The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

,nist party
ction in the first in-

a most

mration eventually."

This tortured edition of Mr.-Buchanan's opinions
is a very unfair one. Mr. Buchanan knows too
well, from personal experience, the devoted loyalty
of the hulk of the Canadian people to give expres-
sion to any sentiment which would imply a tendency
'n their minds to disaffection as the result of any
)leasing to them. His
assertions amounted to this, and to this only, that,
ender the operation of a system of perfect Free
eStablished by the mother country, the q.
--.lfd arise both in British America and at
_dvantage of the existing con-
e" You may call this the ques-
:l men ; but it has been asked
;sh House of Commons by men
ver

measure of government d

home.

vhat is

nexion between

tion of

alread

who would nc

ing to lie under the
isloyalty. And it will

imputation of (

ifection (

be asked aizai

n imputation being
[-nifty politician will

cast upon the t

lemur to the cost of deft
tession which our new 1

z or governing a pos-
has made, in all its

:ommercial and ind
oil ; and British Ar
Lnd without a hostil

ngements, a foreign

with equal justice

ie made the battle field ui
e United

,owards us, refuse to
'hich the quarrels of
s shall be ever and

England with ti

anon c

tested

But let us see what is

h the Guar

lima qu

value of the resolutions
. The first which he

ects is the following

"2. That whit

s in view the ultimate

It of free t

colony, it nevertheless,
we its influence to en-

prolective duties on our

oing into the n

# of Great Britain and

nent, in its wisdom and
r see fit to enact for the
country: in the meantime,
pinion the dangers appre-
hended knit] the change of s, em, may only be met by a
wise and timely adjustment of depending interests to suit
the altered circumstances of her relations with the mother

the imp

justice, may now. or I!
welfare and prosperity c
r, this meeting i

country."
Is this an utter repudiation of the doctrine of

any pro

great object.

impossibility

and further, that the repeal of the
with +ha tyrantsr arns.riat a on irt

Duties may b,

stances, they do not, in the -opinion of this rot'etiiig, afford

Jon to the colonial agriculturist 'inasmuch as
the prices obtainable for the surplus produce of the
country regulate the general price of the producer] , whilst,
at the same time, they present one of the greatest ob
stades to our successf.," -eting

con., 6 with the United
States in the elnveyance of the produce of the interior to
a port of shipment, or a market for consumption."
The whole question is here resolved into a mer-

cantile question. The merchants of Montreal want
the carriage and the forwarding of the Western
States of America • and the interests of the agri-
culturists of Canada West are as nothing in the
balance, as compared with the carrying out of ibis

The Guardian concludes his article with the fol-
lowing cool assumption

" We trust that the proceedings of this meeting will
put an end to the foolish cry about the dissatisfaction and
probable loss of the North American colonies."
We can assure him, however, that the proceedings
of this meeting will effect no such thing ; and, for
very best reason, that they are not conclusive
with respect to the opinions of the people of Canada.
If the Guardian had not been a little disingenuous,
he would probably have SEEN, and conveyed to his
readers, the following very opposite story, contained
in a memorial addressed to the throne, by the
merchants and others of Quebec, and which came
out for presentation by the Caledonia :
Humb!v showeth,—That your petitioners view with
serious alarm the measures introduced by your Majesty's
ministers in the Imperial Parliament, affecting, as they
do, the principal exports of your Majesty's possessions in
British North America, by encouraging other nations
more favourably situated to enter into successful compe-
tition with them. _ _ _

"That the long and tedious navigation of the St. Law-
rence, the shortness of the shipping season, and the dan-
gers of the coast, especially in the months of October and
November, add materially to f.eights and insurances, and

renaer successful competition with the foreigner, either in
corn or timber, a matter of great difficulty, and of utter

That although a protection of 245. is now granted on
the timber provinces, the freights from the Baltic average

17s. 6d. per load, while those from (

_ .
making a difference in favour of the producer in the
north of Europe of 21s. 3d. per load, and when insurance
is considered, making the protection now given a mere
equivalent to the difference of freight. Moreover, should
the further contemplated reduction 0f.55. in 1847. and ss. in
1848 take place, giving a direct boon to this extent to the
foreign producer, who, in- comparison to the colonist,
gives little encouragement to the British manufacturer.

