The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

TEA PARTY

.--REV. STEPHEN H. GLOUCESTER,

This party, which we noticed in our last publication,
was held at Mr. Lascelles rooms, Great Richmond-street.
on Thursday evening last, and was numerously attended,
there being over one hundred and sixty ladies and gentle-
men present ; many of them had seen Mr. Gloucester,
but, being almost exclusively members of the Church of
England, had not the same opportunity of testifying their
welcome to him as other denominations who could invite
him to their pulpits. As the circulars issued stated, it
was held for the purpose of having an opportunity of bid-
ding him farewell, previous to his return home per the
Arcadia on Saturday, and out of the amount realized from
the tickets and the sale of fancy work to forward a pre-
sent to the Rev. Gentleman's wife and family. The rooms
were profusely decorated with British and American
colours, plentifully supplied with evergreens, which were
kindly given by Mr. Skirving, of Walton, and when all
were seated presented a very splendid appearance. After
the repast was concluded, and whilst the servants belong-
ing to the various families assembled were enjoying their
tea and coffee, the sale of fancy work went on prosper-
ously, the fair vendors being excellent saleswomen.
At the particular request of the company, Mr. Glou-
cester gave a specimen of his lectures, moral and religious,
amongst his fellow-countrymen, aided by the subject he
was speaking on being in view, by the use of the magic
lanthorn. He stated that lie had been enabled, by hay-
it as an auxiliary, to bring thousands of the coloured po-
pulation of America within the sound of the gospel, who
would not have gone near a place of worship; and that
though they came to hear a moral lecture, he was always
able to conclude by speaking to them of a Saviour; and
that when using it, he never had to preach or speak in a
half filled room.

The tables were presided over by thirteen ladies, mem-
bers of St. Jude's, Christ Church, St. Augustine's, St.
George's, Everton, and Christ Church, Waterloo. It be-
ing lesired that the evening should be spent as nearly as
possible like a usual family party, music was provided for
the first hour, which added much to the pleasure of the
company. At nine o'clock grapes, oranges, and apples
were handed round.

The following address was read and laid on the table for
signature :

The Rev. Stephen Henry Gloucester, Philadelphia.
" DEAR SIR.—We the undersigned being some of the
number present at the Tea Party and Bazaar, held at
Liverpool on the thirteenth of January, 1848, to bid you
farewell on your being about to return to America, beg to
express the joy we feel in seeing the Ethiopian educated
for the Ministry of the Gospel of Christ, and to hope the
day is fast coming when in all lands there will be no dis-
tinction made on account of colour.

" Wishing you a safe and prosperous voyage, and a
happy family meeting,
We are, Reverend and dear sir, yours most_tru/y
This was speily signed by 80 of the party, there not be-
ing room for more, the sheet of drawing-paper on which
it was beautifully written being full. Mr. Gloucester then
very feelingly addressed the meeting, and after singing the
Evening Hymn, concluded with prayer. The amount
realised, after paying expenses, was fifteen pounds, which
has been forwarded to Mrs. Gloucester.

Mr. Gloucester left these shores by the Acadia, at half-
past two on Saturday, and was much delighted to find on
board a fellow-passenger, as far as Halifax, in the Rev.
Alexander Forrester, of Paisley, at whose house he so-
journed, and where he was treated with the most Christian
kindness during a severe fit of illness, and from whose
pulpit he preached some months ago.

THE COPPER TRADE.—SOMe supplemental statistics
have been published in the Mining Journal relative to the
copper trade for the last year. From these we gather that
the sales of Cornish ores at Swansea during 1847, com-
prised 153,120 tons, realizing £873,436 10s., and that the
sales of Welch, Irish, and foreign ores comprised 47,611
tons, realizing £641,056 10s. 6d. ; and it is further calcu-
lated that the smelters who purchased the raw material
have produced from it 25,000 to•is of merchantable copper
for distribution throughout the markets of the world.
Considering the amount of capital and labou: so employed,
and of the demand created for freightage, " the copper
trade," it is remarked, " must be regarded as one of the
most important branches of British industry, and at least
as holding rank next to coal and iron."
FULL OF LAW.—A juryman at Usk Sessions said at the
close of a learned counsel's speech, in which a great deal
of law had been expended in the hearing of the jury, that
he was now so full of law, that he was very much afraid
he should have hard work to keep from cheating some-
body or other.

