The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

TIE LIVERPOOL SIOANDARD.

&mai Otarllaity.

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The Town Council of Sheffield have agreed to petition
the Legislature for an alteration in the tea duties.

The officers and crew of the steam frigate Birkenhead,
which has been in commission only fourteen months, have
been paid off.
On Tuesday a mob of persons tried to prevent the ex-
portation of potatoes from Ramsey. They did not resort
to extremities, but determined to petition the governor.
A Mr. Symonds has been condemned at Aylesbury to a
week's imprisonment (in addition to a month already
endured) for refusing to pay church-rates.
The last number of the Quarterly advocates the pay-
ment of the Romish priesthood by the Protestant British
State—which does not pay its own clergy.
A reduction of 25 per cent. has been effected in the
wages of many of the operatives employed at Pontypool
Iron Works. The unavoidable proceeding is borne with
much patience.
At the Marlborough police-office, on Friday, Mr. Henry
Neville, a gentleman of fortune, about to fight a duel with
a Mr. essop, was bound over to keep the peace for three
months.

WESTMINSTER-HALL.—ThiS ancient hall is itself again,
the internal erection for the purpose of exhibiting the
cartoons and other works of art for the decoration of the
new Houses of Parliament being entirely removed.
The Operative SpinAers' Association, of Mossley, have
taken several acres of ground, for the term of six years,
for the purpose of employing the unemployed members
thereon.

The late Mr. Robert Suple, of Bristol, has bequeathed
benefactions to the charitable institutions of that city to
the extent of £BBOO. The Orphan Girls' Asylum receives
£4OOO of this sum.
SHETLS AND BALLS.—A vessel arrived in the London
docks from Odessa, with 1,700 quarters of wheat and
other merchandise, had on board 4,935 old iron shells and
balls consigned to order.
A gentleman of property, named Buchanan, was con-
victed, at Bath, on Monday, of having stolen a purse and
a scent-box, and sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment.

DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA IN' LONDON.—We see by
the official return, that 102 deaths from influenza were
registered in London in the week ending the Bth instant.
Of these, 42 were under 15 years of age, 34 between 15
and 60, and 20 were upwards of 60 years of age.
STRANGE ACCIDENT.—J. Coles, Esq., of Taunton,
while in the act of drawing on a pair of boots, on Satur-
day. strained the lid of his eyes so much as to break a
small blood-vessel, which has caused the loss of sight of
one eye, and much injured the other.—Bristol Mirror.
The new Guildhall, at Bristol, was discovered to be on
fire last week, and the origin of it was found to be that
some coke, recently deposited in the cellar, had reignited.
This accident shows that coke should always be tho-
roughly cooled before being stowed away.
SCOTLAND.—The Highland destitution board is again
in deep water. At a meeting of the Glasgow section held
lately, all the reports yet come to hand from their six in-
spectors, represented that the destitution was already tear-
ful, and that immediate relief was necessary.
George Thurtell, son of the late Alderman Thurtell of
Norfolk, and whose brother John was hanged at Hertford,
for the murder of Mr. Weare, some years ago, has just
been convicted of felony, at the Norwich Sessions, and
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.

The Secretary of State has confirmed an agreement
entered into between the Magistrates of Glamorganshire,
Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire, for
the erection of a central lunatic asylum, to be erected in
the western part of Glamorganshire. It is to contain
three hundred patients. •
ANOTHER SUICIDE AT ST. VINCENT'S ROCKS.—Mr.
Daniel Thompson, a lodging house keeper, at Clifton,
during a paroxysm of temporary insanity on Sunday night
last, arose from his bed, proceeded 4;o the Down, and
threw himself from St. Vincent's rocks, and was killed
on the spot.
PRESERVATION OF MEAT.-011 the Ist of January,
1847, a person buried a joint of meat at Blackheath,
near Holme Moss, where it was allowed to remain until
Saturday, the Ist of January, 1848. When taken up, it
appeared to be as sweet and fresh as when first placed
there.

The Customs' duties received at the Port of Gloucester,
during the year ended the sth instant, amounted to
£93,220. It the Tariff had not been altered, and the
corn duties suspended. the amount would, we understand,
have been nearly £200,000, more than double, a heavy
sacrafice at a port of the class of Gloucester.

At the meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
held on Tuesday, Sir John Rennie in the chair, a paper
was read descriptive of Mr. Ronsome's process for mak-
ing artificial stone. At one stage of its formation this
artificial stone could be pressed into moulds of any shape,
and thus would prove a great aid to decorative art.
Excise usages are becoming ludicrously strict. Not
only is ginger wine charged with duty when sent from
Scotland to England, but, the essence of coffee is also
also threatened with duty, because, in order to preserve
the freshness of the beverage that, " cheers, but not
inebriates," a homoeopathic quantity of alcohol is
dropped into each bottle of the mocha fluid.
Scotland, so far, does not appear to have suffered much
from the panic. The National Bank of Scotland has in-
creased its dividend from 6 to 61 per cent., the Edinburgh
and Glasgow Bank is expected to make a similar advance,
and the customs revenue of Greenock, for the years end-
ing January 5, 1846-7, and 8, have, respectively, been
£228,415. £324.477, and £407,083.
A mason. at Douglas, Isle of Man, is said to have con-
fessed, on his death-bed, a few days since, to a murder
which he committed eleven years ago, on a man named
Robert Cannon, who was found dead, in Douglas harbour,
with his scull fractured, and which, at the time, was sup-
posed to have been occasioned by a blow against a vessel,
in his fall.

