The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

A. LETTER OF MEDEATION

TO THE CONGREGATION OF ST. ANDRETV'S CHUM
RODNEY-STREET.

FATHERS A!•:13 BRETHREN,—The disruption of the
Church of Scotland has begun to work divisions among
us, who were till lately a united and harmonious congre-
gation. It is, doubtless, our unanimous wish that these
divisions should be crushed at the outset. In order, if
possible, to prevent them from arising at all, our trustees
and committee of management provsed for our choice
three qualified ministers of the Free Church of Scotland.;
in terms of the new constitution, which was before unani-
mously adopted with that view by the shareholders of our
place of meeting. Some of the shareholders, however,
have since applied for and obtained an injunction from
the Court of Chancery against our choosing any minister
of the Free Church to officiate as pastor in that place.
One of three courses, therefore, must be taken by us.
1. We may submit to the injunction ; or 2, we may an-
swer it ; or 3, we may agree with the adverse parties to
settle the matter amicably by arbitration of some eminent
barrister who shall be furnished with the necessary in-
formation through fit persons selected to represent each
side.

To another paragraph we must direct attention, inas-
much as it shows that the labours of Father Mathew,
honest or not honest in intention, are at all events a part,
and an important one of the agitation for repeal. The
writer observes of the peasantry—
" If the rebellion of 1798 was spoken of, the remark
invariably made was to this effect :—"Those days, sir,
were the days of drinking R hisicy. Our people lav drunk
in the ditches, and the troops obtained an easy victory.
But now we are a sober, temperate, and religious people.'
If I heard this remark once 1 heard it fifty times."
It has always been imagined that. ignorant and duped
with respect to this question as are the Irish people, they
could never hope to contend successfully against the dis-
ciplined troops which would be brought against them
At the Police-court, on Friday, two publicans were
Such, however, it appears, as a successful stand in the This last course—friendly arbitration—
fined 60s. and 20s. each for infringing the law. One was field, was never contemplated. The reply of the peasantry ---
acquitted, as was one beerhouse-keeper ; and two of the
to any remark upon this subject was usually to the follow-
latter were fined 20s. each, and one 40s. ing effect :—'•Oh, sir, you don't suppose we shall give
CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—One morning last week,
, you the advantage of fighting a pitched battle with us?
We shall rise in our counties and baronies, and do all that
during the temporary absence of the servant, who had
we want (which means making a clean sweep of the Pro-
gone for a pail of water, leaving the front door open, some testants) ; and when the troops arrive they will find the
evil disposed person entered the house of Mr. Godfrey, people quietly at plough, and we shall be doing our work
Renshaw-street, and took thence two over-coats. elsewhere.," The military defences of the country ap-
A CAUTION TO REPEALERS.—The directors of the peered to be regarded by them with cold contempt. They
Liverpool docks have given notice, that if any of the men declared that the walls of the barracks " would be scaled
employed either in the docks or in their police shall take in every direction by night, and that the people would
any part in the Repeal movement of O'Connell, they shall tumble over by thousands, atad squeeze the troops to death,
be discontinued from any further occupation in their ser- if they did not take them out and throw them into the
vice. The same notice has been given at Bristol, where a river."
great number of Irish are also employed.—[This pars- Another circumstance, as to the ulterior views and ex-
graph has been going the round of the papers, though pectations of the peasantry, we must give in the graphic
there is not the slightest foundation for it.] words of the writer :—" There is another horrible pre-
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT NEW YORK.—A robbery vailing idea, which really startled me the first time I
was committed on the 3d ult., by breaking into the pre- heard it. I was waiting for my car early in the morning
mises of E. and S. S. Rockwell, of Broadway, New York, in the street of a small, sulky, ill-conditioned town, when,
the particulars of which reached Liverpool by the Caledo- seeing a farmer's wife setting up a potato-stall, I asked
nia, on the 17th instant. It appears that the thieves her the price of her potatoes. She gave me a civil en-
