The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-10 00:00:00

ALTERATION OF THE LENT ASSIZES, 1313

In our paper, a week or two since, we mentioned that it
was fixed that the assizes for the Northern division of this
county, were to commence on Wednesday, March Ist. So,
indeed, it was arranged ; but after that arangement had been
made, it was found that the trials of O'Connor and others,
for offences connected with the outbreak in Autumn last,
must take place, if in the county at all, at Lancaster.
The bills of indictmer.t were prepared and framed at the
special commission at Liverpool. in October. These indict-
ments were afterwards removed by writs of certiorari, into
the Court of Queen's Bench, and are to be brought thenee
for trial into Lancashire, at the ensuing assizes. It seems
that no indictments, so removed into the Queen's Bench,
can be sent into this county for trial at Liverpool or else-
where, than at Lancaster.

It is in consequence, therefore, of the greater length of
time that is likely to be required for the despatch of busi-
ness at Lancaster, that the commission day there has been
fixed for the 25th instant, instead of March Ist; thus allow-
ing three full days more at Lancaster than was originally in-
tended. The commission day at Appleby remains as before
fixed. The following, we believe, will be found to be a cor-
rect statement of the dates of the commission days through-
out the circuit :
BEFORE BARON PARKE AND MR. JUSTICE COLTMAN.
York March 4th
Liverpool March 25th

BEFORE BARON ROLFE

Lancaster,
Appleby
Carlisle...

February 25th
March Bth
March 11th
March 17th
March 25th

Newcastle
Durham .

SHIPWRECKS,

Information has been received of the brig Mary and
Isabella, from Wick to Leith, having been totally lost on
the rocky shore off Findon, seven miles south of Aberdeen.
The occurrence took place between 8 and 9 o'clock on I riday
night last, and a portion of the crew and two female passen-
gers were drowned. At Blyth, on the same night, the Ro-
chester Castle, a schooner, amidst the gale broke from her
moorings and drifted out of the harbour, where she subse-
quently capsized, and went down in deep water. At Staithes
the hurricane on Friday was severely felt. The sea put on
a most awful 'appearance ; nothing could withstand its
fury. About 10 o'clock on the following morning a light
brig, named the Thomas, of North Shields, drove on shore

within a few miles of the town, Through the great exertion
of hundreds who had assembled on shore, the crew were all
saved by means of a rope from the ship. The vessel is a
total wreck. The Elizabeth, of Harwich, a schooner of
about 200 tons burthen, was totally lost in the North Sea on

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Thursday last. All the crew, excapt one, were saved.
During the storm on the 13th of last month two 'vessels
were seen to go down in deep water off the coast of Norlolk
a few miles southward of Yarmouth. They have since been
ascertained to be the Nancy and the Petrel; the former be-
longed to Dover, and her crew consisted of six persons.
The whole of them perished. Most of them have families
resident at Dover to deplore their untimely end. The other
vessel was from Ramsgate, and her crew amounted to five
seamen. They also perished. Another vesse I called the
Jane, bound to Glasgow, has been missing since the morning
of the 13th ult., and no doubt is entertained that she went
down within a few miles of Milfordhaven. Her crew per-
ished with her.

By the accounts received on Monday last from Constanti-
nople, we regret to state that s dreadful shipwreck happened
about the ll th of last month near the Dardanelles, by which
upwards of 100 persons were lost. The name of the unfor-
tunate vessel is not exactly known. She is stated to be a
Greek ship, and had 87 passengers besides her crew on board,
not one of whom was saved. She was driven by a gale of
wind on shore at about twelve at night, and almost instantly
went to pieces. The accounts state, that the weather at Con-
stantinople of late has been very severe, and other serious
disasters of the same nature have occurred in different direc-
tions along the coast.

