The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

TO CORR

SPONDENTS

OASTLER.—We are compel-

utterer. been a man less deeply dyed in falsehood
and. treachery than Daniel O'Connell :

WHISTON.

and his body to tl
sry for this time.
It will er

ler to renewed e

lied also to withdraw

extensive scale

tanbarb.

IAING, DEC. 12, 1843

to whic

Of the hundreds of va- I

a the publ

s hitherto

,ctual carrying out of

sured that they are wis

an emer

ace of

cecses to be so—as it would do, should it ever de-
scend to pay open tribute to Popery—that constitu-
tion may indeed be said to exist, for awhile—a power-
less wreck upon the waters,—hut its fate is doomed,
at least until vitality be restored, by the same profli-
gate expenditure of blood, which reared and ce-
mented its battlements, to be the barrier of the
liberties of the world against the encroachments of
the dark apostacy of Rome.

or you may

Such opinions such steady Protestantism of
feeling—may be sneered at by modern liberalism
Their indulgence and permanence may be destruc-
tive of the hope of " Catholic unity," in the eyes of
Tractarianism. They may bring down upon us the
enlightened contempt of " Young England." But
they are the opinions and feelings, nevertheless, of
three-fourths of the thinking and Protestant people
of OLD ENGLAND, who have not yet learned the
wisdom of purchasing, at the sacrifice of those prin-
ciples for which their fathers fought and died, on
the field and at the stake, the poor privilege of cry-
ing " peace—when there is no peace" !
On principle, then, we object to the endowment of
Popery, in this land or in Ireland—in any portion,
indeed, of her Majesty's dominions. But expediency,
we are told is to guide us upon this question. We

The report of the committee of the Council, ap-
pointed to investigate the charge against Mr. Sands,
has thrown just about as much light upon the case,
submitted to its judgement, as we anticipated, at the
time of its appointment. It has declared that Mr.
Sands has acted "erroneously;" but that no moral
guilt attaches to himself, or to the firm to which he
belongs. We knew this before. We knew that
dishonesty was far from the character of the present
Mayor of Liverpool ; and we knew that he had acted
" erroneously" in '1- 1

are to pay a species of " black mail" to Rome, to
purchase the cessation of the hostile attempts, now
making against the constitution and the entireness
of the empire, by the priesthood of Ireland. Who
are to be the guarantees of this compact being kept,
were it entered into ? What can assure us that the
priesthood would cease to employ their spiritual and
temporal influent...•..

of our Protestant institutions ? Does experience of
the fruits of past concessions warrant such expecta-
? No. Has this very payment of the Romish
priesthood, in our colonies, diminished one jot
their insolent attempts at dm' —their restless

Lne description of the whole of his
packages as trusses and boxes. Where there is an
indefinite limit between two descriptions of packages,
which even a receiver of town-dues cannot point
out, a shipper of such packages must err, on one
side or the other, in his interpretation of the term
by which each is known ; and the extent of his error
will be precisely regulated by the interpretation
which his judges chuse to place upon those indefi-
nite and apparently indefinable terms. Mr. Sands,
in his capacity as a forwarding agent, has, perhaps,
by entering all his packages as boxes and trusses,
damaged the town's revenue; by the opposite course
he would have damaged the owners of the merchan-
dise which he forwarded. No one, unfortunately,
could inform him where to strike into that middle
course, in which we are told is safety.
There is one feature in the case, however, which,
we think, had the committee bestowed somewhat
more attention upon it, ought to have exonerated
Mr. Sands from the charge of having acted even

NATIONAL SOCIETY.—A circular has been issued by
the bishops to the clergy in their respective churches, in-
closing a copy of the Queen's letter, requiring in each
church or chapel a sermon in behalf of this admirable
society, from the operations of which the children of the
Door derive .Dph linenonl7.l-.1.

s all praise for

and ferocious agitation there ?

,„. zu,L, uuspeaKauie aavantages. The sermons
are to be preached on such Sunday before the Ist day of
June next, as the clergy may judge most favourable to the
-----

Again—No ! In

our colonies such a measure has been a failure; and
such it must be in Ireland, so long as popery in that
land ackowledges a foreign power, and refuses to
lay down, in submission, its longings for supremacy
throughout the world. And this we know--history
and all experience

purpose

- LIVERPOOL SCOTCH THISTLE CURLING SOCIETY.—
Last Friday evening a meeting of the friends of this win-
ter exhilarating sport, met at the house of Mr. Halliday,
Everton, for the purpose of arranging the requisite preli-
minaries for the ensuing season. Mr. M`Naught was re-
elected president for the ensuing year ;. Mr. Geddes, vice.
The original skips were all re-elected, with the additional
strength of three batchelors. The party separated early,
trusting, ere long, to try their slippery game in "combat
fierce," without the aid of blows.
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.—By the decease of the late Mr.
Moss, vicar of Walton, the lectureship attached to St.
Johns' Church in this town becomes extinct ; and by the
provision of the act on which the church was sold, the
RPI7 V-11- • .

