The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

THE JESUITS IN ENGLAND.

(From" The History of the Jesuits, by Asdrew Steinmets.")
The rich province of England is likely to be the general
refuge of the company. When their colleges at St. Omer,
Bruges, and Ghent crumbled under the horns of the
papal bull, the establishment at Leige was somehow
spared. The French revolution supervened : the avenger
included the Jesuits in its fearful retribution ; the college
at Liege was destroyed ; the Jesuits and their pupils were
expelled. This misfortune was the harbinger of the pros-
perity of the Belgian Jesuits. They took refuge in Eng-
land ; and Thomas Weld, of Lulworth Castle, a Catholic
gentleman, presented the exiles with the domain of Sto-
nyhurst. It is impossible to state precisely the number of
the modern Jesuits ; certainly it is not less than 7,000 of
all ranks in the company, scattered and lurking over
France, Italy, and Germany; settled in various " Mis-
sions " in the east and west, whence they contribute let-
ters for the " Annals of the Propagation ;" but these let-
ters are very far from being as " curious," as those of old,
the energy, the talent of the company passed away with
the last failures of the original company. The modern
Jesuits may have, according to the Gioberti, all the craft
and cunning of their forefathers, yet neither as apostles,
nor as men of science, nor as authors, nor as teachers, can
they claim the slightest right to be named with the Jesu-
its of old. It was to me a most remarkable fact, that
whilst at St. Cuthbert's College the educational system of
the Jesuits was carried out to the utmost extent (as I can
attest from the experience of six years nearly), I found lit-
tle or nothing of the sort at Stonyhurst ; and the pupils
who had passed through their " Humanity studies " had
evidently not attained the acquirements prescribed by the
Ratio Studiorum. Nevertheless the establishment " pays ;"
for the " gratis instruction " was not renovated at the res-
toration of the company. The college of Stonyhurst must
receive, on an average, at least £6,000 per annum from
pupils :—the number being about 120, at 40 guineas per
annum, for boys under 12 years of age ; for those above
that age, 50 guineas ; and for students in philosophy, 100
guineas. Besides this the college possesses farms, some
thousand acres of good land, over which one of the fathers
presided as procurator. The English fathers have no less
than thirty-three establishments, or colleges, residences,
and missions in England. Of course Stonyhurst is the
principal establishment, where the Provincial of England
resides. The college in 1845 contained twenty priests,
twenty-six novices and scholastics, and fourteen lay
brothers. Of the 806 missionary priests in Great Britain,
including bishops, the Jesuits alone fan say how many
are enlisted under the banner of the Ignatius, though
doubtless this knowledge is shared by the " Vicars Apos-
tolic" of the various districts in which they are privileged
to move unmolested. The Jesuits are muffled in Eng-
land ; it is difficult to distinguish them in the names of
the Catholic lists annually published. They have esta-
blished a classical and commercial academy at Mount St.
Mary's, near Chesterfield ; and the prospectus of the esta-
blishment, after describing the clothes that the pupils are
to bring, simply informs the world that " the college is
conductA by gentlemen connected with the College of
Stonyhurst." These gentlemen are generally sent out in
pairs, by the provincial, according to the constitutions,
and thus may charm by variety; for the quantity of work
on hand in the various Jesuit missions in England is by
no means so evident as their speculation for more, by this
constitutional provision. The secular priests are doubled
and tripled, by the necessities of the mission ; the Jesuits
doubled, tripled, and quadrupled, by the requirement of
the constitutions, and the prospects before them. The
Jesuits in England dress as any clergyman, or any gentle-
man ; by their outward man you cannot tell them. Strange
notions are afloat respecting these men. I have been
asked, by what sign can one distinguish a Jesuit ? Per-
haps the sign by which you may know the Jesuits is their
being better housed, better clothed, and better fed than
most other Roman Catholic priests. This sign is, of course,
equivocal ; but the fact is undeniable ; the " missionary
funds "of the Jesuits are liberally applied—to their num-
bers ; " they give freely what they have freely received."
In other respects the Jesuits show themselves by " re-
sults." They dare not interfere openly in missions pre-
occupied by the secular clergy ; but they are independent
of the Roman Catholic bishops, excepting for ordination,
which is a matter of course. Still, perhaps, lam justified
in believing that their movements in London are consi-
dered by many of the orthodox as somewhat encroaching.
If these " doings " in London are " for a sign " as to
their other localities, they are not idle. Nine years ago,
there were only two Jesuits in London ; there are now at
least four in one " residence ;" and if their great church
in Berkeley-square be now finished, there must be twelve
Jesuits in London, to " serve " their metropolitan specu-
lation, as was intended. The vice-province in Ireland
numbered sixty-three Jesuits in 1841, and seventy-three
in 1844. They possess, in Ireland, the colleges, of Con-
glowes, Tollabey, and Dublin. They have recently esta-
blishtd a second " house," in the last-mentioned city.

NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.—In an in-
hospitable portion of one of the Australian colonies there
resided two young men, of education and respectability,
who, with many others, had left their country and their
friends to seek their fortune in a land of strangers. The
place which they selected for their new enterprises proved
to be unsuited to their objects, and a very common lot
befel them—they were reduced to poverty, and compelled
to resort to untried expedients in order to procure the
means of subsistence. One of them commenced a school,
and the other resolved upon an undertaking which, con-
sidering the circumstances under which it was prosecuted,
may be ranked among the wonders of colonial life. The
want of a small coasting vessel to trade between the out-
ports of the province had long been a source of inconve-
nience to the settlers; and this young man seized upon the
chance of retrieving his lost fortunes by an attempt to
supply this desideratum. He had never boforo been en
gaged in ship-building, and he had no person to assist
him in the laborious part of such a work. This, however,
did not discourage him. His genius overcame the first of
these difficulties, and his perseverance mastered the se-
cond. The keel of a vessel was placed upon the stocks,
hewn out of the forest by his own industrious hands; and
by indomitable toil the same hands cut and fashioned,
and conveyed to their proper destination, the various
timber necessary for the completion of this arduous work,
the affectionate schoolmaster in the meanwhile supporting
from his earnings the amateur ship-builder. The vessel
was finished and launched, and, to the gratification of
every one who had marked the consummation of this ex-
traordinary undertaking, rode proudly on the waters of
the settlement. A melancholy event followed. The two
brothers were struggling in a small boat to drag their
newly-acquired prize over a bar which intervened between
her and the ocean she was destined to traverse, when,
from the violence of the surf and the inexperience of the
sailors, the boat was capsized, and the unfortunate school-
master was drowned ! The bereaved brother was thus left
to plod his lonely way, with his little craft, through the
new scenes upon which he had entered. He progressed
from step to step, rewarded by deserved success, until a
more extended voyage was contemplated. The theatre of
his labours were left behind, the staunchness of his little
vessel was tested by the billows of the Leuin, and now
she lies, safely anchored, in the harbour of Port Adelaide,
the Gazelle of Western Australia, and a gem in colonial
naval architecture. We give her enterprising owner (Mr.
J. Kemp) a hearty welcome to our shores, and with him
all the prosperity to which his unexampled industry and
privations so richly entitle him.—SouthAustrallaßegister.
GEORGE 11. AND THE DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY.—
An anecdote is told of the Duchess of Queensberry's
being forbid the court ; which belongs to the literary his-
tory of the cleverest opera in our own or any other lan-
guage—Gay's famous production. Walpole, justly re-
garding himself as caricatured in the " Beggar's Opera,"
obtained the Duke of Grafton's authority, as lord cham-
berlain, to suppress the representation of his next opera,
" Polly." Gay resolved to publish it by subscription,
and his patroness, the Duchess of Queensberry, put her-
self at the head of the undertaking, and solicited every
person she met.to subscribe. As the duchess was hand-
some, a wit, and of the first fashion, she obtained guineas
in all directions, even from those who dreaded to encou-
rage this act of defiance. The duchess's zeal, however,
increased with her success; and she even came to the
drawing-room, and, under the very eye of majesty, soli-
cited subscriptions for a play which the monarch had
forbidden to be acted. When the king came into the
drawing-room, seeing the duchess very busy in a corner
with three or four persons, be asked her what she was
doing. She answered, " What must be agreeable, she
was sure, to any body so humane as his majesty, for it
was an act of charity ; and a charity to which she did not
despair of bringing his majesty to contribute." This
proceeding was so much resented, that Mr. Stanhope,
vice-chamberlain to the king, was sent in form to the
duchess to forbid her coming to court. The message was
verbal ; but she desired to send a written answer—wrote
it on the spot—and thus furnished a document, whose
style certainly exhibited more sincerity than courtiership :
That the Duchess of Queensberry is surprised and
well pleased that the king has given her so agreeable a
command as to stay from court, where she never came
for diversion, but to bestow a great civility on the king
and queen. She hopes that, by such an unprecedented
order as this, the king will see as few as he wishes at his
court, particularly such as dare to think or speak truth.
I dare not do otherwise, and ought not, nor could have
imagined that it would not have been the very highest
compliment I could possibly pay the king, to endeavour
to support truth and innocence in his house—particularly
when the king and queen both told me that they had not
read Mr. Gay's play. I have certainly done right, then,
to stand by my own words rather than his Grace of Graf-
ton's, who had neither made use of truth, judgment, nor
honour, through his whole affair. either for himself or his
friends.—C. Queensberry." When her grace bad finished
this paper, drawn up, as Lord Hervey observes, " with
snore spirit than accuracy," Stanhope requested of her to
think again, and give him a more courtly message to deli-
ver. The duchess took her pen, and wrote another; but
it was so mnch more disrespectful, that he asked for the
former one, and delivered it. There was, of course, a
prodigious quantity of court gossip on this occasion ; and,
doubtless, though some pretended to be shocked, many
were pleased at the sting of royalty, and many more were
amused at the dashing oddity of the duchess. But pub-
lic opinion, on the whole, blamed the court. It certainly
was infinitely childish in the king to have inquired into
what the dueness was doing among her acquaintances in
the drawing-room ; it was equally beneath the natural
notions of royal dignity, that the king should put himself
in a state of hostility with a subject, and in so trifling a
matter as the subscription to an unpublished play and it
was equally impolitic, for the world was sure fo range
itself on the side of the woman, especially when that wo-
man was handsome, eccentric, and rich. It produced
some inconvenience, however, to the lady's husband, as
he, in consequence, gave up the office of admiral of Scot-
lan d.—Blackwood's Magazine.
The slaves in the West Indies hook ruin in a very sci-
entific manner. They first fill a bottle with water, and
invert the nozzle into the bung of a barrel full of rum.
Water being the heaviest, sinks down, and the spirit rises
in its place ; and Cuffee thus makes a swap on scientific
principles.

