The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT.

It is stated that Her Majesty will accompany
Prince Albert on his proposed visit to Liverpool,
to grace with her Royal presence the ceremony of
laying the foundation-stone of the Sailors' Home.
The 30th of July is named for the arrival of Her
Nlajesty. We shall, however, no doubt, in an hour
or two be put in possession of authentic information
on the subject, as the Mayor has received a com-
munication from his Royal Highness, which he will
announce at the special meeting of the Council this

morning.
We shall publish in a SECOND EDITION, which
will be ready soon after eleven, the particulars of
,his Worship's communication.

Eitnrpoot

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1846.

The London Times, of yesterday, contains a very
powerfully written article on the subject of the strike
in the building trades. Our contemporary enters
into an elaborate explanation of the state of the law
as it affects combinations of workmen generally, and
after quoting the opinions of several of the judges
,on the subject, gives the enactment of the 6th Geo.
•TV., c. 129. Under this statute, the Times (no
mean authority) asserts with confidence that the
"United Trades' Mutual Protection Society of Man-
chester, Salford, and their vicinities," might be sup-
pressed without difficulty, by criminal proceedings.
We would ask our operative friends seriously to lay
to heart the advice tendered in the passage sub-
joined :
on the whole it will hardly be denied that these
combinations, whether of employers or employed, and
for whatever purposes they may be formed, are both im-
mediately and consequentially highly injurious to the
welfare of society. Whilst they last they fester discon-
tent, create poverty, give a rein to seditious and designing
spirits, fetter the liberal flow of capital, and derange the
whole system of trade. Even after they are over, there
is left behind a rancour and distrust, a remembrance of
mutual ill, the bitterness of fancied oppression, and
the vindictiveness of real injury—in short, a general
wreck of those kindly feelings of reciprocal reliance
and protection which should never be absent from the
breast either of master or man. We do not dispute the
right of workmen to combine for purposes of defence.
It is a sacred right, aid should never have been violated.
We go the whole length with Adam Smith, and ad-
mit that the property which every man has in his own
labour, as it is the original foundation of all property, so
it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a
poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands;
and to hinder him from employing this strength and dex-
terity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to
hig neighbour, is a plain violation of his most sacred pro-
perty. " Without injury to his neighbour,' however,
this must be done ; for it happens unfortunately that in
effect these combinations always do work injury to others,
and not to others only, but in a far greater degree
to the parties themselves. This is the important truth
that we would impress upon the minds of the de-
luded workmen who are now loitering in idleness on
the high road to poverty, and too probably tottering on
the brink of crime. Let them not think too confidently
that the time of labour is only removed a little distance,
that they have merely to say the word and their masters
will re-employ them. Returning sense may come too
late. It may be that when they offer themselves for work
no work will be given to them. Capital is like the stream
which when you dam its natural current will find itself
other channels and still flow on. This is a fact and no
conjecture, and many late accounts attest it. It is a
serious matter for these misguided workmen. When it
is brought home to them wite ad the attendant horrors of
poverty and disgrace, they will look upon us, who now
denounce the whole system of combinations, as their
truest friends.

Whilst urging upon the Legislature the claim
of our Colonial possessions for some protection for
their products in the markets of the mother country,
we have more than once given expression to our
anticipation that the opinions of a portion of the
Colonists of British America would be appealed to
and produced as a triumphant proof of the satisfac-
tion with which the entire population of that colony
regarded the ministerial plans. We were not mis-
taken. Such a demonstration in favour of Free
Trade has been got up amongst the merchants of
Montreal; and is thus referred to, as conclusive of
the question, by our leading Free Trade contempo-
rary, the Manchester Guardian, whose remarks we
give in extenso :
" When it was found that English farmers were not
terrified by the prospect of a free trade in corn—when
they made no response to tale
incitements to agitation ad-
dressed to them, but quietly offered to renew their leases
at rents as high or higher than those they had been pre-
viously paying—the protectionists felt that they must look
out for a convenient alarm in some other quarter, and
their hopes were directed to Canada, where Mr. Isaac
Buchanan and other authorities promised them a most
satisfactory amount of disaffection in the first instance,
and an absolute separation eventually. The noble leader
of the party in the House of Commons has consequently
chosen, of late, to fight the battle of protection almost
entirely on colonial ground; and a very formidable picture
of Canadian dissatisfaction, to result from the ministerial
measures, his lordship presented to the heuse—to under-
stand from their language and conduct, whether they re-
gard the repeal of the corn-laws as a sufficient ground for
renouncing their allegiance. Fortunately the arrival of
the Caledonia has put us in possession of some very clear
and satisfactory evidence on this point—evidence to which
we conceive the legislature and the public of this country
will pay rather more attention than to the sinister predic-
tions of Mr. Isaac Buchanan or Lord George Bentinck,
however strenuously urged, or however frequently re-
iterated, through the press, or in parliament.
" It appears from a supplement to the Montreal Herald
of the 11th of April, that a public meeting of the inhabi-
tants of Montreal, including nearly all the leading mer-
chants and men of business in the city, was held on the oth
April, to consider the measures proposed by the govern-
ment at home, and their probable effect upon the com-
mercial position of the colony. Now, did these gentle-
men, so assembled, denout ce the free trade measures of
Sir Robert Peel as ruinous to themselves, and subversive
of the authority of the country ? Did they threaten to
separate from England, if they were not allowed to enjoy
a monopoly in its markets? By no means. Instead of
condemning they approved of the ministerial measures.
There was certainly some little difference of opinion as to
the extent to which it was prudent to carry that expression
of approbation ; but in the whole of the proceedings there
was nothing like condemnation of the measures, or an ex•
pression of fear for their consequences to Canada."

