The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

admired- and belir

•,r
known, that. the influence of the Rev. Francis Close, in
Cheltenham, is almost unbounded—an influence obtaine►l
by high character, unbending truth, and faithfulness in ,
the exuti,e of God.

LATER FROM AMERICA,

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER PACIFIC

Congress has discussed several interesting subjects. Or
the 16th ultimo, petitions for a tna.itication of the Tariff

public tarif
mittee.
the Africa]

numerous

coast of I

,once Cow-

ppraibers was referred to the I
he' oth Mr. Clay offered resoli
Slave Trade more effectually. also other
Intions relative to the Slave Trade on the
&c. On the 21st ultimo a petition was
merchants of Philadelphia, 174-.
-learn line from that c t

presented from
establishment c
Janeiro.

Washington Ace(

CaWorn

its state, that a large number of the
;ongress bad signed a declaration of

134 to 13
131, to 14
14i to 14

month, when commercial men usually make their heaviest
I remittances. In addition to our gold placers, California is
1 likely to prove rich in silver ore. We have, therefore, hai
occasion to notice the discovery of two or three no very incon-
-1 siderable mines. Another has been discovered a few league;
By the United States Mail Steam-ship Pacific, Captain ! from Monterey, which promises to be exc?.,dingly rich. Po__
Nye, we have received papers from New York to the 22d r tions of the ore have been taken oat and assayed, and worked
ult. This splendid steamer arrived here yesterday morn- iup for nse. A company is now forming at Monterey for tl
purpose of working the mine upon an extensive scale, and tt
ing about eleven o'clock, having left New York at noon . stockholders are confident that it will prove a good Ives.lves.on the 22d. She encountered during nearly the whole
mstent.
passage very severe, weather, the gales blowing from the "The commercial news from this section is not importani
N. and N. W., and she was detained about thirty hours No material changes have occurred in prices of merchandise
among fields of ice. She has consequently made a very A fair supply of almost every article is in market, and h
rapid run, and
hes Drought twenty-nine passengers, a list constant shipments which
tornae being made nom supply ari
New. World, give us reason nticipate that ►the wi
of whom we subjoin. She has also brought .1:50,000 on continue adequate to the increasing wants of the country. .
freight. strong tide of emigration is now settling towards the Atlanti
The Royal Mail Steam-ship Asia, Captain Judkins, j states."
which left here on the 4th ult., reached New York on The San Francisco Herald, of December 15, says,—
: rill richness.
the 17th. The anxiety about the Atlantic was, of 'course. "The mines have been very productive for the last mond
very great, as when the Pacific left she had been out and the quartz beds recently discovered give
.promise of ex
twenty-five days. The general impression appeared to be
forward
sarcontlti The rain has not been sufficiently steady t
miningienua n
ce now operationstat it hasiis yet,e mbut
ct
eh(ei ilirs.oa
some Reek
that she had met wilt' an accident and put back to Liver- ,
pool, or gone to the Azores. The steam-ship Franklin, ,to come. The cholera has disappeared from the
which left Havre on the Ist ult., arrived at New York on enidernie ~
the 16th

Commercial accounts from San Francisco state tha
business was unusually dull, and prices of almost ever
thing had declined. The stagnation was greater than a
• •

June during the previous winter

Vase quantities

ize continued to be poured in; and further
.•
rid losses were looket

Jersey; resolutions were adopted calling on toe
for all correspondence relative to Central Anierica, and great reductions
the armed interferences there of her Majesty'l ships; spring set in. There was no improvement
and correspondence relative to Cuba was also called for. market—money being scarce and light ;
On the lith the propositions for a new line of Chagres pected that the work of the general government we
steamers were offered ; and a bill for the appointment of liberate about a million-and-a-half, which at present

ions to stop ! prove the aspect of the money market,

for before th,

in the mo

but it was ex

OVERLAND BOMBAY MAIL

We have received o

spondence receive(
to
okin the
Rgiode
1 Overland Bombay

it file of newspapers and our corre-
-33, express in anticipation of the
it

SUMMARY

Times of January 3.)

