The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

Jan: 14, 1851.

COUNTY SESSIONS.—On Wednesday, the adjourned
annual general sessions of the peace for this county was
held at Preston, the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks in the chair.
It was resolved to borrow £33,000 for the purpose of com-
pleting the two lunatic asylums. Mr. Harden submitted
the following proposition :—" That the offer of Mr.. Alfred
Bower Clayton to undertake the superintendence of all
the county buildings in the Hundred of West Derby,
without any addition to his present salary as hundred
bridgemaster, be accepted." On a division this motion
was defeated. Mr. Addison, in an eloquent speech, in-
troduced the subjoined proposition :—" That a memorial
be presented to the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, and a petition to the House of Commons, pray-
ing that the mode of appointing clerks of the peace for the
several counties and other jurisdictions in England and
Wales, the tenure of their office, and the advantage of
remunerating them rather by salaries than by fees, may be
taken into consideration." This was unanimously agreed
to, and also another memorial to the Home Secretary,
praying for reform in the manner of appointing coroners.
CRIME IN LANCASHIRE.—The public are again in•
debted to the Rev. John Clay, 8.D., chaplain of Preston
House of Correction, for one of his most able and most
valuable reports on the state and causes of crime in Lan-
cashire. In addition to the large amount of important
information contained in the report, Mr. Clay has this
year, at great trouble, added two highly useful plates ;
one showing, at a glance, the relative degrees of crimi-
nality in the English counties as derived from the mean
of the four years, 1841-4-7 and 9 ; and the other shewing,
at one view, the relative yearly progress of population
and crime in each of the different counties from 1834 to
1849. inclusive. From this latter, we find that out of the
41 counties North Lancashire stands thirty-fourth upon
the list, that is to say, it is, all but seven (York,. North-
umberland, Derby, Cornwall, Durham, Westmoreland,
and Cumberland), relatively, the least criminal division
of England. From other data afforded, it is ehewn to
have fewer criminals, in proportion to the population,
than all the counties, except four, Cornwall, Cu►nberl'
and,
Cumberland, Durham, and Derby—the convicted being
one in 1,112 only ; in Worcester it is one in 383 ! South
Lancashire does not, of course, exhibit anything like so
favourable a view.

DISFIGUREMENT BY A SURGEON.—Within the last
few days considerable excitement has prevailed in Black-
burn, in consequence of its having become generally
known that Mr. Rogerson, surgeon, had branded a boy's
forehead by marking thereon with caustic a large B. It
appears that for some time vast Mr. Rogerson has been
greatly annoyed by " run-away rings" at his house; and
on Sunday week, hearing a forcible pull at the bell, he
immediately ran out, caught a lad named William Woods,
and locked him up in his surgery from a quarter to half an
hour. Then he got some caustic, and held the boy whilst
he rubbed on his forehead the letter B. By Ist Victoria,
c. 58, it is enacted that whosoever shall cast or throw
upon, or otherwise apply to any person any corrosive fluid
or other destructive matter, with intent to burn, maim,
disfigure, or disable any person, or to do some grievous
bodily harm, shall be guilty of a felony," the punishment
of which is transportation for life,and not less than fifteen
years;. or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for
not more than three years.—At an inquiry heforo the ma-
gistrates, the medical witnesses differed in their opinions
as to the effect of the application, some saying the brand
would never be effaced, and others that it would totally
disappear in twelve months.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,-1. understand there is a report current in some
circles of Liverpool, that I did not receive more than
twenty pounds during my stay at St. Matthew's, Key-
street ; and I shall feel much obliged by your permitting
me to give that report, through the medium of your jour-
nal, the most unqualified denial. When the church filled,
I received a salary at the rate of £l6O per annum ; up to
that period, proportionately, from £l2O to £ICO. Th•
injury such a report must do the cause that we all have, I
trust, at heart, must plead my apology for thus requesting
a space in your columns.—l am, sir, &c.,

