The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

YESTERDAY.

HEROIC.—A number of lads were convicted in the pe.
nalty of two shillings and sixpence for the old offence of
" warring with stones." One little fellow, whose head
did not reach to the top of the dock, was charged with
throwing stones. A young man stated that the boy had
annoyed the congregation of Zion Chapel during service,
and he was obliged to drag the boy out. On being asked
what he had to say, the little fellow, with a whimper, said
"A lot of gentlemen dragged me out, and I was obliged to
take my own part."
SUSPICIOUS CASE.—Patrick Healey was charged with
stealing twenty-nine pounds weight of soap. Officer 9-f,
stopped him on Sunday in Great Howard-street, carrying
a basket, which he stated contained butter. The butter,
however, proved to be soap. The prisoner pretended that
he had received it, with other luggage, from Ireland, and
that he thought it was butter. Mr. Davenport, who ap-
peared for the man. attempted to chew his innocence.
Mr. Rushton drily observed that the man knew the dif-
terence iirthe price of soap in Ireland and in this country,
and remanded him.

ROBBINCeA POLICEMAIV.,--A boy named Thos. Cofty was
charged with having stolen a pair of boots. Walter Thor-
burne, a policeman, stated that he lodged at the house of
the boy's uncle, when his boots had been stolen by the
prisoner; he farther stated that the boy's- father was in
America, and had promised to send for hie son, but had
not as yet. Mr. Rushton committed him for seven days.
EXTENSIVE Slat GGLING.—A, respectably-dressed mid-
die-aged man, who gave his name Moran,• with a younz
man of equally respectable exterior, were remanded on a
charge of having smuggled 2071b5: of tobacco. The pri-
soners left three boxes containing the contraband article
at Whalley's public-house, Mans' Taland, on Saturday.
ROBBERY BY TIM ADMINISTRAT/ON' CaLORO.
FORM.—A prostitute, named Ann Weir, was brought up
on the following charge :—James Newland, 3 young man
from the country, stated that, on Sunday- evening, ho met
a female in Vernon-street, whom he accompanied to a
house in Grenville-street, • Scotland-road. Here heyrent
up stairs, when, in a few minutes, a handkerchief was
passed across his mouel• by some one, and he imme-
diately became insensible. When he recovered, he
found his waistcoat unbuttoned, his watch and guard had
been taken, and seventeen shillings from his pocket.
We then went down stairs, where he saw the prisoner and
her husband (who kept the house). They seized him,
tore his coat, and threw him into the street. Mr.
Rushton pointed out to the complainant the danger of
going into houses of the description of that kept by the•
woman, in the dark : he had ;ant himself in the power or
people who, by the use of a towel steeped in chloroform,
could have murdered him. The prisoner, who is a noto-
rious-character, was remanded to this day, when she will
be committed. The delay is occasioned by the circum-
stanco of one of tle girls having been apprehended since-
the occurrence, in a state of extreme intoxication.
BREAKING UP OF A HA UNT,'OF Bus GLARS.--DaVid
Evans, George Grundy, and Thomas Johnson, three
young thieves, were placed in the dock, when Sullivan, an
officer in plain clothes, stated that acting on information
which had reached them, he and Grisenthwaite, on Sun-
day aftemoon, secreted themselvesin an unoccupied cellar
in Sparling-street. In this cellar they found a quantity
of leas,
which had been stripped from some roof and de.
posited there. The officers remained in their hiding place
until half-past nine o'clock at night, when a number of-
rolls of canvas were pushed through.the window by some
body outside. Sullivan rushed out end- seized two persons,
and a third was taken by Grisenthwaite. They proved to
be the prisoners. The canvas was identified by the ware-
houseman of Mr. Faulkner, of Sparling-street, and the
lead by amen who had marked it on the roof, in conse-
quence of the great quantity of lead (S cwt.) recently cut
from the roofs of houses in Sparling-street. Mr. Faulkner
supposes that the canvas stolen from his warehouse would
amount to between £lO and £lO. He considered that
property in Sparling-street was not sufficiently guarded,
and observed that a memorial to that effect signed by the
most respectable occupiers in Sparking-street, had, in his
opinion, not received that attention it demanded. Mr.
Rushton explained that the Watch Committee was the
proper
teher uaretveirdteoncae.pply to. The prisoners were remanded
for
_ _