THE LAND SCHEME. —Mr. Fergus O'Connor has pur-
chased the Great Dafford estate, in the parish of Broms-
grove, containing 280 acres. The subject has created a
great sensation amongst the farmers, lest O'Connor's
four-acre allotments should bring more poor into the
parish, with which it is, already so heavily burthened.—
Worcester Journal.

REDUCTION IN GAS.—The agitation for reduction in
the price of gas, aided as it has been by the spirited con-
duct of the Marylebone vestry, in calling in the aid of a
new company, has had its effect. On Saturday the Im-
perial Gaslight Company gave notice that the price of
their gas will be reduced to 6s. per 1000 cubic feet from
the 31st of March next.

The Ipswich Express tells a curious story of a blunder-
ing wedding lately performed in Suffolk. Instead of the
bride and bridegroom being joined in holy wedlock, that
ceremony was performed between the bridesmaid and the
" daddy," (father in church.) The mistake was discovered
when the parties retired to the vestry, and was easily
rectified, as the daddy had a wife living,
A curious fact is mentioned of the extraordinary num-
ber of 28,071 mice having been taken or caught from
September to January in the Dean Forest, Gloucester-
shire, over an area only of 1,993 acres. The successful
method adopted there was boring holes in the ground 20
inches deep, wider at the bottom than the top, which pre-
vented them getting out when once in, and into which
holes were dropped some favourite food.
THE GOLDEN-LANE MURDER.—Harriet Parker, who
stands charged with the wilful murder of Robert Henry
Blake, and Armenia Blake, the two children of Robert
H. Blake, with whom she had been two years previously
cohabiting, has been committed to Newgate for trial.
Previous to her departure she said to the gaoler, she
wished to be hanged, and hoped she would not be trans-
ported. Her firmness astonished every one in court.
We noticed last week the murder of a man named Wall,
near Bristol. by a youth of the name of Mrnfield. It
appears that Manfield was, a few weeks previously, de-
tected stealing pears, but the !nagistrate, the Rev. Frank
Hewson, who convicted him, knowing how much is said
by the press against clerical magistrates, who even appa-
rently act with undue severity, and unwilling to incur the
censure of the world, let him off without any punish-
ment ! What a want of moral courage.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Another extensive robbery has
been committed, under circumstances of a peculiarly
mysterious nature, from the Great Western Railway
Company. A box of sovereigns—it said amounting to
several thousand pounds—was booked on Monday, at the
Paddington station, for Bristol, ant} thence to Taunton,
to a banking house in which town it was consigned. On
the arrival of the carriages at Brist.,l, it was found that
the treasure had been abstracted.

—A
poor woman, named Elizabeth Hopkins, residing
within the Croyden Union, having died from exhaustion
in protracted labour, in the middle of which she was left
by the surgeon, an investigation took place on Tuesday,
before the coroner for Surrey, when a verdict was re-
turned to that effect ; " and that Mr. Berncastle has
shown the greatest inhumanity towards the deceased in
leaving her when in labour. and that we, the jury, con-
sider him a very unfit person to act as a parochial medical
officer."

The workpeople in the employ of Messrs. Hudson and
Bottom, lace-dressers, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, on
Monday presented to Mr. J. T. Bottom a splendid piece
of plate as a testimonial of their esteem. The plate
consisted of a candelabrum, standing 22 inches high, in
the centre of which was an elegant cut- glass basin, 11
inches in diameter; over which a silver wire grating was
placed for the reception of flowers. About 10 inches
from the base of the pedestal projected three arms, which
also have glasses for flowers.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Sunday morning last
a man named Frederick Weston was found in Mr. Beard's
farm-yard, at Ovingdean, weltering in his own blood,
having dreadfully mutilated himself in a manner to which
we cannot more particularly allude. lie was conveyed to
the County Hospital, where lie now lies in a precarious
state. lie comes from Dover, and is about thirty years of
age. He is a religious fanatic belonging to a sect called
"the Latter-day Saints," and he says he committed the
act "to do God justice."—Brighton Guardian.
FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.—As the Manchester and
Derby mail was proceeding on its journey to the latter-
named place, on Saturday evening, when near the terminus
of the Croniford and High Peak railway, and proceeding
at a steady pace, it was overturned. There were about
ten passengers in and upon the coach, none of whom were
seriously injured, except a gentleman named Greensinith,
of the Darley paper-mills, who received a severe bruise on
one shoulder. The coachman received such injuries that
he expired the same evening.
THE CORN TRADE.—However ill many corn speculators
may have fared during the last year, one gentleman, who can
scarcely be called either an agriculturist or a factor --
to have profited by the corns of the public.
t Eisenberg, with wliose name the public is s•

seems

sufficiently
familiar through our advertising columns, has, it is said,
reaped such a harvest, and carried his knowledge of corns
to so good a market, that he has become proprietor of one
of the finest mansions at Richmond, in addition to a
handsome house in town, and all the other adjuncts of a
man of fortune. We fear that dealing in corns is better
than dealing in corn.—Country paper.

