The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-23 00:00:00

TIM DUBLIN MAIL Paciturs.---We learn from an ad-
vertisement, that, as soon as the Post-office authorities can
make arrangements suitable, the Dubin mail packets will
leave Kingstown at 9 30 p.m., instead of 10 30 p.m., as at
present. We hail the acceleration of an hour with pleasure,
inasmuch as both mails and passengers will, in most cases,
be enabled to travel from hence to their respective destinations
by the morning train at half-past ten.
SHIP ST. PETERSUURGII.—This vessel, which many
of our readers may remember was stranded on Taylor's Bank
during the violent hurricane in January last, sailed for New
Orleans a few days since. Through the facilities afforded at
this port, she has been thoroughly and substantially repaired;
and though she was so much shattered that many persons
considered her not susceptible of repairs, she has been so
completely refastened and strengthened in every part, that it
is not possible to discover anything which would indicate she
had ever been stranded.

CAUTION' TO IMPORTERS OF PPOVISIONS.—Under the
new law, the Customs have this week seized, at London, a
parcel of American beef, because it bore a brand said to be in
imitation of certain Irish brands : thus, " Prime mess beef."
The officer contended, that New York, or Montreal, or some
foreign place should have been added to the brand. However
it transpired that the parcel had been warehoused on the
sth January last, whilst the new law only applies to impor-
tations occurring " from and after" that very day ; conse-
quently, the seizure had to be given up.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These pleasant gardens open for
the regular " season" to-morrow evening. The grand la-
bleats this year consists of a representation of "the siege of
Amoy," one of the most striking events during the late
Chinese war. We understand, that for diversity of object,
picturesque appearance, and general effect, this view sur-
passes all the others that have been exhibited in the same
locality. Great exertions have been made to secure several
novelties and additions to the amusements. The fire works
will be of the newest inventions, and on an extensive scale ;
the band engaged is a first-rate one, so that no stone will he
left unturned to render the place attractive and agreeable to
the public.
LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—This evening
Mr. Robert Addams, of London, the most pleasing and
talented of all scientific lecturers, will commence a course of
lectures upon voltaic and magnetic electricity at this Insti •
tution. The experiments with which they will be illustrated
are of the most brilliant and striking description ; and in
addition to the costly apparatus of the lecturer, we under-
stand that a powerful Daniel's battery, belonging to the
Institution, will be used for the first time in exhibiting the
deflagration of metal, charcoal, &c., as well as exhibiting the
decomposition of water. The whole range of the sciences do
not admit of more beautiful illustrations than voltaic and
magnetic electricity, and there is probably no other science
from which so much is expected in the way of discovery.

DEATH OF THE LADY OF DR. RAFFLES.—In our last we
inserted a paragraph, calculated, quite unintentionally on our
part, to cause considerable pain to the family of Dr. Raffles.
The former portion of the statement we alluded to was taken
from the Herald of the preceding day ; and whilst the proof
containing it was being read, our reporter came in from the

meeting in Great George-street Chapel, and informed us,
with the greatest confidence, that Dr. Raffles had taken the

chair; and on this assurance we appended the remark at the
end of the extract from the Herald. We had no alternative
but to strike out the Herald statement, or to add the remark

attached to it ; and as we have had so many proofs of our
reporter's care and accuracy, (for which all who know him
will give him the fullest credit,) we were convinced that the

announcement in the Herald was without foundation. Im-
mediately on discovering the mistake, we wrote to Dr.

Raines, expressing our regret for the insertion of the painful
paragraph, and giving him rather a fuller explanation than
we need insert here ; and we have since received a letter from
one of the doctor's family, expressive of their entire satisfac-
tion with our explanatory statement. We regret to say that
the paragraph in the Herald was painfully true.
THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY EVENING.—It is understood
that the Bank directors have complied with the wish of the
committee of the Stock Exchange, and will for the future
allow no transfers of the permanent securities to take place
on a Saturday after 1 o'clock, p.m. Public transfer days will
henceforward be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri-
day. The attempt was made to enforce the new regulation
to-day in reference to private transfers effected by the pay-
ment of the additional fee of 2s. 6d. each transfer ; but as
some of the bankers complained that sufficient notice had
not been given of the alteration, it will not be imperatively
carried into effect till next week. The business of the
English stock-market was conducted with more confidence
to-day, and hence the favourable reaction in quotations,
although the purchases made were of magnitude. Consols
for money and the account left off 95i to Bank Stock,
1701 to 1801; Exchequer-bills, the advertised, 50s. to 525.

