The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

We have received by the packet-ship Cambridge, New
York papers to the Ist instant, being one day later than those
brought down by the last Halifax teamer. The Cambridge,
which left New York on the Ist instant, arrived here on Sun-
day morning. The Land Bill having passed the house of
representative, the Senate only awaited the signature of the
President to become law. The other great financial schemes
of the session were incomplete. A debate had taken place
in the Senate on the Revenue Bill, and the question recurred
on the amendment submitted by Mr. Buchanan in relation to
The act of 1832, whereby railroad iron was admitted free of
duty. The proposition was to increase the duty to twenty
per cent. It was opposed by Mr. Clay, but the amendment
was not put. The Bank Bill was expected to pass the Senate
the first week in September, and then, as was contemplated,
would be vetoed by Mr. Tyrer, who, in consequence of the
previous veto is represented as the most popular man of
the day.

The Herald, in a late edition on the forenoon of the
packet's sailing, gives the following news from Texas, which
it styles highly important :"
" We have received some very important intelligence from
Texas. There appears to be a strong war feeeling breathing
through that country against Mexico, which, in connexion
with the following order, may bring on a rupture in a very
short time ?

" War Department, July 14, 1841.
TO MESSRS. ROMAM, PRICE, M DONALD, CUNNINGHAM,
O'RILEY, AND NEWCOMBE.
•'' GENTLEMEN,—Your communication by express has
been this moment received. I regret that the President, in
the discharge of his public duties, has been called to Galves-
ton, and cannot, therefore, take the prompt action necessary
to the emergency that has arisen. The Cabinet have, how-
ever, been assembled, and unanimously agree, that no time
should be lost in repelling the invaders of our soil and vio-
laters of the rights of our citizens. We, therefore, au-
thorize you to assemble such force as you can command, for
the expulsion of the enemy, regarding the war as fairly
opened by this late outrage by the Mexican forces. Volun-
teers, to any number necessary for the accomplishment of
this object, we authorize you to call out. You will, of
course, use due discretion in distinguishing between traders
and soldiers of the enemy, taking care, however, to possess
yourselves of traders and their effects as an indemnity for the
loss of our citizens, and treat soldiers as the rules of war
direct.
" I have the honour to be, very respectfully, your obe-
dient servant, " R. T. ARCHER,
" Secretary of War and Navy.'
" This was issued in consequence of the acquittal of Kin-
ney and Aubrey, charged with having been the means of the
capture of Captain Demitt, and the proof, therefore, that the
Mexicans alone are responsible for that high-banded mea-
sure."

The exchange on London remained at 109 to 1091. In
the shares of the Bank of the United States an improvement
had taken place, the closing price at the second board on the
31st ult., having been 131.
CORN TRADE.—FIour in this market ranges from 5 dols.
50 cents to 6 dols. 75 cents a barrel. In the last day or two
the demand has decreased, and the supplies increased a
little.

As the time is at hand for operating on the new crop, it
becomes necessary for us to ascertain about what the
price of flour will be in this city during the fall. Conclu-
sions deduced from good authority would warrant perhaps a
small advance over last fall's prices, provided no great de-
mand for foreign supply interrupt the usual course of the
trade. _ .

COTTON TRADE.—The market has been very heavy since
the arrival of the last packet. The whole decline may be put
at cent in this city. In the southern markets there is, as
is usually the case at this season of the year, but little doing.
The accounts of the growing crops are contradictory, but
there is nothing to lead to the conclusion that the yield will
be otherwise than large.
THE COTTON CROPS.—COLUMBUS, MISS., AUGUST 9.
The Cotton crop, in this section of the country, bids fair to
be good, and, from all the information we can get, we give it
as our opinion, the crop will exceed the last, although there
are many planters in this vicinity who say their crops will be
cut off; others say their crop will equal that of '39. The
sandy lands generally will make light crops, owing to the
drought, but on the prairies there will be full returns. In
conversation with an intelligent gentleman, a few days since,
he stated it was his belief, that the receipts at Mobile, the
coming season, would be about 400,000 bales ; our own opi-
nion is, 375,000. There can, however, be no certain ellen-
lation made at this time, as the numerous enemies, in the
shape of cut worm, army worm, &C., which the plant has yet
to contend with, may prove more disastrous than can now be
foreseen.