Irish manners wf!l t

world. In ei

tell us—can never be

In what-

ever land popery exists, in anything less than su-
urch in that land is but a broken

s of willing'ot
nst them. H(

link in the chain, with which it is sought to fette7
the liberties of mankind; and the closing of that
link is, and must be, an object of ceaseless contem-

plation

imam tattoo'', who is now sole minister, has the
power of appointing his own curate, for whose stipend
£3OO per annum is secured by act of parliament. The
demise of the lecturer gives no increase of stipend to the
present incumbent. The want of light is at present felt
in this church, but we have reason to hope that the gas
will soon be supplied, and that dense district be thereby
benefitted by a weekly evening service.
THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The business trans-
acted in the funds to-day has not been extensive, but quo-
tations, nevertheless, maintain much firmness. Bank
Stock left off 181 to 182; Exchequer Bills, 375. to 595.
premium ; Consols for Account, 94; Three per Cent
Reduced, 95i to 96; and Three-and-a-Half per Cent Re-
duced, 102 k to +. In the foreign market the transactions
present no important feature. Considering the limited
amount of operations, the tone of firmness has been very
well supported. Spanish Actives left off 201 to a ; the
Three per Cents, 3011 to ; Mexican, 314 to ; the De-
ferred 94 to s ; Portuguese, 431 to 44 ; Colombian, Ilk to
; Danish, 851 to 861 ; Chilian, 99 to 101 ; Bra
731 to 74i ; Belgian, 103 to 101; and Peruvian, 22 .. ), 23.
_

ssing ourselves otl
itences which foil

Approach the question nearer. View it practi-
cally. You propose to bind down to obedience to
the laws the Romish priesthood in Ireland by the
division amongst them of, say, five hundred thou-
sand pounds per annum. Your object is a good
one—the peace of Ireland—and is, perhaps, worth
the price to be paid for its realization. But how do
you work out that object ? The mere pecuniary gift,
unattended by stringent provisions, to regulate the
amount of benefit to be received in return, will ef-
fect nothing. Attended by such provisions—by
conditions of good behaviour—the Romish church
will reject your offers, however large, or accept them
only to betray their conditions. The state, although
it may pay, can have no permanent control over a
church which refuses its right to appoint, or to re-
gulate, the conduct of its clergy. The utmost power,
therefore, over the priesthood of Ireland to be ob-
tained by the concession you propose—more than
that which is within the reach of direct legislation to
obtain—would be the power of withholding the
stipends from those who are found engaged in agi-
tation, or directing the authority of the spiritual
office to purposes of hostility to the constitution.
Is so slender a tie, we ask, worth purchasing at a
sacrifice of money and of principle so large ?
Another proposed plan is the purchase of glebes,
to be attached to the Roman Catholic chapels in
country districts, by which it is contended that the
priesthood, as a body, will be raised to a more
respectable and independent position amongst their
flocks ; and having thus a stake in the prosperity
of the land, may be induced to consult the per-
manent interests of their country, its agriculture
and commerce, instead of being driven to throw

now nothing

" erroneously." Mr. Sands had, so far back as in
1834, distinctly and directly raised the question, as
to the interpretation to be put upon the words
" cases," &c., by disregarding, and intimating his
disregard of, the intimation, conveyed to him by the
receiver, that he was offending, in the course which
he pursued. By so doing, Mr. Sands virtually ap-
pealed to the only tribunal which could, or which
can now, settle the question,—viz., a court of law.
If Mr. Sands is wrong now, he was wrong then,
and ought to have been set right.
It may be true, or it may not—and it is matter
of opinion after all—that, as was urged by Mr.
North, " every man carried about in his own breast
a perfect knowledge of the definitions"—truss, bale,
&c. But even that is scarcely sufficient. Mr.
Sands, probably, or rather his clerks, would have
found no difficulty in saying of any package in their
hands—" this is a truss ; this is a bale, and this is
a box." But Mr. Sands had a right to say—" tell
me what the law defines these to be ; do not leave
me to pit my judgement—my honesty—against the
judgment and the honesty of other merchants. Let
us know what we are doing, and place us upon an
equal footing !" And such, in effect, he did say ;
and that appeal, made eight years ago, should, in
justice to him, to the commerce of the port, and to
the burgess estate of Liverpool, have been heard
and replied to.

