The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIS DIGBY MACKWORTH AT WATERLOJ COMPARATIVE STATE OF THE COTTON
NUFACTURING INTEREST FOR THE FIRST
MA-
(From Sydney's Life of Lord Hill.
v's "Life of Lord Hill," we SIX MONTHS OF 1846 AND 1847.
find some interesting particulars of the battle of Water- That during the last six months the spinners and ma-
loci, and of the part which Sir Digby played there, which
were furnished to the author by the gallant baronet him- nufacturers have been suffering severely, from the dis-
self, who is now seeking for the honor of representing proportion existing between the prices of the raw material

In the Rev. Edwin Sydney

Live rpool in Parliament. The following extract from the and the manufactured article, will be apparent from the
'- " "to deserves republication, especially at the following statement, compiled from Mr. Burn's Commer-
cial Glance, just published. We give first the prices of
he staff of Lord water twist and mule twist, in Manchester, on the Ist of
witnessed of his July, 1846 and 1847 respectively :

- Sir ao+-
Hill, 1
Gel

.ckwortli, who v

Ikindly communicated what h;
efforts at the grand crisis of ;

Water Twist. Common Seeds. Good Do.

Best Do

He placec

ci the I Nos. 6 to 12

1846. 1847.

1846. 1847.
6kd 71d

1846. 1847.
8d 8d

ancing No. 40 l2ld 13";td 13d 134 d 144 d 141 d
under The advance here is on low numbers id on common and
within good, and id on best—or about 9 per cent. on the two
as former, and 6 per cent. on the latter.
In the same numbers of mule twist, the advance was
on Nos. 6 to 12, common id, on good id, and on best
td,—the per-centage being on the average about the
On No. 40's, water twist, the advance was id on
)moron, Ad on good, and Id on best. On mule 40's,
advance respectively d, id, and id. The ave-
on this number is under 5 per cent.

11, and

3 Wag I

The G(
but in the met(

We knew not wl

)een killed ; and none
we felt when he rejoin

again x

rage per-centai
increase.

The price of

Colonel(

had b,

nd cotton, on the Ist July in the two
-d, and in 1847, 6d to 6d.
•e, upon the top price, of Id
or, taking the mean price of
rease is IV, or about 30 per cent. on
The price of Orleans was in 1846, Ist

years, was, in

le by Lord

EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP."—ATI explosion of fire-
damp took place on Friday, at one of the pits at Aberca-
naid, belonging to Anthony Hill, Esq. Three men were
severely burnt, and a lad, aged 12, killed on the spot ;
two horses were also burnt so badly, than one of them
died in less than twelve hours.
DEATH OF THE O'CONOR DON.—The right honorable
Dennis O'Conor, commonly called The O'Conor Don, one
of her Majesty's Lords of the Treasury, died on Thursday
morning, at his residence, 51, Pall-Mall West. He• was
born in 1794, and was consequently in his 53rd year. He
has been sixteen years in the House of Commons, and was
a Liberal.

NOTTINGHAM.—Instead of giving the separate accounts
of the weather and crops, furnished from all parts of the
country, we may say, once for all, that the weather is
glorious, and the prospects of the harvest most brilliant.
The potato disease is still talked of by individuals ; but
the appearances on which they rely are very partial, and
by no means identical with those of the disease of former
ttinqham Review.

At the Dorchester assizes, on Monday last, a boy named
Hayward, who is only ten years of age, was indicted for
havirg stabbed another boy, with whom he had quarrelled
while they were drinking together at an alehouse. The
youthful ruffian was found guilty of a common assault,
but the judge postponed the sentence, as he knew not

what puiiishnierit to inflict upon a child of such tender

A severe thunder storm occurred in Reading on Satur-

week, by w

a new dis-

pensary, now in course of erection, was Thrown down, and
the crops in the neighbourhood were injured. The storm
also did considerable damage at Southampton : the pre-
mises in the occupation of a gardener, near the town, were
destroyed by fire, being struck by the electric fluid ; and
five sheep on a common were killed.

