The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

CLERICAL INIELLIGENCE.

the hour of her. death, declared to have found him one
morning lying beneath a hedge near her cottage. No
trace of his parentage had ever been discovered. He
never stirs •abroad, and discourages all meetings and
assemblies at his house ; therefore, the authorities of
Paris have nought to do in his case. Several physicians
of eminence have already been to visit him, but none
have as yet been able to solve the mystery of the long fast
and bleeding. Dr. C—, the great anatomist, after
remaining two hours in his room last Friday, left in despair,
declaring with an oath, " that the juggle was too well
managed for discovery ;" and, therefore, the mystery,
like that of the ecstatic virgins of the Tyrol, remains a
mystery still.—Atlas Correspondent.

The Rev. James Thomas Campbell has resigned the
rectory of Tilston, in the county of Chester..
The Rev. Richard Bendyshe has been licensed to the
stipendiary curacy of 'Warmingham, in the county of
Chester, on the nomination of the Rev. George Clayton,
the rector.

VACANCIES.—A minor canonry and the precentorship
of Chester Cathedral, by the death of the Rev. Joseph
Eaton; also the rectory of Handley, in the county of
Chester, and of St. Michael, in the city of Chester, by
the same.

IRELAND.

CONSECRATION.—On Thursday last the Bishop of
Chester consecrated the new church of Godley-cum-New-
ton Green, by the name of St. John the Baptist, and the
yard surrounding it as a cemetery. The township of
Godley, and part of Newton township, in the parish of
Mottram, in Longdendale, in the county of Chester, were
constituted a separate ecclesiastical district by an order in
council, pursuant to a scheme of the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners, under the Act of 6 and 7 Victoria, commonly
called Sir R. Peel's Act ; and by the consecration of the
church the district has become a separate parish for all
ecclesiastical purposes. The church is a neat and com-
modious structure, built of stone, from designs by Mr.
Shellard, the architect, of Manchester, and contains, in
the body 543 sittings, of which 157 are free, with a gallery
in which are 253 free seats for children, and seven for
adults. The Bishop preached an eloquent sermon on the
occasion, in aid of the building fund.