[ measures offer no pro:
;orernment which mak(

of coercion must b€

mockery of a court an

et up the

THE LONDON TIMES ON THE STATE OF IRELAND.—
The following graphic description of the state of Ireland
appeared in an article in the London Times of Friday
last. Our readers will perhaps think the expectation
rather a Quixotic one, that a catalogue of evils so awful
can be wiped out, either by the tampering truckl ng
measures of whig - radicalism, or by the payment
by the state of the priesthood of Ireland, as re-
commended by the Times, and some small journal-
ists who pipe in echo of the " Thunderer" of Printing
House-square :—" The main and chronic evils of Ireland
are defective laws, defective sustenance, hostile classes—
which latter may be resolved into enmity of races—and
hostile religicins, all deeply interwoven with each other,
and all aggravated by ignorance inveterate and endemic.
Organised or institutional power has for centuries been
in the hands of a conquering race, which has until lately
used it to the detriment of a defeated people, having still
the preponderance of elementary or physical power. The
laws of the 17th and last part of the 18th century were
made for the enjoyment of the armed few, and for the en-
durance of the multitude disarmed—a state of things
which could not have been lasting. This opposition,
therefore, between the nature of the laws and that of the
community, has been one cause that retarded the growth
of civilization, being in fact a state of legalized oppres
sion, which fretted and ulcerated the mind of the whole
natio a—of one part through the thirst of change, of the
other through jealous dislike of the purposes for which
change was demanded. The uncivilized habits of the
Irish have made them callous to so much of their poverty
as does not press upon them in the shape of actual
hunger, and have therefore tended to perpetuate that
poverty through successive generations, Dirt and.squa-
lidness in all their abominable influences—rags even to
nakedness—daily irregularity, disorder, and confusion in
the household—boundless ignorance, yet unbridled curi-
osity—fawning endurance of insult at the time, but a
spirit of foul and insatiable vengeance afterwards—ran-
cour and attachment, each carried to excess towards their
respective objects—insolence alternating with adulation—
cowardice wreaking its cruelty in murders of the helpless,
exhibited by one and the same person, with daring courage
in the field of battle, against the brave—incessant loqua-
city, with profound secrecy—treacherous baseness held in
no dishonour towards a foe, nor barbarity towards a
victim, nor contempt for truth at any time or place-
the closest intercourse of life wit',
a passion for lawsuits, with abhorret
dulous they are of lies, yet prone to lyin
features of the medley to be found
concealed,
ii:neelrwelaitihid—plaiymsizt agony sof nio
the
f 1 me

ecutive machinE

out of it is to kee

,oner these fancies ar

3 them, on the sea and o

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it just as reasonably in the

f Scotland

s a lOrd-lieutE

LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION.--On Wednesday last,
a meeting of the Grand Committee of the Loyal Orange
association was held at Newton, at which deputations
attended from Liverpool, Wigan, Ashton, &c. Several
resolutions, having for their object the good government
of the body, were passed, and much valuable and cheering
information communicated upon the subject of the steady
advancement of the order and of the principles which it
is formed to carry out. After the meeting, the members
of the various lodges present sat down to a sumptous
dinner, at the Horse and Jockey, at which the usual
loyal toasts were given, and the harmony kept up until the
hour of their departure by the Railway train. It may not
be generally known that the Grand Protestant Confeder-
ation has recently been united to the Orange body, thus
enablng it to assume its legitimate position, as the most
powerful body, organised for the support of protestantism,
in Great Britain.

nust take steps at once to pro-
stop the mouths of bad men
to assail both. You must
Act throughout the three
them, at least for a while,
ld Protestant, and indus-
s she is. The fact that
less that 3000 troops,

)r her protecti

man Catholic provinces absorb little less
proves that you have no danger to appre-
tt quarter ; and you would shew small dis-

i iaPr

zement to loyalty

same time take

powers which you assume

ately as the circumstances

no gratuitous insult be of-
on account of his religion ;