Before proceeding to consider the resolutions of
the Montreal people, which the Guardian quotes so
triumphantly, we must say a few words with re-
spect to that portion of his article which relates to
the course taken by " Mr. Isaac Buchanan and
other authorities," amongst whom we may include
ourselves. Our contemporary says that Mr. Bu-
chanan promised the protectionist party " a most
satisfactory amount of disaffection in the first in-
stance, and an absolute separation eventually."
This tortured edition of Mr. Buchanan's opinions
is a very unfair one. Mr. Buchanan knows too
well, from personal experience, the devoted loyalty
of the bulk of the Canadian people to give expres-
sion to any sentiment which would imply a tendency
in their minds to disaffection as the result of any
measure of government displeasing to them. His
assertions amounted to this, and to this only, that,
under the operation of a system of perfect Free
Trade established by the mother country, the ques-
tion would arise both in British America and at
home, " what is the advantage of the existing con-
nexion between us ?" You may call this the sues-
tion of disaffected men ; but it has been asked
already in the British House of Commons by men
who would not be very willing to lie under the
imputation of disaffection or disloyalty. And it will
be asked again, without such an imputation being
cast upon the utterer. The thrifty politician will
demur to the cost of defending or governing a pos-
session which our new policy has made, in all its
commercial and industrial arrangements, a foreign
soil ; and British America will, with equal justice
and without a hostile feeling towards us, refuse to
be made the battle field upon which the quarrels of
England with the United States shall be ever and
anon contested. _

But let us see what is the value of the resolutions
which the Guardian quotes. The first which he
selects is the following :
" 2. That whilst this meeting has in view the ultimate
establishment of free trade in this colony, it nevertheless,
if hereafter found necessary, will use its influence to en-
sure the continuance of such protective duties on our
produce going into the markets of Great Britain and
Ireland, as the imperial parliament, in its wisdom and
justice, map now or hereafter see fit to enact for the
welfare and prosperity of this country; in the meantime,
however, this meeting is of ,q,inion the dangers appre-
hended from the change of system, may only be met by a
wise and timely adjustment of depending interests to suit
the altered circumstances of her relations with the mother
country."
Is this an utter repudiation of the doctrine of

Protection ? Why it absolutely contemplates Pro-
tection to the mother country, to colonial interests
peculiarly. It points moreover to arrangements im-
peratively required to be made to avert the danger
to colonial interests anticipated as the result of our
resent policy. The very next passage quoted by
the Guardian points to one of those arrangements
which is a kind of retort upon tl:e Free Traders of
the mother country, and is, moreover, precisely the
course which " Mr. Buchanan and other authori-
ties" laid down as that which would he adopted by
these colonies, and which would ultimately bring
about separation from Great Britain. We give the
resolution :

"3. That, in order to render the application of Free
Trade principles thoroughly effec'ual, it is necessary to
embrace them in all their comprehensiveness in this co-
lony ; that protection and regulation in every form should
be repudiated, and the commerce of the colony approxi-
mated as nearly to perfect freedom as the exigencies of the
public revenue will permit."