(From the Natchez Courier.)
SHORT CROPS.—We regret to learn the certainty that
many fine prospects of good crops have been blasted. We
have been allowed to publish the following extract of a letter,
describing the prospects of the crops on three plantations in
Adams county.
" I am now satisfied that three places will not tie more
than 775 bales, against 1,451 bales last year; and, in making
this estimate, I calculate largely on the product from the
bottom lands ; which, as yet, have not suffered to anything
like the extent the hills have. On 9-10ths of the upland,
there is neither forms nor blossoms, and we will get nearly
all the bolls the first time going over. We- oust make some-
thing from the second growth to give us 775 bales, and, un-
less we have rain soon, we will have no second growth to do
any good. Our prospect is truly gloomy, but not much, if
any, more than our neighbours. In 1839 we had, at this
time, an abundance of forms arid blossoms. Now, you may
ride over 100 acres without seeing a single form or blossom."

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From Me Oxford Herald.)
On Saturday, Mr. Sidney G. Selwyn was admitted an ac-
tual fellow of New College.
The Rev. Edward J. Wilcocks, 8.A., late of Lincoln Col-
lege, chaplain of the Scilly islands, has been appointed head
master of the free grammar school, Berkhampstead, one of
the best endowed schools in England.
The Rev. Simeon James Etty, M.A., late of New Coll.,
has been instituted to the vicarage of Wanborough, Wilts,
void by the cession of the Rev. W. Vaux ; patrons, the dean
and chapter of Winchester.
His grace the Archbishop of York has appointed the Rev.
E. Churton, M.A., of Christ Church, and Rector of Crayke,
Durham, to a canonry in York Cathedral.
Rev T. Pitman, vicar of Eastbourne, to the prebend of
Wisborough, in Chichester Cathedral,
Dr. Vignolles, the dean of the Chapel Royal, has been ap-
pointed first chaplain to the lord lieutenant of Ireland.
J. P. Beard, 8.A., scholar of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to be second master of the grammar school, Ded-
ham.
Rev. R. Stainforth, M.A., late of Queen's College, Cam-
bridge, to the vicarage of Pontefract, Yorkshire, vacant by
the death of the Rev. T. H. Marshall; patron, the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Rev. Charles Frederick Bryan Wood, M.A., to the vicar-
age of Barnwood, near Gloucester, void by the death of the
Rev. A. B. Evans ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of
Gloucester.

Rev. William Pollock, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of
St. Helen's, Lancashire, void by the cession of the Rev.
James Furnival; patrons, the Trustees.
Rev. John Sandford, vicar of Dunchurch, and chaplain to
the Lord Bishop of Worcester, to a canonry in Worcester
Cathedral. _ _ .

Rev. S. Satchwill, curate of Godalming, to the rectory of
Covenham St. Mary, Lincoln, vacant by the death of the
Hey. I'. Meyrick ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Rev. C. J. Vaughan, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, to the vicarage of St. Martin's, Leicester.
Rev. John Finley, M.A., vicar of Studley, to be domestic
chaplain to the Earl of Gainsborough.
Rev. Charles Tookey, M.A., to the vicarage of Upton
Snodsbury, Worcestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Henry Green.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENGE. —On Thursday evening,
about six o'clock, while a young girl, about seven years of
age, the
-daughter of a respectable family in Bristo-street,
Edinburgh,
was amusing herself, along with an elder sister,
in drying baby clothes on the outside, she overbalanced ht r-
self, and MI to the ground from a height of three stories.
The girl's head unfortunately came against a stone which
was lying in the back green, and she was killed on the spot.

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH STREET.

MR. J. H. ANDERSON,

THE GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S intellectual
and scientific Performances are Nightly honoured by
Crowded Audiences, the elite of this town. His mighty
wonders are the theme of discussion in the fashionable circles
of Liverpool. He is proclaimed, by all who have witnessed
his extraordinary performances, to be the Mysteriachist—the
Great Delusionist of the Nineteenth Century. "He is en-
dowed with more than mortal power" (Middleton), and truly
does he prove that he has the power to illustrate Shakspeare
in every sense of the immortal bard's conception—" are mine
eves made the fools of the other senses ?" With his Scientific
Apparatus, Impenetrable Arcana, Incalculable Combinations,
Inconceivable Delusions, with his extraordinary power of
Ambidexterous Prestidigitation,
" You'd think (so far his art transcends)
The dei'l was in his fingers ends."
The Great Wizard will continue every evening