escaped with 108 valuable watches, 60 diamond rings, 60 swer ; but two men were standing by, one of whom said,
diamond breastpins, 25 gold rings set with stones, 36 gold without my having previously addressed him, or having
pencil cases, 30 gold guard chains, 20 fob chains, 36 gold made any remark calculated to encourage the observation,
'We shall eat wheaten bread next year, sir.' I was really
bracelets, a number of acqua-marine, amethyst, and topac
necklaces and brooches, black enamel brooches, and about unable to make out his drift, and told him good-humour-
-15 dozen of silver forks and spoons, &c. &c. One thou- edly that I was very glad to hear it, but begged to know
sand dollars are offered for their recovery. how the change would be brought about. ' There will be
fewer of us, ' was thenbegan SPANISH CATTLE..—Another cargo of Spanish cattle his meaning, sir thereply. I -
. k
stand his as I encouraged him to speak i arrived in Liverpool frontCorunna last week. They are
and,•
out, he proceeded to say that there were 8,000,000 of
said to be the finest yet received from Spain, and are
them, that the land was not able to bear them, that
1 worth from twelve to fifteen pounds a-head. The pre- '
. 1,000,000 or 2 000 000 might be spared with advantage,
vious lot proved to he very good cattle when slaughtered,
and that the country,:e would be for the. survivors. I after
the meat being of fine quality and with the proper mix- wards heard same idea, either in whole or in part, in
htohlei e burdenwil
will
freely
eol
yf
fall,th e
andsong
the
lalwaysand
ture of fat and lean. From the continuance of these im-
wwE 1
iavislat,rbwi`
eePat
for
syr oa toet fhstefanr survivors.
guerillat a ndarC buta
warfare
ewhicli was looked forward to ;
portations, it is reasonable to -conclude that the trade is
' not unprofitable even at present prices, although they are
said to be the lowest that have been known for a dozen
and the arms relied upon were the pike and such weapons
years, Should prices rise to their former level, the im-
portations from Spain would doubtless increase consider-
as are now used in their agrarian outrages. With respect
ably.
to the former, they reminded their catechist that " they
CORINTHI
haveANeen tSTABLISHM ENT, LORD-STREF.T. could be manufactured by any common blacksmith, in
Great as tE
he improvements of late in the prin. large numbers, in the course of a day." The same reli-
cipal thoroughfares of this town, none, we are justified in ance upon the irregular mode of warfare accounts for the
saying, can be compared with those just effected by Mr. fact that there has been less drilling, and other similar
Tutor', in the above establishment, which has, under his preparations for warlike movements, in Ireland, than has
correct taste and good judgment, become a most pleasing ever been the case previous to any attempted insurrection
and conspicuous object from all points whence a view of in any country.
it can be obtained. The centre squares of plate glass each A great reliance, too, was placed upon a presumed dis-
measure ten feet six, being the largest hitherto introduced position of the army to join the contemplated insurrection.
into this town. The interior has undergone extensive "Three-fourths of the army" it was commonly observed,
alterations, improvements, ,and embellishments ; and, al- " are Irishmen ; and every Irishman is a repealer." The
together, the premises May fairly vie with any other of opposition of the Protestants of the North they depre-
the kind in or out of Liverpool. We trust the respected ciated from the assumption that they would not stand by
proprietor will meet with an increased support commen- their landlords. The writer of the letters, from which
surate with his great outlay. The establishmen is again we gather these facts, remarks—" on no one occasion did
in full operation.—Albion. I hear it stated that they could beat the Protestants of
THE TLTRN-OUT SAILORS AT LIVERPOOL.—It will the North. What they always said was that the Protes-
be recollected that the sailors of Liverpool made several tants of the North would not turn out at the call of their
public demonstrations, a short time since, against the nobility and gentry.
enormous exactions to which they were subjected, as they It is a fact that the people never contemplated, except
alleged, by the shipping masters of the port for obtaining as a last and very improbable alternative, going to war
them berths on board vessels. They have at length sue- for the object of their agitation. They relied upon
ceeded in accomplishing one of the oblects they had in O'Connell's cunning and knowledge of the law to keep
view, namely, that of having a general registry office es- them from a collision with the authorities : and only