AMERICAN PRODUCE.—A vessel of small tonnage has
Arrived in the Commercial Docks from New Orleans,
named the Baring Brothers, having on board 16,000
bushels of wheat, 34 tierces of pork, and SCO bags and
500 barrels of flour, the produce of the United States of
America. This extensive importation in a vessel of small
tonnage into the establishment mentioned is an instance
of the extent to which all kinds of craft are made avail-
able at this time for the introduction of grain and articles
of food.

A man named Williamson, who had been committed
for trial on a charge of forgery, succeeded in escaping
from the Yarmouth prison on Saturday last. While some
bricklayers, who were employed in executing repairs, had

with whitening, placed a hod on his shoulders, and suc-
ceeded in quitting the prison without awakening the sus-
picions of the keepers ; but he was retaken on the follow-
ing day by the police.
FATALITY IN A MILL AT HYDE.-A girl named
Mary Ellor, a breaker off in the factory of J. Sidebotham,
Esq., of Hyde, was killed on Friday week. The poor
girl was carried round the shaft five times by an engine
strap. At the inquest on Monday last, evidence was ad-
duced to the effect that William. Bottomby, a man who
worked at the same engine as deceased, and whose duty
it was to manage the strap, had in joke thrown it over
the. girl's neck, and thereby occasioned the fatal catas-

trophe. He was con
of manslaughter.
THE POST-OFFICE
of letters per week d

—lt appears that the total number
oliverrod in thn Tinitori T(intninnn has

augmented from 1,459.761, which was-the number at the
date previous to the first general reduction of postage on
the sth of December, 1839, to 6,148;876, at which it stood

entire period having gone steadily on, almost without ex-
ception, week by week. Of this total of 6,148,876, about
670,000 pass within the London disttict post, the increase
in which department is about half as great as that which
has taken place in the London General Post.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY LIFE BY GUN-
POWDER.—The government Police Gazette contains the
offer of 150 guineas reward for the apprehension of the
parties who, early on the morning of the 14th, placed a
pound weight of blasting gunpowder on the sill of the
bed-room window of the house occupied by Mr. Joseph
Robinson, farmer, of Greewell-mill House, Ryton, in
Durham, folded tightly in brown paper, so as to form a
cartridge, with a piece of linen communicating with the
powder, which had been set on fire., Providentially, how-
ever, the fire became self-extinguished before it reached
the powder.
THE MOORS.—We are glad to hear that in all the fine
shooting districts in the upper part of Moray and Banff,
the disease which for two years ravaged the moors has
now quite disappeared, and that the grouse this seasonare
everywhere healthy and strong. We have not heard of a
single diseased bird having been found by the•springs and
streams, where the last two seasons they could have been
picked up by hundreds. From conversations with the
keepers, they say the broods are numerous, but not large,
from six to ten young birds, and scarcely a barren bird to
be seen. The young broods are already strong, and by
the 12th will afford excellent sport. So far as we have
learned, the above statement applies equally to the upper
districts of Aberdeenshire.—Elgin Courant.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Mademoiselle Lind ap-
peared on Thursday evening in a new part ; and it was
time. It was in a new opera called I Masnath:- •
posed expressly for this theatre by Signor Verdi, wh..
in London at present, and conducted the performance in
person. A live "maestro," of continental fame, is an ob-
ject of curiosity when she appears in an English orchestra.

4eri; corn-

The last of such appearances which we witnessed here were
those of Rossinni and Weber, from whom to Verdi, it
must be owned there is a considerable descent. Never-
theless, he was warmly welcomed when he took his place.
He is a young man, with dark Italian features, handsome

and intelligent; and promising more genius (we cannot
help saying) than his works have hitherto exhibited.
INTnEPID CONDUCT.—An astonishing instance of fe-
male heroism took place last week, in Morden-street,
Troy-town, Rochester. in which a young girl, named
Sarah Rogers, aged about 15, risked her life to-save an
infant ten months old, who, in the absence of its parents,
crept out of the parlour into the garden, and found its
way to the well, the cover of which was on, hilt-owing to
one of the boards requiring repair, the child slipped in.
The girl who had charge missing it, ran to the well imme-
diately, and saw the infant at the bottom: The poor girl
raised a loud scream, and without hesitation lowered the

bucket gradually, and then descended by the. rope the
depth of 63 feet, when she seized the child with one hand
and with the other upset the bucket, which had-filled with
water. She :hen placed the child in it, and anumber of
neighbours having by this time arrived, the child and girl
were pulled up. _ . .

