The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

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Postponement, however, and not abandonment of
their plans, is all that is at present decided upon ;
although there is little doubt that the effort will be
made to arrest any further agitation of the question.
A powerful party in the Dock Committee long for
the appropriation, in a different direction, of the
surplus revenue of the Dock Estate. Dock ware-
houses—not docks—are the hobbies on which
these gentlemen would fain ride; and if they could
he indulged, the community would very soon dis-
cover with what alacrity they could spend a million
or two, and how very little they feared the croaking
of Dock Bondholders. We should hear little, in
that event, of the danger of Cheshire competition ;
and less still of any prospect of reduced Dock rates.

THE LIVERPOOL TIMES IN A QUANDARY,

Our last week's castigation of the Liverpool Times ap-
pears to have had as extraordinary an effect upon the
editor and proprietor of that paper as if a bomb-shell had
exploded in the hat shop, where his literary labours are
vended. Other journalists—and ourselves amongst the
number—are in the habit, when attacks are made upon
them, of prudently waiting until their passion has blown
off, and giving their rejoinder after the world has had
time to digest the attack which called for it. Our con-
temporary, however, has thought proper to fire out of his
turn. On Tuesday last, he was guilty of the hardihood
of leaving his warm bed at the untimely hour of six in the
morning, to read our humble remarks ; and so terrible
was his combativeness excited by them that he thought
proper to

The clique of busy Radicals, whom the apathy of
our Conservative fellow-townsmen has allowed to
be foisted upon the Select Vestry, have, during the
past week, signalised themselves by an achievement,
which can be most justly described as worthy of
them. For months past, the meetings of that body
have been the scene of their everlasting jabber. The
small beings have carped at every thing and every
body abOut the workhouse establishment, from the
clogs of a pauper boy to his catechism and his gruel
—from the nurses and midwife to the chaplain and
the doctor. Nothing, in the shape of an abuse, or
which could be twisted into one, has been insignifi-

" Do all that a dog so diminutive could,"
to anniLilate us, in a Second Edition:

With this attempt we have now to deal ; and yet posi-
tively we have scarcely patience to wade through the rub-
bish of which it is composed. We may state, by the bye,
for the information of our contemporary, that we never
saw the attack in question until it appeared, amongst si-
milar rubbish, in the columns of the Journal of Saturday.
So little do our contemporary's second editions come be-
fore the public eye, that we have positively been extin-
guished for nearly a week without knowing it ! But to
our task : The Times complains that we have omitted the
correspondence which passed between us on the subject
of the plan published by the proprietors of this paper.
We cannot, even now, see the advantage of burthening
our columns with it. The letters are simply one from
ourselves to the editor of the Times, requiring the name
of the party who furnished him with the information
on which his malicious remarks were founded, and
the pompous reply of Mr. Thomas Baines, giving
us the name of the Birkenhead Quaker. His other
remarks are either senseless or lying. He informs us
that our conduct contrasts badly with that of Mr. Saml.
Stansfield, inasmuch as he has got the consent of Mr.
Laird for publishing his father's plan of the Docks of
Wallasey. So had we. He says that we " attempted to
pass off" that plan as our own / We did no such thing.
He says that we attempted to pass it off—to publish it—
without the name of Mr. Laird attached to it. We did
no such thing. The incomplete plan, indeed, which the
Times saw, had not the name of Mr. Laird attached to it ;
but that plan was never published, or intended. to be pub-
lished, in such a shape.

cant enough to escape their prying vision no
source of information has been contemptible enough
to be beneath their ready acceptance. And at length
their ardent zeal and uncleanly prying have been
rewarded by the discovery of a mare's nest, which
has afforded them an opportunity for a wholesale
discharge of the venom and spleen, with which they
are surcharged—a relief of the overboiling caldron
of Radical and sectarian spite and malignity.

Some months ago, it will be remembered, that, to
escape from the constant badgering to which he was
subjected by these worthies, the house-surgeon of
the workhouse--a gentleman who has held that post
and, with a few cases of exceptions, discharged its
duties efficiently and zealously, for upwards of twenty
years—tendered his resignation to the Vestry. Sub-
sequently, however, he was induced to withdraw
that resignation ; and a cue having been furnished
them by the discovery of some entries in a minute-
book kept by the honorary medical officers, the
spite of his Radical tormentors broke out, in a de-
mand, addressed to the Poor-law Commissioners, for
an enquiry into his conduct during the past three
years of his holding the office. The enquiry in
question, the main particulars of which will be found
in our columns, took place, on Thursday and Friday
last, before the Hon. Mr. Clements, Assistant Poor-
law Commissioner, and the Select Vestry; and the
evidence will be transmitted forthwith to the Board
in London, for their considpration.

