The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

AN UNHAPPY EDITOR -

with the atrocimis 1.4 r

:dents, tlie rdnor of
distrras. In a tom hill

Sorm- what rirglet

phicg. Neitt er hive we an laver and above ,clear
Jedee of the languagt of biris, as conveyed by the groPlre
mode of dipping their fret iu ink and then making then)

walk ovrr 8 ;herr o

hi►e pap.

ORIGIN OF TILE WORD iitTMEtTG."—it is not ere,
rally knoAn that this Noel, at prt,rtit so much 'in viignr,
is of SeoltiAt or girt There was in olden tilie a race,
now extinct, called Bogue or Bohg. of tnat Ilk, in Ber-
wickshire. A tihilublir of this jamilv marrieft a -soh Of
Unmet r Home. al-o ot thst Ilk. In pr..eftts lit time, I,y
drtauit ot male i,:tte, toe B proper,v d -volved on in e
,Ge-r.lie Boole r Hume, %Om a al. pnpnlaily.styled Monte
Or II me n' the B g Tt.is worthy wits somewhat it.-
clined to the mantic-ILn-, and had a itto.t iodination to
-exalt bin s It. 11, wite, fitni y, brother, and hi+ ancestors
on both sides. His tales, however, did not
-ai.d at 'oa.v

ast. whet, any oile epacir any very extrom
tir.rut. thelwArers would shrug
just a hum o' the Bag,'

statement in the

their shoulders and style it

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over the whole kingclo4.-L-

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—A lad

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yon so 1 viva Into ato on 144 ride on ntv newly in.
vented Patent an mfottbbie cushion :•he b sited t.ti
3t of the room, orally koos•lc'ng down his nsi:treva a
who then 41 -sw after him into the garden. •
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py e,,c4

sire the Sr''".v ►o ►en hey.►,,i.ti
Lot to pit en Rovt rhair.

with my coma I menu.
1/4lte totti.ed my nous-. the

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finger ot m.. showed me Ri.VeeP
eft r+av, and `hook her
care i» ¢e window. Ile wmdd not even 'of kto
the nn•l•couitor.able chair again.— Stalik Talk and 7146 k
Talk.

lead.ht

hey do in Etigitnid 1-Isre not a sinale rnovem la takes
place, political or chin itstd,.. of tiny sienifiesnce. that has
not son e toublco•an r r n ea ber of a ratririan house at its
wasclieu,- WI-
I bead, nr takina an active pact in its support. In all
,is places and in all eircurus!a..e, t hev identify themselves
.

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with the p,oplr, and. as they r nstiititeii;toselves their
triendp, tht y natur.lly beenme their [ratters. Bu, their
leadership is
ro.t the ret.ul• of their rank alone. It is a
popular idea th.t people of the middle elms. run ..Iter a
I. rd to lend
the tome' ton of h's mono to their undr.rtak-
togs o.etely to•rstive he i 4 Al I rd - J hti Bull, neeurdin2
to thrse thtukeri , inveterht. tilt -hunter, an,' no good
-
sill he done for the country tsught to believe

with the po.tesrion ot a coronet, on the contra,v, the
.....
veerage is l tit a collection of ineava 1.-s. to pn, tlUstor
confidence in whom is in w..f.r a t'adg.' a Po itical
al.-
yeti. A more false notion cool.' n t he in.t Pe.l iLtn the
casßowele the cases of boe few members of the