" A NIGHT WITH PUNCH": MR. W. J. HAMMOND'S
ENTERTAINMENT AT THE PORTICO.—A most amusing
entertainment has been got up by Mr. W. J. Hammond,
entitled " A Night with Punch." He has been extremely
successful in London with it, and last night gave his old
friends and admirers in Liverpool an opportunity of
judging whether the metropolitan papers have been telling
truth in their very favourable notices of him. As far as
ofnot
thisdone a
mhui
amusing
njustice;
essay.
er havee i s
notwe canspo jkuedng
welle , h t
many a one whose " nights with punch," of Radley's or
Lynn's fabrication, have had cause'to regret their com-
panionship; but the only head ache that can arise from
ey
enough have
Hammond's " Punch" will be from the excessive
laughter that is produced by a dose of it. Following in
the plan of Mathews, Yates, Russell, Reeve, and Miss
Kelly, Mr. Hammond continues to keep his audience in
good humour from first to last, regaling thpm tnta-

al position exposes them to the
deprived of the means of exer-
th this view, suspend or revoke
peace throughout the disturbed
• tribunals there be courts-mar-
juries the officers of the army,

t the outset that you art

a at all hazard

We have little hope that the reference of the ques-
tion, now, to the Finance Committee can lead to its
satisfactory settlement. The Finance Committee
may lay down its reading of the matter; the law
may lay down another. And again we repeat—and
we regret that the emergency has arisen—by the
law only can it be decided.

Shew r

r their rank may 1

Ives into the whirl of agitation for the main-
of their influence, and, indeed, for their

subsistence

We grant that a belie& might result

from such a

f it could I

be carried ou

I-I nearest neighbours—

:s, and merry matters, eo-r a 'soOdt'
- - "

xittinunonit a rap
c) anything we have seen.

;owe C

egree of consterna-

transformations were
His Sam Boxer—Mrs.

,or ra

e of the people of Great Britain, we say

delivered at a recent dinn?r given to that somewhat

Every body must go

acute and

painful.