THE TOWN COUNCIL.—A special meeting of the Town
Council will be held, to- morow, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the subject of dock extension, in pur-
suance of the resolution passed by the Council on the
31st ultimo.

To finish the matter, however, for we are quite tired of
the silly Times—we must repeat to our contemporary our
recommendation of last week. The very news-lads, we
can assure him, are tired of carrying about his heavy
lucubrations, and the turnips are longing for his superin-
tendence and intellectual conversation. Why not indulge
both, by throwing down the pen—of whose uses he knows
about as much as a goat does of the use of a razor—and
taking np a spade, of some other implement of husbandry,
which his friend Samuel Stansfield will no doubt sell him
cheap. Like Cincinnatus, he can be called from his rural
pursuits—his cabbages, mangel worzel, and other conge-
nial companions—when his Country wants him !

MR. HENRY PHILLIPS' CONCERT.—The numerous
parties who were disappointed of hearing the above highly
accomplished singer at his previous entertainment at the
Royal Assembly-rooms, will observe with much pleasure
the announcement of another musical lecture on Tuesday
evening next, Dec. sth, on which occasion we anticipate,
from this gentleman's high standing in the musical world,
a room crowded to excess.

EXCISE INFORMATION.—At the Police-court, on
Friday, Thomas Caffray, a licensed dealer in tobacco, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with having in his
possession a quantity of foreign manufactured tobacco,
without a permit for the same. Mr. Sheriff, an officer of
the excise, stated that, from information he had received,
he went to the defendant's shop, in Lower Frederick-
street, on the 27th September, and there found four and
a-half pounds of cavendish tobacco. While there,
Caffray left the shop in a suspicious manner, and witness
followed him and found upon him six and a.half pounds
of rolled tobacco. He afterwards found Mrs. Caffray in
the act of carrying off ten pounds of the same article,
which she had brought from the cellar. It appeared that
the quantity of the latter stated did not correspond with
the excise returns, or, in other words, was also smuggled.
Mr. Rushton stated, that three days before he had to
convict six persons for this offence—and as the defend-
ant was a trader who had previously been convicted, he
should impose the full penalty of £lOO, and could not re-
commend to the higher authorities any mitigation of the
fine. The defendant was, in default of payment, com-
mitted to gaol.

TOWN DITES.—We are authorized to state that the
gentlemen who attended the meeting held at the rooms of
the East India and China Association on the 10th instant,
referred to in the correspondence inserted in our paper of
Tuesday week, attended as individuals, and not under
instruction from any of the associate bodies of the town.
LECTURES ON BOTANY—COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.
—The interesting course of lectures upon this delightful
theme, which will be terminated this evening, has, we
are glad to find, been duly appreciated by our townsmen.
Mr. Roby has evinced a clear knowledge of his subject,
and dues not, as too many lecturers are in the habit of
doing, suppose his audience to possess a previous ac-
quaintance with the science. By the low standard at
which he thus rates them, he renders it almost im-
possible that he shall be misunderstood by any,
whilst those who previously were acquainted with his
preliminary details, are not displeased by having them
still more firmly engrafted upon their memory, by the
humorous remarks of the lecturer. The illustrations of
this evening are to be upon a splendid scale, and in great
number. We refer to the advertisement for the forth-
coming lectures, premising that we are right glad to find
that the celebrated Dr. Wesley is engaged to deliver his
maiden course at this institution.

Of course we cannot presume to foretel what will
be the verdict passed upon the accused by that tri-
bunal ; but we can predict, with tolerable accuracy,
the award which will be made by the public upon
his spiteful and inveterately malignant accusers.
Upon evidence so trumpery as that furnished before
Mr. Clements—the censure, on two or three occa-
sions of the honorary medical committee, recorded
in their private minute book, and the complaint of a
refractory pauper, who has been 27 times within
the walls of a prison—an attempt has been made to
blight the character of an old public servant, which,
if successful, must inevitably destroy his prospects
in life, and consign him to comparative penury ; and
we do not so underrate the kindliness or the dis-
cernment of our fellow-townsmen as to imagine that
they will regard such an attempt with any other feel-
ings than those of abhorrence and disgust.
Mr. Nightingall, like other men, may have occa-
sionally fallen short in the performance of his very
arduous duties—so arduous, indeed, that it is in
evidence that their efficient discharge by any one
man, or even two, was impossible ; but are the ser-
vices of twenty years to be cast into the shade, and
the few lapses in his career of usefulness to be alone
held up to view ? We trust they will not ; and es-
pecially so, as they are plainly shewn to have been
the result of family misfortunes, pressing upon his
mind, and bodily illness, weighing down both men-
tal and physical energy. From both these, Mr.