Clearly this is not a declaration which ought to
be very consolatory to the manufacturing interest,
of which the Guardian is the especial organ. Our
colonists are about to withdraw the protection,
hitherto afforded in their markets, to the woollens,
the cottons, the silks, the hardware, and other pro-
ductions of British industry, and to admit the
products of other countries to a participation in
their supply. The coarse fabrics of the United
States are to cross the frontier, and enter into the
consumption of the Canadas free from the imperial
duty at present levied upon them; and thus a tie—
the tie of increased commercial intercourse—is to
be established between two countries hitherto
estranged from and jealous of each other, which
may ultimately lead to a still closer connexion. The
imports of the Canadas are no longer to be drawn
exclusively from the mother country, to be carried
in British bottoms, to employ British capital and
British industry. These merchants and others of
Montreal tell us that they are about to become,
commercially, an independent people; and we ask
the Guardian to tell us how we are to prevent them
becoming, politically, an independent nation, or a
state of the neighbouring republic, which is pre-
pared, and will readily grasp at the opportunity to
bring them within the confederation.
We have warned the Legislature and the public
against placing too much dependence upon any
expression of opinion which might come to us from
these very parties, whose resolutions the Guardian
thinks are entitled to such vast weight. The mer-
chants and inhabitants of Montreal are not the
Canadian people. Their interests are not Canadian
interests. They are not entitled, above all, to be
considered as the exponents of either the opinions
or the wishes of the agricultural people of Canaria
West, by far the most important interests in these
colonies. Happily, these very resolutions afford us
confirmation of the views which we have all along
expressed, and shadow very clearly the motives by
which the parties to them are actuated. We give
the next resolution to enable our readers to trace
these motives with us :
"4. That as a preliminary measure, it is highly Ce-
sirable, nay indispensable, to obtain the immediate and
total repeal of all duties, imperial and provincial, on the
importation of American wheat, provisions, and corn
generally, as by this means a large share of the carrying
trade of the produce of the western states may be secured
to Canada, by the St. Lawrence, and will have become a
trade of some standing when the three years to which our
modified protection i❑ the home market is limited, is ex-
pired ; and further, that the repeal of these duties may be
sought with the greater propriety, as, in ordinary circum-
stances, they do not, in the opinion of this meeting, afford
any protection to the colonial agriculturist [inasmuch as
the prices obtainable for the surplus produce of the
country rezulate the general price of the producer], whilst,
at the same time, they present one of the greatest ob-
stacles to our successfully competing with the United
States in the conveyance of the produce of the interior to
a port of shipment, or a market for consumption."
The whole question is here resolved into a mer-
cantile question. The merchants of Montreal want
the carriage and the forwarding of the Western
States of America ; and the interests of the agri-
culturists of Canada West are as nothing in the
balance, as compared with the carrying out of this
great object.
The Guardian concludes his article with the fol-
lowing cool assumption :

" We trust that the proceedings of this meeting will
put an end to the foolish cry about the dissatisfaction and
probable loss of the North American colonies."

We can assure him, however, that the proceedings
of this meeting will effect no such thing ; and, for
the very best reason, that they are not conclusive
with respect to the opinions of the people of Canada.
If the Guardian had not been a little disingenuous,
be would probably have SEEN, and conveyed to his
readers, the following very opposite story, contained
in a memorial addressed to the throne, by the
merchants and others of Quebec, and which came
out for presentation by the Caledonia : _ _

" Humbly showeth,—That your petitioners view with
serious alarm the measures introduced by your Majesty's
ministers in the Imperial Parliament, affecting, as they
do, the principal exports of your Alajesty's possessions in
British North America, by encouraging other nations
more favourably situated to enter into successful compe-
tition with them.

