The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF
DRUNKENNESS.—This association has circulated a letter
among the clergy of Scotland, entreating co-operation in
the work of reforming Scotland "from its present degraded
position as the most drunken country in Europe." The
committee suggest to:every clergyman the preaching of a
sermon against drunkenness on the last Sunday of the
present year, at which a collection shall be made in aid
of their funds.
The Rev. W. N. Darnell, Rector of Stanhope, as with-
drawn his name from the subscription to the Penitentiary
of Durham, in consequence of the third resolution entered
into at the late meeting of subscribers: and Archdeacon
Thorp has, through the secretaries, communicated to the
committee his refusal to co-operate with them, or to
further their views, until some guarantee is afforded that
the religious superintendence of the institution shall be
fundamentally supplied by the Church, and carried out
in accordance with her principles.
LUCRATIVE SITUATIONS IN SUSSEX.—The guardians
of the Steyning Union have advertised for a porter at the
Shoreham workhouse. He is to be able-bodied and single,
and his salary (beyond lodgings and rations in the work-
house) is to be £lO per annum. Out of this remunera-
tion lie is to find his own clothes. The Uckfield guard-
ians have advertised for a nurse, who is to devote her
whole time to her duties, and such other duties as may
be required by the master or matron, and the remunera-
tion is to ne board and lodging, and £7 a-;ear
The exploits of Guy Fawkes in London have pro-
bably created more sensation in Paris than they have in
London. Some of the Paris papers look upon "these
public manifestations" as something that may lead to a
revolution in England. The Debats reminds the English
people that the cry of " Vive la Reforme" ended in the
revolution of 1848, and hints that the exhibition in Lon-
don of Cardinal Wiseman on the back of a donkey may
leab to the pillaging of the Bank of England and the
burning down of Pimlico.
The foreign correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.
states that in some parts of the corn-growing country of
France a curious sort of tenant-right prevails. At the
expiration of a lease, the farmer may offer to renew it
again at a higher rate than before. If the landlord refuse
he is bound to pay his tenant down, in ready money,
three times the amount of the proposed yearly increase.
" Thus, suppose I rented a farm at 80 francs the hectare
—not an uncommon rate—and offered, at the expiration
of my lease, to renew the obligation at the rate of 85
francs, the landlord, if he refuse, is bound to pay down
15 francs per hectare as an allowance for the improve-
ment which I have made, and the capital I have ex-
pended upon the land.,'
DUTY OF CHRISTIAN DISSENTERS TO THE PROTES-
TANT CHURCH.—This importation he solemnly believed
would do much to unite all Protestants. He told the
churchmen in that room they could not afford to do with-
out the dissenters, and he told the dissenters that they
could not afford to do without the church. (Cheers.) They
might depend upon it that a crisis was coming that would
demand the combined faithfulness and efforts of all. He
believed that all the sects of the Protestant church differed
only in ceremonial details, and that they agreed in all that
was vital, permanent, and precious. He believed that all
our churches were but trees planted of the Lord—each
grew best in its native soil, but all their branches waved
in the unsectarian air, all their fruits ripened in the same
catholic soil, and the roots blended with each other in the
ground beneath, invisible to us, and all cohered with the
roots of the tree of life that was in the midst of the Para-
dise of our God. (Prolonged cheering.)—Rev. Dr. Cum-
ming on the present Crisis.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.-011 Tuesday evening the
service appointed for the anniversary of the gunpowder
plot was performed at St. Saviour's, Southwark, when
every part of that spacious edifice was most densely
crowded. The sermon was preached by the Rev. W.
Curling, one of the chaplains, from the 3d epistle of St.
john, v. 9; N. When the congregation arose to leave
the church at the close of the service, the organ began to
play the air of the national anthem, upon which the
whole congregation suddenly commenced the words, and
sung two verses with great enthusiasm: Mr.. Curling
then succeeded in procuring a pause, and-remarked that
as some expressions in the remaining verses were not
quite befitting the sanctity of the edifice, they had better
substitute the Doxology. The organ began to play the
" Old Hundredth,-" and the people sang " Praise God
from whom all' blessings flow," with a fervour and uni-
versality that evinced their cordial concurrence in the
suggestion of their pastor. The immense concourse then
separated.— London paper.
THE IRON. TRADE.—The beginning of the end appears
to be already in advent. It is useless any longer to con-
ceal the fact—the iron trade is in a most deplorable state
—the work of ruin has been going on for months to an
extent not hitherto dreamt of. The Welsh masters will
go on producing until a sterner power:compel them to hold
their hand. 'the mischief already done in Scotland is so
great that the Anal catastrophe cannot be far distant ;.such
is the desperate condition of the iron trade that it is scarcely
possible to predict what disasters are at hand. Thus it'
ever is ; the Stafordshire masters would have the Welsh
and the Scotch to- give up the ruinous contesto lately. the
Welsh wished the Staffordshire to do so. Every one looks
to his neighbours as the cause of all the mischief. But it
is a fact, that an increase of activity is being displayed
in South Wales ; works closed for four years are being re-
opened; increased numbers of men have already been
employed, surveys undertaken, tramways formed, flesh
levels opened, pits aimed and ventilated. As for the last of
these operations, there need be no hurry ; there will be
plenty of time to ventilate.—Carmartherz Journal.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF BALLOONING.—Great
attention has been excited in the scientific world by an
experiment made on Wednesday, in the Hippadrome, to
effect the steerage of balloons in any given direction.