"To wave his mystic wand around, -
And critics think it is enchanted ground."
" The Wizard much has done—much more remains to do ;
He has astonished London, and will this town too."
He will nightly continue to display his wonders, and demon-
strate that " there are more strange things in Heaven and
Earth than are dream't of in your philosophy." Remember the
Wizard's present stay in Liverpool can be but of short duration,
as the Theatre will open almost immediately for its theatrical
season. One word more to those who seek amusement. If you
visit the Great Wizard of the North's Temple of Magic you
will find that it has overwhelming advantages over all public
exhibitions :—First, cheapness ; second, its truly scientific na-
ture; third, you are not kept till after midnight; last, its
total divestment of immorality. The celebrated and the ONLY
Lancashire Bell Ringers, who caused the great sensation
(with the Wizard) at the Adelphi Theatre-Royal, London,
and Vauxhall Gardens, will appear each Evening. In justice
to the Lancashire Bell Ringers, who are natives of this
County, he wishes the Public to understand that they are
The Original and only Bell Ringers who havp ever appeared
in London, and whose talent has been appreciated and ap-
plauded by the Landon Press. M. Saqui, the celebrated
Pianist, from the Nobility's Concerts, with Mr. Thomp-
son's celebrated Quadrille Band, will during the Evening
perform a variety of the most fashionable Overtures, Qua-
drilles, Waltzes, &c.
Doors open at Half-past Seven. The Wizard enters his
Mystic Circle at Eight o'clock precisely, concluding at Half-
past Ten or Eleven o'clock.
Carriages in attendance at Half-past Ten precisely.
Prices of admission :—Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d ; Gal-
lerv, 6d. Children (not above Ten years of age), Boxes,
ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Second price (after the conclusion of the
first part), Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is. No second price to the
Gallery.
From the present crowded state of the Theatre, Mr. J, H.
A. begs those parties who wish to secure places in the Dress
Circle to apply at the Box-office between the hours of Eleven
and Four o'clock.

Programme of the Wizard's performances, with the
opinions of the London press, humourously illustrated,
price 2d., may be had at the door.

The Public Of Manchester are most respectfully informed
that the Wizard will shortly make his mystic appearance in
that Town.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We again repeat that the STANDARD is regularly forwarded
to the Operative Conservative News Room, Preston ; no
blame for its want of delivery can be attributable to our
office. If those parties who are so anxious to read the
STANDARD as to pilfer it, will only openly inform us of
their wishes, we shall be happy to forward a copy of it re-
gularly, rather than receive such numerous complaints
from our subscribers.

Elie Etbrrpool cttanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 184

Lord Clifford has stirred up an inquiry the prosecu-
tion of which may lead to some good. What his lord-
ship's precise object in provoking the investigation may
have been, it is difficult lo make out ; we allude to the
questions which he put on Thursday to the President
of the Board of Control relative to the treatment which
certain Jesuits sent out from this country to India, re-
ceived from the authorities of the country upon the
occasion of a dispute between them and the Portuguese
priesthood at Goa. His lordship seems to have es-
poused the cause of our native emissary Jesuits, and
complains of their having been maltreated by the func-
tionaries of India, one of whom he accuses of having
used the torture to his clients ; he disclaimed any in-
tention of endeavouring- to embarrass the government
by calling attention to the transaction.—ln reply to this
attack upon the Indian authorities, Lord Ellenborough
demanded the particulars as to the charge of torture,
which he peremptorily denied having ever taken place;
but Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, the great organ of
the English Romanists, and a Roman Catholic himself,
on being pressed upon this point, faltered extremely,
acknowledged that he did not believe the charge him-
self, and that he only mentioned it as a rumour. Hav-
ing got rid of so much of the Papist lord's attack, and
reprimanded him as he deserved for bringing forward
such an accusation against one of the judges of the
Supreme Court of India without having the smallest
means to support it, Lord Ellenborough next observed
that as to the Government here, " nothing which the
noble lord had said—nothing that he was likely to say—
could embarrass it ; but if by the course he took he
should create exasperation more than already existed
amongst the religious bodies in Madras, he would, with-
out doubt, increase the difficulties of the Government
there, while he would fail in doing good service to those
to whom he was desirous of rendering assistance."
From this it may be collected that the emissary Je-
suits at Madras have been already the source of some
trouble to the Government of that Presidency. But
there is nothing surprising in this. Where have the
Jesuits ever found their way that they have not caused
trouble ? The party to whom we impute the blame,
however, is the Government which permitted these Je-
suits to make a lodgment in India under their very
nose ; nay, that actually encouraged them to do so.
Lord Clifford alluded to the origin of the mission,
which was exactly similar to that which brought one
out to Gibraltar, and produced like results more re-
cently in that quarter—namely, a got-up requisition for
Irish Roman Catholic priests, under the pretext that
there were Irish regiments frequently stationed in In-
dia requiring the spiritual aid of their countrymen.
The Melbourne O'Connell Ministry, of course, gladly
availed themselves of the opportunity to gratify the
requisitionists, and the Irish priesthood at the same
time, and a certain Dr. O'Connor was sent out from
Ireland with ten or twelve Jesuits in his train, bearing
the title of Vicar Apostolic, and recognised under that
title by the British Government. The emissary doctor
and his tail were not long in the country till they got
into disputes de temporalibus with their Portuguese
brethren who were in actual possession, and what Lord
Clifford now in fact complains of is, that the English
Government did not take the part of the missionaries.