" That the effect of the changes in the tariff in the port
of Liverpool has been to increa3e the foreign tonnage em-
ployed in carrying deals and timber upwards of 300 per
cent. since 1842, while the British shipping employed in
the same trade with these cclonies has only increased to

effects of the modificatiOns in 1842, the inevitable result
of further relaxation will be ruinous to both the British
shipowner and colonists.
" That, independenly of the encouragement given to
the North of Europe to compete with your Majesty's
Colonial possessions in North America, the effect of the
changes now referred to will be to add another compe-

titior7, namely, the Unitel States of America, especia
in the article of pitch pine, (resembling the red pine
the colonies, but superior to it,) staves, and oak timber,

the produce mostly, if not entirely, of slave labour.
" Your petitioners most humbly pray that your Ma-
jesty will consider favourably their petition, and allow the

timber, and Is on colonial; that your Majesty will cause
to be levied a duty on staves, as this article affords con-
stant employment to colonial shipping on the inland
lakes; and further, that DO alteration be made in the
duties on sawed timber, which, if altered as contemplated,
will ruinously affect many who have embarked large capi-
tal in the erection of saw mills, under the impression that,
in any change of duties, the situation of these provinces,
their distance from their mother country, the immense
employment they give to British shipping, and their
being such large consumers of British manufactures,

duly would be considered, and that protection equivalent
to the difference of freight would at least be guaranteed
to them, as even then, they only meet the foreign pro-
ducer in the home markets on equal terms.
" That to a system of wise and judicious protection
your Majesty's empire is indebted for its proud attitude
among the nations of the earth ; and the present position
of your Majesty's colonial possessions, is mainly attri-
'buted to the same source.

" Wherefore your petitioners most humbly pray that
your Majesty will not sanction the contemplated modifi•

petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray."
This. document ought to be quite as conclusive
as the Montreal resolutions, which the Guardian
quotes with such an air of triumph. We can
scarcely conceive that our contemporary, if aware
of its existence, would have suppressed all mention
of it ; at all events, in pure kindness, we give him the
benefit of the doubt.

We presume it is because the public mind is oc-
cupied with the important questions connected with
the Commercial policy of the country, that blow af-
ter blow is levelled at the Constitution and against
its Protestant character, without even the semblance
of any popular dissatisfaction. Perhaps it is in part

also that We are amazed at the tergiver-sation of Pub-
lic men that we cannot find language or leisure to
express our feelings with respect to the measures
which they propound to us. The Bills of Lord
Lyndhurst in one House and Mr. Watson in the

—.7 -
other would, ii proposed whilst we were unoccupied
with the consciousness of betrayal and outrage
upon our feelings on the part of the Government
and of Parliament, have aroused a storm of
indignation throughout the land. They fall upon
us now as disasters predicted and expected. There
is no protest against them, although they tend to
sweep away the last relics of Protestantism from the
national character. Another bill, however, the Cha-
ritable Trusts Bill, we did expect to have stirred
the phlegm of our population, inasmuch as it pro-
poses to set up one of those unconstitutional tribu-

cheater

To.the most guilty and depraved of Adam's num'rous race

Asstir'ithtiiff;witO sends thee forth will all thy labours bless

We understand that the Rev. Mr. Hughes, of Aberyst-
with , is to preach in Welsh, at St. David's Church, in this
town, to-morrow (Wednesday) evening.
The anniversary of the Guernsey Auxiliary to the So-
ciety for Promoting Christianity among the Jews was
held on Monday last. The Rev. Thomas Nolan of this
town was one of the deputation
A

meeting of scripholders in the North Western Rail-
way was held at Manchester. on Saturday, Hugh. Hornby,
Esq., in the chair. The directors were authorised to pro-
ceed with tha bill.
On Thursday night, the Earl of Powis presented a pe-
tition for the immediate appointment of a Bishop of Man-
chester, and against the union of the sees of St. Asaph
and Bangor, from the congregation of St. Martin's Church,
in this town, and a similar petition from Toxteth-park.
UTTERING BASE HALF-CROWNS.-At the Police
Court yesterday, a man in the garb of a mechanic was
charged with uttering bad half-crowns to several shop-
keepers and dealers. Three or four of the base coin were
produced. He was remanded for further evidence.
LIBERAL DONATION.—We are happy to hear that the
handsome sum of £3O was yesterday forwarded to the
treasurer of the Liverpool Auxiliary of the Church Mis-
sionary Association, being a contribution to the funds of
the Society from a member of the Presbyterian Church in
this town.