The trial is looked tapes by eminent men to-have been
remarkably successful. The model balloon which was
used to make the experiment measures five yards in length,
and contained 1,200 litres of gas; it weighs 1,200 arammes,
and is completely of the form of a fish, with fins-and tail.
The tail is composed of two small rudders, one of which
causes the balloon to ascendewhilst the other turns it
either to the right or lefts The fins are represented by
two moveable oars, short-and wide, which are moved by a
very simple piece of mechanism. The whole apparatus is
covered with a network, -and with bands of whalebone.
This model, which is rather diminutive, labours under
very serious disadvantages:- The necessity of making the
mechanism for moving the wings very light only allows it
to act for a very short time; nevertheless, the balloon
went for a certain space insa.direct line, and evendescribed
a circle, though with some difficulty. In order to be able
to carry three men, the balloon should be at least seventy
yards long, and the fins worked in the car. below by
means of a handle turned by two men, or by means of a
wheel similar to that of the treadmill.
PROTESTANTISM ANa, ORDER—POPERY AND DIS-
ORDER.—In the year 18,18 a great convulsion shook
almost the whole globe, certainly Europe, to its very
centre. It would be found, on examination, that in Rome
there was an ecclesiastic, of some sort or another, to every
30 persons, and that there was a priest for every 60 or 70.
He argued, therefore, that if the doctrine of the Church
of Rome was so precious it had a most splendid oppor-
tunity of bearing its fruits in what was called the capital
of the Christian world ;. so, if Popery had fared in Rome,
it had not been from want of hands to work it or priests
to represent it, but from some inherent faults within it.
On the other hand, locking at London, there was not a
minister of any denomination for every 10;000 of the
population, and it miglst, therefore, be justly argued, that
if Protestantism had failed in London, that it was from
the simple fact that it was not adequately represented and
efficiently carried out. But what were the facts ? When
that revolution shook Europe in 1848 the subjects of the
Pope, in that model city of the world, whose people being
at head quarters might be:presumed to he the holiest in
the world, whose contiguity to the papal chair should
have made them, par -excellence, the most spiritual, holy,
devout, loyal. and perfect persons, rose en masse—his
beloved subjects, his- own dear metropolitan people, his
own pet representatives of what Papery made people,
murdered his Prime Minister before hie face, dismissed
himself in a footman's livery upon a coachman's box, and
judging by the facts that since transpired, were the last
people to wish him back again. (Cheers and laughter.)
The same wave that swept over Europa swept the metro-
polis of Old England. A few of tha Cardinal's pioneers•
began to disturb us with their crotchets to agitate. And
what was the result.? Why, England rose in one body,
lined every streeteput down the crotchets of the trouble-
some, and rallied round their hearths and homes, ready
to live for their Queen and to die for their religion.
(Cheers.) If Protestantism made us so loyal it was worth
keeping, and if the Cardinal's crotchet failed to make his
own pet people loyal, it could be hardly worth preserving.
—Rev. Dr. Czomming on the present Crisis.
"TOWN AND. GOWN" A.T. CAMBRIDGE.—It is well
known that the sth of November in Cambridge is often a
signal for the revival of thisuntagonistic cry ; and,, what
is worse, a number of encounters generally take place, in
which the weapons used are not confined to fists. About
ten.o'clocka•disorderly gang of the most disgraceful cha-
racters in the town adjsurned from Parker's-piece, and
commenced parading the streets, and hooting and yelling
at every university man they met. It was impossible for
the police to disperse this body, which had complete con-
trol of the streets all the evening, and at last a collision
took place in Green-street ; here several university men hadjoined for mutual protection, and the cap of- one of
them was knocked ofr from behind by one of the mole,
who immediately measured his length beside it on the
ground. A general tight ensued, in which the gownsmen
had for a short time the best of it ; but five or six to 300,
is long odds ; and thinking that discretion is the better
part of valour,, those of the toga retreated into a house,
so, soon as the tide begun to turn, and bolted the door on
the other side, leaving several of their foes prostrate on
the ground. The activity with which this manoeuvre was
executed wasadmirable, and the exasperated mob, baulked
of their prey,. vented their rage upon two university con-
stables, who had arrived on the spot. Beset on all hands,
one of these men, a servant of Trinity Hall, used his staff,
and that not very lightly, upon the head of one of t
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ringleaders named Dunn, a Falcon-yard hero, andßrow
blood ; the mob immediately closed in, and the constables
had to take to their heels. They took refuge in the yard
leading to the new rooms of the Union Society, and here
were run down, and much maltreated. Their staves were
secured by the mob, and the assailant of Dunn was most
severely beaten. A sally then took place from the rooms
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On Thursday night, during a rehearsal of the Choral
Society, one poor solitary gownsman was set upon by a
low mob outside the Town-hall ; his cap and gown were
destroyed ; be was trampled on by the mob, and it was
With :01110 difficulty that he was reload by the police.