The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-23 00:00:00

—but in a different sense

which the Roman meant

it—how true the proverb is,

moribus antiquis stabit Roma, is likely to create a greater

movement in the Church than has been yet raised by

any prece

ding incident apparently of so small a nature,

Already nearly ten thousand clergy have desired sure
means of having the doctrine of Episcopal Ordination
peremptorily declared by the Church, and one part at
least of the Archbishop's letter has been fully contradicted;
for, instead of " not more than two bishops" believing
-Episcopal Ordination to be necessary, seven or eight at
least have already signed the remonstrance, and some of
them with expressions of considerable surprise at the
statement. The two bishops pointed out in his Grace's

letter, viz., I
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Oxford, are
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The Primate, in the

to form his decla-

ration of belief upon the vital subject which has been so
strangely brought before the public. Gar/thorn's dishonest
trick will thus end in good instead of evil to the Church—
as everything must which tends to the ascertaining of
uniformity.

According to the latest accounts of these who pretend
to be in the secret of the Ministerial Reform Bill, the
whole thing is likely to end in something a great deal
more funny than formidable. The franchise to be given
to persons who pay fifteen pounds per annum rates and
taxes," must surely mean those whose properties are
rated at fifteen pounds per annum value. But the great
claptrap by which so much was to have been accomplished,
is completely demolished. Lord John has abandoned the
literary" or "degree" qualification. He found, doubt-
less, that upon an analysis of statistics not difficult to
obtain, the extension of the franchise to scholars would
only be an extension of support to the Conservative
party, and this forms no part of his desires or intentions.
The plan, too, of what remains of his proposed bill could
almost seem to be intended for defeat. It is no other than
election by " electoral colleges," as in France—a system
that has given ample proof of being quite as capable of
corruption as our own present system has shown itself to
be, even under the influence of a reformed parliament. If
a great deal more " modification" does not take place in
the new Reform Bill, the end of the Whigs bids fair to be
as funny as one of their leaders' tragedies. In the mean-
time, " Old Joe" has given his constituents at Montrose
a dose of Dan O'Connell, and will oppose the bill.

There has been a trifling pause in the legal battue in
the Encumbered Estates' Court, in Ireland ; and it was
almost time. In the case of ordinary bankruptcies,
assignees are allowed to try to sell to the best advantage
of the creditors; but in the case of the unfortunate Irish
proprietors, all has been one desperate hurry, bustle, and
44 clean sweep"—a sale of precipitation much more like
that of a fraudulent sheriff's officer than of a court of
justice where an ermined baron was principal auctioneer.
The following summary of what has been done by the
court, since its commencement, from the pen of one of its
strongest apologists, may give some idea of how the pro-
perty of the Irish proprietors has been hurried into this
court and sold, to use the cant of the auction room, at
" an alarming sacrifice," indeed :
" From the date of the court's first sitting, two years ago, to
the close of the session, on the 12th of August last, there have
been received and filed 1.932 petitions; 1,422 conditional and
1,250 absolute orders for sale nave been made; and besides
these, 3,374 miscellaenous motions have been heard, and orders
made on them • 440 sales of property, in nearly 1,500 distinct
lots, have taken place under the commission, producing
.t 1,654,500 11s. 4d., of which there has been distributed, under
order of the court, £1,734,602 15s. 2d. The labour involved in
the disposal of this amount of business may be readily con-
ceived to be great, and the subordinate officials, as well as the
commissioners, contribute, of course, their full share of it.
But, probably, most significant circumstance, as indicating
the assiduity of all connected with the commission, is the fact
that, from the 12th of August, up to Saturday week, that is,
since vacation commenced, a time when all legal business is
supposed to be suspended, and all legal functionaries recreat-
ing themselves—upwards of 120 new petitions were received—
mearly all of which have been fiated by Baron Richards, who
attended occasionally for that purpose. The net annual rent on
the estates referred to in the petitions lodged up to the 3d July,
was £1,004,869, while the total of the encumbrances on the
same properties amounted to £21,837,421, or upwards of 21
years purchase on the rental."

