The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

THE NEW GERMAN REFORMATION.

MANIIELNI, OCT. 13.—1 t has been communicated to
Ronge that he would nor be permitted ti perform divine
service to the German Catholic congregation here, nor
even to make any longer stay in our town. M. Ronge left
us. accompanied by the deputy M. Wassermand and Dr.
Hammar, and amidst the cries of " Farewell" raised by
his very numerous adherents.
FREISBERG, OCT. 14.—Rouge arrived here to day, and,
after a short stay, he set out again for Constance, where he
intends remaining for some days.
FRANKFORT ON THE MAINE, Oct. 14.—The report
lately spread here th.lt the authorities of Nassau had in-
dicated to Rouge, that, on his arrival at Weishillen, he
should not be permitted to officiate at the German Catholic
divine service is not credited. On the 10th, M. Rouge,
assisted by Daw•int and Keilinan, performed divine service
at Weisbaden to about seven thousand persons. W hether
he will solemnise his anniversary (which falls on the IS, h
of this mouth) here or at Offenbach is still uncertain; but
at all events the German Catholic congregation intends
presenting him on that day with a crown of laurels made of
silver. Yesterday a grand serenade was given to the two
burgomasters, in consequence of their refusal to accede to
the wishes of several powers to repress the religious move-
ment in the city.
BERLIN, OCT. 14 —The Catholic Church Reform, for
September, contains the address presented by the leaders
of the French Protestants to those of the German Catholics,
and in which the former congratulate the latter on the
principles adopted by their Government regarding them,
lamenting at the same time the restricted state of the Pro-
testant Church in France. According to this publication,
the Lumber of the German Catholic congregation amounts
now to two hundred and ninety-one. Dr. Theiner con-
secrated on the 6th the cloister called " Junkfernklauster,"
and which has been used till now as a coach-house; hence-
forth it will be a German Catholic church. The saloon
at Lahu, %Illicit has been ustd as a prayer-room by Pro-
testants, has been consecrated for a Getman Catholic
church by Al. Foster. On the 12th, for the second time,
was solemnised here a marriage between an evangelical
bridegroom and a German Catholic bride, by a German
Catholic minister, no Protestant minister being present on
the occasion.

TABITI.—A rumour was circulated last week on the
authority of a private letter, that an Engiisli steamer had
been sunk at Tatrici by a French frigate, but there ap-
pears to have been no foundation for it.
The Belgian Government have taken the duty off the
following articles of consumption until the Ist of June,
1846, namely, wheat, rye, barley, buckwheat, beans, peas,
oats, oatmeal, potatoes, and rice.
Within the last few days the Seine has risen to a great
height. At Rouen the water has flowed over the quays.
The Rhine has also become so swollen that at Lyons several
pointy would be inundated but for the embankments re-
cently executed there.
THE BRAZILIAN SLAVER Edw.—This vessel, on
board which the murderous conflict took place with the
crew of the Felicidade, is now in Ilfracombe harbour.
She was sold at Sierra Leone, atter condemnation as a
prize, and now sails under the Br itish flag ; she is named
the " Elizabeth" in her new register.

