The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF THE JESUITS.

(From the Morning Herald.)
Having claimed the chief part in the restoration of the
Pontiff, the Jesuits now look for reciprocal advantageen ti
hands of the restored Priest-Sovereign. They call Inr
greater vigour and severity, in a word, for a reactionali.
system, as the only hope of saving Rome and Europ
They call for an extension of their own order in Great
Britain and Ireland, and for increased facilities in making
those proselytes of which they daily boast. Not content
with their establishments in Dublin, in Glasgow, in Edin-
burgh, and their two establishments in London, to one
of which, that in Farm-street, Berkeley-square, they have
recently imported the famous preacher, the Pere Ravie
nan, to perorate and pose during the months of the
hibition;—not content with these doings, they have
in-
troduced, as we learn from the last British QuarterlY
Review, purgatorian societies, or, as the Reviewer calls
them, "spiritual clubs," or joint-stock assurance com-
panies, into the provincial towns, and more especially into
Manchester. Various other observances, such as " re'
treats," and " modifications," heretofore unknown, even
in Lancashire, the seat of their college of Stonyhurst,
they also recommend, and, when they can, enforce:
Independently of this, they have erected a cathedral at
Salford, which is the finest ecclesiastical building in Lail-
cashire, and before which the Bishop of Manchester
cathedral, we learn, is small in every way. Whence then,
we ask, have come the large sums of money necessary for
these splendid erections ? Doubtless in a considerable
degree from the Society of the Propaganda Fide,
whose receipts for 1849, amounted to £121,208 21s.
To us, it appears very evident, there is a debtor 8014
creditor account between the society and the Pope.
According to the system of Italian book-keeping the
Holy Father has debited himself in £ s. d., or rather in
Roman crowns or Paula, with the efforts the Jesuits made
for his restoration, and he has, per contra, credited hint'
self with the sums paid by the Society for the Propaga"
tion of the Faith to the British mission for the conversion.
of Ragland, a very large slice of which, we dare aver, the,
Jesuits have had. With this sum and with the increased
facilities they have had afforded to them, these disciPle.s
of Escobar have laboured in every way against the insn'
tutions of this realm. Nor have there been stouter or
more unblushing defenders of the Papal aggression than
this same order, the chief councillors and instigators of
the insolent attempt. As to Dr. Wiseman we have ever
held him to be a poor puppet in the hands of the Jesuits,
if not a Jesuit himself. Whether affiliated to the order
or not, it is certain he preached in the Chiesa del Gesa
two and twenty years ago, where many English Protes-
tants then flocked to hear the novelty of a sermon in
English in the Eternal City. Though there are by law
means for ascertaining the names and exact numbers 0
Jesuits in England, yet we believe the attempt has neveer
been made, nor the act in reference to the subject enforce
The 28th, 29th, and 30th sections of the 10 Geo. liv'!
cap. 7, require that Jesuits should register themselves
within a certain period; yet, in the recent debate on hO'
Grogan's motion, Sir George Grey declared that all the
information that could be afforded on the subject WI
contained in the returns laid before Parliament in 183 n,
as since that time no licences had been granted, and aci
prosecutions instituted.
Now, according to the returns of 1836, not one Jesuit
came into England between 1829 and that year, thong?
one, it appears, came into Wales, and 57 into Irelann•
There are, however, much more than 57 Jesuits nosvP
England—probably more than 57 in London at the Pte"
sent
nseon tmmeaonmseonft,ayffeotrdtliineg Secretary
information on
of State confesses
ub
coanfereec, at hwehTru
is provided for by a penal law.
It is well remarked by a writer, to whom we have innte,.
than once referred in this article, " that a penal law 12°"
enforced implies a consciousness of its being unjust. ,Bet-
ter," says the reviewer before referred to, " that Jesuitig''
had never been forbidden by the Legislature than, being
forbidden, it should be tolerated." We think so, o°'
Let us not, however, be misunderstood. We wish to Pe,"
secute no creed, and to give every sect of professing Ch.',l:
tians liberty to worship God. and to practise their
according to its tenets. But Jesuitism is an ultra:
montism, hostile to pure Christianity, antagonistic to ou'
the high aims and tendencies of the Gospel, adverse to
civilisation, and dangerous alike to civil liberty, to bun°o
peace, and human progress.