A small estate in Ireland has been sold under the In-
cumbered Estates Bill, for one-and-a-half year's pur.
chase. The rental was £4OO, and the estate sold for £6OO.
WAR TO THE KNIFE.—The mayor of Clonmel has
declined to meet, at dinner, Sir Robert Kane, the presi-
dent of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, because those
institutions have not thesanction of the Romish hierarchy.
A new church has been opened at Sandymount, one of
the marine suburbs of Dublin, which has been erected
entirely at the expense of Mr. Sidney Herbert, to whom
the property about there all belongs. The church cost in
its erection upwards of £7OOO.
HORRIBLE MURDERS.—One evening last week, Arthur
O'Donnell, Esq., of Knock, Clare, was waylaid and bru-
tally murdered, near his own house, by some men with a
hatchet.—The same night, and not far from the same
place, the herdsman of Mr. Scanlan, was waylaid in the
wood, and his throat was cut.
Between Monday and Tuesday 326 emigrants embarked
at the port of Limerick for Quebec and New York. There
are 1,300 passengers waiting at Waterford for vessels to
convey them to America. On Tuesday five vessels laden
with emigrants left Cork for America, and hundreds leave
the various Irish ports weekly by steamer via Liverpool
for America.
Mr. John O'Connell has addressed an extremely affect-
ing letter to the " Repealers of Ireland," announcing his
fixed resolve to close the doors of Conciliation-hall, and
retire into private life, in the brief space of one fortnight,
unless in the mean time the people evince a due apprecia-
tion of his services, past and present, by a liberal contri-
bution to replenish the exhausted coffers of the Burgh-
quay treasury.
A riot took place on Wednesday, among the female
inmates of the Dublin workhouse, a number of whom
made a desperate attack at dinner time on the assistant-
master and several other masters of the house. The
assistant-master luckily escaped from their clutches, but
two of the ward-masters were very roughly handled by
these amazons, twelve of whom have since been com-
mitted to prison.
The Fermanagh Mail says, that on Thursday week, a
man called at a farm house near Kilishandra, and obtained
leave to light his pipe. As he was leaving the house the
wind blew a few sparks from his pipe on to the thatch,
which instantly caught fire, and the house and outbuild-
ings were entirely consumed in spite of the efforts of the
neighbours who immediately assembled, and attempted to
extinguish the flames.
THE POLITICAL " EXILES."—In the list of guardians
of the Limerick Protestant Orphan Society appointed for
the ensuing year, at the annual meeting last week, appears
the name of Mr. William Smith O'Brien. It was but a
few months since that the same gentleman was re-elected
a member of a literary institution established at Limerick,
and his health toasted " with all the honours" in the
presence of an assemblage composed of men of every
possible creed, political or religious.
THE WRECK OF THE JOHN R. SKIDBY.—We have
received several communications on the above melancholy
event, contradicting in the strongest language the repre-
sentation made by the master of the vessel. However,
as the facts will in a day or two undergo a thorough In-
vestigation before the magistrates, we refrain from enter-
ing into particulars. We may add, that we have seen in
the Dublin Evening Mail newspaper of the 10th instant,
a letter from a highly respectable magistrate of the county
of Wexford, confirming the communications above
alluded to, and bearing testimony to the humane and ex-
emplary character of the peasantry in that part of Ireland.
SALES UNDER TIA ENCUMBERED ESTATES-ACT.—
Four sales of small properties were on Tuesday effected
before the commissioners. The first was in the nature of POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
a perpetual annuity of £2OO per annum on lands in the—
county of Wexford, and was sold for £2,900, or 141 Mr. Cardwell, M.P., had an interview with Earl Grey
years' purchase. The second was a small property in the on Wednesday, at the Colonial Office.
county of Clare, held on lease for ever, the rental The Weekly Chronicle says, that several members of
amounting to but £24 per annum, or about thirteen the Peel party, including Sir J. Young, Mr. G. Smythe,
years' purchase. The third was of a simple estate in the Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Sir F. Thesiger have announced
county of Cavan, producing a rental of £llO per annum, their adherence to Lord Stanley.
sotd for £2,550, or twenty-three years' purchase. The In support of Mr. Hume's proposed amendment,
last was a small property, in Monaghan, of about £5O respecting the importation of free labourers from Africa
per annum, which sold for £BlO, or little over 16 years' into the West India Islands, the Times has a powerful
purchase. representation of the hardships to which the planters are
