The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

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THE decisive movement in advance, long antici-
pated by all who have watched the anti-P. rotesiant

concessions which

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the past thirty years, l y at length commenced,
Popery, for three - compelled by the Pro-
testant instil-- of this country '
speak with " e o crawl darn
to the achievement 1, now 0
raise its front; and, with the motto " Semper
eadem" blazoned upon its forehead, seeks once
more, openly and avowedly, to cast its blighting
influence over the ccnsciences and liberties of this
nation. Toleration merely is not enough to satisfy
the turbulent spirit of the arch heresy. Political
equality has failed to satisfy its grasping ambition.
The favours of the benighted men now in office
have only served to whet its appetite for encroach-
ments. Power, pre-eminence, unchallenged and
unlimited, is what it has during the whole period
of obscuration in this kingdom been furtively
striving to attain, whilst masking its designs under
the cloak of loyalty, and wooing by its false pro-
fession the aid of " Liberalism" and infidelity it-
self; and having laid, as it conceives, a foundation
strong and solid enough to sustain the structure
which it seeks to erect—having " distilled its
leprous venom" into the body of the church itself,
which it aims to overthrow—the mask is thrown
aside, and the veritable Antichrist stands revealed
before us, intolerant, insolent, and overbearing, as
in the darker ages of the world, when its foot was
upon the necks of kings, and the fulminations of
its wrath levelled thrones and sceptres in the dust.
There can be no mistake now as to the nature of
the struggle upon which we arc entering with this
3 of its high priest,
Pio Kono, we have it now
distinctly proclaimed that Rome scoffs at the au-
thority of the Protestant Sovereign of the British
empire, and is resolved to treat her dominions as if
they were a fief under its absolute control. The
insolent edict has gone forth which is to re-erect
amongst us a hierarchy, owning allegiance both
temporal and spiritual, not to a constitutional and
Protestant Queen, hut to a foreign potentate. Our
soil, and the population attached to it, have been
parcelled out by the Pope to these his nominees,
whose fabricated titles and dignities are henceforth
to flout those enjoyed by the Archbishops and
Bishops of our National Protestant Church, and
by our hereditary aristocracy. A Spanish doctor,
of Hibernian extraction, has had conferred upon
him the title and functions of Archbishop of West-
minster; and a horde of Italianized Irish are to
exercise the episcopal function in other sees of Pio
No. no.'s creation. In the teeth of the constitution
this insolence is being perpetrated; in audacious
disregard of the declaration, by virtue of which her
Majesty, Queen Victoria, occupies the throne of
Great Britain, that " the Pope neither has, nor
ought to exercise, any authority, temporal or
spiritual, within these realms."

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We have said that all those who have watched
the concessions made to Popery during the past
thirty years anticipated such a result to occur.
"Liberalism" fondled with and patted the unclean
thing; and true to its instinct, it has turned to
sting the breast that warmed it. . We handed
Ireland over to the tender mercies of its M•Hales
and O'Higginses ; we allowed a hungry brood of
Maynooth trained bigots to fasten upon the vitals
of the Irish people, and to spout sedition and
treason throughout the land ; we set up its Shells
and Wyses in high places; we pensioned °Ton-
nells and their kin by the score ; we rewarded the
leaders of Popish agitation and treason, whilst we
discouraged Protestant loyalty through the length
and breadth of the land. Surely, then, we should
not wonder if Popery should take heart at last and
make a spring at the throat of Protestant England.
But our Whig rulers did even more than this.
For years it had been one of their projects to open
direct diplomatic relations with Rjme. The head
of the Papacy was, forsooth, to be coaxed to use his
influence with our turbulent Irish fellow-subjects,
to procure for us a cessation from Popish agitation
and outrage in that country. Her Majesty, Queen
Victoria, was to rule that portion of her possessions
through the mediation of Rome. Nominally, her's
was to be the Crown of Ireland ; virtually, the
sovereignty was to be the Pope's. To this humi-
liating position was the Queen of these realms
reduced by the cowardly and insane policy of the
feeble faction by whom she is unhappily sur-
rounded. Still we scarcely dreamt that the issue
of all these acts of folly would come upon us so
soon as it has. We imagined, indeed, that the
reverses which have befallen the Papacy itself
during the past two years, and the precarious
tenure by which Pio Nono holds his sway over his
own refractory subjects, would have combined to
stave off the clay in which he would be disposed
to assume an . offensive attitude towards this
country. Thanks to Whig-Radicalism, however—
thanks to the truly patriotic (!) counsels of the
ambassador, Lord Minto, whom her Majesty's
government deputed to represent this country at
the Papal Court—the doting old man appears to
have been actually encouraged to undertake this
crusade against the Protestant feeling and the
patience of England. On the occasion of the ,