" Was it expedient," he says, "after havng autho-

rised a British Roman Catholic subject to proceed as
the Superior of the British Roman Cath.lic Mission

Hindostan—after that individual had been recog -

nised by the British Government—after he iad declared
that such and such persons did not belorg to the Ro-

man Catholic community"—to do so aid so. You
should have " hacked your men," says his lordship,
throughout, as you went so far; but it strikes us that
he is rather late with his complaint. H 3 should have

.old his story to the late ministry, who sent the Popish

vicar and his Jesuits out; he cannot sy that Sir Ro-
bert Peel did. The Whigs favoured the emigration of
these Jesuits, and had them welcorred and loCated

abroad, for the purpose, one would thick, of giving the
benefit of a little Irish agitation and Priestly meddling

to our Indian territories, as well as to most other parts

of our possessions. Our government acknowledged
the spiritual authority of the vicar; but the vicar had

no idea of resting satisfied with any such airy append-
age; a barren sceptre of that sort was not what he had
travelled so many miles to obtain. '"l'he vicar," says
Lord Ellenborough, " having this conceded to him,

proceeded to lay claim to the tekiporalities of the

church; and hence arose all the disputes.
The British Government in India vas not sufficiently
0' Connellised to support the Irish missionaries in their

palpably unjust and presumptuous demands, and they
were baffled and disappointed in moot of their iniquit-
ous schemes. For two centuries, says a London con-

temporary, " the priests of Goa had served the soldiers
of the Romish faith in India. They properly and most
naturally resented the interference of the British mis-
sionaries, and the British Government most wisely
supported them in their resistance. In this it acted
justly only, and not in a persecuting spirit."
The same journal (Herald of Friday) thus moralises
the matter :

" A useful lesson may be drawn from this display of Lord
Clifford. The affair affords another poof of the determina-
tion of the Papish priesthood of Ireland to spread their mis-
chievous politico-religious creed throughout every depend-
ency of the British crown—no matter at what cost. Like a
noxious vapour the Rotnish faith is covering the entire colo-
nial empire of Britain ; in Canada its fatal effects have long
been felt ; in New South Wales it is creating discord and
strife (as an extract from a Sydney journal in another column
will testify) ; and now we have it advancing into the most
hazardous yet most glorious of all our dependencies."

