The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-17 00:00:00

LONDON

The hurricane was at its height at London at one o'clock
on Friday, having commenced early in the morning. The
metropolitan journals of Saturday give distressing accounts
ofits ravages in and around the metropolis. Some of the
streets were strewed with fragments of broken chimney-pots,
tiles, slates, &c. ; while out of town, trees, palings, &c. bad
been blown down in all directions. Mr. Feltham; a cow-
keeper, of Somerstown, was killed by the fall of a stack of
chimnies in Portland-place. The steamer Monarch sunk
in the river at Limehouse. The crew were saved, but the
cargo (teas, &c.) is next to valueless.

IRELAND.
The hurricane was severely felt over the whole of Ireland.
A letter from Wexford, dated Saturday, informs us, that it
began to blow early on the preceding evening, and increased,
towards midnight, to a complete tempest. We lament to
state, that the ship Santon, Captain Huxtable, from Calcutta
for this port, one of Messrs. T. and J. Brocklebank's fleet,

went on shore, in the course of the night, in Ballyteigue Bay,
about two miles from the spot where the American ship
Vermont was lost a few months ago. Captain ilurtable and
three of his crew, we lament to add, were drowned. The
ship would, it was feared, become a complete wreck.

SUNDERLAND

At Sunderland, two ships were wrecked in the course of
Thursday night. On Friday forenoon two brigs were driven
on shore at Tynemouth. One was the Percy, Hair, from

townsmen, the most of wl:ose families were among

sembled spectators on the beach) were exposed to the most
fearful danger. A rope was thrown to the deck, and the
apparatus put into operation. Captain Hair, the cook, and
his son were put into the slings, but, from the lurching of
the vessel, to which the rope was attached, they were, it is

supposed, thrown out, and all three drowned. The fate of
Mr. Hair (who struggled for nearly twenty minutes amidst
the raging surf, catching at one time the rope with his heels,
and then approaching almost to the rock, as if determined
not to die) was past describing ; but, alas! he, as well as his
comrades, perished under the eye of friends, family, and ac-
quaintance. His body has since been found. The remainder
of the crew were saved by the heroism and bravery of a

put off in a bOar, and succeeded in rescuing the remainder of
the crew, four in number. The life-boat approached so near
as to hazard in great peril the lives of the men in her, but
did not succeed in reaching the vessel.

ILFRACOMBE, SALCOMBE, &C

At Ilfracombe the schooner Ringdove, from Prince Ed-
ward's Island, was totally lost during the storm within s few
miles of the Harbour, and has since gone to pieces. The
crew were saved by a boat belonging to the Coast Guard
Service, which took them off the vessel just before she
struck. Another vessel called the Diligence, Edwards mas-
ter, of Aberdovy, went down in deep water off the Grassholm.
The crew took to the boat, and landed at St. David's about
four o'clock on Friday afternoon. The vessels are valued
at £1,200.
SALCOMBE

A fearful storm raged here for twenty-four
hours. unroofing the houses in the town, and tearing
up trees by their roots. In the river several vessels have
driven from their moorings, and two ships, the Dove and the
Commerce, are on shore outside the harbour, in a most dan-

gerous situation.
At Hull the gale was also severely felt. A vessel called
the John and Susan, from Shoreham to Stocton, was wrecked
at about 4 o'clock in the morning, near Lower Coates' for-
tunately the crew were saved.
Among other wrecks reported to have occurred in the
hurricane are the brig Resolution at Orfordness, crew saved ;
a Scotch schooner near the same spot; the William the
Fourth and the Moore upon the sands in Stokes-bay ; the
Despatch on shore at Mistley ; the Two Brothers on shore
at Southsea beach ; the Henry Brougham on shore at Fake-
field, and two others.
It is feared that two or three vessels foundered in the
course of Friday morning off Dungenness, and that all on
board perished.
A dreadful shipwreck happened near Boulogne, within a
.hrirt distance of the snot where the Reliance East Indiaman

