The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANI)ARI).

franchise and increase the powers under the Irish
municipal act; 4th—to afford compensation to ten-
ants in Ireland for improvements made during their
tenancy. As a proof how well the parties in this
parliamentary duet understood each other, we give.
Sir Robert Peel's reply :
" It was proposed in the course of the present session,
that government should be enabled to bring in a bill to
encourage the improvement of land in Ireland, and to
provide in certain cases compensation to tenants to be
founded upon the terms of their omapetion ( hear, hear).
They also proposed to bring in a bill in the course of the
session to amend the law in respect to registration in
counties, and in respect to the holding of elections gener-
ally. The bill would also propose an alteration in the law
respecting the franchise in Ireland, as far as county voters
were concerned. With regard to the municipal corpora-
tions, the government hoped that they would be enabled
to bring in a bill the effect of which would be substan.
tially, and as far as it was practicable, to assimilate the
municipal franchise in Ireland as nearly as possible to that
of England ( hear, hear). He thought it would be hardly
fair to ask fur information of a more explicit nature until
an opportunity was afforded to an explanation of the
details ( hear, hear).
Blind indeed must be the man who cannot see here
the machinery preparing for another deadly blow
at the protestantism of the empire.

THE DIVISION ON SIR R. PEEL'S MOTION.

An analysis of the division upon this important motion
presents some singular results. Taking, as first in local
interest, the votes of the members for the three counties
of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, we fiad the fol-
lowing to be the re4olt
For Sir R. Peel's motion. Against.
Liverpool Lnrd Sandon. Sir El. Douglas.
North Lancashire Wilson Patten. J. T. Clifton.
South Lancashire Lord F. Egerton. W. Entwistle.
W. 'l'. Egerton.
North Cheshire .
.1
G. C. Le;11.
Sir P. Egerton.
South Cheshire. { J. Tollemache.
North Y 0. Duncombe.
orkshire { E. S. Cayley.
H. Broadley.
East Yorkshire.. t Lord Elotham.:
!Vest Yorkshire
BOROUGH MEMBERS.—For—Peter Ainsworth, Wm.
Aldam, Wm. Beckett, Dr. Bowring, John Bright, John
Brocklehurst, J. Bro.herton, W. Busfield, E. Cardwell,
Richard Cobden, W. S. Crawford, J. E. Denison, Wm.
Feilden, John Fielden, Sir H. Fleetwood, I'. M. Gibson,
T. Greene, T. Grimsditch, Lord 11. Grosvenor, Charles
Ilindley, J. Hornby, J. Jervis, W. S. Lascelles, Henry
Maryland, R. Monckton Milnes, John Parker, Mark
Philips, E. Protheroe, W. R. Stansfield, Sir G. Strick-
hnd, J. Towneley, 11. G. Ward, C. Wood—Paired off,
C. Standish. Against the measure we find J. I. Black-
borne, W. B. Ferrand, A. Lawson, J. 11. Lowther, G.
Marton, Viscount Pollington, and paired off, H.Lindsay,
absent, Rho Hardy.
These three counties, therefore, contribute towards the
majority upon Sir Robert Peel's measures, 5 members for
divisions of counties, and 35 members for boroughs—in
all, 40 votes ; whilst in favour of protection they give 9
county votes, and S borough votes—in all, 17.

Lord Lincoln has come forward to oppose Lord H.
Bentinck for North Nottinghamshire. The polling com-
mences today.
ST.:MATTH EW'S CHURCH, KEY-STREET.—The friends
of this church will be gratified to heir of the liberal re-
sponse that was made to the advertisement in our paper
of last week; the collections amounted to £2O les., and
the attendance, especially in the evening, was more
numerous than for years past.
We understand that the Rev. Ambrose Dawson, for-
merly minister of St. Michael's Church, and who is so
well known and valued in our town, will shortly visit Li-
verpool. He comes to preach for the South Church of
Eneland Schools, which have been lately attached to St.
Michael's Church. The sermons will be on the 22d
March, in the above church.

SINGULAR ORIGIN OF A FlRE.—About twelve o'clock
yesterday a fire took place. at the house of Mrs. Ford,
publican, Back Castle-street, under simular nircum-
stancs. Some men were lowering a cask of whiskey into
the cellar, when by some accident it slipped from their
hold, and falling into the cellar the head came out, and
the liquor flowing over the cellar, in a kitchen adjacent to
which wry: a fire, ignited and filled the place with a
volume of flame. The engines were promptly on the
spot. and by the exertions used the fire was quickly sub-
dued, not, however. until the furniture in the kitchen was
consumed. The whiskey of murk, value between £4O
and £5O was totally lost. We regret to say that the
whole falls upon Mrs. Ford, who was not insured.

