The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney papers to the 14ih of July have arrived, which
give a return of the revenue of New South Wales, exclu-
sive of Port Philip, for the quarter ending the 30th June.
From this it appears that the gross receipts were £71,832
against £82,129 in 1843, showing a decline of £10,297.
Prices for all articles of consumption continued low, and
the markets are not reported to be in a better condition.
Great hopes are, however, expressed of a revival of busi-
ness when the export trade should set in; and from the
estimates given in the papers, there is every reason to ex-
pect that tallow will before long become an almost equal
staple with wool. The decline in the import trade had
raised serious apprehensions respecting the sufficiency of
freightage for the produce in course of shipment to Eng-
land ; for, what with a good clip of wool, an increased ma-
nufacture of tallow and hides, and the ores received from
the mines opened in South Australia and New Zealand,
it was supposed that the homeward tonnage before the
close of the season would be found to a considerable ex-
tent inaoequate for the purpose of the export trade. The
returns of the several banks bad been published, and these
showed a healthy state of business. The late arrival of
emigrants, being for the most part the description of per-
sons employed in agriculture, had been speedily cleared,
and the majority found good employment. Portland Bay
is spoken of as a very rising place, and the government
were about to encourage emigration thither, it having of
late contributed largely to the Crown Land revenue.
There are accounts in these papers from New Zealand,
but the news is not of prominent interest. The tribes
were quiet and peaceable, but the conduct of the agents of
the Land Company is said to be anything but calculated
to secure harmony between them and the natives.

The opening of the railway between St. Nicholas and
Antwerp took place on the 9th inst.

According to the statistics of Paris, that city contains
only one baker for every 1664 inhabitants, but one wine
dealer for every 83. If this be correct, Father Mathew
would be a very useful person amongst US.—Quotidienne.
The Countess de Sonnaz, consort of the Grand Cham-
berlain of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, died recently
at Turin. The noble Countess's death was occasioned
by a most shocking and lamentable occurrence. The
Countess, while engaged in searching for some article in
a cabinet in her boudoir, by an unfortunate accident shook
the piece of furniture, which overbalanced, fell on the
Countess, and crushed her to death on the spot.
DR. WOLFF.—This gentleman has addressed the fol-
lowing letter " to all the Philanthropists of Europe. The
blood of the gallant officers Colonel Stoddart and . Captain
Conolly, Englishmen by birth, and that of Todderwise, a
German, of Naselli, an Italian' nobleman, and of a Greek
gentleman, had been shed at Bokhara by order of its
ruler; and I do not know whether I shall not also fall.
And what is more 200,000 Persians sigh in slavery in the
land of Bokhara. Philanthropists of Europe, be roused
to activity. free the Persian slaves from captivity. Bok-
hara is a beautiful country. Give liberty to the slaves,
and religion and civizilation to its inhabitants. Noble
Bavarians, Prussians, people of Baden, and Austrians,
join with England and Russia to effect that great work of
redemption from slavery, and plant the Cross of Christ
in the streets of Bokhara." To this Captain Grover
appends the following note :—" The above letter was le-
ceived open by Colonel Shell at Tehran, and only reached
me last Wednesday. That letter was written by Dr.
Wolff when he considered himself in great danger : had
its import been known to the Ameer the good doctor
would have been undoubtedly sacrificed. Dr. Wolff
could not have practised a deceit to five his own life, but

