The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-21 00:00:00

THE LIVEIIPOOL STANDARD.

He calculated that there were eight square miles of banks
in the estuary, and that, at the present rate of deposit, it
would take upwards of 300 years to raise them one foot.
He had not, however, made a personal examination. The
silt flats ought not to be discharged at any place above
Seacombe. The Victoria Channel was now as deep as
any one belonging to the Mersey, and it received no more
than its fair proportion of the mud. No other plan could
be adopted for getting rid of the clemsings of the docks
which would not entail upon the trust an enormous ex-
pense.

Mr. Walker was called, and in his evidence he gene-
rally agreed in opinion with the last witness. though he
would not advise either the continuance of the power to
the Dock Committee now existing, or give it to another,
without a full and searching inquiry into the subject in
all its bearings. The sand, and not the impalpable mud,
was injurious to the channels.
The committee then adjourned till Friday.
On Friday, Mr. Hill having addressed the committee
to the effect that in the anxiety of the trustees to preserve
the navigation of the Mersey in the best condition, they
would not regard ary expense, but, in this case, fully
assured that no injury could or would result, or had
already resulted, from the manner in which the docks are
now cleansed, they would bring evidence to that effect, as
any other measure would entail an enormous expense on
the commerce of the town without producing the least
possible improvement or benefit.
Mr. M'Bride was then called to show the manner in
which the docks are now dredged and the mud deposited
in the river.

Mr. Rennie, Mr. Provis, Mr. Hartley, and Mr. Giles
were examined at great length. They all agreed that no
injury had occurred from the present mod! of operation ;
and Mr. Giles stated, that, if any alteration were to be
made, it might he confined to depositing the mud, Sr.e.
near Seacombe Point. That was all he would recom-
mend ; anything else would be useless and expensive.
The committee soon after adjourned to Monday (yes-
terday).

the Parliamentary Committee had done was wrong, but he
avertf with Mr. Aikin that they ought to have come to
the committee for instructions. .

The CtrstamAN- replied, and, in doing so, remarked
upon the great injury that would be done by the closing
iq3 of the Wallasey Pool, for it had been found that floats
from it did not arrive at the Victoria Channel for four
hours, and, therefore, some of the water remained a long
time to assist in clearing the.river. The water in the Pool
constituted the 97th part of the entire tidal waters of the
Mersey, and when they came to obstruct such an immense
quantity as that, it must have a great effect.
After some further conversation, the CHAIRMAN said
that he expected the mud question, with respect to the
Liverpool Dock Bill, would be settled to the satisfaction
of the committee, and he had no doubt of the bill passing.

THE DUBLIN PROTESTANT OPERATIVES TO
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF LIVERPOOL.

TO THE MAYOR AND TOWN COUNCIL or T IVEaPOOL.
The humble and respectful Address ~t Cie Dublin
Protestant Operative Association an, :,....tJrutation
Society.
Worshipful Sir and Gentlemen,—We should consider
ourselves quite inexcusable were we to presume upon any,
the slightest, interference in the affairs of the town of
Liverpool. In such case we should merit and would ex-
pect either the stern rebuke or the contemptuous disre-
gard of those who should properly expound the feelings of
its inhabitants. Far be it from us to be guilty of such
impertinences. We are quite sure, however, worshipful
sirs, that you are prepared to admit that the proceedings
of one community may very materially bear upon the in-
terests of another, and that it may not be improper that
those who might be thus affected should respectfully sub-
mit a statement of the fact, and submissively request an
attentive consideration of it. It is upon this ground that
we trust to be excused while we make a brief representa-
tion to you of the feelings of serious anxiety which the
account of a recent proceeding in your great town has
produced upon our minds, and upon the minds of those
Protestant citizens of Dublin who have become cognizant
of it.

