The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

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. 10 CORRESPONDENTS. large towns, whilst houses, more imposing in size commencement of the agitation had surprised the
We have not heard of any step having been taken to convene a ' and construction, have been deteriorating in value, public by its unusual decision, launched a furious
county meeting in Lancashire to express its sentiments on
and have become ent'rely unremunerative. In our phillippic against the Pope of Rome for another act
the Papal Aggression. Nearly every. other county has spo- own town we have hundreds of streets, composed of interference committed by him in Ireland, which
ken out boldly. The 114,41 Sheriff or Staffordshire has con-
vened a county meeting, which wilt be held in Stafford to- of the larger description of property, the rental of country had previously been regarded by the minis- 1
flay. which, where they are tenanted at all, has fallen terial party as his spiritual fief. The indignation of
---- fully one third during the last ten years. Take the Times was splendidly vigorous. But what had :
- Ebe Eibtrpool tailbatii. away the window tax, and these houses, from their been the offence committed? His holiness had aim- (
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--- . superior eligibility for families, will be sought out, ply created an additional bishop, to take a portion i
TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 28; 1851. and rise in value. But the smaller class of pro- of the duties of the Roman Catholic diocese of •
perty, not subject to window tax, will, whilst exile- Cloyne, at the request of the bishop of that diocese ! i
THE Dublin University Magazine, for the present riencing no relief from one part of the scheme, be The offence was a feather weight compared with ,
month, contains an article which, if correct in the directly mulcted by the imposition of the house the wholesale insults which the Times and the
interpretation which it puts upon the existing law, duty. In fact cottage property and its occupants whigs had previously swallowed in Ireland; and
as a affects the recent Papal usurpation, is highly will he taxed to lighten the pressure upon more the only conclusion to be drawn is that it was
important, and discloses some points which have valuable property. Under such circumstances, the eagerly seized hold of to afford an index of the
thus far escaped the notice of even legal writers measure, as a whole, we feel confident, will give intention of the premier, to extend his indig-
and speakers upon the subject. Of course we have widely spread dissatisfaction. Take off the window nation to the doings of the Pope in that quer-
neither the authorities before us, nor the required duty, if the revenue can afford it. Take a part off ter. We may he sanguine in our hopes, derived
knowledge to enable us to give an opinion if the revenue cannot afford the whole. But to clog from these signs and portents, that the approach-
whether our contemporary is fully warranted in the proposed boon by the imposition of a house duty the ing measures of Lord John will be bold and worthy
views he takes or ie !Int. Wt do not, however, is the mere shifting of the burthen from one back of the name which he bears. To our readers, how-
. remember any previous mention having been made to another. Moreover, it has not the fact to recom- ever, we leave it to draw their own conclusions
•of the fact that the Act of Roman Catholic Eman- mend it of enabling us to get rid of any portion of from the circumstances which we have laid before
cipation imposed a definite penalty upon parties the officials by whom the duties of collection and them.
Assuming as Roman Catholic Archbishops or assessment are performed. .
Bishops territorial titles, or that such penalty had Sir Charles Wood, if the merit of this scheme is THE NORTHERN HOSPITAL.—ITS MEDICAL
been repealed by any subsequent legislation. We his, is really the most unfortunate of financiers. STAFF.