At the recent rent audit of the Marquis of Pownshiie,
at Great Shefford, the Marquis expressed his anxious wish
to assist his tenants by every means in his power; and
offered to provide at his own expense any new kind of im-
plement that they might select, for the use of the tenants
generally ; or, if they thought it would improve the breed
of their horses, he would send a Suffolk horse for their
use. The Marquis also gave permission to all his tenants
" to shoot or sport" over their farms ; and directed that
all ash and elm trees which were damaging their farms
should be cut down; empowering them also to grub up
any hedge-rows which might be inconvenient.

NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The monthly report of the pro-
ceedings of the National Society for promoting the
education of the poor in the principles of the Church of
England mentions, as one of the subjects particularly
under consideration by the committee at present, the
low state of the funds, inducing the fear that many
schemes for building schools will fall through in
consequence of the promoters failing to obtain grants.
We hope this will lead to steps that may speedily re-
invigorate the financial capacity of this invaluable society.
Certifi,ates of the completion of various schools having
been received, authority has been given to the treasurer
to pay the several grants, amounting to £2,295.
At the Guildhall, Bridgewater, on the 22d ult., Mrs.
Harriet Barber, the lady of Captain Barber, and her four
children, Robert, Tunis, Henry, and Clara, were charged
with violently assaulting Miss Sarah Hurman, lady's maid'
in the service of Mrs. Barber. Captain and Mrs. Barber
had gone to a party on the 14th December, and during
their absence the children behaved in a very unruly man-
ner towards the complainant. She informed the captain
of the circumstances on the following day, and he chas-
tised the children for their impertinence. Shortly after,
the children told their mamma of the matter, and she,
with them, immediately fell upon the complainant, and
beat her. The chief defendant was fined £5, and Robert
and Tunis £1 each and costs. The other defendants were
discharged.

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.—On Tuesday the utmost
excitement was created in the immediate vicinity of Lon-
don-bridge by smoke pouring forth from the entrance to
one of the vaults used for burying the dead at St. Saviour's
Church. The moment the door of the vault was opened,
the effluvium that arose nearly knocked the firemen down.
After considerable trouble the flames were extinguished,
when a scene presented itself of a most horrible nature.
A number of coffins were found to be so extensively
burned that the dead bodies had fallen out and were ex-
posed to view ; some had their heads burned off, others
had their entrails completely destroyed, whilst others
were so charred that it would be impossible to identify
them. Respecting the origin of the disaster nothing is
precisely known.

The Queen and Prince Albert have been graciously
pleased to acknowledge the receipt of the balance-sheet
of the Birmingham " Artisans' Movement' through G.
E. Anson, Esq., in very flattering terms. Its receipt by
the Hospital's great benefactor, Dr. Warneford, has also
in like manner been acknowledged :—" I this day received
the balance sheet of the Artisans' Movement' in behalf
of the Queen's Hospital ; and in justice to the artisans of
Birmingham, I must state, that in the course of a long
life this is the most noble subscription of the kind which
has ever come before me, and is the most convincing
proof of the high estimation in which the Hospital is
held ; and may the Almighty continue to. bless your
' labour of love' for the relief of the afflicted, and more
especially of the grateful artisans of Birmingham and its
neighbourhood."
At the late York assizes, Mr. Justice Coleridge said, in
passing one of the sentences, " I think if the jury had
considered the mischief and crime that results in this
county, as well as in every other part of England from the
use of liquor in excess, they would hardly have considered
that that is any extenuation of your offence. It seems to
me that, but for the cases where offences are brought on
by the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, the courts of
justice might be nearly shut up. lam sure that a g..eat
deal more than half the time of criminal courts is taken
up in consequence of offences which have something to do
with liquor. The old law said that if a man killed another
when drunk he should be hung when sober. It must not
be for a moment heard that intoxication is to be anything
like an excuse for crime."