The son of Senor Fonteneila, a rich banker of Barce-
lona,
has been kidnapped by some miscreants, and carried
off to the mountains. They have written to the miserable
father, assuring him that if two millions of reels, about
X 20,060, are not immediately paid down. the prisoner will
be killed. It is not yet known what steps the unfortu-
nate youth's family have taken.
FAVOURITES AT ROME.—A curious report is said to
have reached the Rhenish provinces, that in a fringe-
maker's shop in Rome three costly roses now attract at-
tention. They are whispered to be commanded by the
papal high treasurer, and destined (after consecration) as
gifts to three German sovereigns, who have merited spe-
cial favour from the Roman Pontiff by their opposition to
the reform movement. Two Protestant potentates are
even named as intended recipients of this distinction.
A VETERAN.—A Spanish journal notices the existence
of a veteran of the army of Spain, who was born in 1731,
and consequently is now 114 years of age. He remained
in the army till he was promoted to the rank of sergeant,
and afterwards received his discharge. In 1815, when 84
years of age, he married a young woman of 21, by whom
he has one child, aged 21. He is said to he still so strong
and active that no one would think him to be more than
70. His only infirmity is total deafness.
THE RIVER PLATE.—We have received advices from
Buenos Ayres so late as the 21st of August. Ou the
18th, 200 English marines landed at Monte Video, and
several English and French vessels had gone up the Ura-
guay to reconnoitre. It is considered that the war will
be tor some time prolonged. At Buenos Ayres the Sala
(House of Representatives) had been sitting for several
days for the purpose of considering the manifestos of the
English and French ministers ; and it was believed that
the treaty with England would be declared void on the
assumed ground of violation. It is said that the French
and ErigLsh forces intend taking immediate possession
of Colonia, and placing a garrison there. In consequence
of the blockade of Busco by the French and English,
ships, Oribe has declared a free port on the Lagoa Mirram,
front whence he will draw his supplies. A protest from
th British subjects in Monte Video had been presented
to Mr. Turner, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, com-
plaining of certain oppressive decrees of the government,
and requesting that such decrees should be instantly for-
warded totter
Majesty's government, for its early con-
sideration and dtcision. Mr. Turner immediately trims-
nutted the documents to her Majesty Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs,

THE YELLOW FEVER AT MALTA.—The Mongibello
steamer, for Malta, arrived on the 15th inst. at Marseilles.
She reports that the fever had broken out on board a
merchant ship, and that two cases had declared them-
selves, one of which terminated fatally. The quarantine
laws are put in force. A correspondent states that while
he was at Malta very considerable alarm prevailed re-
specting a fever which raged in the 42nd Foot, in garrison
there.
The interesting ceremony of the admission of a Jew
into the Christian Church was witnessed by the English
congregation at Bourdeaux, on Sunday afternoon, October
5. The candidate was the son of a Jewish Rabbi, named
Dittener, who resides in Poland, and received at his
baptism the name of Jacob Nathaniel. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. St. John Quin, minister of
the church. His godmother was a lady who is justly
regarded as the fostering mother of the church here ; and
his godfathers were the trustee and the assistant minister
thereof.
PRICE OF IRON IN FRANCE.—The following is the
price of iron at St. Dizier per 100 kils. (2 cwts.) ; rock-
iron, made by wood, £l7 ss. ; wrought-iron, made by
coal, £l7 to £18; other sorts from £7 to £l6. '[he