royal family, it is no doubt true that their support or
patronage is asked without reverence to any personal fit-
ness or association with the particular obj-cts which are
sought to be obtained. But this is a part of the cfficial
homage paid to royalty, and it is because the people are
known to be loyal, and to set a hige value on the support
of the throne or its immediate coettexions, that those il-
lustrio is personages are so much sought after. But we
altogether deny that when the active support of particular
members of the peerage or the aristocracy is sought for,
:t is in the eoirit of tuft-hunting ; that when members of
the mercantile or the general middle classes have some
benevolent or national object in view, and reek the aid of
those who occupy the firer rank in society, it is merely
because they are peers. We deny that the Lord Ash!eye
or ler rd Robert terosvenots. the Lord Keeyons or the
Broughams and the Merpethe. are asiocia•ed in such
undertakings for any other reason than that they are
deemed the most fit, by their talents and information,
and moral and intellectual worth, for their position. We
are almost ashamed to find ourselves engaged in enf et.
cing a position which must appear so natural and true,
but that .he contrary is so often said and written, and
has insensibly produced an effect on the unreasoning
Portion of the public. A pride of class h. s been by this
mews generated among the middle and lower orders of
the state, and a conceit that they are by far more fist d
for the tail( of government than these n whose culture
such pains have been bestowed, who have been trained to
statesmanship and legislation, and on wham the noblest
moral and religious cr nsiderations act, inducing them to
abandon that retirement and indolent eejeyment of life
which toe law guarantees them as the holdets of iede-
pendent property, and whit h the nobles of ether countries
too of en gieedity seize up-n. in total obliviousness of
their duties to their fellow countrymen. The aristocracy
of these three kingdoms are, we maintain, with one or
two brilliant exceptions of men who have sprung from
the people. the real leaders of public opinion in this
country. They are so, not on account of their rank bet
of their talents. They are not the eft': to -and inactite
class, useless and not even (elemental, which they are
represented to be, but are deep teitikers, earnest. reit-
ious-minded men; their prieciples deeply engrafted in
their minds; and their general knowledge irneroved by a
practical expetience of mankind in general. not often
enjoyed by the classes below them, who have I ss leisure,
end look at life from a more confin d point of view; and
.vith faculties and powers as highly cultiva•ed and as
eadily brought to I:;war pract.calty on medic Hffatrs as
hose of the most active and ehergetic of the bourgsoix
Wi h the latter. such qualiti •attons are almost the
serptiou to the ride; with the former, they are nearly
universal.—Fraser'R thwazine.
MERE LITERATURE NOT ENOUGH FOR A MAN.—
Ile literary mail is impelient of b i-g eet apart. He feele
'hat monks and iroubedoure, though in a einolar poeition,
were hrought into more healthy connection with man arid
nature than he who is supposed to lank at them merely to
write them down. So he rebels; ani Sir. Wither Scott
was prouder of beitig a good slier ff and fernier. than of
eis reptratioe as the thee; Unknown. Byron piqued
eimself on hi- skill of shunting and swimming. Sir 11.
Davy arid Schlegel w, u!szi he admired as dandies, and
Goethe, who had received en order trom a put Ls) er '• f
a dozen more chanias In the same style as Goetz von Ber-
Itnchingeti," and theu.h (in 'adder sooth) he hail elready
Faust in his head asking to be written out. thought it n
e.erad don to become Premier in the little duchy of
We mar.— The Dial.
WAR ADVENTURE IN THE MARQUESAS.—ToOmova
__..l ass ,o re main by him where.
ever we uttered, aid Niate'e nephew was also to be with
its, as he would net leave me. Tile wind increased cot,
side rahly, and swept up our valley ried in the Uwe of the
There was a vast quantity of email cane growing
rom the letea t.works, 34 good way into the enemy's ceun-
try, which. though it formed good cover for them to ad-
vance through, was (hinge-roils in other respects. Our
whole tribe sere now at their posts—the men in front, the
women anal children at some ilista,.ce in the rear, singing
away as usual. From the r ack we could s e the reeds
moving to and fro, and here and there a high head-dress
IA (311'd pop up. At it a shot errs sure to he ti ed by our
party. By-and-by the ca yen appeared to be in motion,
and full of men. We now go down t-ff the rock, and
went to the centre of the drtence with about three hurt-
. __ .r..s.a seal tet ed all slung

riteniv

in•ide the defences, in ease they were hard :•er to tire the
This evening was prenliarly favourable for a put-
po-e of the kind, and I sugeested to Tooroova to do so at

once, and hunt the,o out of tt ; but he said no, it would
retard 'heir ruslung on them inn body, but if they came
too strong. I should then see fire. Tne enemy came

crawling arough the reeds, and were endeavouring to
cans er up tor a rush, when a rattle from our muskets
made them lie down ,gain. In number they evidently
had the advantage c f In about half an hour they
made the exp. cted rush, and numbers actually got in on
us, when there ensued a terr fic eonte,t a ith clubs, spears,
and inmlcet buts, the women yelping all the time ;, others
su,ceeded thme