At a meeting of the Liverpool and Preston, and Man-
chester and Southport Railways shareholders at Man-

on Saturday

it was determined to

the bill. The chaiiican, R. A. Thicknesse, Esq., said
the assents represented more than five-sixths of the
whole number of shares.

We beg to call the attention of our readers to an adver-
tisement in this day's paper of two sermons to be preached
for the Church Missionary Society by the Rev. Hugh
Stowell and the Rev. F. Close. In another part of our
paper we have given a report of the interesting meeting
yesterday, and the collections in the various churcEes, on
Sunday, as far as we have been able to ascertain their
amounts.

ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The opening cruise,
for the yachts to sail round the light-ship and back, wilt'

take place on Saturday. They start frona New Brighton,
at eleven in the morning; and, if the weather should
prove favourable, a pleasant day may be anticipated. The
Edith, 70 tons ; the Psyche, 60 tons ; Fenella, 50 tons ;
Osprey, 45 tons, a new yacht ; the Vision, just launched
at Poole ; the Leda, Leander, Seagull, Gem, Petereq,

Jane, and other yachts, are expected to join in the day's
excursion. The vessels will sail under the broad pendant
of the commodore. The first club sailing match of the
season'will take place on the sth June. The prizes are
very elegant, full particulars of which we shall be able to
give in our next.

0
CAUTION TO LODGING-HOUSE KEEPERS.—Yesterday,
at the Police Court, a shabby•genteel youog man. named
Wm. M`Kay, was charged by Mr. Jonathan Downham

with having gone to his house (in his absence) in quest of
lodgings, and on a promise of calling again when his re-
ferences were inquired into, taking advantage of the mo-
mentary advantage of Mrs. D., pocketting a silver per-
forated ladle, which was inarcediaetly missed.
__When

seized, the article was found in his pOssession. Several
other parties, whom the prisoner bad treated in a similar
manner, appeared against him. A flute was produced
which be had purloined from one lodging-house; and a
book from another; both of which were identified by the
owners. Another, to whom he bad paid a visit with the
same object, had missed a silver spoon and a pair of sugar
y tongs. A box had also been stolen from a house in Rod-

'lout

Ii appeared that the prisoner had
been in the practice of scouring the town on the pretence
of taking lodgings, and had seized hold of and carried off
whatever was within his reach when he was unobserved.
The evidence was taken so far, preparatory to his trial at

house an umbrella

CHARGE AGAINST A PRIEST OF OBTAINING MONEY
UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—At the Police Court, yes-
terday, a well-dressed gray-headed man, named Robert
Swaine, but who had latterly assumed the name of Staf-
ford Swaine, (the first being that 'of his mother) was
brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having ob-
tained various sums of money from different parties, os-
tensibly for the re-building of a new chapel and priory, at
(we believe) a town in Ireland called Millory. A woman
named Mary Parker, and several other parties had been
applied to by the prisoner fin. donations towards the ob-
ject stated .which be obtained. It appeared that. the prisoner
was a suspended Roman Catholic Priest. Dr. Kelly, of St.
J ose ph 'a Roman Catholicehapel stated that hebelieved the
prisoner bad no authority Whatever from his superior to
collect money for such an object, and that a letter found,
with others, upon him, purporting to be written by Dr.'
Sharples, the Roman Cotholic bishop, and authorising
him to collect money, was not in the handwriting of that
gentleman. Another Roman Catholic clergyman in the
court expressed a similar opinion. On the prisoner were
found a book, with a heading or prospectus, as prefaratory

to the names of donors for . and holding
out to subscribers certain religious advantages that would
accrue to them after the lapse of a twelvemonth. This
book contained the names of many respectable parties in
this town and neighbourhood, with sums appended as if sub-
scribed, but a considerable number of these were fictitious,
they not having contributed, and those who had done so
were, of course, imposed upon. Dr. Kelly stated that the
prisoner on being suspended, was required by his supe-
rior, in order to purge him of the offence he had com-
mitted to do penance by a residence of twelve months at
a priory in Rome, or some other part of the continent ;
but he had not, it appeared, done so. The prisoner, on
being asked what he had to say, stated at some length
that lie had resided for twelve months at (as we under-
stood him) Mount Henry, and that wishing to be rein-
stated as a priest he had come to this town to solicit sub-

