The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-07-17 00:00:00

THE TEA TRADE.

On Monday there was a full attendance of the merchants and
brokers connected with the tea trade at the Commercial Sale
Rooms, Mincing-lane, for the purpose of receiving a report of
the measures taken by a committee appointed to memorialize
government on the subject of the reeent order of the Com-
missioners of Customs, directing that Fokein bohea teas should
not be passed as heretofore at the low duty. The public sales
of teas recently imported, which were adjourned from yesterday
week, were fixed to be proceeded with in the event of the appli-
cation to government being attended with success,
Mr. Thompson, whose sales had precedence, on mounting the
rostrum, stated the proceedings of the committee. A memorial
had, in pursuance of a recommendation of Lord Melbourne, at
the recent interview, been sent to the Lords of the Treasury,
stating that the public sales of a large quantity of teas had been
suspended in consequence of the inspectors having demanded
• the duty of 2s. 2d. per lb. on Fukcin boheas, although.at the
East India Company's last sale such teas had passedat the duty
of Is. 6d. per lb. The memorial proceeded to-state the Injury
that would be inflicted on the dealers and importers of tea if
any such change were made, especially as orders had been sent
to China for the purchasing the next season's teas. The memo-
rial concluded by praying the Lords of the Treasurf to direct
that Fokein boheas should continue to be chargeable the duty
of 'one shilling and sixpence in the pound. • The result of this'
memoriatisad been that on Saturday the Treasury sent a'ComL
niunication, directing that the 'Classification originally adopted
should be adhered to; and an order to that effect was issued by
the Commissioners of Customs late on Saturday afternoon. He
(Mr. Thompson) had hail some conversation with one. of the
inspectors, and had asked him what duty would now be put upon
Fokein bttheas, and he had been told that they would be rated
at the duty of one shilling arid sixpence per lb.
Mr.-Sanderson asked whether any official statement to that
effect had been sent to Mr. Horsley Palmer, whose name Was
first signed to the memorial.
Mr. Thompson said he was not aware that any communica-
tion had been made to Mr. Palnier to the effect that Fokein
boheas would be passed at the low duty. Fle would, however,
remind the trade of what Mr. Grant had said upon this subject
on the 2d of January, 1835. The hon. gentleman then stated
that he had no hesitation in stating that no greater duty than
Is. 6d. would he imposed upon any bohea teas sold at the sales
then about to take place.
Mr. Twining said that that might be said perhaps to relate to
the East India House sales.

Mr. Thompson observed that the East India Company had
themselves since regulated upon this subject upon the assurances.
then held out. He had observed in the orders of the House of
Commons fur that evening that the customs duties bill and the
tea duties stood for consideration. He (Mr. Thompson) had
addressed a letter to Mr. Poulett Thomson, ask►ng for infor►na-
tion as to whether anv measures would be proposed on the sub-
ject of the tea duties, but had received no answer.
Mr. Travers said something might perhaps escape miniriter,
on the subject of the tea duties when the customs duties bill
was under consideration.

A suggestion was made for adjourning the sale, hut it was
not acted upon. The auctioneer stated that the boheas were
withdrawn.

The other teas declared were then put up, and those sold
realised full prices. About 60,0(X) chests have been announced
for the present sales.

HanaiNG Fist-Lk:ay.—The greatest fishing of herrings that
has been got in the West Highlands this season was taken at
.Tarhert on the morning of Saturday last. There were upwards
of four hundred boats at sea, and all got herrings—frou► three
hundred to fourteen ►naize, or seventy hundred. They have
been purchased by the curers for the Glasgow market at Iron)
7s. 6d. to Bs. per hundred, and are of the finest quality. The
fishermen state, that, from appearances, a very successful fish-
ing may be expected at. Tarbert and the neighbouring coasts for
a few weeks at least.—SeottiA Guardian.

DUELLING DISCOUNTENANCED IN THh FRENCH ARMY.--M.
Vial, Colonel of the Bth Dragoons, has been superseded, and
placed on the list of officers not in active service, in consequence
of his having fought a thiel with Lieutenant-Colonel. Clerard,• of
the canoe regitneut.—Freficit Paper.- •

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1835.

