The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

THE UNI

CHURCH OF

GLAND

IRELAND

Church was inclu

ed in the protection

such as it

ql Titles Bill professed to

slastcy

give to the CI

aggression. An effort was made to prevent this
result both in the Commons and in the Lords,

but without effect. Parliament was not in the
temper to head the platitudes of the old " Catholic
question" controversy, and so the eking of
Maynooth were interdicted from assuming the

titles of Irish sees. It appears now,
this has been going too far for the taste of t
Whigs, and probably for the ministry
it seems, is an exceptional case, and the Irish
Romish Bishops ought not to be restrained. All

Ireland,

this Lord Monteagle argues at length in a pam-
phlet with which he has occupied himself—pains

that few others would have taken—in replying to
Jj a charge of the Archbishop of Dublin. The
reasons why Ireland should be treated exception-
ally are drawn from practice, expediency, and
history—from everything, in fact, but what is
conclusive; for there is no reason offered for
encouraging Popery in a country where it has
already done so much lnisehief, nor any plan
proposed by which the exception of Ireland would
not be a violation of the Act of Union. If the
comparison is made between the efforts of the
Irish Church—as she has been opposed by the
priests, opposed by the parliament, and discouraged

lion tons is -taken by countries hot
and the German. Ocean, to which the access is near__ __
the eastern ports ; but the remainder, or nearly two a
lion tons, goes to countries from v.,hich ships are ds
leaving our own port, and with which we carry on L.
largest portion -of our trade. There is, moreover, nbt
difficulty, worthy of the name, in the way of our creatit
a most important business in the export of this natur

product of the locality. Mr. William Laird, to whom, ''''
to Mr Braithwaite Poole, is due the credit of directir
public attention to the subject by his letter to the doc
chairman, published last year, has shown:--
"Ist. That the quality of our coal eauals that of Nowermf I,

which points can he cured by r
for shinninz it. and the sermul he

I men

,
Wigan coal.
"2nd. That the varieties of coal found in Lancashire exce
those found in Durham:and Northumberland.