would willingly havenffered himself a sacrifice for others.
The circumstance of his sending the above remarkable,
letter open, by averting suspicion, probably saved him:"
FATAL STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION.—By the last ad:
vices from America we learn that the boilers of the Lucy
Walker steamer burst on her way from Louisville, for
New Orleans. All the upper part .of the vessel was
blown into a thousond pieces. One man was blown up
fifty yards, and fell with such force as to go entirely
through the deck of.tbe boat. Another was cut entirely
in two by a piece of the boiler. Immediately after the ex-
plosion the ladies' cabin took fire, and before it had been
consumed she sunk in twelve or fifteen feet water. From
sixty to eighty persons were killed and wounded—Mr.
Wren, of Zazoo, Mississippi, was thrown from the boiler-
deck, and fell near the bow of the boat in a state of insen-
sibility. When he recovered his senses, he saw his little
son, six or seven years old, in the rear-of the boat, the
flames raging round the boy, the 'father, unable to rise,
watched the movements of his son with the greatest anx-
iety. Soon he saw the boy leap overboard. The river
was full of mattresses, and he floated on one of them until
saved by a rope from -the Gopher. The lather saw his
rescue with feelings we need not attempt to describe. A
man, his wife, and four daughters were saved without in-
jury, though in different ways and places. Their meeting
must have been most joyous.. A man was on the hurri-
cane deck with his wife and a little daughter, at the time
of the explosion ; he dropped the former aft into the yawl,
and she was saved, but with a sprained ancle ; he threw
the latter into the stream, and then plunged-in and saved
it by swimming.

POPISH TYRANNY.

[We take the following extraordinary statement from a
leading article in the Times of Friday, a paper not likely
to exaggerate what is likely to militate against the inte-
rests of the Papacy. It is another proof of the un-
changeable perfidy and tyranny of that awful system] :
The post of Dutch Minister at the Court of Turin had
been reputably filled for some years by a Protestant gen-
tleman of the name of Heldivier, who resided with his
family in that city, until, in consequence of some new
diplomatic arrangements on the part of the Dutch Go-
vernment, he received in the month of May last his let-
ters of recall. Some domestic anxiety had been occa-
sioned to this family by one of the daughters, a young
lady of ardent and independent temperament, who was
supposed to have formed an attachment for a young
lawyer of the town, whose character and position did not
make him a suitable match for her. The departure was,
therefore, hastened ; but after M. Heldivier had pre-
sented his letters of recall to the king of Sardinia, he was
accidentally detained, by the illness of another of his
children, for a few days at an hotel at Turin. On the
Bth of. June a display of fireworks took place in honour of
the birth of an heir to the Duke of Savoy. The ex-Mi-
nister and his wife were induced to attend this f&e, and
very reluctantly to leave their daughter, who excused her-
selt on some slight pretext, at home. They were absent
but a short time ; yet in the interval the vague apprehen-
sions they seem to have entertained were fatally verified.
Their daughter had disappeared,—and for ever. At that
hour of the night she had quitted the hotel, alone and
without even a change of dress. The police were imme-
diately sent in search of the fugitive. The young
advocate, who was at first suspected to have a hand in the
elopement, was examined, but he proved himself to be
totally ignorant of the occurrence ; not a vestige of her
was to be discovered within the jurisdiction of the autho-
rities of the city ; but this absence of all evidence raised a
strong presumption that she would only be found in the
precincts of some convent, more inaccessible than a
prison or a tomb.
Application was made to the Archbishop of Turin, as
the supreme ecclesiastical power of the kingdom, for
leave to pursue these inquiries, or for information, if he
possessed it, on the subject : for meanwhile the anxiety
of this unfortunate family had been raised to a pitch
which we shall not attempt to describe : and even the
public, startled by the actual disappearance of a young
lady, still a minor, the daughter of a gentleman who came
amongst them as the representative of a foreign Sove-
reign, took the liveliest part in their extreme distress.
The Archbishop thought fit. to reply to this application,
that he had reason to believe that Mademoiselle Heidi-
vier bad indeed sought refuge in a cenvent, but that he
was unable to state where she was at present. A few days
more, however, brought the whole transaction to light,
When the Archbishop of Turin asserted that he was
unable to state where this young lady was, he might have
stated, and he did afterwards acknowledge, that no per-
son living had so great a hand in the affair as himself.
For two years he had been carrying on a system of secret
communication with Mademoiselle Heldivier. Thwarted
by her parents in her attachment for the young advocate,
she had sought to avenge herself on them by transferring
her confidence from her father to this priest—taken from
her natural protectors to the jealous arm of the Church of
Rome. The Archbishop, unwilling to commit himself by
a written order, had furnished his convert with one half
of a sheet of paper cut in a particular manner; the other
half was given to the Abbess of the Convent of Santa
Croce in Turin, with orders to receive the bearer of the
corresponding fragment at any hour of day or night.
Provided with these credentials, the fugitive found shelter
in the convent walls ; but, by the advice of the Arch-
bishop, her flight was deferred until her father, by the de-
livery of his letters of recall, had, as these clerical con-
spirators contend, surrendered those diplomatic rights
and privileges which would have been fatal to their
scheme.

