The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-16 00:00:00

regttirimfar areeptsneo condition or riusiitiention whAtioever
in a sir4ier upon earth,. To know God thus In his Son—to
breathe the holy atmosphere of peace in his bosom, and
feel owselves embraced into sanctification by the assurance
of his everlasting love. 0 ! this is indeed eternal life—this is
heavon begun on earth ; fur he that dwelleth in love dwel-
leth in God. This is the interior of our scriptural palace;
far 'die defence of whose outworks it behoves every man now
ear aestly to contend. Let Scotland, then, show her rulers
that political power has been placed in the hands of men
wno value religious principle—that Christianity is a vital
reality from God, not to he crushed by the power of its
enemies, nor smothered under the carelessness and covetous-
ness of its professors. Let Scotland say to her rulers, you
have lodged power in our hands, and we will use it in defence
of our dearest treasure, and to commit no part of it to any
man who would wrest from us the Word of our God, and
the blessing of our National Church. (Applause') If you
will help our institutions, Scriptural as they are, we shall
receive it with respectful thankfulness ; but if you exact any
unscriptural conditions' we are happy to be able to say, we
want no help at all, and least of all such help as you would
inflict upon us. Our Scriptural system is what must be in-
culcated in every house--in every cottage—in every school
—in every factory—on every man, from John o' Groat 's to
the Land's-end. (Cheers.)
" To conclude—if
..ou would have an efficient system of
education in your country, you must have efficient normal
seminaries for masters. So important is this, that let me
appoint the master, and you appoint the books, the rules, the
hours—the schools shall work for me, and not for you. A
Popish priest may tell you—' Gentlemen, prepare your rules
and your books, fix your hours, make all your arrangements,
only give me the appointment of the master, and the school
shall be a Popish school.' (Cheers.) .And if you would have
these seminaries really useful, because fundamentally Scrip-
tural, you mast have them in connection with and subordinate
to your national church ; and if, under existing circumstances,
you would achieve this great consummation, you must instantly
make pecuniary sacrifices. Why; sir, if even this meeting—
if the ministers and their coadjutors on this platform, and the
men in this house, were combined in such a determination as
shone in the countenance of your own Knox, when he stood
in the presence of his powerful enemies,—if even so many
were as one man in making self-denying sacrifices for the
truth, you would, I say, turn the tide of the whole question,
and proclaim to Scotland, to England, to Ireland, to the
educated world, that there remains such an unconquerable
spirit of Christianity in Great Britain, as to set even anti-
Scriptural rulers at defiance to break down the established
institutions of our country. Apply to Christian principle
what Burns says of worldly honour—
' Its slightest touches. instant pause,
Debar a' side pretences ;
And resolutely keep its laws,
UNCARING CONSEQUENCES!'
Apply this, I say, to Christian principle—act upon it—and
the thing is done." (Tremendous cheering.)

MAN'CIIESTER.—FACTORY EDUCATION BILL,—The pe-

tition in favour of the above bill was forwarded from this
town op. Friday last to Lord Ashley, for presentation by his
Lordship. It contains 26,618 signatures, amongst which arc
the names of the clergy, supported by a long list of those of
magistrates and gentlemen of the highest distinction and in-
fluence.