We have received Jamaica papers to the 10th June,
but they are not very interesting. The following ex-
hibits a curious state of society upon a limited scale :

(From the Montego Bay Standard of June 3, 1835.)
In our paper of the 23d ult. we briefly mentioned the fact that
a fire had broken out on Mrs. Caldwell's settlement, near
Lamb's River, which had destroyed the dwelling-house. We
have since learnt some circumstances connected with this affair,
which are of a most extraordinary nature, and which impera-
tively call upon the proper'authorities thoroughly to sift it to the
bottom.

It appears that among the apprentices belonging to Mrs.
.Caldwell, and some others in that neighbourhood, a most mis-
chievous imposture is practised under the pretence that they
had become possessed of the gift of prophecy ! They had
actually gone the length, it appears, of pruphecying that de-
struction was to fall on the house of Mr. Wiggan, whose pro-
perty adjoins that of Mrs. Caldwell, and who is the brother of
that lady.

The foreseen destruction, however, fell.upon Mrs Caldwell's
house instead. The fire broke out iu the ginger-house, in the
middle of the night, and quickly communicated with the dwell-
ing-house, which was soon destroyed. The negroes assembled,
but stood looking on, and positively refused to give any assist-
ance towards extinguishing the flames, saying that it would be
flying in the face of prophecy—that it was a judgment from the
Lord, and it would he sinful to render any assistance. They
were then asked to blow the shell, but even this they refused to
do, some still appealing to the prophecy, and others pretending
that they were out of breath with the fatigue of walking up the
hill, and therefore could not blow! In the meantime, the flames
made so much progress as to put it out of the power of any one
to save the buildings, and both were consumed.

It is too evident that this fire was the work of an incendiary,
and that the guilty individual is one of Mrs. Caldwell's own ap-
prentices. One of those who pretends to possess the gift of pro-
phecy cans herself the Virgin Mary, and another blasphemous
wretch has assumed the name of Jesus Christ ! The parties ate
all baptists, and we have heard that a minister of that persuasion
has been endeavouring to hush up this affair under the pretext
of investigating it himself! We, however, call upon the ma-
gistrate; to do their duty, take the case into their own hands,
and not permit so serious a crime' to pass unpunished, otherwise
there will be no security for life or property in the neighbour.
hood where these prophets reside. It is very easy for these
miscreants to prophecy that destruction will come upon a settle-
ment and to cause their prophecy to be fulfilled. Should they
escape punishment in the present instance, there may soon be
another " judgment" falling upon tome other unfortunate ob-
ject of their malevolence ; and so they may proceed from bad to
worse, until the extent of their " judgments" equal that of
Christmas, 1831. The individuals we have mentioned, the one
as assuming the name of the Virgin Mary and the other that of
the Saviour, were both deeply implicated in the events of that
disastrous pe►iad ; let us hope that this may not prove a prema-
ture explosion of a similar plot. Persons who were deeply con-
nected i❑ the former insurrection appear to be the movers in
this arson ; and those who, to say t:so least, applauded the most
active in the work of destruction are now endeavouring to screen
the guilty parties by pretending to investigate the matter! We
repeat our earnest trust that the magistrates will do their duty
and sift this mysterious affair to the hottoM.:

We beg leave to call attention to an important clause
intended to be added to the new Municipal reform bill,
and which will be found in another place. In this clause
the leaseholders of property in Livet:pool are deeply
concerned, for it completely alters the terms upon which
the corporation have hitherto acted in granting and re-
newing leases. At present we have no room for further
comment.

The sickly liberals and pseudo religionists of the day
are ever and anon telling us that poper► does not now
wear the same harsh and gloomy aspect which it did in
the dark ages. Frequently have we warned our readers
against indulging this fatally erroneous opinion. The
Romish creed is a creed based upon falsehodd. The zeal
of the devotees of popery is rebellion ; and their priests,
more particularly in Ireland, are brought up in all the
low arts of fraud and deception. It may suit the ends of
these plotters of evil occasionally to mask their base de-
signs under the treacherous veil of an unotrending anxiety
for the welfare of immortal souls. , But be assured, that
the baleful features of their abominable superstitions, and
their revolting and disgusting ordinances, remain in all
their original hideousness. in England they are too wise
and too prudent to exhibit themselves in any combined
form against the institutions of the state. In Ireland they
have not, till of late years, come forth from their lurking
places ; but emboldened by the success which has hitherto
attended their insidious attacks upon that branch of the
protestant church of England established in that king-
dom, they have recently been less guarded, and now, for-
sooth, they have discovered to us the present standard of
their religious faith. . .
In the palmy days of popery, when the occupants of the
Romish chair possessed an almost boundless sway over
the mils and bodies amen ;—in the days when the pope