On Saturday, during a violent squall of wind, 15 coal-ships
drove from their anchors and went ashore in Woolwich-
reach. They all sustained damage, and were not got off
without great difficulty. Eight barges, all laden, were sunk
in the reach, and about one o'clock, when the wind was blow-
ing a tremendous hurricane from the north-west, 40 water-
men's boats were sunk at Greenwich, and the loss to the poor
owners will be at least £3OO.
SHIPWRECKS ON THE NORTHUSIBRIAN COAST.—Early
on Saturday morning last, during a most terrific hurricane
from the N.E., which had raged throughout the whole of the
preceding evening, accompanied by drifting snow in the early
part of the night, a light vessel, named the Blucher, on a
voyage from London to Warkworth, came on shore, and was
totally wrecked, on the Northumbrian coast, near to the
small fishing village of Newbiggen. The crew consisted of
seven persons, four of whom, including the captain's son,
were drowned. The three survivors were saved by leaping
from the vessel on to a dry rock. The captain saw his son
attempt to rescue himself in the same manner, but, unfortu-
nately, he leapt short, and was seen for a short time to hang
on by a ledge of the rock, until unable to cling any longer,
he dropped into the surge beneath and was drowned. The
other three in the vessel were not able to gain the rock by
reason of the sea shifting the ship, and then shortly after-
wards splitting her to atoms. In the harbour of Blyth, on
the same coast, a very great deal of damage was done to the
shipping, many of them having been drifted from their moor-
ings, and driven violently against each other for some time.
One vessel, the Rochester Castle, was carried out to sea
without any person on board, and wrecked near to the
entrance of the harbour.

DISASTERS AT SEA.—Margate, Feb. s.—During the
night of Friday and Saturday morning it blew a heavy gale
from the north, with snow-storms, and at daylight the East
Indian-lan Larkins (tea laden,) about 700 or 800 tons, was
seen driving towards the main. At nine o'clock the main-
mast and mizenmast were cut away. The weather moderat-
ing, the ship seemed to ride much easier. About two o'clock
the wind veered four points more to the eastwards, and began
to blow more furiously, and continued to do so all night.
This morning we find the ship on shore on the rocks a little
below the town, n-ar the Newgate Blockade-station. Up
to the present time she has made no water, and should the
weather moderate it is the intention to lighten her. A large
brig from Odessa is riding very near the rocks with her main-
mast cut away, in hopes of preventing her driving ashore.
Yesterday the schooner Victoria came into the harbour with
loss of bowsprit, bows stove in, and much damaged, having
been in contact with the Royal William, Margate steamer,
which vessel has also got much damage. A brig named the
Jane, laden with deals, in coming for the harbour h:'s got
ashore in the bay, close to the stone wall in front of Marine
terrace. The schooner Logan has come into the harbour
with loss of anchors. Since writing the above the brig from
Odessa has been towed away by a steamer up under the Hook
of Margate sand. 7 p.m.—More moderate.
ANOTHER SHlPWRECK.—Newbiggin-on-Sea, near Mar-
peth.—The brig Blucher, of and from London, in ballast for
Warkworth, was, on Saturday morning, totally wrecked on
some rocks near this place. The captain, Mr. John John-
son, with two others, were saved ; but three, including the
son of the captain, were lost.

.
ANOTHER DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—WHITIIY, Sunday
Morning.—During Friday night and yesterday morning the
wind blew a hurricane from N.E. Early in the mornin,, a
brig was observed endeavouring to run into the bay for shel-
ter, but a tremendous sea threw the vessel upon her broad-
side, and drove her ashore, within a short distance from the
entrance of the bay. The crew made every exertion to get
her off, but finding it impossible, and that her destruction
would speedily follow, they took to the rigging for safety.
Immediately upon their situation being observed by the officer
on duty near the spot, he hastened to give the alarm to the stat
tion. Lieut. Lingard directly ordered the life-boat to be launch-
ed, into which he got, followed by five of his men, and they
pushed off in gallant style to the vessel,which proved a collier
beloning to London, named the William and Ann. The nea
being exceedingly high, and as as it snowed heavily, it was a
length of time before they could reach the vessel. Upon
coming alongside, the crew were taken off, and the boat's
head was put about for the shore, Lietenant Lingard taking
charge of the helm. She had not reached any considerable
distance from the wreck before a heavy wave struck the boat
and turned her bottom up, throwing the whole of her living
freight into the boiling surf. Lieutenant Lingard and several
others immediately rose and clung to the boat, while others
attempted to gain the shore by swimming. Every soul
perished. An attempt was made by the commander of the
brig Ayton, which happened to be within a short distance of
the spot, and four seamen, to go to their assistance, but their
boat was upset, and they narrowly escaped meeting with a
similar fate.

In marching, soldiers take seventy.five steps per minute ;
quick marching, 108 ; and, in charging, 150 steps.
Several fragments of a wreck have been cast on the shore,
near Portrush, amongst which is a capstan bar marked
" Brilliant, of Aberdeen."

