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

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The Earl of Sefton.... 10 0
L. Heyworth, Esq. .. 10 0
Richard Shell, Esq... 10 0
William Brown, Esq.. 10 0
M. O'Connell, Esq... 10 0
John Finch. jun., Esq. 10 0
Mrs.P. Heywood, Nor-
ris-green
W. C. Hope, Esq 5 0
S. P. Hope, Esq 5 0
T. A. Hope, Esq 5 0
Wm. Hope, Esq 5 0
C. Rawdon, Esq 5 0
J. Eden, Esq 3 10
Gerard Lynch, Esq
Thomas Harvey, Esq 3 0
Rev. J. Robberds
Thos. Beakbere, Esq 2 0
Pattison Ellames, Esq 2 0
NEdmund Hore, Esq 2 0
wen Waters, Esq.
William Brown, Esq 1 1
Sir Joshua Walmsley . 1 1,

J. Harnett, Esq 1 0
Ridyard and Leicester 1 0
F. Maxwell, Esq 0
Thos. Thompson, Esq 1 0
Miss S. Mechin 1 0
Mr. J. Brown
A Friend, per L. H 1 0
James M`Guire
Rev. R. Gillow
Rev. Dr. Youens 1 o',
Rey. Dr. Appleton
John Langan, Esq , remit,

PARISH OF LIVERPOOL.
A T a MEETING of the INHABITANTS Assessed
1-1 and Contributing to the Relief of the Poor within
the said Town, held in the Sessions-house, in Chapel-
street, within the said Town, on THURSDAY, the 21st day
of November, 1844, pursuant to notice duly published,
according to the directions of the several Acts for the
better Paving and Sewerage of the Town of Liverpool,
for the purpose of nominating and choosing such and so
many Commissioners as would be requisite to supply the
subsisting vacancies in the usher of Commissioners,
according to the provisio of the said Acts :
It was moved by M EYLAND, seconded by Mr. Ktr.-
SHAW, and
Resolved.
That 1113,MOLMES be the Chairman of this Meeting.
An Abnract of the Receipts and Expenditures of the
Commissioners, for the year endinc, the 30th September,
1844, was laid before the Inhabitants, as directed by the
Acts, and read.

It being reported to this Meeting, that, of the nine
Commissioners. chosen out of the Town Council of the
said Town of Liverpool, there were three vacancies occa-
sioned by the retirement, by rotation, according to the
provisions of the said Acts, of Mr. Robertson Gladstone,
Mr. James Lawrence, and Mr. Henry Lawrence; and
that, of the fifteen other Commissioners, there were five
vacancies, occasioned by the retirement, by rotation, as
aforesaid, of Mr. James Gill (deceased), Mr. Henry
Copeland, Mr. Peter Hope, Mr. John Leyland, and Mr.
James Ackers.

It was moved by Mr. DIRRETT, seconded by Mr.
PROCTER, and
Resolved unanimously,
That Mr. James Lawrence, being still a Member of the
Town Council, be re-elected ; and that Mr. James
Brancker, and Mr. James Tyrer, being also Members of
the Town Council, be elected Commissioners, in the
piece of those chosen out of the Town Council going out
of office by rotation.
It was moved by Mr. BIRKETT, seconded by Mr.
PROCTER, and
Resolved unanimously, •
That Mr. James Ackers, Mr. Henry Copeland, and
Mr. John Leyland be re-elected ; and that Mr. Robertson
Gladstone and Mr. Nicholas Duckinfield Bold be elected
Commissioners, to supply the vacancies in the number of
the other Commissioners going out of office by rotation,
according to the provisions of the said Acte.
JOHN HOLMES, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the Chair,
It was moved by Mr. KAYE and seconded by Mr.
PROCTER,
That the Thanks of this Meeting be presented to Mr.
Holmes, for his impartial conduct in the Chair.
EDWARD G. DEANE,
Clerk to the Commissioners.