WHAT NEXT ?—A clever, but scandalous attempt to
impose upon the public throughout the principal towns of
Great Britain has oecn laid bare through the activity of
the Messrs. Howell, James and Co., of Regent-street,
whose names have been most unwarrantably made u.e of
for the furtherance of the imposition. A body of indivi-
duals have removed from place to place a large quantity
of worthless property, chiefly thin, highly-gummed, and
catchpenny silks, and advertised them as a part of the
rich stock of their house in London, and which, it was
alleged, " had been forfeited for the non-payment of
duty." The conspiracy, however, has so far not only
been broken up, but in every case where the attempt was
made, heavy fines have been sought for and carried out
by the authorities. An indictment is in course of process
against the whole of the parties implicated.
The receipts of the (Chartist) " National Land Com-
pany" for the week ending December 20, 1847, are
£2,010 16s. 7d. From more than a column of cheap
books advertised in last week'9. Northern Star for the use
of " the people," we select the following :—" Works by
Holyoake the Deist on Theology, Morals, Politics, and
Communism ;' Carlisle's Manual of Freemasonry ;'
works by the Reverend Robert Taylor, familiarly called
the Devil's Chaplain ; Tom Paine's Theological Works ;'
Mirabeau's " System of Nature ;" The Infidel's Text
Book,' being the substance of thirteen lectures on the
Bible by Robert Cooper ; Southwell's ' Christianity
proved Idolatry,' and Socialism made easy;' Bronterre's
" Life of Robespierre ;" The Three Impostors !' Diderot's
Thoughts on Religion ;' Robert Owen's Lectures on
Marriage.' " ! ! !
Considerable excitement prevails amongst the Wesleyan
Methodists in the West of England, in consequence of a
report that has been extensively circulated, that one or
more of the Wesleyan ministers in the neighbourhood of
Bridgewat'r have become Pusevites ; it is no unusual oc-
currence to see them wending their way to church during
the time of Divine service in the Wesleyan chapel, dressed
in the long Roman coat adopted by the Oxford Tractari-
ans, with a huge prayer book under the arm, looking as
demure as any son of Loyola ; any opposition from the
officers of the society is visited with immediate dismissal.
A few weeks since, a respectable tradesman in Bridge-
water, who held the office of circuit steward, was summa-
rily dismised without any reference to the laws or
usages of the society. It is supposed by some that a mar-
ble altar is in preparation for the chapel.—Bath Journal.

REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.—The schooner-brig Hazard,
Captain J. C. Pallot, left Pernambuco with a cargo for
London. About the 24th of September last, whilst at
sea, it was discovered that she leaked, and had fully four
feet of water in her hold. Atter the pumps had been
worked for five days the leak, wherever it was, only be-
came worse. and she was compelled to run into the nearest
Irish harbour, Sneen, in the Kenmare river. There she
discharged her cargo, was hauled down, and strange to
tell it was then discovered that an iron chisel, 10 inches
long and 11 wide, attached to a wooden stick of the length
of about three feet, had by some means, how or when can
never be known, got into one of the pumps, and that the
consequence was, the more the pump was worked, the
larger grew the hole cut by the chisel in the vessel's bot-
tom. The damage done to the Hazard and her cargo is
estimated at between £B9O and £l,OOO.

AN OVERDRAWN. ACCOUNT.—A joint-stock bank hav-
ing suspended payment, notices were served upon parties
whose accounts were overdrawn, stating the sums due
from them to the proprietors, and calling for payment.
Among other tradesmen, who received a notice was a
fruiterer. He was solemnly apprised that his balance
stood on the wrong side, and that he must place himself
in a state of perfect equilibrium by the payment of—oNE
PENNY ! In due time the punctual debtor presented
himself at the counter—deposited thereon a £5 note of
the company's own paper—and received in exchange
£4 19s. 11d. ! He retired from the bank chuckling over
his luck ; for while his neighbours were parting with the
notes of the bank at 5 per cent discount, he had secured
to himself 20s. in the pound. "Ah ! " said a poor share-
holder, to whom the story was told, " if they had always
taken as good care of our pence, we should have had a
better account of our pounds."—Gateshead Observer.
IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING.—The great
quarterly meeting of ironmasters was held at Birmingham.
The attendance of ironmasters was very large, the prin-
cipal firms in Wales, South Staffordshire, and London
being represented. Little business, however, was done,
and most of the works having suspended operations alto-
gether, and the few that are employed working short
time, in consequence of the general strike throughout the ,1
district, little inclination was evinced to take orders. In '
these circumstances. it was found almost impossible to fix
prices. So- far, however, as the leading firms can deter-
mine them, they remain as they were fixed at the preli-
minary meeting at Dudley, namely, a reduction of £2
from last quarter's quotations. The prices will, there-
fore, be for bars and roads, from £8 to XS 10s. ; hoops,
£8 10s. to £9; sheets, £ll 109.; and pigs, varying in
quality, from £3 10s. to £4 ss. The stock of all de-
scriptions, in the hands both of the manufacturers and
consumers, is very limited ; and from the smallness of
the make, there is every reason to anticipate that an aug-
mentation of price will speedily take place. It is grati-
fying to state in the present gloomy condition of the
trade, that at this, as well as at the preliminary meetings,
the settlements were generally made in a satisfactory
manner. With regard to the workmen, the strike has
become universal, and thousands of them are roaming
through the district.
Lord Arundel and Surrey has just published a pamphlet
on the " Social and Political Condition of the British Ca-
tholics," meaning by the latter term British Romanists.
His lordship is an amiable man, and as tolerant as his
system will allow him. He desires to look lovingly on his
Protestant countrymen, but, like his pope, he can scarcely
concede to them a possibility—indeed the pope does not
concede so much— a possibility of salvation. It is fortu-
nate for us that the matter is not in human hands, and
that should we, of the goodness and mercy that were
manifested through our Saviour Christ, attain to that
"better resurrection" which was the object of apostolic
aspiration, we shall be indebted neither to Surrey nor
Pius. His lordship's feelings to his countrymen are thus
expressed .—" To many members of the Established
Church of this country I am bound by the closest ties of
affection and intimacy. My heart is innocent of any other
feeling than love for all, and where 1 am constrained, by
the very nature of the subjects to insist upon the necessity
Qf communion with the Catholic Church as a means of
salvation, it must never be forgotten that, in cases of
' invincible ignorance,' the Church pronounces no positive
opinion as to the limits of God's merry." To this we
have nothing to object. His lordship holds the opinion,
as every genuine Papist must hold it, and he is right to
avow it frankly. We abominate that hypocritical Ro-
manist which salutes you as " a fellow-Christian" With
its lip, while in its heart it devotes you to destruction.
Rome does not, and cannot admit the salvation of any one
not within her pale.

