The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-22 00:00:00

for exportation. The woollen manufacturers are fully employed,
and stocks in the hands of importers are light.
Our Sharemarket has been severely dept.( ssed this week,
not, however, from the pressure of actual sales, but solely
horn the operations of the lower descriptions of dealers
in whose hands the market has been during the last few
days. To-day, we have had good buying of Midlands ;
Leeds and Dovers to same extent ; and the market
altogether exhibits a healthy tone. The quotations are :
Chester and Birkenhead, 15; East Lancashire, 131; Old
Leeds, 46+ 4g4,1 6 ; Do. Fifths, 84 13-16 9 84d ; Leeds
and Thirsk, 114; 4
London stock, 1224; Do. new Quarters,
34 4p ; Do. Fifths, 34p ; M'chester Shef and L'coln, 264;
Midlands, 37 4g17 64 ; Do. Halves, 22 1-16 2 gcl ; Old
Dovers, 21 +B+ 8 ' • York and North Midland, lig ; Bo-
rough Bank new £lO-shares, g 4 ; Commercial, 91 10 ;
Royal pref., 1164 117+ L'pool Gas, 184 6 : Leeds and
L'pool Canal, 403 8.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE NEW IRON STEAM-
SHIP ORONTES.

On Friday last, a party of about fifty gentlemen inter-
ested
in the progress of commerce, embarked on board
the screw-steamer Orontes, for the purpose of testing her
sailing and steaming qualities. As the noble craft (the
largest ever built for the trade) passed from the dock to
the river, her appearance was a theme of admiration
amongst gazing crowds witnessing her departure. There
is a rakish nobility in her appearance almost indescribable.
She sits on the water with the graceful elegance of a clipper
yacht ; indeed she presented a sight that the highest ima-
nation alone can picture. The Orontes, by extreme mea-
surement, is 210 feet, and has a beam of 28 feet. Her
bows are drawn out as fine as a wedge, and, to admit the
water unbroken to the screw, her run is carried well for-
ward, making her as clean as a knife aft. She has a good
rise of floor with ample bearings, and her side, free from
the eye-sore of a paddle-box, is handsomely rounded.
Surmounting the stem is a splendidly carved figure of an
eastern sylph, in the rich attire of the Turkish clime ; and
on the trail board, in relieved gold, is emblazoned the
word " Orontes." Her quarters, too, are bedecked with
elaborate scroll-work and foliage. Her beauty is not alone
external : her cabins, which are beneath the quarter-deck,
are 68 feet long, and are not only magnificently but sub-
stantially fitted. The panelling forming the state-rooms,
which are arranged for two or more berths, are of oak,
boldly relieved with mouldings, and interspersed with
carvings of fruit, flowers, &c. The ceiling is white and
gold, forming a strong contrast with the rich upholstery
of crimson velvet. Each state-room is separately lighted
and ventilated, and the whole cabin is lighted by stern-
ports and three large octagon cupolas, which also form
ventilators. Here, on the stained-glass, the most inter-
esting subjects of Egypt and the Holy Land are portrayed
with artistic taste ; the warm tone of colouring, heightened
by the transparency, renders the paintings brilliantly
effective. The Orontes is 760 tons register, and has, ex-
clusive of engine and boiler space, a capacity of 538 tons.
In point of strength, this ship need not be excelled : her
plating is of more than the usual thickness, and she is
double-rivetted throughout. The bends, to give addi-
tional strength, are plated edge to edge, with a strong
liner inside, secured with four tier of rivets.. The frame
of the Orontes is of reversed angle iron. She is also
strengthened by numerous watertight compartments.
The Orontes is propelled by a screw of 13 feet 3 inches in
diameter, which is driven by a pair of 75-horse power
direct-acting engines, with inverted cylinders placed im-
mediately over the screw shaft. The peculiarity, and we
may say one of the many beauties, in these engines is,
that instead of one piston rod, they have two, which
allows the lower portion of the cylinder to be hollowed in
a conical form, so that the bead of connecting rod and the
connection itself works into the cylinder, thus gaining at
least 2 feet 6 inches, which may either be given to the
connecting rod, the stroke, or the dead weight may be
brought that distance lower down in the vessel. To re-
duce the amount of friction, the working parts are all
case-hardened, and finished to the nicety of watch-work.
Should the engines not be required, the screw is so
arranged that it can be disconnected in a moment, and
thus enable the ship to steer under canvas alone. The
cylinders are 48 inches in diameter, and the length of
stroke is 2 feet 10 inches. The boilers are on the most
approved construction, and contain 335 brass tubes, 7
feet long end 31 inches in diameter. The engines and
boilers are made by Mr. B. Hick, of Bolton, who, though
he has already turned out some of the best marine work
extant, has in this instance excelled himself.