price of iron in the Dordogene has experienced a trifling
rise, which is looked upon by the ironmasters as the
forerunner for large contracts, as there are some very
extensive demands made for tier. railways now construct-
ing, which not only gives plenty of work, but they choose
a better description of ore in the making of iron than
formerly, so as to keep the foreign out of the market, if
possible.
THE INDIA MAIL.—ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 9.—Lieut.
Waghorn's experimental trip with despatches from Bom-
bay to London, via Trieste, will take place this month,
and he is very sanguine of success in anticipating the
Indian mail, which will go by the regular way of France.
The Austrian government seems anxious to second Mr.
Waghorn's views by every means, and yesterday an
Austrian steamer arrived from Trieste in five days and a
half, and put herself entirely under the orders of Mr.
Wagborn, who went on board to-day in order to com-
mence his term of quarantine; and as the Bombay mail
of the Ist instant cannot be down here before the 20th,
he will thus be enabled to land on his arrival at Trieste,
where he will find everything in readiness for him to pro-
ceed.—Times.
THE PROTESTANT CHURCH IN PRUSSIA. The
Prussian paper of the 14th ult. published the authentic
reply of his Majesty to the address of the municipality of
Berlin. The address, after stating that when the popu-
lation of the city was not more than from 50,000 to
70,000, the number of pastors was not only propor-
tionately but numerically more considerable than now,
when the city contains 400,000 inhabitants, concludes as
follows :—" The last point to which I come in your
address is one most painful to me. The regency desig-
nates the orthodox believers of the Protestant Church by
the name of a party. That expression, gentlemen, has
caused me great displeasure. But the regency goes still
further. It accuses my government, not indeed ex-
plicitly, but nevertheless clearly of favouring that party.
This latter point, a sense of what is due to my own
dignity, and that of the authorities representing me,
compels me to pass over in silence. But on the other
point I must make a few remarks. The regency, in its
zeal, has forgotten itself so far as to name an individual—
Professor Hengstenberg, the leader of the Pietist party,
and principal editor of the Ecclesiastical Evangelical
Gazette—as the representative of a party whom every
impartial observer, and all of you, gentlemen, I feel con-
vinced, as well as myself, will not reproach with any more
serious error than too great zeal in the discharge of their
duties and confining those duties within a limited circle.
Here, gentlemen, I entirely concur in your epinion. But
you denounce these persons before me at a time when our
church is insulted and harassed by men who have taken
the same oaths as the former on the symbol of our faith,
and that voluntarily, and without being required to do
so, at the altar of God ; and yet, with the responsibility
of those oaths on their consciences, they preach apostasy,
using for that purpose illegal means, exciting the people,
and convening popular assemblies. You do not cite the
names of any of those men in your address ; it does not
contain a word of indignation at their reprehensible pro-
ceedings. The eyes of all F. 'ope are fixed on us and on
the movement which has manifested itself in our church.
What can be thought of its condition, by the most im-
partial men of our confession, when they see you de-
nounce so harshly to your sovereign those Iwho are too
faithful, whilst you utter not a word of csrny'aint against
others w' o give evidence of all that constitutes
a party,
and a very dangerous party ? All this deeply distresses
me. I deplore it as a misfortune, and I must declare to
you, gentlemen, that I disapprove of it from the bottom
of my heart."