A violent and unseemly altercation took place last week
at the Sessions Court, Hull, between Mr. Dearsley, coun-
sellor; and the recorder, T. C. Granger, Esq. Mr. Dears-
ley interrupted by the recorder, in his address for a
01'46er, and afterwards indulged in very intemperate
language against the recorder. An address has been pre-
sented to Mr. Granger, from the mayor and magistrates
present on the bench during the sessions, who express
their regret that " Mr. Dearsley should, without the
slightest cause, have insulted him ;" their admiration of
the " mild and gentlemanly manner " in which he rebuked
Mr. Dearsley for his " wanton and unprovoked attack ;"
and their satisfaction with the manner in which he has
conducted the business at the quarter sessions. A num-
ber of solicitors have also forwarded to Mr. Granger an
address expressive of their sympathy towards him in re-
ference to the " painful and trying situation in which he
w as placed," during the sessions, and of their approvol of
" his temperate and forbearing conduct.,'
THE BITER BIT.—As Mr. J. Melbourn, of Upwell,
was returning home alone late on Christmas night from
Wisbech, when near Mr. Bird's barn on the Enuteth
road, h 3 perceived two-men walking in the middle of the
road, who parted as he drove up just as he was passing
them, and both snatched at the reins, which they missed,
the driver pulling the reins up suddenly ; both men were
knocked down, and the wheel passed over one. When
Mr. Melbourn had passed, he turned round and saw the
other man helping up the injured one, who called out
lustily. A whistle was now heard, and a large bulldog
sprang from the hedgeside and ran after his gig for some
distance. On the same evening a man servant of Mr.
Edwards, of Bardolph Fen, was stopped at Langhorn's-
lane, Oatwell, by a footpad, who demanded his money,
and struck him a violent blow on the bead with a stick ;
but the servant being a little elevated by drink, turned
upon the robber, and soon became the possessor of the
cudgel, and ran off with it. It is a prickly holly, var-
nished and shod, and is now in the hands of his master.
—Cambridge Advertiser.

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE RELATIONS OF A
BANKRUFT.—SamueI Smith, formerly with his brother,
carrying on an extensive business as worsted spinner, at
Luddenfoot. near Halifax, is now in York Castle under a
bankruptcy commissioner's warrant for not accounting for
£l,OOO. The bankrupts failed in the latter end of May
last; and between the 31st May and the Bth of June they
contrived to obtain payment of almost every debt due to
them, and also to dispose of for cash or bills all their
available stock in hand, for the purpose of defrauding Their
creditors. The bankrupts employed several hundred
combers, who resided at various places within a range of
about ten miles from their mill ; and at the time of their
bankruptcy they were possessed of about 3,000 pairs of
combs. The comb ledger in which these were entered was
destroyed or withheld ; and David Smith, a younger bro-
ther of the bankrupts, was tried last week at the Wake-
field sessions, for having gone round, collected these
combs, with sheets and pad, and disposed of them. He
was convicted; but judgment deferred, as he had pro-
mised to assist the assignees to recover the property.
MELANCHOLY SH IPWRECKS.—A letter, dated Lerwick,
Shetland, of the Bth instant, gives a deplorable account
of shipwrecks among the islands during the last few weeks.
Tne following is an extract :—" About three weeks ago,
the Humber, of Hull, trading between that port and
Hamburgh, came on shore near Neep, and went imme-
diately ti pieces : crew saved. The Oscar, of Hull, be-
longing to the same owners, struck on the east part of
Whalesay. and went to pieces, and all on board perished.
The Amelia, of Kirkaldy, (flax laden,) is on shore on
the north part of Nesting ; she still holds together, but
is not expected to be got off: crew saved. The Claren-
don of Leith, (timber laden,) from America, struck on
the island of Fetter, and went to pieces : crew saved.
The Harmony, of Bergen, 300' tons, laden with stock
fish, is a wreck on the island of Unst : crew saved.
About a fortnight ago, another large vessel, a Russian,
named the Fortuna, was wrecked on the island of
Whalesay, and out of a crew of nineteen, nine were
drowned. On the 13th December a small sloop, the Isa-
bella, of Berwick, left Aberdeen for thai port, and has not
been heard of."