"That the long and tedious navigation of the St. Law-
rence, the shortness of the shipping season, and the dan-
gers of the coast, especially in the months of October and
November, add materially to freights and insurances, and
renaer successful competition with the foreigner, either in
corn or timber, a matter of great difficulty, and of utter
impossibility.
" That although a protection of 245. is now granted on
the timber provinces, the freights from the Baltic average
17s. 6d. per !oad, while those from Canada average 38s. 93.,
making a difference in favour of the producer in the
north of Europe of 21s. 3d. per load, and when insurance
is considered, making the protection now given a mere
equivalent to the difference of freight. Moreover, should
the further contemplated reduction of,ss. in 1847, and ss. in
1848 take place, giving a direct boon to this extent to the
foreign producer, who, in comparison to the colonist,
gives little encouragement to the British manufacturer.
" That the effect of the changes in the tariff in the port
of Liverpool has been to increase the foreign tonnage em-
ployed in carrying deals and timber upwards of 300 per
cent. since 1842, while the British shipping employed in
the same trade with these colonies has only increased to
the same port about 30 per cent. ; and that if such are the
effects of the modifications in 1842, the inevitable result
of further relaxation will be ruinous to both the British
shipowner and colonists.
" That, independenly of the encouragement given to
the North of Europe to compete with your Majesty's
Colonial possessions in North America, the effect of the
changes now referred to will be to add another compe-
tition, namely, the United States of America, especially
in the article of pitch pine, (resembling the red pine of
the colonies, but superior to it,) staves, and oak timber,
the produce mostly, if not entirely, of slave labour.
" Your petitioners most humbly pray that your Ma-
jesty will consider favourably their petition, and allow the
duties to remain as they now are—viz„ 25s on foreign
timber, and Is on colonial; that your Majesty will cause
to be levied a duty on staves, as this article affords con-
stant employment to colonial shipping on the inland
lakes ; and further, that no alteration be made in the
duties on sawed timber, which, if altered as contemplated,
will ruinously affect many who have embarked large capi-
tal in the erection of saw mills, under the impression that,
in any change of duties, the situation of these provinces,
their distance from their mother country, the immense
employment they give to British shipping, and their
being such large consumers of British m inufactures,
would be duly considered, and that protection equivalent
to the difference of freight would at least be guaranteed
to them, as even then, they only meet the foreign pro-
ducer in the home markets on equal terms.
" That to a system of wise and judicious protection
your Majesty's empire is indebted for its proud attitude
among the nations of the earth ; and the present position
of your Majesty's colonial possessions, is mainly attri-
buted to the same source. _ _

" Wherefore your petitioners most humbly pray that
your Majesty will not sanction the contemplated modifi•
cations i❑ the tariff on wood goods; and your Majesty's
petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray."
This document ought to be quite as conclusive
as the Montreal resolutions, which the Guardian
quotes with such an air of triumph. We can
scarcely conceive that our •contemporary, if aware
of its existence, would have suppressed all mention
of it ; at all events, in pure kindness, we give him the
benefit of the doubt.

We presume it is because the public mind is oc-
cupied with the important questions connected with
the Commercial policy of the country, that blow af-
ter blow is levelled at the Constitution and against
its Protestant character, without even the semblance
of any popular dissatisfaction. Perhaps it is in part
also that we are amazed at the tergiversation of pub-
lic men that we cannot find language or leisure to
express our feelings with respect to the measures
which they propound to us. The Bills of Lord
Lyndhurst in one House and Mr. Watson in the
other would, if proposed whilst we were unoccupied
with the consciousness of betrayal and outrage
upon our feelings on the part of the Government
and of Parliament, have aroused a storm of
indignation throughout the land. They fall upon
us now as disasters predicted and expected. There
is no protest against them, although they tend to
sweep away the last relics of Protestantism from the
national character. Another bill, however, the Cha-
ritable Trusts Bill, we did expect to have stirred
the phlegm of our population, inasmuch as it pro-
poses to set up one of those unconstitutional tribu-

nals, against the existence of which Englishmen
have in all times been the foremost to lift up their
voice. Yet we find not a step taken, or a word
uttered, against that bill. We give the following
description of it from the Church and State Gazette :

" If the Charitable Trusts Bill should bring within its
reach the great societies which regulate the church•—such
as the Society for Propagation of Christian Knowledge,
the Church Building Society, the National Society,
&c., all of which receive legacies on trust—it will become
an instrument of overwhelming power. The commis-
sioners will have more power over England than the Poor
Law Commissioners. A bill for the compelling the
publication of charities may do good ; but, unless
its powers are most accurately defined, the commis-
sioners will have a terrible rule over church mat-
ters; and, through them, the administration of the day.
The authority of the Poor-Law Commissioners does not
extend beyond England ; but it may be that the authority
of the Charitable Trusts Bill may extend over the whole
habitable globe, and wherever the legacies to the societies
reach. Surely this is a power that ought to be vested in
parliament only. If the practice of establishing commis-
sions—that is, perpetual commissions—is to be extended,
the real power of the empire will be drawn to them, and
through them, to the existing Ministry, who may, at their
pleasure, create or dissolve, and pay and influence, all
such bodies."

Why do not Englishmen bestir themselves to pre-
vent the passing of such a Bill ? One would ima-
gine that the mere facts here stated, independent of
its operation upon local charities, would be sufficient
to raise a torrent of opposition against it. But,
alas, we seem to have fallen into the " slough of des-
pond." We seem waiting for some measure, which
is to upset the powers of human patience.