give the argument of the Dublin University, in the Last session he gave us, what he has been little
hope that it may he found correct, and thus more thanked for, a repeal of the duty on bricks. This An honorary surgeon will be elected for the Northern
stringently bind her Majesty's Government to take year he practically reverses his course, so far as Hospital very shortly, to supply the vacancy caused by the
prompt steps in a matter so important : two thirds of our population at least are concerned, retirement of Mr. Stubbs, who has for the last ten years
" Lord Clarendon, in addressing Dr. Murray, styles by taxing the building itself, which his former been a most exemplary and efficient officer to the institu-
him Archbishop of Dublin, and places him high in the measure was intended to cheapen. In the indirect Lion. According to one of its rules, he would be shelved
Peerage. The assumption of such titles by the Roman shape in which the brick duty was levied, it was as a consulting surgeon after this long experience, and his
Catholic bishops in Ireland and England has been erre-
never felt by the mass of householders •; in the direct place would be supplied by another, who has all the
neously supposed to have been sanctioned by the Legis-
lature ; and many, from whom accuracy might have been shape of a tax upon dwellings, it will operate as an hospital experience to acquire, and who, however dill-
expected on such a subject,* have fallen into serious mis- increase of rent, and be felt as a perpetual blister gently and successfully he may have prosecuted private
takes, and made their own misconceptions the foundation upon the backs of thousands of families, into whose
of much false reasoning. It is a matter of great moment practice, has much to learn before he can efficiently dis-
doors the government collector never entered.
that the public should rightly apprehend how the law charge those momentous duties. We are glad to perceive
stands upon this matter. --------
that a motion is to be brought forward to prolong the
" The 10th Geo. IV. chap. 7, the Emancipation Act, A FEW years ago, when it was the fashion to
'
eriod of the consulting surgeons services in the hospital,
sect. 24, is in these words : declaim against the high prices of agricultural P
"'And whereas the Protestant Episcopal Church of England produce, and to hold up in ccntrast the low wages and appoint a junior surgeon, who is to assume the
and Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government of agricultural labourers, we were kept by the office of regular surgeon at the end of five years experi-
thereof, are by the respective Acts of Union of England and „,, .
Scotland, and of Great Britain anti Ireland, established per- vir
' Bia-Radical journalists very fully informed as to ence. This we conceive to be a very sensible proposition,
manently and inviolably: and whereas the right and title of rick ?".burnings, and every description of crime and we hope the trustees will sanction it at the general
Archbishops to their respective provinces, of Bishops to their
sees, and of Deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in which could be assumed to arise from the pressure meeting en , Thursday for its adoption will be good for
Ireland, have been settled and established by law ;be it there- of distress amongsttheagriculturalpopulation. The the patients, will increase the efficiency of the medical
fore enacted, That if any person, after the commencement of
this Act, other than the person (hereunto authorised by law, doings of " Swing," in England, and " Rebecca," staff, and will be of great benefit to the new comer. It
shall assume or use the name, style, or title, of Archbishop of in Wales, met us in the columns of every newspaper will benefit the patients because perplexing cases will have
any province, Bishop of any bishopric, or Dean of any deanery we took up; and we might almost have been led the benefit of an extended experience. It is well known
in England or Ireland, he shall for every such offence forfeit
and pay the sum of one hundred pounds.' to believe that the startling headings, " Incen- that the great majority of affections under which patients
" Now that positive statute has never been either ex- diarism" and " Incendiary Fires," were stereotyped
in surgical hospitals labour, are of a very serious nature,
pressly or irnpliedly repealed ; violated it may have been, for constant use. Strange to say, such an offence
and their consequences very perilous. Here are seen the
but never abroeated. is now never mentioned by the journals which
" Lord Clarendon either knowingly broke the law offor formerly treated them as godsends ; and,all most fearful contusions and lacerations, which require all
the land in ascribing the title of Archbishop of Dublin to that we learn from their columns, we might rea- the skill and decision that human industry can attain in
Dr. Murray, or he is profoundly ignorant of the law upon order to save the life of the sufferer. Here also are seen,
the subject. sonably infer that our farming districts were a per-
" The 7th and Bth Victoria, chap. 97, entitled an Act fect Arcadia, and that their labouring masses were in their most forbidding forms, the most fearful effects of
for the more effectual application of Charitable Donations in a condition of the most blissful contentedness chronic malignant disease, that require a very high educe-
and Bequests in Inland, and taking effect from August, and exemplary morality. Yet it is a fact that Lion of the senses in order to ascertain their nature. This
1844, enacts .