The fact beine thus ascertained, a strong effort was
made to bring the authors of this plot to account for
their action, and to yield up the young person whom they
had gotten into their possession. Setting aside the odious
secret acts by which th's alleged conversion had been ef•
fected, and the irreparable injury done to an honourable
family, the case was one which demanded the strongest
remonstrances as an unparalleled invasion of the law of
nations and of the rights of diplomatic persons. A Dutch
subject, a minor, the child of a Dutch minister, is encou-
raged to quit her father's abode, received into a convent,
and there detained, not only by moral, but by actual
force, since every attempt even to search these convents
was successfully resisted by the clergy. The King was
personally appealed to by the distracted father ; his- Ma-
jesty granted him an audience, but in answer to the
prayers and the demands of M. Heldivier that his daugh-
ter might be restored to him, the only reply which that
absolute Monarch dared to make was, that whatever
might be his own opinion on the subject, if he presumed
to interfere with the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the con-
vents, he should be excommunicated! Such an answer
on such an occasion might have been expected from a
Philip 11. of Spain ; and such powers as are thus recog-
nized and established fall little short of those of the In•
quisition. The principle contended for on behalf of the
Church of Rome is this—that any child having completed
the age of 12 years may, for any cause, motive, or pretext,
throw off the parental authority, and fling itself under the
protection of the Church. If the child be a Protestant,
so much the better, since, while it abjures its filial duties,
it abandons its religious faith ; but whether Catholic or
Protestant, the protection of the Church thus sought and
thus given is absolute and inviolable.
There are few countries now in Europe or the world
where such a doctrine as this would not be demolished by
the ordinary notions of civil rights and of justice. But
the dominions of the King of Sardinia are one of those
countries. In vain did Mr. Abercromby, our own intel-
ligent minister at the court of Turin, and Baron Mortier,
the representative of France, protest against so moderate
a principle, especially when applied to the children of
foreigners accidentatly or officially residing in Piedmont.
In vain did they represent, that M, Heldivier, as a diplo-
matic person, hadian incontestible right to quit the coun-
try in peace, taking with him all his family. The inex-
orable grasp of the infallible church prevail. d. The King
of Holland appears to have taken this outrage upon the
family of his minister vs ith a most unbecoming indifference
and pusillanimity; and Mademoiselle Heldivier remains
in the convent of Santa Croce, where she has formerly
abjured the Protestant heresies, and will probably take
the veil on the completion of her noviciate.
We have no wish to draw any excessive or unjust infer-
ences from this strange occurrence, which seems to be-
long not only to another country but to another age; but
it exhibits an awful picture of what the uncontrolled
power of the Romish clergy may still dare to effect, and a
humiliating example of a government which has allowed
the ties of private right and public law to be broken asun
der, because it is itself a victim to the worst form of bi
gotry, and the most servile subjection to spiritual op
pression.

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" I am myself very adverse to the introduction of mere forms,
however unobjectionable in themselves, or sanctioned by usage in
earlier days of the Church, if indifferent and liable to misconstruc-
tion by the parishioners, and thereby likely to give offence; but I
cannot look upon the introduction of the offertory in this light,
although I should not wish to have it enforced generally; nor
should I advise its adoption in any case without previously prepar-
ing a congregation by explanation of its meaning and uses, and by
communication with the churchwardens and other regular attend-
ants in the church, tefore its adoption. In the present instance,
Mr Cameron appears to have used all the previous caution which
I think so proper before a step of the kind is taken, and that he has
not acted hastily and rashly, as has been too much the case with
many young clergymen of late in several instances ; nor do I think,
from his explanation, and the temperate tone of his letter, that he
would introduce any practice, however desirable he might think it
(unless a bounden duty,) against the remonstrances and declared
wishes of a large majority of his parishioners. As there appears to
me to be nothing in Mr. Cameron's course or mode of introducing
the offertory which is deserving my censure, I do not feel there is
anything which calls for my remonstrance."