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was lost a short time since. The Albion, Captain Thompson,
in making through the Downs for the Thames, was driven
on shore, where she became a wreck. The crew, it is feared

all perished

We learn, from the Cork Constitution of Saturday, that
the storm was severely, though not fatally, felt in and near
the city, particularly on Friday. It commenced with vivid
flashes of lightning ; and thunder was heard from the west-
ward. At six in the morning it blew a hurricane, and con-
tinued with little abatement until evening. The shops' shut-
ters were closed during the day, lest the glass should be
blown in. A nnmber of large trees were blown down in the
neighbourhood. At Cove some of the shipping sustained
damage—including the Royal Saxon, from China.

THE EXTRAORDINARY FALL OF THE

BAROMETER

The Manchester Guardian, of Saturday, thus notices the
phenomenon of the extraordinary fall of the mercury :
"Yesterday there was one of the most remarkable depressions
of the barometer that has been observed in this town since
the year 1824, when one very nearly similar occurred. Du-
ring the greater part of Thursday. although there was a
severe frost, the mercury was low, and inclining downwards.
Towards evening it began to fall with great rapidity ; and, at
eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, had reached the extraor-
dinary law point of 27,90, according to avery good barometer,
belonging to Mr. Ronchetti, of Market-street. Most of the
wheel-barometers in the town, including the one upon the
Exchange, which is a very good one, had passed the lowest
point of depression marked upon them, and appeared to be
a little above 'settled fair.' About half-past eleven, the ba-
rometer began slowly to rise again at seven o'clock yester-
day evening it had reached 28,10, and was then steadily
rising. No doubt this very extraordinary variation in the
barometic pressure was connected with some violent convul-
sion of the atmosphere, of which we shall, probably, hear
the particulars in a few days. Here we had nothing more
extraordinary than a strong gale from the south or southwest,
which began shortly after midnight, and blew in sudden and
violent gusts unlil seven or eight o'clock in the morning.
The remainder of the day was nearly calm, with occasional
showers ; and towards evening heavy rain set in, with every
appearance of a continuance.
" Since the above was written, we have received a com-
munication from Dr• Dalton, through Mr. Peter Clare, which
gives a somewhat different account of the depression yester-
day. And it is obvious from a comparison of the results
obtained from his and Mr. Ronchetti's instruments, that
they are differently graduated ; Dr, Dalton's standing about
one-tenth of an inch higher on each observation. The fol-
following are the particulars with which the doctor has fur-

wished us :
" ' Yesterday (Thursday) at 6 o'clock p.m., the mercury
began to descend in the barometer, and in flue hours sunk
•12 of an inch, when it stood at 28,05 inches. This, (Friday)
morning at eight o'clock, it stood 28.15 in., and gradually
descended until 2 p.m.' when it was observed at 28 62, being
lower by •16 of an inch than Dr. Dalton ever observed it at
Manchester. The only depression which he has found in
his journal of observations made in Manchester for upwards
of 49 years, that approaches the nearest to the present, oc-
curred on the 23rd of November, 1824, when the mercury
stood at 28-18 inches. The mean height of the Barometer,
as adduced from the doctor's observations for the last 49
years, is 26,885, being 1-865 inch higher than the height it
stood at to-day (Friday). The mercury is now ascending
rapidly at 4 p.m., it was 28-10 ; at 8 p.m.. it was 28-20
at 9 p.m., it was 28-27.'
Mr. Holden, the astronomer, has also noticed the plie-;
nomenon in a letter addressed to the editor of the Preston
Pilot.

