of the United Migdom. The
Crown-office charges amounted to £390. 15s. 4d., and the peace with Rome. No, though we love Romanists, yet
authority for the same-is stated " ancient usage." of we hate Romanism and detest it, and our cry, as
that sum £l5O. 2s. went to the Stam p-office ; £lO4. Os. 10d. we oppose Popish superstition and tyranny, shall ever
to the Royal Household. Some of the items are curious. be, "No peace with Rome !" Some of our Protestant
The payment to the Lord Chancellor, Great Seal fee, is brethren fancy that Popery has changed, and say that
she is not now in the 19th century what she was
£2. 6s. Bd.; the Clerk of the Hanaper has £24. 13s. 4d. ;
in the days of her Innocents and her Hildebrands.
the deputy, £l. ls. ; the Lord Chancellor's pursebearer
We doubt not their sincerity ; but we believe it to
£5. ss. ; the porter to the Great Seal, £l. ls.; gentlemen
be a delusion, and we propose to use means calculated
to expose this miserable deception, too successfully gated
to ditto, £6 ; sealer, £l. 2s. 6d. ; deputy ditto, 10s. 6d. •
; tised upon the credulous by the crafty advocates of Popery.
Chaffwax 6d. ; deputy ditto, 10s. 6d. ; principal'
Usher of' Scotland, £6. 13s. 6d. ; Scotch heralds, £l6
English ditto, £36; Earl-Marshal, £5 ; Garter-King-at- Something in this direction is already accomplished at our
North Institute, where weekly above 600 persons, chiefly
Arms, £2O, and the gold emblazoned skin and boxes to
men, are instructed in Protestant principles. We are
hold the patent and seal cost £9. The Patent-office
charges amounted to £29. 18s. 6d. By the Attorney-. about to form a Tract Distribution Society, to lend tracts
on the idolatry, treason, immorality, absurdity, cruelty,
General, £2O, for approving, settling, and signing the
and riestcraft the h ystem ! In to
Queen's warrant for her Majesty's signature, according to
the disloyalty ofof PopishPopis priests, she read fromreference Dr. Cahill's
" ancient usage." By the Clerk of the Patents, to the
lecture on the Social Condition of Ireland the following.
Attorney-General, £7. 7s. 6d., by " ancient usage," and
extract :-" I perceive now there is no slander or articles
£l. 10s. stamp duty on warrant. By the engrossing-clerk,
£l. ls., for engrossing the warrant and for parchment. against us in the Times. And do you know why ?
Because Napoleon 111, stands at the head of 500,000 men.
Baron of the United Kingdom.
In this manner £420 was expended in the creation of a *
* * Austria has turned the Times newspaper
• •
BRISTOL POULTRY Snow.-The annual show of poultry
for Bristol and the West of England in connexion with
the Bristol Agricultural Association was held on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday, at the Great Western Railway
terminus. The attendance each day was very large. The
liberal premiums offered attracted exhibitors from all parts
of the kingdom. Judging from the prices affixed to the
pens, the rage for Cochin China fowls seems to be as great
as ever. One pen of four birds was labelled £lOO, and
several other pens wese respectively m irked £3O, £4O, and
£5O. There was a good supply of turkeys, ducks, geese, &c.
TRACT DISTRIBUTING.-On Tuesday, a deputation
from the committee of the Society for Irish Church Mis-
sions to the Romanists waited, by appointment, upon
Viscount Palmerston, the Home Secretary, for the purpose
of presenting the memorial of the society, praying for an
inquiry into the circumstances which have lately taken
place in Dublin in reference to the decision of Mr. Hugh
O'Callaghan, the police magistrate, in the case of William
Smith ; and also into the instructions given by Colonel
Browne to the police inspectors in the matter of the placard
exhibited in front of the society's office in Rutland-square.
Te members of the deputation were :-Viscount Lilford,
General Sir Peregrine Maitland, G.C,8., Hon. A. Kinnaird,
M.P., Admiral Hope, C. 8., Colonel Alexander, Mr. John
Beckett, Rev. R. Rickersteth, Rev. E. Auriol, Rev. H. H.
Beamish, Mr. John Bridges, Rev. C. J. Goodhart, Captain
Kelly, Rev. Dr. Armstrong, Rev. Thos. Nolan, Rev. M. M.
Preston, Rev. A. J. Ram, and the Rev. W. Marrable. The
memorial was signed by the Duke of Manchester, presi-
dent of the society, and forty-five of the vice-presidents
and members of the committee. The Hon. A. Kinnaird,
M.P., introduced the deputation to his lordship, and the
Rev. Mr. Bickersteth explained the circumstances under
which Smith, for offering a handbill to Mr. O'Brennan,
was ordered by Mr. O'Callaghan to enter into recognisances
to be of good behaviour, and read the closing paragraph of
the memorial, which was as follows :-" Your memorialists
humbly pray that your lordship will institute an inquiry
into the circumstances which have lately taken place in
Dublin, in reference to the decision of Hugh O'Callaghan,
Esq., the police magistrate, in the case of William Smith,
for a constructive assault ; and also into the instructions
given by Colonel Browne, commanding the metropolitan
police of Dublin, to his inspectors, in the matter of the
placards recently exhibited in front of the Society for Irish
Church Missions to the Roman Catholics in Rutland-
square. A conversation ensued, during the course of
which Lord Palmerston observed :-" I think it is absurd
to say that a man distributing things of that sort is com-
mitting, or likely to commit, a breach of the peace. The
breach of the peace is committed by those who may be
made angry by it, and who cannot keep their temper."
Ultimately he was understood to say that he would inquire
into it. The deputation then withdrew