PAUPERISM UNDER FREE TRADE.—SO large a number
of men out of employment have
,been sent by the Lea
cester Board of Guardians to the stoneyard that it is foun
desirable to have two policemen constantly on duty there.
RAKES.—A. captain of a vessel loa ling coals went lel
his merchant's counting-house and requested the loan o
a rake. The merchant, looking towards his clerks, re:
plied, " I have a number of them, but none who wish t 0
be hauled over the coals."
A crack-brained man, who was slighted by the femaleigt
very modestly asked a young lady " if she would let 11
spend the evening with her." " No," she angrily reply.:
" that's what I won't." " Why," replied he,
needn't be so fussy, I didn't mean this evening, but seta
stormy one when I can't go any where else I"
Lill 001;
STORY OF A BISHOP OF DURHAM.—When Dr.
was Bishop of Durham, and as he was travelling °rev
Cam, betwixt Wensleydale and Ineleton, he sudden
dismounted, and having delivered his horse to a serrafho
walked to a particular place at some distance frorn
highway, where he knelt down, and continued for so ,
time in prayer. On his return, one of his attendants too
the liberty of inquiring what was his master's motive for
so singular an act ; in answer to which the bishop DI:
formed him that when he was a poor boy, without shoe'
or stockings, traversing this cold and bleak mountaiel'a
a frosty day, he remembered that he had disturbed a r
cow, then lying on that identical place, in order to war,`,";
his feet and legs on the spot.—Whitaker's History
Richmondshire.
A LEGISLATOR FROM THE TAIL OF THE PLOT-TO-1.;
On this first ridge is the house and farm of my i 0 Ito
travelling-companion, Mr. Brown. I paid a short visi 13
the family in passing; and in front of his house, thot!g,
on the opposite side of the road, I saw one of the stool'
fields I have ever met with. It was literally paved rof
huge blocks, and was kept untouched as a monurnen:eo
what the whole had been. It must, I suppose, have "
the industrious perseverance of my friend Mr. Brontieft
making a farm out of such unpromising materials, wthim
caused his neighbours, twenty years ago, to force roil,
from the tail of the plough, and, in spite of opposi!'es,
send him to the House of Assembly every year sl°
"We don't want educated men for legislators, or ar,"
specially instructed for them, to fill our public °Vette
say the democrats of North America; and they poito
such men as Mr. Brown. " You see he was taken ',1005
the plough-tail, and is still a poor farmer, and yet he ~.
as well, and holds as high a place as any of theirs'
Johnston's Note
JEWS IN s on North America.
°
A TRIBE OF ABYSSINIA.—OIIr letter
sh
Paris say, " By a paper in the last number of the Je
inia
periodical, I perceive that a recent traveller . AbYss
h ore
has discovered a tribe of Jews in that country. Theibse,
called Falasha. Their chief priest, the Rabbi 1:1 the
(Isaac,) told the traveller that they first entere boe
country in the time of King Solomon, and that the of the
uninterrupted traditions, though no written history',
st
principal events that have occurred to them since th 000
mote period. Their religious rites and belief are theme of
in substance as those of the European Jews, ha:), 01
their doctrines are quasi-Christian. Indeed thef;oe °
it was from them that the early Christians took tradition
their customs and point of belief. They have 5 and
them' of St. Paul having been in communication with _,..0001
they hold him in great respect. They never, it_Sv
quitted their own country, and were shocked at theied,
of going to sea in ships. ' How, at sea,': thyi 1!„ or
` can the Sabbath be respected ?' They knows lttiaba
troeenrsnibdaeelidnggionot told
it,l dvietixhspharetessa.;_de vast niieinse
gyre,o
A MINISTERIAL DINNER.—I am going to
Lord Durham. On Saturday week I dined at Mr•
mont's, the M.P. for Northumberland • and the Ord
aonGnfoadttzhl
elisetneti nothing of
„of themEurpthetheir
fellow-believersufrt
before at the Lord Chancellor's, (Lord Brouelnleel••
where the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Fitzwilliam, Lord rtbe
bourne, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Morpeth, and two of
judges. Littledale and Williams, were of the partY:itoe,
have also dined at Mr. Charles Wood's, and, of ea of
had sufficient hospitality shown me. The dinners a,reneseo
sumptuous, but the conversation is of a very nctiseeliaipolll
kind, partly political, partly statistical, and ronfe
such as you find at the dinner-tables of private geratiersq
There is no excess in drinking. The company ge tea, tj,
sit down about half-past seven and separate after gail
be home about eleven. The most perfect freedoo3.loo
I may say, equality, prevails ; there is no affected essf,
rank or dignity, and the conversation is as free pt Or e
as you would find at the table of a Leeds merel3s, of t
Leeds printer. No ladies, not even the mistreSlroviet.