SMUGGLED' WHISKEY.—An old man and his wife,
named Jones, were charged by an offirer of the inland
revenue with having smuggled five quarts of whiskey.
The old, man pleaded that the spirits-were sent to him by
his son— Mr. Rushton ordered the wife to be discharged;
and, in default of payment of the fine of XIO, in conside-
ration of his extreme age, committed the male defendant
in the mitigated-term of one month.
A DO.UNKEN NAVVT.—A fellow of, herculean propor-
tions was brought up, charged with having assaulted con-
stable 449: Tho officer stated that, between eight and
nine o'Clockon Saturday night, he attempted to take the
prisoner into custody for disorderly conduct, when he was
seized by -him,. thrown down, and kicked in the mouth.
It required seven officers to take the man into custody.
Mr. Rushton fined him £5, or two months' imprisonment.
MURDEROUS• ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—Nine Irish-
men, principally dock labourers, were placed in the dock,
charged with having assaulted five policemen, viz.,
M'Lellan, 100; Shumack, 590; Fell, 149+; Cookson, 347;
and Belton, 61. M`Lellan, Shumack, and Bolton ap-
peared as witnesses. They each exhibited signs of having
suffered- very ill treatment, their heads and faces being
much swollen, and encased in handkerchiefs. One of the
officers stated; that between twelve-and one o'clock on
Saturday night,, while on duty in Snowden-street, Vaux-
hall-road, his- attention was attracted- to a public-house,
in which a good deal of quarreling was- going on. As it
was after the time for keeping open, he was about to clear
the house, .wheys he was deterred by the violent eemea-
nourof the men he, however, obtained assistance, and
succeeded in dispersing the crowd: The men in a abort
time. turned upon the officers, and, commenced a most
brutal onslaught on them. Shumaek was knocked into a
cellar. A man jumped upon his-head, totally destroying
hi&hat. The other officers were-knocked down as fast as
they rose to protect themselves. Fell and Cookson v'ere
so-severely injured as to be unable-to-attend in court and
give evidence ; indeed the life of the latter (Cookson)