was allowed to possess the title of Christ's vicar, almost
undisputed, then did their doctors not -hesitate to declare
a royal road to heaven, which was to be paved with arti-
ficial sighs and confessions, pardons, indulgences, and we
know not what besides; then did their principal doctors,
their guides of conscience, teach men to break all the ties
and ligaments of society, telling their disciples that faith is-
. not to be kept with heretic, directing them how to LIE
artificially, to equivocate and forswear, to cheat in their
business transactions, to disannul contracts, laying down
laws also by which to exempt their priests, even though
guilty of high treason, from the secular arm, requiring
the charge against such to be laid in an ecclesiastical
court, and holding a cardinal innocent unless seventy:firs-:
could witness against him, and acquitting a bishop if there
were not sixty-four to appear against him! It was dur-
ing these times, when the Romish guides were busy in-
structing subjects to rebel, children to be disobedient,
and servants to be unfaithful ;—then it was that there
lived and flourished one DOMINUS DENS. This DOMINUS
DENS published a work of the nature and character of
those of which we have just now been making mention-
The book passes under the spec;ous title of " Dent's cow
pkte Body of Theology."
Some may here perhaps ask-, but what has a book pub-
lished in these the worst and most persecuting days of
the papacy,—what have the opinions then in circulation
to do with the case of the Irish papists now ? We are
ready to admit that in former times every species of de-'
lusion was practised on the people which would bring
supplies to the papal coffers, and no doctrine was left un-
broached if it could be made subservient to the enslaving
of the minds of blind and confiding votaries; but surely
now these opinions have given way to others of a more
lenient and rational character. The pope now is _only
allowed a mitigated supremacy ; indulgences and dispen-
sations have now only a theoretical existence. These,
with many other similar excuses for popery, form the lan-
guage of the modern deseondantiv of those who- lived at
the glorious reformation. Now, we repeat what we have
often before stated, that popery is the same in spirit and
in practice in the present day as it was three hundred
years ago. There is the same virulent hatred of truth,
the same hateful lust after illegal power.
The scenes which are of daily occurrence in Ireland
show that they have not forgotten how to use the wea-
pons of temporal warfare in support of their spiritual.
usurpations. Had we nothing else to charge the men of
Rome with than these practical commentaries on their
creed, surely it would be no light thing that we had
against them. Still we might possibly be told that this'
ebullition of feeling on the part of certain professors
ought not to be regarded- as the necessary results of papal
dominion. We assert that it is the system itself which
is at fault ; and on the system must be charged all the
murders, and rapine, and plunder, which distract poor un-
happy Ireland. In proof of our assertion we refer to the
above-mentioned work of DOMINUS DENS. This work is

the store-house of the vile and disgusting morceaux on
which the priests of Rome, in Ireland, love to glut their
debauched and depraved mental appetites. Did this work
exist only in old libraries an:l among ancient records, its
bestialities and extravagancies might be chargeable on
the outward asceticism and inward lustful depravities of
the ancient monks. But this volume has not been allowed
to moulder among musty folios. It contains too clear
and precise an exposition of the degrading doctrines of
the Romish church for their priests to allow it thus to re-
main in oblivion. The savage atrocities of whith the
popish priests in Ireland were to be the instigators,—the
crimes for which they were to grant absolution,—the
measures which they were to take for their own aggran-
disement,—the means they were to employ for the ad-
vancement of the designs of the papal see,—the plans
most efficient in the work of protestant annihilation,—