Ito g.,t in, and it now was evident that
guired the bold. united effort of the whole tribe to
ive themselves. Every man fiught, and had to fight;
no man dare tor Lie life I e idle; it be did not act on
the off-risme, he was obliged to defend him.elf. Tide
hand to band business gradua ly ceased ; thrn the mu—
ket4. spears, and slie.g4 began again, and as there were
plenty rf mcks, trees, and lour; tines all round, each man
sought coneealmer.t to save his person, oeca.ionally only
appearing to fire and advance. or retreat to another shel-
ter ; to fact, this part of the tight was v. hat is commonly
called dodge and fire." Night w..s last approaching ;

which rx-
ended for about ty, o miles (►or the' e was constant shift-
ing of position), was par, laity illumined by 'he dry grass
and canes taking five here and there, from the falling of
the ignited gun wa.tdinga. Tnere was slat. a lull moon at
.the time, so that we lona very fair .o nee e,,,ch other
occasionally ; but fearing mistakes mig..t occur. Toomova
toid ev, ry wan to tie a ;Arco of white chili about hi,
beck. This at ide all our's known to each other at any
fair distance. It was a very judicious plan, coniiidrritig
that night was (t. This tube of ours were better shots
than any I bad seen at the Marquesas. They wrre also
very quick at watching the cover, and eqUally tau ck with
aim. We gained well and last o•t the meal, honied
View from reek to rock. and from tree to tree, until (with
the aid of

pound

le blaz. from the files) we could see tilesr
brown and well-oiled bodies fl .ing past Lori over what had
been defences in the forenoon, but were now ruins, with
many passes through it. We had n sic only an occasional
shot after ally or the I wives who had kept t r our cover
too long, arid were trying to escape, but coulu not. If
they missed the shot. they were sure of the spear or chin.
Tue time now arrived for Tooonova's fi,sal revenge. The
bundles of dry grass along the entire line was ignited, rind
thrown into the dried cane-brake ; the fresh byes ze as-
sisted, and carr.eil the blazi, onwards ; and very soon there
was two miles wide of roaring flue in smart chase of the
retreating enemy. It was a terrific sight—a sad sight;
scores of wretches must b.- sc-n-lied alive ; they could nor
clear the canes or giass iu time to save themselves The
bills on either side of the pass Wt're too steep to clambe r
up. In fact, they were in a bed of fire, from which these
was no escape. Toe uniting and crackling noise of the
furious flame as it swept away from us—the vri:d and tri-
umphant shouts of our people—their mad- (sking stance,
and rapid running to and fro of the naives in the brigrit
14nt (fur every bush and plot of ground around us was on
fire), gave the whole scene a downright pictut e of bed.—
Dr. Couiter's Adventures in the Pacific.
POPERY AS A POLITICAL AND AS A RF.LIGIOUS Sys-
TEM —'l'he Romish system. a+ a req.:ions inatttu'e, is re
pidly losing its hold on the minds of the peopl . This
appears in a hundred unmistakeable instances. The better
arid purer faith—the faith more in accordance with scrip-
tural truths—is daily evidencing its power to engage the
minds and wits the hearts of those who are led to 'Asti's-
guish between its rituals and a reasonable service. SuJii
is the indiffer -nee with wh ch the mssre wealthy of the
Rota in Catholic community regard their Church, that
they have never het been led soar to tax themselves as to
make a suitable provision for the maintenance and the
education of their clergy. Left to itself, the system mos'
fall to the ground, from sheer - on the part of
its nominwl supporters ; who would very soot) console
themselves fir its loss, by commingling wiih the Protest-
ant community in any of the various de ttttt tviontississ sunder
which it exists, or becoppipg incorporated with the Este.-
lished Church. But if almost defunct as a rnligion, what
is it as a political system ? Is it not the great bond ut
union by which the masses are held together, and ani:
mated by the spirit and directed according us the purposes
of those whose end and aim is a repeal of the legislitive
union? The coming of Christ was never regarded by the
Jews in our Lord's rime with more joy as the advent of
their deliverance from the Romans, than the enlargement
of the borders of the Iturni•h Church in Ireland, by the
more ardent repealers, as the ins'iumet.t which is best
capable of working the deliverance of their country troth
the tyranny of the Saxon rule. And what has been Sir
Robert Peel's policy,—lei' favourite nostrum for the inn-
qudization of Ireland ? To augment this power, in the
hope of changing its nature, and taking it into an alliance
with the British governosen., by which it noglit be ten-
dered, not a stimulus to, but a curb upon, the rebellious
tendencies of the people. We believearcore onfouoded
expectation never was entertained. vie believe that every
addition made to this power (more especially when it pro•
seeds from conce•usions to virulence), will but i..crease the
rorboletsre which it was intended to allay, and augment
our dangers. We believe twat the Romish priesthood are
irrevocably pledged to courses from which, by the miser-
able truckling policy which would play tani(ertrsiersir,
personal or pro'essional, against their pa and
principles, they never ran he diverted. Talk of the en-
downient of M-syrinoth ! "'the bait is carefully nibbird off,
but the hook is rejected. They will take good care that
" the boy " shall be " father of the mars ; " and whatever
that ins itute wit, in spirit and in principle. m the days
of its poverty, such and no other it will continue when in-
creased wealth enables it to enlarge its numbers, arid
when the luxury and effluence oh its profess rs offer
stronger inducemen.s to the aspiring sons of our peasant
population to be admitted yr; hin eta walls. No One is
absurd enough to suppose, that a different class of indi-
viduals will become candidates for she effi .e of Romish
priests. because of the higher standard of tiviog to which
that body, its their educational progress, may now become
accustomed. Were that the case, the endowment would
be dispensed with, and the Romish Church would he sup-
, plied with clergy as the Established Church is supplied,
by individuals educated at their own expense, and for
whole preparation for holy orders a large outlay is made.
either by themselves or their parents It
remains, there.
fore, that no policy of our rulers can exercise any bens fi-
cial influence upon the chatacter and the spirit of toe
Church of Rome in Ireland. Upon that character and
spirit we have freely off-red our opinion; britwe must
add, that we think it positively respec able in cs Inparison
with the despicable and unprincipled course of Policy
wl:Pch was adopted towards it by our late rulers; a volley*
which tbose it was intended to cajole, or c
mated at its real value ; and which, so tar from silencing
the clamours it was expected to allay, if it only be cons'..
tently carried out, must lead to the separation of Great
Britain and Ireland.—Dublin University Magazine. ..