! SINGULAR CASE OF DROWNING.—A short time since
Mr. Henry Ralph, yeoman, of Bagber, near Sturminster,
Dorset, went to bathe in the river adjoining his farm.
He was followed by his favourite dog, and, as Mr. Ralph
was swimming in the stream, the animal out of fondness
for his master also took the water, and got on his master's
-1,- which obliged him to turn himself over : ar w'

LI , lei
in this position, the dog got on his bosom and neck,
which caused.his master to sink, to rise no more alive.

3, a servant of the deceased, v
catastrophe without been able to render any assistance
Mr. Ralph was a single man, and much respected by all
who knew him.—Bath paper.
Some interesting experiments are now being made at
Woolwich on the comparative strength of guns of differ-
ent construction, in order to ascertain the most effective

distribution of a given weight of metal. The guns under
trial are 32-pounders, weighing just 50 cwt. each. Two
have been fired till they burst, and the result is.a3 fol-
lows :—Mr. Monk's gun stood 130 rounds, the charges
progressively increasing from tilb. of powder, with two
shot and two wads, to 121 b. of powder, with three shot
and three wads. It burst on the 131st round. Colonel

Dundas's pattern stood 140 rounds, with similarly

gressivc increasing charges.. It burst on the 141st round,
the last round being fired with 131 b. of powder, three shot,

and three wads, having stood ten rounds more than the
other elm, with 12lb. of powder and treble-spotted. The
experiments are still

proceeding with other guns

will decide the important quesilon which ha;
_long been.

dim, for the purpose of combining the greatest strength
with the greatest steadiness.
CONTEMPLATED SALE OF SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTH-
PLACE.—On Thursday, a large and influential meeting at
Stratford-upon-Avon, of the members of the Stratford

cially announced by the mayor, for the purpose of consi-
dering the best measures for providing against the destruc-
tion of the birthplace of Shakspeare, and for erecting some
worthy memorial of the same dramatist in his native town.
Dr. Pettigrew, F.R.S., presided. Amongst the nobility
and gentry on the platform, we noticed Lord Brooke,
M.P.,Sir C. Douglas, M.P., Sir William Betharn, Bart.,
Sir ortunatis Dwarris, Bart., Sir H. Dillon, M.P., Sir.
James Anneeley, T. Crofton Cooker, W. Harrison Ains-
worth, F. Ainsworth, J. 0. Halliwell, Rev. C. T. Southey_

Rev. J. Clayton, rector of Stratford ; Professor Unbasca
(Berlin), C. Roache Smith, and T. Wright, M.A. The
greatest enthusiasm prevailed in favour of the object for

passed in furtherance of it.—The sale of Shakspeare's
house is advertised at the Auction Mart, for September
16, by Mr. Robins.
PERJURY IN THE DAGENHAM MURDER CAST

Kimpton, formerly a police-constable of the K division,
surrendered to take his trial at Chelmsford, upon an in-
dictment charging him with having committed wilful and

corrupt perjury upon an examination taken before Mr.
Lewis, the coroner for Essex. Mr. )3aron Parke having
summed up, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mr.
Hkwkins then took an objection to the form of indict-

ment, which, he said, merely averred that the offence was
committed on a certain day in the year 1846 ; and he sub-
mitted that the indictment should have contained the

appeared to be of opinion that there was something in
the objection ; and he said he should take time to consider
of it.—lsaac Hickton, another constable of the same