I should like to have Sir John Romilly's opinion, as to
how the English proprietors, or the possessors of any other
property in England, would be likely to bear so violent an
invasion of the principle of law, as that to which he
submitted the proprietors of Ireland. The Whigs long
boasted their opposition to Divine right, and, indeed, they
might extend it to all rights whatever.
The preparations talked of for the reception of Kossuth
are exactly of the character that might be anticipated.
The Kensington or Hammersmith (I cannot recall which)
"Liberal Association" have voted an address, and are
about to send a deputation to Southampton to present it !
That kind of thing is just what might have been expected.
It will fix his reception as the act of a small and incon-
siderable political faction in the country, and the Court of
Austria will know how to understand it exceedingly well.
There is a good deal of bad taste too in the way the Radical
papers talk of his embarkation and " his suite." Can-
ning thought that no man so loved a lord as a Radical, and
it is perfectly true. In the same way that our American
neighbours cannot confer too many titles of " Honourable
Mr.," and " Colonel," and " Major," and " Judge"—
the Radicals cannot talk too much about " high life."
Accordingly, Kossuth embarks with " his secretary and
his physician." This is very un-republican.

Great men have always scorned great recompences
Epaminondas saved his Thebes and died,
And scarcely left his funeral expenses;
George Washington had thanks, and nought beside.

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However, if Kossuth escapes the congratulations of the
Narylebone Vestry, he may be very well content.
The Yankees are " going a-head" of us, again. A pro-
ject, very feasible and likely to be well supported, is on
foot, to put on a line of steamers to Australia, while our
own Government is content with advertising for vessels to
go once in two months. The American line will be by
-way of California, Panama, and Sydney, and is likely to
be seriously set about. We ought surely by this time to
have had a warning about competition with our neighbours
across the Atlantic.

Amusements of all kinds are much more flat than even
the influx of visitors that still continues could warrant,
and, what with the want of stirring incidents in town and
the unusual absence of meetings in the country, the
papers are at the lowest ebb, _

,
And eat into themselves, for lack
Of other things to hew and whack

Some degree of public attention has been called to the
" Bloomer costume," here in town, by the very amusing
farce at Mr. Copeland's Punch's Playhouse, and by the
delivery of a lecture at one of the literary institutions on
the subject, addressed to the " Wives and Mothers of
England," by a Mrs. Dexter. The lecture-room was
crowded ; bnt I am disposed to think more persons went
from curiosity to see the costume than from any wish to
adopt or see it adopted. That some change in the present
fashion of ladies' out-of-doors costume would be advisable,
all who do not like to see them doing the work of street
orderlies must admit. That change, to be general, must
mot begin anywhere but in Paris. If the admirers of the
•' Bloomer" costume could procure for it the stamp of
_Longehamps, they might not despair of seeing it univer-
sally adopted. In the farce of a " Figure of Fun," at the
Punch's Playhouse, Miss Marshall looked exceedingly
well as a Bloomer, and the costume was somewhat better
received than the author intended
Mr. Lumley,

" still loth to depart," has advertised five
more "last" nights at Her Majesty's Theatre. Madame
Celeste will this week take her farewell of the London
public for a year. On the last night of her appearance,
and after the performance, she will be presented with a
very beautiful bracelet by Mr. Paul Bedford, in the name
of the Adelphi company, as a testimony of their esteem
for herself and appreciation of her as their manager.
Timon of Athens, which has not before been played since
1816, when it was produced for Edmund Kean, has been
brought out with complete success, at Sadler's Wells, by
Mr. Phelps. There is no other novelty in the theatrical
world ; and there never was any time when there was
130 little to interest in musical circles as at present.
The arrival of the four-handed pianiste, which I hear is
shortly to take place, is anxiously looked for, nothing, ap-
parently, but monstrosity being capable of waking up the
lethargy of sight-seers.