by the executive—and the similar efforts of the
Church in England, the Irish Church need have no
apprehension for the result ; and, if the legislation
on the subject he founded upon principle at all,
its claim to protection is no whit less than that of
the English Church, to which, in .1800, it was
united politically, as it had always been in disci-
pline and doctrine. Lord Monteagle sees the
matter with the eyes of Spring Rice.
perceive that the whole status of Popery in this
country has been changed since the time of his eaeo,,,
shiodle, then removed on-deck, and afterwards into L
" liberal" displays in the House of Commons. It d, incurring expense and damage, b • breakage, at •
stage of the process. The bulk of th3at broughtiy ever
was then whining for what it called toleration--it
is from the Wigan field, is also carted through the streets
now blustering for command. It was then
and the small portion which comes into our
the
otirnorth docks
seeking after the aid of such men as his lordship at in flats, is broken, by being thrown
over
thatsi wlisclsridil
and into the hold, as is the case wit
that time was—" liberal Protestants," who could
thebr
brought down from Runcorn. What is required
make a speech or give a vote in the House ; but now adoption of branches from both railways and canal,
its monks are rebuking cringing senators for daring upon a high level, to certain of our docks, with the ap-
pliinces in use at the northern shipping ports for lowering
to hint that the Romish court ever opposed the coal unbroken into the ship. By this plan not only
liberty. Spring Rice assisted to set Popery "on will the quality of the article be preserved, but a great por-
tion
of the present cost of ship
ment be saved. This latter
horseback," but he cannot see that it is trying to point is especially important. At. Liverpool we find that
"gallop." It is bard, indeed, to perceive on what it requires at present two to four men to shovel and whip
inteoat
or ship, and two
ground Lord Monteagle and The Times would have mfoemenaoiri fibt,oreartotiorssohfo,ol coal fi:o i
into
the Irish Church abandoned a ship. But by a to the insolence offive tons Das flat
!'nom
a
cart
self-acting coal-drop, such P. wagon
in the North of England and at Cardiff.
Cullen and McHale. If it is proposed on the old ship coals at the rate oflso tons per hour, lowering them
ground of the overwhelming majority of Papists in by their own gravity into the hold from a high-levelrailway
dboro aed brought down to the dock-side. The expense is thus re-
Ireland, that ground is gone. Conversion, emigre- to a very triflinz sum, less quay-space is required,
tion, and famine have cleared away that long-used breakage of the coal is prevented, and there is a great
saving of the time of the ship, which may be loaded an
argument; and the very fact of the conversions is get to sea in the same day.
a strong proof in favour of the Irish Church. The We rejoice to learn that there is a prospect of some-
attidngitbeiiongmdooneeshortlytopromote this important trade;
Churchmen of England need hardly think such a imperativelyeoastinz
ves
erequireds,ao tdhaanponittny
evenfornr former
time the proper one to encourage the falling for- period to save our
tunes of Irish Popery, by deserting its siren our merchant shipping, from progressive decay. The
gest and London and North-Western Railway have a project on
almost almost triumphant opponent. Nor is there, as foot for taking a line behind the - high land at the
The Times and Lord Monteagle contend, an outskirts of the town, to a point a little south of the
y . Dingle,
bold water, and for forming
essential difference between the position of the there a coal d there is eck, to
compete with the St. Helen's Corn-
pany's branch line to Garston. From such a port a Church in England and in Ireland ; and where con-
siderable coasting trade might be conducted, in the ad-
slight difference does exist, it only forms an addi- vantages of which, however, the decks and town of Liver-
tionalpool would not participate. What is most wanted is the
reason why the Irish branch should have
opening out of the Wigan r e .1)
coal district by its o t.'
9lc 'ohne
happily prosperous work. Lord Monteagle
even more protection in her devoted and now with our central docksvery ea
; and this might
effected if set about with a spirit worthy of so important
an object.
instances, and The Times follows him, that in the This great matter, we trust, is about to be actively pro-
Irish Church there is no conge d'elire. We really
ccethlecih with by the Dock Committee, acting in conjunction
w
boardsilir of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and the
are at a loss to see the weight of the argument ; East tLancas e Railways, both of which run through the
and, writing as we do, we are disposed to dispute Wigan coal-fields. It was the original intention of these
companies to form a coal railway, branching from the
the fact. If it means that the Irish Church is main line a little below Bankficld Hall, on the Bootle
more under the will of the State than the English, road, to the quay of the Stanley Dock, on the north of
, which they had secured a large plot of land for a station.
we doubt exceedingly the conclusion. The conge
d'elire in the Church of England is, certainly, of At an interview, however, held on Saturday. between a c
Export Coal Association and the Dock Committee, 'it
the smallest possible effect, as giving to the ca pi- transpired that, on account of the superiority of the foun-
dations of the Stanley Dock quays, the latter body were
tular bodies any power to control the appointment desirous of surrounding that dock with warehouses; and
letvwelaslsuggsted to take the roceseldi. branch on a high
of the Episcopate. In one of our dioceses, a eastern endsli of_ the I_\.' ', ington, the Bram.
bishop is ruling in spite of his rejection by the ley-Maoeonreg,anmdtlieNelson ocks, ivlitco would permittlicse
to be used as coal docks. Large vessels might thou ke chapter. In that case the conge d'elire had rather in cargoes of coal, or dunnage, to he filled up wier
the effect of a writ of mandamus; and so far from freight, whilst the quays below the proposed high level
showing any ecclesiastical power in the chapter, branch would be left perfectly free from obstruction. At
each dock the caal could be lowered into the hold in boxes,
the proceedings only served to display its absents, unbroken, roken, and with great dispatch. This arrangement
But if the Church of Ireland was more allied to seemed to meet the views of the Coal Association, and a
valuable trade will be added to the port by its being carried
the State than the Church of England, sarely the out. It is proposed in others of the docks, south of the
better is the reason why the State should protect above, to have thating steam cranes, by which any vessel
it; and if the Queen is more absolute in matters I,,eareirti
inlegm, saylowel
roeod oiro lbtetso noso
bort
ockoeaol, forfro mdufinas nt a g et, can.ii
vessel's side, or otherwise. The coal brought. by thte
ecclesiastical in Ireland, the more insolently and
London and North-Western line can be lowered in the
pointedly has Pius IX. invaded her prerogative. same manner, being brought to the quays both at. the
After all, however, the discussion of the question is Wapping station and the Waterloo in boxes, carried on
trucks,
ninrsatielaandleoffoirntrieagons. The same floating cranes
useless ink-shed. No minister will dare to pro- loading of salt, earthenware, &c.,
pose to an English Parliament, during the present from flats la the docks, and a new era be thus introduced
into the working nf our doci' estatP tend the general coal-
generation, any repeal of the Ecelekialtical Titles Bill, pierce of the por4'. ' . .

'4' 3rd. That whilst the depth of our pits does nol
average of 750 to 1,000 feet, those of Durham and N
land range from 1,`200 to 1,300 feet.
4th. That the cost of raising
per ton against 4s. 9d. to 55.:
*of Ca

coal in Lancashire is 3s. t

in Durham.
sth. That the average co., trriage from the pit's moutl
to Liverpool by railway equals, and by water anti rail average
9d. per ton less than that of Northumberland and Durham."
How then, it will be asked, do we account for the surpris
ing fact that, whilst possessed of these advantages, Liver
pool is not one of the greatest coal ports in the kingdom
Simply because we have neglected to connect our various
lines of railway with our docks, so as, whilst diminish•
ing the expense of loading, to preserve the coal frog
deterioration by brcakaze. What we now bring bt

He cannot

three men eat