division, was then arraigned upon a similar indictment,
arising out of the same transaction. The jury found him
guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Judgment was
deferred. On the following day, Mr. Baron Parke said,
that upon a further consideration of the point of law re-
served by the learned counsel in the case of the two men
Kimpton and Hickton, the Dagenham policemen, he had
resolved not to give effect to it by postponing the judg-
ment ; but he should pass sentence upon the conviction
that had taken place, leaving it to the prisoners to adopt
the course of issuing a writ of error, if they thought
proper to do so. The prisoners were sentenced to pay a
fine of ls., to be imprisoned for a week, and then to be
transported for sewn years.
At the Winchester assizes, on Friday, a verdict of £4OO
damages was obtained by a Miss Harvey, a dressmaker,
against Thomas Johnstone, a surigeon in the navy, for
breach of promise of marriage. The declaration differed
from the ordinary cases of this' description, viz., stating
that the plaintiff was residing at Toronto, and in consider-
ation that she would return to Ireland for the purpose of
marrying the defendant, he (the defendant) promised to
marry her. It then stated her return, of which lie had
due notice, and his refusal, and the loss of the business
the plaintiff had given, up, and the expense of the voyage
were laid as special damage. The defendant pleaded that
lie did not promise ; that the plaintiff did not arrive in
Ireland within a reasonable time;: that he had not due
notice of her arrival ; that she was not ready and willing
to marry him ;. and that he had not due notice of her
readiness ; that a reasonable time had not elapsed ; and
that the plaintiff had discharged him from his promise.
The evidence was very conclusive, principally arising from
the letters of the defendant,the most ludicrous ever read
in a court of justice, giving accounts of the dreams of
" her dear Tommy." One of them was an earnest per-
suasion for her to return from Canada, where the plaintiff
had gone, because she saw no prospect of his fulfilling his

promise. On her return, hotook not the slightest notice
of any of her letters. It appears that there was some ob-
jection on the-part of his family, and the counsel excused

the warmth of his letters on the ground that they were
written by an Irishman 1
TRIAL OF A WOMAN FOR HANGING HER THREI
—At the Carmarthen Assize Court, last week
Justice Cresswell,

CHILDREN
before Mr.

looking middle-aged woman (altho-ugh by her manner it

Sarah, Mary

was evident that 'her mind was deranged,) N
for the wilful murder of her three children
and Evan Hughes, under the most horrible circumstances
The husband of the wretched woman, who is a mason,
rented a cottage at the foot of the Llanbyther Mountain,
and on the morning of the 28th of April, when 'he left
for work, the children were in good health, and the
mother seemingly in her usual spirits. In the course of
the day her sister had occasion to visit the house, but,
not finding the unfortunate woman in the building, she
proceeded to examine the place, and on entering a loft sh
was horror-stricken on seeing the three lifeless children
suspended by handkerchiefs from a large beam running

across the roof. On being called on to plead to the in-
dictment, she stared steadfastly at the learned judge, and
seemed to have no knowledge of what was passing around.
The demand was made to her in Welsh, still she heeded
not the challenge, and remained mute. The jud

ge ex-

amined the medical officer of the prison as to the capa-
bility of her mind to plead, who pronounced her to be
insane. The learned judge then explained the law to the
jury, as to the incapacity of prisoners to plead when their
minds were affected, and directed them to return a ver-
dict of not guilty in her case. This was accordingly done,
and the unhappy woman will, therefore, be detained dur-
ing her Majesty's ple
i A MOUNTAIN

ASSAULT BY A SCHOOLMASTER.-At the Lincoln assizes
on Tuesday, an action was brought by a Mr. Humfrey, an
independent gentleman residing at Leicester, against the
Rev. Mr. Inman, head masterof the Grantham Free Gram -
mar School, for an assault committed by the latter on pro-
secutor's son, a lad 16 years old. Defendant had inflicted
the punishment for alleged misconduct on the part of the