premium, and the lid. bills, 565. to 58s. premium ; India
Stock, 264 to 266 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 94i to ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1001 to -I; New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1011 to i; Long Annuities,
12i; and India Bonds, 655. to 675. premium. The specula-
tors in Spanish were strong buyers of their favourite stock,
under the impression that the firmness of the new Ministry,
as advised in the accounts received from the capital, will
lead to the resumption of public business, and do away with
that uncertainty which has for the last fortnight prevailed
respecting the formation of a Cabinet to meet the wishes of
the nation. This was sufficient for their purpose, and there-
fore they changed their operations ; and although there ap-
pears yet to be much doubt on the ultimata fate of the quick-
silver contract, still the advance obtained in the course of
dealings with the Three per Cents. was equivalent to the fall
of yesterday. This particular stock closed 30i to 1, and the
Actives, 20a to Very little change occurred in the other
foreign securities, which have scarcely in any one instance
recovered from the general depression last noticed. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. left off 551 to ; the Five per
Cents. 100 to ; Mexican, 29. E to 1; the Deferred, Si to ;
Colombian, 24 to 1 ; Brazilian, 73 to 7,1 ; Belgian, 1021 to
1031; and Portuguese converted, 40i- to
THE REFUSAL OF BAPTISM.—The Rev. Cecil Wray, In-
cumbent of St. Martin's Church, has addressed a letter to
the Albion of yesterday, in justification of his conduct in
refusing to admit as sponsors of Mr. Logan's child persons
not in communion with the Church of England. The fol-
lowing are the principal portions of the rev. gentleman's
letter :—" First, I must inform Mr. Logan and Mr. D.
Logan, and also the public, to whom, instead of the bishop,
they have thought proper to appeal in this case, that the
office of sponsor is one of importance and responsibility con-
nected with the discipline of our Episcopal Church, and is
not to he undertaken as a mere matter of courtesy and com-
pliment to parents. This will appear from the exhortation
which the priest is directed to address to the godfathers and
godmothers at the conclusion of the baptismal service : " Ye
must remember that it is your parts and duties to see that
this infant he taught, so soon as he shall be able to learn,
what a solemn vow, promise, and profession he bath here
made by you. And that he may know these things the bet-
ter, ye shall call upon him to hear sermons •, and chiefly ye
shall provide, that he may learn the Creeds, the Lord's
Prayer, and the Ten Commandments in the vulgar tongue,
and all other things which a Christian ought to know and
believe to his soul's health." And, "Ye are to take care
that this child be brought to the Bishop, to be con-
firmed by him, so soon as he * * is instructed in