incendiarism is still rife throughout the country. cannot be afforded if an officer of the staff retires just at
- " ' That persons may by deed vest lands, &c., in the com-
i bur
missioners named for building or furnishing g any chapel or Darnglaries and nocturnal outrages are
„the time when he has begun to be of value to the institu-
place of religious worship of persons professing the Roman occurring in every part of the kingdom, with a Lion, and his place supplied by a gentleman whose op-
Catho'ic religion,. or in trast ,or any Archbishop or Bishop, 02' frequency and atrocity never previously known ; t• •
other person in holy orders of the Church of Rowe officiating for have net been co-extensive
por unities observation
in any district, or having pastoral superintendence of any and in many of the rural districts the labouring
with those of the retiring surgeon. Should Mr. Stubbs
Congregation of persons professing the Roman Catholic ren- classes are being rapidly wrought up, by their .
gion, and for those who shall from time to time so officiate, or retire immediately from active duty, the crises in life of
shall succeed to the same pastoral superintendence.'to state of dangerous desperation. For
sufferings, a
" And in other sections, ' the Arclibishoe Bishop, or
e, the information of our free-trade friends we shall hospital patients are too fearful to contemplate not to de-
person in holy orders of the Church of Rome,' are re- give a short list of these occurrences, and some mend the highest skill which can possibly be obtained, in
ferred to, as in the section 15, already transcribed. accounts of the state of the population, taken from order to meet them successfully; and seeing that this is
" Now, it is obvious this statute merely applies to a a single publication of Bell's Weekly Messenger. often of little avail, it becomes the duty of the numerous
person who is an officiating Archbishop, or Bishop, or A correspondent of that valuable and well- subscribers of the Northern Hospital to secure for the
person in holy orders of the Church of Rome. The title
the party strictly bears is properly set down for the pug- conducted journal writes : ratients the services of gentlemen experienced in hospital
poses of the act, and nothing u,ore. No Archbishop or "In Suffolk, at this time, we are in a state bordering practice, who ought never to be wanting from the surgical
Bishop of any diocese is mentioned ;no territorial juris- upon a general break out by day, and the atmosphere staff. The proposed arrangement will, in our opinion, be
diction whatsoever is recogni,ed in such persons; and no illumined by incendiary fires by night, sometimes two
an excellent one. The newly appointed officer will be
intention is expressly declared of repealing the 24th sea- seen at a time, as was the case no later than Saturday
tion of the Emancipation Act ; and none such can be evening, the 4th ultimo ; one at Bermingham, in Suffolk, summoned to all consultations and operations, will operate
'collected by inference from the words, purpose, or spirit and one at Felta,,-11 •, one the preceding night at Wyver- in the absence of the surgeon for the week, and of course
of the Charitable Bequests Act. In truth, this Charitable stone, where £2,000 worth of property, in corn and all such cases will remain under his own care. He will
Bequests Act is guardedly drawn up. to avoid having the buildings, was destroyed."
fulfil the duties of any honorary surgeon who may be
appearance of doing what it is nevertheless perversely, or Two daring burglaries, attended by violence, areandof
ignorantly, or falsely asserted to have done. The usage absent from illness, or any other cause,
reported as having occurred in one night and in .
of the Church of Rome is respected by the statute; but will succeed to the first vacancy which may occur in the
all the duties to be performed under this act, and the I one neighbourhood ; and the circumstances by
office of honorary surgeon. If such an arrangement as
rights to be exercised, may be discharged and exercised, i which the labourers are driven to their commission
for all the purposes of the act, without acknowledging may readily be judged from such statements -as this be adopted, we think it will be satisfactory to the
their Bishops to be Bishops of any particular dioceses. 1 these ;._.._ subscribers, the public, the patients, and the medical
The episcopal station of the Rornish Bishops is not a whit 1 ,
more fully admitted by this act than it had previously I ' BRIGG.--ne . n hundred persons were received from Profession generally.
been. The orders of the Cherch of Rome have beenhouse last k.
Kirton
into the unioliiwee
always recognised, and their Bishops were by George IV.