At about ten minutes past three the Orontes left the
Rock Light, and at eight the same evening anchored in
the Beanmaris Bay, haying worked easily, to avoid the
bearings heating. After a splendid dinner several toasts
were proosed ; amongst them " the Owners," " the
Builders," and "the Captain," all of which were appro-
priately responded to. The following morning the party
visited Beaumaris, Bangor, and the tubular bridge. At a
quarter-past eleven the Orontes was again got under way,
and was off Point Lynas Light in one hour and five mi-
nutes ; thus making, against a flood tide, a speed of over
eleven miles per hour. After leaving Holyhead the screw
was disconnected, and she made, with a moderate breeze,
under canvas, about eight knots per hour, reaching Kings-
town Harbour at a few minutes to eight eight o'clock on
Saturday. At a quarter-past six on Sunday evening she
left Kingstown, and arrived off the Rock yesterday morn-
ing, at half•past five, making the passage (123 miles) in
111 hours—a speed with the screw that we believe has not
hitherto been attained. The company, after an absence
of three days, did not land without expressing their high
opinion of the ship and their thanks to the captain and her
owners. A finer vessel never floated. The Orontes was
built at Dumbarton, by Messrs. A. Denny and Bother, for
the Mediterranean trade. She is consigned to, and, we be-
lieve, owned by, Messrs. Jas. Moss and Co., of this town,
and is the second vessel of a fleet they are building. She
is placed under the command of Capt. Bulkeley, late of the
Nile, a gentleman whose courteous and urbane manner is
only exceeded by his ability as a seaman. We have no
fear of this enterprise proving successful.

MR. ROEBUCK.—We are sorry to find, by the Sheffield
Independent, that Mr. Roebuck, M.P., has met with a
somewhat serious accident. It appears that some ten
days ago the honourable member was amusing himself
with his Newfoundland dog, and was feigning to throw a
stick, when the dog, eagerly springing to seize the stick,
caught Mr. Roebuck's hand in his ,mouth, and severely
lacerated the muscles of the thumb. This injury, acting
upon a highly nervous temperament, produced for some
days very unfavourable symptoms ; and though we are
happy to learn that they have abated, Mr. Roebuck is still
under the necessity of avoiding excitement as ranch as
possible.

SlR,—The Liverpool Mercury of Friday, in an article
upon this subject, does a great injustice to the Orangemen
of Liverpool. He asserts that a green ribbon on St. Pa-
trick's day enrages an Orangeman the same as an orange
ribbon on the 12th July maddens an Irishman ; that upon
each of these days the peace of the town is disturbed by
riots and•collisions ; and that, therefore, increased power
should be given to the magistrates to stop these exhibi-
tions of party strength and folly. If, he says, they would
each consent to allow the other to walk on their favourite
days unmolested, then the public might tolerate the nui-
sance so long as it was peaceable and harmless.
Now, Sir, I am no Orangeman, but I am an English-
man and a lover of fair-play. I therefore protest against
this mingling of the Orangemen in such an indiscriminate
manner with the Irish rioters. The Orangemen did allow
the Irishmen to walk for some years unmolested : they
did not provoke the unfortunate riot of Monday ; for the
Irishmen came deliberately to their place of meeting with
the acknowledged purpose of committing a breach of the
peace. I say that, so far as the Orangemen are con-
cerned, no breach of the peace would have occurred on
Monday, or did occur on the last 17th March, or the one
previously. All the skirmishes that have taken place
have been on the 12th July, and have uniformly been
commenced by a designed attack of a collected body of
Irishmen on the members of the Orange Society. Such
conduct on the part of these men, above all, is outrageous :
for though strangers to our land, and haters of our reli-
gion as they are, they are permitted to make the most
ostentatious display of their party colours and repugnant
sentiments ; and yet when our own countrymen claim the
exercise of the same privilege in the same place, and that
the place where most of them were born, these obligated
dastards—proof against every noble and grateful feeling—
growl with a cur-like courage, and raise their unholy cries
with a hideous zest, for the savage work of blood-spilling.
Let the Editor of the Mercury go and revise his article,
and see if there should not, in justice, be a distinction,
with a difference too. If these processions cannot take
place without these unfortunate consequences, I would—
as earnestly as the Mercury—counsel the suppression of
them altogether; at the same time, I would not forget
through whose virulence and viciousness it was that I
was stripped of what I esteemed a social privilege, and of
what I prized as part of my chartered liberty.—l am, &c.,
AN ENGLISHMAN.