THE COURT (5-. FASHIONABLE WORLD,

THE ROYAL VISIT TO BURGHLEY.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Court, and escorted by a detachment of the 17th regt. of
Lancers, left Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning,
shortly before nine o'clock, in three of the royal carriages
and four, for the station of the London and Birmingham
Railroad, en route for Burghley House. The royal cor-
tege arrived in Euston-square at a quarter past 9 o'clock.
The crowd was not great, but those present gave her Ma-
jesty and her illustrious Consort a loyal and most hearty
welcome. On her Majesty and Prince Albert's arrival at
the terminus, they were met by the Chairman, Directors,
and principal officers of the Railway Company, who con-
ducted the royal party into an elegant room, constructed
for the accommodation of her Majesty and the Court.
There is also a second room erected for the exclusive use
of the Sovereign. These apartments are furnished in a
splendid style ; the sofas, chairs, &c., are of light blue
silk ; the curtains of the same colour, and made in the
French style. From these rooms the passage leading to
the line of road was covered with scarlet cloth, and every
accommodation ingenuity could devise was prepared for
the royal pair. The Queen and Prince Albert remained
in the room which had been fitted up for them about a
quarter of an hour, whilst the special train which was to
convey her Majesty from the metropolis was preparing.
All being ready, at 25 minutes to ten o'clock the royal
party proceeded on their journey. Her Majesty, who
was attired in a dark cloak and black silk bonnet, appeared
in excellent health and spirits. Prince Albert wore a mi-
litary blue cloak with red collar, and looked quite well.
At Tring, when the royal train stopped for the tender to
take in water, the children of the national schools of the
town were marshalled along the line, and greeted her Ma-
jesty with a youthful welcome. At Weedon an immense
concourse of persons had assembled, by whom her Ma-
jesty was most enthusiastically greeted. The Marquis of
Exeter was in attendance at the station to receive his royal
guests. A guard of honour was also in attendance; they
consisted of 100 men of the 47th Refit. of Foot, and the
whole of the 47th Regiment of Foot formed in line from
the gates of the station to the adjoining village, through
which her Majesty passed. As her Majesty and the roya
party left the station, they were vehemently applauded
a military band in attendance playing the Nationa
Anthem.

