The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

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IMPROVEMENT OF Tri E PORT OF CHESTER.

We have elsewhere noticed a public meeting, held in
Chester, on this subject, on Wednesday last, and have
since found some remarks upon it in the Chester Chro-
nicle, which we consider entitled to attention. Our con-
temporary states, first, that the facts adduced at the
meeting " were all one way, and the decision the other,
the first being confirmatory of the value of the river im-
provements as a measure, and the only measure, for
bringing trade to Chewer, and the latter being absolutely
in favour of a measure unexplained to the meeting either
in plan or detail, and the indubitable reeult of which
would be, that instead of bringing trade to Chester, that
it would take it from it. Repeatedly were the advocates
of the ship canal asked for plans and estimates ; and as
often was the demand evaded. Colonel Hutchinson him-
self had not seen them ; and he talked of supplying the
canal from other waters than the Dee. Where will he
find them ? Sir George Stephen, with great simplicity,
said the plan was a verbal one." Our contemporary pro-
ceeds to shew the absurdities involved in the scheme, add-
ing that nothing tangible was produced by Sir George
Stephen or Colonel Stanhope, from whose speeches it
was impossible to Fay whether they advocated a ship canal
or a railway, and ascribes the movement as one made
merely to obtain a standieg in the public mind of the
Chester and doomed Manchester Direct scheme, without
the slightest sympathy for Chester but ii. words. The
parties advocating a ship canal produced no proof of its
feasibility. When they proposed to lay out 41;000,000
of money on a ship canal, they should have prepared
themselves with data. All that could be got out of them
was " a ship canal between Chester and Dawpool." The
writer goes on to state, that they had no plans, otherwise
they would have produced them, and that the canal " only
exists in a red ink line on an ordnance map," which has
never even been surveyed, yet in behalf of which they
have cunningly obtained a resolution of support from a
popular meeting. The effect, he thinks, will be not to
advance the ship canal project. (which he considers pre-
posterous,) but to retard the improvement of the river,
and trusts those who have unwittingly taken it up
abandon it. There was no instance of a ship canal hav-
ing paid. Mr. Wardell said, that "in the course of fifty
years the Gloucester canal has been pawned, forfeited,
and then redeemed, at an expense of £60,000, and has
never paid a dividend." Towards the conclusion of his
remarks, our con•emporary observes, that " all expe-
rience establishes that ship canals are empty chimeras,
and have not brought trade, nor realized revenue. There
is nothing in the project from Chester to Dawpool to take
it out of the general rule. The Manchester traffic can be
more cheaply and expeditiously conducted from the Bir-
kenhead docks, and by the Chester Junction railway, or
from Holyhead, or Milford haven, nay even via Liver-
pool. All experience establishes that improved tidal
navigations do create trade and realize remunerative re-
venue. Yet the voice of Chester has been for a ship
canal, to create a port at Dawpool!" We may remind
our readers, that about twenty years ago a ship canal was
pi-ejected betwee❑ Dawpool and Manchester, by a Major
Watkins, of the last-named place, which was to smother
up Liverpool as a port, but the project was ridiculed, and
died in the hate ing.
We shell not take upon ourselves to say that a ship canal
from Dawpool to Cheat,r is impracticable; but we great-
ly doubt whether it would pay anything like the interest
of the outlay, and concur with our con'emporary in opin-
ion that the intended railways from Birkenhead, and even
via Liverpool, would more effectually serve the traffic of
Manchester.

THE BROTHERS OF LA TRAPPE.