A: BAD BREAST OF AN EXTRAORDINARY NATURE
CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—A
short time since the wife of Henry Pocock, a turner,
residing at Bucklersbury, Berks, was considered to be in
a very precarious state, in consequence of her breast
becoming alarmingly swollen and bursting into ulcers ;
the first medical aid in the country was of no service—
her case was considered as incurable. Notwithstanding th;s
hopeless condition, the ulcers have been all healed, and so
perfect is the cure that she is now suckling another child
at breast. This wonderful cure has been solely brought
about by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.

'strut iltlug.

The Cockhedge factory at Warrington has- commeneed
work, but all the other factories remain idle.

The Fury steam war sloop, built by Messrs. Rigby and
Sonst.of Iffawarden, arrived at, aud &parted from Rio de
Janeiro from Plymouth without a single defect.

During the 10,St three months 30,0-(10 money orders were
granted at the Liverpool post-office and 20,000 at Mhn-
chester.

DARING ROBBERY.—On Tuesday, about three o'clock
in the ofbernoon, a man, named John M'Clure, was de-
tected stealing lead from the roofs of houses opposite the
Town-hall, Salford.

Captain, Charlewood, the efficient secretary of the
Cheshire Junctidn Railway, haS been appointed by the
Admiralty to command the Coast Guard on the Deal
Station, and will have to vacate his present appointment.
Last Monday, a man named Haworth was • found
drowned in the canal near Blackburn: His sister-in-law
was so overwhelmed with grief at the circumstance, that
she died in a few minutes after hearing of it.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday., Mr. Edward Ihlli_
well, agent to Earl Ellesmere, was crossing.the railway at
Preston Brook, he could not get out of the way of a train
which. came up, and which, passing: over him,. killed- him
directly.
On. Saturday last, a farmer named Ledsom, residing at
Saughall Massie, left Upton on horseback, on his way
home, but lost his way, and was. found. the next morning,
dead; in a bye-lane, and his horse grazing in an• adjoin:jug
field: He is supposed to have fallen off his horse, and
died from the effects of cold.

William Ratcliffe and Mary Duckworth have been
committed to Chester Castle, charged' with hawing at-
tempted to murder Ann Scrimmager, by throwing her
into the Ashton Canal. The unfortunate girl. was preg-
nant by Ratcliffe, and the crime was committed: to prevent
the child being affiliated on him. The female prisoner
appears to have been a mere tool of Ratcliffe..
THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—A public meeting of master
mariners, shipwrights, and seamen, was heldin the Town-
hall, South Shields, on the evening of Monday week, in
support of the navigation laws. The meeting was very
numerously attended, and very ably addressed by Mr.
Thomas Young. master mariner, chairman, Mr. James
Mather, and Mr. Henry. Woodroffe, secretary to the
Seamen's Loyal Standard Association, when a petition to
the Legislature was adopted, which has already been very
numerously. signed.
MANSLAUGHTER.—On Tuesday last an inquest was
held at Ormskirk. before J:. Hayes, =cl., coroner, touch-
ing the death of Teter Travise, aged 20 years. From the
evidence given, it appears that abent a fortnight ago de-
ceased and a man named Baybut, quarrelled, and blows
were exchanged, after which the deceased became very ill,
and in consequence of the injuries he had received, he
died on Sunday last. A verdict of manslaughter was re-
turned against Baybut, who was present at the inquest,
and he was committed to Kirkdale gaol to take his trial.
REDUCTION or.• WAGES.—At Stockport the master
manufacturers have given notice of their intention to re-
duce the wages of their men 10 per cent. At Blackburn
the whole of the master cotton spinners and power loom
manufacturers gave a month's notice, on Friday last, of a
reduction of wages, the card-room hands of 71 per cent.
weavers ten per cent. On Tuesday, the operatives posted
placards in the town and neighbourhood, stating that the
attempted reduction of wages would amount to upwards
of £3OO per week. Several meetings have taken place
during the week without anything definite having been
decided on.

