The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-29 00:00:00

Zephyr

*** Since the above list was made out the " Isabel"
has changed hands, and Thomas Moss, Esq., has become
the owner of the Phoebe.

A PROPHECY BY THE BISHOP OF EXETER

The following is an extract from a speech of Dr. Phil-
potts, on the second reading of the Reform Bill, April
11,1832:

i` In the first place, then, if the Irish bill should be
carried, what will become of the representation of the
Irish boroughs? It will be t ,ken from the Protestant in-
fluence, and conferred upon the Roman Catholic popula-
tion. Can your lordships conceive a greater change—a
more important change—a more fearful change? It ap-
pears to me to be the more formidable, because I cannot
disguise from myself that it is only one part of th'it system
which unhappily, of late, has been too much practised—
of truckling to the Roman Catholics of Ireland. I see
that, on every occasion, there is a readiness to yield the
most high and sacred considerations connected with the
religion of that country to temporal, nay, to temporary
expediency. Expediency !my lords—it isnot expediency.
The thing is as miserable in policy as it is indefensible in
principle. It is a mere huckstering of pure religion, for
the brief, the hollow, the worthless support of men whom
no concessions can win—who laugh at your bribes, and
jeer at your elaborate and unwearied efforts to cocker, and
soothe, and pamper them ; of men who no longer deign
even to wear the mask of a decent hypocrisy—who pro-
claim their hopes, rather I should say their triumphs ;
of men who even now boast, and chuckle while they boast,
that the oath they have taken not to use the power, which
a too-confiding legislature gave them: " to weaken or dis-
turb the Protestant government or Protestant religion of
the country," admits of an explanation which makes it a
key, a picklock, with which they may open to themselves,
at once, both the citadel and the temple of our Zion. My
lords, I speak not of the visionary dangers, or matters of
distant and doubtful speculation. Already the days of
the Irish branch of the Protestant Church are numbered;
and the giant spirit of democracy will rise in all its might.
and crush the Protestant church of Ireland to the dust."
[Will the Bishop be consistent with himself if he sup-
ports the endowment of Maynooth n—Ed. L. S.

SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—The Concert-hall
was again filled to overflowing, last Saturday, to hear the
celebrated Mr. Henry Russell, who delighted the audi-
ence. This emning Mr. Lover appears ; and, on Satur-
day, Alexander Duncan, Esq., gives bis readings and
recitations.

MR. WINTERBOTTOM'S CASE.—A public meeting of
the inhabitants of Stockport was held on Tuesday last, for
the purpose of memorialising the Home Secretary for some
mitigation of the sentence of Mr. Winterbottom, who, at
the last Chester Assizes, was sentenced to transportation
for life, and a memorial to this effect was unanimously
agreed upon.

Aceirirxrr To A WINDIIII.L.—On Friday afternoon,
while it blew fresh, one of the wings of the sail of the
windmill in the Park-road was blown off and fell on a
building at the back, the roof of which it broke in, and
carried a great part of the gable-end of the wall away with
it in its fall. A horse was in the lower story, which was
used as a stable, and fortunately escaptd injury, although
the ruins fell on all sides of it.

LAUNCH OF THE " LIMA."—On Thursday last, there
was launched from the yard of Mr. Royden, Baffin-
street, a fine merchantile vessel of this name. Though
she was of small burthen, compared with the gigantic
projects in naval architecture of late years developed in
the larger seaports of the empire, the celebrity of Mr.
Hoyden as a skilful and faithful builder, and the extreme
finenes, of the weather, attracted a considerable number
of respectable persons to the spot. The Lima is in length
of keel 79 feet 6 inches ; her breadth 19 feet 9 inches;
her depth amidships 12 feet 2 inches; her burthen by
New Measurement 132 43-lUOths, and by 0. M. 140
33-4-iths. While high and dry she looked remarkably
promising for a trader, having just sufficient body for
good stowage, with considerable rise of floor, and a fine
entrance and clear run. Her upper works displayed a
degree of finish rarely to be found in vessels of her class,
and we remarked an elegant and chaste wreath on each
side her stem, (which has a billet-head), and another on
her stern ; beneath the last of which was the arms of the
owner, also in alto relief—the whole executed with great
taste by our townsman Mr. Andrew Allen. At a few
minutes past twelve o'clock, the daggers were struck
down ; her name was gracefully, given from the platform
a-head, by Miss Job, daughter of Messrs. Job, Brothers,
the owners, and she dashed down the ways into the river
in magnificent style. We should state, as somewhat ex-
traordinary, that she was rigged, at the time, as a brigs.
tine—that is, a brig forward and a schooner aft. Her
masts appeared to be judiciously placed well together
near the centre of gravity; and when afloat she showed
a buoyancy, sharpness. and elegance of appearance in her
lines, upper-works, and rig, giving her a strong resem-
blance to a yacht. The Lima is, we learn, intended for
the trade between our colony of Newfoundland and the
Brazils. She is built of the best materials, and will rank
amongst the first British bottoms at Lloyds. The com-
pany assembled were highly gratified by witnessing the
launch, which was managed in a masterly manner. Mr.
Royden, we may add, has on the stocks two other fine,
and much larger vessels, already approaching towards
completion.