HEARTLESS FRAUD.—A poor journeyman painter and
glazier, named Fallowes, living with a wife and five child.
ren, in a garret in Short-street, Tabernacle-square, Fins-
bury, whose family were in extreme distress from his
inability to procure employment for many weeks past, was
walking near the Royal Exchange or/ the evening of Mon-
day se'nnight, when he was accosted by a middle-aged man,
who engaged him in conversati,,n, and having ascertained
the nature of his calling and the poverty he was enduring,
affected to commiserate his unfortunate situation, and
offered to procure him permanent work• if he would ac-
company him to Gravesend, where the fellow stated that
he was employed himself, and had the power. as foreman,
of engaging others. The painter gladly accepted the
offer, and took the man home to hii lodgings to announce
the gratifying:fact to his family, which the fellow did, and
arranged to call on him at 8 o'clock the next morning, to
accompany him on board the steam-boat. Punctual to
the moment, the man was at Fallowes's house, and the
painter having raised a few shillings to defray his expenses
by pledging some trifling articles of wearing apparel, set
off with his companion for London-bridge ; .hut on reach-
ing there the latter made the excuse of fetehing a coat
from his lodgings, and having desired the painter to
wait until he returned, hurried off to the painter's wife,
in breathless exhaustion that her husband had had the
misfortune to loose all the money he had with him, and
that the employment he had just obtained must inevitably
be lost unless she- immediately gave him all the money she
could muster to pay his passage. The poor woman had
but 4s. 3d. to provide food for herself and children for
the ansnine week, and. re.tainilig,../hg gdd,Jatoce„ handed
the man the balance of 45., with whicii he EIS nafifity-qiiitted
the house. In the mean time the painter watched the
departure of several Gravesend boats with anxiety, but
saw nothing of his ." friend " and after waiting fruitlessly
for his return until nearly twelve o'clock, went home to
his family, and then discovered that the whole was an
artfully concocted scheme to extort money. The painter
and his family, it appears, are well spoken of in the
neighbourhood.

CORRESPONDENCE,

THE JEWS IN PARLIAMENT:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—As a resident in the country, I am not well aware
of what may be transpiring in Liverpool ; but I am afraid
nothing_ has yet been effected in the way of petitioning on
any worthy scale against the commission of what I con-
ceive to be the climax of our national transgression, viz.,
the proposed raeaqure for the admission of Jews into par-
liament.

I well know that it is the opinion among the reflecting
portion of the Christian community that it is almost
hoping against hope to expect any change ►n the infatuated
policy of our rulers, or to arrest the downward progress
of the nation ; but still, surely it is our bounden duty not
to relax in our exertions, nor calmly to await the issue,
without remonstrance. . .

Do, Mr: Editor, use your influence to arouse the spirit
of your Christian townsmen to a vigorous opposition to
the measure.

Already, the Times is exulting over the indifference of
the country, and construing our apathy into•a tacit appro-
val of the measure.—Yours, &c.
CHRISTIANOS.

[We have several times called the serious attention of
our readers to this subject, but have not yet heard of any
combined movement worthy of so important an object.]
DIVINE WORSHIP IN CHURCHES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sts.,—Permit me to address you on the subject of con-
ducting Divine worship in our churches. I have consi-
dered that to do so after the manner of " The Thinking
Man" will not be inappropriate.
I think that the Scripture exhortation, " Let all things
be done decently and in order," will be a very good motto
to bear in mind during this address.

I think some organists suppose that good music and
devotion consist in loud playing : this is a great mistake.
I think sextons or pew-openers don't know their office
when they place a stranger during service to the far end of
a long gallery. _ _

I think quietness is very desirable in divine worship—
all acknowledge it to be a great comfort ; therefore the
practice of the sexton opening the seat doors for the con-
gregation is not very desirable.
I think, for the same reason, there is too much attend-
ance upon the clergyman—to the reading desk—to the
communion-table—to the vestry—to the pulpit : quietness
is thereby lost sight of.
I think the communication from the vestry to the belfry
should be cut olr; the ringing of the bell distracts the at-
tention of the congregation by causing them almost invo-
luntarily to look to the vestry to see what clergyman is
coming : the ben-ringer should find out some other way
when to cea,e his monotonous toil.
I think the word " Amen," at the end of the Gloria
Patri, ought rot to be taken into either the tune or time
in chanting. It mars the meaning.
I think few clergymen in reading the collects observe
that before the concluding words, " through Jesus
Christ our Lord," the stop is a semicolon ; they generally
make none, and so spoil the sense.
I think a little time is required for the congregation to
change their position from sitting to standing, standing to
kneeling, particularly in large congregations : it is
painful and distracting, when you have knelt down, and
quietness restored, to find that the clergyman has pro-
ceeded some way in the prayers.