appointment of Dr. Wiseman to the new
.Arch-
bishopric of Westminster being made known in
Rome, the Pope. it seems, was waited upon by a
body of perverted beings calling themselves
Englishmen, who throng the seven-hilted city to
gape at so-called miracles, and commit other
fooleries and idolatries, to thank his holiness for
having taken Great Britain under his august rule;
and, in reply, the successor of St. Peter is reported
to have said :

"' I had not intended to send the new Cardinal (Wise
man) back to England, but to keep him near the Papa
Court, and to employ his talents there. But lam per
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toe rope. that the time is
about the grand enterprise for which you have just thinkee
I think he has nothing to fear in England. I spoke
ago to Lord Mint°. and I understood that
the English government would offer no opposition to the
my plan. I therefore send this most eminent
anal hack to England, and I entreat you all to pray
that all difficulties ma'/ be removed, and

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paroled from vs, may enter into this new church,
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4 this daring encroachment upon

the rights of the ProtPstent sovereign whom they
serve! ,The British Government regard with fa-
vour an exercise.—illegal in itself—of the Papal
power, the object of which is, avowedly, to prose-
lityze and pervert to Popery the people of this
realm, and to overthrow the national church which
every member of that government has solemnly
sworn to uphold !

Do we regret this audacious assumption of Po-
pery ?—We do not : and on many grounds. In
the first plice, we prefer an open to a masked
enemy. We fear less the Arch-Heresy when he
approaches us with "all the pomp and circum-
stance of war," than when. like the serpent of old,
he crawls amongst us " with his belly to the
ground," poisoning unseen the founts of truth,

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and casting his slime before the feet of his intend-
ed victim. We rejoice to have it at last proclaimed
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to proselyte and pervert—that the

COST TO THE CORPORATION OF BIRKEN.

HEAD FERRY.

One of the most unsatisfactory items which appears
in the corporate accounts from year to year is that which
appears under the head of "Estate, Birkenhead." From
the accounts for the past year, just published, we find the
following to be the result of the Corporation's experiment
as ferry proprietors :
Expenditure on the estate.. £5,138 14 4
Less tolls received at ferry.. £1,451 15 3

„ rent of sundry property 296 10 0 ----
Leaving a loss on the working of the ferry of 3,390 9 It
In addition to this amount the steamer Fanny appears by
another account to have cost £394 for repairing her en-
gines. As a sample of the working of this property, we
may state that the ferryage received has not paid the
wages of the crews within about £l7O ; that the hire of
extra steamers and repairs of those belonging to the Cor-
poration (exclusive of the £394 previously mentioned) has
cost within £5O of the; amount of the ferryage. The cost
of cool alone is half of the annual income. Shin-chandlery
makes up £3Ol 9s. ld., above a fifth ; and £l4B 13s Id.
has been paid for collisions. We do not intend to cast
any blame on the Ferry Committee for this unfortunate
gate of things. To a certain extent the property was
forced upon their bands.

COUNTY POLICE COURT.

ALLEGED ROBBERY AT LI ITIERLAND

Alice Rimmer, who was described as an industrious
woman, was charged at this court yesterday. before
William Ear!e, Esq., with stealing the large sure of
£35, the property of John .Davies, car proprietor,
residing at Litherland. The manner in which evidence