1 LA OV.S.
.08. who I(4elaugiling and

..um are unfit, though for opposite reasons, to be lat once that it will not be submitted to. If made eccentric politician, Mr. W. S. O'Brien, had its
crusted with the liberty which is the birthright of a Briton.
Fill the provinces thus treated with troops. If 30,000 a charge upon the property of Protestant landowners
The past week has been an important one to the in-
.° the slanders teen are not sufficient, send 60,000 ; and punish every in Ireland, we say it is dishonest, and cannot con-
habitants of Prescot and the adjoining township of Whis-
, contained in the last hamlet and village where the smallest outrage occurs by. , sistently be advocated by men who declaim against "It had been suggested to him, that if he consented to
ton. The subject of controversy was the boundary of the
Mercury. In the mean quar'ering a strong detachment of horse and foot on its
e his agitation for the repeal, the prosecutions would
contemporary for this ebulli- inhabitants. Five years ago the Sclavonian districts of the charge upon such property, belonging to Pro- cieeas given up, or, if the trial went on, and a verdict was two townships. It appears that Whiston has on several
eernst an ill-used man. Liberalism Hungary were in a much more troubled state than Mun- testants, for the support of a Protestant church. had, that the Crown would not press for punishment—
oofccpasfieonsotla.isd.claim to piece of land. which the township
in possession. The disputed lands are the
wing liberation of Mr. Oastler—fears ster and Connaught a-e now. The Austrian government, ' ' that offer had been made to him.'
nest appeals to the Operative Class Putting out of view, too, all the difficulties of detail demesne lands of the lord of the manor, and Prescot-
b d ting the process which. we now describe, brought
As it is, what are we think of such an assertion ? hall, and the matter has been left to the decision of the
betray and trample upon • and in Y. aop
things round in three months. We see no reason why which suggest themselves, where is the assurance
rids an organ, willing to do
If it is one of the numerous inventions of this " bold
commissioner,Ti tbe Cotn i s Commissioners eras
tallied
Town-hall,
wr .11 Mathew,-1
Prescot, the assistant
the English government should not accomplish its object that the gift itself will not be turned against the
hearing
en the object of its Ear a
sufficient to keen him in as short a space of time, and with even less sacrifice
er liberty." permanence of British connection, and the British bad man," the Protestant people of England are counsel on both sides for four days. The question arose
p the question of which township was bound to relieve a
constitution in Ireland ? The very endowments surely entitled to the proof of its falsehood. If it is
onaupe r.
Having thus provided for the peace of the coon-
truth, then, what are we to think of a government Mr. BRANDT opened the case on Wednesday, on
which we furnish are—let it be borne in mind—to
:y, the writer would then introduce measures for the
which could commit the folly of entrusting its repu- the part of Whiston, by stating, that. the principal in-
be melded by an alien power—by Rome herself,—
quirt' was whether these lands were in Present or Wins-
r amelioration of the social condition of the people— '
tation to the keeping of such a man, and, above all, ton. He stated, that so far back as the reign of Henry
of that persecuting
who will never tolerate, on the part of her spiritual
'ours of his prison the formation of railroads, of harbours, &c., the en- .
could harbour the thought of degradation so utter—
theirth e
boundary,htl , the w
as i n
existence. wh i cifire ptheyut i n
a contended wasdocument
subjects, any course which has not for its objects,
couragement of fisheries, and of emigration upon an
above all other objects, the spread of her own do- of TREASON so base—as would be the compro- of the 14th Henry VIII., which had been found in the
. Upon the propriety of many of . . .
mising with arraigned traitors against the constitu- possession of the Whiston authorities, and which he con-
minion in the British empire.
tended pointed to what they consider their boundary.
se recommendations doubts may readily be en- .
tion of Great Britain ?
He also produced three land tax papers of the date of
'l'he tie which binds the priesthood of Ireland to
tertained. The consideration of these, however, is .
1692, where these lands were assessed to Whiston ; he
their flocks—the tie of dependence—and which
said that the constable of a township was always cee,ned
no business of ours here. The main features of ' ' Since the above was written, the Morning Herald,
~.
whilst it reduces them to the position of beggars, . . to the district for which he was appointed ; that the too-
which is generally received as the organ of govern- stables of Whiston had acted on that estate, and that the
the policy recommended have our full approval ;
confers upon them a spiritual power, which would
county coroner had taken inquests there. He also pro-
' and we are confident must have that of every man ment, has declared, emphatically, that " there is not
doted two or three cases and opinions in which the Pres-
s belong to them as members of an endowed
who dare look our difficulty with regard to Ireland the slightest shadow of a foundation for the state- cot authorities, he contended, had stated that the lands in
church, is not one whose value is under esti-
dispute were in Whiston. The above were all the docu-
s month's number of fearlessly in the face. The subsequent measures of ment made by O'Connell;" and further assures its
we beg to request the mated by tile astute politicians of the Vatican, mentary evidence which was put in on the part of Whis-