WINES VATTED UNDER BOND.—A general order from
the commissioners of customs directs, that the allowance
for natural waste, mentioned in the 40th section of the
general warehousing act, shall be made in respect to wines
vatted under bond, in warehouses not of special security.
CAnnors.—We were shown, on Saturday, six carrots,
grown in Cheshire, by Harrold Littledale, Esq., which
may be considered extraordinary vegetable productions.
They weigh twenty-two pounds. The curious in such
matters may see them in Mr. Cuthbert's, in Clayton-
square. We understand that the carrots were grown
with guano at the rate of four cwt. to the acre.

CAUTION TO MARINE-STORE DEALERS.-At the
Police-court, on Friday, Richard Roberts, of the class
called " marine-store dealers" (as the dealers in old rags,
metals, ropes, and bones, denominate themselves, par
excellence, in this town), together with a man named
Culshaw, were brought before Mr. Rushton, the former
charged with having received and the latter with having
stolen a hawser, 20 fathoms in length, belonging to a
flat. It appeared that the vessel had recently, through
an accident, sunk at the Prince's Pierhead, and that the
rope in question and other articles were washed overboard.
Some of these articles were recovered, but not the haw-
ser. An inspector of police afterwards found a quantity
of rope at Roberts's store, in Limekiln-lane, resembling
that described by the master of the flat, exposed for sale,
but cut into junks, no doubt with a view to prevent the
possibility of its precise identity. There was no entry in
the prisoner's book of its purchase, as required by law.
A carter stated that he was employed by the prisoners to
convey a coil of rope to a place in Wilson-street, but
circumstances,neither he
nor thhoeweeavpetra,i
anncdoutillde thatpsopsesaekssitoonofth
peroadruticclede
being the same, though it resembled it. The concurrent
not being accounted for, left no doubt but that the pri-
soner Culshaw had procured it dishonestly, and that
Roberts had been the receiver. Under the act of Gth
Victoria, relating to property in possession and not ac-
counted for, Mr. Rushton committed the former to pri-
son for three months, and required the latter to pay a fine
of £5 and costs, and to forfeit his license.

Tita Fu NDS.—SATURD AY NlGHT.—Exchequer-hills
have been flat for the last two or three days, and are now
quoted at the lower premium of 535. to 555. It appears
there have been several quiet sales to supply the increas-
ing demand for money, and the Bank Broker, it is said,
among his other operations of late, has been a seller of
these securities. Consols left off steadily at 951 to 96 for
money and the account ; Bank Stock, 1804 to 1814 ; India
Stock, 27G/ to 2714 • Three per Cents. Reduced, 94 to
N 4 • Three-and-a-Ha'lf per Cents. Reduced, 102 k to 4 ;
ew Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1024 to 103; Long
Annuities, 121; and India Bonds, 695. to 708. pre-
mium. In the foreign market very little was done. With
the exception of Spanish, which closed a shade lower,
prices show no great alteration from those of yesterday.
to I ; DutCh Two-
Spanish Actives were last quoted 211 to I • the Three per Cents, 31: to ; Portuguese, 434 to I, ; Peruvian 22 to
; Mexican, 30 to 4 ; the Deferred, 94
and-a-Half per Cents., 5-14 to ; the Five per Cents.,
994 to 100 ; Danish, 854 to 864; Colombian, 11-} to ; ;
Chilian, 99 to 101 ; Brazilian, 74 to 75 ; and Belgian, 103
to 104.

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, GREAT GEORGE-STREET.--Our
readers will perceive from an advertisement, that an in-
teresting lecture is to be delivered on astronomy by a
gentleman whose name is certainly strange amongst us,
but who we have heard having studied the subject for a
long time, has become so able, that there is no doubt
something very important and interesting may be looked
for. We would advise our readers not to lose the oppor-
tunity of hearing this talented gentleman.
THE LATE MURDER ON THE ESTATE OF THE EARL
or DERBY.—The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for
the Home Department has authorised a reward of £lOO
to be offered for the apprehension of the parties concerned
in this diabolical murder; also a free pardon to any per-
son concerned who will give information, provided he be
not the party who actualy fired at the gamekeeper. A
minute description of the men, ten in number, who were
engaged in the affray, has been circulated to the several
gaols and police offices in the country. Four have since
been apprehended, but the other six are still at large.