IRELAND.

The Tipperary Poor-law Guardians have made their
board-room a political debating room, and resolved to
petition in favour of repeal.
Mr. Lloyd, the late convert to repeal, has been super-
seded from the deputy lieutenancy of the county of
Limerick.

FORTUNATE SPECULATION.—On the 7th inst. a peroon
bought 40 tons of oatmeal for 433 per ton in the Armagh
market. Next week he sold the same in Portadown for
.£l9 per ton.
At a meeting of the Cork Poor Law Union the master
said that the quantity of farina made from 7 lbs. of pota-
toes would be sufficient for ten people, though the same
quantity of potatoes was allowed for two females.
Mr. Denis Ezan, of Strokestown, county Roscommon,
was fired at on Friday while proceeding home from the
sessions, where he had been for the purpose of prosecut-
ing some civil bills that were entered for trial. Several
slugs entered the hip of the mare which Mr. Egan was
driving.
In 1830 there was not a flax spinning mill in operation
in Ireland. At present there are in Ulster fifty-one in
full work—some of them amongst the largest.in the united
kingdom. They employ about 18,000 persons: there is
a million and a quarter of money sunk in the buildings
and machinery, and they require a floating capital of
£600,000.
The week before last the neighbourhood of Castlebar
was visited by a terrific flood. Wheat, oats, barley, &c.,
were swept away in enormous quantities. For a dis'rici
over two miles the country has been entirely inundated,
and nothing remains to the poor people hut mountains of
mud and rocks covering their potato fields.
WHICH IS MORE LIKE CHRISTIANITY ?—On Sunday
week Mrs. Gayer, the wife of the respected Protestant
Clergyman at Dingle, was hooted and hissed by a mob on
her return from church. Several parties, through a la-
mentable perversion of mind, have recently left the Church
of England for Rome, but Protestants do not maltreat or
persecute them. They only pity and pray for them.
REPRESENTATION OF CORK.— Serjeant Murphy's seat
is already disposed of. Alderman Lyons was the first in
the market, and was actually declared the successful bid-
der ; the worthy alderman, however, subsequently, " for
reasons of a private nature," backed out of his bargain,
and now another " back-bone repealer," Mr. Alexander
M'Carthy, conies forward under the patronage and with
the full approval of the seat-broker general for Ireland.
THE IRISH POTATO CROP.—We are happy to observe
from the Irish journals. that the extensive panic on this
subject is subsiding. The reports have become less dis-
heartening, and the hope is now indulged that the malady
h s been checked in various localities. The late drying
weather appears to have stopped the progress of the dis-
ease, and the exposure of the potato to the air has been
tried in a multitude of instances with complete success.
The fact that potatoes of the best kind arc selling in the
neighbourhood of Tipperary at from Id. to ld. a stone
less than last year, is encouraging, and so also is the high
price maintained for pigs. The effect of any scarcity in
potatoes uniformly is to diminish the price of pigs, in an-
ticipation of a scarcity of food for those animals.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting of this body
last week, Mr. O'Connell made three reports from the
counties of Limerick, Sligo, and Waterford, in which
some interesting disclosures were afforded as to the happy
unanimity which exists amongst the Repealers of those
counties. No rent has been received from Limerick, .in
consequence of the disputes of the wardens; a portion of
the Sligo patriots have coalesced with the Conservatives
and ousted the "real I?epealers" from the enjoyment of
municipal honours and offices ; and the " men of Water-
ford" arc in a condition of such a delightful dkunion as
to need a personal visit from the great conciliator to re-
store harmony.
THE POTATO, THE FAMINE, AND THE RENT.—A
correspondent of the Dublin Mail, calculating that one-
third of the potato crop has been destroyed—that six
millions of the Irish population are dependent for their
existence on this esculent—that the smallest average
quantity of oatmeal, the next cheapest food, that can be
allowed to sustain human life for a day, is one pound
avoirdupois,—comes to the legitimate conclusion that,
supposing oatmeal now selling from 16s. to 17s. 6d. per
cwt. should, during the dearth, rise no higher than 205.,
it would take no less a sum than £17,940 a day, or
£3,255,000 for the half year, to sustain the lives of two
millions (one-third of the six millions) of the Irish peo-
ple. As our contemporary well observes, this is a fright-
ful estimate, and the great agitator has turned the matter
in his capacious mind, and has just issued bis appeal for
—what does the reader think ?—why, for nothing less
than the
if
annual O'Connell tribute. This would be in-
credible told in i! romance, but simple truth beats the
most elaborate fiction. The " faithful" are to contribute
on Sunday, Nov. 16th.
POTATOE FLOUR.—At the County Cork Agricultural
Society's meeting, last week, Mr. J. Dillon Croker
brought forward some important statistics on this subject.
He said. that four days before he despaired of doing any-
thing to keep off famine and starvation, but he was then
happy to tell them that there was abundance of food in
the country. He had found by bis experiments that one
score weight of sound potatoes produced 31b. 9oz. of farina
or flour, dry and fit for use ; one ditto of unsound and
diseased parts cut off, 31b. loz. ; whilst the unsound with
none cut off produced 31b. 6ox. Diseased potatoes, use-
less, quite soft and rotten, will make as good starch as
the soundest and need not have the bad parts cut off.
Mr. Croker produced several loaves of different qualities,
which were pronounced excellent. He advised all to get
at once a good grater or two and set to work, on the
unsound potatoes, keeping their families employed in
picking out the diseased ones, thus securing an ample
supply of the best food from this description when the
starch was sufficiently washed. Potato flour was imperish-
able. A lady had a small cask of it, from which a cake
was made en her birth-day and on her wedding-day, and
it was still as sound as ever. Neither rats nor mice would
eat or touch it. Let Ireland from henceforth be a con-
sumer of good wholesome bread food instead of potatoes,
often bad and always so at the end of the season. and thus
what was considered the greatest calamity that could befal
them might prove a rich blessing, namely, the change of
diet from potatoes to bread.