THAMES TUNNEL.—The number of persons who have
passed through from Sunday to Wednesday is 33,000. making
in all since the opening 574,000. There are now 20 shops
opened daily in the tunnel. for the sale of fancy articles,
refreshments, &c., giving a lively appearance to the sub-
marine thoroughfare. As these standings are numbered and
referred to in the various shop-bills, it is supposed letters
will very soon be delivered by post, even under the Thames.
SALE OF THE COLOSSEUM, REGENT'S PARK.—ThiS Cele-
brated building was on Thursday brought to the hammer at
the Auction Mart, upon which occasion Mr. George Robins
officiated. The event drew together an extremely numerous
assemblage, and amongst those present the members of the
legal profession constituted a large proportion. After an
address describing the merits of the property, in his usual
laudatory style, Mr. Robins put up the lot for competition,
premising that the ground upon which the colossal building
stood was held under a lease from the crown, of which SO
years were unexpired, at a moderate ground-rent. The
biddings commenced at £lO.OOO, and after considerable time
bad elapsed in the progress of the successive advances, the
property was ultimately knocked down to a gentleman of
the !Mile of Giraud, of Furnival's Inn, for 23,000 guineas.
It was understood that Mr. Giraud acted in a professional
capacity on the occasion, and that he was the representative,
and not the principal.
THE MILITARY KNIGHTS or WINDSOR.—An order ar-
rived at Windsor, on Wednesday, from the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, for the 'five dilapidated houses, the
residences of that number of the Military Knights of Wind-
sor, known as the Lower Foundation, situate in the lower
ward of the castle, to be immediately taken down, it having
been deemed essentially requisite, in consequence of their ru-
inous and extremely dangerous condition, that no delay
should take place in their being razed to the ground, and a
new row of houses for the Military Knights of the Founda-
tion of the Knights of St. Peter Le Maire constructed with
increased conveniences in their stead. This foundation was
endowed as long since as the early part of the reign of James
1., by Sir Peter Le Maire, with an estate of the then value
of £530 per annum. Some time since the Earl of Lincoln,
the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, with the go-
vernment architect, inspected these tenements, and then,
from the dangerous and insecure state they appeared to be in,
it was determined that they should be taken down and re-
built. This recommendation having met with the sanction
of the board, arrangements have now been made for carrying
these highly necessary arrangements into effect. It may be
observed that the houses of the 13 Military Knights who re-
side on the Upper Foundation are repaired by the govern-
ment, and they are consequently always kept in an excellent
state of repair. No repairs have taken place in the houses
on the Lower Foundation within the last 40 years ; they then
underwent an extensive restoration at the expense of the
Woods and Forests. The following may be assigned as one
of the reasons for their present ruinous condition :—Each of
the five Military Knights has an allowance of .£6 a year to
be expended by him, when he thinks proper, in keeping his
residence in repair; and this sum, if judiciously expended
when necessary, is considered to be quite sufficient for all the
purposes for which it is granted. But then, it may be ob-
served, those who are fortunate enough to obtain these pre-
ferments are mostly old officers, who have, in their time,
rendered essential services to their country, and who do not
look forward for many years to enjoy the comforts of retire-
ment and repose, and they, therefore, attend but very little
to the repairs of their residences. Hence the stability of their
houses is neglected (under the impression that they will last
as long as they require them), and they have from this ne-
glect or carelessness gradually become reduced to their pre-
sent dilapidated, and indeed extremely insecure and ruinous
state.

FACILITY OF CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS.—In consequence
of this want of vigilance, we may perhaps say, this culpable
neglect of warnings, unceasingly given to the board by Eng-
lish manufacturers, has been, not only that establishments
have been formed in France and Belgium for the express pur-
pose of carrying on smuggling with England, but that large
houses in this country, possessing capital, influence, and
station, have engaged extensively in it, have built or altered
their premises to afford every facility for carrying it on, and
have made arrangements for that purpose, grounded only on
a knowledge of the weakness and inefficiency of our fiscal
arrangements, and the facility of avoiding them. To such
an extent has this been carried on, and such is the.confidence
of the parties engaged in this trade, that so long ago as three
years, in the year 1839 or 1840, circular letters confidentially
were sent round to the silk trade by a house carying on busi-
ness at Calais, ostensibly as bankers and money changers,
but in reality as merchants and factors, offering to deliver
goods at the warehouse of merchants in London, and to
insure them from all risks on their passage, for a bonus of 9
per cent. on the amount of their invoice price in France.
This description of epistle was not confined to two or three
houses, but appears to have been pretty generally circulated
through the silk and fancy trade ; indeed, in the course of
our inquiries upon this subject, we have met with no less
than three different examples, in one of which we find the
following passage :—" I will close my observations by stating
to you that I believe I am fully in a position to prove to you
practically that I could import almost every article without
touching the Custom-house at all by payment of a moderate
charge."—Times.