The Dublin Evening Mail states, that it is reported that
the Marquis of Donegal and Lord Belfast are going to peti-
tion against the return of Mr. Emerson Tennant, for Bel-
fast.

THE GREATEST NAVIGATORS.-Why are washerwomen
the greatest navigators ? Because they are continually cross-
ing the line and running from pole to pole !—Punch.
Lady Blessington says, " Love cannot exist in the heart of
a woman unless modesty is its companion, nor in that of man
unless honour is its associate."

MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.-Mr. Carpenter Smith, the ves-
try clerk of St. Saviour's, Southwark, mentioned incidentally
at the Borough Petty Sessions, that a gentleman, now living
at Northfleet, had purchased for himself an annuity of £5OO
a-year, and the residue of his property (about £200,000) is
to be appropriated to the building of 40 alms-houses, the in-
mates of which are to receive 12s. a-week.

MOUNT ETNA.—Extract of a letter from Palermo, Jan.
:—" The eruptions of Etna have diminished, and the period
of their termination seems fast approaching. Since my last
the explosions have not been considerable, and they do not
afford much amusement to the foreigners assembled about
Catania, who are now beginning to disperse. The torrent of
lava has made little progress, and the damage which the
burning mass occasions is now insignificant, but it always
affords opportunities for scientific research and interesting
observation. The mountain has become entirely inaccessible,
in consequence of the great fall of snow, which covers it to
the very brink of the crater. Snow occupies all the other
mountains, and entirely covers many other places, the valleys
excepted, in which nothing can be more beautiful than the
appearance of the vegetation, so remarkable for its extent
and richness. The violent storms which we have had here
for several days have done much damage on the coast."

The Dublin papers have reports of an intention to establish
a new franchise in Ireland. A circular has been addressed
by the Chief Clerk of the Dublin Poor Law Commissioners
to the Clerks of the Boards of Guardians throughout the
country, in which the following passage occurs—
" I am directed by the Poor Law Commissioners to state,
that a return is required from you on the forms herewith
transmitted, showing the locality, denominations, name of
occupier, acreable extent of the land, and net annual value
of every tenement valued for poor-rates at £3O, or any greater
amount, in the portion of the county of
your union, and for which a separate and distinct return is
required."
The circular adds—

" No portion of a city or town, or of any Parliamentary
borough, is to be included in the return."
It is assumed that the new franchise is to be a £3O tenancy
at will, an Irish " Chandos franchise."
The New Royal Gardens at Frogmore, which have already

excited much curiosity in the horticultural world, are pro-

gressing very satfsfsctOrily, and bid fair to surpass all existing
establishments of the kind. The splendid range of metallic
hot-houses and green-houses, which, when completed, will

be nearly a thousand feet in length, begins tb make a conspi-
cuous figure; several of the most able workmen in the
employ of Jones and Clark, of Birmingham, (the contractors
for the whole of tie horticultural buildings,) having been for
many months past actively engaged on the spot. The west
wing of the range, to the extent of more than 300 feet, is
already nearly completed ; and the corresponding portion on

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the ottier side is being rapidly proceeded with. In the centre
of the range is a neat gothic structure designed for the resi-
dence of her Majesty's gardner ; and it is intended to form a
noble terrace or carriage drive in the front of the cuilding,
and which, being raised above the general level of the garden
wil greatly effect the whole. When the several works now
on hand are completed, they cannot fail to attract a large
numbor of visiters, and particularly such as take an interest
in horticultural pursuits.

PORRESPONDENCB.

STEEPLE-CHASE ON ASH WEDNESDAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD
The papers announce that a Grand Steeple-Chas
come off at Liverpool on the Ist of March. NOW
th
pens to be Ash Wednesday, a day dedicated by t
fashioned piety of our forefathers to fasting, and
and hUmiliation. Although the intelligence of the
live in may despise such observances as superstitious a
surd, yet there are still some, not sufficiently enligl.
who persist in following the practices of antiquity,
conforming to the directions of our national church.
ensuing Ash Wednesday, therefore the pursuits of the
hbilgtahnlytsdoivferLsiified character.verpoolan T
and its
ovicinitysay nothing
are likely to be of a
nothing
of the muster_
ings of our Cambrian friends, in honour of their
patron
saint, such contrarities will present themselves on this first
day of Lent, as the " good old town" has not often exhibited,
and in the view of which Diogenes, were he among us,
might find ample scope for the indulgence of his cynical pro-
pensities. The bells of the several churches, calling the
people to the solemnities peculiar to the day, answered by
the hilarity of thousands flocking to the neck-risking specta-
cle !