it also ; Bulwer was turned out at forty-eight hours' notice
from Spain, in consequence of his interference with the
Catholic worship._ We have now seven Catholic thrones ;

tholic family,Nle may expect an eighth. So, as God is just, we
may expect the triumph of the true faith!" He continued :
Mark the language of this loyal priest. Now, Napoleon

is still at the ileaa of his 500,000 Frenchmen, and yet the
Times has written against Popery • and in last Friday's
paper it represents the Roman Catholic Church as rampant
rather than triumphant throughout the whole of southern
Europe, and tells us that the Papal Government is exe-
crated by its own immediate subjects ; and that it needs
but the first burst of war to shatter the system on its very
centre. Now, let us ask, where is the fear, on the part of
the Times, of Napoleon, or his French soldiers? But the
Times says more :—" There is no stronger revolutionary
element in the European system at the present time than
the growing despOtism of the Roman priesthood." Is it to
succeed ? No. " Whether it will be chastened by the
immediate action of the persons aggrieved, or whether it
will fall to pieces in the presence of great political events,
it is not for us to determine, but fall it will, and that ere
long !" Where is Dr. Cahill's triumph of the true faith?
Allow me to ask, what are we to understand by Dr. Cahill's
allusion to Napoleon's 500,000 men intimidating the Times?
I believe it may be thus interpreted. Dr. Cahill hopes that
there will be a war between France and England, and that
France will conquer England, so that his Church may have
a chance of recovering her long lost supremacy in ourbeloved
land. The priests of Rome are dangerous subjects,--and we
cannot wonder at their sentiments when we call to mind
the fact that their sworn fealty to the Pope must neces-
sarily destroy their allegiance to the Queen. Nay, more, it
is their opinion that our Sovereign's title to the throne of
England ought not only to be set aside, when an effort to
that effect can be safely and successfully ventured on,
but cannot be legally ratified by the coronation, inas-
' much as that ceremony was wholly invalid, having been
performed by a Protestant and heretical Prelate ! What
can we expect from men of such principles ? And if you
doubt that they hold such principles, hear the oaths taken
by Jesuits on being admitted to that society. Mr. Parson-
age then read the oath taken by Jesuits, laying particular
stress upon the following words—" he (the Pope) hath
power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, common-
wealths, and governments, all being illegal without his
sacred confirmation, and they may be safely destroyed."
These are the men who put themselves forward as
the advocates of liberality and philanthropy. Their
charity is akin to that which Cardinal Bellarmine, in his
standard work on Maynooth College, explains in the
following significant language : " When heretics (Protes-
tants) are strong, they should be committed to God ;
when weak to the executioner, because it is an act of
kindness to obstinate heretics to take them out
of this life, for the longer they live, the more errors they
invent, the more men do they pervert, and the greater
damnation do they acquire unto themselves." And in
Liverpool there are Romanists who are not quite
divested of this sanguinary spirit of persecution—men
who countenanced that shameless perverter of history,
the vindicator of the diabolical and bloodthirsty cruelty
of the infernal Inquisition ! Yes, our Roman Catholic
townsmen heard, with delight and cheers, the following,
among other statements, from Mr. Northcote: "The
inquisition made use of torture, as one of the judicial
means of getting at truth; and it is not to be denied that
the inquisition did deliver heretics (Protestants) to the
arm of the secular power, knowing that they would be
put to death I" What can we think of men who presume
to vindicate this seven-headed monster, which destroyed not
less than fifteen millions of human beings ; who justify the
massacre of the Albigenses, the most peaceful, industrious,
and godly people on earth, who were persecuted, pillaged,
burnt out, and murdered, simply on account of their
religion ! When such men are applauded for falsifying
history, and misrepresenting Protestantism, are we to be
idle? No; we resolve, through Divine assistance, that
our efforts will never cease until we convince every work-
ing man in Liverpool that Popery is essentially what it
ever was ; that it inspires its votaries with a similar spirit
to that which of old led to the murder of Cobham, and to
despoiling the grave of Wickliffe, and which has been
ready, in every age, with the fire and faggot, to put to
death every one who dared to dissent from its tenets.
Look at the priests in Ireland, who endanger the lives of
harmless men by publicly denouncing them in their
chapels. No wonder that the laity should drink in. the
same spirit, for, like priests like people ; therefore they
cheer the advocate of torture and murder, even of the
horrible Inquisition ! In speaking of such a system, we
cannot use gentle terms.
" Away with charity that soothes a lie,
And thrusts the truth with scorn and anger by;
Shame on the candour and the gracious smile,
ry Bestowed on them that light the martyr's pile."