FREE PROTESTING CHURCH MEETING.

a pplication to Parliament for power to proceed to Nightingall is at present comparatively free; and I MR. WHITTY AND OURSELVES.
- _ the formation of New Docks, at the North and in the face of the abundant and most flattering tes-
Last night a numerous and most respectable portion
Sarah" will, on reflection, consider that South of the present Dock Estate, is, for the pre- timonials of his high talent, great experience, and In our last we stated our intention to return to the
of the Presbyterian congregation, in connexion with
s been said on the subject of her letter when
our columns to-day. ' sent year, laid aside. With this determination of good character, given by the medical gentlemen subject of the correspondence with ourselves, published Rodney-street Scottish Church, met in the Music-hall,
by Mr. Whitty, and to explain why we did not do so according to intimation by hand bills, distributed through
Seaman" had been a reader of the Standard the Committee, we can scarcely bring ourselves, examined during the enquiry, we are satisfied that sooner • and we now proceed to fulfil our promise. In the several seats of the chur ch, to hear the report of the
have known that we have made frequent re-
, under the circumstances, to find fault. The Dock neither the Poor-law Commissioners, nor his fellow-committee appointed on the 19th of October last, with
the impropriety noticed in his letter. Our
the first' place, then, let us see what was the origin of our
dent complains that whilst in Ireland the authorities do not appear to have been sufficiently townsmen, will see him sacrificed, to gratify the bad collision with that gentleman. A detailed statement had
reference to the law proceedings, instituted to prevent
iriving the English from their employment,
the induction to the vacant pulpit of Rodney street, of
• prepared with the necessarmlans, estimates, &c., and vindictive spirit with which it is sought to hunt been given to the world, in "columns of a radical con- any minister not belonging to the established church of
h merchants and tradesmen in Liverpool are
srcely any but Irish. for Parliament ; and to attalit to proceed without him to the earth. temporary, of the proceedinirrof a meeting, composed Scotland ; and, at the same time, to consult on all mat-
, of the Church of England" wishes that a these would have been to invite opposition and pos- -
entirely of conservatives, the facts of which the writer ters having reference to the present and future intetests
,neeting should be immediately held for the pur- .
ei said that "he had had from more than a dozen of those of the congregation.
of expressing the sympathy of the inhabitants of sible defeat, and, at the same time, to throw away ASTONISHING EFFECTS OF GRUEL !—Our ol
Dr. M'Culloch moved that Kenneth Macaully, Esq.
"` that were present." Upon this we remarked, that the
Nith Dr. Kally, during his unjust imprison- all the advantages derivable from mature considera- acquaintance, Mr. John Brooks, of Manchester, take the chair.
_ should certainly be glad if some decided • calico printer and Leaguer, has, we are sorry to
say, been sick, and, at the late meeting of the Anti- publication of such facts, in a radical paper, could only The CHAIRMAN said, immediately after the Rev.
tion as to details. They have acted, therefore, for
on of feeling were manifested in this country
have resulted from one of three causes : that either more W. J. Gardinor, who had been specially invited, had
eat ill-used man, who is still in prison in Ma- the best; although it is scarcely clear that they have Corn-law League, gave to the world his experience than a dozen conservative gentlemen had been guilty of offered up prayer, he should be glad to hear any gentle-
' the iron tyranny of blood-thirsty Rome. tome to their decision uponthe verybest possible of the astounding effects produced upon a warm
. the impropriety of betraying the proceedings of a private man's opinions on the subject which they had met to
meeting to the ear of the writer in a radical print; that
grounds.discuss.
constitution by the cooling regimen prescribed by such writer had himself invented the story which, on such
Prayer being offered up, Mr. J. A. FORREST read
his doctors, and especially by gruel. alleged direct authority, he vouched for as strictly true;
Independently of the obvious want of prepara-
or that " some eaves-dropping corporate official " had the report :
" They bled me " said John, " three times, with 32
TO THE CONGREGATION OF RODNEY-STREET CHURCH,
= tions which the committee must have felt, it ap- leeches ; I was not 'allowed meat, but lived upon GRUEL; given to the world " the bye-conversation of the cons-
NOW ASSEMBLED.
mittee" to which, in his public capacity, he had access.
pears to us that some vague notions have prevailed, and after having lived upon gruel for four days, and whenCHRISTIAN FRIENDS,
my eyes began to be a little easier, I began to think : Here there was nothing which could induce Mr. Whitty, The committee appointed on the igth of October last, have
in the minds of some of the members of the corn-
in particular, to imagine that he was referred to. We considered it their duty to call the present meeting, with a view
