The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

■J STANDARD.

Quakers, lies in the Four Courts Marshalsea for contempt
of court, in not answering a bin filed on the part of
" Jacobs minors," charging him with appropriating
£6,000 to his own use, the property of these children.
A sequestration having been issued against his goods and
the house 64, William-street, occupied by the White
Quakers, being held in his name, the furniture was seized
and attempted to be sold yesterday. The sale commenced
at twelve o'clock, but having obtained.admittance to the
house shortly before that hour, we had an opportunity of
viewing its curious: contents. The parlours are fitted up
with plain deal seats, for the purpose of meetings. The
first floor is furnished as a sitting and dining room
with deal tables and oak chairs, without either carpets or
fenders—and the rest of the house in the same primitive
style; all the walls are whitewashed ! A man, four wo-
men, and three children, dressed in white, stood by, dis-
tributing papers to those attracted by the sale ; and at
intervals two of the younger females delivered extraor-
dinary addresses, in which were the words " freedom of
conscience"—" rights invaded"—" all the righteous shall
be persecuted, but saved," &c. Not being able to render
any of these speeches into a coherent form, we took the
liberty of addressing a rather pretty disciple of the sect,
and she calmly stated that Joshua Jacob was a persecuted
man—that the £6,000 which he received was now a far
securer inheritance than if it were in the government
funds. "My belief is," continued she, " that the
Almighty has secured that money, and into the bands of
the unrighteous it shall never fall." " Pray," we asked,
" do you mean to purchase in any of your furniture ?"
" Surely not—let them sell it—it may be so much the
better, for then we may learn to live without any—we
want no luxuries." The sale went on, the whole com-
munity of nine or ten White Quakers being present,
handing round printed papers to the crowd that filled their
abode, but saying nothing calculated to give offence to any
individual. After five or six lots were sole the entire
house became so crowded that buyers could not stir, and
the auctioneer declared that he could not proceed with
the sale. One of the benches then broke under the
weight of the crowd upon it, and a feeling of alarm for the
safety of the floor having arisen, the sequestrator agreed
to an adjournment of the sale, which accordingly took
place. The chancellor will be applied to for an order to
remove the furniture to any other place, for nr, sale can
take place in the house, from the curiosity of the public
to be present.—Dublin Post.

FRACAS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN
BELFAST.—Some strange rumours have reached us rela-
tive to a "blow up" in the Roman Catholic church inithis
town, which " blow up" has arisen out of circumstances
of a rather extraordinary character. Into details we do
not at present enter ; but, as Mr. O'Connell boasted, on
Sunday last, at Lismore, that he had extinguished a secret
society in Belfast, we may state that the retention in a
certain office of a person accused of Ribandism has caused
the fracas to which we refer. A pew in one of our local
chapels has been announced for sale, and ocher secessions
are expected. Additional reasons of withdrawal are po-
pularly mentioned.

THE BISITOP OF DOWN ON BAPTISMAL REGENERA-
TION.—The Newry Telegraph says—" The cause of the
Bishop of Down and Connor's refusal to ordain the five
gentlemen who presented themselves last Sunday was not
distinctly stated in our last. In the Banner of Ulster of
yesterday it is said that ordination was denied to the
applicants because they refused to subscribe a declaration
to the following effect, if not in these very words:—' We
will not teach any other regeneration than that connected
with baptism.' We have received such information on
the subject (adds the Telegraph), from a competent
authority, as warrants us in believing that the statement
of our contemporary is substantially correct. We wish
we had equally valid reason for attaching credit to the
Banner's intimation, that the bishop has receded from his
position, and that the candidates to whom ordination had
been refused, on the ground specified, were to be ordained
yesterday, without being required to express, directly or
indirectly, their assent to the (so called) doctrine of
baptismal regeneration.' Let us hope, however, that the
report may turn out to be well founded."

WALES.

STATE OF SOUTH WALES.