Come then, Protestant townsmen, unite with us in our
efforts. By the noble army of martyrs, by the sacred
ashes of confessors, and by the scattered dust of a thousand
witnesses for the truth, who died rather than crouch to
Antichrist, be staunch in defence of the Protestant reli-
gion and the liberties of England.—(Great applause.)
Mr. Wm. CLARKE seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.

Mr. Taos. WORRALL (missionary) moved the second
resolution, to the effect that "the meeting, being fully per-
suaded that Popery is the great apostacy, and contem-
plating the large amount of good which is likely to result
from the operations of the Liverpool Working Men's
Branch Reformation Society, in exposing the same, desire
to give it its cordial support." Mr. Worrall referred to
Scripture for proof that Rome is the seat of apostacy, that
the Pope is Antichrist, and that the Church of Rome is
apos ate. He then invited the working men to join the
Reformation Society, and to bring Romanists to its meet-
ings, to defend the doctrines of their church, from time to
time; but not to brine men like William Georee WEwan,

but honest, sincere IZOnTanis3. To show them what he
meant, he would read to the meeting the " Recantation of
William George M'Elvan," written with the latter's own
hands, and presented by him to the Rev. W. F. Taylor.
Mr. Worrall then read as follows :
" Having been led, by hasty and unfounded data, to re-
ceive the doctrine of Transubstantiation, and having had

reason, from more mature judgment, to eonsiner it as
imposition, and as a traffic in the souls of men, I consid
it my duty to declare that I now abhor that Christ-killb
doctrine; and that I am sorry, to the bottom of my heal
that I should have ever lent myself to the support of
a soul-destro

beg, in the spirit of deep
error, and to declare my

humiliation, to re=
conviction that the
by the Church of

idolatrous in practi

connected myself

I regret that I should everha,
Deicides, who profess to,adore the

God, and than to eat him ! 1 wish to be reconciled •to the
Protestankehurch of 'England, as a branch, qf the Catholic
Church of God. As part reparation of my error, lam
willing-to make this:a public statement.,-7-William George
31`:Qwan, formerly master of St. Mary:s..school, Kirkdale."
lar,.WoJuLtax alicl—Some hw d:!0 after. Mr,. M`Ewtui