house, are present, either at dinner or in the utbst .1,11
room afterwards. I have only been at one ront,,„4 fllOO
at Mrs. Daniel Gaskell's. The room was crow pd Pity
company, and I was introduced to Mr. Godwin e" eig,ll,o
Martineau ; the former is a lively old man, no°l/03100.
it was said, though he did not look so old ; and the cat to
a little body, who appears to no advantage in a r %pail
taming a hundred persons but not fit to aceel- .0
fifty.—Biography Mr. E. Baines.
THE WORSHIP OF THE BLEEDING HEART.--Y"talt:CLigi:t
of
the celebrated architect, who is now a Roman .„st be
thus expresses himself in a work which lie has te to tor
lished--', Without being wanting in the respect alla be.,6g
authorised devotion of the Sacred Heart, I sheuk prone
ficient in duty as a Christian artist if I did ne,"fersi to
more strongly and candidly against the externs, osieleii,
which it is usually represented. It is quite imP°9 0/S6O
embody the pure idea of the Divine heart under t offee
cal form that should illustrate the intention witb°l\
ing the sense ; but when this most spirito t coP,
depicted by an anatomical painting of a heat ,e`fee
from an original, plucked from the reeking ca"-ye ogose
bullock (I ! !) and done with sickening ace,butt becerer
and veins, relieved on a chrome yellow grouna't;.ueleoe
a fitting subject of fierce denunciation for every
‘ssepts,,,i9t
tian artist, as a disgusting and unworthy rePr:o to Por
for any object of devotion. The rage that aPP.' noite.Actir
among many modern communities for hearts 1.5_,7040,i,04
tounding. To a casual observer of some of their '',.„00?,10
it would really appear that their whole devotioenr.-posp,
in this representation : it is depicted in erki jg; loco;
form and variety, sometimes revolant and sren tee er
times volant, with a pair of wings growing out of tee
00,011
sometimes ardent, flaming, fizzing, bursting like 030011
11"-e/0
ploding shell ; sometimes nayant, floatingln 600; p 0
sometimes in pairs, sometimes in clusters., Are 1344
have them in every possible variety, and they salt
means dissimilar to the illustrations of th Bon of
epistles so largely circulated in this countrYnegeritool
Feast of St. Valentine (! !!) Whether there
d their lig
association of ideas between these latter a dies,
spiritual counterparts in the mind of pious 1_ file_Tesi
pretend to determine; but most certainly tn7wboevo
catures have a wonderful hold of the fair o_l4oo
bopxils
rk4fiencraily consist of such reproe'

Jane 10, 1851.

?Lag Alt

ine Royal Institution will be thrown open to the public
during this and the two following days.
he Queen has approved of Mr. Henry Flaw as Consul
at tThis port for the King of Hanover.
The Rev. W. Banister has been preferred to St. James'
Cemetery.
Messrs. S. and J. Holme have contracted for the Bri-
tannia Hotel, Bangor, for £120,000.
Several Persons have been fined 2s.
flowers in Birkenhead Park.
I_,The Rev. Joseph Bush has been preferred to the Chan-
ofincyof the West Derby Lunatic Asylum, value £2OO,
With residence.
The younger members of St. Bride's congregation have
Presented their pastor, the Rev. D. Stewart, A.M., with
a small service of plate.
The house of Mr. Myrtle, of Sandon-street, was
enter
ted the other evening, a hole being cut through the
shuter. and robbed of spoons, &c., to the value of £2O.