has been brought to bear upon the case is somewhat sin-
gular, the chief feature being that attention was principally
directed to the prisoner, from the fact that during the
week subsequent to the money being missed she had paid
several debts contracted for the supply of the necessaries
of life, a mangling bill, her arrears of rent, &c., one gro-
cer's bill amounting to no less than £5 14s. 6d., a portion
of which Lad been owing since 1818. Another feature is
that of a sovereign marked with the letters " R D,"
which was sworn to by the prosecutor's housekeeper as
teing her master's property, and afterwards found in a
box in the prisoner's house. It appeared from the evi-
dence of the prosecutor, that on the 19th of October,
a'lout a quarter past four, p.m., he had occasion to bring
a L athern bag from an upper apartment of his house to
pay a bill amounting to £2 29., to a party named Thomas
Holmes, for a load of straw, and that afterwards, he be-
lieved. he put the bag in his pocket. He then lay down
on the sofa, as was his custom of an afternoon. His
brother-in-law came in about an hour afterwards, and
stayed a few minutes ; and the prisoner came in soon after
he left. She brought home some washing. During his
temporary absence she took his seat on the sofa, and
stayed five or ten minutes conversing with his house-
keeper, who sat near her. In the evening, about
nine o'clock, he went to a butcher's shop in the neigh-
bourhood, to purchase some meat, and on putting his
hand into the pocket where the silver was, he found he
had not enough to pay for it. He then put his hand into
the other pocket and missed the bar, containing thirty
sovereigns and a five pound Bank of England note. Some
other parties were in the shop, who were joking with him,
and he challenged one of them that he had taken his
money. He afterwards gave information to the police of
his loss. Alice Hackett, the prosecutor's house-keeper,
deposed that about a week before the above occur-
rences she had been directed by Mr. Davies to put
some money away, and that as she was putting a handful
of sovereigns into the bag she noticed the mark " R D"
upon one of them.

Robert Richmond, of the county constabulary. deposed
that, on Saturday night, he received information from
Mr. Davies of his loss. On the following Monday he
heard that several bills had been paid by the prisoner, and
acquainted the prosecutor with the fact. On Tuesday and
Wednesdßy he heard that several other bills had been
paid, and on Thursday night he took the prisoner into
custody. On proceeding to search her house, in company
with Sergeant Kelly, she stated that eight pounds belong-
ing to her brother were in his box up stairs, and some
silver of her own. They examined the contents of the
box, and found a quantity of new wearing apparel, nine
and a half sovereigns in gold, and six shillings in silver;
one of the sovereigns was marked " R D." There were
also two bottles containing rum and gin, and a quantity
of tea ar.d sugar, which the prisoner said she had prepared
previous to her approaching confinement. This witness,
on cross-examination by Mr. George Dodd, attorney,
gave favourable testimopy as to the prisoner's general
character; she had been in the habit of keeping lodgers,
and he had never heard any thing against her before.

The various parties to whom the prisoner had paid
money were next heard ; and it appeared in evidence that
she spoke of having borrowed the money.
Mr. DODD then addressed the court in defence, and
contended that, in the whole course of his professional
experience, he had never met with so singular a ground-
work of suspicion as that against the prisoner, that is,
that she paid money owing by her. He then dissected
the evidence consecutively, and concluded by remarking
particularly upon the fact that the prosecutor treated the
possession of so large an amount of money very lightly
when he did not know to a certainty where he put it. The
evidence, however, was considered too strong in other
respects, and the prisoner was committed for trial.
Not thei least curious incident in the above case was eli-
cited in the cross-examination of the prosecutor, who ac-
knowledged, rather sheepishly, that he applied to a for-
tune-teller for assistance to recover his lost property.

CHILD ExPosunE.—On Sunday morning, a female
passing near St. Martin's Church perceived a box on the
waste ground adjoining the church ; upon examination
the box was found to contain the body of a newly-born
female child.

THE Exposmos FOR 1851.-The local committee ap-
pointed for furthering this national project held a meeting
in the Mayor's room at the Town-hall, yesterday, at
which Professor Ansted was present. The proceeedings,
which were of a routine character, were highly satisfac-
tory, though they did not embrace any circumstances of
peculiar public importance. His Worship the Mayor was
not present, owing probably to the fatigue consequent on
his recent visit to York.

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—Last week
Capt. Henry Kerr, master of the " Epaminondas," of
Belfast, Capt. William Turner, late of the " Gratitude,"
of Liverpool, were found qualified for first-class masters'
certificates. Mr. 'William Henry Murray, mate of the
" Albatross," screw steamer, of Cork, Capt. William
Watts, Master of the " Hellespont," screw steamer, of
London, and Mr. James Crockett, late mate of the
" Royal Victoria," steamer, of Carlisle, were found quali-
fied for second-class masters' certificates.