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND THE GREAT BARRIER
AGAINST Roeut.—Of all the ddrerent Pio:es!ant inhea,
there is none but our Church. and the Churches in com-
munion with her, that can make a permanent and power-
ful resistance against. Popery, because she alone, a ii h her
sister Churches, takes her stand upon the ep iginal consti-
tution and the ancient faith of the Church Catholic; she
alone opposes to the corruptions and usuroations of Po-
pery, a complete system of pure, primitive, apostolic
Christianity. This the Rotnish Church knows right well;
and, therefore, it is, that she concentrates her efforts more
and more upon this favonrite oi.ject of her ambitious
hopes—the overthrow of the Church, and the subjugation
of the State of England. The Prot. want cgmtnunions of
the continent gi% e her little uneasiness. they are so divided
among themselves ; and each one within itself so void of
fixed principles, of either doctrine or discipline, that they
can never present any compact front of opposition to the
aggressions of the Papacy. They w.nld fall an easy prey
to the machinations of the Church of Rome, if once that
cfureh could succeed in sweeping away from the face of
Christendom our church, whose very existence, founded
as it is on the primitive and apostolic constitution of the
Church of Christ, is a standing testimony against the
Papal usurpation ; even as her learning, her pure worship,
and her orthodox faith, is a standing witness against the
ignorance, the abominable superstitions, and soul-destroy-
ins errors of the Church of Rome.—Dr. Biber'a Speech
at the National Club.