The beautiful statuette of Dr. M'Neile, in Parian
Marble, seems to be highly prized by many of his ad-
rairers.—See advt.
Five men were sentenced on Friday to ten days'impri-
80nment, for refusing to proceed to sea, on the alleged
ground that the vessel was short manned.
.i7The Rev G. W. Warr preached on Sunday week at
lverston, .as a deputation from the Gospel Propagation
Society.
The clerks, and even the office-b, of the Liverpool
!nsurance Company are to have £lO each presented to
them, to enable them to visit the Great Exhibition.
A handsome silver salver is to be presented to the Rev.
Stephen
Sutton, incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Ever-
", by the young people he has been preparing for con.
trrnation.
Nine iron steam-vessels, varying in size and tonnage,
are now in coarse of construction at Birkenhead. One is
a Paddle-steamer for the Russian Government, of about
400 tons.

6d. for plucking

„ On Tuesday last a boy, named Peter Aspinall, was run
While by a lorry in Galton-street, off Great Howard-street,
looking at a Punch-and-Judy performance, and was
SO severely injured that he died soon afterwards.
About twenty fowls were killed the other morning, near
the railway in Birkenhead, by a fox, which was seen
prowling about, and is supposed to have come from
'l,4o,_ghton or Bidston.
hit,” Pontoons of the great Landing-stage are now being
thoPh,,°o,l, singly, or in couples, for the purpose of being
Inuee-c,!"'Y cleaned and painted. The accumulation of
(5---s and other shell-fish upon their s.ides is immense.
eh Thursday, George Wilson, an American seaman, was
Saaran,,i3ed, with brutally assaulting and biting off the nose of
The ---e:: Roe, also a sailor, in an entry in Peter-street.
be Prisoner was convicted, and fined £5, or in default to
tri imaprisone two months.
der sentence of death for
th get Ldyons, who was un
the murder of Margaret Fahey, at Warrington, and
se husband as executed a short time back, has
received a
for life. pardonw ,on condition of her being transported
,„.A. child was burned to death in the Workhouse on
t,wednesday. It was left in one of the children's rooms
o itself, and when the person who had charge of it re-
alrced, she found it enveloped in flames. The child died
"m°,rtlY after.
..erlcwai, INSTITUTION SCHOOL.—Mr. Henry Byrth, son
gln the late Dr. Byrth, rector of Wallasey, late exhibitioner
aol the above school, and at present at "B.N. College,
ord, has been elected to an exhibition of the Gold-
sath's Company.
C"....AlL—Although many specifics (some of a useless
ha;,,'''cter) have been offered for the restoration of the
We believe that one of the best is that offered by
adatne de la Garde in our advertising columns. The re-
commendations in its favour are very strong, and on the
continent it has gained a well-founded reputation for its
astonishingly
beneficial effects.
w CATTLE MARKET.—The second market in one week
by as held. for the first time on Thursday, and it was filled
a our show of sheep and lambs, which realized one
e,BlliPillg a head over the prices
.obtained on Monday.
raarket, we are assured, bids fair to be a great be-
tlefit• On Thursday Mr. Bennett exhibited several agri-
ultural implements.
tisEetween Saturday night and Monday morning week
ourc office of Mr. Brocklebank was entered by the removal
a. square of glass from the back window, and four
d ?Pearl dollars stolen.—The office of Mr. James Mur-
tii::'", in the same neighbourhood, was also entered during
same interval, and five sovereigns and some silver
On -*Pried aWay.
Tuesdnight the experiment of lighting the station
"th "
b andon and North-R esterirßailway, Lime-stre te ,
electric light, was trid in the presence of some of the
rectors and M Boothe the secretary. All the lights in
the . r.
pi station were put out ; and the light shewn from a small
ai- rrical machine illuminated the entire station suffi-
;UV for the transaction of the ordinary business.
