The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

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USEFUL INDENTION.—An individual has discovered a
process by which wood can be so impregnated with iron
as very much to increase its hardness. He is preparing
a considerable quantity of wood in this manner, which,
with the sanction of the Poor Law Commissioners, he
intends to convert into boards of guardians.—Punch.
EDITORIAL DUTY IN CONTROVERSY.-It is no part
of a journalist's duty, as some persons seem to suppose,
to publish all that can be said on both sides of a contro-
versy. His duty is to give only what in his best judg-
ment he thinks likely to prove of public advantage. Let-
tels that bear the stamp of hypocrisy and falsehood on
the face of them he commits to the flames at once. No
appeals to his sense of justice should ever induce him to
lend his columns to the propagation of error.—Britan-
nia.

ENGLISH SEAMANSHIP IN A STORM.—During the
recent storm at Boulogne, a vessel appeared in a situation
to excite the greatest alarm. However, the opinion of
the crowd decided at once upon the vessel and the com-
mander. "No other vessel hut the Princess Maude, no
other captain but Captain Monger, would dare to face
Boulogne Bay to-day." The conjecture was correct; it
was the Princess Maude and the gallant commander
named. It was long doubted whether the great steam
power of the vessel could win the offing necessary to give
her a free sweep in between the lighthouse and the bar.
`• She will do it "—" It is impossibe," ran from mouth
to mouth in anxious whispers. Having secured his offing,
Captain Monger brought his vessel about : and, to the
amazement of the timid and unskilful, spread a broad ex-
tent of canvas, under the tremendous gale, bearing down
upon the mouth of the harbour with a rapidity perfectly
terrific. As the vessel passed the lighthouse almost every
heart sunk under the impression that nothing could check
or divert her direct progress to the sands. A stifled
moan was heard through the crowd, when, as if by magic,
the sails dropped instantly, the vessel changed her course
full 93 degrees, and then shot up the harbour at the rate
of at least 15 miles an hour. The enthusiasm of the
spectators found expression in a loud cheer, which was
again and again repeated.

A CAPITAL HASH.—A new sauce is advertised under
the title of Sir Robert Peel's Sauce. lt has been concocted,
we believe, from his promises that the income-tax should
not last longer than three years.—Punch.
THF. VOLUNTARY SYSTEM.—" I do believe, On my
soul, if religion was altogether left to the voluntary in this
world, it would die a natural death ; not that men wouldn't
support it, but because it would be sapported under false
pretences. Truth can't long be upheld by falsehood. Hy-
pocrisy would change its features, and intolerance its
name ; and religion would soon degenerate into a cold,
intriguing, unprincipled, merciless superstition, that's a
fact.''—Sam Slick.
The NON-RF.SIDENT RESIDENT.—" I remember a
case in the Exchequer—upon a motion for a new trial, I
think. A clergyman, with a small or no family, lived in
a large roomy parsonage house. An attorney in the parish,
who had a large family, lived in a house so small as to be
inconvenient for that family. The attorney proposed to
the clergyman to change houses, and the attorney to pay
the clergyman a yearly rent of several pounds in conside-
ration of his residence in the larger and more valuable
house. The year expired, and the attorney not offering to
pay the rent, the clergyman applied to him for it ; upon
which the attorney insisted that this was a most unreason-
able demand, as he had brought an action against the
clergyman fur eleven penalties, I think of ten pounds each,
for non-residence in the parsonage house, the law then not
deeming a clergyman's residence, though in the parish,
legal residence, if he did not live in the parsonage house.
I remember Baron Eyre said it was the most abominable
and impudent transaction that he ever remembered, but
that the clergyman could have no ielief."—Life of Eldon.
AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG LADY,—Her edication is
slicked off complete; a mantymaker gets her up well, and
she is sent back to home with the Tpwer stamp on her,
"edicated at a boardin'-school." She astonishes the
natives round about where the old folks live, and makes
'em stare agin, she is so improved. She plays beautiful
on the piano two pieces, they were crack pieces, larned
onder the eye and ear of the master ; but there is a secret
nobody knows but he—she can't play nothin else. She
sings two or three songs, the last lesson larnt to school,
and the last she will ever larn. She has two or three
beautiful drawtn's ; but there is a secret here too—the
master finished 'em, and she can't do another: She
speaks French beautiful; but it's fortunate she ain't
in
France now, so that secret is safe. She is a very agree-
able gal, and talks very pleasantly, for she has seen the
world. She was to London for a few weeks ; she saw the
last play, and knows a great deal about the theatre. .She
has been to the Opera once, and has seen Celeste, and
Fanny Estler, and heard Lablache and Grisi, and is a
judge of dancin and singin.' She saw the Queen a Voile-
back in the park, and is a judge of ridin' ; and was at a
party of Lady Syllabub's, and knows London. This var-
nish last a whole year. the two new pieces wear out,
and the songs get old, and the drawin's everybody has
seed, and the London millinery wants renewin', and the
Queen has another Princess, and there is another singer
at the Opera, and all is gone but the credit, "she was
edicated at a boardin'•school."—Sam Slick in England.
POPISH RAPACITY—Thomas Eastwood, Esq., of
Brindle Lodge, near Preston, a highly respectable Roman
Catholic in a letter to the London Times refers to the
disgraceful case, at Turin, in our last, and says "I am,
Sir, a Roman Catholic, and I say it with grief and shame
that I have beheld a parent set against a child, a wife
against a husband, a brother against a brother, an uncle
against a niece, and for no other cause than that by such
estrangement the priest might more sec urely carry off the
property which he coveted. We have, as lain in a situa-
ation to prove, in this country, many " unscrupulous
agents " of the Roman Catholic church ; and the great
misfortune is, that the infatuation is so great in the laity,
that when facts are placed before them showing the wick-
edness of certain priests, they will not believe them, and
this holds out an inducement to crime. To say a word
against ` the anointed of the Lord,' is by many Catholics
looked upon as a mortal sin, and the crafty " unscrupu-
lous agents" take advantage of this in the furtherance of
their ends. The confessional is a means used by these
`unscrupulous agents' to perfect their designs, yet you
hear them from their pulpits harangue on its inviolability.
If we may judge from the conduct of the Vicar Apostolic
of Lancashire, neither the profanation of the confessional
by a priest nor the detestable crime of perjury is deserving
of his attention or reprobation. I have said enough to
waken Roman Catholics who, like myself, venerate their
religion to serious reflection ; perhaps, more than enough
to rouse a host of bigoted and priest-ridden would-be
saints to point their shafts at me. But, being girt with
truth, I have nothing to fear."
GRADES OF SOCIETY IN SYDNEY.—The distinctions

in society here remind me of the " dock-yard people,"
described by Dickens, that keen and kindly satirist of
modern follies. Thus government officers don't know
merchants ; merchants with "stores "don't know other
merchants who keep " shops ;" and the shopkeepers have,
I doubt not, a little code of their own, prescribing the
distances to be observed between drapers and haber-
dashers, butchers and pastry cooks. The general cha-
racter of the invitations to the entertainments at Govern-
ment House has caused much discussion and animadver-
sion • the citizens who drive chariots not liking to be
mingled in company with their tradespeople who only
keep gigs. But all this pride of munity, were not in
its tendency so mischievous, could only provoke a
smile. English customs and fashions are carefully fol.
lowed, and frequently out done by the more wealthy and
(if I may be allowed the phras?, in speaking of com-
moners) aristocratic of the colonists. Their extravagant
mode of living, combined with the mania for speculation
has greatly contributed to the late and still existing em-
barrassments of the colony. Many of these houses are
elegant villas, with rooms of noble dimensions, expen
sively furnished with almost every luxury to be found in a
gentleman's residence in England, and environed by
beautiful gardens where every description of fruit, both
European and tropical, is cultivated. The riumereus
servants, too, are a great and universal expense. The
smaller houses of merchants, and various professional and
official men, have much the style of those in suburban
streets in England, standing alone or in pairs, all pro-
tected from the sun by verandas from six to twelve feet
wide, with pretty gardens in front, often fenced by high
hedges of gay geraniums. Several of these villa streets
are very pretty, and a most refreshing contrast to the
dust, dirt, noise, and closeness of the lower part of the
town, which is, from the climate and other causes, some
shades more unpleasant than any place I ever was in be-
fore.—Mrs. Meredith's New South Wales,
A RIOT IN LIVERPOOL IN ANCIENT TIME.—MeM :
ye 4th day of September, 1573, a grevious contention and
discord sprang betwyxt these two, Barrtley and Sydnam,
and Sunday morning next after, being sth Septembir,
Roger Sydnam, levet'nent of the Blue Coats about five of
the clock, at his uprising, walking and coming forth of
Roger Jamieson's house„ his host with three or four of
his soldiers, and the said Captain Barrtley coming with
more company of his motley coats, drew their swords, and
set upon the said levet'nent, and forced him and his men
for safeguard of their lives to take unto the house and
houses over against the ragious persecution of the said
Barrtley therein by the good p'vise and fortuneshifts of
the wife of the same house, the said Sydnam and his men,
all but one, were conveyed into an high top chamber, by
the ladder, and so they drawn up to them in the said loft,
and so escaped death, as it pleased God ; but that one
soldier which was stayed in the house was to all much
swinged and beaten, kneeling upon his knees, bareheaded,
calling and crying most woefully for mercy and pardon of
life : upon this the said Captain Barrtley caused that
soldier, blew-coat by name, to be set in the stocks at the
High Cross of this town of Lyverpoole, and caused a
cantill of a chystboard nayled to his—and there was
watched with a dozen tall billmen of this town. Roger
Sydnam, poor gentleman, was in cover all the whiles aft.