I think, in Wading the Scriptures, it is erroneous to lay
so much emphasis on. the word " not," as if not had no
meaning unless it be accented : a negative needs no em-
phasis unless it stands in opposition to a positive.
I think the prayer before the sermon should be very so-
lemn, and yet not so solemn as that any part of it should
be inaudible.
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addsthe belief)an
w s
I think Watson' in his catechism on the Prayer-book,
is correct, when he says (in regard to the time of kneel-
ing"Theertoßtuhberigcuiessntiootnc, What, then,
shall the people do ?"), " They (the people) will see what.lear ;" and also
when
is the custom of the church they are in, by the time the
minister waits before he pronounces, ' The Lord be with
you,' and they will do as others do."
I think I am led to this remark because I have observed
that some persons always stand until the minister invites
them to kneel by the solemn invitation, " Let us pray."
They may be right, but they are singular, and do not act
up to Watson's advice. And
I think he is right ; I mean, his mode is the correct one ;
for when the other mode is adopted, the impressive words,
" The Lord be with you," " And with thy spirit," are
lost in the bustle of kneeling ; and when silence is re-
gained, the minister is found at the second or third sen-
tence of the Lord's Prayer.
I think the coughing, &c., is very distracting; a little
reflection on the part of the congregation I am persuaded
would prevent this, Let them but be in earnest in their

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errand to church, and they will greatly restrain all unne-
cessary disturbance, which will be to their own comfort,
as well as that of their fellow•worshippers. To prove
that it may be done, I refer to the silence and attention
always to be found at an interesting lecture at the Col-
legiate.

I think if that beautiful prayer, beginning " 0 God,
whose nature and property," is always omitted, our con-
gregations will forget it. _

I think these few remarks are not inapropos at the
commencement of a new year.—Yours, &c.,
Liverpool, Jan. 1, 1848. EXPERIENCE.

THE DANGER OF INVASION

Under the above head a letter appeared in the London
Times of Wednesday, under the signature of " A Queen's
Officer," which contains some statements calculated ma-
terially to diminish the fears excited by the recent letters
of the Duke of Wellington and others, as to the capabi-
lity of the country to repel a French invasion. We shall
endeavour to give briefly the substance of the communi-
cation.

The writer commences by supposing the worst circum-
stances to exist, under which an invasion could take
place ; that a war had broken out between the two e3lln-
tries with little previous warning ; and that, whereas Great
Britain had not a single steam-ship of war to the east of
Portsmouth, France had ready collected at Boulogne 49
large steamers, each capable of conveying 1000 men, with,
ten more for the conveyance of the necessary materiel,.
ammunition, &c. ; and that each ship was provided be-,
sides with four flat boats, for the purpose of enabling the
troops (50 at a time) to obtain a landing.
A calm and beautiful morning is selected, with the tide
to answer at 6 a.m. As the ships, however, would draw
at least 14 feet of water, and the harbour at Boulogne does
not carry that depth for more than four hours each tide,
the writer assumes that it would require five liDurs at least
to get the fleet, boats, &c., to sea, alloying five minutest
for each ; and that consequently a portion of the number
must wait the next tide. But allowing for the most fa-
vourable state of things for the enemy, the writer says,—,-
" I wilt suppose the whole fleet out, and that by noon,
or a little after, they are formed, arranged, and ready to
proceed, we will say, to the shore nearly opposite, some-
where to the westward of Folkestone, distance above 30
miles: Now, Sir, these vessels having each four indis-
pensable flat boats to tow for the purpose of disembarca-
tion, it will be totally impossible with due regard to their
safety,- for these vessels to proceed at a greater speed that:
six knots an hour; consequently it must be five in the
afternoon before they can reach their anchorage. Having
done so, the next operation is to hoist outtheir own boats,
the larger fur troops, the smaller for directing-officers,
advice-boats, &c., as well as to place in each of the flat
boats 40 men, among the ship's boats 40 men more,
making the whole force to be landed 8,000. To place
these men in their boats, to organize and arrange the
mass for the purpose of the general onset, one hour and
half will•be a very creditably short time, so that the whole
force of the first division is prepared to push to the shore
by half-past six of this fine summer evening. I may be
told that they would commence coming out in the night,
and thus save time; but it can be clearly shown.that such
a manoeuvre would not' befriend them with regard to
taking us by surprise."

Taking, at the same time, the worst state of• things for
ourselves—that all our ships of war and steamers are ab-
sent—at all events he conceives that we must-have had
at least 14 days' notice of our danger, and that govern-
ment will have taken care to concentrate the pittance of
5000 men in London or its vicinity. In the absence of
larger vessels, we should be most likely to have had wilt-
tle advice steamer plying in the channel ; and as this
steamer. although not able to see the troops in Boulogne:
would assuredly not be blind to the assembling of 50 large
war-steamers, with their funnels, smoke, &c., outside of
the harbour, she could both convey us previous notice of
such assembling, and return to watch their sailing and
destination. The writer proceeds to describe her course
of operation :