NEW WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
CONFECTIONERY ESTABLISHMENT,
NOW OP
NO. 9, BOLD-STR , LIVERPOOL,
NEXT TO THE ATINE CLUB-HOUSE.
vir WESTAL rom LONDON) respectfully informs
v V • the Nobi v, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Liver-
pool and its Vicinity that he has OPENED the above
Establishment, where he will constanly have on hand a
variety of Bride, Ball, Rout, and Supper Cakes, Biscuit
of all kinds, Confectioneries, Sweetmeats, Jellies, &c.
Yorkshire Game Pies, Turtle and other Soup, and trusts.
by attention and a determination to have every Article of
the first quality, to obtain a fair share of public pattonage,
which it will ever be his study to merit. He begs to re-
commend Hickson's Pineapple Jam, sold in pots of 11b.
at 2s. each. Also, his Orange and Lemon Marmalade, of
superior quality, a most delicious preserve, suitable for
the breakfast-table.
Balls, Bouts, and Suppers supylied on the shortest
notice, having engaged a first-rate French Cook and
Confectioner.

CHANDELIERS.
V L. HAUSBURG has the pleasure of announcing the
-il' o completion of his elegant and extensive STOCK of
CHANDELIERS, LAM PS, LANTERNS,
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CANDE RA, &c.,
IN
°REIGN BRONZE, ORMOLU,
MINA, GLASS, &c.,
Assortment, which, with regard to the variety and beauty
for the
of the design, the Prices, and Quality, will, he trusts, be
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which Se
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found well deserving the attention of his Patrons.
THREE-LIGHT GAS CHANDELIER,
with Water Slide, Burners, Glasses and X 2 IS 0
Fixing complete ...... . ... '
FOUR-LIGHT
with Ditto ........ .. . .......... ... 318 0
F. L. H. begs also, to submit to notice •
YOUNG'S PATENT VESPER LAMP,
producing the most brilliant Light, and being, at the
same time, the most economical Lamp which has yet been
invented, the expense of a FULL SIZED BURNER not ex-
ceeding id. per hour.
VESTA LAMP HEADS, Opal Glass, with Globe,
Chimney, and 1 dozen Lamp Wicks, 255. each.
J. TALL & CO.'S RECTIFIED SPIRIT, 4s. 6d. per
Gallon.
The Lamp has L. H.'s
been severely tested by F. L direc-
tion, and Certificates may be seen on application.
F. L. HAUSBURG,
OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGS.
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WEST INDIES.

The Clyde, Royal mail steam-ship, .Captain Symons,
arrived at Southampton on Tuesday, after a passage of
eighteen days from St. Thomas's. The Clyde was not
due till the 22nd.
The season throughout the West Indies has been unu-
sually hot, causing great sickness and mortality. Deme-
rara was particularly unhealthy, typhus and scarlet fever
raging, in addition to the indigenous fever of the colony.
The Jamaica House of Assembly was opened by the
Earl of Elgin on the 15th of October. The Hill Coolie
proposition was brought forward in a very full house,
and, after a lengthened discussion, was carried ; the
number, however, being limited to 2,000, ins. ead of 5,000,
as proposed by the Home Government. The vote has
taken the public by surprise, and is not regarded as the
most sensible proceeding, though some allowance must
be made for the extensive improvements lately effected in
the agricultural operations of the planters by means of
machinery.
On the sth ult. a fearful hurricane raged in Montego
Bay, and the sea was dreadfully perturbed. The schooner
Africanus was driven ashore, and very soon became a
complete wreck. It is impossible to describe the havoc
that has been occasioned. The whole line of coast from
Christie's-rock to Kathren's-beach has been ploughed up,
and bears more or less the marks of the extraordioary
violence of the sea. Every wharf has suffered ; and the
loss of lumber and other property is immense. The
crane at Gun-point-wharf (Jump's) was carried away.
The front part of the wharf (Jump's), occupied by Messrs.
31elluclaes, was considerably undermined. Persons of
all classes and sexes were to be seen hurrying about in
the greatest possible state of agitation and alarm. Toe
sea rose higher than it had ever before been known to do,
and the waves dashed into the bay with a noise equal to
that of the loudest thunder. A number of schooners,
lighters, and sloops were dashed to pieces, as were also a
last number of boats.

