The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

THE ORANGE. YEOMANRY OF IRELAND I—lt was one
of the complaints against the yeomanry of former years
that they were composed of Protestants, in many instances
of Orangemen. The answer was, that in those days a
force so composed was the only one which could be relied
on. A remarkable instance in point was furnished in the
case of a corps commanded by Mr. Sharman Crawford.
Every individual, with, at the most, a single exception,
under his command was an Orangeman! He was not
himself a member of the Orange institution ; he was,
perhaps then, as now, of politics which forbade his join-
ing that body ; but he wished to have a corps of loyal
men, who would not betray the cause which they swore to
serve. He deliberately made or acceded to a rule, that
every candidate for admission into his corps should pass
through the scrutiny of a ballot; and, as the inevitable
consequence, his corps consisted exclusively of Protestant.
OF
.ORANGEMEN !—Frons an article on "Repeal Agi.
tation" in the Dublin University Magazine.
CHANTREY'S CHARGES.—In 1813, his charge for a
bust was one hundred guineas ; in 1814 and 1819, one hun-
dred and twenty. He had one hundred guineas for Cline,
and one hundred and twenty guineas a-piece for James
Watt and John Rennie. In 1820, his charge was one
hundred and fifty guineas, the sum he received from Lord
Liverpool for the bust of the Duke of Wellington. In
1821, he had two hundred guineas for the bust of George
IV., the highest sum he was ever known to charge for a
bust. For the Wellington statue he was paid the largest
sum he ever received for a work of art, equal as it was in
all, with bronze and money, to £lO,OOO. For the eques-
trian statue of George IV., still unerected, he had nine
thousand guineas ; for the equestrian statue of Sir Thos.
Munro, 8,000. The Munro horse was the same horse as
the George IV., and Chantrey would have thrust a third
edition of the same animal upon the city of London, but
for the sturdy interference of Allan Cunningham and Sir
Peter Laurie. He would certainly have had the Glasgow
Wellington statue to execute, but from his anxiety to sup-
ply a cast of the same horse to the fair City of the West.
This was imprudent, for the Glasgow people wisely wanted
a horse of their own. Modelling horses gravelled Chan-
trey ; he was at home with men, but had to learn a new
line of art when he came to manufacture horses. His
standing statues and sitting statues were well paid for.
He had two thousand guineas for the George 111. in
Guildhall ; £lBOO for Spencer Perceval ; £4OOO for Presi-
dent Blair (with niche and pedestal); £3500 for Lord
Melville ; £lOOO for Dr. Anderson at Madras ; £1575 for
Gen. Gillespie in St. Paul's ; £lBOO for Francis Horner,
in Westminster Abbey ; £2250 for Washington ; £l2OO
for Chief Baron Dundas ; £2OOO for Grattan ; £7OOO for
Pitt in Hanover-square; £7OOO for Watt in Westminster
Abbey. For "The Two Children" he had £650; for
" Lady Louisa Russell" £350. Chantrey's admiration
of English sculpture did not get much beyond the bust of
Dr. Johnson by Nollekens. and the statue of Sir Isaac
Newton by Roubiliac. They were both, as be was wont
to say, perfect. Such, indeed, was his respect for Rou-
biliac, that he has allowed foreigners resident in England
to contend for his prizes, solely out of respect for the
epigrammatic and inimitable Frenchman.—Fraser.