We feel assured gentlemen, that you all agree with us
n thinking that the most important characteristic of the
British state and its dependencies, is the glorious freedom
which it secures the subject in possession of ; where man
in all things lawful is left untramelled—where he can do
what is right without fear of consequences—where he can
boldly speak forth his honest sentiments, none making
him afraid—where he can freely advocate what is excel-
lent, and, condemn what is wrong ; this is rational free-
dom, and the most beneficial results from is ngray, Ja.t. _.ssa_
culated on as certain. A nation composed of such
freemen, must be indeed a great and glorious one ; a
sound, public opinion will circulate through its length and
through its breadth ; among such a people tyranny will
have no dwelling place, vice no shelter, baseness no
encouragement; the human mind being free, being ac-
customed to make its investigations in every direction,
will find out for itself new and undiscovered paths where
they would least have been expected, and enjoying the
countenance of freemen will be enabled and encouraged to
pursue its objects, until
.society becomes enriched with
the fruits of wisdom and intelligence. Hence the noble
enterprise of free communities—hence the superior civi-
lizstion which they enjoy, and the power which makes
them a terror to evil doers, and a refuge to those that do
well. What is to be expected from a community of
slaves? Nobleness of action, boldness of enterprise,
generosity of feeling ? We are convinced that the chosen
of the citizens of Liverpool will neither think nor say so.
Worshipful Sir and Gentlemen,—we deeply lament
to say that a spirit of bondage is growing over the Irish
community. When Protestantism was in the ascendant
here, all parties spoke and acted as they liked. Pro-
testants visited with no penalty, direct or indirect, such
of their brethren as advocated the claims of Roman
Catholics ; nor were the latter, because they asserted
their national rights, or urged the exclusiveness of a view
which is accounted to be the reproach of their system,
regarded with disfavour themselves. It was then sup-
posed that those who stood forth as the champions of
Roman Catholic demands were only helping forward the
march of liberality, and that all classes of society would
find the benefit of it. Warned again and again by the
first characters of the age—by the page of history—by the
loud admonitions of the church, and by those best ex-
perienced in the matter, that to further the progress of
Popery was to aim a death blow at general liberty; those
warnings were alas unheeded—the advocates of expediency
prevailed—principle was treated as a matter of subordinate
importance, and the Protestant ascendancy which had
been won by the outlay of oceans of the blood of the
enemies of Popish enthralment was overthrown, and a
so-called liberality made to occupy its place. What is
the result? Just this—that while Roman Catholics are
in nowise satisfied—that while they clamour for fresh
accessions of power, their cry for the downfall of our
church is louder than ever, and their aspirations for the
universal prevalence of their system all but open and
avowed—that while all this is the case, Protestantism is
becoming day by day a matter of pain and penalty. We
must now avow our distinctive sentiments ; we must not
brand error by the name which it deserves; we must not
associate for the preservation of the rights our fathers
won ; we are not to claim free cpurse for the Word of
God through our national schools.
This address and these observations are drawn forth by
the following resolution, which, from a report of your town
council proceedings, we learn to have been lately passed
at a meeting of the borough magistrates of Liverpool :
"That no man who is a member of either an orange or
ribbon society shall be permitted to belong to the police
force of this borough, and that all members of the present
force now belonging to either of those societies shall be
required forthwith to withdraw from them, and that in
case of refusal the mayor and magistrates will feel it their
duty to dismiss them from the force." Gentlemen we
do not hesitate to ser that this resolution is conceived in
the very worst spirit, and that it is calculated to operate
extensively to the disadvantage of the case of liberty in
Ireland. What are the loyal orangemen of Ireland to ex-
pect—the men who have been in this country the bulwark
of the constitution—who have faithfully stood by the
British connexion in the worst of times? What may we
the Protestants of Ireland in general look for when our
enemies shall be able to declare that in England itself there
is no longer to be found toleration for those who profess
our sentiments ? Here will be a warrant that will be em-
ployed to crush every thing that does not symbolise with
popery.
" Vi e object to this resolution, first because it estab-
lishes an identity of merit or demerit between the orange
and the ribbon societies. Were not this the act of Li-
verpool magistrates we should say that it could not have
been done with an honest intention ; we should say that
the odious conjunction had been made in defiance of
notorious and undeniable truth, in order to bring our in-
valuable orange brethren in Liverpool under the stigma
of the midnight assassinations, the cruel and treacherous
murders that have been the avowed object of the ribbon
conspiracy, although it is a matter of perfect notoriety
that nothing can be more utterly at variance in their
objects, plans, purposes, principles, and members than
orangeism and ribbonism. To connect them together is
to bear false witness against the upright, the loyal, and
the true, and that for the purpose of having them visited
with the odium and the penalty which properly belong to
treason and to treachery.
We object to the resolution, secondly, because irre-
spectively of this imputation of foul relationship, it would
visit our orange brethren with exclusion from an humble
position of profit and of confidence, simply because they
are orangemen—that is to say, because they are bound by
their rules " to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with their God ;" and because, in addition to this
ground of " disqualification," they are bound to take the
oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration—oaths
imposed by act of parliament on most, if not all, those
who hold office under the crown. We most respectfully
ask, gentlemen, why should such circumstances constitute
a disqualification for trust and confidence? May we not
with more of truth and reason ask, why they should not
be considerei as a ground of preference ? The object of
the orange society is to secure in its members a greater
amount of loyalty, of truth, integrity, and honour, than
could otherwise be calculated on ; and yet we find his re-
solution countenancing the principle that the possession
of these qualities shall incapacitate the individual from
the possession or the enjoyment of an bumble post
of confidence. Every true Protestant is, in fact, an
orangeman ; and yet here we find a resolution passed
by Englishmen, making it penal to profess that openly
which all Protestants believe in their hearts. We
entreat of you, then, gentlemen, to interpose your au-
thority to prevent the adoption of a principle so fraught
with the essence of tyranny. Nobly have you stood
against the unscriptural adulteration of the system em-
ployed in your town schools. You have in that respect
acted in such a way as to yield an example to the world.
Now, also, we call upon you to withstand the evil. Let
not a cry of prejudice be used to the detriment of honest
men ; for this we do really apprehend, that when the men
of Liverpool impose exclusion on the members of the
Orange body, the time is not far distant when in Ireland
it'will be penal to take part in a missionary meeting, or
perhaps to make any serious profession of Protestantism
at all.
Trusting that you may be pleased to give your kind
attention to our sentiments, and to vouchsafe a favourable
answer to our prayer, we remain worshipful sir and gen-
tlemen Lyour most obedient servants.
THE MEMBERS OF THE DUBLIN PROTESTANT
OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION AND REFORMATION
SOCIET.