On Wednesday afternoon last (the lfith of October) a
frightful conflagration, the work of incendiaries, com-
menced. The first property that fell a prey was Uit-
komst, the property of Mr. C. J. Visser, one of the re-
sident planters. After desolating Uitkomat, the fire kept
on its course in a direction due west towards the head of
the canal, next threatening with destruction Java, the
fine property of Messrs. Murray, Brothers, and Co., of
this colony and Liverpool. It next proceeded to a third
estate, bordering Java on the west, the De Kinderen,
once the well-cultivated property of Mr. Revers, the
entire of which it has laid waste. From De Kinderen
the flames successively traversed plantations Mon Bijou
and Two Brothers, both coffee properties, committing
the most dreadful havoc on them, and, by accounts re-
ceived from the canal up to a late hour yesterday evening,
were every hour expected, as they had then become quite
irresistible, to invade the next estate to the west, Vreed-
en-Vrindschap. Nothing but heavy rain, of which there
are not the least symptoms, can; we fear, save the whole
of the northern, and by far the most valuable, bank of
the canal, from its centre to its head, from complete de-
struction.—Georgetown Gazette.

On the 9'h instant, as six passengers were crossing
Gibraltar Bay in a boat, it unfortunately, by some un-
known means, was seen to go down, when these persons,
along with the boatman, were drowned.
The Rev. Dr. Hawks, of Philadelphia, has been elected
to the bishopric of Missouri, in connexion with the
American Episcopal Church. The Rev. Doctor is an
anti-Tractarian.

The 200th anniversary of the birthday of William Penn,
and the 160th of his landing on the shores of the new
world, was celebrated on the 25th ult., at Philadelphia.
with appropriate exercises.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The advices from this quarter
state that the troops under the command of the Lieuten-
ant-Governor continued to occupy their position on the
frontier, while the question of the " neutral territory"
was settled, and notwithstanding the appearance of the
Caffres was peaceable, it was not deemed advisable to
withdraw them till the whole of the matter was arranged.
Sir P. Maitland, the new governor, had arrived at A lgoa
Bay, and his firet act was to order the arrangement of the
land claims in 1820.

DR. LARDNER.—We learn, from the American papers
just received, that Dr. Lardner has recently sustained a
severe loss. The Providence Theatre has been destroyed
by fire, and with it the whole of his lecturing apparatus.
The building had been occupied the evening previous by
Dr. Lardner, who delivered there the last of course of
scientific lectures. Besides the scenery and fixtures of the
theatres, all the doctor's philosophical apparatus, including
the ireat microscope, and a splendid collection of paint-
ings, worth together 15,000 dollars, was consumed ; and,
it is said, the doctor had effected no insurance on 40

property.
SPAlN.—Accounts from Victoria of the 13th announce
the breaking out of an insurrection at Logrono, in the
province of Old Castile, headed by the famous chief,
Martin Zurbano, who had raised the constitution of 1837
as the standard of revolt in the Ebro. A considerable
force had joined him. It does not determine what the
precise views of Zurbano are beyond the upsetting of the
present system. It is said that he proposes the constitu-
tion of 1812, under which the Queen would be still a
minor, and the regency be again open to Espartero.
Zurbano has taken up a position in his old station of the
Sierra de Cameros, from whence, if he can but maintain
himself during the winter, he proposes in the spring to
ravage the low countries to the Ebro. He will have much
difficulty to procure subsistence and hold his ground in
those desolate hills ; but the Queen's troops will have a
still more difficult task to dislodge him.
NEW SOUTH WALES.—Sydney papers to the 30th of
July have arrived. The business of the colony was im-
proving, and the manufacture of tallow continued to in-
crease. Several of the cargoes intended for immediate
despatch to England had been made up with this new ar-
ticle. According to general account, the clip wool was
favourable, and the result of the late sales in the mother
country induced the flock-masters to hold out for higher
prices. The meetings of the three principal banks had
been held, and the reports made by two of the director-
ates were satisfactory to the wishes of the proprietors.
The Bank of New South Wales had declared a dividend
at 2 per cent. for the half-year; the Commercial Bank
was st,ted to be in a condition to pay off its late losses;
but the Bank of Australia laboured under the disadvan-
tage of a heavy debt to the Bank of Australasia, which it
seemed to be considered there would be a difficulty in
paying, especially as the directors of the latter company
were not inclined to admit of any compromise. Accounts
in these papers from New Zealand to the 14th of July
allude to the shock of an earthquake felt at Wellington.
Another fact worth notice is, that the whaling stations in
this locality had been very successful.