41,,AILURE IN THE STOCK AND 'SHARE MARKET.—The
used --ra,in depreciation in the value of stock has been in this town during the last week in a trely melan
0 Ynaanner. A young gentleman, who was commenc-
tg, life with the brightest prospects, a stock and share
larneacc, and whose banker's account recently shewed a ba-
liabei?.°F 42Z,000 in his favour, failed on this day week, his
Atities being £lB,OOO. —Mail.
nar",4°ne O'clock on Wednesday morning, two men,
beeh .Donald Cameron and Joseph Richards, who had
the-i.„Ttliting rather freely, fell over the embankment on
ItrotZeZ.PY near Prices-street, Birkenhead;-which is un.
the
rAichards had his leg fractured, and day across
j-neY wer‘hv-i.ttraeron was very severely injured in his back.
'ca, b"- 'ortunately discovered by the railway police-
_ the two o'clock trainpassed.
ft," WORKS.—Messre. Tregoning an4l Co., of
`.Pool, b ut to establish tin works, on a very ex-
-4.-"sive soalaarenaearo Llanelly. 'This whichc we are in-
loTttled, is the same company as that conducts the
rsson Tin Smelting Works in,Cornwall, have taken a
lease of a considerable portion of land of the Llenelly
ward of Health. They will commence operations im-
raediately.— Carmarthen Journal.
I ER MAJESTY VISITING THE MODEL OF LIVERPOOL.
to 'e Tuesday week her Majesty.the Queen, during her
Model through the Crystal Palace, visited the celebrated
iodel of this Port. From a private letter we extract the
o°Lll,owing i—" The Queen, Prince Albert, and several
roa'ers were at the Model this morning week, soon after
%,;;",;30'clock. ' The royal party seemed to be much pleased
vlaLtoforthme Model, and stayed about it some time. The
is crowded every day from morning till night.
441 c ..a nothing else in the building but the jewellery that
is's so much attention."
.IlayirTEmPren SUICIDE.—About two o'clock on Thurs.
ka,i,A, a married woman, who gave her name as Ellen
a„tra4r„,,, the wife of a labourer residing in Tristram-
Lae h 40n:1as-street, jumped off the pier-head, opposite
gt h., g tage. The tide was running strong at t e
-,she drifted against the chain that moors the
4461 P. She stuck.to the chain, and sung out lustily for
Bherwas got out and taken to the receiving-house,
here
recovered, and was taken to her Some. .It
'Ana she had been drinking for some days, and had
?elle(' with her husband.
learoki.l.Yeliaeistos.—STEAM COSIMUNICATION. —We
the ee`,..1.°01 the Ballychannon Herald, that a meeting of
catintirlittee for carrying out a direct steam communi-
bee, huetviteen that port and Glasgow and Liverpool, has
steam eldi when the original intention of chartering
.a
meatier for six months was abandoned, and a public
sbarelig,,is to be called, for the purpose of procuring
,tin purchase to purchase a steamer in .£.5 shares. At this
etea -"g it appeared that the committee were offered a
ear..iter of 214 tons register, and which carrying 100 tons
hip and GO tons of coals, would draw but from 7 feet 10
I.4ltaes to
8 feet of water, for £9,000. This proposal was
Af'd°lY received.
ilea& Amsti,ky.—A court of enquiry was held on Wed-
lor Fr •37
,in London before Lord Carlisle, as 'Chancel-
peas
,ttie Duchy of Lancaster, respecting charges pro-
agai;l44.o.y large body of the inhabitants of Liverpool
Court' Ramshay, the judge of /he Liverpool County
gent'. Eviden g
ce was iven to show that the learned
lantn-racc was in the constant habit of using offensive
till bsage to the suitors and others attending the court,
411. Tact it had become quite disagreeable to attend at
10 he evidence being closed, the case was adjourned
tamedture.day to hear Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, who is re-
elap. for the defence. 'Meanwhile we understand a
-taitYo J'udge will be appointed.
br iL°"Y--The Greenock Advertiser thus speaks of
titoti,• °ys fourteenth lecture in that town to a numerous
44etee be.