upon the corn -law ; and as I saw better, I determined to
of submitting to the congregation the position in which the
• mittee, that the proposed docks on the Cheshire give the Anti-Corn-law League ,E5OO had asked if any corporate official had ever " contributed
this time—(loud to the columns of a repeal organ," or had been, " more church is placed with reference to the proceedings instituted by
shore had, to some extent, relieved us from the cheers, renewed from time to time). That is what gruel directly still, aiding to prop up its feeble and flickering
minister
exelusvefr
ttohezeumrpboesres
of
trilstiscttaibnlfsitihe,ei
election
of the
has brought me to—(shouts of laughter).
pressing want of dock room on this side of the existence." At this, even, why should Mr. Whitty—an TheCi tio n of.a
h f Scotland. y
After this our friends, and females in especial, who innocent man—take fire? We bad not pointed him out
river, and ought to prevent us, as prudent men, committee were deputed to solicit aid in support of the
as so contributing to, or aiding, the Journal. And yet committee of management, in their endeavour to set aside the
are most given to gruel-taking, should be very care-but regret to state, that, with their best exertions
from venturing upon the construction of new dockshe did so take to himself the allusion • and hence origi- injunction ; ful how they indulge in this dangerous kind of nated his call upon ourselves, and the correspondence in the promotion of this object, they have not succeeded in
here. This notion, we are satisfied, ought not to spoon-meat. They may venture upon any other which ensued. raising a sum sufficient to justify that committee in proceeding
be indulged, or to interfere with the prosecution, by kind of moist food, without the organ of benevolence Upon one portion of that correspondence only have we The committee have at the same time to report, that the de.
the now to remark ; and it was to enable us to deal with that
—or whatever other organ it is which impels people vision of the Court upon the points'at issue could not be ob-
the Dock Committee, of every possible improve-
portion that we delayed until now recurring to the sub- pained until after January next, when the seat-rents fall dime;
to throw away their money at SO extraordinary a
ai
went of the estate under their charge, and the pro- •
rate—being so unduly excited as has been that ofi
ject. Mr. Whitty described as a `
rand ratuitous falsehood" and wh lst, op the one. hand, doubts were entert ned as to the
the representation, which we had idly made to him injunction being set aside, on the other, the parties opposed to
viding of every possible additional accommodation poor John ; but gruel they should carefully eschew, in conversation, that a party treating for the purchase of the best congregation,h thea had not hesitated seii tst endbienal‘a,et irnst
begtwerimshiensalfepthetat
seu
for the commerce of the port. The docks at Wal- unless they. wish to beggar their children or earn s9meotfy igefo r the Jtoourbnealrehadonmsiabdiee use.or of
,htnisenntamei asye their
to their interest, they would prosecute the suit still further,
lasey Pool will, we have no doubt, be made—will the protection of a strait jacket. It is recorded, by that
have since personapplied to the house,p
from whosepal traveller we everal,,d: procrastinationoly)eningtiiecon stitauntido expense;constitution
churchfea atl: the
reoxppoescetda
otino nth
the
the way, of Robert Owen, that the light of Socialism had the original • formation • and in a post or two we 7th July last.
relieve us of some of our present difficulties—will first broke upon him after having scalded his mouth received from, not the house, but the very party so ap-
be highly useful and advantageous to both sides of with hot flummery. And the case of our friend plying, a letter explaining the transaction, that party The committee, under these circumstances, considered whe-
st liiveer
suit theyi werep justifiedeeer
wiint
with
means
solicitingea ps v‘tlelin
might
i supportingi. anme eaten.
the as we have been informed by another letter, pre-
the river ; but we are not on that account to decide Brooks appears to be a similar one. Flummery did
required for a much more laudable purpose; and the committee
for the socialist and venerable founder of New
that on this side we have reached the limit to which l ottsl
indiscreety received
m ent i fornom of Liverpool r p 01111
t‘tlyls castigationna m ein Z
connexion
ihoins
aldmfarnozetTieenct,ofinngdreingftlohney
have come
cnoomt cealtcoulttee uxonlusroncieonnt
Lanark, the Hampshire community and fanatical
we should go—that Liverpool should stand still inwith the Journal. The house towhom 1 speculations, what gruel has just done for the Man- understood that Mr. Whitty was the responsible man •
he had applied Saturday last, of abandoning the suit,—thereby closing the
doors effectively against any minister being elected who is not
her present position, and Cheshire only progress. Chester calico printer. These dangerous possess inTTennectionttwithe thnepEtstreishtede Church of Scotland.
congregation,
h howir report,deepideeply
they without
eei
interested assuring
but our volunteer correspondent informs us, that he had