POPISH TYRANNY AGAIN.

(From the Record.)

An occurrence took place at Malta a few months since
which will excite the surprise of the public in this coun-
try, and can scarcely be reconciled with our established
principles of British law and of religious liberty. A
priest named Camilleri superintended a large school in
Valetta for boys and girls. An attachment having
ensued between him and the mistress of the girl's division
of the school, they eloped to Gibraltar, made there a re-
cantation of their former faith and a profession of Pro-
testantism, and were married by the Protestant clergyman,
Archdeacon Burrows. They returned to Malta in a few
weeks and professed the Reformed religion. to which they
have since adhered. Camilleri has, as was to be expected,
been subjected since to violent persecution both by his
countrymen and former Church. On one occasion his
life was only saved from the fury of an immense mob in
the streets by the timely exertions of the police : several
of the ringleaders were taken and condemned to impri-
sonment. Subsequently, an acion was brought against
him in the civil court by the farni:y of his wife's former
husband to oblige him to give up the two children of that
marriage, to prevent their being brought up in the Pro-
testant faith. Sentence was pronounced against him on
the plea that the vow of celibacy which he had taken
when ordained a priest was one from which he could
never be absolved by any earthly power—that, therefore,
the marriage was null and void—and that consequently,
as Mrs. Camilleri was, according to the interpretation of
the court, living in a state of concubinage—she was not a
fit person to be intrusted with the charge of her own
children. Cammilleri having refused to submit to this
decision, he was cited before the Roman Catholic Eccle-
siastical or Bishops' Court, which confirmed the sentence
of the civil court in the following terms :
" That, whatever in a spiritual point of view, as far as
concerns the persuasion and conscience of the contracting
parties themselves, may be the value of the marriage of
the applicant with the Rev. Michael Angelo Camilleri, he
having however in the country, and according to the law
of the same, already previously to such marriage, by his
own choice irrevocably contracted the incapacity to
marry, his connexion with the applicant cannot in the eye
of the law of the country, be regarded as, nor admitted to
be, a legal marriage so far as concerns its civil effects.
That the circumstance of the connexion of the applicant
with the Rev. Michael Angelo Camilleri not being recog-
nised by the law of the country as capable of producing
the civil effect of a legal marriage, affording by itself alone
and independently of any other consideration whatever, a
sufficient ground in law for the proceedings instituted by
the present defendant Evangelisti Fleri, it confirms the
disputed sentence pronounced by the first hall of the
Royal Civil Court, 6th February, 1844, with the expense
of this suit only."
It appears that come opposition was offered by Camil-
leri to the execution of the warrant of the Court for tak-
ing away the two children, in consequence of which he
was brought before the magistrate, by whom, upon the
evidence of the police, he was sentenced to an imprison-
ment of twenty days. This sentence was, however, im-
mediately commuted by H. E. the Governor of Malta to
a fine of 200 taris (£1 7s. d.,) and liberation.
[lt will be remembered that during the consideration of
the claim to the Dukedom of Sussex in the House of
Lords, Dr. Wiseman, a Roman Catholic bishop, gave the
following evidence on oath :—" A marriage at Rome be-
tween two Protestants, before a Protestant clergyman,
would be deemed a valid marriage at Rome. The parties
could not separate nor marry again. The rights of suc-
cession would take place upon such marriage. It would
not be the subject of ecclesiastical censure. They would
be considered as man and wife. If the marriage between
them would be valid according to their own religion, the
Church of Rome would consider it valid." Now although
a Catholic gives evidence that a marriage of this kind
would be valid at Rome, yet the Malta lay court declares
a marriage performed in Gibraltar between two Protes-
tants, and performed by a Protestant minister, as„iland
void in Malta, a portion of H. B. Majesty's domi-
nions !! Who is right—Bishop Wiseman or the Court
of Malta ?]

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