The following curious and exact particulars of this as-

cetic ord

gleaned during a recent visit to the Mo-
nastery of La Trappe, whilom the Benardine Abbey, si-
tuated a short distance from the manufacturing town of
Mortague, Normandy.
The monastery is at present composed of twenty-five
fathers, comprising the Most Reverend Louis-Made,
General of the Trappistes, and or fifty lay-brothers.
The establishment consists of an immense house, with
extensive gardens, fish-ponds, stables, sheepfolds, cow-
houses, &c., covering a space of several acres, and
nightly tenanted by sixteen horses, twenty-six cows, one
bull, one hundred sheep, a magnificent ram, sixty pigs and
sows, and three hundred geese. The wheat upon the es-
tate is very fine, almost every blade carrying eight ears,
and the fruits and vegetables are of an extraordinary size.
We remarked a water-mill of English construction upon
one of the ponds, which abounded with pike, carp, tench,
roach, &c. Close to the convent is the Gnat° of St.
Bernard, the founder of the order, which was re-esra-

olished and reformed in 1603 by Abbe de Rance. Toe
Fathers of La Trappe wear a white serge gown, wish a
hood attached to it, and the brothers brown ones. The
frere-hotelier, or house steward, alone wears, over a

white robe, a sort of black cap : he is the cicerone of the
convent visitors. All the Trappis,es have their h,ads
shaved with the exception of a small tuft upon the crown.
They wear a woollen shirt, which is changed every fifteen
days, no trousers, merely linen drawers summer and

winter, shoes within doors, and heavy sabots for farm
work. Each has his employment, tut n about, from which
the superior is not even exempted. When a brother
commits a fault he is condemned by the most reverend,
according to its gravity, to eat upon the ground, or
kneeling a certain time with head bent to the earth. The
youngest of the fathers is about twenty-five years old, and
the most aged seventy years. Thy sleep without un-
dressing upon a plank covered with. a thi straw mattress
and a woollen coverlet. No member of the order is per-
mitted to have money in his possession. All that is re•
ceived by the brother servitors from visitors ought to be
placed in the convent box. When a father or brother
dies he is buried coffinless, in his religious dress, and
placed in a sitting pmture in the cemetery. The most
rigorous silence is imposed upon all the Trappistes, and
they communicate w.th each other by signs, like the deaf
and dumb. From the 14th September to Easter, these
devotees eat only one slight repast during the day ; the
remainder of the year they make two or three, according
to the heaviness of their work. Winter and summer they
retire to rest a► eight, and rise at two in the morning.
They then repair to the chapel until five, and from thence
to labour in the farm and the fields. Every kind of work
is done in common, and without distinction of persons;
all is f - dof 1 and ich r-rink sut,

,or the gooc. ,ne monastery, a ea ,not,..
mats to the most servile labour in a spirit of penitence
and humiliation.

FURTHER EXPOSURES OF THE LEAGUE.
At the South Cheshire Revision Court, Mr. Townsend,
the revising banister, and a whig. pissed the following
condemnation on the shameful conduct of the League with
reference to their conduct at the recent registrations. A
reverend gentleman had been very properly enterrd on the
registry, for property for which he had voted for forty
years ; he was objected to, and the barrister ordered the
objector to pay 20s. costs, following the order up by these
remarks :

"As this is the last day of my revision, and publicity
can alone afford a sufficient check to the evil, I think it
right, as revising barri-ter for this division of the county,
to state publicly my deliberate condemnation of the vexa-
tious, oppressive, indiscriminate, and reckless manner in
which at least a fourth of the whole body of voters in South
Cheshire have been assailed. Between 1,500 and 1.600
objections, all posted in Manchester, have been published ;
several hundred objections, in addition, were received too
late for publication, the postoffice at Manchester being
overwhelmed with a sudden influx of letters, addressed to
overseers, at the last moment, and unable to forward
them in time. As the voters on the register are less than
8,000, it would thus appear that every fourth voter out of
the entire constituency has had his vote questioned. In
exact proportion to the multiplicity, has been the futility
of his objections. Gentlemen receiving many thousand
pounds a year from their freeholds, have been gravely
asked whether they had forty shillings clear. The owner
of a township, claiming all the freehold land in the town-
ship, has been objected to because he did not name the
different fields for which he qualified ; many magistrates
and clergy have been compelled to attend here, and no
questions put. In several townships every voter has been
objected to without distinction, and no objection sus-
tained. They have all been signed by Samuel Hickton,
of Rood-lane, Congleton, and Abraham Goodwin, Sand-
bach, but in no one case has a notice of objection signed
by these two individuals been personally delivered ; they