The
iger, a surgeon, Miss

the master paused during the operation for breath

We have scarcely ceased
to speak of. the melancholy fate of the Rev. Mr. Starr,
whose remains were so recently found on Snowden, until
we have to recerd a mountain adventure, in another

lad's back, as described _
Payne, his aunt, and Turner, a man, servant, was a mass

locality, of a townsman, on Friday last, which very
nearly ended in the same fatal manner. Half-a-dozen
friends left Ambleside about noon, to take a pedestrian
excursion to Langdale, and, if possible, to ascend the

well-known pikes. When they came to the foot of this
precipitous mountain, they partook of some refreshment
at a farm-house there ; and three of them, thinking they
would be unable to•undertake the task, returned home-
ward, while the other three, after taking directions from
the people at the farm house, wended their way up the
lesser pike. From a misapprehension cf the length of the
proposed journey.,, they had left Ambleside without din-
ing, taking only a few sandwiches, and these, with milk
Ind bread at the farm was all they had. The th”—
I

leir ascent for about thre°e-quarters of anV hour
c of them (about thirty vt.m.. of arra \ horrinnincr

•- kr.4,-MO 41: tam y ycizr vi age) uegutimig LAI
feel fatigued, thought he would stop to rest himself, and
await the return of his friends. He sat down, and, after
continuing to enjoy the scene for some time, bethought
himself that they might possibly have miscalculated their
return, and that if the clouds which he saw touching the
tops of some of the higher ridges (Sea Fell and Bow Fell),
should come towards him, he might have a difficulty in

finding his way, there being no road or footpath, and he
had trusted to his friends for guidance, he being a fo-
reigner, and not understanding or heeding the directions
given at the farm. He therefore began to retrace his
steps, and after half-an-hour's walk in what he thought
the right direction, he found he was in error. In the

hope of reaching the dale at the foot, he still continued
his course ; it became steeper and steeper, and apparently
would be more difficult to retrace his steps than proceed.
Ho came suddenly to the brink of a precipice, which, as
near as he could judge, seemed to be about thirty to forty
yards high. He still thought it might be possible to de-
scend gradually by the help of a tree growing out of the
rock, and to aid in his descent, he stripped, toc
shirt, cut it up into shreds, which he tied tc
toned to the tree, and, after weighing the chances of dan-
ger as to going down or up, lie deliberately chose the
former, as the safer of the two courses, and lowered him-
self down to a ledge a good number of feet below the edge !
But when there, he saw the impossibility of further pro-
gress either way. It was now about seven o'clock, the

,nether, fas-

July 27,1347.

LORD JOHN MANNERS AND HIS PRINCIPLES.

His lordship is either a very ill-used or a 'very Unfortu-
nate political man. He is misunderstood, he says him-
self. He is misrepresented, his friends reiterate. But,
somehow, neither himself nor his friends make much

progress in showing us in what, and how, he is misunder-
stood or misrepresented. Perhaps- it may be that plain
practical people cannot see the very fine clictinetinT.4

which his lordship draws; or that we get beWildered
amidst the cloud of rhetoric with which he clothes every
subject upon which he touches.
Ills lordship says, for example, that his opinions with
respect to the establishment of monastic' institutions and
the repeal of the law of mortmain, are misunderstood ;
that the only object of his bill upon the subject was to

remove those provisions which void any bequest for reli-
gious or quasi religious uses, unless made upwards of
three months before death. And he instane,--
wkere the effect of the provisions was to depriv
Coat School, in this town, of a charitable bequest
all this is beside the question, and is mere spec;
ing. His lordship has declared, in his plate

ment, and in F

s a case
the Blue

Now
plead-

the re-establishment of monastic institutions in thig coun-
try, and that the operation of the act which he seeks to
repeal or to modify, stands alone in the way of such re-
establishment. We gave in our last paper sufficient to
prove this from his lordship's speeches, extracted from
the pages of Hansard's parliamentary debat
ceed to give an additional extract or two froi

We pro,-

before

entitled

the monastic and manufaCturinz
ystems, by Anglo-Catholicism," and which is very
generally understood to have been written by his lordship.
The pamphlet in question was written (originally in the•
Morning Post) soon after the disturbances which took

,he summer of

tutions, or " Religious Houses," as the great remedy for
that state of society out of which those disturbances arose.
He says—" We believe that, as the misery and ignorance,
which carried those disorders, sprung chiefly from the
inefficiency of church administration and church educa-
tion, so do their remedies consist in what Mr. Gresley
emphatically terms a restoration of the national Murch ;'
but we also fear that the parochial system alone cannot,
as at present constituted, fully provide for the spiritua
wants-of our rnani