EDUCATION. ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY—The great
national work of education rests mainly in your hands, as
it is most desirable that it should do. A vigilant superin-
tendence of this interesting portion of the Lord's vine-
yard, need scarcely be enjoined on any of his labourers,
so great is the encouragement, so rich the promise annex-
ed to the employment. Difficulties do and will beset the
path of those who are earnest in it ; for the enemy of souls
understands, even far better than we can do, the value of
the sowing season ; and the world will also put in its
claim against God, by extolling the usefulness of such
knowledge as is the perfection of foolishness when sub-
stituted for, or preferred before, the knowledge that
maketh wise unto salvation. To cultivate intellect is the
fashionable panacea for all moral and political evil ; but
" intellect without God " is the phrase aptly used by a
distinguished living poet to characterize Satan himself.
That knowledge is power, has become the leading axiom
of the day : but, apart from the presiding, governing,
commanding influence of vital religion, what is it but the
power of a mighty steam-engine, self-impelled, destitute
of its appointed guide, and carrying irresistible destruction
wheresoever chance may direct its wild and fierce career ?
We would not that a poor ma❑ should be found, whereso-
ever the British standard waves, who could put from him
the book of wisdom with the plea, " I am not learned ;"
but to make religion merely an adjunct, a collateral branch
of instruction, a matter of taste and selection ; to rank
the Holy Bible as a class-book, to be taken up in its turn,
or subject to the approval or rejection of those who send
the child to school, is an offence which we cannot for a
moment suppose any minister of the gospel capable of
conniving at. We name it only to rouse your active and
strenuous opposition to so infidel a course, and to remind
you on how false, how ruinous a principle, the work is
likely to be conducted, if you withhold your hands from
it, or silently relinquish your primary claim to the snper-
vision of what God has committed to your charge: the
feeding of the lambs ; the training up of children in the
way they should go ; the bringing them to Christ, in whom
are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Your
office is to combat the rage of unsanctified learning; to
place " the kingdom of God and his righteousness " in the
fore-front of all that his creatures ought to seek ; with
spiritual weapons to " cast down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalteth itself above Christ ;" to elevate
the law and the testimony in the sight of all men ; boldly
proclaiming that " if they speak not according to this
word it is because there is no light in them."—Perils of
the Nation.

THE CONDITION OF IRIGLAND.-There is but one
portion of our empireto which we look with undiminished
regret—unhappy Ireland ; unvisited by royalty, unte-
all alike by her reckless agitation. The wonder on the
part of several of our foreign correspondents, no'k lying
before us, is, that O'Connell is not summoned to his place
in the English House of Commons, and that the agitation
of:repeal is not made treasonable by a specific enactment.
On the reasonableness of this course we shall not enter,
but simply content ourselves with observing, that due care
is taken that dangerous effects shall not follow from the
effrontery and meditated malevolence of that miscreant,
who dares not venture on overt acts. Ireland, ere long,
will find out his villany, and let us ask any calm and dis-
passionate individual what Ireland would gain by the re-
peal ? Would she partake in the immense exports to the
British, the Saxon colonies, if O'Connell like the name?
Would she be of much higher mark than Jersey, or the
Isle of Man, without English support? Let the income
tax answer that question. Where is the spirit described
by her bards past? Where is
The dread that the cold-hearted Saxon will tear
One chord from her harp, or one wreath from her hair?
Would anything but the intelligence of the North, to recur
to painful facts, retain her present commerce ? Would not
the Protestants alone subdue the Romanists in Ireland,
were they alone left to settle the question? Intelligence
is to brute force in a much higher ratio than one to seven.
Ireland must abandon talk and take to trade, and then
trade will take to her. The capital O'Connell is con-
suming in time amid her millions is immense, to say no-
thing of what he takes by the sheer robbery of the rent.
Let her think on the blessings that flow from such an
United Kingdom as has yet never lightened on the me-
mory of man ; let her feel due pride in the enjoyment of
that common renown her arms have contributed to win,
and in the supremacy in the hour of peace, in the coun-
cils of the United Kingdom, of that warrior that owes to
her his birthplace—one, of whom her greatest living poet
wrote—

But, oh, there is not
One dishonouring blot
In the wreath that encircles my Wellington's name.
The counsel of that chieftain, equally wise in war and
peace, has literally made, not one only, but the United
Isles,

Even all that we wish them, great, glorious and free ;
First flowers of the earth, and first gems of the sea.
—From an article " On the Commerce and Prospects of
the British Empire in India," in the British and Colonial
Quarterly.

PROPAGANDA.—That enormous system of fraud and
imposture the Propaganda has existed in France under
various forms and with various fortunes since 1655. At
present it is in part supported by government grants, and
in part by contributions. The income of this association
amounted in 1841 to about £142,000, collected through-
out the papal countries. In 1841 the contribution from
Ireland amounted to nearly £B,OOO. Scotland, however,
is in a bad case; she is fairly in parlibus infidelium, and
so far from contributing, required a grant of about one
thousand pounds to remove the woeful spiritual destitu"
tion of the descendants of the covenanters. That this is
a political as well as a Romish association is admitted by
its friends as well as its opponents and under this fin:.
portant fact some very serious considerations arise. A
vast number of missionaries are sent to the Mediterranean
and to the east, and all of course sent from France, and
of course so many political agents for that country. Such
being the case, we would suggest to our generous but
mistaken countrymen, whether it is in good taste, or con-
sistent with unsullied loyalty to contribute along with a
foreign government for purposes beyond the propagation
of religion. It is humiliating to be gulled in this man-

ner ; and why do they, if they wish to spread their faith,
not insist that the directors of the plan should reside in
Dublin, and thus place their loyalty beyond suspicion.
The occupation of Tahiti is an event of no political or
commercial importance : a more valueless colony can
scarcely be conceived. It is not so with the Sandwic'
Islands : they occupy a midway state - et,