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Of the £6,000,000 which our navy costs us altogether,
£1,500,000 is wasted.—Times:

Nothing can exceed the rapturous enthusiasm with
which Jenny Lind has been received in Edinburgh.
The Yorkshireman records the death of a little boy
from an over-dose of worm medicines.

Several sheep were killed at Mendip by lightning on
Friday.
Sir James Duke was on Friday elected Lord Mayor, and
Mr. Alderman Finnes and J. Goodhart, Esq., sheriffs of
London.

HIGH PEAK Moons.—The Duke of Rutland and
friends, during their stay at Longshawe Lodge, bagged
upwards of a thousand head of grouse.
At the late West-Riding sessions, there was not one
female prisoner for trial—a circumstance which has not
occurred for many years previously.
A sportsman was shot near Bishop Wearmouth, last
week, by a gun held by a companion, which fired acci-
dentally. He died the following morning.
GONE AT LAST.—The " Telegraph Coach," that for
nearly 70 long years has travelled the road between Ripon
and Leeds, was shelved on Wednesday week.
It is said that the reason for giving Vancouver's Island
to the Hudson Bay Company is, that it may be immedi-
ately colonised, to preserve it from the Mormons, a party
of whom were just about to `• squat " there.
DOLLS' EYES.—A Birmingham manufacturer, who
was examined in 1824, before a committee of the House
of Commons, stated that he had once received a single
order for £5OO worth of dolls' eyes,
On Sunday evening a servant girl, who was crossing
Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, fell down a precipice to the
depth of 40 or 50 feet, and was so severely injured that she
died shortly afterwards, in the infirmary.
During the winter months the Peninsula and Oriental
Company have decided that the communication between
Southampton and Ital.), shall be at intervals of six weeks
instead of monthly, as heretofore.
At the Quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of
East India Stock, held on Tuesday, a resolution was con-
firmed to confer on the youthful hero, Lieutenant (now
Brevet Major) Edwards, a gold medal, in testimony of
their sense of his distinguished services in Moulton.
A CAT KILLED BY A MOUSE.—A curious circumstance
occurred on Kingsdown, Bristol, on Monday. A cat, having
caught a mouse, was playing with it on the lawn, when
the mouse leaped into the cat's mouth, and actually forced
itself so far into the throat as to suffocate poor puss.
STATE OF BRADFORD.—From returns published by a
Bradford rate collector, it appears that there are now in
that town 1,300 unoccupied houses and shops assessed at
above £4 per annum, and representing a total rateable
value of nearly £12,060.