_..-acturing districts : and we hope,. to be
able to show that it is not without reason we call for the
foundation. of Religious Houses." (Page 4.) And again.
speaking of the parochial system, he says—" -.,.

ui,pcine win lb even. in Blanchester; but to it in large
overgrown towns we would add a monastic institute."
His Lordship then proceeds to show, on the authority of
Messrs. Gresley and Palmer's pamphlets, what he calls
"the impotence of that (the parochial) system as it now
stands, to supply the religious wants of our large towns ;"
and after stating the sum of those wants, asks the question,
"Does not the very sound of the figures alnnP not +h

necessity of some sort of monastic institution?" •
His Lordip proceeds to vindicate the principle of
monastic institutions, by quotations from various writers,
amongst whom are Sir William Dugdale, Bishop Tanner
(in his preface to the
." Notitia Monastica"), Camden
(in the preface to his " Britannia"), Southey (in his
" Book of the Church"), Sir John Markham, Bishops
Burnet, Pearson, Fuller, Archbishop Leighton, Paget, &c.
Some of these writers have contended that a few of the
old monasteries might have been kept up in a reformed
condition, and without monastic vows being permitted to
bind their communities, principally. to serve as colleges
for the education of religious teachers. Many of them,
however, only contend for their secular uses in past ages,
and praise the munificence of their founders.
His Lordship appears to be an ardent admirer of the
Sisters of Charity, and thus advocates the establishment
of similar orders in this country :

"We are not much in the habit of holding up France, or
modern French sayings and doings, to admiration, bid in this
matter we have a painful pleasure in awarding to that nation
our just meed of praise; for that when the revolutionary mad-
ness of 1830 impelled them to banish all monastic institutions
from their land, wisdom and humanity had still sufficient sway
over the public mind to procure an excel tion in favour of the
Sisters of Charity, who now discharge their functions •in all
the hospitals of that country with a self-denying, retiring, con-
stant zeal, far above all human praise—far above all human
reward. We defy any one, though never so impressed with
what is called the truly British conviction that everything in
France must be wrong, to visit one of the large French hospi-
tals, managed, as they are, in every the minutest particular,
by les &eurs de Charlie, and to leave it without confessinghow
infinitely preferable is the system which trusts the wounded
and the ailing to the fostering care of religious charity, to that
which, as in England, raises an altar to Mammon even in the
very temple consecrated to Mercy.* How many discontented,
avaricious, gambling old maids, faded beauties, speculating
widows, have, during the last' three centuries, in England,
wasted their energies, and died miserably, because the 'great
and fatal error" of the Reformation left thent no scope for use-
fulness; while the world, seeing the church set no store by
their services, claimed them as its own, and bound its hardly-
gilded chains round their souls and bcidies !"-
* "I should be glad to know why a society of ancient maids,
who may unite together and agree not to go beyond their gar-

den walls, are less respectable or less virtuous than the same
nv.mber of ladies dispersed abroad, who collect parties at whist,
or at any other amusement."—Wyndha;n's Speech on the Mo-
..

nastic Bdl.

The selection of his materials here is rather unfortunate-
" Discontented, avaricious, gambling old maids, faded

les, spi

eculating widows,

laracterfi

whom his lordship says, as sisters of charity, " may once
again appear as angels of light and mercy in the streets of
our dingy and wealth-worshipping towns" (page 30), or
who are at all likely to enable the poet to sing with truth,

" By gentle stream, in sheltering wood
And narrow-streeted town,
The quiet convent's prayer cloth bring
A quiet blessing down."