THE EXHIBITION OF 185 L—At the meeting: on Satur-
day the Commissioners decided upon the following plan—
first the issue of " season ticketa,'_?: the price of which
will be for a. gentlercan, £3 35.,. and for a lady, £2 2s.
These tickets rare not transferable, and means will be
taken to prevent their transfer by. requiring the holder to
give his signature upon each admission. The owner of
a " season ticket" will be entitled -to admission on all
occasions on: which the Exhibition is open, to the public.
The Commissioners reserve to themselves. the power of
raising the price of the season tickets,. after the first
issue is exhausted, should circumstances• render such a
course advisable. On Thursday, :the Ist of hay, being
the first day of the Exhibition, season tickets only will
be available, and no moniy will be received at the en-
trance doers. On the second and. third days, Friday and
Saturday, the price will be upon, each day, for one ad-
mission only, £l. On Monday, the sth, of May, and the
fourth day of the Exhibition„, the admission will be re-
duced to .55., and the same price continued for the suc-
ceeding seventeen days. On and after Monday, the 26th
of May, or the twenty-second day of the Exhibition,
the charges for admission will be on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays. and Thursdaysineach week, Is. ;on Fridays, WRECK OF THE STEAMER JOHN ADAMS
2s. 6d. ;..and upon Saturdays,- ss. The Exhibition will UPWARDS OF,IOO LIVES LOST..
(From the New. York Papers.)
be open daily, Sundays excepted. Messrs. Sehweppa and _
Co., the well-known soda-water manufacturers, have On Monday morning, the 27th January, at three o'clock,
the steamer John Adams, Captain H. A. Jones, with a
been appointed caterers for, refreshments. Glasses of
heavy freight and large number of passengers„ bound for •
filtered water will be required to be supplied gratis to
visitors, and a quantity of bread, cheese, and butter to be
kept-for sale at prices to be agreed upon between theeon-
or sturnp and sank in two minutes. The cabin parted.
tracting parties, and it has-been arranged that none of the from the hull, and the latter went down in about 60 feet
other refreshments supplied shall be charged at a higher
rate than that of any respectable London establishment.
As all wines, beer, and spirituous liquors are strictly pro- -
hibited, the task of supplying the light summer drinks Cincinatti, when near the head of Island 82, struck a snag.,
of water. She had about 90 or 100 cabin passengers, a few'
, of whom were saved., The cabin, in breaking from the,
hull, separated in the middle, which doubtless was the
cause of many of the cabin passengers saving their lives..
could not probably have fallen into better hands than that .The ladies in the cabin were all saved. After suffering:
of the contractors. many hours in the water, they were enabled to get ashore
DARING MURDER, IN OP 'EN DAY, AT NEMPNETT, at the plantation of a Mr. Carter. The forward. portion
of the cabin, with the fixtures, floated clown to Island 83.
SOMERSET.--A most cruel murder has been perpetrated; where it grounded. About 3, p.m., the Peytona came
at this village, which lies about eleven miles-from Bristol,
on the Bridgewater-road. For many years past the vil, along and,took tae passengers on boarde from that part of
lage shop at Nempnett has been kept by an aged couple baste
estwe rteockthefroclwr eonrcteisosnhoef ptiileeweit:kw
when she took:
named William and, Sarah Wilkins, husband and wife, all on board with the exception of Captain Jones and his
being each of them above seventy years-of age. About family, Mr. Wilson, the mate, and a few others. owing
ten o'clock -on Saturday morning two men, one named to the time of her sinking, every one being asleep, and it
John Wiles, a blacksmith, about fifty-six years of age, being so sudden, few were able to get sufficient clothing
and who has recently worked in the village, and the other to cover themselves, and many of them are indeed in a
Tnhn Smith, a labourer, about forty yeFs. old, most destitute condition. From Captain Shalcross and
.
e the following summary of persons on the

istlispaired of. The prisoners. are all most ilesperate.
looking fellows_:: the officers presont succeeded in identi-
fying six of them; the other three were discharged. The
names of those detained are H.iLedwix, Pat. Colenlab,
Stephen Byrne,Andrew Byrne,JosepbWard, and another.
They will be remanded until tho other officers are able to
appear.
ST/ 01W II G.—William Hamilton was charged with having
stabbed the keeper of a beer.house, named John Fair-
clough, on. Saturday night, in the neighbourhood of

Vauahall•road. Faiiclough was so seriously injured ;is to
be incapable of leaving the hospital. The prisoner wail
remanded.

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'With „.,y as glad that the eyes of the pulifie were. now opened
Mr,lightfhra to most.of the doctrines of their religion. Open
Item orward deckration was now the proper course for
lirq,'etaN he had no doubt that they would make satisfactory
--(Report of Cardinal Wiseman's last sermon.)