Nothing can better tell of his abilities as a
,Cleeticc, than the large numbers who attended at the
th':es, and whose wonder was kept excited. Whether
batieh, the glamour in our eyes, or m those of his
asSin;',B? We do not pretend to fathom, but this we can
Wae barn"'Lie doctor of, he may congratulate himself that he
linfre.,in the 19th century, otherwise he would have
vie., :akin reality what he makes others feel by impression,
toss *ere a4farning sensation. Every evening new subjects
Vc,ted to a greater or less extent, and the influence
tabie early shown to have remained on some of the
It e;s alto since the evening the. first . lecture was delivered.
to 4 ether 'nss dwe hav
heonbt g
that Dr. vie3royw mwylt edrol
mu
cohu stioe m
a,
ke anit popular,e
bclatiZects no pretensions to the miraculous, and divests
St ti
OY
,f humbug. The lecture given by him for the
su the Mechanics' Institution, realised the hand-
tia the
Iticsseof,fourteen pounds.'" Dr. Dow will lecture
tit. 11101 Y-rooms, as may be seen by an advertise-
POWDER MAGAZINES.—The select committee on
agazines Removal Bill met on Tuesday and Wed-
.l.4'riday they again met, and adopted the fol-
ploted to i—" That the committee. were. not pre-
It'isatian :mere with the bill clauses providing for com-
; es 0,„ to the lessees for the compulsory removal,
29‘tri41 Proposed act, of the Magazines from their
seat=' nor on account of the repeal of so much of the
• °l4 th
,ration
the 12th Geo. 111., c. 61, as exempted
the nestioe °Per •
on of the act the Magazines and structures
teViecniia"
ißut it was the opinion of the committee that
lOaablrcunastances of the case required that every
Zees of.7sistance and facility should be granted to the
ea,..7:der in .I_"' Magazines in establishing a deposit of gun-
themleaeos another locality, suitable to the trade and con-
De ellrpor ‘9lll both f Liverpool. and they believed that
krl'6ilY on „it'.4o,n,in its charac'ter of lessor of the pro-
Were":icec theY were situated, and as guardians of the
interested in affording this assistance.
eoliringlailleltttr in conclusion, recommended that some
kigkeert ail, should be come to similar to the proposal
of I,!e the
letter of Mr. Hornby." The com-
b- ptlle " adjourned till Friday next. A meeting
th% aircitletn.en resident in the vicinity of Aig-
thioliriesaihnitlvoo have initiated measures to avert
itto tbeitY
noel the removal of the powder maga-
:ll4st ottireeCciltahraernn.
eighbonrhood, took place on Wednes-
rooms, Mr. Moss in the chair.
0114.,Dowdopforin,
atiana committee should be appointed to
to the regulations under which
Neer Plao-re:3 4oredasin t of Hull, Leith, and Thurd IleY held a secondsmeeting in the same
ar.

A STIPENDIARY FOR. BIRKENHEAD.—In consequence
of the increase of police business in Birkenhead, an appli-
cation has been made to Sir George Grey to appoint a
stipendiary magistrate for Birkenhead and the surrounding
townships. Sir George is favourable to the appointment,
but refuses on behalf of the government to contribute
anything towards the expenses or salary. The Birken-
head commissioners have no power to appropriate any
portion of their funds for such a purpose, and before the
appointment it will be necessary to have an act of parlia-
ment sanctioning the appointment, and giving powers to
provide for the payment of the salary.
ELECTION OF BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—On
Monday the election took place, the voters being divided
into the Red and Blue parties ; the former being opposed
to the postponement of the laying of the township rates
until after the election of the commissioners, and the lat-
ter being in favour of such a course. A spirited poll was
conducted on Tuesday, and the result was in favour of the
whole of the gentlemen (except Mr. Golborne, in whose
place Mr. Cook was elected) named in the red list, as
follows :—J. Laird, 240; H. Watson, 225; S. Light-
bound, 222 ; W. Graham, 221 ; A. Thompson, 215 ; W.
Webster, 207 ; T. B. Golborne, 184 ; C. Cook, 192.
THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT BRITAIN.—The Great Bri-
tain, lately purchased by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and
Co., is receiving a thorough " overhauling." The engines
have been removed, and those by which they are to be re-
placed are being built by Messrs. Penn, of London. They
will be of 500 horse-power. She is to have bulwarks in-
stead of the present iron railings ; the bulwarks to be tour
feet six inches in height. Another improvement of a more
extensive character is a new saloon, which will reach the
whole length of the deck, and be sufficiently large to dine
upwards of 200 passengers, besides affording space for the
apartments of the officers of the ship, and for icehouses,
pantry, and other offices. The Great Britain is intended
to run between Liverpool and mew York, and will be
ready for sea in September next. Captain Mathews, late
commander of the Great Western and City of Glasgow, is
appointed commander.