THE ROMISH DOCTRINE OF INTENTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—At last we are getting very near the plain truth.
A priest, of Father Newman's Oratory, at Birmingham,
has come forth in a letter to Aris's Birmingham Gazette,
and candidly confessed that the priest's intention, in the
plain natural sense of the word, is requisite to the validity
of a sacrament, and that the laity must just " trust"
them for having it !
The work is getting light for us when Romish contro-
versialists knock one another down in this unceremonious
manner. Father Noble pronounces it " a gross calumny"
upon " Catholic doctrine," to assert the necessity of any
such intention on the priest's part as cannot be certainly
known by others, and declares that a priest " could not"
(unless he were drunk or mad, or his tongue forced to
utter the words against his will) perform a sacrament
without such intention as the Church of Rome requires ;
inasmuch as she only requires him to intend the outward
act, not to intend " conferrino a sacrament !" What
must be his horror at finding one of Dr. Newman's own
staff not only publicly admitting this " gross calumny"
to be true Catholic doctrine, appealing to " common
sense" in its behalf, asserting that it must be so, " of
course," and that the denial of it would reduce the priest
to a " cast-iron automaton," but also acknowledging that
" the difficulties" I have " raised" are " necessarily in-
cidental" to it !! This is what Romanists mean by unity
and infallibility.
The letter, of which a copy is subjoined, having only
just come to hand, I must reserve any further observa-
tions upon it for a second letter to Dr. Newman, next
week.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant.
SAMUEL MINTON.
Liverpool, July 21, 1851.

TO THE EDITOR OF ARISES GAZETTE

SIR,-It is rather hard upon Dr. Newman to be called upon,
not to answer objections drawn to the arguments lie is putting
forth in his present course of lectures, which certainly might
be fairly claimed of him, but to meet all the side attacks with
which be may be assailed by gentlemen like Mr. Minton,
skilled in the Guerilla Warfare" of the Protestant cause.

Guerilla champions must be content with Guerilla antago-
nists; and, as such, I will try to meet our very confident
assailant, who has invented an engine of war, so formidable,
that he is persuaded that by its help alone he will be able to
terminate the theological contest.

Strange, too, that at this time of day there should be any
new mode of attack, which has not been used against us a
thousand times already. Surely, if the incumbent of St. Silas's
(as he calls himself, all Saints being sinners) would look into
any controversial writer, he would find the objection a very
trite one, having been over and over again answered and
explained. Let me assure him that the doctrine of" Intention"
never has agitated the minds of Catholics as -he asserts in his
pamphlet, and never will agitate them more than the subject of
"Original Sin," or any other part of the Catholic doctrine; in
fact. I think there are few things which every Catholic, as well
as every Church Protestant, so habitually takes for granted,
and trusts that every sensible man will take for granted also.
Mr. Minton presents us with his pamphlets on Intention as
a specific for Popery in every possible shape. Now new in-
ventions, as well for wholesale destruction as for wholesale
cure, carry very little weight with thinking people, though they
may raise an excitement for the moment; the fact is, common
sense resists them. If, however, what Mr. Minton says is
true, farewell all the thousand and one missiles of the Tract
Society; they are become wholly unnecessary. Popery is
defunct; "Intention" has done for it.
And why? Because Catholics hold that Sacraments are not
valid, without the intention of the Priest to celebrate them, and
therefore it is urged they can never be sure of their validity,
and in consequence never can be sure of having received the
means of salvation.
What is this but objecting that there can be no proper sacra-
ments, because Priests do not cease to be men, but. when they
act must act like other men, and are not mere cast-iron auto-
matons, but must intend to do what they do. Of course they
must. If we did not take for granted a man's intention, who
would know what any one does ? When a nian undertakes to
do a certain known act, it is presumed by all men that he does
that act, and not another. It is the intention which distin-
guishes acts externally alike. The acts of Confirmation and
Ordination according to the Anglican usage are almost iden-
tical ; what makes the difference between them except the
intention of the administrator ? For no Anglican holds that
the particular prayers are necessary for the administration of
the one or the other rite. It was this identity of outward
ceremonies which gave the point to a joke of Mr. Macaulay,
the historian, who used to say, in order to puzzle good church
folks, that he had been ordained, because he had been con-
firmed.

The fact is, that in all these things we go by common sense.
It is common sense to trust each other. My cook may poison
me, but it is common sense to trust him. Such is the common
judgment of men, and the Church of God, though a Divine
Institution, is a Church of men ; what is supernatural does
not supersede what is.natural, but uses it, and as we trust each
other in matters of business, so do we in Church matters.
Mr. Minton evidently thinks it likely to take place that
Catholic priests would withhold their intention in celebrating
the sacraments; now, I .can _tell that all Catholic priests