To TII~
STIR ~,,'"JITOR -OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
the Rcs,,,llle editor of the paper,* in which my letter to
has r -":111 Catholic priests of Liverpool first appeared,
enboded me of an omission in it; namely, that no
.nzion is n,ade to *Le " political" bearings of the doc-
trine of Intention. This omission ma-; perhaps be sup-
plied by the following remarks.
Rome's spiritual power, as every one Icnows, is the re-
sult of her combined priestly and sacramental system.
No grace without a sacrament, and no sacrament without
a priest Here is complete machinery for an absolute ec-
clesiastical despotism. Through this spiritual power, as
every one also knows, or ought to know, she acquires
indirectly an immense amount of temporal power, against
Which every civil government. Roman Catholic no less
than,Trotestant, has ,always had to struggle for its very
E'xistence. But how is the struggle to be maintained ?
The only way of delivering the Roman Catholic laity from
the tyranny of their priests would be to make the admi-
Justnistration of the sacraments compulsory by law, unless
, cause could be shown in any particular instance for
withholding it. This is the case as regards the Church of
England, None of our laity can be deprived of a sacra-
ment at the mere will of-their minister ; and therefore ec-
c
flesiastical tyranny is impossible. Rome appears to have
foreseen
checked h that her power., might at any time be thus
:y any state that..v.vas not too fond of the name
"ii and ieligious liberty to prevent the thing being
destroyed by its most inveterate foe; and therefore, with
tiler wisdom of the serpent, she has most skilfully guarded
4e,plf from any such assault.
of ti`,1„,4,511 illustration or two. From a published speech
ehris; Rev. Dr. M'Neile's, entitled, " The Papal Anti-
„ extract the following paragraph; in a note‘ to
ere -"tie letters alluded to are given at length:— The
utastance concerning Mr. and Mrs. Galway was this—
rens,. Galway was so unwell that she was confined to her
ira-0,_,. Christmas came: at which time they think it
ehr"ant that all the members of their ch,urch should
r--"J Y the rites of the church. Mr. Galway called the
tt!est to have the rites of the church for his lady, which
;(tlie priest) refused. On being asked the reason of
blrefusal, the priest pleaded the orders of his bishop,
at l'e should not do it. Mr. Galway
-wrote a letter to the
ans
shop (Dr. -Abraham), but -the bishop returned him no
wty• Mr. Galway wrote a second letter to the bishop,
!ttnlte this begot no answer; and• then .Mr. Galway pnb-
ed both of these letters, with his name attached to
em, in a • newspaper,showing the ground—the only
p.ound—for this interdict by the bishop was, that Mr.
ite4wa presumed to maintain his yolitioal independence.'"
es" occurrence took place at Waterford, in Ireland,
v°llt fifteen yearn ago.
Still later history informs us of a priest assembling a
number of Roman Catholic parents at the door of a Rag-
-Bed-schoot, and threatening to withhold the rites of the church from any of them who did not, at once, remove
iltheir children from that school. This priest, it may be
ibserved, in passing, is reported afterwards, net only to
bre spoken strongly in favour of seieil and xeligious
tilertY, but also to have abused, in. no measured terms,
. clergyman., under whose superintendence the school
their e' for admitting children into it eftainst the will of
-e'r Parents
tThirdly ; within the. last week a letter appeared in the
i,,111:11, tits of a London newspaper, from the Rector of
eilal`,,e'lar, county Mayo, detailing a brutal outrage which
r",,s` been perpetrated there, inconsequence of .a priest
'and 1--g from his altar the Protestant Seripture-reader,
oth threatening not to perform mass, or give them any
read
erviee on the following Sunday, if he (the Scripture
+& el.) was not driven out of the parish before that time.
the "LY er two afterwards thirty armed ruffians broke into
,uuuse where the poor man lodged, in the middle of the
thg2'r lt, cruelly ill-treated the inmates, almost destroyed
netittle property, and would undoubtedly have mur-
D,_ed the special object of their attack, bad he not been
toTidentially detained that evening in a neighbouring
• e{ay•Nor was it without considerable difficulty and
a„._,Y, that the owner of the house could afterwards obtain
411 redress or protection from :the Roman Catholic
Of nrities ,of the place. Had Cardinal Wiseman heard
n„ „_a occurrence, when, in his last sermon, said, that
rest:l7llons to Popery " must, humanly speaking, be the
flectof the working of the mind itself, of thought, re-
whati°o, inward conviction, and a careful examination of
Which Peat was passiWasng around. umanl speaking, he re-
; for it the grace of God,, and that alone,
astow Tade converts to the Catholic They were
Whioiseed at the strange visitations, the irresistible calls
heart eoomelled men to come to the Church. It was
the ellending at times to see the struggles through which
trest.:llv,,ert had to pass. Catholics well knew, that they
,colive_''ar more for theoonversion of any one, or for the
rsion of a multitude, to the power of prayer, than to
nett-mint of controversy, of lecturing. preaching,
be ag, or Persuasion." Oh, this gentle, much-loving,
ealtin-e?nt Church ! Oh, this ill-used, misrepresented,
nitvriated, oppressed victim of Protestant tyranny !
as a at' colored it,cherish it ! Never mind it's "speaking
like Castlebar ; we don't live there. See how
13,.a lamb" a is in England !
tie-
IL what has all this to do with the doctrine of inten-
°tier
.Every thing- Suppose the British Parliament, in
civil to secure to all British subjects that beautiful
h—
.and religious liberty " had passed such a law as we
wilve hinted at, rendering the administration of sacraments,
e, Protestant, compulsory. And sue-
eeed . any of the above cases, the persons threat-
ibit-madwitthhe
itahvve
ideprilv.ation of them, taken refuge
p k pracacallyasserted theircivilandreligious
Qeetwtt.K!),an_d set their priest at defiance. Suppose Mr.
enee.gYtnad said, I will maintain my political independ-
9aPpose the parents of those poor children had
edu We will not debar our. children from the blessings
not tton• Suppose the Irishpeasants had said—We
wite_xlnrPeer:seepte an innocent papnea just to pleasehyour d have what would the priest have done ? yhe
Preach(' a sermon the vgry nags Sunday on