On Friday the nomination of candidates to represe.
tablished, where they could have their names and charac- dreamed of the necessity of resorting to violent measures,
ters entered on the books on paying the small sum of Is. if the government should interfere with the proposed as- thel city of London in parliament took place at the Guild-
each,n 1.1 Mr. Pattison was proposed by Mr. W. G. Prescott
and where the captains could resort and select their setnbly of 300 gentlemen, who were to compose O'Con-
hands. The ,Gerteral Registry -office was opened in Liver- lien's illegal parliament. Such an interference would, un- and3ro Are Travers, and Mr. Baring by Mr. Alderman
pool on Thursday morning, under the auspices of the doubtedly, have been the signal for that war of extermi. both wn and Mr. Russell Ellice. After an address from
eei
nig) cgo eo :II;
oi oeenovSfo
tati
votes
the excellent
redoxafoyeel morning,llee cn ttoarrsr
a;o althoughga enmdewoatss
ittrlieist°lnea.ansdt
inconvenience animation during
rd
itftihe-
Seamen's Friend Society, and bids fair to be eminently nation, which the Irish peasantry contemplated as the
successful. The sailors had a great meeting in Liverpool the means of arriving at their end by violence.
on Wednesday night, at the Queen's Theatre to celebrate Again recurring to the temperance movement and its
their triumph over the shipping masters and to pledge connexion with repeal, we are told that Although the
themselves to unity of action and determination of con- organisation of the temperance societies proceeded the re-
duct. peal movement, that organisation has been adopted into made iele.a:;;l:gloo,fsdtallelibilvi
i;ino:at:gustiiiretticriehso:rcifmiol
rgoiAnemrrsidses.raln.itoopwstaptto f hands
LUNATICS IN THE WORKHOUSE.—On Friday last, it. The congregation of each Roman Catholic chapel
some conversation took place (partly privately) between generally forms a temperance society. The repeal war- between eight o'clock and ten o'clock nearly 5,000 votes
Mr. Rushton, at the Police-court, and several of the dens are the officers, the temperance hand—the members were registered. The sheriffs appointed 98 poll-clerks,
overseers of the parish relative to the keeping in the of which ate dressed in uniform—are the rallying-point; each candidate appointing a check clerk • therefore the
Workhouse of seven poor lunatics, who, it appeared, had and when it is determined to show the strength of the number of clerks employed amounted to 29'1.
been sent home from the Asylum at Lancaster. Mr. country, the male members of the temperance societies Mr. Pattison had a majority of nearly 250 the first two
Rushton said that it was not proper or legal to keep them are marshalled under their respective bands and colours, hours ; but from ten to eleven o'clock Mr. Baring re-
there, where they could have no proper medical attend- and march out to the monster meeting. The people ap- duced that majority nearly 200. It was calculated that
ance from which a cure or alleviation of their disease pear to take a pride in displaying their fixity of purpose all the members of the Jewish persuasion having votes
could be expected. It was stated in explanation that and the supposed moral excellence of their cause, by an polled before nine o'clock, in order, as little as possible, to
there was no room for them in the Liverpool Asylum. obvious abandonment of their previously habitual vices. interfere with the relii,ious duties of the Sabbath.
ft
dc
candidates.
i ddaatyo,s . and,i,h asofo
ltliorew
io g electorswas t
h o arrived,s tate o f theyt
the
e werepoli
Mr. Rushton contradicted this allegation—stated that he They feel ashamed when a drunken man appears reeling The neighbourhood of Guildhall was densely crowded
nhideth cheers and hisses by the partisans of the dif-
had made personal enquiry of the governor of that es- in the streets, and I have seen them rebuke mendicant tablishmemt, and found that he had never been applied whom they bare observed in the act of importuning isi
Mr. Baring 's Committee. Mr. Pattison's Committee.
to at all on the subject, and that he had room for ten stranger. Intoxication is now rarely seen in Ireland. I at the close :
patients. He further gave notice to the overseers, that visited three crowded fairs, and did not see a single in_ at
if the unfortunate individuals were not removed on the stance of it; and I did not observe more than six or seven 1 following day, he should inflictithe full penalty of the law drunken people all the time I was in Ireland."
on them (the overseers). The parties thereupon left the The most serious phase of the state of feelim: in Ireland I Baring. ..... . 6396 Baring 6334
court. ;. sae te,-1:-.....:_e ..s_ __.,. , .. et
nct
uaoirlrtbrhie,