From the Over
Sir Charles Napier h

ctory addresses °eve

generally known to the I
liabilities of the British

Teditors exceed a r

worse in this way tha

pean reader t
rs in Int

.d his f

a to their

the civil service

matters, wi:h all the sad train of deplorable consequence
attendant on it, is almost entirely 0

or sensual indul

the nobil

rse-rac

puce, and grors personal extr
past been creenine it

my yea

; the u

expensive liquors, wi

end equipages (1

d other varieties of

,nly ai

- ..,_
d libitum of champagne and othe.
at the Presidency, house-rents

triple v

t can U

pay is evider

g soldiers, get so much the tr

Bled, whereas large t

deeply and rapidly er
commissioned officers make money from t

as read

lately commanded one of the most fret

re troops he

ever published—the more cutting and tremendous in tha
it is almost all of it true. He is expected to reach Bomba!
in time to go home with the steamer a fortnight hence
He embarked on the Sutlej for Kurrachee at Ferozeporl
on the 18th ultimo. The papers have during the pas
fortnight been chiefly occupied with the exposures con.
nected with the affairs of the North-West Bank of India,
The Governor-General is on his progress northward to.
wards Peshawur. He had met with a gni/maid rp,•.ntim.

at Lahore about the middle of the month ; he was to meet
the Maharajah Goolab Singh about the 24th, and the
ceremonies were expected to be most august on the occa-
Sickness continued very prevalent among the
-bout 10 per cent. of the garrison
' : at. Peshawur there were 1401
',tell, 2600 ;--the mortality

troops in the Purjaub-
at Lahore were in host:

been great

i ne act of the Legislative
Council, authorising land to be procured for the use of
the Calcutta Railway, has become law at last, though not
till half the cold season has been lost. The first cargo of
rails for the Bombay line has arrived, and here matters
are proceeding favourably.
Sir John Grey, our new commander-in -
the 29th, and was sworn in on the 30th ul.,
a spler.did entertainment, consisting of a dinner ~_
ball and supper, was given in the Town-ball to his prede-
cessor, Sir W. Cotton ; it was attended by the whole elite
of the community, the late commander-in-chief having
enjoyed a high degree of popularity while amongst us.
Mr. R. K. Pringle, commissioner in Scinde, has resigned
the service.
The High Sheriffs for the year 1851 have just bee
notified; Mr. Reddie, of the firm of M'Vicar, Stant!
and Co., is High Sheriff for Calcutta • for Madras, Xl
A. Macdonald Ritchie ; and for Bombay, Dr. Geor
Buist, editor of the Bombay Times.
Letters from China appear to confirm the apprehens'
entertained at the departure of last mail regarding the
of the unfortunate ship Rustomjee Cowasjee. They
that she was dismasted in a gale near the coa
and while she was in that state the pirate jun.
her, and murdered all hands, except the boatswain at c
second mate, who were reserved to navigate the ship.
They e' a sl' ,ly

lief, arrived c
t. On the 31

scapen ,nortiv after, and arrived safely in Hot,
kong. Her Majesty's brig Serpent was sent in search of
the pirates immediately, but returned without having seen
them.

Owing to the almost unprecedented pressure in tle
money-market, one of the greatest firms in Bombay,
Messrs. Dadabhoy and Munoherjee Pestonjee, have been.
under the necessity of suspending payment, and placing
their affairs in the hands of trustees. The extent of their
landed property and other assets is, however considered
amply sufficient to cover their liability.