We can only compete advantageously with our taught them both to unbutton their pockets for the no authority to represent that gentleman as in any way their friendscm committee
nethe an
responsible, and that he only stated, in reply to a sugges- in their present position ; and it is their earnest hope; that the
neighbours by adding to the facilities and convent- purpose of feeding knaves and fools.
tion that the real proposed purchaser was unknown to the proceedings of this meeting may be blessed for good by that
ences which we at present possess ; and to do that _____ _ house in question, that such purchaser was " the brother- Almighty being, who alike rules in the heaven above, and in
SUGGESTED ROYAL VISIT TO MANCHESTER• in-law of Mr. Whitty, head constable. &c." We are the affairs of men : that his providence may guide you in your
effectually, we maintain that the whole of the now
present difficulties, that he may lift oni you the light of his re.
ready, therefore,.
to give Mr. Whitty th full benefit to
may plant in his
postponed scheme of the Dock Committee will be A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian suggests be derived from the evidence of his own witness, pre- vineyardcnci l countenance,
pastor, who
agaitih:et indueat*
alike smtaeffiltoe the aged, and to
required, and is imperatively necessary, that, as her Majesty is about to visit Chatsworth, she raising, however, that we are restricted from giving the the young a friend, who in all seasons shall go in, and out,
version of our original informant. from before his people, a blessing to all with whom he may be
It is said, indeed, that there is a danger, by pro- should be invited by the Town Council of Manchester to One other circumstance connected with this affair may connected, is the sincere prayer of the members of your corn.
extend her visit to that emporium of fustian and calico. be mentioned without impropriety. In
Whitty the
interviewwith the mittee.
reeding to the carrying out of this scheme, of alarm-
Mr. WALKER moved as the first resolution, that this
It is not hinted, however, by whom or where her Majesty which he sought with us we treated Mr.
ing the Dock Bondholders ; that the interest of a 'consideration and frankness due to his previous education report be submitted to the present meeting for their ap-
and her illustrious suite could be accommodated in the million and a half of money will be a heavy burthen 1 • • • - •andThathe abused
character. frankness on our part ; proval. He, for one, had pleasure in giving it his best
event of such an invitation being given and accepted. The and his conduct has taught us a lesson which may be and most heartfelt support, and trusted that the exer-
to saddle upon the Dock Estate. Possibly, at this Town Council of Manchester have neither funds nor an useful to us hereafter. tions and most strenuous efforts made by that committee
.
moment, with the stunning impression produced by tablishment fit for her reception • and rand and tawdr
.es . . . , . g y
•to secure the peace and comfort of all connected with
as are the mansions of many of the millocracy, and freely
the publication of the Birkenhead scheme fresh in as they lavish their money in anti-corn-law agitation, the FREAKS OF A
ROMISH BISHOP IN BRITISH Rodney-street Church, would be fully established by
the present meeting.
their minds, some timid people may view with alarm people of that town would not relish being taxed addition- GUIA NA.
ally for the gratification of seeing her Majesty amongst Mfr. TURNER seconded the resolution, which at first
met with slight owing to its having been ra-
the state of the security which they hold upon pro- them. Highly delighted, therefore, as our co•acious Queen During the past month the city of Georgetown, in Bri- ther inaudibly read. opposition,
atocomttaie mill,
petty menaced, as they imagine, with injury; and
awocaul calico
o doubtlessprinting
works,be t o
o r inspecta d theye int
house,er i oarni
thetish Guiana, has been the scene of an outbreak of priestly Mr. NEILSON (a member of the committee) begged to
be disinclined to fasten an additional large charge acquaintance of their owners, she must, for the present, intolerance, the particulars of which (detailed at length in acknowledge the compliment paid to that committee ;
upon that property. Such feelings, however, will we fear, resign the thought of such enjoyments. the columns of the Guiana Herald) are briefly these. but he regretted that in this nineteenth century men
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would come i on' the north end of the town to disturb
pass over, as additional light is thrown upon the In the latter end of 1838 the Roman Catholic congrega-
the harmony f
and felicity of a people (whom they had no
source from which they have arisen. The public SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.
tion in British Guiana were first placed under the charge right to interfere with) in the sacred cause which had o
will remember that increased dock space, urgently By reference to our advertising columns, it will be per-f a bishop of their own church. Hitherto they had been led them thither. He would advise them not to show