Surely nothing can be more in character with the obser-
vance of a holy day, unless it be a Parisian horse race, or a
Spanish bull-fight, on the spare hours of the Lord's Day.
But the proverb says, " the better the day the better the
deed," and why should not we Englishmen be indulged on
Sundays, as well as► days of penitence, with something of
joviality, to exhilarate and prepare.our minds for the service
of God, or to amuse us after it? I cannot but remark how
far the gentlemen of Liverpool are behind the men of Man.
chester in the march of intellect. It appears that an amateur
play had been advertised in the latter town for performance
on the Ist March. But the almanac noting that " a red
letter day"—one of the solemn fasts of the Christian church,
the managers or conductors of the performance have actually
given way to old fashioned prejudice, and have changed the
time. What must the stewards of our Steeple-Chase think
of the intellect of these people who care for " Godly disci-
pline ?"
But, seriously, Mr. Editor, such exhibitions, at such a
time, evince a sad contempt for religion, and cannot but be
offensive and grievous to all who have the least reverence for
things sacred.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,

February 6th, 1843

[We are much obliged to our correspondent for directing
the attention of the directors of the steeple-chase to the
impropriety of the day appointed for that exhibition. We
are no friends to such amusements at any time—they are as
foolish as they are dangerous—but to fix upon one of the
most solemn fasts of the church as a suitable time for the
enjoyment, needs only to be pointed out, we hope, to secure
an alteration of the day.]

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DERBYSHIRE COURIER.
How may our church be said to acknowledge Roman Ca-
tholic ordinations in this country?

SlR,—Some unlucky collision with a parochial clergyman
on the subject of education, or some ill-judged or misreported
speech at a public meeting, is continually occurring to add
to the necessity for a more general right understanding of the
position of the Roman Catholic priesthood in this country.
That which is empathically termed by them " The Catholic
Directory," annually sets before us an array of bishops and
clergy, arrogating to themselves, as if of exclusive right,
everything that holy orders can confer, much to the dispa-
ragement of the Church of England, whereas the only cor-
rective wanted is information. Not alone members of our
own church, but very many estimable and worthy people of
the Roman Catholic persuasion are misled, through their im-
perfect acquaintance with truth and facts, into conclusions
the most erroneous on the particular subject of our enquiry.
To not one of these estimable and worthy individuals would
I, on any consideration, countenance the offer of an affront
or disrespect : I desire no more than their permission to dis-
cuss dispassionately some of the merits of the system that
they uphold.
The cruelties exercised under the reign of Mary have sub-
sided, without the least promise of a reduction of the Church
of England by such means back to a reunion with that of Rome,
an attempt was made by fraudulence (I hope I may so speak
without offence) to accomplish that which force had ceased
to offer any prospect of attaining; and the emissaries of the
papacy sedulously devoted themselves to the task of diffusing
doubts and suspicions as to the unbroken continuance of the
thread of apostolical succession in the Church of England.
This was done with the avowed object of invalidating her or-
dinations ; than which certainly a more effectual death-blow
could not have been devised to our existence any longer as a
Church of Christ. Bat in proportion as the futility of this
attempt became more and more apparent, it sunk into disre-
pute; and it is now more than a century since any writer of
respectability in the Church of Rome has ventured to asperse
the validity of our orders. Prior to 1700, the eminent Bosseut
(whose authority, Palmer, in selecting him, pronounces

. .
" worth a host of minor theologians,") frankly oi-id unequi-
vocally conceded the point, and declared that, in the event
of a reunion with Rome, our orders would hold perfectly
good.

The Church of England, on her part, held up to censure
the Papal corruptions in her own necessary vindication ; but
never impeached the perfect Catholicity of the Church of
Rome where legitimately and with consent established.
Nay more—though she had suffered so severely from the ex-
ertion of Popish influence, yet did she by an excess of libe-
rality, consent not to subject to reordination those who,
having taken Popish orders, even within her ownjurisdiction,
were willing to return to her communion. Not in the slight-
est degree called upon to know anything of ordinations of
this stamp, in thus consenting she was actuated by motives
of the purest kindness. and conciliation. And how is this
kindness now repaid ? By being made a handle of against
herself.