Jetween China
and America ; they afford an asylum to the South-sea
whalers and vessels passing between Asia and America.
It is needless to say that their importance will rise yearly,
in proportion as the China trade increases. The occupa-
tion of these islands by France would, in the event of
war, give her great influence in the Pacific : it won't] hp

Ocean—a nest of privateers. The government of the
United States are aware of the importance of the subject,
and we suspect their efforts will rescue the Sandwich
Islands. But there is another circumstance deserving of
notice : it is obvious that no Briton can in any way abet

tne efforts of tfrance ; he may remain inactive, but he
cannot exert himself against his country. Now, the fol-
lowing circumstance deserves to be remembered : Ireland
sends a contribution of eight thousand pounds per annum
F'

french rropaganda ; and these . .ds have furnished
and sent out Father Short, and Father Walsh, both Irish-
men, two indefatigable agents in the interest of France in
the Sandwich Islands ; or in other words, their loyalty to
their queen, and patriotism towards their native land, is

as dust in the balance, compared with their zeal for the
pope, or their devotion to the cause of France. We shall

conclude with a single remark—Lt is possible that the
doings in Tahiti may bring more harm than good to the
Roman Catholic cause. For many years the dissenters
of England and Scotland have been the sapporters of the
political claims of the Romanists. The cause of Tahiti
is taken up by the dissenters ; and may not a Protestant
re-action in England prove too high a price for a triumph
of popery at the antipodes?—Dublin University Magazine.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Eleven o'c:ock,

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MANCHESTER

A most destructive conflagrat;.-
~n occurred in Manches-
ter
thes.l wh
ark Nightingale and Co., the (2,lte of the extensive warehouse
occupied
yesterday
b y
ex-
tensive carriers, in which was stored upwards of 1,000
bales of cotton, and about 300 sacks of flour, was, with
its contents, totally destroyed.
The warehouse in question is situate near to a vacant
plot of land., well known in Manchester as Granby Row
Field+, and fortunately stood detached from any other
The fire was discovered soon ,after six o'clock in the
morning, and the alarm was instantly given, but from the
combustible nature of the materials the orogress of the
flames was very rapid ; and when the engines arrived the
roof had fallen.in.

`eater was soon procured from the canal, and the en-
gines played with great effect on the burning pile, but in
forty minutes after the arrival of the engines the building
was completely gutted, and the south wall fell with a tre-
mendous crash just as the engines and men had been or-
dered from beneath. The other walls fell in succession,
the east one falling into the canal, which is thus partially
blocked up. The value of the materials in the building is
estimated at £12,000, and the building itself at £2,500.
Amongst the owners of the cotton are Mr. Bailey and
Mr. Ashton.
The building, &c. are insured, and the heaviest losses
will fall on the West of England, the Manchester, the
Sun, the Phoenix, and the Imperial.
At present, not the remotest idea can be formed as to
how the fire originated. It appears that two or three
cargoes of cotton from Liverpool were delivered at this
warehouse on Friday last ; and one way in which it has
been attempted to account for the fire, is, by supposing
that these bales had been near some napththa or other sub-
stance, which may have led to their spontaneous combus-
tion. Taken in connexion with the late fires of cotton in
this town, the matter has excited the utmost alarm at
Manchester; and an idea is becoming prevalent there,
that some of the materials used in America for cleaning
cotton may he the means of causing its combustion
when it comes to be closely packed in warehouses.
Our neighbours in Manchester have, however, proba-
bly not seen the Cotton packed in a ship, at one of the
American ports, or they would not give countenance to
the latter:supposition, for if there is any ground for it,
we see no reason why so many cotton ships escape the
destructive element, seeing their cargoes are packed with
all attainable tightness.