gave in this recantation, he (Mr. W.) was informed by his
friend Mr. Bennett of very inconsistent conduct practised
by this same professing penitent. Consequently, he was
not received into fellowship with the Church of England ;
and now this same recantation-writer is coming, forward,
Ox Thursday evening a meeting of the above society with unblushing:effrontery, to dispute about religious doc-
was held in the. Toxteth-hall, Mill-street. The chair was trine. He thought such a man's conduct should be ex-
occupied by Captain Purnell. Having called upon Mr. posed ; therefOre; he made these remarks. After stating
Ware to open the proceedings with prayer, the Chairman that they feared ino man, but did not like to encourage made a few remarks upon the nature of the association, impostors, Mr: %%Tall moved the second resolution.
showing that its object was, not to war with individuals, Mr. EATON seconded it, and it was carried unanimously.
but with principles ; not to injure the victims but to Mr. WARR moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
destroy the Popish system itself,—and then called un which Mr. Grindrod seconded, and the meeting separated
Mr. J. Parsonage to move the following resolution:— after singing the doxology.
"That the events of our own times and country bear con- Several. working-men afterwards gave in their names as
elusive testimony that the system of Papal power or the members.
Romish religion remains unchanged in all those features ...........--
which render it dangerous to civil and religious liberty."
Before 1.- oke to the r- f'^-- Ai- P----

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL

--T-

A MONTHLY and'special Council was held on Wednes-
day, at the Town-hall, the Mayor, J. B. Lloyd, Esq.,. in
the chair. MB. BRADLEY'S CASE.
The MAYOR announced that the first business was to
receive the report of 'the sub-committee appointed to in..
quire into the charges against Mr. Bradley.
The report is as follows :
The special committee appointed by the Council on the 9th
instant. "to inquire into the charges preferred against Mr.
Edward Bradley, a member of the Council, relative to the
course pursued by him at thtrecent election for Vauxhall
Ward, as to wnich it is alleged that he unduly and improperly
used his posit.on of a councillor and member of one of the
committees of the Council, to influence a voter named Stop-
ford, as to giving his vote at such election, and to report
thereon,"—unanimously report to the Council,
First,—That Mr. Bradley being a member of the Water
Committee, and of the Financial Sub-Committee of that
committee, became cognizant of the names of persons in ar-
rear for water-rates in the several Wards;
Secondly.—That a meeting of the Financial Committee of
the Water Committee was held on the 21st ult., and attended
by Mr. Bradley; and it was proved that he, at this meeting,
made extracts from the list of persons so in arrear. and
residing in Vauxhall Ward ;

Thirdly,—Thai deoreSt4pford, a voter in that Ward, was
one of the persons included in the list of those in arrear for
water-rents; and that Mr. Bradley did, when canvassing
Stopford for his vote, at the recent municipal election, un-
duly and improperly use the knowledge of that fact which
he had obtained as a member of the Water Committee, and
of the financial Sub-Committee of that commi►tee, for the
purpose of inducing Stopford to vote for a particular candi-
date at that election. Your committee submit with this report
a transcript of the shorthand-writer's notes of the evidence
adduced, upon which, the committee observe only, that,
witnesses having been called to disparage the character of
Stopford, other witnesses of undoubted character and re-
spectability were called in reply, all of whom, having known
him for many years—speak of him as a sober, hard-working,
well conducted man, and as one upon whose honesty and
truthfulness every reliance may be placed.
J. BRAMLEY-MOORE, Chairman.
29th Nov., 1853.

Town•hall, Liverpool,

, ,
On the motion of Mr. S. lioLmE, the report was
adopted non. con. A good deal of desultory conversation
on the subject ensued, arising out of an attempt by Mr.
Dover to be heard in defence of Mr. Bradley. It transpired
that no farther steps would be taken against Mr. Bradley
by the Council, but that his name would be omitted from
all committees.