EMPLOYMENT. -At Manchester there are fourteen
more mills at work with their full complement of hands
which were previously entirely stopped. This brings
nearly 3000 more hands into employment who were pre-
viously entirely without work ; nearly 2009 of these are
now on full time, and 1000 on short time. This is as re-
gards the operatives in all kinds of works ; still one half
the improvement is amongst the cotton mill operatives.
Out of thirty-three mills at Blackburn, employing 17,116
persons, ten mills, employing 2304 persons, are entirely
without work ; eleven mills, employing 9700 persons, are
working eleven hours per day ; three mills, employing
315 persons, are working eight hours per day ; and two
mills, employing 237 persons, are fully employed.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE VICAR OF I%IOTTRAM..
—We learn from the Manchester Guardian of Wednes-
day, that during the past summer a great scandal was
thrown upon the Church by a charge of adultery made
against the Rev. David Seddon, Vicar of Mottra►n, in
Lancashire, who, being a married man, was charged by
the daughter of a labourer in his parish with being the
father of a child of which she was then enciente. Mr.
Seddon asserted that this charge was the result of a con-
spiracy against him ; and, accordingly, he memorialised
the Bishop of Chester for an inquiry. The Bishop issued
an ecclesiastical commission, consisting of the Rev. Chan-
cellor Raikes, the Ven. Archdeacon Wood, and two other
clergymen. The high character of the Chancellor, and
the " odour of sanctity " which attaches to his unblame-
able life, and earnest zeal in the diocese of Chester, were
a sufficient guarantee for the justice and impartiality of
the inquiry, and after two days of patient investigation,
they came to the conclusion that the charges were false
and malicious. Mr. Seddon's accusers, it appears, have
not been defeated by this decision, for the child being
born, an order of affiliation against the rev. gentleman
was applied for at the Hyde petty sessions on Monday.
The hearing occupied nine hours, and the magistrates
made the order upon Mr. Seddon. Notice was immedis
ately given of an appeal to the quarter sessions.

POPERY
&ND DENUNCIATIONS FROM THE ALTAR.

A very admirable letter appeared in the London
Standard of Friday, addressed to Lord Shrewsbury. on
the subject of his lordship's recent letters to Dr. 111`Hale.
We regret that we can only find room for the following,
which is the concluding portion of the letter, and which
contains arguments that cannot be overthrown :

" But, my lord, let us fling away the mask of suppo-
sition. These things are so. The infallible creed of Dr.
WlTale and Father M'Dermott does infallibly teach them
that all Protestants are heretics, and yet by their baptism
within the power of the Church—it tells them that the
punishments decreed against them are "confiscation,
prisonment, death." So teach their papal bulls now in
force, now published in Ireland; so teaches their Bible;
so, with one voice, proclaim all the authoritative docu-
ments upon the subject in their Church. It' they have
any faith, any religion, this is their faith and this their
religion. This has been proved in every town in Great
Britain, from London to Liverpool, from Edinburgh to
Exeter; every bishop in Ireland, and Dr. M'Hale among
the rest, has been invited over and over again to disprove
it ; they have never attempted to do so. The late Mr.
O'Connell was invited, challenged, to dispute it as a mat-
ter of evidence ; he never attempted to do so. Denied
these facts have been, but as your lordship is incredulous
of Father M'Dermott, so are all men of a denial as op-
posed to a proof. This is at least certain, that the man
who holds the Roman creed can have no difficulty in de-
nying it, if convenient.

" Now here, my lord, your error lies ; you blame the
men, I charge the guilt upon the system. You, gentle-
men, my lord, call our peasantry blood thirsty, our priests
ruffians, our bishops slothful, at least, if not worse. We
fling back the charge. Our people do the bidding of their
priests. What marvel ? They are good Catholics. Our
priests carry out the training which you give them along
with their bishops at Maynooth. Our bishops obey their
lord and yours, the occupant of the chair of Peter, in
whatsoever age he has lived, presided, and infallibly de-
creed. If guilt attaches to their practices, then let the
weight of it fall upon the prime movers of the evil. But
surely, my lord, it is unjust to single out the instrument
for your rebuke and to permit the promoter of the felony
to escape. If, as Dr. M'Hale declares, the authority of
St. Gregory for the murders of Roscommon is valid, then,
my lord, aim higher, and deal your blow at the Vatican
rather than at St Jarlath's. My lord, I feel as deeply
as man can feel, the awful state of my country, which
your lordship has so eloquently and faithfully described;
and I solemnly charge the guilt of those awful crimes
which defile her fair fields and make her name a blot and
a bye-word among the nations of the earth, not upon her
misguided sons, my brethren, but upon the foul, doubly-
damned head of the tyrant of Rome. His are the laws
which guide us, his the counsels which sway our destiny,
his the priests which instruct us, and his, ten thousand
fold his, is the guilt of our fearful crimes. _