amelioration can he discussed hereafter. readers—
ton, with the exception of two maps of recent date.
or by the hierarchy in Ireland. However we may
_
" That statement is utterly false—false in every particu- They relied much upon the tithes of Prescot Hall estate
Ireland, which are A proposition has recently been mooted, in in- endow the priesthood, we have no security that they lar. We KNOW it to be false, and we publicly pr mlaim it having been collected with the tithes of Whiston, although
2, we have met with fluential quarters, and will no doubt be brought at will abate one jot their exactions from the 1111- ptorebseu
mfalse,
was,if i t
that
t meantany
suggestion to con vey anoff g
anyimpression, assor t wo• ef
cothe a
ilno waelcli
rates.th at it hland
sbeenu
ortim immemorially mil:I:lir i a lly
3 Pres-
tosiit of the subject are so an early period before the notice of Parliament, poveriehed people of Ireland, or consent to relax, in compromise, or, (to preclude the possibility omiscon- called several witnesses, apnd closed his ecaassee on Thursday'
ception) that any kind of suggestion has been made to night.
prescribed for; and, be- upon which we feel bound to express our views the most trifling degree, the spiritual tyranny in Mr. O'Connell in reference to the pending prosecutions, Mr. JAMES, on Friday, opened the case on the part of
f the writer's views, we clearly and distinctly, the more especially because which they now hold that people. The mind of Ire- or to the Repeal agitation, by any party who could even Present. He contended that the document of the reign
pretend to have the requisite authority for making it." of Henryf VIII., brought forward
.by Mr. Brandt, was
rom an impression that that proposition has met with a large degree of land is the weapon which they wield, and must
We long to hear the reply of O'Connell to this tualpesesoptl:terotthem,7irsptoosne. obfeeeasutaseblisihninfhae case in favor of
ring policy of Sir Robert countenance from some of our Conservative con- wield, unless they throw off the allegiance of Rome,
first place, the
present watercourse di'd not answer the description con-
i that country. So far as temporaries, and a portion of the Conservative body for the attainment of the ulterior purposes of that point-blank denial.
tamed in it ; and, secondly, if it had been ever so definite,
lisplayed itself—particu- in the legislature and throughout the country. We power; and Ireland chained down in abject slavery .
THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—On Sunday two sermons its being unsupported by any evidence shewing that
Whiston ever had possession of the disputed lands under
f the vast armed force at allude to the proposed payment of the Roman Ca- of soul—lashed now to frenzy, and now worked up were preached in Saint Augustine's Church, Shaw-street,
'it almost be viewed as tholic clergy in Ireland—and in Great Britain, as to enthusiasm by fantastic pictures of greatness by the Rev. John Jones, and the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, in it, and does away with any effect that it might otherwise
r
behalf of the schools in immediate connexien with this be supposed to have ;he should produce documents which
well, we presume—from the funds to be furnished awaiting her—is an instrument far more potent in Church.—These two learned divines, in the course of
would prove beyond doubt that this estate had always
ibielnDtwre.anteedsseass pahits of Prescot; he would also produce
the hands of Rome, than Ireland tranquil, happy, their Sermons, which were attentively listened to by very
by the state, or, more properly, the people of the
full congregations, clearly pointed out the great and pa- , living witnesses, . ,
ando testimony would go atleast as far as
iis opponents , would skew that, whatever the Wins-
United Kingdom. and submissive to the constitution of the British remount importance of the blessings and advantages of '
ton people might have thought, the Prescot people had
empire. early scriptural education. These schools, under their
never any idea of any other boundary, save that contended
Upon every ground—of justice, of expediency,
zealous and excellent pastor the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, are
Still, it will be asked, why not make this effort to in a state of great efficiency; upwards of four hundred for by them.
and of principle—we must protest against such a
thenhista
apuwt
aitnera.omoauprse made,as ivnislii73.7ineo,.
livi
eh where nom
uchseilfduriensecouflatrhei poort instruction,
hg daily,l in
principlesaddition to all alts weaken the potency of such a weapon in the hands of
e
o
measure as the endowment by a Protestant people,
me mo
amounted
to
u ptrds 0 f trace 'of AtiLIENSN' Rome ? Our answer is,—we might consent, even gospel truth. The ceolulec'tions ae a lease, dated 1612, of Prescot Hall and lands and certain
in this country or in Ireland, of a church which ac-
rights to Thomas Malbon, from the lords of the manor of
to so vast a sacrifice of consistency and character, £BO.
jPeroetsctoot
t;hseomineteorfpothsietsioenriogfhts were to be exercised sub-
knowledges as its supreme head a foreign potentate
nii 4.7,,,,,50.
WALES.—It will
beE
on the part of the British Government, and the
LATE INCENDIARY
A OR Fy
FIRES TAE
the four men of the Manor
—a church which we believe to be idolatrous and
Courttwo
i,
eoafraPareftsecrott.beTglireanTiungrt
orfoltlheoflePasreescowtisfor
putl 6
il 4,
SIUNP;OOSRET British people, could its succes-sful result be demon- remembered, that on the occasion of a recent incendiary schismatic, and to entertain views hostile to the in-
shewing that Thomas Malbon, the tenant of Present
strafed. But we maintain that it is not in this s
rifi