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The article known as " chain gimp," when it first began
to be made, about four years ago, was paid for at the rate
of 3s. per piece of 35 yards. The present price for mak-
ing it is ld. per piece. No new machinery has been in-
vented.

The Wakefield Journal computes that at a very mode-
rate and safe calculation the corporate expenses of that
town, have been increased at least one thousand pounds
per year, by men who pledged themselves to economy
and retrenchment !

A CURIOUS BEQUEST.—A rather eccentric individual
in Bradford, who died about a fortnight ago, having the
sum of £lOO to " leave to his heirs and successors," dis-
posed of it thus :—£so for burial expenses," and £5O to
drink."

BREAK-UP OF A ROMISH CONVENT.—The Romanist
convent at Penryn is broken up. The last of the inmates
departed this week, and the property is for sale. The
establishment is broken up from the failure of the supplies.
—Devonshire Chronicle.

The whole of the officers of the Ely Union House have
been discharged ; the master for intemperance ; the
schoolmaster for inviting him to the revel, and then
making complaint against him ; and the porter for aiding
the schoolmaster.

EXPERT PICK-POCKET.—In proceeding from Bath to
Bristol, by railway, last week, a lady had her purse ab-
stracted from her pocket, the cash which it contained ap-
propriated, or rather misappropriated, and the purse re-
placed in its former depository.
A beautiful specimen of a rare breed of Cashmerian
sheep dog, presented to her Majesty by Lord Hardinge,
has been recently lodged in the royal private kennel at
Windsor ; it is very ferocious, of amazing strength, and
weighs 1201 b. It was presented by Ghoolab Singh.
The General Board of Health held its first sitting on
Tuesday, at Gwydyr House ; the President, Viscount
Morpeth, in the chair. The Board was attended by Pro-
fessor Owen, Dr. Southwood Smith, Dr. Sutherland of
Liverpool, and R. D. Grainger, Esq.
The mail guards are rapidly diminishing in number.
There are not above 200 in England, Wales, and Scotland.
A small batch of them have very recently been compelled
to accept of the gratuity of £5O allowed them by the
Treasury, and leave the service.
SCOTCH COMPLACENCY.—A northern correspondent
says, that on the departure of the queen from Aberdeen
to Balmoral, " the folks were more than pleased with
themselves for behaving so well and so orderly, and they
were also pretty well pleased with the Queen and
Prince !"

PRINCE WALDEMAR OF PRUSSIA.—This illustrious
Prince, who participated in the glorious actions in India,
has forwarded to Lord Hardinge a superb gold cup, with
a request that his lordship would present it to the 50th
Regiment (the Queen's Own), in which he served as a
volunteer. The regiment is at present quartered at Dover.
By the act of last session, for preventing the extension
of disease amongst cattle, it is provided that any person
turning out sheep or lambs infected or labouring under
disease, on any heath, common, open field, road side, or
other undivided or uninclosed land, shall be liable to a
penalty of £2O.
A few days since, the potman of a London public-
house, while cleaning his pots, amused himself by teazing
a cat and her young ones, and was bitten on the right
wrist by one of the kittens. On the following day his
wrist became inflamed, and ultimately his arm was at-
tacked by erysipelas, of which he expired on Friday last.
A correspondent of the Morning Post relates that a
person who was deeply attached to a deceased friend,
caused his body to be dissected, and an analysis to be
made of his blood, from which was obtained a sufficient
quantity of iron to make a ring, which has ever since
been worn by the surviver as a memorial of his departed
friend.

A singular and fatal accident occurred in London last
week to an infant, lying in the lap of its nurse, who was
preparing some boiled milk for its supper. While she
was lifting the saucepan from the fire, the handle came off,
and the boiling milk fell on the head and arms of the in-
fant, which was so severely scalded that it died within a
few hours.