WEST INDIA CONTRACT MAIL SERVICE.—From a
return which has been printed, it appears that five tenders
and proposals were made for the performance of mail
service to Brazil. The first was from Messrs. J. B.
Moore, Charges Saunders, Joseph Pater, and Charles
Cotesworth, of Liverpool, who proposed to furnish ves-
sels for the service at £14,400 per annum ; Messrs. T.
and J. Sands and Co., of Liverpool, offered to undertake
it at 50,000 per annum ; Mr. Wheelwright, at £71,500 ;
the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, £30,962 ;
and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, whose offer
was accepted, at £60,000 per annum. A memorandum
attached to the return states that the contract for a con-
tinuance of the West India Contract Mail service, and an
extension of the mail service to Brazil, had been entered
into by an agreement, subsequent to the reception of the
tenders, with the company who had sent the lowest ten-
der.

ThE SCREW STEAMER NILE.—A paragraph has recently
been going the rounds of the London and provincial press,
on the comparative merits of wood and iron as materials for
shipbuilding purposes. As a recommendation of the latter
article, the excellence of watertight bulk heads was urged;
and the circumstance of the Nile iron screw steamer
putting back to Malta with 13 feet water in her hold,
owing to the stuffing box becoming disordered, from the
breaking of a bolt, is cited as an instance of its superiority.
Had she been built of wood, and consequently without
watertight compartments, there can be little doubt that
if she had not been lost her cargo roust have been greatly
damaged. The superiority of iron, as a material, is cer-
tainly proved to a demonstration ; but we may state that
the Nile never had an inch of water in her hold. When
the stuffing box became disordered, the leakage, which
was comparatively trifling, was confined solely to the
lazarette; and we learn that not a particle of cargo was
injured in any way.
MR. JONATHAN DUNCAN'S LOCTURES.—We are gra-
tified to observe the impression which Mr. Duncan's lec-
tures on currency have created amongst all classes in our
town who have heard them, or read them as reported in
our columns. The " very intricate subject," as some
people choose to call it, of our monetary laws isbeginning
to be understood, and from many quarters we are asked
for our text books on currency. We recommend to such
inquirers a publication by Mr. Duncan himself—" The
Principles of Money Demonstrated, or Bullionists' Falla-
cies Refuted," and also a series of Tracts of the National
Currency Reform Assosiation. These publications can
be had at our office, and ought to be read by every mer-
chant, tradesman, and working man. They point out
the true course b' which British industry can be pro-
tected.; for it is as clearly evident as the sun is on a fine
noon day, that import duties, in defence of the British
labourer, are impossible without such a reform in our
currency as will enable us to include taxation in the price
of every commodity in which we deal, or which we pro-
duce.

GREAT WHITSITN'TIITE TRZAT.-It will be seen by an
advertisement in our paper to-day, that during the present
week the Liverpool Zoological Gardens are open
at half-price. There is no place of amusement in England
more--replete with attractions. The picture of. Mount
Etna during the great volcanic eruption occupies a space
of many thousand feet. The extensive menagerie contains
many beautiful specimens of living animals. A monster
model of the Crystal Palace gives a- most accurate illus-
tration of that stupendous structure. "The centrifugal
railway, camera obscura,Sz.c., are in full operation. In
the Hall of Nations there are concerts, and every evening
light and pleasing vaudevilles and farces are produced,
the company consisting of•arfistes selected from the first
London theatres. The gardens are most tastefully laid
out with grottoes, mounds, and lakes; •indeed, there are
few places in England where a few hours can be more
pleasantly or more beneficially spent than at this fashion-
ablnresort. It will be seen that a new company has been
brought forward at the gardens. who will perform every
evening during the week, '(Saturday excepted.) They are
highly spoken of, and include several talented performers,
male and female, selected from the principal metropolitan
and 'local theatres. The piece provided for them is a
humorous farce, " The Whites and Browns, cr a Trip to
Richmond," which will be followed up by other attractive
novelties. The performances of the company have been
highly -successful.