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON PILOT

" SlR,—This morning. (Friday, January 13th) the baro-
meter was lower than I have seen it at any time since I began
to observe. At Bh.. a.m., the mercury, in a standard ba-
rometer was at 27-99 ; at 11h. 30w., a.m. it stood at 27.93.
This is very uncommon, and particularly so at the low eleva-
tion which my house is above the level of the sea, which cannot
exceed 80 feet. As the wheel barometers, some of them have
actually gone round to ' very dry ' I expect we shall hear of
a great storm that has happened somewhere, either this
morning or last night.—l am, sir, yours, &c.,
" Jordan-street. " M. H OLDEN."
" STATEMENT OF BAROMETER AT THE LITERARY AND

PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION, ON FRIDAY, JANUARY
13, 1842, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Barometer
Attached Thermometer so'
External do. 36*

CORRESPONDENCE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

request the favour of your inserting in to-morrow's
Standard the enclosed correspondence. Those numbered
1,2, 3, are copies ; that 4, is the original. To the dispas-
sionate judgment of the parishioners generally, I leave it to
be decided whether the coarse and offensive language applied
to me in the letter No. 4 could possibly be justified by the
fact of my having civilly requested the writer to correct the
exclusive title of " Catholic," which, as I have always
maintained, belongs to the clergy of that branch of the
Catholic Church established in this realm, and is unjustly
assumed by the separatists who adhere to the foreign Church
of Rome ; and whether the threat of personal violence which
that letter contains can possibly be worthy the character and
principles of one who boasts of himself that he is episcopally
ordained, and therefore a divinely consecrated minister of
the gospel of peace. I am not sorry, also, to furnish the
parishioners with a specimen of what they might expect in
language and temper, if ever such a priesthood -should ge
upper hand.—l am your obedient servant,

WILLIAM 13IRKETT,
(Churchwarden of the Parish of Liverpool
January 16th, 1843.

" SIR,—In accordance with the resolution, of which we
hand you a copy on the other side, we, the Catholic clergy
of St. Mary's Chapel, Edmund-street, on behalf of our con-
gregation, beg respectfully to lay before you the destitute
state of the poor children committed to our pastoral care, in
the hope that, as a friend to morality and education, you
may be induced to aid us in providing them with the means
of instruction.

" Our district comprises the whole of that part of the town
which lies north of Dale-street, and west of Byrom-street
and Vauxhall-road, and is, as will readily be conceived, the
poorest district and most densely populated with Catholic
children of any in the town.

" From the result of our inquiries, we are assured that
there are upwards of 1,000 poor Catholic children in our
district left in total ignorance, for whilst every other district
in the town has a school attached to each Catholic chapel,
which though inadequate to the wants of the Catholic popu
lation in those districts, affords education to large numbers
of children, in our district the poverty of our flock has hith-
erto rendered them unable to build a school, but with the
blessing of God and the aid of a generous public, we propose
to remedy this crying evil, and to erect a school capable of
containing a thousand children, where they may receive an
education that will not only contribute to their advancement
in life, but by teaching them the duties of man to his fellow-
man, and of the creature to his Creator, make them become
good citizens and worthy members of society.

" Whilst the school question was in agita'tion, and we had
the sympathy and support of men of great character and
attainments who differed from us in religious views, we had
hoped almost against hope' that provision would be made
out of the public funds for the education of the poor, but now
that the town-council have by a.large majority decided that
we shall not have education upon the only terms which, con-
sistently with our religious principles, we can accept it, we
ask you—we entreat all by the instinctive feeling of sympathy
which man feels for his fellow-man, by the natural claims
which the poor have upon the wealthy, and above all, and
before all, by the touching appeal of the ignorant and unen-
lightened for their information and instruction, to help us in
erecting a school for their accommodation.

" Though our appeal be now to the benevolence ani
charity of the public, we may humbly suggest that ou
children, having been deprived of a participation in the corn.
mon funds of the borough, they have indirectly some claim
upon the justice of the community to provide them witl
education.

" Subscriptions will be gratefully received at our Chape
House, 50, Edmund-street, and at the Liverpool Borougl
Bank, in Water-street

" THOMAS FISHER,
" JAMES WILKINSON,
" WILLIAM DALE.
" Edmund-street, Liverpool, 19th Dec., 1842."