the Church Catechism set forth for that purpose.
Secondly, 1 would show, from the canons of the Church, •
who are qualified to discharge these duties. The twenty-
ninth canon, which is set up in most of our ehurches, pro-
vides, that "no person shall he admitted godfathers or god-
mothers to any child, at christening or confirmation, before
the said person, so undertaking, hath received the Holy
Communion." That this canon is speaking of members of
the Church, and not of those who disapprove of the doctrine
and discipline of the Church, hardly needs proof; for it is
evident that such persons cannot, with any propriety, take a
part iu those public services at all from which they consci-
entiously dissent. But the twenty-ninth canon places this
beyond doubt, inasmuch as it expressly forbids, under pain
of suspension, any minister from giving the Holy Communion
u those "who refuse to be present at public prayers accor- ,
ding to the order of the Church of England." And the
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and other canons declare impugners
of the Prayer-book, ordination services, and episcopal gov-
ernment, "excommunicated." Now in the face of these
canons, (to which I was charged at my ordination as far as
possible to conform,) how can I, when publicly administering
the sacrament of baptism, be justified in admitting as spon-
sors persons who not only have not received the Holy Com-
munion, but are not even members of the Church ; nay,
more, who belong to the Church of Scotland, which rejects
the office of sponsors as worse than useless ? Cane indeed,
these gentlemen be disposed to discharge " their parts and
duties," and to " see their godchild be taught what a solemn
vow, promise, and profession he has made by them," when,
RS Presbyterians, they reject the idea of a promise being
made by sponsors on the infants behalf? Will they, indeed,
take care that the chid be "instructed in the Church Cate-
chism," when they have the strongest objection to that form
of sound words ? Do they intend "to briny their charge to
the Bishop, to be confirmed by him," when the very name
and office of Bishop is odious to them, and when they repu-
diate the ordinance of confimation as a relic of Popery ? I
say, then, that I was compelled, by a sense of duty and pro-
priety, to act as I did on this occasion. To have done other-
wise would have been to violate the canons, to make a mock-
ery of one of our most solemn services, and to justify the
sneer with which Dissenters are wont to speak of the office
of sponsor."
RUMOURED ARREST OF DANIEL O'CONNELL—The I
City article of the Morning Post of Saturday, in noticing the
transactions of the money market, states that " at the close
of business there was a decided heaviness ;" but that," after
the shutting of the market there was, it is understood, rather
more firmness, owing to the reported arrest of Mr. 0' COn-
nett (I), the transactions entered into during the day being
apparently founded altogether upon circumstances connected
with the state of Ireland." The Stock Exchange people are,
it is true, occasionally singular in the views which they take
of passing political events; but we can scarcely believe any
other than, as to the reason alleged for an improvement in
the price of stocks on this occasion, our contemporary has
been joked with by some wag, or has chosen to attempt a
very palpable fraud upon his readers. Perhaps a more sub-
stantial reason fur such a feeling might be found in the result
of the meeting of Conseryatve members of the House of
Commons, held on Friday at the residence of the Premier, at
which it is understood the Conservative opponents of the
Canadian Corn Bill were induced to desist from their pre-
viously-determined course.
DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. RE SOUTHERN.—
Yesterday was appointed :for the :final examination of the
bankrupt before Mr. Commissioner Phillips. Mr. Tyrer said
that Mr. Barnes (of the firm of Barnes and Barrow, of St.
Helens, the attorneys for the fiat) was unable to attend, and
as, in consequence of a rule which had been made, their ma-
naging clerk could not conduct the case, he (Mr. Tyrer) had
been requested by that clerk to take the bankrupt's examina-
tion. The Commissioner inquired who had made the rule
referred to. Mr. Tyrer—lt was made in the other court( by
Mr. Commissioner Skirrow.) The Commissioner—All the
rules that I made are posted up in my court—l have made
no rule at all of that kind. Messrs Barnes. and Barrow ar
time attorneys in the case ? Mr. Turner—They are. The
Commissioner—Well, then, their managing clerk is entitlee
to conduct the case in their stead ; and I am fully confirmed
in this view from term years' experience in Basinghall-street
If any objection is made to this by the opposite side, I am
bound to listen to the objection ; but if there is no objection
made, and the managing clerk is the managing clerk of at-
torneys enrolled in this court, I shall conform to the invari-
able practice in town, and hear him. It would he very hard
if this were not permitted. Mr. Bardswell, who appeared
for the bankrupt, said he had no objection whatever to the
managing clerk conducting the case. Mr. James who atten-
ded osa behalf of the assignees, said he had an objection to
take to the balance sheet which if successful would render
an adjournment necessary. His objection to the balance
sheet was that it did not contain a single date. Mr. Follett,
the official assignee, iu answer to the commissioner said that
the balance sheet was very unsatisfactory and that he had no
data to show the dates of the transactions, The Commis-
sioner then said " I cannot hold it to be a sufficient balance-
sheet, on the statement made me by my officer; and for the
future, I beg it may be understood, that when it can possibly
be done, I shall always expect the dates to the balance-sheet
And I will tell you why. The balance-sheet is filed for the
?satisfaction of the creditors. To that, during ten days, they
hive to resort. Now, it may happen, that with respect to their
examination of the bankrupt, dates may be very material,
inasmuch as the time that a debt was contracted being known
what occurred before that may throw great light on the
honesty or dishonesty of the bars! s opt. lam sorry that so
loose a practice has hitherto presamiled as the omission of
dates. There is another thing I may as well state, that in
future cases, I shall always inquire from the official assignee
with respect to the bankrupt's attendance on him, and with
reference to hie statements en to his accounts end belenees
ehfeti l kkall elways be guided by 113 retorti