he objet

seriptions, with a view to the rebuilding or tine
UClAtJl-
dated chapel and priory of Mlilory. He added, that
he had not made use of the letter purporting to be
from Dr. Sharpies, or of the names of the parties
in the subscription book who had not paid, but had merely
written them as memorandums; but this admission only

impressed his hearers with a conviction that fraud had
been perpetrated. Mr. Rushton sent for Dr. Sharpies,
the Roman Catholic vicar apostolic of the district, who
pronounced the document purporting to be written by him
to be a forgery. There was also a letter from a Mr.
Maddock, a clergyman. also supposed to be a forgery.
Amongst the witnesses against the prisoner was Mr.
Richard Shiel, whose name appeared in the list ofalonors,
and wbo it appeared had been imposed upon by the pri-
soner some three years ago. Mr. Rushton, after what
was stated by Dr. Sharpies, committed the prisoner to
gaol for three months under the vagrancy act.
The advertisement of Mr. C. Wilmer, announcing the
reduction of the price of the Daily News, for which he is
agent, will be found elsewhere.

interest excited in London at the last meeting of the so-

that he could not get within six yards of the door of Exe-
ter Hall. If they looked back for a few years at the gra-
dually increasing progress the scciety had made, they
would find abundant cause for thankfulness to God ; and
whether they looked to the state of its funds or the num-
ber of persons now ready to engage in its service as mis-
sionaries. they would find that the expectation of its
friends had been greatly surpassed. (Cheers, and hear,
hear.) For the first four years of its existence, the chief
object of the society was to endeavour to obtain mission.
aries, and for that purpose they had correspondence with
the clergy in various parts of the country ; but all their
efforts were unsuccessful, and the first missionaries sent
out were two Lutherans, from Germany ; and now,
although there bad been a great increase in the number,
yet the supply was by no means equal to the demand.
(Hear, bear.) A great improvement, too, had taken
place in the qualifications of the missionaries. The rev.
gentleman then mentioned the case of two clergymen who
bad left this country during last year, the superior qualifi-
cations they possessed, and prospects they had given up
for the purpose of engaging in the work. Again, in a
financial point of view, the society was abundantly pros-
pering ; and this, he said, notwithstanding the slight
felling off which appeared in the report. (Hear, hear.)
For many years, its income did not exceed a few
hundred pounds, but for several years past it bad
exceeded £lOO,OOO. (Cheers.) In the year 1815 or
or 1816, the Rev. Josiah Pratt, one of the secretaries of
the society, said he should not be surprised if he lived to
roceed with see the day when itr-income reached £20,000, and the

present Bishop of Calcutta, rather more sanguine, said it
might reach £50,000. The Rev. Thomas Scott, who bad
preached the first anniversary sermon in its behalf, thought
that at some time, though far distant, natives might be so
far taught as to be admitted to holy orders. So far bad
all these expectations been exceeded, than the income of
the society more than doubled the most sanguine expecta-
tion, and he was happy to add, that there vi ere ten native
missionaries in holy orders, of whom the highest testi-
mony was borne to the success and usefulness of their la-
bours. The rev. gentleman then proceeded to notice the
operations of the society in various parts of the world,
and the new fields for missionary enterprise which were
opening in the Punjaub and China. In the latter country
there were three hundred and sixty millions of people ready
to receive the gospel. The utmost toleration was now
allowed in that country, but it was a sorrowful fact,
that there was at present only one missionary, in con-
nection with the society in the whole of that extensive

empire. The speaker then urged on the meeting the ne-
cessity of exertion in behalf of the finances of the society,
and mentioned several pleasing instances attending con-
tributions to it. A. clergyman, residing in Norfolk, made
it a point to contribute £5OO every year, and he had sent
to the institution upwards of £6,000. (Hear, hear.)
Lately, an artillery officer presented to it the sum of £7O,
which, he said, he had received as his shire of the prize
money from the Chinese war. On Thursday last, a

gentleman, not very well dressed, called at the office in
London, and asked to see one of the secretaries. He saw
Mr. Venn, and handed to him seven Bank of England

lo very we

.es were all- good.
meluded with an elec

cheers