The CHAIRMAN said, that the next business of the
board was the appointment of a surveyor of buildings for
the township. There had been five applications to the
committee, three of whom were architects, and the other
two were engineers. The committee had fixed upon Mr.
Walter Scott, architect, for the situation, at a salary of
£250 per annum.
The appointment was confirmed by the board, after
which they adjourned.

This last course-1i.... -would be far th
most summary and expeditious, as well as the least ex-
pensive. How distres,ing will it be to have one place of
worship closed and the flock scattered during the twelve-
month or more that may elapse while the suit is pending!
How sad to sr end in law expenses one, two, or three
thousand pounds, that may build one or more chapels, or
be otherwise better employed in promoting the gospel!
But further, this last course (seeing the first alternative—
unqualified submission—cannot be entertained) is the
most consistent with the letter and spirit of the New Tes-
tament. Let the 6th Chapter of lst Corinthians be read
as far as far as verse 7, where it is said, " But brother
goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers
[a term too applicable to many ci‘, il judges] ; now, there-
tore, there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to
law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong ?"
&c. There is reason to hope that the parties at whose
instance the injunction was sought will be willing to accede
to such a proposal if made, and surely it will he unbe-
corning in us to refuse to make it. Let us try what can
be done in this way, and if our proposal is scouted, which
I am confident it will not be, we can go to law with a
safer conscience, and may expect a greater blessing on
our cause.

We cannot but regret that some misapprehension of
motives, not perhaps amounting to bitterness, has already
been engendered on both sides. I beseech the congrega-
tion to regard our adversaries in the suit as brethren,
seeking like ourselves the good of the Scotch population
of Liverpool, but differing from us as to the means of
effecting it. They believe the Established Church of
Scotland the best medium ; we believe on the other hand
the Free Church, or our own English Synod, the best
medium. They conceive the first constitution and original
design of the Rodney-street Church bind it inalienably
and exclusively to the Establishment ; we are led to con-
clude the shareholders had full power to unite it equally
to the Free Church. There is, therefore, a difference of
\v‘N,
Tehaiir
ce
‘,ovretei in
knowdoetnr
not
haen ds
eicnreatt tparci
nh_-
mopeinnti otno eteiiret agi
onslpy
e,
i. but
ciples of their heart, shall we claim for ourselves more
love to Christ, more submission to His holy will ?—nay ;
1 rather think were we and they to reverse our positions,
we might act very much as they are doing. if the friends
of the Free Church had built a splendid edifice, and from
some alteration of feeling their representation had changed
its understood original destination, and allowed it to fall
so thoroughly into the system of the Established Church
as tat no minister of the Free could thereafter officiate
there, would we not complain and seek redress? I say
this to remove any undue harsh construction of our ad-
versaries' conduct. If some of them condescend to read
my remarks, I trust they will not think the less seriously
of the very solemn responsibility they are bringing them-
selves under, that of taking a course which may deprive
the congregation of a minister of their own choice, or drive
many of us from our accustomed place of worship, never
again to assemble in this world as one flock. Such con.
sequences we may well deplore and deprecate. May the
providence and mercy of the Almighty Head of the Church
save us from enduring them by bringing light out of dark-
ness, and restoring peace and unity.—Your affectionate,
faithful servant,