LECTURE ON POPERY

Last evening an ad►nirable and eloquent lecture was
vexed in the Concert-ball, Lord Nelson-street, by the It

Minton, to a highly-respectable and crowded audience, on th
Romish doctrine of " Intention."
The chair was occupied by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile-, Cnnon
Chester; and the proceedings opened with approi

fbe Rev. Dr. M'NE2LE, on rising, was received with lota
•

fed this evening for the

the Romish doctrine of Intention, a doctrine which pervades

and mystifies the entire sacramental system of theltc

itely and abjectly

this -doctrine, it is impossible either to prove or disprove the
validity of any of them. A priest has baptised a child; but did
he intend to do it at the time ? If he did not, the child is not
baptised. A Romish priest has married a couple; but did he
intend to do it? If not, they were not married, and popery
is answerable for all the consequences. A bishop has ordained
a priest; but did he intend to do it. (for orders also they make
intend a sacrament)? If he did not to do it, the priest was not
I ordained, and all he has been doing since he has been doing as
a layman, usurping the functions of a priest, and popery is
answerable for the consegnences. (Hear, hecr.) But he must
not enlarge, else he should be entrenching on the subject upon
which his friend, Mr. Minton, would srak. :He might
I
s. however, say a few words on the larger -

ect to tl
', with '

cheers)—aud upon that subject he m►gu, _. _
were assembled that evening at the instance of the Pope 0;
Rome and the College of Cardinals. (hanghter and cheers.;
They have made an assault on England which has raised the
torpid_ energies of Enal:- nin defence of their country,
(Cheers.) Sermons and lee•
'upealing to reason, to hie
dissenters and church•

their Queen, and theii:reli,gion.
titres, and pamphlets and lbook
. _

:ory, written

men, have all conspired to sli(iw that Romani= !s what
lionianisni was—opposed to the word of God, and an enemy
to light and liberty, and literature, to social improvenients,and
the ci►•ilization of the linnyin race. (Loud cheers.) Ia there
no cause—is there not a cause—why we should not resist such

with cries of"Tnrn him out.") He advised theta to leavethet
interrupting him to him. He was going to tell them that
monism was called religion ; and lie might say with truth
it was something more than religion, something direrent I

of absurdities, irrational, unscriptural, and incredib
voice, "That's not the Church of Rome.") He quite L
there was not a priest in Liverpool who would tell the t

church was, but would not tell the people; and now couk
about civil and religious liberty. Dominick, in the rei
Pope Innocent the Third. put 200,000 of the Waldenses to t

o months because th.ey would not believe tbeirdoct
rev. speaker then
,alltidetl to the persecutions of

Spanish Inquisition, mid the massacre otrSt. HartholOm
proof or the same fact. He then remd the tollowinc ex

from the speech of 31r. !'eel, late Sir Robert Peei, tleTiveret

s to the incorrention of the Roman Catholic clergy r
ate, 1 ill fairly own that I object to it;— not because t

cannot reconcile myself to the operat ion of that civil hil
which I believe to attach to their religions system, and

is not of the religious, but of the civil tendency- of tht
trines, that I complain; and while I am ready to tre
charity and tenderness the private scruples of any nhin

faith as that of confessioo, which (and I avow it with sorrow
tolerates one man's communication to another of his ititentic
to commit mounter, but restrains that other from divultir
the information to his intended victim."

Now, on this subject, what mut to be lloue with the wLeii
system was what the Queen was about tp.speal, on the followirg

day. He had never seen reason to forfeit the confider
he reposed it, her on this subject. What were the wt
the Queen of England sent through the country in
address from the Oxford University? " You ma}
(tete' mination to maintain the Protestant faith and the
plicity of the Protestant worship." (cheers.) Thu rep•. do,

vply to tt

Nol

Marshall at the recent VOlllllll Cetholic /untir
po(l, extracts from whot,e weeches WC hare given Ow

y obserling

, it never to be forced; sedition, honever Ida
ti
tesi'leerttvio be tolerr.:ed_ lip nip.

you the ROroish doctrine ti

,dministration of the sacramehls

A Cabinet Cottaleiiwas