I
"LABOUR AT F NCIEIBECK. More than half the
styled Roman Catholic Bishops. The Charitable Be-labouringc a b • dependent l• are unemployed, many being on LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE.
cuests Act does nothing more. It was foolishly asserted Parish aid.tihat there might be a difference between an extinct and "AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AT GRINGLEY.—Much The usual annual meeting of the proprietors of the
an existing see, and that, because there was no Protestant privation. experienced by the labourers in agricultural Liverpool Exchange was held yesterday. in the Cotton
t is
owing want of employment. Sales-room. The chair was occupied by Henry Neumann,
Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. Mac Hale might lawfully call PuThtt s.,
~L
Such is the depressed state of agriculture Esq.
himself Archbishop of that see. But this is an absurdity, I . , bI'.P.P("•• said that
because the 24th section of the act of 10 Geo. IV. makes' High worth and Swindon Unsioe that there' was on In opening the proceedings, the CHAIRMAN
in toe Hig wor. .
Saturday last, the 11th, 411 inmates in the union work- ne could not
'•
" but congratulate the meeting upon the very
it an offence for any person, other than the person there- !
unto authorised by law to assume or use the name, style, : house,including "1 able-bodiedand 80able-bodied flattering prospect which their accounts presented. As
imen
or title of Archbishop of any province, or Bishop of any women. there were some matters of importance to be brought
bishopric in England or Ireland ; and could any man ! " SLEAFORD • ,
—The following are some of the miserable before the proprietary, he would at once call upon the
possessed
of reason contend, that by the Charitable Be- ' effects of the so-called free trade measures in the once treasurer to read the statement of accounts for the present
quests Act, or by the 10th Geo. IV., Dr. Mac Hale is , flourishing and highly cultivated district around Sleaford : year. _ ,
Hussain]) (treasurer) then read a report of
authorised to assume the title of Archbishop of Tuam ? The farmers are now, on all hands, reducing the wages of Mr. YOUN Gfrom
which
it
appeared that. the sum divis-
The popular misconception arose from reading the act, 1 able-bodied labourers to 9s. per week,. and, what is still the accounts,
dividends for the year was £6,800, which was to
10 Geo. IV., as if it enacted that no person shall assume' more serious, are not employing anyitehing like their usual !hie as
to the payment of dividends and to the
the title that belongs to another; whereas the words are number even at laisasreedwuacstionc.hviTstlmansulmsb4esr of inmates rsiattteos beappropriatedinereaseof the contingent fund. After the reading of
very different, being that 'lf any person, other than the in the union; I
118 ditto 1847, 132 ; ditto 1848, 181 ; ditto the accounts,
person thereunto authorised by law, shall assume the , 1816
''
214 ditto 'lB5O, 249. So melancholy a ' Mr. E. ARNAUD asked i f the sum to be divisible amongst
title of Archbishop of any province in Englander Ireland, 1849, spectacle
the ; ' above would not be exhibited if the farmers were the proprietors was greater or
as
.. . . smaller than last year ?
' he shall for any such offence forfeit one hundred pounds.'
realising a remunerating price for their produce.ln addi-
• The CHAIRMAN explained that it was the same, but
So that the true construction is obvious.under the corn-
tion to this miserable feature of the condition of the that, from circumstances wlich had come
" The same principle exactly applies to the case of ld h
ei hbourhood the quarter sessions, which were held on mittee's notice, he eontemplated that a changewo9 . ave
Cardinal Wiseman, who meekly calls himself Archbishop . 11'rigs •
g2d instant,, graced by sogreatnumber of to be made in the present offices in Exchange-build ,
of Westminster. It is the same case in principle as that . the were . a .
therefore, it would be necessary to maintain the
of Dr. Afar
Hale assuming tile title of Archbishop of Prisoners that the magistrates. . were occupied until eight or and that,
possible,
' Tuam. Neither is authorised by law to assume the title nine o'clock at night in disposing of them." contingent fund at as high a rate as
Dint
Mr. TINNE made some suggestions in a senatory. p
the
of has presumed to take, and, in our poor judgment, When we find such a state of things in two of in
both are equally guilty of having violated the very letter the leading agricultural counties of England, need offices,
view, relative to the proposed improvements
offices, and suggested that the alterations should be made
of the law. ' 1 we wonder, with a few more years of free trade, to as soon as possible.