ar ea 1 which 1(11 iecvhi
devised
occurred g
charge
nwallortha
aid Wales,before a t
iie somewhatm a i
striant ge
se noi -f
tegrity of the empire, and the security of those Pro-
direction that our efforts should be made. Advan- Manchester, by a man named Hardman, implicating a of Hall,t hem wasa
nporre presented dt
that
holding tnheed landsi) t
the
eunder the c lords
testant institutions which are wedded to the hearts
tageous, indeed, it would undoubtedly be, if we youth of the name of Brown as the perpetrator of the Other rolls were pat in, shewine that the cOnstarbleusuroti
crime. The statement of Brown, as to his absence from the were under the
.direction of the four men,
of the majority of the British people. Such a church
could raise the standing, the morale, and the acquire- the scene of destruction at the lime, having since been and that townshipthese constables received rates from the tenant
we are content to tolerate; and its members we have
asantdisfaaetcoormilymeusntltisiohnedn,,Hasarmdtani3en wtoastfhurthertfaiTined. , of Prescot Hall ; that the highway up to the hall was re-
which of the priesthood of Ireland •; but equally so
e
es
already admitted to a full share of the privileges
would it be if we could raise the condition and Wales, suggesting that inquiries should be made whether oiTitrhede
fboyutrhme
esnurvaen)d,ortshaotf
at highwaysheeertain
sum, by
whichtire directionsd
which we enjoy as British subjects. But we can go
iinnttvaitdluoaelal7ts 1-11,4•,dnemarnesuhlitmseslft had been seen
character of the people of Ireland; and neither of
e
by the rolls to be due from Thomas Malbonapit'oeuthe
no further. PRINCIPLE—aIas, how readily is this
recentlys ueh
a u
ecxopnestriasbelseosfofsutohiel
rteowa?r,..w7irs to
James
in part payment of the
s.
of
fmgespouott in
Hall,o th other
for two
these objects, we fear, are to be obtained by subsi- evidence that he had been so seen, immwediatelyreciovreerythe
best guide overlooked in these days of expediency !
tbreo tahkingl9cuet offsttheAfire ;11 anddur)on his.d being handed over rolls, shewing that the tenant
fhhis
has
b e identityetl hundredfor
disobeyingyea rs
it back,b by
had
puttingb een
ufined
gatesby tohne
tManorhe di
disputed
dising Rome. Such a measure would only be ano-
-will allow us to go no further. We can no more
they step in that fatal course of concession, by which
clasp to the national breast an alien church, with its brought forward beforePth'e magtisetravtleetuhceereo,
committed to gaol to await his trial for the offence at the land, and for other encroachments ; and that such tenants
the Protestant interests of Ireland have already been
anti-national hierarchy, and its Romish head, than
next assizes.
had afterwards obeyed the court : the rolls also sheaved
we can submit our liberties to the keeping of a fearfully weakened another step towards the
STKE F THE PITMEN IN THE C DUR- that the P Hall een r t
triumph of Rome, or a civil convulsion, which must HAM.—RI A serious dispute has lately takenOUNTY placeOFtw en bee they had tenants
acted coofntraryrescot to thehad customsb poefe' et
Le d In' nor.
Popish sovereign. The genius of the British con-
triumph
--"-lie. Protestant ; and when it decimate the Irish people. the pitmen of the Thorneley colliery, (the property of Sir He produced an authenticated perambulation, dated 1758,
William Chaytor, Mr. Gully, and others,) and their ere_ taken by the authorities of Prescot, wherein these lands
One consummation, indeed, might be the result ployers, with respect to the interpretation to be put upon were particularly described, and a' survey, dated three
of a state provision being made for the clergy of the the bond under which the former are engaged, and the years afterwards, wherein they were also comprised. He
Church of Rome, which would not be without its ad- allege of its conditions by the latter. produced constable-rates, church-races, hig,hway-rates,
tja -fu
rd a
pleanon-fulfilment
tlirfiat they were defrauded of their fair wages land-tex assessments, from 1730, shewing that these
vantages. It might• enable a certain portion of the by the use of a weighing machine on the steelyard prinei- lands had always been rated to Prescot. He produced
clergy of the Church of England, by whose party ger2vianascteeaadtohfe apiftamirenbasltarnuceei;
work,
;;Ivaitvhei:eoernnebrmouingioirt twhheecreertteesceatleanoifisthweerreedemption of the land-tax in 1802,
redeemed as part of the township
organs it is chiefly advocated, to fall back into the up before the magistrates, at the justice-room, in the city of Prescot. He produced bills one hundred years old,
etiirreinpreiennatlut'reessclaAinfn.teedr
atosbtoerdmuye
twhienichhi.gthhwe
aoyveorsneetzofdiPspruestecodtgh:oadunpdaid for thedreprAirtf
position, which is evidently to be their ultimate one, oacfcDo ructrihnagrnt o, ftuhrerteeenuovre recovery
yf
ofth
and save us the scandal of seeing men, in heart, hearing of the case on Thursday last, at which, on both court roll books, from which it appeared thate p
the tenants
members of the former, submitting to receive the
sides, symptoms of a disposition to arrange matters were of Present Hall had attended the court of Prescot, or
manifested, the further hearing of the case was postponed paid their essoign mono Y. quite as
wages of the latter. The transition would, un- until Friday. The men, however appear to have been in habitants of any other part of the to regular as the in-
own.
tboadprhoatnrados
the
eeidr
iasdp,viotecatea,n Mr.
art.
tßoberts,head jouervnienrci insigttaindgesiorne
JaSmuecshpwrzupoaerdt o
inf thesup dooretuomfewn evidencethaTeyhb
li
dwhich Mr.
doubtedly, be more easy, and involve less of sacri-