It is long to repeat, and more to rehearse, the riots tumult
and disorder of the said Captain Barrtley and Motley
Coats, and over tedious to write of the spoils of both
Motjies and Blue Coats, as well abroad in the country
hitherto adjoining, as within this town. Truth is, there
was such surrection stirred up by the said Captain Borst-
ley as was never seed in the town and this country, for to
be short, Mr. Maior and all the town suddenly, as pleased
God Almighty, were ready upon the heath of this town,
every man with their best weapons, so as by good chance
everp householder being at home, Sunday morning, eager
as lions, made show almost even like the number of the
said captains, and all their soldiers, so as the captain and
all their men being arrayed, and there upon the said heath
the said Captain Barrtley and all his gentlemen moved,
Mr. Maior, and came up to the town in friendship and
amity ; and after all this done, the captains and their
soldiers were more gentley to deal with, all whiles they
abode within this town.—Lacey's Pictorial Liverpool.
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—A long correspondence
has recently taken place between the Rev. T. Egerton,
rector of Dunningham, in Yorkshire, and Lord Wharn-
cliffe, relative to the animadversions made by his lordship
on an assertion of the rev. gentleman, that "whilst an
annual grant of £750 had been made by the Privy. Coun-
cil in the summer of last year to the British and Foreign
School Society, in aid of their normal school, an annual
grant had been refused to the memorial of the committee
of the dioceses of York and Ripon, for the support of
their training institutions ; and, moreover that no annual
grant had been given by the Privy Council to any training
institutions connected with the Church." Lord Wharn-
cliffe complained that by this assertion the rev. gentleman
had made a false and injurious impression against the
Committee of Council for Education; for the fact was
that a vote of an annual sum of £l,OOO for the mainte-
nance of the normal schools under the direction of the
National Society, and therefore of the Church, was voted
by the committee precisely at the same time as that £750
to the British and Foreign School Society for their nor-
mal schools. To this Mr. Egerton replied that no such
gift as an annual sum of £lOOO had been obtained by
the National Society, because the conditions on which it
was offered, would not be declared by the committee '
of Council previous to its acceptance, and the society
would not come to any resolution respecting the offer
until those conditions were made known. Lord Wharn-
cliffe rejoined, that up to the receipt of Mr. Egerton's
letter he never had had the least notion that any difficulty
existed on the part of the National Society to accept the
grant, and that he had always taken it for granted that
the National Society had w•cepted it. He expressed his
conviction that there had been no intention upon the part
of the Committee of Council to impose any conditions to
which the National Society could object; and added that
a very few words of open and friendly communication
with the Committee of Coune'l would have led at once to
the dissipation of all doubts on the part of the National
Society. Under such circumstances, Lord Wharnehffe
declared that he must refuse to retract one word he had
said upon the subject, and that he must persist in saying
that Mr. Egerton ought 'to have been more cautious of
making any imputations upon a public body, and of creating
unfounded impressions as to the animus with which that
body performed the duties intrusted to it. Against this
declaration Mr. Egerton once more protested, but
considered it useless to prolong a correspondence on
which neither party would admit that he was to blame.