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" 'At a AIEETING of CATHOLICS of the DISTRICT Of ST.
MARY'S CHAPEL, Edmund-street, Liverpool, held at the
Grecian Hotel, on the 16th December, 1842,
The Rev. JAMES WILKINSON in the Chair,
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :
" I.—That this meeting views, with feelings of deep re-
gret, the decision of the Town Council, on Wednesday last,
whereby all hope of the poor Catholic children of the town
being educated at the expense of the common fundrden o of the
borough has been virtually annihilated, and the buf
educating their destitute poor has thus been thrown on the
members of the faith already overburdened with the support
of thei own curces and charitable institutions, for they
cannot receive instruction in the form now offered at t
Corporation Schools.
" 2.—That considering education to be one of the great-

eat blessings that can be conferred upon youth, wefeel that
notwithstanding our many other responsibilities, it is ov
duty as Catholics, and as men, to n.•-'• •
to educate the Catholic children of the town,-jrb
been abandoned to ignorance and crime -•
the public purse.

e a vigorous struggle
ive thus

3.—That in pursuance of the above resolution, we
forthwith issue an address to the friends of education, of all
religious denominations, in the town, intreating them to aid
us by their contributions in providing that education for our
children, which has been refused by those whose bounden
duty it was to have provided it.

' 4.—That we tender our heartfelt thanks to
bers of the Town Council who, while differing
creed, have so ably and so well advocated the cl
poor Catholic children to a secular education con:
their religious principles.

44 ' JAMES WILKINSON, Chairm

s of the

" REVEREND SIR,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of
a printed circular,•signed Thomas Fisher, James Wilkinson,
and William Dale, in which they style themselves the
Catholic clergy of St. Mary's Chapel, Edmund-street,'
together with a printed copy of resolutions adopted at s
meeting of Catholics of the district of St. Marv's Chapel
Edmund-street, held on the 16th December,
which you presided.
" As I cannot recognise any one as a Catholic
of this town, who has not taken orders, and made a declara
tion in conformity with the rubric of the established church
and the laws of the realm, nor any ecclesiastical district that
has not received the legal sanction of the Lord Bishop of the
Diocese, (the Bishop of Chester,) which, the one alluded to,
to my certain knowledge, has not, Edmund-street being, in
fact, within the ecclesiastical district of the Parochial Chapel
of our Lady and St. Nicholas, and under the spiritual care
of the Catholic rectors of the parish and their curates •
feel myself under the necessity of returning them to •-
correction in these main particulars.
" I am, Reverend Sir, your obedient

1842, ove

" WILLIAM -BIRKETT,
" Churchwarden of the Parish of Liverpool
" Si. Nicholas' ,3d January, 1843.
"To the Rev. James Wilkinson, Chairman.'

" SlR,—Though I cannot but characterize the letter which
you have been pleased to address to me as impertinent and
presumptuous, yet as I readily give you credit

and attribute in a great measure to ignorance the b
intolerant_effusions in which you are in the hahi

ging, I will, for your instruction, reply to your civil epi
" And, first with regard to my ordination. That -
not entered the ministry by makin