" On the day of leaving the, harbour, at 6 a.m.., slur
sees the first steamer, then the second come out, and Ole
immediately steers towards Folkestone; in 50' minutes'
she is within pre-concerted distant signal distance, by?,
little after 7 a.m. it is made out there, and the electric;
telegraph has conveyed it to the. Horse'-Guards by• half.
past 7 ; while the men are being placed in the train car-
riages a second or third message indicates what part of
the shore the enemy are proceeding to. Now, Sir, I have
placed the enemy in the boats, ready to land at half-past
6 p.m. Here are eleven hours in which to bring_ down
the 5,000 men to the coast. -Will these men not be down
and have taken their position long before the enemy could
land ? Why, Sir, with the most ordinary diligence they
will have done so ; and now let the 8,000 men make for
the shore, when they please. If the force I have given,.
or even 4,000, supported by flying artillery, and the exist-
ing martello towers manned by the coast-guard (without
counting the country people.) do not prevent every soul
from landing except for the purpose of being immediately
maneprisoners,- their, stri• we-shale -deserve- to -13e—clagSed
with those unhappy Mexicans who now, as in the days'of
Montezuma, know nothing of war but running away.
" It is no joke in the face of an enemy to attempt to land,
even when well organised and practised. The -greatest
feat we ever performed of that description was the bril-
liant landing on the shores of Egypt, where we had.nearly
200 sail, and a week to prepare ; yet we could not manage
to throw on shore more than the reserve under- Sir John
Moore of 5,000 men at the first landing, and the second
division were not disembarked for four hours after; and,
although there were but 1400 or 1500 opposed to us, the
French believing that the real landing was to beelsewhere•
it was no child's play gaining their position. And here
public, that this
mustlandin
further
nu
ce-
lerity and order in which it was performed, had there not
eid impress
have o n
been i
accomplished and the
with
the
been previous drilling, sham landing, &c., in Marmorice
Bay, which, under the hypothesis we have established.
would be denied the French.
" Now, sir, supposing the enemy repulsed—there is att.
end of the affair ; the 32,000 remaining on beard are
all becomes disorder and worse than useless,
confusion,
and the only thing left is to make the best of their way to
their own port.

He proceeds next to point out the extreme exaggeration
of the case which he has put. In the first place the
enemy have not fifty war steamers ; and, in the next, they.
could not concentrate them in any given port without our
knowledge. We could not have so short a no-
tice as 14 days ; and it is not probable that we should be
without 15 or 20 war-steamers available to resist their,
progress ; and no fleet, so encumbered_ with troops, flat-
boats and materiel as described, could. put to sea in the
face of 15 to 20 war-steamers, without the certain pros-
pect of being cut up in detail, and of utter fai:ure in their
object. It has been lost sight of too that nearly.•every
port in the Channel coast of Franee is a bar harbour, aeg
dry at low water.
The writer admits;however, that a predatory war could
be carried on along our shores by fleets of small steamers,
by which our southern coast towns might be seriously da-
maged ; and hence insists upon the importance of erect-
ing defensive forts in such situations and of such a de-
scription as the first military science would advise. By ov.
little timely attention to such precautionary measures, he
conceives.that France herself, on maturely weigh'n the.
probabilities in her favour, would readily see that the
chance of any attack upon us, with a view to land an araill.
is almost hopeless.

RESULTS OF THE IR.ISH CONCILIATION.

POLICY

(From Blackwood!s Mavazine-)
The Catholic disabilities, which we had been told:,'
thirty years were the main cause of its distressed conchlion,
were repealed in 1829. A. large measure of parlia
v
reform—larger than the most vehement Irish patriot-4entured to dream of—was conceded in 1832. Corporate
reform succeeded in 1834 ; the Prote§tant corporations
were dispossessed of .power; the entire management or
from the l
the same religious persuasion. The Protesta clergi
all the boroughs of the kingdom was-Put into the hands./
the R.omish multitude ; and a large Portion of the count),
magistracy were, by the appointment of successixe libera!,
Lord Chancellors, drawn fro
better part of those of
avoid
incomes
vmeexsattioonitvopf collect'
wßoermeidsheperievrebdero fuslo s
burden on the land ; May nooth was
supported by annualu ing tithes from persons of a dilThrent religious belief, theft
were laid directly as a n to
grants from government; the systems
of national education was modified so as to.please the RO'
roana
Catholic Monster meetings, where sedition
w
often, spoken, headed by O'Connell.
were allowed to go on, without the slightest opposition,
for two years ; and when at length the evil had arisen t!
was always,
such a height that it could no longer be endured, the lean:
ing agitator, after being convicted in Ireland, was liberate',
in opposition to the opinion of a great majority of the"
tre calesrogny, .
twelve judges, by the casting vote in the House of Peers'
of a Whig law-Lord.
What have been the results ? Has crime decreased and
industry improved, and civilization advanced under the
liberal system ? Has attachment to the British govern'
ment become universal, and hatred of the stranger amts
out, in consequence of the leniency with which they have
been treated, and the unparalleled generosity witit,
their wants have been supplied ? The facts are notori-
ously and painfully the reverse. Hatred of the Saxony's!,
never so general or so vehement ; idleness and recklessner
were never so widespread ; destitution was never so 11_
versal ; life and property was never so insecure, as am
this long system of concession and these unparalleled acts
of private and public generosity. The Irish Repealera
declare that, though Ireland, like England, has bed
blessed with an uncommonly fine harvest, there are few,
millions of persons in that country in a state of hood. ~eP"
misery ; and supposing, as is probably the case, that tr.
statement is exaggerated, the authentic reports to paru";
merit on the state of the poor prove that there are ahoy
two millions of paupers, or a full, fourth of the population.;
in a state verging on starvation. A.new so-called coervi°,2
bill has been brought into parliament in consequence 2
the great increase of crimes of violence, and, above olio
cold-blooded murders.