wanted as it is, must bring with it increased re- ceived that a sermon will be breached on Sunday morning peaceable and orderly subjects ; and the arrival of their the spirit of the Duke of the North, who would, for the
satisfaction of his own capricious whims, compel minister
new prelate—Dr. Chancy, an Irishman, we presume, but
venue ; and, perhaps they may discover that, in- next in St. Barnabas' Church, and a collection made in and congregation—young and old, stout and healthy—to
educated at St. Omers—was not anticipated as an event
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stead of endangering, such increased provision for support of this most useful and deserving charity. The
likely to disturb their harmony. Very briefly after his
Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool has signified in the
the growing commerce of the port is likely to ins- arrival, however, it was discovered that the reverend him in sincerity and truth. g worship
kindest manner his intention of being present. It is always
prove their security, and to be a benefit to the Doctor was disposed to rule his subjects with as arbitrary Mr. HASTINGS said he was little in the habit of ad-
the most pleasing part of the duty of a journalist, when
he is called upon to express well-merited commendation
a yoke as that with which King Stork harassed the sub- dressing public assemblies ; but on this great and mo-
jects of the land of frogs. His exactions were enormous ; mentous question he could not refrain. He trusted there
of the public acts of those placed in authority—a com-
were few there who had not their hearts with him, in
he claimed to be paramount in matters secular as well as
mendation that is only an act of justice to our presen, wishing success to the Free Protesting Church. (cheers.)
ecclesiastical ; and was soon surrounded b as reat an He did not wish it only on his own account, but that of
chief magistrate, whose career, hitherto, although short amount of embittered feeling as need be wished forg. After
. thenal
gives good earnest of what is to be expected from so a while, however, some other shades of his character be-
his family, that they, like himself, might yet have
auspicious a commencement. The attendance of his wor- gan to appear. " The house built as his residence he con-
freedom of worshiping their great creator in the original
ship at St. Barnabas Church, on Sunday next, and of vetted into a nunnery. Nuns arrived from Europe, and, form of the Church of their fathers. He discanted at
those by whom he is sure to be accompanied, must needs contrary to the express canon law of their church, Dr. some length on previous exertions of the original com-
prove most beneficial to the funds of the hospital, of Clancy continued to reside under the same roof with these mittee in their endeavours to procure men of such rare
which it is enough to say, that upwards of 1,400 patients female devotees, This caused great scandal, which was qualifications as were especially combined in two of
have been relieved there since the commencement of this only drowned by still more injurious accusations. It was them—but he regretted much that men were present who
year, and that it is only £3OO in debt ; a good proof (con_ openly alleged that one of the nuns had left the retreat, had come for no other purpose there than creating distur-
sidering the recent date of its erection) of the prudent and gone to Europe, in disgust at the doings at the nun- Bence;—yes, men who cared as little for the religion
management under which its affairs are conducted. We nery. Certain it is, that the belief became general, for it of their fathers as a dog would for a well-picked
anticipate a crowded church and a very large collection. was not discountenanced by several of the Catholics them- bone. (Cheers, and hissing.) He concluded by exhorting
__________ selves, that there were some of the cardinal virtues in no his hearers not to be contented with choice of the
very great repute at this religious establishment. Charges, few remaining -
who were yet to be had on more or less distinctly avering these reports, were sent remamingmen of talent
home to the pontifical court, and Dr. Clancy leaving the the moderate side of the question, but to decide at once
colony shortly afterwards, it was affirmed that he had been on one of the men whom he had the pleasure to hear.
summoned by the Pope to answer these charges." At this part of the proceedings (non-intrusionism) had
On his departure for Rome he deputed a Mr. Bates as made itself very visible in the person of Dr. Petre, who
his vicar-general, whose unreverend doings appear to have endeavoured to move an amendment, but without effect,
still further exasperated his congregation against episcopal it having no direct opposition to the original motion.
rule. Mr. Bates, however, died before the Bishop re- When Dr. Petre ascended the platform, Mr. Neilson
turned to relieve him; and it was during a dearth of Ca- begged to invite the Rev. Mr. Brown, Dr. Petrie's
tholic clergymen, caused by his death, and the previous friend, also, Mr. Brown acceded. Mr. Neilson said,
event of the departure of two divines to Rome, to prefer
this is' a meeting of the congregation of St. Andrew's, (a
charges against Bates, that the circumstance occurred
which subsequently gave rise to the fracas which has since voice, "Is Mr. Gardiner a member P") cheers.