TESTIMONIAL OF ESTEEM TO THE REV.
CHARLES MARSHALL,
OF ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, TOXTETH•PARK.

On Tuesday evening last, a meeting of a majority of
the Sunday-school teachers connected with the above
church was held in Torteth Hall, Mill-street, (Mr.
Hunton in the chair,) for the purpose of presenting the
above-named rev. gentleman with a mark of their appro-
bation on his relinquishing the curacy of St. Thomas's,
after a memorial having been unanimously signed by the
congregation to appoint him to the vacant incumbency.
Not having been successful,lhe retired from the scene of
his labours in the park, where he has been engaged for
the last eighteen mouths, with the good wishes of thou-
sands of the poor, towards whom he has acted, in spiritual
and temporal matters, in the most Christian-like and be-
coming manner.
The testimonial consists of a handsome silver ink-stand,
in the centre of which is a wafer-stand, richly surmounted
with the " figure of Innocence sitting under a tree," and
on each side two superbly glass inkstands on a beautifully
elevated tray, on feet and raised edges, on which is the
following inscription :—" Presented to the Rev. Charles
Marshall by the teachers of St. Thomas's Church Schools.
May 12th, 1816." The reverend gentleman has also been
presented with numerous valuable presents from indivi-
dual members of the congregation.
The Rev. Gentleman delivered a very feeling and ani-
mated address on the occasion, in the course of which he
urged all his hearers to persevere in the maintenance of
those great Protestant principles which it had been his
duty to instil into them, and which it should be his pride
and pleasure to continue to defend throughout the re-
mainder of his earthly career.
After the following hymn (selected by a committee of
the teachers for the occasion) had been sung, the meeting
separated, taking farewell of their beloved and much.
respected pastor :

Thou messenger of Christ, His sovereign voice obey ;
Arise and follow where he leads, and peace attend thy way ;
The Master whom thou serv'st will needful strength bestow;
Depending on His promised aid, with sacred courage go.
Mountains shall sink to plains, and hell in vain oppose :

The cause is God's and will prevail, in spite of all thy foes.
Go, spread a Saviour's fame, and tell his matchless grace
. _

. .
To the most guilty and depraved of Adam's num'rous race.
We wish thee, in His name, the most nivine success ;
Assur'd that He who sends thee forth will all thy labours bless.

We understand that the Rev. Mr. Hughes, of Aberyst-
with, is to preach in Welsh, at St. David's Church, in this
town, to-morrow (Wednesday) evening.
The anniversary of the Guernsey Auxiliary to the So-
ciety for Promoting Christianity among the Jews was
held on Monday last. The Rev. Thomas Nolan of this
town w:ls one of the deputation.
A meeting of seripholders in the North Western Rail-
way was held at Manchester, on Saturday, Hugh Hornby,
Esq., in the chair. The directors were authorised to pro-
ceed with tha bill.

On Thursday night, the Earl of Powis presented a pe-
tition for the immediate appointment of a Bishop of Man-
ches'er, and against the union of the sees of St. Asaph
and Bangor, from the congregation of St. Martin's Church,
in this town, and a similar petition from Toxteth-park.
UTTERING BASE H ALF- C ROWNS.—At the Police
Court yesterday, a man in the garb of a mechanic was
charted with uttering bad half-crowns to several shop-
keepers and dealers. Three or four of the base coin were
produced. He was remanded for further evidence.
LIBERAL DONATION.—We are happy to hear that the
handsome sum of £5O was yesterday forwarded to the
treasurer of the Liverpool Auxiliary of the Church Mis-
sionary Association, being a contribution to the funds of
the Society from a member of the Presbyterial Church in
this town.

At a meeting of the Liverpool and Preston, and Man-
chester and Southport Railways shareholders at Man-
chester, on Saturday, it was determined to proceed with
the big. The chairman, R. A. Thicknesse, Esq., said
the assents represented more than five.sixths of the
whole number of shares.
We beg to call the attention of our readers to an adver-
tisement in this day's paper of two sermons to be preached
for the Church Missionary Society by the Rev. Hugh
Stowell and the Rev. F. Close. In another part of our
paper we have given a report of the interesting meeting
yesterday, and the collections in the various churches, on
Sunday, as far as we have been able to ascertain their
amounts.

ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The opening cruiFe,
for the yachts to sail round the light-ship and back, will
take place on Saturday. They start from New Brighton,
at eleven in the morning; and, if the weather should
prove favourable, a pleasant day may be anticipated. The
Edith, 70 tons ; the Psyche, 60 tons ; Fenella, 50 tons ;
Osprey, 45 tons, a new yacht ; the Vision, just launched
at Poole ; the Leda, Leander, Seagull, Gem, Peterell,
Jane, and other yachts, are expected to join in the day's
excursion. The vessels will sail under the broad pendent
of the commodore. The first club sailing match of the
season will take place on the sth June. The prizes are
very elegant, full particulars of which we shall be able to
give in our next.

CAUTION TO LODGING-HOUSE KEEPERS.—Yesterday,
at the Police Court, a shabby•genteel young man, named
Wm. NI 'Kay, was charged by Mr. Jonathan Downham
with having gone to his house (in his absence) in quest of
lodgings, and on a promise of calling again when his re-
ferences were inquired into, taking advantage of the mo-
mentary advantage of Mrs. D., pocketting a silver per-
forated ladle, which was immediaetly missed. When
seized, the article was found in his possession. Several
other parties, whom the prisoner had treated in a similar
manner, appeared against him. A flute was produced
which he had purloined from one lodging-house; and a
book from another ; both of which were identified by the
owners. Another, to whom he had paid a visit with the
same object, had missed a silver spoon and a pair of sugar
tongs. A box had also been stolen from a house in Rod-
ney-street, supposed by the prisoner; and from another
house an umbrella. It appeared that the prisoner had
been in the practice of scouring the town on the pretence
of taking lodgings, and had seized hold of and carried off
whatever was within his reach when he was unobserved.
The evidence was taken so far, preparatory to his trial at
the sessions.
CHARGE AGAINST A PRIEST OF OBTAINING MONEY
UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—At the Police Court, yes-
terday, a well-dressed gray-headed man, named Robert
Swaine, but who had latterly assumed the name of Saf-
ford Swaine, (the first being that of his mother) was
brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having ob-
tained various sums of money from different t arties, os-
tensibly for the re-building of a new chapel and priory, at
(we believe) a town in Ireland called Millorv. A woman
named Mary Parker, and several other parties had been
applied to by the prisoner for donations towards the oh..
ject stated,which he obtained. It appeared that the prisoner
was a suspended Roman Catholic Priest. Dr. Kelly, of St.
Joseph's Roman Catholic Chapel stated that he believed the
prisoner had no authority whatever from his superior to
collect money for such an object, and that a letter found,
with others, upon him, purporting to be written by Dr.
Sharpies, the lioman Cotholic bishop, and authorising
him to collect money, was not in the handwriting of that
gentleman. Another Roman Catholic clergyman in the
court expressed a similar opinion. On the prisoner were
found a book, with a heading or prospectus, as prefaratory
to the names of donors for the object stated, and holding
out to subscribers certain religious advantages that would
accrue to them after the lapse of a twelvemonth. This
book contained the names of many respectable parties in
thistown andneighboua ood, with sums appended as if sub-
scribed, but a considerable number of these were fictitious,
they not having contributed, and those who had done so
were, of course, imposed upon. Dr. Kelly stated that the
prisoner on being suspended, was required by his supe-
rior, in order to purge him of the offence he had com-
mitted to do penance by a residence of twelve months at
a priory in Rome, or some other part of the continent ;
but he had not, it appeared, done so. The prisoner, on
being asked what he had to say, stated at some length
that lie had resided for twelve months at (as we under-
stood him) Mount Henry, and that wishing to be rein-
stated as a priest he had come to this town to solicit sub-
scriptions, with a view to the rebuilding of the delapi-
dated chapel and priory of Mlllory. Ile added, that
he had not made use of the letter purporting to be
from Dr. Sharpies. or of the names of the parties
in the subscription book who had not paid, but had merely
written them as memorandums; but this admission only
impressed his hearers with a conviction that fraud had
been perpetrated. Mr. Rushton sent for Dr. Sharples,
the Roman Catholic vicar apostolic of the district, who
pronounced the document purporting to be written by him
to be a forgery. There was ;also a letter from a Mr.
Maddock, a clergyman, also supposed to be a forgery.
Amongst the witnesses against the prisoner was Mr.
Richard Shiel, whose name appeared in the list of donors,
and who it appeared had been imposed upon by the pri-
soner some three years ago. Mr. Rushton, after what
was stated by Dr. Sharples, committed the prisoner to
gaol for three months under the vagrancy act.
The advertisement of Mr. C. Wilmer, announcing the
reduction of the price of the Daily News, for which be is
agent, will be found elsewhere.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.