Mr. Mann was appointed to the Church Expenditure
Committee, and Mr. Earle was elected a member of the
Water Committee, and of the Literary and Museum

Committee

FINANCE COMMITTEE.—The proceedings comprised a
resolution of the magistrates recommending that the sala-
ries of two clerks in the office of the clerks to the magis-
trates be increased, namely, Mr. Jacob 'Walter, from £l3O
to £lOO per annum, and the salary of Mr. Richard Ellis,
from £llO to £l4O per annum, also, a recommendation
that the sum of £l4O be paid out of the surplus income
for the improvement of Cable-street.—Mr. HORNBY moved
the confirmation of the proceedings, with the exception of
the proposed increase in the salaries of two clerks in the
office of the magistrates' clerks, which would stand over
for consideration at the next meeting.—The proceedings
were confirmed.

WATCH COMMITTEE.—In moving the adoption of these
proceedings, Mr. ToBIN thanked those gentlemen who
had interested themselves in raising subscriptions on
behalf of the families of the two police-officers (Wheelan
and 'Walsh) who had lost their lives in the public service.
The amount contributed had been increased by Mr. Mans-
field, the stipendiary magistrate, who subscribed £2O, and
a further contribution had heen made by the Steam-tug
Company. The committee had ordered that one of the
widows, who had two children, should receive 125., and the
other, who had one child, 10s. per week.
Docs COMMITTEE.—Wr. TURNER, in moving the con-
firmation of the reports, called the attention of the Finance
Committee to the inconvenience caused to the channel
steamers in consequence of the removal of the small land-

ing-stage from the Prince's-pier. He understood that it
would only be temporary; but those connected with the
channel steamers had applied to the Dock Committee for
the use of tlii ho•cr. fn. of

landing the passengers. The Dock Committee expressed
their regret that, in consequence of the accommodation

river s'

vide the required facilities for the channel 'steamers at the
large Landing-stage, without interfering with the river
steamers.—Mr. HORNBY, chairman of the Finance Com-
mittee, stated that every exertion should be made to ex-
pedite the completion of the stage, and, if any temporary
accommodation could be supplied, the Finance Committee
would take care that it should be done.—With reference
to the risk incurred in crossing the river, for the want of
some protection in fog,—Mr. C. TURNER said the matter
had not escaped the attention of the committee, but it was
attended with extreme difficulty. As a proof that the
Dock Committee were anxious to do everything in their
power, he might mentionthefact that,including the interest
of money, the Landing-stage Committee did not get one
farthing advantage. The stage would cost from £4,500
to £5,000 a year.—The proceedings were confirmed.
COURTS OF LAW COMMITTEE—The proceedings stated
that Mr. Cockerell, the architect employed at St. George's-
hall, had been authorised to procure transparencies for the
windows, for the purpose of seeing the effect ; that he had
submitted designs for the concert-room, which had been
approved, along with a design for figures to be placed on
the pillars at the entrance of the gallery ; that he had
been authorised to employ Mr. Kelly, of London, to model
model the enrichments for decoration ; and that he had
been empowered to alter the south end of the concert-
room, and to finish the east approaches.—The MAYOR
suggested that, inasmuch as the workmen had now com-
menced laying the floor, and would immediately proceed
with the erection of the organ, and as considerable noise
would be made for the next few months, the Recorder
(Gilbert Henderson, Esq.) had stated that he would hold
the Quarter Sessions, between the present time and March,
in the old Nisi Prins Court, near the Exchange.
LUNCH FOR COUNCILLORS.—The MAYOR said he
would take that opportunity of stating that, for the con-
venience of members of the council, he had directed that,
from one to two o'clock, on the days the Council met,
refreshment should be supplied in the ante-room.
GAOL COMMITTEE.—The proceedings of the Gaol and
House of Correction Committee comprised a recommenda-
tion to accept the tender of the representatives of the late
Mrs. Aldersey, for supplying the gaol and bridewells with
bread, oatmeal, and peas ; and of Mrs. Catherine Close for
butcher's meat. The report stated that Mr. Jamieson,
the Governor of the Gaol, had not yet given in his bond;
and it also contained a recommendation to take steps for
procuring a reformatory hulk for juvenile convicts, and
to request the co-operation of the Shipowners' Association
in the attainment of the object.
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM COMMITTEE.—The minutes
contained a description of the recent enlargements and
improvements at the library, together with a recommen-
dation to appoint Mr. William Roulston superintendent of
the lending libraries, at a salary of £lOO per annum. Mr.
PICTON, in moving the adoption of the proceedings, ex-
plained that the Roulston appointment must stand over,
so far as the salary was concerned, according to standing
orders.