THE CITY OF 1. HEsTER.—At the Conquest, the whole
of Cheshire (with the exception of the Bish rp's property)
was granted to a near relation of the Conqueror, Hugh of
Avraeche, commonly called Huzh Lupus, On account of
his favourite device of a wolfe's head. Cheshire then
hecame a county palatine, with eon is peculiar to itself ;
so that any oft nee against " the sword of Chester" was
visited with as severe perathies as a similar offence against
he crown at Westminster. Hugh resided in the castle at
Chester, where he held his courts and parliaments, in
which sat the superiors of the religious houses of the
rountey, together with his eight great sub-infeudatories.
The succeeding earls maintained the same state down to
the reign of Henry 111., when the eathlom of Chester
was se z-d and united to the crown ; the large tenures
created by the Compteror having, for the most part, re-
verted to the• crown by forfeiture or mart itige. The an-
el tit earls of Chester had the power of granting Privilege
or sanctuary to criminals, a power which is generally
supposed to have been exercised by the church alone.
(Jur space will not allow t do n ore than select a few
itistortctl events, of which Chester h,is been the scene.
It was in this city that the Welsh, in 1300, acknowledged
tie sovereignty of the English, the It tnage of the fiee-
ho tiers being recerted by the infant Prince of Weles.
Rd awed of C •rnarvon. In the year 151;6 Cite-ter was
Eli ct d .wi.h that remarkable di-ease, the sweatine sick.
Dees, which carded t ff ninety-one householders in three
days; and a few tears a'terwer.ts a pestilence made such
ravages, that the streets 01 the city were overo-own with
eras.. In 1558 oc urred in Chester art event trifling in
itself, but of the greate-t importance to the. Pret• wants of
those dais. Dr. Henry Cole, Dean of St. Paul's, is said
to have been eetrue ed with the commisnion issued by
Mary to erm.ower the Lord D-puty of Ireland to prove.
cute those who refused to ohs. rue the ceremonies of the
It, man Carlo is religion. The doer. r. on his wilt to
Iretand, stopped at Chester, and having put up at the
Blue Posts Inn. in Bridge-street, vv-s visited by the
n aver, to whom he et mniunicated the business in which
he vv.s engaged ; opening Isis cloak bag, he took out a
leathern box. observing. with exultation. .* he had that
within which would lash the heretics of Ireland." Tne
nogess, Mrs. Erg beth Mottershed, rivet heard this by
accident, and having a broth. r in Ireland, who was a
Prates ant, she became alarmed for h's safety, and
took the opportunity, while the doctor was attending
the mayor down stairs, to open the leathern box.
take out the commis-ion. and leave in its p!ace a
pack of eau's with the knave of clubs placed the
upte rawst. 'I he dean artived in Ireland tin the 17th De-
cember, 1558. Bring introduced to the 1).-puty lord
Fitzwallre at .d the Privy Council, he explained ti e natnre
-1 his etcb4ssy at more length, and then presented the
box. contsititng. as he thought, the vomit i sion ; his
1-rdship it ok it. and having tipered it, hehe d, with con-
siderable sarprise, the park of cards with the glare en
the top. The it, ctor was thumb neruck ; and in notch
confusion affi,med that he certainly had a commission,
arid that sonic artful t etson n u-t have made the ex
change. " Then, said his " you hare nothing
to do but to return to London and get it renewed ; wean-
while. we'll shuffle the cards " The doctor was obliged
to toll.sw this tiewe'eoute a-vice, although in such a disa-
greeable season of the Fear ; but betcre he could reach
Ireland a second tim , the yin en died, and her satigui.
nary commission became useless The woman, where
resence to mind and dexterity had thus provittential'y in-
terpnsed, was rewarded by 14,1. z brth with a pen-ion of
forty errands a-Fear. During the civil war in the reign of
Charles 1.. Ch. ster stood several a Mgrs. which la-ted
about three years. The inhabitants who had sided with
the king endured great pH, a-ions ; "pit, at last, when the
seige was cenverted into a blockade, they surrendered on
honourable terms to the parliamentary attics, on the 3d
Feb.uary, 1645. A century atterveteds. (17-150 Chester
as tome. d sgeinst the Pretender. In the reign of
it him 111. Chester was one of the six cities permitted
to issue a silver coinage.— Sharpe's london Mayaziro.