occurred and created no little scandal. To supply the exist- Mr. NEILSON asked if they thought it consistent that
ing deficiency of religious ministration, a highly-respected that this meeting should be thus interrupted by parties
member of the community, who had been recently a con- who had no right to be there. Dr. Maculloch spoke at
vert to the Romish faith, being requested by the Reverend length on the subject of non-intrusionism, but could not
Mr. Cullen, a priest, to read certain portions of the mis- submit to be thus intruded upon.—Mr. Brown attempted
sal, in the absence of a clergyman, had done so, and this a hearing in defence of his appearing there as a stranger
act, when reported to the Bishop, on his recent return in Liverpool, but the Chairman obstinately refused his
from Rome, had given been great offence, and drawn upon being heard, which could not then be over-ruled.—Mr.
Mr. Cullen a severe rebuke, and some explanations in re- Kennedy remarked that he would have had charity
ply, with which it was thought that Dr. Clancy was satis- enough to hear a friend from afar ; he avowed himself
fled. On Sunday, the 18th of October, however, previous
to the commencement of the mass, the Bishop proclaimed
sufficientp apology for his interference in thus endeavour-
man before referred to, with a high canonical offence, in
whichwas carried by I
pressed his original motion, -
ing to gain hearing for Mr. Brown.—Mr. Neilson then
having presumed to read prayers within the sanctuary of
that church, and that if he did not, within fourteen days, mation.
apologize for this offence, he (Dr. Clancy) should proceed The other five resolutions were then passed unani-
to pass upon him the major ex-communication, and I mously, and apparently much to the gratification of the
should pronounce upon him and his family the curse of whole company then present, the moderate party mostly
the Church. having left. The fifth resolution was, that a call be pre-
Dr. Clifton, immediately upon this direct attack being sented to the Rev. Donald Ferguson, of Dunnichen,
made upon him, arose, not, as he avers, to justify or de- which was rapturously received. The 6th was a requi-
fend himself, but respectfully to explain that he had acted sition to the Committee of the Mechanics' Institution,
under the request of a Roman Catholic priest, and that if
he had erred, he was ready to apologize ; when Dr. Clancy, for the use of their lecture-room until an appropriate
with a degree of violence and passion, described as being lace had been pesent who were in favourrovided for their worshi in
o f g
.together.
The members pr Fer-
frightful to witness, exclaimed, " Seize him, police—Seize
him, Frenchmen!" (addressing several of that nation pre- guson were requested to sign their names. The Chair-
sent), and advancing, was himself the first to lay hold of man then allowed Mr. Brown (very) briefly to explain
Dr. Clifton, and it is said even displayed his pugilistic at-
how he had got on the platform, but we imagine Mr.
tainments. " But, my lord," mildly expostulated this Brown felt his halter rather short,for here he was again
much-injured man, " I but rose to apologize." " Silence, interrupted. (Mr. B. sat down amidst hissing.)
sir!" roared the mild disciple of the meek Jesus. "My The remainder of the proceedings were so conversa-
lord, do you hear, Dr. Clifton says he rose to apologize?" tional that a report of them would be impossible.
interfered Mr. Rogers, one of the priests. " Silence !"
again thundered forth, with encreasing wrath, this shep-
herd of the broken Cross. " May I be allowed to put
on my hat ?" supplicated the Doctor; but, no ! he was by
this time in the hands of those exemplary guardians of the
public peace, the police, and bareheaded, and dragged
through the public streets, on the Sabbath, was this gen-
tleman borne off to the station-house ; and from thence
was ultimately released on bail.
So outrageous a proceeding towards a highly-respectable
British subject excited intense indignation amongst his
fellow-countrymen in the colony, and has given rise to
what the Guiana Herald justly terms the " SPECTACLE
of the Right Reverend Dr. Clancy, Bishop of Oriense, and
Count of the Holy Roman Empire, being dressed in full
sables, and with a golden crucifix suspended round his
neck, by a chain of the same costly material, standing at
the bar of the police• office, cheek by jowl with two black
men of the lowest order, on his trial, with them, for an
assault upon Dr. Clifton on Sunday last at the Roman
Catholic Church."
The result of the proceedings, which are removed for
decision to the inferior Criminal Court, the last arrivals
from the West Indies do not give us. One circumstance,
however, had transpired which is worthy of being recorded,
as taking entirely from the episcopal criminal his defence
of ecclesiastical authority. The Bishop, according to
the paper from which we gather the preceding particulars,
has returned to the colony without the sanction of his spi-
ritual superiors, and exercised the functions of his office
after having been formally removed from them by the Pro-
paganda of Rome.
Thus stands, then, at present, the case of this very pretty
specimen of Romish episcopacy !