PROTESTANT LECTURE.—The lecture at the Concert
Hall. Lord Nelson street. this evenirm, will be delivered
by the Rev. Thomas Nolan, the subject being, " The
Romish doctrine of Transubstantiation absurd and un-
scriptural." There can be no doubt, from Mr. Nolan's
intimate acquaintance with Romish controversy, com-
bined with his wise discrimination, that the reverend
gentleman will be able to prove his points with unusual
force and clearness. Our readers will notice that there
has been a slight deviation from the arrangement as an-
nounced in the placards, as Mr. Pollock, of St. Helens,
was appointed to deliver this evening's lecture, bnt, in
order to meet the latter gentleman's convenience, he will
take Mr. Nolan's place en Tuesday the 17th instant.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SOCINIANS.—The
wilt doubtless remember the course taken by Govern-
ment with respect to the Dissenters' chapels act—a
measure brought in to protect the Socinians in the pos-
session of the endowments for religious worship which
they had illegally usurped in various parts of the king-
dom. In their support of that measure there was an
obvious inclination to aggrandize error, and to withdraw
the support of the laws from truth. A case, however,
arose a few years agO, which the provisions of the be-
quests act did not embrace ; and in this Sir Robert Peel's
government have taken a step in behalf of Socinianism
which is most arbitrary and unaccountable. The library,
with an endowment, the property of the late Dr. Wil-
liams, a Trinitarian, had got into the hands of this body,
contrary to the express provisions of the testator's will;
and to recover possession a suit was pending, to which Sir
Frederick Pollock, as attorney-general, had given his of-
ficial sanction. In such cases the suit is brought in
the name of the attorney general as a matter of form,
and permission to do so is seldom refused. In this
case, although actually brought, although sanctioned
by Sir Frederick Pollock, and close upon a successful
issue, the proceedings have just been quashed, and the
propertlhanded over to Socinians by the present Attorney-
General withdrawing that formal sanction of his name,
without which it could not be brought into court. Surely,
a government which is capable of such chicanery—which
thus coolly converts property, bequeathed for the spread
of religion and truth, to infidel purposes—will not be very
tender in its dealing with the property of the Church in
Ireland or in England.
DARING AND EXTENSIVE SHOP ROBBERY.—At the
police court yesterday, no fewer than eleven prisoners were
Placed together in the duck, on r chaage of having broken
into and robbed the shop of Mr. George Godber, draper
and outfitter, west side of South Castle-street, near the top
of Redcross-street, Eight of thejprisoners were lads and
youths, and there were three females, a woman and two
girls. Their names were.—Jane Davies and Sarah Jane
Jones (girls), Catherine M'Donald (a woman), and John
Quinn, John Smith, William Jones, John Williams, John
Brellis, John Reid, John Farmer, and Valentine
Mr. Benjamin Godber stated that he left the shop at a
quarter past eleven on Friday night last, when all seemed
to be safe. On returning on Saturday morning, he found
the panels of the inner door of the shop broken in, and
in the lobby, (or hall,) several articles of apparel, and some
chisels, The street door had previously been opened by a
person in the employ. The witness (B. Godber) unlock-
ed the shop door, and found goods strewed on the floor,—
silk-handkerchiefs, trousers, drawers and other garments.
William Ashlin, shopman, opened the street door, and
found similar articles lying about in the lobby. From
the shop many articles were missed,—of the value,
in all, of about £lOO. Information was given to the
police, and their activity in apprehending the pri-
soners was most praiseworthy, a clue being obtained
through some of the pawnbrokers, who had received
some of the goods and suspected they were not honestly
come by. We learn that from 50 to 60 police-officers
were required to apprehend the gang. They were nearly
all found in the lodging (or rather receiving) house of a
Mrs. M`Donald, in Lace's-street, whose daughter, Ca.
tharinc, was one of the prisoners—she herself being in the
infirmary. On John Williams was found a suit of
clothes. Bellis was found asleep in the attic, and on
his person a silk handkerchief. Another handkerchief
was found on William Jones. These were identified.
The witnesses could not say whether the daughter or the
mother (M'Donald) was keeper of the house, but the po-
lice had been often at the place, and had once appre-
hended the mother, but the complaining party did not np-
pear against her. On the girl Davies, 5 handkerchiefs
and a roll of ribbon were found. On Quinn a new suit of
baragan clothes and a pawn ticket, for two handkerchiefs
pawned with Mr. Moss. One of the handkerchiefs was
pawned by the prisoner Williams, a young man of colour,
and information was immediately sent to the police. A
police-officer found two silk handkerchiefs under one of
the beds. Another found three handkerchiefs in the
house. O'Riley was seen drunk by a police-officer in
Scotland-road on Saturday afternoon, and two tickets
were found upon him for score of the property, pledged
with Mr. Pye and Mr. Kewley. O'Riley bad also on him
a pair of the trousers. Inspector Abraham found in the
house some of the labels that had been attached to the
goods, and which contained the shop walks. All the
prisoners were found in the house but the woman and
O'Riley. A comparatively small quantity of the property
is :yet found. Six of the prisoners, against whom the
case was clear, were :committed for trial, namely—
Jane Davies, William Jones, John IA Mims. John
Brellis, Valentine O'Rilev, and Catharine M'Donald.
The other five, Sarah Jones, John Quin, John Smith,
John Reid, and John Turner, were remanded for
further evidence. On Sarah Jones a roll of ribbon was
found which had been stolen from the shop of Messrs.
Cook and Tounsel, Byrom-street, and there is little doubt
but another case will be substantiated against the last
named y arties or some of them, besides their being
cated in:the robbery in South Castle-street.--We have
since seen Mr. Geo. Godber, and have learned from him
that the thieves gut in at the back of George's-court, out
of Redeross-street, over the back of Mr. Bentley's (gun-
maker) roof; thence over the adjoining roof of Mr. God-
ber's back premises, and thence by a small door into a
stair case. They bad descended the stairs, broken the
lobby door open, and got into the shop, making
their ex-
it by the same way.
Amongst the property carried off
were silk handkerchief to the valve of pearly £6O.