SnOCKING FATALITY.—On Friday morning, a young
man named Robert Nuttall was killed by a kick from a
horse. Deceased was a driver in the employ of Mr.
Ridings, a cart owner. On the morning in question the
deceased was engaged in harnessing one of the horses,
when it kicked out violently with both hind legs, and
struck the person of the deceased. The blow took effect
in the lower parts of the stomach, and the poor fellow was
carried to his master's house in great agony. On the fol-
lowing morning he expired. An inquest was held yester-
day, when a verdict in accordance with the abave facts
was returned.

THE LLANLLECHID CHORISTERS.—On Thursday last,
upwards of eighty of the congregation of the parish
church of Llanllechid, and who form the choir of that
place, (after travelling by rail that day upwards of seventy
miles,) assembled at St. Peter's Church to perform a
Welsh choral service. His worship the Mayor, the Very
Rev. the Dean of Bangor, and several of the Town
Council walked in procession from the Town-hall. There
were present also several of the local clergy, gentry, and
professors of music, and many of the committee and
practical members of the Philharmonic, with their con-
ductor, Mr. Sudlow, whose recent lecture on the mode of
conducting the church service has given rise to much
interesting discussion. When we remember that these
men form part of the congregation of their parish church,
and are not professional singers, but working men in the
mines, quarries, and fields among the mountains of
Wales, and but very few of them possessing a know-
ledge of music, and those few only self-taught, their re-
sponses, reading, chanting, and singing must have been
extremely gratifying to all present. Their earnestness
and devotion were becoming the house of God. The
reading of the Psalms of the day was conducted with
novel effect. The minister seemed to inspire the people,
and the people the minister, with sacred zeal to the end
of each Psalm—when, unaccompanied by any instrument,
and with solemn and awakening effect, pealed forth a
sudden and spontaneous burst of joy in full harmony, of
Gogoniant it Tad," &c. (Glory be, &c.), which almost
electrified not only those who understood the language,
but many others. Some such feeling as this must have
filled the hearts of the Jews in the temple when they
burst forth with `• Selah," whilst chanting the Psalms.
During the service, three anthems of a devotional cha-
racter were sung by Mr. 0. Davies, a member of the
choir. The prayers were read by the Rev. Evan Lewis,
of Llanllechid, and a sermon was preached by the Very
Rev. .1. H. Cotton, Dean of Bangor. A collection,
amounting to £27, was made towards raising a new
church in the populous district. In the evening, they
held a concert of sacred music at the Collegiate Institu-
tion. The programme consisted of the works of Handel,
Beethoven, Kent, WI itefield, Hawkins, Harwood,
Weyman, Jarman, and four anthems composed by Mr.
Owen Davies. On the removal of the curtain, we beheld
the whole company in their native costume, the females
wearing hats. Mr. W. T. Best played a movement on
the organ. The performance was one of the most sin-
gular we ever heard. The steadiness and precision with
which all the pieces were sung seemed almost incredible,
without a conductor, and showed that the vocalists are
masters of the beauties of choral singing. The breadth of
light and shade from soft to loud, and the sudden transition
from loud to soft, was startling, and equal to the famous
German chorus. To illustrate the vast amount of musi-
cal talent that exists among this people, we may state tbat
there is one in this town whose bardic name is " Gorey-
niatoc," and who came from the parish of Llanllechid
about fifteen years ago. He sought employment as a
labourer, in one of the public works, and obtained it.
From that period he became clerk, and is at the present
time one of the principal clerks in the works. Besides
learning to speak the English language fluently, he has
corrected and revised Mill's Grammar of Music in the
Welsh, or indeed has re-written it ; together with a trea-
tise on song and musical declamation, and has also writ-
ten an original work on thorough base and harmony,
which, for clearness and simplicity in language and illus-
trations, is pronounced by many eminent professors to
equal any that has been written in any language. This
was a most difficult task to accomplish, as it was a new
science in the Welsh. It is called the " Cannrhodydd."
It is from these works the singers get what knowledge of
music they have.