A SCENE IN THE DUBLIN TOWN COUNCIL—At a exposed.
meeting of the Dublin Town Council last week, whilst The Morning Chronicle has a long-winded article on
the Mayor was making an observation, Mr. Councillor Reform in the Colonies, the upshot of which is the ex-
Walker said : That is not true. I said no such thing.— oression of its belief that " under a more liberal colonial
Mr. Reynolds (the Mayor) : Sit down; sir,—Mr. Walker : system, these ancient strongholds of monopolyare destined
Read the resolution correctly.—Mr. Sheridan : It is not to exhibit the brightest triumphs of free-trade."
worth your lordship's while to explain matters any fur- Lord Stanley has declined to act with Mr. Cayley in an
ther. (Confusion.)—Mr. Reynolds : This is a wholesale effort to abolish the malt tax, as his lordship " does not
slander.—Mr. Walker : It is not a more wholesale slander see how we can remit a duty, involving £4,500,000, with-
than you are in the habit of indulging in, for you earn out some means being taken to meet the consequent defi-
your bread b 3 scolding. (Uproar.)—Mr. Reynolds : Sit ciency in the revenue."
down, sir. If you use a phrase insulting to me again— The Morning Post of Wednesday says, in reference to
Mr. Walker : I repudiate your accusation, sir.—Mr. the promised motion of Mr. Grantley Berkeley for an
Reynolds : I require you to sit down; and I give you affirmation of the expediency of an Bs. duty on foreign
notice, that if in the discharge of my duty as Lord Mayor corn, "as the first directblow that has yet been struck
of this city, to preserve order in this court (for it is a in parliament at the free-trade quackery, we are not sorry,
court), I cannot do so save by putting you out of this upon the whole, that the assault should come from the
room byf orce, I will do it. (Cheers and uproar.)—Mr. Whig party."
Walker :It is very easy for you to say you will do this, The Times of Tuesday is in a congratulatory vein, on
but you shall not—Mr. Reynolds : Will you sit down, the restoration of official relations between the courts of
sir ?—Alderman Hudson : It is monstrous to hear such Great Britain and Spain ;—" we" having administered "a
language applied to an individual who is denied the privi- rap on the knuckles to an intrusive adversary." Here is
lege of a reply. Such conduct in a chairman is quite a wonderful change in the feelings of national honour, and
unprecedented. (Hear, hear.)—Mr. Reynolds : I request stranger confusion to the senses ;—it formerly being held
you will sit down. I require you to resume your seat. that the "rap" consisted in our liberal representative be-
(Confusion.)—Mr. Walker : I require you, sir, to take ing in spirit kicked out of Madrid I
my denial of all you have said with regard to me. What COUNTY COURTS.—In the majority of 144 for the
you have stated with regard to the weights and measures second reading of the County Courts Extension Bill were
is not in the notice.—Mr. Dunne : It is.—Mr. Walker: the Marquis of Blandford, J. Bright, William Brown,
What does this fellow know about it ?—Mr. Delany : Richard Cobden, W. T. Egerton, W. Evart, T.
Fellow, indeed—a town councillor called a fellow I— M. Gibson, C. Greenall, J. Heald, A. Henry, J. Hey-
Several Voices : Fellow ! fellow !—Mr. Reynolds : I wood, L. Heyworth, J. Hornby, J. Hume, J. Kershaw,
require you, Mr. Walker, to apologise to the council and Lord J. Manners, J. W. Patten, G. Sandars, Colonel
Mr. Dunne.—Alderman Keshan : There is not in this Sibthorp, R. A. Thicknesse, T. Thorneley, Sir Joshua
assembly a more respectable man than Mr. Dunne.—Mr. Walmsley, and J. Hornby. In the minority of 67 (of
Walker: I will apologise to the gentleman himself, but which no fewer than thirty-two were government place-
not to the council.—Alderman Moran : This is an insult men) were J. Brotherton, T. Greene, C. Newdegate, J.
to the whole assembly.—Mr. Walker: It is very unmanly Wilson, &c. Neither Mr. Cardwell nor Sir. T. Birch
thus to assail one man :—Alderman Hudson : The Lord were present, as they should have been.
,
Mayor, who complains of others being out of order, is WINDOW TAx.—The following gentlemen voted on
himself the most disorderly person in the room.—Mr. Tuesday night, in the minority of 77 for the repeal of the
Reynolds : I require you to sit down, and withdraw your window tax :—Messrs. H. A. Aglionby, John Bright, R.
words.—Alderman Hudson : I will withdraw the words, Cobden, W. Ewart, W. J. Fox, Right Hon. T. M. Gib-
because I must bow to the chair, no matter what opinion son, G. Greenall, John Green, C. P. Grenfell, Lord R.
I may entertain in reference to the conduct of the person Grosvenor, James Heald, Alexander Henry, L. Hey-
by whom it is filled.—Mr. Reynolds : I require Mr. worth, J. Kershaw, George Sandars, W. Scholefield, J.
Walker to apologise publicly to the council and Mr. B. Smith, Hon. E. Stanley, Lord D. Stuart, R. A.