Mr. Maule, solicitor to the Treasury, and Mr. Raven,
are now in Swansea, making further preparations for the
trials of those parties charged with Rebecca outrages.
The following is an extract from a letter dated Carmar-
then, Friday :—" A bill has been issued offering a reward
of £5OO for the apprehension and conviction of the mur-
derer of Sarah Williams, the Hendy gate toll collector,
and her Majesty's gracious pardon to any accomplice, ex-
cept the person who snot her. Another bill has also been
issued, offering a reward of £lOO for the detection of the
parties who destroyed the Lleebryd Fishing Wear on the
14th instant. About fourteen different toll gates have
been pulled down during the week. It would be useless
to give a detailed list of them, and the matter is only
worth mentioning to show that the system of lawless vio-
lence is scarcely, .if at all, abated. I regret also to state
that another act of incendiarism took place last night at
the rick-yard of Mr. J. R. L. Lloyd, of Dolhaidd, one of
the magistrates for this county. About £BOO worth of
property was destroyed."
MARTIAL LAW.---It is now openly reported, and the
opinion hourly gains strength, that it is intended to place
Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire under martial law.
Nothing can exceed the exasperation expressed by all
classes of the people as this idea gains ground.—" In
mentioning this," adds the correspondent of our contem-
porary, " I do not say that martial law will be proclaimed,
because the consent of the government must first be ob-
tained to such a step ; but I certainly have heard some of
the' authorities advocate its necessity, and the mode in
which fresh troops are arriving, and the disposal of those
already arrived, strengthen the rumour. Some light car-
riages are also being built here (Swansea) for the speedy
conveyance of troops from one point to another."—Times
of Friday.—The Swanssa Journal of Wednesday last,
expresses a confident belief that there is no foundation for
the alleged application of martial law, and nothing was
beard of any such rumour before its announcement in the
Times, and that there is no necessity whatever for any
such extreme and unconstitutional measure. " One mur-
der, under most horrible and savage circumstances, has
been committed," says he, " and several insane acts of
incendiarism have occurred ; but it is satisfactory to know
that those outrages have been committed, not from any
general combination among the people for the destruction
of life or property, but have proceeded from personal and
vindictive feeling towards particular individuals who have,
at the eleventh hour, distinguished themselves by their
activity in endeavouring to arrest the further progress of
those nocturnal riots, which had shamefully been permit-
ted to continue with impunity for such a length of time,
that people began to think a sort of prescriptive legality
attached to them. Tranquility and order are returning
even in Carmarthenshire ; and it is gratifying to know
that no further outrages, worth noticing, have been com-
mitted in that county during the past week. Hitherto the
magistrates have placed their dependance upon military
force for the protection of property. Let them, for a time
at least, abandon a system which only draws ridicule upon
the efforts of the troops, and obloquy upon the authori-
ties. Let the magistrates try the effect of the ordinary
laws of the country. Let them in every case of the de-
struction of a gate or toll-house immediately rebuild it,
and as promptly proceed to assess the amount of damage
upon the hundred, which amount should imperatively,
and by the most summary means be levied upon the par-
ties who are liable to the payment. When farmers are
made aware that a proceeding of this nature will, with
immediate certainty, be the result of the destruction of
property, they will themselves combine for its protection,
or become the informers against the perpetrators of mid-
night outrages of this description. If these means fail,
and when the ordinary power of the law, properly admin-
istered, (and hitherto that has not been the case,) are
found ineffective to restore peace and tranquility, then it
will be time enough to consider how far the government
of the country will be justified in proclaiming martial
law."

MERTHYR TYDVIL.—On Saturday last, the horse of
Mr. Davis, superintendent of police, was shot by some
person unknown: The animal was put into the stable by
a policeman named Fovey, at half-past eight in the even-
ing, and was left in the stall ready saddled. About an
hour afterwards the report of a pistol was heard in the
stable by a neighbour, who ran to the station-house to
give an alarm. On examination, it was found that the
pistols had been removed from the holsters, and that one
of them had been discharged into the side of the animal,
which, though found standing quietly in the stall, died
shortly afterwards. A reward of £5 has been offered for
the discovery of the cowardly ruffian who committed this
outrage.

NORTH WALES ASYLUM FOR THE POOR.—The ex-
ertions of the committee to raise a fund for erecting this
asylum, are likely to be realised ; as the public subscrip-
tions amount to about £5,500, exclusive of the site of 20
acres of land most munificently contributed by Mr.
Ablett, of Llanbedr Hall.—Chester Chronicle.

REPEAL MEETING AT LEEDS.—On Monday evening
a repeal meeting was held in the large room at the Com-
mercial-buildings, in Leeds. Mr. W. J. O'Connell,
nephew of the " agitator". was the principal speaker,
and expatiated on most of the threadbare topics usually
brought forward on such occasions. The audience were
of the lowest description, and but few respectable persons
were present.
GENERAL NOGUERAS AND LORD RANELAGH.—Se-
veraI letters have lately appeared in the papers relative to
an act of great atrocity committed during the Carlist war
in Spain. On its being understood that General Espar-
tero and his suite were invited to dine with the Lord
Mayor at the Mansion-house, Lord Ranelagh (who served
with Don Carlos,) inquited whether it was known that
General Nogueras, who was included in the invitation, had
procured the execution of the mother of Cabrera, an aged
woman, who had been taken prisoner by the Christinos.
After a lapse of a fortnight, General Nogueras published a
short answer to the accusation, stating " that the town of
Tortosa, where the execution took place, belonged to the
military district of Catalonia, in which he never held the
least command during the civil war sustained against Don
Carlos, and that it was another general who ordered the
trial and execution, for whose acts he could not be an-
swerable." Lord Ranelagh replied by quoting the official
declarations of Lord Melbourne, then head of the govern-
ment, and of Lord Clarendon, the British ambassador at
Madrid, expressly asserting " that the execution was
pressed on Mina at the solicitations of Nogueras, and that
the latter officer had in consequence, been suspended from
his command." A letter from General Mina is further
referred to, in which i t is said, under the date of March
15, 1836, " It happened at this time that the petition of
General Nogueras reached me, supplicating me to put the
woman (Cabrera's mother) to death, on account of her son
having atrociously assassinated the authorities of four dif-
ferent towns." General Nogueras has not attempted any
answer to this exposure.