A fishing smack, called Britain's Queen, belonging to a
person at Barking, was boarded by a custom-house offi-
cer, a few days since, off Charlton, on the Essex coast,
and 4,992 lbs. of tobacco found on board. The vessel
was on her way to Billingsgate market, where it was in-
tended to run the packages (casks) ashore under the im-
pression of their containing fish.
A NEW TEST Acz.—The guardians of Sunderland
Union have issued a public notice to the effect that no
relief will be given to able-bodied male vagrants, and that
other vagrants and families in want of relief " shall be
sent to the Union Workhouse for one night only, and to
have a cold or shower bath as their several cases may re-
quire."
BREAKING UP OF THE KERSAL CAMP.—The camp at
Kersal Moor is now broken up. Eight companies of the
33d Regiment, which had been stationed there about two
months, left Con Monday for Berwick. The removal of
the regiment, we believe, is regarded with the utmost sa-
tisfaction by the soldiers, who have suffered not a little
from their exposure during the late unseasonable weather.

STRANGE RIVALRY.—A Radnorshire correspondent,
who complains of the publication of county courts and
petty sessions reports, as generally uninteresting and fre-
quently dictated by spite, says that the subordinates in
one district of that county are " putting on the screw" to
increase the number of plaints, in order to outdo another
district, and so prevent their own court from being broken
up if they cannot find business, &c.
DEATH FROM TOBACCO.—An inquisition was resumed
at Coleford on the body of John Evans, of Lane End.
Mr. Batten, surgeon, found slight traces of inflammation
in the stomach, and a very strong odour of tobacco. It
appears that the deceased smoked a great quantity ; nearly
half a pound per week, besides chewing pigtail. A verdict
was returned of " Died by the visitation of God, acceler-
ated by the excessive use of tobacco."
Mr. Brown, a farmer near Dalbeattie, has been killed
by a fierce bull. The animal had been fighting, and the
herd-boy was afraid to drive it home ; Mr. Brown was
quietly driving it from a field, when the bull suddenly
turned on him, butted him to the ground and trampled
on him. When two men came to the farmer's assistance
they found the bull standing quietly beside him. Mr.
Brown died in two hours, from internal hurts.
NK DIVIDEND.—It appears that the result of the
ballot taken on Wednesday, on the amendment offered to
theproposition of the Bank Directors on Thursday week,
that the dividend payable to the proprietors of Bank
Stock for the half-year accruing should be 31 per cent.,
has been unfavourable to the dissentients. The proposi-
tion of the board has been carried and confirmed by a
small majority of fifteen votes-138 to 123.
MELANCHOLY MORTALITY IN A FAMILY.—Mr. Pass-
more, a working shoemaker, residing at No. 10, Blooms-
bury-buildings, St. James's, Bristol, has been visited
with an extraordinary series of affliction by the hand of
death since last Sunday, when he buried his eldest child,
who died of scarletina. On returning from the funeral,
the distressed parents found a second child dead, and
three days afterwards two others, all of the same disorder.
Several Wiltshire farmers, especially in the northern
division, have been drawn into a bubble joint-stock soci-
ety, termed " The Agricultural Cattle Insurance Com-
pany," by which many of them will be involved in utter
ruin. The society was got up in London, by parties who
have absconded from the country ; and the unfortunate
shareholders are now called upon to make up a deficiency
of £15,000. It is said that some of the Wiltshire agri-
culturists are holders of 1,000 shares, nominally of £2O
each ; others of 700 shares, &c.
HOME SUMMARY.—Other '` houses" being closed, the
drama has taken refuge in the Old Bailey. " The Blush.
ing Court," an original comedy, has been brought out with
great success. The principal characters Were the Attorney-
General and Mr. Kenealey, who blushed for each other,
and Mr. Justice Erie, who blushed for them both. " The
Visionary President," a broad farce, followed.. Principal
charact era :—" Lying Tom," Cuffey, Lacey, and Fay ;
allegoric characters :—" Luminaries," " Hellfire Jack,"
" Young Bombshell," and Toothpicks." The piece went
off rather heavily, and will not be repeated. The company,
it is expected, will have an engagement at Sydney. The
accounts of the above theatricals have been audited at
Marylebone. The county of Middlesex is to subscribe
£36,000, and the Consolidated Fund £12,000, to make up
the deficit. Popular entertainments are expensive.—
John Bull.