most available and meet satisfactory concert singer in the
market, his songs are selected with judgment, and he
always sings like a musician. Herr Ernst played-Spohr's
concerto cantante. a Capriccio or Hungarian airs, and a
duo with Frank Mori; .his performance of the concerto
was superior to anything within our recollection.; his tone,
although cavilled at by.would-be connoisseurs as thin and
weak, is faultlessly pure and refined; he combines' and

certainty of execution with all that extreme -delicacy and
intensity of expression which we have not met with in any
contemporary on his instrument. The duo for violin and
piano did not quite satisfy us.
the capriccio on Hungarian airs, Herr Ernst exhi-
bited powers of bow and finger, which the more classical
concert is not calculated to deve!ope, he plays with every
modern mechanical difficulty, in the coda the harmonics

and arpeggio combined, wa's'new, and produced a most
happy effect. Herr Ernst was received and greeted in a
manner that must be highly satisfactory to all lavers of
high art in music, it is unmistakeable evidence of the ad-
vancement of true appreciation to witness a long and
elaborate concerto listened to with as much attention and
delight as was manifested on this occasion. We noticed
several changes in the orchestra ; some of them important,
and, in our estimation, most injudicious. Our first .vio-
loncellist, and best instrumentalist, was not in his place.
Two of the four double basses can only be intended to fill up
space. We are glad to perceive that tardy justice has at
length been done to Mr. Percival. Haydn's Symphony,
not one of his best, appeared thin and weak; it did not go
well. The " Athalie" overture and march require more
rehearsing to bring out their several points of beauty.

The Lord's Prayer is familiar to persons of fifty-three
different and distinct languages, including tne Cherokee
in America, and the Grebo on the coast of Africa.

l+lariteto.

MANCIIESTER CORN MARKET, FEBRUARY 15.

The transactions of the week have been.confined to the supply
of present wants, and this seems. to be the character of the
trade in all the leading markets. 'Weather beautifully fine and
springlike, and vegetation getting prematurely forward. At
our market to-day, Wheat must zbe written 2d. per 70 lbs.
cheaper. Flour is offered at irregular rates; but perhaps a
repetition of last week's quotations,will represent pretty fairly
the prices paying; for approved qualities. Oats, Oatmeal, and
Beans slow,,butsteady in value.

PRESTON CORN MARKET, FEBRUARY 15

There was-.only a moderate supply:iif English Wheat at our
market today ; but the demand was• of a languid character,
and our last quotations barely sustained. Foreign nearly no-
minal. All kinds of Flour sell slowly At the above currency,
which corresponds with Wednesday's reduction. Oats a slow
sale, and rather depressed in value. Farmers' Oatmeal 6d. per
load cheaper, and Irish, being in limited, request, partially de-
clined 3d. per load.