ONE OF YOUR COMMITTEE

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION

_....gy of the priesthood in
NEW LIFE-PRESERVER.—lnventions for the preser- the agitation, and their contemplation of violence
vation of life, in cases of shipwreck or disaster at sea, means of working it out to a triumphant is.s,
have of recent years been very numerous, and several of priests of the old school, most of them of fore
t them highly ingenious, and apparently of great practical lion, held themselves for a time aloof ;but they were b-
utility.
In 1841 the unsuccessful candidate (NI
.r Attwood
to understand that a loss of temporal comforts and spirt. .....
ziz
ance, and the ease and readiness with which it may be tual power would be the result of a perseverance in their
utility. One of the best, if we may judge from its appear-
ot In 1535 Sir M. Wood headed the poll with b,
polled 6,212 ; Sir M. Woo d „ 631" ; and Mr. M a asterman
available in cases, or in apprehension, of danger, is that isolation ; and they ultimately submitted. The eleves of
6,339 votes.
now on sale at the Union Cloth Hall, North John-street, Maynooth, however, most of them the sons of small far-
0n1an1iaimrpacra........,..zer.,...1.1111101
and a specimen of which may be seen for a few days at the mers, and allied in feeling with the mass of the peasantry, Suicinx.—On Tuesday last, Samuel Hanvey, an ap-
office of this paper. It consists of a handsome double- have entered into the agitation without hesitation, and Prentice to Mr. Owen, plumber, Williamson-square. ter-
breasted waistcoat, of fine woollen tartan, lined, or rather with determined resolution to rush to their purposes, minuted his existence by hanging himself, in a cellar
through all the risks and bloodshed of a rebellion. The
doubly cased within, with strong patent air-tight cloth,
under his master's shop. Mr. Owen having occasion to
which may be immediately inflated by the breath through feelings of this class are correctly represented by the fol-
go down into the cellar in the evening, found the deceased
low.ing extract from the speech of the Rev. Mr. Cantwell,
a tube attached to each side near the top, and which may
suspended from a beam. He was cut down directly, but
be instantly raised to the mouth on an emergency. When parishi priest, ofl'rornore, at the latoenmneol?swt7llT,ring
eat was quite dead. The deceased was of a lively disposition,
thus filled with air, it is capable of sustaining any one in L
-more. 'He could support O'C
with Look • t thatvolc sun"' and had been seen about half an hour before in the shop ;
.he would support him more... a .
the water, even though he were no swimmer, and weighed tand no evidence was produced calculated to furnish the
(said the rev.gentleman stretching forth his right arm).
upwards of 20 stone. It is a garment, moreover, whichslightest reason for the commission of the dreadful act.
After the n n'fieent scene I have this day witnessed,
. Verdict accordiogly,
would evidently be exceedingly warm And comfortable on
171 die death Ireland f " (T
a eat , or seeree. remenoous
Shipboard, and withal very becoming. (See advert.)
. cheering and waving of hats.) 'lbis disposition of the TRADE PROSPECTS.—The circular of Messrs. Daniel
SINGULAR ACCIDENTS FROM LIGHTNING.—During priesthood has given the repeal movement all the weight Buchanan. Sons, and Co., of Liverpool, gives the follow-
the thunderstorm on Thursday week the house of Mr. J. of a religious cause in the eyes of a supereitious people ; ing satisfactory description of the state of busineis
Langshaw, farmer, at Speke, was struck by lightning. and furnishes a clue to the causes of that excitement, in this port and the manufacturing districts :—"The
The electric fluid, it is said, entered through the window, which Englishmen and the world have always set down favourable change which has of late been so perceptible
knocking part of it down. It passed into a room in as resulting from a disposition to be gulled by mingled in business, daily becomes more established, and pdblie
which Mrs. Lan shave's brother was sleeping, and must folly and knavery. By this interference and agency, the opinion (always very influential) goes to confirm the
have crossed very near to him, for it knocked out several organization of the people has been rendered complete. anticipation of an early return to foriner good times •, so
of his teeth and singed all the hair of his head. The walls After service every Sunday the priest puts off his sacred favourable a state of markets has not existed mince Ins,
of the apartment were blackened, many articles of apparel character and assumes that of the demagogue. The though at that period it was perhaps the result of a
which hung therein were perforated as if riddled by shot, women and children are sent out of chapel, and
the men temporary excitement; whereas now it is produced by
and a chest of drawers completely shattered to pieces. are lectured on political sübjects for hours
The lightning next ascended to the lower part of the The objects of all parties are thus described by good business doing in the manufacturing districts gene-
building, the
building, tore up the floor of the milk house, smashed the writer of these letters :—rally is sure to lead to greatly increased consumptior
vessels that contained the cream, hut did riot touch the ~ The primary object of the pee t .q, n to „i The demand there experienced comes froxr
crockery-ware on the shelves. Mrs. Langshaw was seated the temporalities of the EstablisihseitkoLo_ doubt
_, -
at the kitchen fire when the fluid passed through that have also a fora,— -1-•
apartment. She states, that the lightning appeared to i .
settle upon her knee for . r.,,,,--‘ - "

Majority .... 145
In 1832, Mr. Grote won with 8,41
5,152 votes. Since that period till
progressively declined—that of the
ed

Majority

Mr. Lyall lost with
iheral majority has

gn educa-

Lin; h Everibody in the south of Ireland, both Protestant and
Witho ut*
Ireland a Catholic country'
Throughout the n
hatoldrsethbeeniodnisgazetaoreda
Catholic, admits that if an insurrection were to succeed. experience the
6'l•
'eur"ainu y r ia njmu royEn. e nAt
neighbouring farmer was found dead in a ditch, having Fis
Ille Protestants n-rnct been killed by the lightning.

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hall, most

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gistrates is accused (
license !' "

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f tile movement in the back ground. The same w.
" that one of the Welsh ma- '.°
done by the leaders in the movement of 1798 ; but the . - -
shooting himself without a ,
mlisation of whirl
moment the rebellion broke out, it assumed the character I _ .

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