It should here be observed, however, that the Church of
England, in condescending to recognize Popish ordinations,
undoubtedly meant them to be properly performed, and ac-
cording to the rites of that Church which professes to confer
them. But are they so performed in this country ? Some
of my readers will probably learn with surprise, that serious
doubts are entertained by the Romanists themselves as to the
sufficiency of the orders of our English Papists. The case
stands thus. The deprived prelates, adherents to the Pa-
pacy at the time of the Reformation, did ,not keep up any
succession. This is an historical fact. A new line began
with the arrival of Dr, Leyburn from Rome, under James
11., as bishop " in partibus infidelutu;" and he, then the only
Popish bishop in England, commenced a system of episcopal
consecrations so impeachable, according to the canons of
Rome herself, as to have given rise to acknowledged scruples
in the champions of her own cause, as to whether these orders
confer any real vocation to the ministry or not.
Grounded on the testimony of Holy Scripture to the fact,
that appointments to the highest offices of the sacred 'mi-
nistry were always made by a plurality of persons, the prin-
ciple maintained by the universal church, from the earliest
times, has been, that several (three at least) of his own
order, should unite in the consecration of every bishop. Yet,
in the teeth of councils and synods, and the whole practice
of the catholic church, do the self-styled catholic clergy of
England and Ireland call upon us, in virtue of a papal dis-
pensation, for which not necessity but simple convenience
(" commoditas") is the plea, to admit the true episcopacy,
and by consequence the ordinations, of bishops to whom but
one of their own order has administured consecration.

In recognising orCierspopishly derived within her own Pale,
the Church of England, at the commencement, bestowed a
favour to which no claim of right could possible ever have
been made out, from ac anxiety to facilitate the reunion of
her misguided children with herself. Now, as is justly ob-
served by Mr. Palmer, " the general discipline of the church
with regard to the reordinations, would amply justify us in
not admitting popish priests ordained in these kingdoms, to
minister in our churches (on conversion) without receiving
would some_
ordination from our bishops." And "if the Church of Eng-
land should be aware of the difficulty affecting their orders,
and yet should not adopt another practice with regard to
tocatohrodliincatuionoitsy,,
and
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them, it need not be supposed that she acknowiedges them
free rom doubt, but that, from a desire to promote the re-
turntimes otfolheerartelostsupply their
deficiencies." even sheepdubious

Assuming, however, for argument, that these ordinations
were not dubious, but of perfect validity according to the
rites of the Papal church ; still would their validity, how great
soever in the eyes of Rome, alter the position of Rotnanists,
lay or clerical, belonging to this coun try?
The God we worship being a God of unity, not division,
His church must be one thing and not two things.
And every
spot of this country being comprehended within one or other
of the ancient dioceses of our own ..ktiglo-Catholic bishops,
deriving apostolical succession and consecration from our
own Metropolitan, and constituting the one undeniably true
branch of the Catholic Church of the Redeemer in this
realm THEY, the subjects of this realm, yet separatists by
their own act from Catholic unity within it, are (it is painful
to use the term) intrinsically schisnzatics, as mnch as secta-
rians and seceders of every other denomination are schismatics.
I am, &c.,

AN ANGLO-CATHOLIC PRIEST,

GOOD NCO 'FERRIM nr OMNIBUSSES.—The individual who
first started an ombnibus thought of nothing but the con-
veyance of passengers in this novel fashion from one end of
theach and co town tbanother, and sharing the profits of hackney-
Hean did not fancy that he was going to
change the face of London, extend its suburbs for miles, and
contribute essentially to the health of its population. But
residences dwelling-houses, is reduced to an extraordi-
nary degree; there is a daily and hourly migration of tens
of thousands to the outskirts, where they live and breathe a
healthful air, instead of being smoked and smothered in nar-
row courts and alleys. To receive them, innumerable cottages
and villas have been built, and a wonderful mass of property
created ; and, with a change iu their mode of life, there has
arisen a change in their feelings and manners. They mix
more with general and chance society, and they learn much
from every day's casual intercourse with strang.ers. Their
amusements and their domestic habits take a different turn;
and, in short, an Iliad of alteration may truly be ascribed to
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