fice, from a Protestant establishment to the bosom Friday no agreement had been come to up to the hour at witnesses to prove thatp they had .alwayse ahearitilutrrhaetrothes of a state-endowed Popish church, than from a Pro-
which our last advices reached. Meer Stone was the boundary, and that Present Hall was in
testant establishment to a church, whose Prescot. He called several who proved that the manor
THE WHIG MINISTRY.—The whig newspapers assume
ministers that Lord Melbourne and his colleagues lost office because coroner, had regularly :sat at inquests on the disputed
must stoop to practices distasteful and repugnant to
rwtahhtlespr)roposed a fixed duty on corn, and they forget (or land
il ;estthaatet
hadinaupbers gaining
ltheirl. settlements Ott Prescot
w theyer
weredetermine driven
fronmo to tofie
office
b remember)eee t b
etyh that they Igs (thet
larHye rcellevdedaboduta a treatedazzen the minds of educated men. Nay the measure proposed
the as belonging to Pr
re-
might even bring about that " Catholic Union" so confidence of the nation ; and that it was justly lost, the spectable witnesses, wino proved not only that they consi-
much sighed for in the cloisters of Oxford, and in twi:niase
awhsetnrifte,gy ios broughttaoee forward
r wotheirtherefore,bil lfor a fixedbe duty goredstablest,hgthwaLi"hialliecxtieorneiosendtitnrieirisapuuttartsytattiemaes,caond-
ashiriereosfoowthAmailpr:ldtzlerdbwtaill-rants theywhiac:)iles w
witnesses,e r Gadwere
executedw 10 appointed
i a d
too many of the pulpits of English divines. We
tcian.did,
tin these whig advocates, to ascribe the downfall of
bty the Manor Court. although
callecduoull
i\rreri.r.
(I)3a,
croonnnseti 1 other enricoas
tuspersoVartset , tot their
alt—and coalitionn ext towtihthe
cannot, however, contemplate the question in such
a light without regret and shame; and gladly leave degradation to which they submitted to preserve his been born on Prescot Hall estate, and had never heard,
it without more than this passing remark, patronage; and that to such an extent, as to obtain for until the present dispute arose, that Prescot Hall was in
themselves, even amongst their friends, the name of the Whiston : that they had played round the Meer Stone
when children squeezable administration, and, finally, to the time when, w (the boundary contended for by Prescot);
and
and to the reason why, they advocated a fixed duty of Bs. had always heard their parents and the old inhabi-
1, I These were the causes of their downfall, but these whig tants say that such Meer Stone was the boundary between
-T, advocates find that if they had the candour to make such
Prescot and Whiston. He called witnesses wino stated
w
an admission, their occupation would be gone. Hence that they had played about the ditch contended for by
these causes are kept out of sight, and their downfall is Whiston as their boundary when they were children, but
ascribed to the bare fact of having proposed a fixed duty never heard it called a boundary; never considered' it a
n
of Bs. per quarter in place of the sliding scale; whereas, brook, and that there was no running water in this ditch
,
that proposition was considered by the public, not on its 40 years ago.
ire. intrinsic merits, but only as an additional proof of the Mr. James closed his case about two o'clock, after
,
unworthy (the squeezable) motives by which the whig ad-
which Mr. Brandt replied by an eloquent appeal on behalf
ministration was guided. of Whiston.
ink EXTRAORDINARY COMMOTION AMONGST GOOD
The decision will not, of course, be known for the pre-
us t sent.
Housewives.—A contemporary, whose sources of in- ,
formation extend even into "the bowels of the earth," if The land in dispute comprises one-half of the area ofPrescot township.
vit.;
he is not also, like Glendower, on visiting acquaintance
the with the " spirits of the vasty deep," propounded, on
ext
Tuesday last, the following oracular and awful warning :
" We recommend good housewives to lose no time in
tsu looking into the state of their coal cellars!" And to
at of clench so significant an appeal to tine prudent and careful
amongst womankind, the writer continued, " for if the
ninis colliers turn out," &c. " coalswill be much clearer before
tion-
Christmas"—a conclusion which, as the old song has it,
"nobody can deny!" Had a thunderbolt fallen down the
grid, or a policeman been found secreted in the pantry of
every house in Liverpool and its suburbs—in every house,
at all events, by whose inmates our sublime contemporary
is read—a greater amount of consternation could scarcely
have been excited than was the result of this awful an-
nouncement. There was a universal " getting down
stairs" from breakfast, drawing, and dining rooms into
the subterranean apartments. Committees of inquiry sat
in every coal vault. Scuttles were everywhere overhauled ;
grates were contracted with a view to prevent the waste of
the precious material, coal ; and, in some quarters the
sifting of the cinders was tremendous. For some days
the run upon the banks (in the coal yards) was incessant ;
and tine charge of getting in a load was raised from six-
pence to one and twopence! Up to tine moment of pub-
lication we are not in receipt of any further information
with respect to this impending calamity—this threatened
decrease in the supply of caloric. Our contemporarv's
reporter is, however, no doubt actively employed under-
ground ascertaining the precise state of affairs, amongst
the ebony-faced zentlemen who are said to be conspiring
to freeze us ; and if anything very important transpires,
as the result of his explorations, we shall probably give it
in an early second edition. In the meantime, good house-
wives should be very, very careful, and put the cook upon
half allowance of coal, taking the precaution to padlock
the cellar door.

LAW-SUIT BETWEEN PRESCOT AND