BATHS COMMITTEE.—An application for the use of the
baths had been made on behalf of the Irish and German
emigrants, and had been refused. Williamson, the keeper
of the Pier-head Baths, had been reprimanded for intoxi-
cation. A discussion arose upon a resolution of the com-
mittee to expend the sum of £220 on the Pierhead Baths,
chiefly in procuring new zinc linings for the baths, piping,
&c. Ultimately the resolution was adopted.
The Coroner's account, amounting to £7l 6s. 61, was
allowed.

A letter from the Chaplain of the Borough Gaol, request-
ing a revision of his stipend, which amounts, in all, to
£3OO per annum, was referred to the Gaol and House of
Correction Committee.

A letter from the Committee appointed by the British
Association for the Advancement of Science, to make ar-
rangements for holding their next meeting in Liverpool,
and requesting the Council to grant the use of St. George's-
hall for the occasion, was referred to the St. George's-hall
Committee.

A memorial from a number of waiters protesting against
the practice of the servants engaged in the Town-hall
hiring themselves out as public waiters was referred to the
Town-hall Establishment Committee.

This concluded the business, and the Council rose.

DR. McNEILE'S LECTURE AT THE
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

ON Friday evening a lecture was delivered at the Col-
legiate Institution, by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile. The subject
was " The Jews and Judaism ;" and the lecture, which
continued for two hours, was most attentively listened to
by a large and intelligent audience. The Rev. lecturer
began by an eloquent introduction, hi which he gave a
rapid but convincing outline of the value and importance
of Christianity. He next adverted to the tendency of in-
quiry in the present age as being peculiarly disposed to
build only on ascertained facts. Even there, however,
much, he contended, must be taken for granted, other-
wise no conclusions could be made to follow ; thus, the
astronomer reasons upon the phenomena of gravitation,
and if its fundamental principles be not admitted, the
reasoning built upon them must fall. So of other sciences.
In the matter of which he intended to treat on the present
occasion, he also should proceed upon recognized and
ascertained facts. He should begin with the Jews, men,
women, and children; all of them having their peculiar
characteristics. In every country and in every climate
e
Jews are to be met with, and in every place they v exhibit
characteristics of their own. 4.

belonging to the place in ;,,Tidiliijy‘uareelfinnasd • iitlowreariev,
they like travellers, sojourning for a time, and, having
settled their affairs and accomplished their mission, about
to return home. They have no home, and this peculiarityis found to be recorded of them in' the history of every
They may be said, in fact,
and this bondage arises
tions contained in iuxntarh
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dratetadcahnmdenthit
rttoeetnhpe
rrecegeulp
tat:.
The principal of these precepts, however, he should only
allude to, and they were three in number. The first
related to the use of phylacteries ; the second, to the im-
portance attached to fringes, or borders on the garment;
he third, to the indispensable veneration in which the

of every count

y out of their vc

sign on the door-post is held. He then entered into a
minute description of the various peculiarities of each.
Such matters, he admitted, might be looked on as frivolous
by some, but he looked on them
_as having peculiar

it in reality 10°1

significance, anu annuugia ~..mayi ..6._ : -,,Ai
like absurdities, they were not n any degree more frivolous
or absurd than many of the practices which were observed
among Christian mvn, In illustration of this, he read a
small hand-bill, issued ,by some one professing to unravel
the raysteries.offate and fortune by astrological rules. It