Dunne.—Mr. Walker : I will apologise to Mr. Dunne, Thicknesse, Colonel Thompson, F. Tollemache, Lord
because, being mistaken, he has misstated a fact.—Mr. Duncan, and J. Hume. The following gentlemen voted
Reynolds : Your words are offensive to the council.— in the majority of 80:—Messrs. M. Baines, J. Brother-
Mr. Walker : It is going too far to ask me to apologise ton, W. Brown, J. Heywood, J. Parker, J. Pilkington,
to them.—Mr. Reynolds : If you use offensive words and T. Thorne's-.
towards me, you will do so at your peril.—Mr. Lambert WHAT DOES THE WINDOW-TAX PAY FOR ?—No doubt
again interposed to terminate the discussion, but Mr. the window-tax is but one of many which we must all of us
Reynolds persisted in obliging Mr. Walker to apologise be anxious to see removed—the question remains which is
to the council.—Mr. Walker then said, that, in com- entitled to the preference. For many reasons the window-
pliance with the wishes of some friends near him, he tax is entitled to be reckoned amongst the first for aboli-
would withdraw the expressions—Mr. Reynolds: As tion—if it does not in point of fact stand clearly and indis-
regards the council ?—Mr. Walker :—As regards the— putably first upon the list. But, says Sir Charles Wood,
world. "Where' can I get the money which will make up the de-
ficit caused by the removal of a tax of this amount ?"
The answer is ready in a form which will meet Ministers
over and over again. The cost of the African squadron,
useless and mad as the expenditure is, would more than
cover half of the deficiency • for the other half Lord Dun-
can points to the Woods said Forests, and asserts that if
this property were properly managed there would be no
pinch felt in the Exchequer if the window-tax were abo-
lished to-morrow. Let every one who receives the little
half-yearly notice of the tax-collector consider that he is
but called upon to pay his contribution to meet the ex-
penses of the insane blockade of the African coast and of
the mismanagement of the Crown Estates.—Times.
GOVERNMENT CONVICTED OF FALSIFYING ACCOUNTS.
—We were about to offer a few remarks, as we have here-
tofore done, on the monthly paper issued, entitled " Ac-
counts relating to Trade and Navigation." The publi-
cation of this month. issued yesterday, affords proofs of
the same character with those we have before adduced—
that our import trade, or purchases from foreign countries,
is increasing much more rapidly than our export trade, or
sales to them. But a few minutes' examination convin-
ced us that it was useless to rest any argument on this
publication until we were first satisfied of the truth and
authenticity of its statements. Our doubts as to its truth
arose in this way :—We laid, as we have been accustomed
to do, the accounts of yesterday alongside of the accounts
issued two years ago. The one is entitled " Accounts
relating to Trade and Navigation, month ended March 5,
1848." The other, just now published, is entitled " Ac-
counts relating to Trade and Navigation, month ended
March 5, 1850." This latter account compares the 1850
imports and exports with those in the same month in
1848 and 1849. So that, as we had the year 1848 in both
papers, we were entitled to expect, as to that year, an
agreement between the two accounts. But they do not
agree, Of this we will give a few instances. In the ac-
count published in 1848, the exports of butter in the
month ending sth March, are stated to have been of the
declared value of £7427. But in the account published
ill 1850, we find the exports of butter in the month ending
sth March, 1848, set down as of the declared value of
£8236. In the account published in 1848, the exports of
coals and cuim are set down as of the declared value of
£68,107.. In the account published in 1850, coals and
cu/m, in the month ending sth March, 1848, are set down
at £76,923. In the account published in 1848, iron and
steel exported appear of the declared value of £327,886.
In the account published in 1850, iron and steel exported
in the month ending sth March, 1848, are set down at
the declared value of £440,717. We frankly confess that
these strange discrepancies perplex us. We know not
what such accounts are worth. It seems a waste of time
to argue upon statements which contradict and discredit
each other !—Herald of Saturday.
GIVE FREE TRADE A FAIR TRIAL—To the modern
rulers of the British nation, to the constituents of the
majority of the House of Commons, to ba cheap and to
sell dear is the great object of ambition. They have
gained the first; let them see whetjor they will secure
the last: Let them see whether, amidst the ruin of the
agricultural interest, and the declining circumstances of
all trades, which are exposed to the effects of foreign
competition, they, the sellers of commodities, will make
their fortunes. If they do, it will be a new era in soci-
ety; for it will be Me is which the trading class moms