Nothing worthy of particular observation occurred on
the route from Weedon to Northampton. Before enter-
: ing the town the preparations which had been made by the
inhabitants to do honour to the visit of their Sovereign
were visible. At the entrance there was constructeca
grand triumphal arch, covered with evergreens, and sur-
mounted with flags and other ornaments. At this arch
the royal cortege was met by the mayor, Mr. Barwell, and
the other civic authorities, in full costume, who, (walking,
• accompanied by their municipal insignia) preceded the
royal carriages from one end of the town to the other. As
her Majesty passed along, she was greeted with unceasing
acclamations, in which all parties without distinction most
cordially joined. In front of the George Hotel, the Mayor,
supported on the right by his chaplain, the Rev. W. Wales,
and on his left by the Town-clerk, Mr. Hensam, presented
an address to the Queen. at her carriage-door.
When the royal cortege reached the Kettering road,
the municipal authorities defiled off, remaining uncovered,
while her Majesty proceeded towards Kettering, which
was reached by the royal party about a quarter past two
o'clock. The same loyal feeling was manifested as at
Northampton. The Marquis of Exeter reached the place
ten minutes sooner on horseback. At Burleigh, the Mar-
quis of Exeter, who had gone on before, and the Mar-
chioness of Eieter, Lord Thomas Cecil, and some of the
chief guests, were ready to receive her Majesty at the en-
trance-hall. Her Majesty, on alighting, was welcomed by
her noble host and hostess, as was also Prince Albert. The
royal visitors immediately proceeded to their apartments.
Altogether the reception of the Queen in Northampton-
shire has been as gratifying as any her Majesty has re-
ceived in her different progresses. Nothing could exceed
the loyalty of the people all along the line.
On Tuesday, there was a magnificent entertainment,
but her Majesty retired as early as seven o'clock.
Her Majesty rose, as usual, at an early hour next day,
and at nine o'clock attended prayers in the chapel. The
day being most unfavourable, the royal visitors found
amusement in inspecting the mansion, picture gallery, &c.
Burghley House, with its far-extending parks and lawns,
is indeed one of those mansions never to be found but
among the rich glades and plains of merry England. A
stately and venerable fabric it is, sometimes appearing,
and again hidden to the view, among clumps of venerable
trees, grey and moss-grown, or forests of young saplings
and underwood, dispersed in luxuriant confusion over
knoll and hollow—here forming a noble vista of green-
wood, there tangling`with bosky growths of young forest;
and all this luxuriance of vegetation extending far away,
rising and falling in green slopes and hollows, while the
eye luxuriates in its richness of colouring, and its exqui-
site variety of tone and tint.
And amid this profusion of brake and glade rise the
stately towers of Bughley House, in all their quaint Eliza-
bethan dignity--the peaked turrets and arched windows,
in all their variety of outline, recalling the days of the
stately cavaliers and dames of the court of Queen Bess,
and realising most perfectly the idea of those fine old
English residences so beautifully sung by Mrs. He-
mans :

" The stately homes of England !
How beautiful they stand,
Amid their tall ancestral trees,
Through all the pleasant laud.
The deer across the green sward bound,
'Mid shade and sunny gleam,
And the swan glides past them to the sound
Of some rejoicing stream."
The christening of the infant daughter of the Marquis
took place on Wednesday evening. The Bishop of Peter-
borough officiated. The chapel was crowded with the
company assembled at Burghley. All the members of the
Marquis's establishment were also present. Her Ma-
jesty wore a white satin dress, and all the company