Ithese were things requiring solemn concert and arrange-
ment. The work which it was assigned to the Romistt
hierarchy to effect in Ireland was not the work of the mo-
ment. If done at all, it could be done only by the uni-
. form and preconcerted activity of. the whole priesthood:
The scheme was uf far too much importance, and involved
far too serious considerations, to allow its success to de-
pend on the individual and voluntary exertions of its per-
petrators. The command to establish popery, and po-
pery exclusively, in the Irish dominions of King WILLIAM
IV. had gone forth from the poi-4 himself. It remained
only for his slaves, located iu that country, to obey the
mandate. They wanted not the inclination, Tall they
stood in need of was an efficient plan. Their rabid jell•
. lousy would not entrust the formation of this plan to one
of their own body. What then was to be done? UNI-
FORMITY and SECRECY were essential parts of the infer-
nal scheme. The course which they were to pursue was
soon agreed upon. This was not the first time their
church had been the instrument of perdition in the mas-
sacre of protestants. This was not their first attempt
to enslave the consciences, and pollute the minds of their
votaries. When did the Romanists forbear to strike if
there were even the shadow of an opportunity ? It was
no new thing in the annals of Rome to enjoin. =iv
der,—it had long been their practice to sanction fraud.
Rebellion has ever been a favourite tenet of theirs.
It only remained, then, . for the Irish hierarchy of
Rome to search among their ancient record% and they
would find innumerable sanctions for their vile and
base plots. But policy had here. its work to do. A
reprint of the Lateran Council under Pope INstoevss'
the THIRD, or the bull of Pope PAUL the THIRD, against
our own King HENRY the EIGHTH, would have given the
sanction of mother church to REBELLION and PER-
JURY. But this was not enough. It was not every
priest in Ireland who had received his education in those
seminaries of filth and pollution—those corrupt dens of
iniquity, treason, fraud, and rebellion—which abound on-
the continent under the name of monasteries. The Col*.
lege at Maynooth is bad enough; but it is nothing tO
the foreign schools of jesuitry. It remained, -then, that,
in addition to these sanctions for persecution and tyranny.
the priests should be furnished with a bribe—a dish on
which they might feed their diseased imaginations. To
whom, then, could they fly so well as to DOMINUS DENS
He had written a •' Complete Body- of Theology."
He would furnish them with texts for their conferences---
he would aid them its corrupting the minds of their de-
luded worshippers—he werdd teach them how to make
the readiest use of auricular confession!. He gave them
a license to sin alai to absolVe from sin ; he furnished
them with matter for a sensual repast under a spiritual
.plea; he taught the accursed doctrine of intention, by
which the priest has unlimited power.; in short, DOW'
NUS DENS at once. armed them with the weapons of con-
troversy, taught them the best and shortest method to
extirpate heretics, and provided them at the same time
with an obscene repast over which to. gloat with a dis-
gusting avidity. This, then,. was the book for their
purpose. Accordingly in 1808, as. the following extract
from the N Annual Directory," published by the accre-
dited agent of Dr. MURRAY, who usurps the title of
Archbishop of Dublin, will show :

"At a meeting of the !lomat) catholic prelates of Iralasit
assembled in Dublin on the 14th of September, 1808, the,'
unanintoutly ugreed, that " Dens's Complete Body of Theology"
was the best book on the subject that could be republiblied,
containing the most secure guidance for such ecclesiastics so
may, by reason of the peculiar circumstances of this country, b°
deprived of the opportunity of referring to public libraries, ol•
consulting those who may be placed in 4uthurity ever them. la
consequence an edition of this work was ordered to Irt printed bf
the present publisher to the number of 3,000 copies."

Here, then, is the authoritative sanction to the reprint
of this work, and all the sophistries and references 10
oaths in its denial are of no avail. Some of o4r contour
poraries have been at great pains to convict Dr. Mußasf
of wilful perjury in his letter to Lord Met.aovingS•
Pshiw ! What does a papist care for perjury ? It is tg
aim.: of which, except under very particular circnur
stances, his church does not take cognizance. In the
hull of Pope Pius V. against our Queen ELIZABETA the
following practical commentary on the value. of arttrath
in the eyes of a papist occurs:—

" Et item prceeres, eubditor et popalas dicti Rev!, ac catelvv
(mines qui till QUANDOCUNQUE JURAVERUNT #
JURAMENTO hu jusmodi ac omni prorsas dumini, fidelitAai, e$
übtequii debitu PERPETUU ABSO Livros,- &c.

What need have we of; any farther .prof vs, ies
these wen disregard 9ao lO' tSie par,l