The Times intimates that the Archbishop of Canterbury
will hold a special visitation in the diocese of Exeter, in
his rapacity of metropolitan, for the purpose of instituting
Mr. Gorham.

On Saturday week the parishioners of St. Sidwell's pa-
rish, Exeter, presented to their minister, the Rev. F.
Courtenay, a library table, a glastonbury chair and silk
robe, as a token of their esteem and gratitude.
Dr. Wiseman has distinctly denied that he ever used
the following words attributed to him by the Morning
Herald—" They, the great lights of Tractarianism, are
of use to us while they retain their positions, but they are
of little use when they actually come over."
Last week E. B. St. Aubyn, Esq. Mayor of Devonport,
laid the foundation stone of St. Mary's Church, when he
stated that it was the third church cemmenced in the
town within the last nine months, and he trusted a fourth
would be begun before the twelvemonths had expired.
ROYAL ANTI-TRACTARIANISM.—We hear that a
change in the staff appointed to superintend the education
of the youthful heir to the throne of these kingdoms is
likely, in consequence of the determination of her most
gracious Majesty and her royal Consort to prevent the
indoctrinating the mind of youthful royalty with those
exaggerated Church principles (so called) which have, in
times gone by, been attended with mournful consequences.
—Church and State Gazette.

TAXES : HOW TO LESSEN THEM CONSIDERABLY.
• STRONG ARGUMENTS AND STARTLING FACTS WHICH
CANNOT BE CONTRADICTED.—The numerous and accu-
mulated profits which real consumers have to pay for
various articles, afford a good opportunity of laying bare
the position of some houses compared with others; and
it is our purpose to elucidate how and why it is—convinced
that we shall be enabled to throw a strong light on this hitherto
neglected subject, and prove the enormous taxation thus laid
on domestic expenditure. In order to hold this system up to
public investigation, we shall endeavour to show, in the first
place, simply the number and extent of the profits that all
classes are really burthened with i—lst, profit arises from ma-
nufacturers buying articles in the raw state ; 2nd, profit arises
from merchants purchasing from the manufacturers ; 3rd,
profit arises from London or wholesale houses buying from our
merchants; 4th, profit arises from small retailers having-to
purchase from wholesale houses; sth, profit arises from small
tradesmen's exorbitant charges to the consumer! Now, upon
a just calculation, these five profits amount to at least 50 per
cent., or ten shillings in every twenty! thus involving a prin-
ciple so extravagant to the pockets, that it needs only to
be enquired into to be thoroughly understood. But as
there is no rule without an exception, we will next allude
to one establishment where the artizan can get his cloth-
ing at first cost, and where the proprietor has no interme-
diate profits to pay; need we say that' we allude to B. HYAM,
national tailor and clothier, 63, I,6rd-street, Liverpool. He
manufactures extensively for his ofvn branches in every stage,
from the raw material to the mat superbly finished coat, at
"one cost" and at " one prof?' This, then, accounts for his
vast success and the extraordinary low prices at which he can
afford to sell his clothing/in fact, it is well known by the
public that he sells the mostuperior description of garments
lower, infinitely lower, thfin any other smaller establishment
charge for interior. Nov' we ask the reader a simple question
—Does it not sound toeason that HYAM has advantages for
supplying the million 4Vper cent. lower than others? Certainly
he has ! and this he/anquestionably does—thus saving the
pockets of all, more han any person could imagine, did they
not dive into the mi tine of the mysteries of clothing. Again,
HYAM having :weir of the largest tailoring and clothing esta-
blishments in the Uhited Kingdom, viz. :—London, 36, Grace-
church-street; Liv rpool, 63 and 65, Lord-street; Manchester,
26, Market-street • Birmingham, 23, New-street; Glasgow, 48,
Argyll-street ; E ter, 193, High-street; London, 86, Oxford-
street ,• Dublin, 0, Dame-street ; Bristol, 42, Wine-street;
Bristol, 6, Uni street; Leeds, 42, Briggate; Hu11,17, Market-
place—and all ' active operation, it makes it worth his while
to manufactur his own goods of every description ; thus com-
bining in hi elf the true title of manufacturer, merchant,
wholesale an retail vendor for his own immense and widely-
spreading to les of commerce. Another point of importance
we next tak p: a tradsman in a gigantic line of business
like HYAM, ven not possessing the advantages above stated,
can even the sell cheaper than small shopkeepers. They must
have a shop, shopmen, gas, rent, and numerous other expenses
incidental t business, which nearly amount to as much as a
larger shop eper (such as Hyam), whose returns are probably
a hundred mes as much, Again, look at the immense expe-
rience, the sound judgment, and the unbounded capital a pro-
prietor of twelve such mammoth establishments must possess
in making up goods, to .a small tradesman, who only has to
make a handful at once; why, it is like comparing a molehill
to a mountain. Whilst purchasers at " small" shops must
have " small" choice to select from, " small" chance of
getting suited, and a much " smaller" one of obtaining satis-
faction. Let all, therefore, who would only pay "one profit,"
GO TO HYAM'S. Those who wish to throw, money away, cer-
tainly should go to small tradesmen; but it is the public's
interest to patronise an establishment raised for the good of
the inhabitants of this populous district, and, in return, the
proprietor pledges himself to work his talents and immense
resources for their benefit, and never -forsake the cause and
cnstomers who have proclaimed him the " natimal iailor and
clo'thig 9, great 13ritaill."

The London papers mention a rumour that the Rev.
W. Maskell, M.A., of University College, Oxford, now
domestic and formerly examining chaplain to the Lord
Bishop of Exeter, and who took part in the celebrated
examination of Mr. Gorham before the bishop, has deci-
ded on resigning his living at Mary Church, Devon, and
joining the Church of Rome.—The report, however, seems
to be merely premature, for the reverend gentleman says
in a letter just published—" I have resigned my cure of
souls, because I have no doctrines and no faith to teach
as certainly the faith and doctrines of the English Church;
but, f r a time at least, I leave not her communion.
Brief time it may be : One alone can tell."

THE GORHAM CASE.—Several clergymen of the dio-
cese of Exeter have put their names to a document, in
which they state that the " civil power ha?, without the
consent of the synod (commonly called convocation),
created the judicial committee of the privy council to be
a supreme court of ultimate appeal in controversies,"
and go on to " repudiate the opinion, that the civil power
of this realm hath any power to appoint a lay court of
appeal in matters affecting the church's faith or doctrine,"
forasmuch as the holy catholic church has ever taught,
without any sort of uncertainty, hypothesis, reservation,
contingency, or doubt, the gift of regeneration in all cases
bestowed upon, in, and by the sacrament of holy baptism.
The number of clergy in the archdeaconry of Exeter,
who have declared their adherence, is upwards of 140, of
whom 64 have also signed the above protest.