gion, if members of any of the Reformed Protestant
churches, although not in connexion.with the Established
Church of Scotland." At a meeting of the directors of
the society held on the 6:11 of June, 1844,--a resolution was
passed to the effect of making a temporary appointment
at Bruen, county of Caithness, where a vacancy had
occurred, of a missionary not in connexion with the
church of Scotland. Against this resolution a dissent and
protest were taken. A general meeting of the society,
held the same day, approved of the resolution of the di-
rectors. The directors, at a meeting on the 11th of June,
some of them dissenting, however, did not think " it
their duty to recall the appointment of the Rev. Mr.
Macbeth, although a licentiate of the Free Church."
A note of suspension and interdict was thereupon pre-
sented to the Court of Session, praying their lordships
to suspend the proceedings referred to, and to prohibit
the society from taking any steps towards the appoint-
ment; as also from appointing or settling, as teacher, un-
der the superintendence and in the employment of the
said society, any individual who is not it member of the
established church of Scotland," &c. The case having
been argued, the lord ordinary granted the prohibition and
declared the interdict perpetual, and gave the suspenders
their expenses.
RUBRICAL OBSERVANCES.—SeveraI charges have re-
cently been preferred by Mr. Hill, the churchwarden of
Helstone, in Cornwall, against the Rev. Walter Blunt,
Curate of that parish, and which have lately been under
the consideration of the Bishop of Exeter. The first
was that of having worn the surplice in the pulpit.
In the course of his very elaborate judgment, the
Lord Bishop says—" On this particular, I have no
difficulty in saying, that Mr. Blunt has been right,
since ne has preached in his surplice. The sermon
is part of the Communion Service, and whatever
be the proper garb of the Minister in the one part of that
service, the same ought to be worn by him throughout.
The Rubric and Canons recognize no difference what-
ever." The following is an epitome of his Lordship's
Judgment on the other charges:—The undesirableness of
preaching extempore. That if any prayer be introduced
previous to the sermon, the bidding prayer is alone the
proper one. That circumstances may admit of an in-
structive lecture being delivered after the second lesson at
evening service, the usual sermon being subsequently
omitted ; but that this should not be done when the
wishes of the congregation are against it. That per-
sons should be encouraged, but that they cannot be
compelled, to remain in church, on sacrament Sundays,
during the actual celebration of the holy communion.
That a minister is authorised in refusing to administer the
sacrament of the Lord's Supper to a schismatic. That
the burial offices of the Church of England may be denied
to adults, who have been born, who have continued, and
who have died in schism. That a minister cannot refuse
to marry unbaptised persons after the publication by him
of banns for their marriage. That at the churching of
women, it is right that the latter kneel at the rails of the
communion-table. That the formation of voluntary
choirs, in place of paid singers, should be encouraged.
THE WEEKLY OFFERTORY.--A correspondence has
taken place lately between Mr. Walter, of Bearwood,
Berkshire; the Rev. Mr. Cameron, perpetual curate of
the parish of Hurst; and the Lord Bishop of Oxford;
respecting an announcement made by the Rev. Mr. Ca-
meron, some months ago. that it was his intention every
Sunday to read the offertory, when collections would be
made for the benefit of various charitable institutions—a
list of which was printed on a card, and a copy left in
each pew. Mr. Walter, feeling aggrieved at this proposed
arrangement, and thinking that it would disturb the har-
mony hitherto existing between the rev. gentleman and
his parishioners, applied to the learned civilian, Dr. Ad-
dams, for his opinion upon the case set forth. The
learned doctor replied, that " he could not undertake to
say that this weekly offertory was illegal ; at the same
time it had fallen into disuse, and its present introduction
might be considered a perfect innovation, and in the high-
est degree injurious." This opinion was communicated
to the Rev. Mr. Cameron, who, notwithstanding, conti-
nued to maintain the legality of his former determina-
tions. Mr. Walter then made an appeal to the Lord
Bishop of Oxford, but the right rev. prelate, after going
through the circumstances of the dispute, observed :
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appeared in full costume. The child was named Vic-
toria. After the ceremony, which only lasted a short
time, her Majesty approached, and affectionately kissed
her infant namesake. Prince Albert presented a gor-
geous gold cup to his noble god-child, with the inscrip-
tion—" To Lady Victoria Cecil, from her godfather
Albert." ,

Immediately after the christening, the display o
fireworks took place on the lawn facing the south front
of the castle, in which are situated her Majesty's apart.
ments.

On Thursday morning, immediately after breakfast, the
Prince.accompanied by the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir R.
Peel, Lord Stanley, the Marquis of Granby, and Mr.
Anson, went out shooting in the preserves behind the
hall, called the Rutlands. The game was in great
abundance, having been strictly preserved by the noble
owner for the accommodation of his distinguished visitors,
and the party had excellent sport for some hours.
In the evening another splendid banquet was given, at
which the Mayor of Stamford had the honour of being
present. After this a grand ball took place, and 500 per-
sons attended by invitation. The town of Stamford was
brilliantly illuminated.

On Friday morning, immediately after breakfast, her
Majesty and the Prince, after taking an affectionate leave
of the Marchioness of Exeter, left Burghley for Weedon
station, on their return to Windsor. The royal party
proceeded on the Birmingham railway to the Euston
station, and then by the Great Western line to Windsor,
reaching the Castle a few minutes before seven.

THE CHISTENING AT BURGHLEY.—An amusing mis-
take occurred at this ceremony. The Bishop of Peter-
borough, who performed the ceremony, had commenced
it and was going on, when it was discovered that the in-
fant who was to be christened was not in the room. The
young lady was immediately brought in, however, and the
ceremony re-co m menced