gh. I ha

by the rubrics of the established church, permit roe, Sir, to
inform you that the mimics of that church recognise the va-
lidity of my ordination ; and if from a desire to have less
labour and better pay on any other equally creditable motive,
I were to apostatize from the faith of my fathers, and embrace
a creed in conformity with the" laws of the realm," a bishop
of your church would readily admit the validity of my ordi-
nation, and at once appoint me to a cure.
" Before you, a layman, again take the liberty of writing
to a clergyman upon a subject, on which any intelligent and
well educated minister of the established church will tell
you that you are evidently uninformed, I would respectfully
suggest to you that " the better part of valour is discretion,'
and that from other hands you may receive a castigation
which it would be unbecoming in me to inflict.
" And now as to my designating myself a Catholic clergy-
I am (I say it in all reverence, and with a sense of my
own unworthiness) a " Catholic clergyman," a humble mi-
nister of the ancient faith—" Catholic" in every attribute
and in every sense—" Catholic" in all ages and in all nations
—" Catholic" by the received and admitted consent of man-
kind—properly designated " Catholic" in history, in geogra-
phy, in the works of travellers, in the senate, at the bar, in
the public journals,* in the drawing_room, and in every
other department and locality (unless an exception be found
in the vestry of the church of " our Lady and St. Nicholas.")
" Are we then to be told, in the nineteenth century, by the
member of a church established by and in conformity with
the " law of the realm," and whose recent origin and very
constitution render the name " Catholic," as applied to his
church, a mockery, that we have for centuries usurilLta title
which he has now discovered belongs to him ! Doe ,lit thi
savour of a desire " to assume a virtue if you have

Even your zeal, as a warden of the temporalities of the
church, and your evident anxiety to have its spiritual govern-
ment committed to your care, can hardly excuse your pre-

sumption

Having now answered your note, permit me, in conclusion,
to say that in appealing to you, and I may add to Christians
of every denomination in the town, we did so in the hope
that seeing the position in which our poor children had been
placed by the recent decision of the Town Council, men
would forget the bitterness of religious animosity, and yield-
ing to the better and more noble feelings of their nature,
would sty to us in charity and kindness " Though we pity
the ignorance and deplore the delusion under which you are
labouring, yet as you are actuated by a sincere desire to
save from vice and immorality the children of your faith, we
will forget the difference of creed, and as friends of education
aid you in instructing the ignorant."
" We regret if we have failed to raise these sentiments in
your head, but with the settled conviction of the r

_hteous-
-1 to the jus-

Hess of our cause. we will persevere in our apnea
tice and sympathies of the public.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant.

"JAMES WILKINSON

" St. Mary's, Edmund-street.
" Liverpool, 9th January, 1843.
" William Birkett, Esq., Churchwarden, &c."
* This word is spelled " joarnels " In the original, but
pose it to have been a mere lapsus pennce.

MR. HAMMOND AND THE MINOR THEATRE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—In reading the Liverpool Albion of this day, I
noticed a letter signed " Fair Play," in which the con-
sistency of the proprietors of the Theatre Royal in this town
is questioned in protecting the patent rights of that establish-
ment. In consequence of my being the present lessee of the
theatre, and heretofore opposed to the proprietors, as co-
partner with Mr. Raymond in the management of the Liver
Theatre, I reluctantly give publicity to a correspondence with
that gentleman on this subject; but I have the less hesita-
tion in the matter as Mr. Raymond has ceased to be the
manager of the Liver Theatre, and, consequently, his in-
terest cannot be affected by the course I now adopt. In
justice, therefore, to myself, and in deference to the propri-
etors f the Theatre Royal, whose kindness and liberality to
me I take this method publicly to acknowledge, I will as
briefly as possible state facts, from which it will appear,
however the management of the Liver Theatre might have
been rendered liable to penalties by infractions of the patent
rights of the Theatre Royal during the period in which I was
connected with it, I was not a willing party to proceedings
which, being but a partner with Mr. Raymond, I had not
the power to prevent. Some time ago I was strenuously
urged, in a letter from Mr. Raymond, to be guided by the
advice of a professional gentleman in this matter ; and I
refer you to that portion of the letter which bears upon the
point in question, which is to the following effect
" Liverpool, 25th Nov.,s 1833.we1l
By 's advice I write a few lines. Holloway was to
have opened last night, but has received a notice, from the
proprietors, saying they would prosecute if he did : he now
does not open till we do. thinks it probable we may
be served with a notice, (which, in my opinion, as
his, will do no harm,) bit recommends us to be prepared
against the worst. The following is his advice.
" In case of information remove it to the King's Bench
we are sure to lose as the law stands, unless they make some
flaw : if they succeed they issue execution."
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the following reply :