But there is another act which has been chiefly see the poorer soils of the kingdom suffered to go After some desultory conversation the resolutions (to
_
dwelt upon as having it is alleged given out of cultivation, the capital of the landowner be found in our advertising columns) were duly proposed,
impunity to Romanists in assuming the powers eaten up with the burden of pauperism, and crime seconded,t,s eei
special
and
resolupassed.tion recommended the Committee to
which they now claim to exercise. We refer to the ' and outrage overspreading the whole face of the Into consideration the proposed change in the
Act 9 and 10, Vic., chap. 59, entitled. "An Act to country. The agricultural labourers will not starve take
officers, and report to a general meeting. 0
relieve her Majesty's subjects from certain penalties to please the free-trade manufacturer and theper share •
The dividend declared this year is £8
.1 s.
~
and disabilities in regard to religious opinions," mercantile community. and £3 33. to non-resident• proprietors in lieu of t eir
which became law in 1846. Again we feel in jug- right of nomination. Thiess= of £174 2s. 9d. being
lice bound to allow our contemporary to speak for carried over to the reserved fund, and the usual routine
himself : During the past ten days rumours have been business disposed of, the meeting
separated.
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During the past ten days rumours have been
assed ex !e yto rife of serious dissensions amongst the ministry,
! ,
rious 1. al 2s to on the subject chiefly of the steps to be taken to
?dience t, sta- put down the recent Papal aggression. Lord
1846, we r orally Clarendon, it was said, had tendered his resigna-
bet the tion to her Majesty. Again, it was stated that ,
(sei` ."
Lord Grey was refractory upon the same question ;
and disposed to retire in a pet if his views were not
alty is preserved, deferred to. A further report added that the
Edward VI. and Queen had expressed herself dissatisfied with the
1. Therefore it milk-and-waterish quality of the speech which bad
as in the day
the title of been drawn up for her, and insisted upon some-
thing of a more decided character. Of course this
act interpretation of the law of report must be little better than surmise ; but of
"Whatthe substantial correctness of the former, and of
!W. have the lawng about for the
the fact that there have been serious difficulties in
-
the Cabinet, we conceive that there are very strong
evidences, notwithstanding the authoritative con-
tradictions put forth by the government journals.
• • We shall explain, as briefly as we can, our grounds

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ABSTRACT OF THE LOG OF THE NIAGARA

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Jan. 15.—Wind S.W. At noon received mails; at 12 20 p.m
full speed down the harbour.
Jan. 16.—Wind variable, die. 233 miles, lat. 43 11., lon
65 45. Light winds and cloudy; at 11 15 made Sambro Light
Jan. 17.—Wind S., dis. 54 miles, hit. 44 SO, lon. 62 22. At
3 40 a.m. arrived at Halifax ; at 4 40 a.m. started full speed.
Jan. 18.—Wind N.W., dis. from Sambro 232 miles, lat
45 37, lon. 57 8. Fresh breezes and gloomy.
Jan. 19.—Wind N.W., die. 264 miles, lat. 46 42, lon
51 2. Strong breezes and squally
Jan. 20.--Wind N.W., dis
Fresh '-ales and squally.
Jan. 21.—Wind N.W. to S.S.W., dis. 243 miles, lat. 49 27,
lon. 39 13. Strong breeze and gloomy.
Jan. 22.—Wind E.S.E., dis. 240 miles, lat. 50 50, lon. 33 22.
Fresh gales, heavy squalls ; midnight more moderate.
Jan. 23.—Wind W. to S.W., die. 200 miles, lat. 51;15, lon.
28 15. Moderate breezes and cloudy.
Jan. 24.—Wind S.S.W., dis. 242 miles, lat. 51 33, ton. 21 46.
Strong breezes and squalls; at midnight heavy gales and hard

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