ks to the extent to which he would car

out the s

"Before we quit this interesting subject, which will we are
convinced, ere long force itself, by the courseof events, on the
attention of churchmen and statesmen, and all who care,
though never so little, for their country, we must guard our-
selves from the possible imputation that we wish to restore, in
all its full-blown pride, the monastic system of the fifteenth
century. The state of England at this thus would alone afford
a sufficient answer to the understandings of thinking men; but
to prevent all possible misconception, we emphatically declare
that nothing would induce us for a momentio. entertain the
idea of the revival of monastic institutions, unless with the
most unqualified assertion of direct episcopafcontrol, their en-
tire subordination to the church, and the absence of vows. As
assistants to the parochial clergy, as servants and handmaids

to the church, we believe, and &ink we have proved, their ex-
istence would be most beneficial. independent of the parochial
clergy, and only perfunctorily supervised by the bishop, it
needs.but small•discernment to foresee that they would, even
without vows, again split on the selfsame rock against which
they were dashed in the sixteenth century, This, then, would
be our pledge and their safeguard—subordination to the paro-_

chial clergyman, obedience- to the bishop, and the poVer of
returning to the world, when the weAkness of the flesh, or the
hope of being more serviceable to mankind, inclines the indi-
vidual to do so."
And the mode is—

" A repeal or modification of the mortmain law of 1736: s
law which, we confidently assert, never would have become the
law of- the land if an opportunity bad been afforded for the ex-
pression of the church's voice in convocation—a law which was
protested, against by both the universities and by nearly every
!Itto
I,4•,itmenctosutrlsiee
charity in the kingdom—a law based on views of policy the
most grovaling_aric_l7
cum ocuhsristara'aituepedoerdt,ecin
worst and most disastrous effects."

of its operatio

Now a single question, with respect to this part of the
Lord John says " Nothing would induce hint

subject

for a moment to entertain the revival of monastic institu-
tions, unless with the most unqualified assertion of direct
episcopal control, their entire subordination to the
Church ;" and again, regards their members

tants to the parociiiaTcle7gi, as servants and handmaids
to the Church." The repeal of the law of mortmain will
enable pious Roman Catholics, as well as Protestant
churchmen, to bequeath money for religious houses, for
we take it for granted that his lordship would not advo-
cate the creation of another Roman Catholic disability, by

excepting them from the provisions of his measure; al'
we ask—under what " episcopal control." in submilim

tion to what church, mid as assistants to what parochiol
clergy, will the members of those houses be ? We pre-
sume to the Romish Church and parochial clergy. How-
ever much, therefore, his lordship may tell us, that the
repeal of the MGrtmain Act is designed by him to advance
the interests and usefulness of the Anglican Church, WC
tell him that it is infinitely more calculated to promote the
power of a rival and apostate church, whose prineiplfs,
tenets and practices have ever been those, against which
the law of mortrnain was set up as a barrier—
tortion of bequests for religious uses, from dyin

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of their soulsre

se in another N‘orla

doubt as to his intentions with respect to the Church o.'
Rome's participation in this alleged boon. His apiuion!s
clearly shewn in the following passage of his speech, deli,
vered Ist August, 1843, which we gave last seek, all'

here repeat :--
" It would be said that if the mortmain laws were relaxed !
favour of the Church of England, they must also be relaxed °-
favour of the Church of Rome and of Dissenters. He at 0111
uould frankly avow that he was prepared to meet that objection
by denying it to be one. The Roman Catholics and Dissente,-
,
had been plated upon a footing of political equality, and
utt with reference to this subject? In this matter he claii»e_
^ocial immunity for the Church of England. He was Pre;
thy Roman Catholics to build and enti°
and churches for theltoman CatheitilT
,
t%T: ther and saY ti)
—4,11

no sE
pared to allow weal
Romrn Catholic schoc
population of the count

among the boons which Parliament should grant to
ranked the revision of the mortmain laws. Fla held this out mop
alternative to those who shrunk baekfrona the proposal a/PO re-.
the Roman Catholic priests, and he said. if they were not Pthe
pared to shift the burden of supporting their clergy frortbat
shoulders of the miserable and ground-down peasantry of who
country to the shoulders of the state, at least permit those so.
willing to bear their portions of those burdens to d°
^rmit the rich Roman Catholics to administer to

t least r

nts of their poorer brethren in that eountr

noes-a-u— ge,
o 100
)n, in of s
,eful 1100„,,,h,