" Sheffield, 27th Nov., 1833.
" As regards the notice to Holloway, for my own part I
think the proprietors are perfectly right ; it is not to be sup-
posed that they would suffer any place of amusement to be
opened during the regular season of the Theatre Royal.
With respect to the warrant of attorney, I do most decidedly
object to it. If the proprietors. are determined to prevent
the opening of any other theatrical establishment in Liver-
pool, all the quirks and trickeries- of the law cannot excuse
us, and inevitable ruin must be the consequence ; but let us
meet our fate fearlessly and honestly. m'y' opinion is, that
the proprietors will not interfere after the royal house is
closed, provided we do not act the legitimate dramas. If they
do, we are only in the
.same situation we have always been,
and must battle it out in the best way possible." '
I refrain from all comment upon this correspondence, and
shall only say the letter of Mr. Raymond and my answer are
in my possession, and open to the inspection of any person
who may be desirous to peruse them. Your insertion of the
above in the STANDARD of to-morrow will oblige, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
W. J. HAMMOND.

Theatre Royal, Liverpool,
Jan. 16, 1842.

THE HALIFAX MAIL STEAM SHIP " BIIITTENNIA.—
OUT old friend and townsman, Captain Hewitt, commander
of this North American Steamer, continues to earn " golden"
or rather " silver" opinions for all sorts of men with whom
Y Atlantic. We find by the Boston
hmeirrorof traversesth teh2e to 4
tshpr m
December that the vessel had on her last
ontward voyage experienced very boisterous weather almost
throughout, and had also encountered some heavy gales,
during which the sea broke over the ship, and she received
some slight damage in her light wood-work above, but noth-
ing to impede her progress. The passengers represented the
conduct of Captain Hewitt, his officers and crew, as of the
most skilful and gallant character, and desirous of expressing
their obligations to Captain Hewitt had (on the I9th of
Decamber on board the ship) presented him with a handsome
Silver Tea-service, accompanied by the following address :
Captain John Hewitt,
Dear Sir—In behalf of all the passengers on board the
Steamship Britannia, we solicit your acceptance of the ac-
companying testimonial of their esteem and friend:ll'f%
The unceasing exeteton and ability you displayedidmlag the
continuance of a gale of unusual severity and duration,more
de-
mand from us some acknowledgement of our gratitude:
particularly, as your activity placed you in imminent
person al
hazard.

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(c)ir‘vehbuevieorsotdtuhhtiat you will convey to your officers and crew
sense of the d • ble manner in wthhaitcphrothveidyenhcaevwe
which
; and trusting that
over you in all similar dangers, and
our
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sir, faithfully
voyage to a close, will watch
and prosperity.
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y ours,bestow on you all health
llg.,nied by five gentlemen on behalf of the passengers.
Vt. th reference to the personal danger alluded to—to which
Captain Hewitt was exposed, we find some interesting- facts
in a letter from one of the passengers, dublished in the New
York Journal of commerce. It apdears that on the 12th
December, while the ship was in longitude SS' she encoun-
tered a tremendous gale of wind from the NW. She was
going easy under close-reefed storm sails, when, at 6in the
morning, she shipped a sea' which struck her on the larboard
side, before the paddle box, and completely filled the deck,
Captain Hewitt was at the time standing on the grating abaft
at the wheel giving directions to the steersman, and the third
officer was standing near him. The captain was lifted from
his feet, and when he recovered from the immersion in the
huge wave that appeared to overwhelm the vessel, he found
himself entangled on the guy of the spanker boom, outside
the saffrail. He instantly took advantage of that slender
stay and the small iron rail on the top of the taffrail, and
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complained,esmightb"anPdecntoellai carried
screw of the machinery was strained.
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on board of her, that the brass ballustrade, or railway
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