G. CUTHBERT.

Nottingham, Jan. 9, 1851

LORD JOHN MANNERS AND THE REPRESEN-
TATION OF LIVERPOOL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—I cordially coincide in the spirit which has eli-
cited your lucid article on the future representation of
Liverpool. We have seen enough of late to warn us that
it is high time to merge our minor differences, and to rally
in defence of the pure Protestantism of onr Church--to
defend her more from treacherous friends than avowed
and open tots !
With Puseyism I have no sympathy, but would feel a
contemptuous indignation towards the man who would
attempt to brand me with such a character ; and, sir, it is
this jealousy for my own reputation that leads me to
question—though not to deny—the propriety of the ver-
dict which you and your correspondent " Beware" have
passed upon the religious tenets of Lord John Manners.
I attentively read both your article and the letter you
published, and must confess I do not find any just
grounds for the accusation which you have brought against
his lordship. It may be true that his lordship is a mem-
ber of the London Church Union, but it would require
something more than the unsupported assertion of an
anonymous correspondent, however respectable, to con-
vince me that that society was founded for the express
purpose of promoting Puseyite principles, because such
an assertion at once makes his lordship an abettor of those
semi-Romish practices, which (until stronger proof be
found) I• will yet believe his lordship, as well as yourself,
sincerely. deprecates.
I am indeed sorry to find these differences of opinion
existing as to the actual state of his Lordship's opinion
on these important matters ; however, I, will cling with
confidence to his Lordship's assertion—" I AM A MEM-
BER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AND A FOLLOWER
OF NO MAN," which was uttered by his Lordship in this
town prior to the last election. He said also in the Am-
phitheatre,—" IN THE BOSOM OF THE CHURCH OF ENG-
LAND I WAS BORN, AND IN HER BOSOM I HOPE TO DIE,
AND NEITHER BY WILL, WORD, OR DEED HAVE I WISHED,
OR DO I DESIRE, TO ALTER ANY ONE OF HER ACKNOW-
LEDGED ORDNANCES, HER RECEIVED INSTITU-
TIONS AND CEREMONIES !"

Sir, with you I will stick to the last tatter of the pure
Protestantism and Apostolic simplicity of our national
church—a church which can boast of a liturgy as spotless,
of doctrines as scriptural, of an origin as divine, of sons
as devoted, and of martyrs as magnanimous. as any other
church in any age of the world. I love her for her his-
toric, for her scriptural, for her tolerating character ; but
I. must acknowledge I never loved her so much as now,
when she has, by her steadfast sons, manifested her in-
tention to be consistent with herself and her reputation,
by still resisting the unchanged ambition of the now
withered heart but yet grasping arms of Rome !

• 4 5,
If I thought that Lord John Manners (with all his
many excellencies) was capable of entertaining the
treacherous feelings towards her which Puseyites do, and
have done, I would, with avidity an.l earnestness, support,
in preference to him, even such a one as Sir Thomas
Bernard Birch ! But no ; his- lordship is a man of
honour, and he has given us his word ; he has given us
his opinions in language which, when I read it, I igno-
rantly thought could not be mistaken. There are many
in Liverpool (profiters by. the distractions of the last
borough election) who will leave no effort untried to
establish " the wish which is the father of the thought ;"
but that, I am satisfied, will not succeed.
I have long thought Mr. Horsfall eminently qualified,
for the business of the House of Commons ; and I am
sure, that if a deputation, impartially chosen, were to
wait upon his lordship, and learn the true nature of his•
views, there would be no longer any difficulty in accepting
his lordship and Mr. Horsfall as the Protestant and
Protectionist candidates at the next election.
Your known impartiality, and the tone of your article
on his lordship's principles, make it altogether unnecessary
for me to make any appeal to your sense of justice to
publish this letter in your next.—l am, sir, &c.,
A PROTESTANT AND PROTECTIONIST.