CUSTOM Muss FRAUDS.—In the Court of Exchequer
on Saturday an information at the suit of the Crown was
proceeded with against a person named Wade. It charged
them with having "received and concealed large quantities
of uncustomed goods well knowing that the proper duty had
not been paid thereon." In support of the charge a variety
of evidence was given, some merely formal and documentary,
to which no particular interest would attach, while the rest
was afforded by the principal actors in the fraud imputed to
the defendants. It appears that the defendant is the partner
of one Vidil, a glove manufacturer at Grenoble, whose Lon-
don business was transacted by the defendant at No. 8, Old
Jewry. It was the custom of the house to ship large quan-
tities of gloves of all sorts by steam from Havre and Boulogne
to London, where they were passed apparently in the usual
and legal method, and then carted to the premises of the de-
fendant. It seems that there is a class of Cuustom-house
agents, licensed by the commissioners, who, being selected
by the shippers, transact all the formal routine of passing the
goods of their employers, and afterwards account to the au-
thorities for the amount of duty chargeable on each case of
goods so passed by them. This routine consists of a " sight
entry," when the cases are unpacked and examined by the
lauding waiter and the agent. An entry is then made of the
contents, reckoning by the dozen in gloves, in a "blue book,"
which is composed of a number of leaves sealed together, and
delivered, from time to time, as occasion may require, to the
landing waiters. These books when completed are returned
to the Customs, and the entry therein regulates and indieates
the amount of duty payable on each case. After this entry
is made the goods are repacked and a " perfect entry " hav-
ing been obtained the case is delivered over to the agent, who
generally commits it to the charge of a carman for delivery
to the consignee. This course of dealing was to-day clearly
proved by numerous witnesses on the part of the Crown iii
respect of six cases of gloves, three of which arrived by the
Belfast steamer in January, 1841, while the residue came by
the Lady De Saumarez ; and the important question was,
whether the proper duty had been charged to and paid by
him upon their contents? In order to make out the negative
of this proposition a number of witnesses were called, but
the jury returned a verdict for the Crown for £4,500.

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF FOREIGN MANUFACTURED
GOODS, BEARING ENGLISH BRANDS.—At an early hour on
Friday morning, a seizure cf no less than 400 bales of foreign
manufactured goods bearing an English manufacturer's mark
was made in St. Katharine Dock by an officer of her Majesty's
Customs named Coppack, from on board the American ship
Niagara, from Boston. The whole of these bales had been
entered by Messrs. Baring Brothers, for the warehouses of
Taylor and Bell, Freshwharf (one of the legal quays) ; and
375 were in course of transit from the above docks in iighters
belonging to that firm. It appears that the discovery was
made from the simple incident of one of the bales being
landed at the docks i❑ error, when the officer on the statio❑
caused it to be opened, and made the discovery that every
piece of cotton goods, of which there arc 20 in each bale, 30
yards long, bore the stamp of

•
Stark Mills,
Manchester
the outer canvass being marked
S M\

Had these bales been landed as intended, no doubt the de-
tection would not have been made, and the goods have been
ultimately shipped to our colonies as being. as the marks
described, of English manufacture.—Times.—Messrs.
Baring and Co. have addressed a letter, on the sub-
ject of this seizure, to the commissioners of customs, in
which they say—" We beg to inform your honours, that
these goods are consignments to us by two highly-respectable
firms in Boston, and precisely similar in all respects to the
manufactures they have been in the habit of exporting to
various parts of the world for many years past, and that the
marks in question are legitimately their marks, without the
slightest idea imitating of any of our English manufacturers.
NV e have inspected the samples of these cottons, and beg to
add, for your honours' government, the exact words stamped
thereon, which, go far as we can learn, are as dissimilar as
they well can be in matter, style, and execation, to our
brands ; except, indeed, the occurrence of the word " Man-
chester,,, arid being the ssme language." In addition to the
words " Stark Mills, Manchester," are the words and let-
ers, " Extra flue. N. H."