We have nothing to add to the moral so concisely
yet so well summed up by our talented contemporary.
It was an incident of the evening that the Rev. Sir
Harcourt Lees, of Dublin, presented a petition by the
hands of Lord Brougham, complaining of the exist-
ence of the order of Jesuits in Ireland, and praying
for their expulsion; that Lord Clifford denied they
existed there, and took some trouble to show, from evi-
dence given by Mr. O'Connell and other Roman Ca-
tholics before a committee of the House of Lords in
1825, that " there was no such thing as a body of Je-
suits there as an ecclesiastical body," which was about
as true as many other things they there and then swore;
and that Lord Ellenborough undertook to lay on the
table of the house several papers of high authority,
which would show, amongst other things, " that the
priests to whom allusion had been made were, notwith-
standing what the noble lord had said, distinctly de-
scribed as Jesuits."
We would leave these several matters to be duly
weighed by our readers; but, apropos des bottes, as we
are on the subject of Roman Catholic priests, we can-
not take our leave without expressing our regret that
the Roman Catholic College of elaynooth has again
obtained its usual annual grant ; and, we will add, our
surprise, as well as regret, to find a London contem-
porary and namesake, on whose staunch advocacy of
Protestantism under all circumstances we have firmly
relied, declining from that high ground which we had
always understood him to have taken on this question.
Sir R. Peel, it is true, supports the grant. He has
voted for it, he says, for the last thirty years, without
feeling any violation of religious scruples, and would
do so on this occasion; but does this circumstance
afford any sufficient reason why a Conservative journal
which had opposed it totis viribus should turn round,
and exhort us to petition modestly and meekly indeed
for inquiry, but by no means to attempt anything so
ultra, or so rash, as the withdrawal of parliamentary
support altogether from the institution ? Now this is
what we call a very false move, and one not at all
likely to serve the Right Hon. Premier. If it was
wrong to support such a seminary of error before Sir
Robert Peel came into power, it must be wrong to do
so after; if it was wrong in principle, no change of
times or circumstances can render it expedient; but if
it would be more expedient at any one season than
another, that at which it would seem to us to be most
so, is, when a Conservative party is in power. Our
London contemporary looks as if he had a mind to
" Jim Crow" it ; he begins to think the Devil is not
so black as he is painted ; that Popery has the " grand
elements of truth, though a little shrouded by vain
traditions ;" and that there was no vital and original
error in endowing a Popish seminary. Well, we have
heard all this a thousand times ; but we had no idea
before that it was doctrine in which our esteemed
namesake by any means coincided, and we have been
pretty long and rather constant readers of his various
able commentaries on men and things. For our part,
we have simply to say that we entirely protest against
any such philosophy called Liberalism, Puseyism, or
what you will.

When a Committee of the House of Commons cam•
to the resolution of recommending Dartmouth as the
most eligible station for the West India packets, it
struck us, as no doubt it struck others of far superior
discernment, that that committee had not made suffi-
ciently diligent inquiry into the important matter sub-
mitted to their consideration. The House ultimately
declared itself dissatisfied with their recommendation,
and referred the question to another committee. At this
time little had been said about Liverpool, or less at all
events than one, having any acquaintance with the
numerous recommendations and vast advantages pos-
sessed by this port, might fairly have expected. We
were favoured opportunely with some able letters, in
which attention was forcibly drawn to these particulars,
and being strongly impressed with the truth and value
of the observations which they contained ; we took
leave to urge it upon the Town-council as a duty
which it would be unpardonable of them any longer
to neglect, and which we regretted to say they had
neglected too much and too long—to put forward the
claims of Liverpool in a strenuous and efficient way,
before the Commons' Committee. The -Council, we
do them the justice to say, took our advice, or at least
made a demonstration, as if they thought it not alto-
gether unworthy of their attention ; we are not pre-
pared to say that they have followed the matter up with
all the energy and diligence they might have done ;
nor on the other hand do we mean absolutely to
arraign them for remissness and insufficiency on this
score : we are not in possession of all the information
that we could wish for in order to form a correct
judgment. This, however, we will say, that had the
Council taken up the matter at an earlier period, had
they then collected all the evidence which they might
have done, and had that evidence been duly laid before
parliament, the " contest of the ports" would, pro-
bably at this time be at an end—the " birth-place of
honour" would be determined, and Liverpool, as we
humbly think, would be in quiet possession of the
prize.
The evidence given by Mr. Aikin, and Mr. Lord,
goes a great way to establish our case—and the more
the facts to which they bear witness, are considered,
the more complete and irresistible will it be found to
be. As a Post-office station—as a central point for the
general dispersion of correspondence, it cannot be con-
tended for a moment that any other port has such ad-
vantages. Falmouth and Dartmouth are surely not to
be named in the comparison. Liverpool may claim a
superiority even to London on this account, if on every
other they were equal—claim it as the great out-port
of the manufacturing districts--the entrepot of the
the northern commerce of the kingdom—and as a com-
mon centre of communication to the capital cities of
Scotland and Ireland. As the place of etnbareatiork
or debarcation for passengers, its advantages are coin-
cident. In this respect, Falmouth and Dartmouth are
positively most inconvenient, and need nut be spoken
of, except for the purpose of condemnation. In every
other particular, Liverpool offers the most unquestion-
able and manifest superiority. In the erecting of steam
marine machinery, she has an established reputation ;
her docks are celebrated all over the world. She offers
a cheap market for coal, and unrivalled-markets for the
supply of marine stores of every description ; but, we
should have to report .details familiar to our readers,