PHILIPPOWSKI'S CHRONOLOGY.—We have before ns
a prospectus for publishing by subscription a number of
apparently valuable, and certainly most elaborate tables,
which have been prepared by a Polish Jew named Philip-
powski, determining the day of the new moon, &c., from
the creation to the present time, and enabling us to com-
pare exactly various dates, particularly that of the Jewish
to the Roman date. For an exact description of their
nature we must refer our readers to the prospectus itself,
which is to be had of the author.

FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A FALL.--AD inquiry was
made in Preston, on Tuesday last, before Mr. Palmer,
coroner, touching the death of a man named John Taylor,
aged 35, whose death was accounted for as follows :
Miller Taylor, of Fylde-road, painter, examined, said the
deceased was his brother, and a joiner by trade, and
resided at Liverpool. On the 22nd of April last, witness
went to Liverpool to see deceased, and found him in the
Northern Hospital there; he told witness then that the
doctors had intimated to him he could not get better, and
he himself thought be should die. He next informed
witness that on the 20th of April he was at work on a
scaffold in the union workhouse at Kirkdale, when one of
the planks on which he was standing had not been wedged,
and on walking along it, the plank sprung from out of the
wall and he fell to the ground, a depth of about seven
yards, and pitched upon his head, by which he broke the
spine of his back. He was afterwards brought to Preston,
and died there on Monday.