was addressed to the community of Liverpool, and watt •
issued, he said, in the year 1853. Such announcements
ought to make them pause ere passing too ready and-
' sweeping a condemnation on the frivolities of the Jews-
, Another peculiarity which pointed out the Jews from all
other people, was the protracted and bitter suffering taL
which they have been exposed by Christians and religious
professors of different denominations. Our own country
had had a share in the guilt of this persecution, but
iit-
the records of the Spanish Inquisition were to be read its~
bloodiest pages. Yet another peculiarity of the Jews, was
their unity of hope : through persecutions and disappoint-
ments, they still look for the coming of the Messiah, anir
with Him they look for the advent of such a change iir -
their physical condition, as can only be brought about by
the agency of omnipotence. He then read a long extract:-
from the writings of Theodore Parker, relative to the non-
fulfilment of the prophecies which had foretold the coming-
of the Messiah, in which that writer contended that they
could not be applicable to the earthly mission of Jesus of _
Nazareth. The reverend lecturer showed that the prophe-
cies concerning the coming of the Messiah had only been
partially fulfilled by the coming of Christ, and that they
would be fully realized on His second coming. He-
characterised the sophistry referred to as one of the most
daring and dangerous forms in which modern infidelity
had presented itself. In all their usages the Jews refer
to a written revelation, and recognise the full value and-
importance of vicarious sacrifice in working out the scheme
of salvation. The latter peculiarity he traced with muck--
ingenuity of reasoning, from the sacrifice of Abel to the
sacrifices of Abraham, and those inculcated under the,
Mosaic dispensation. He concluded by again referring tar
the fact, that after 18 centuries of persecution, the Jews
retained their affection for the prescribed usages of their
fathers, and their ardent hope for a fulfilment of those
prophecies which had pre-indicated their past and present
position. He likewise adverted, in eloquent terms, to the
Bible of the Hebrews, as the complement or first volume
of the New Testament, which, read by itself, was in some
degree imperfect, but read in connexion with the Old-
Testament, it becomes clear, comprehensive, and convinc-
ing. As already stated, the lecture was listened to through-
out with much attention, and at its conclusion the reverend
doctor was warmly applauded.

THE LATE MESSRS. HOLMES' S BANS,
ISLE OF MAN.

LIE Isle of Man Steam-packet Company being one of
the largest depositors in the island, their agent, Mr.
Edward Moore, announced a meeting of the shareholders
and other depositors to be held in Douglas, on Tuesday
last, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of affairs..
The meeting was held in the Wellington-hall, and was--
attended by about 200 persons. Mr. W. Canister, of
Ramsey, presided.

Mr. IiARRIs said he would not vouch for the correctness-
of any one figure or any one statement he might utter,
because he was not in a position to do so. He had merely
gleaned his information from Mr. Avison, of Liverpool,
who had rendered him every assistance. He then pro-
ceeded to state that Henry, the father of the late Messrs.
Holmes, carried on business, with his three sons, up to -
1809, at which time he left the concern in their hands..
In 1826, the elder Holmes died, leaving the whole of his-
estate to Henry, John, and James, subject to the payment
of three legacies to his three daughters. One of these
legacies, amounting to £6,440, had been paid ; the other
two, amounting to £12,000, were a charge on the property
in Liverpool. The three sons carried on business with
satisfaction to themselves, and possessinr, the confidence
of the people of Liverpool and the Isle ofb Man, up to the
year 1843, when they became lenders of money on railway
scrip. They continued to advance money to a large
amount during the years 1815,1846, and 1847; and it was
supposed they had suffered losses amounting to £200,000
by trusting brokers who did not understand the business
better than themselves. Mr. Henry Holmes died in
January, 1848, and by his will he devised the whole of his
property to his brothers John and James, and upon their
death he left his property to Mr. Isaac Holmes, and on.
his death to his family, numbering eleven children. The--
property was enjoyed by John and James up to the time
of the death of the former, who left all to James. After
alluding to the fact that proceedings had been taken on
the part of Mr. Isaac Holmes in the Court of Chancery,
and that a bill had been filed at the instance of Mrs.
Denison and others, he adverted to the sum of £12,619
which bad been taken off the island from the bank. That
sum was placed to the credit of Mr. Avison and Mr.
Boardman, in a Liverpool bank, and was ready to be re-
turned, providing leave was obtained from the Court of
Chancery. After referring to a few more matters con-
nected with the estate of the late firm, Mr. Harris then
proceeded to lay before the meeting the following state-
ment of the assets and liabilities, during the reading of
which many of the depositors expressed their opinions on.
the value of the property, &c.:—

LIABILITIES,

A 647,203
201,000
5,000
20,000
5,000

£279,479

ASSETS,