"..A.se;ertions avail but little, my lord. lam prepared
with proofs. Your lordship has charged crimes of a deep
dye upon my country. I deny the charge, and hurl it at
the head of him whom you have chosen as your spiritual
guide. You, my lord, arraign the Irish priest ; I, the
Roman pontiff. I most respectfully defy your lordship
to substantiate your charge, and, at the same time, under-
take to prove my own. You have publicly accused us ; be
just, and confirm or retract your accusation. Your lordship
has great and deserved influence among the English
Roman Catholics; choose two priests, or two laymen, and
we will choose two advocates on our side ; let them plead
before any English jury, chosen in any way that your
lordship may suggest ; let the qnestion be, whether the
crimes of Ireland are in accordance with the infallible
doctrines of the Roman Church, as taught there by the
bishops under the direction of the Pope, and let them
decide the truth either for the acquittal of your lordship's
calumniated creed and our eternal infamy, or to the ever-
lasting disgrace of the Roman name, and our national de-
liverance. You have taken one bold and noble step, my
lord, worthy of your name and dignity. The proposition
which I make would not at all involve the same interference
in ecclesiastical matters, from which, as a layman, your
lordship might hold back, as that which you have done al-
ready ; for it is not as to the truth or falsehood of doctrine
that I should propose to discuss,. but as to the fact of what
doctrine is taught as matter of faith by the Church of
Rome. It is a question not of theology but of evidence.
I know, my lord, that you do not believe these charges, or
hold these doctrines; you treat them as a foul calumny;
then cover with merited disgrace the wretch who makes
them thus before the nation ; refute his falsehood, expose
hi. slander. You owe it, my lord, to your traduced re-
ligion at this unhappy juncture. You dread not the
result of fair investigation for your creed, then shrink not
from it, my lord. But should such a charge as that which
I have made be proved, then, my lord, how happy the
result for you, that thus, at length, you should he de-
livered frog► the thraldom of a system such as the Roman
would appear, and, however painful, to seek a new form
of faith among the various which would offer; you would
have, at least, this comfortable reflection, that you had
been delivered from the worst of all.

" Anxious, my lord, to avoid unnecessary notoriety, I
have not affixed ray name to this letter; but that I may
not appear under all the disadvantages of an anonymous
correspondent, the editor of the newspaper in which this
letter appears, will inform your lordship who I am, should
you be inclined to inquire."

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PACKET SHIPS

W. H. ALLEN 1200 tow'•
1200 tons
S_TCE lOOO tons

!6th Jan
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?ackets HITHERTO PAYING

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for strength, beauty of model, punctuality
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lations,'2lre not surpassed by an]
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in Passage-moneyisTWENTY-FI
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for which a
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rate o(4 dollars

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Sailing on the Ist and 16th of every Month

YORKSHIRE. E. G. FURBER 1100 tons.. Ist Fc
COLUMBIA. A. C. MARSHALL 1100 tons..l6th Fc
NEW YORK. T. B. CROPPER 1000 tons.. Ist Mg

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MONTEZUMA, A. B. LOWBER
FIDELIA. S. YEATON
ISAAC WRIGHT, D. G. BAILEY

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of character and experience. The Pas
at TWENTY GUINEAS, for which ample rte
description will be provided, with the exception of win(
liquors, which will be furnished by the Steward, if req
BARING BROTHERS and
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1050 tons.. Gth May.

At of the 4th of each Month
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Goods received until MM
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city of New York, are commanded by men of ext
ability. Their cabins are elegant and commodic

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lgers. The rate of Cabin Passage is TWENTY-ONE
POUNDS, for which all stores are provided, except wines and
spirits ; these, if required, rilay be procured from the Steward.

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