The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

AND COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTH

To the Knights Burgesses in the Commons' House of Par-
liament assembled.
The Petition of the undersigned Roman Catholics
and Liberal Protestants of all denominations.

HUMBLY SHOWETH,—That whereas certain cruel, un-
founded, and illiberal calumnies and slanders have been and
are being circulated among various classes of Protestants,
impeaching the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of
Ireland, and especially the principles taught in the Roman
Catholic College of Maynooth, and in the conferences of
priests, with the view of procuring petitions to your Honour-
able House to withdraw the grant of public money from that

colleg
That it has been stated that ordinances of idolatry and su-
perstition, doctrines subversive of the obligation of oaths
when the utility of the church requires it, principles inculca-
ting intolerance and persecution of heretics, invasion of the
settlement of property, disloyalty to a Protestant Sovereign,
and gross and revolting obscenity to be used with females in
confession, form part of the instruction of students trained
for the Roman Catholic priesthood in that college.
That it has been stated that, after they are ordained priests,
similar principles are instilled into them by their bishops in
their diocesan conferences, to teach them to direct the con-
sciences of the people, that the bishops have a certain stan-
dard for this purpose, to which they have added certain Papal
laws, and that these alleged facts are sufficient to account
for the crimes and miseries of the Roman Catholic popula-
tion of Ireland.

That petitioners are well convinced that these are the ca-
lumnies of base and interested individuals, itinerant sowers
of discord and disturbers of the public peace, that they have
no foundation in fact, that such principles as these are neither
inculcated in the class-books and standards on the students
of Maynooth, nor subsequently on the priests by their bishops
in the standards of their diocesan conferences, that there
exists no such wicked code of laws in Ireland, but that the
Roman Catholic hierarchy and priests of Ireland are most
loyal, moral, upright, chaste, pure, and exemplary men.
Petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray that your honor-
able house will be pleased to investigate the class-books and
standards of instruction used in the College of Maynooth,
and the standards for the diocesan conferences of the Roman
Catholic priests, and all the alleged charges : that your
honourable house will thus vindicate this excellent institu-
tion, and the justice of the parliamentary grant to support it ;
rescue from calumny this most venerable and loyal class of
her Majesty's subjects ; put illiberal slanderers to silence;
remove a cause of diccord ; disabuse the minds of the cre-
dulous ; inspire Protestants with confidence and good-will
towards their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects ; promote
peace and Christian charity in Ireland; and petitioners con-
fidently expect that your honourable house will see ample
cause not only to continue, but to increase your grant to the
Roman Catholic College of Maynooth.
And petitioners will ever pray, &c.

_
Now, gentlemen, it is unnecessary for me to recapitulate all
the epithets which have been bestowed on me for the testi-
mony which I have borne against that awful system of which
you are unhappily both the victims and the administrators,
and from which I earnestly hope and pray that God will de-
liver you and the Roman Catholics of Ireland. You cannot
but see that by placing this petition in your hands, so far
as in me lies I place the vindication of your class-books,
your standards of instruction, your conference books, your
archbishop and bishops, and yourselves entirely in your own
power. If I have stated at any time anything, either wilfully
false or unintentionally erroneous, about them, it is now in
your power to impeach my evidence and to pro* its false-
hood or its error before the highest tribunal in the country.
If you know it to be false, of course you will be anxious to
do so. If you call on your flocks to sign these petitions, or
any similar petitions better than these that you please to
draw, and if you forward them to Mr. O'Connell to present
to the House of Commons, and %,ir. O'Connell presents
them, then the people will see that you are honest and sin-
cere in all your denunciations of my friends, Dr. O'Sullivan,
Mr. M`Neile, and myself; and that you know your books,
your college, your conferences, and your confessional, to
be good and holy as you profess to be, and that you use
your best exertions to vindicate them from the charges
made against them. If, on the contrary, instead of call-
ing on your flocks to sign these, you denounce these
petitions, and either publicly or privately endeavour to
prevent the Roman Catholics from signing them. then
you admit that all the statements on these subjects are true,
and you fully vindicate me from all the imputations of calum-
ny and falsehood, &c. &c., which have been cast on me by
Dr. Murray, by yourselves, and the press. Gentlemen, if
this be so, let me solemnly and affectionately warn the
Roman Catholics of Ireland, that if it is clear that you are
afraid to let your system be exposed before men, it proves
yonr own distrust of the very principles you teach them,
and is a loud appeal to them—at least to investigate those
principles, and to prove them by the word of God, at whose
tribunal they shall soon appear. And oh! gentlemen, let
me conjure you to lay these things to heart. It is not a
question of politics or of party interests, or of the petty
temporal concerns of a nation. What matter is it what
man may think or say on such a subject—what signifies the
opinion of the British parliament ? Sure it is a small thing
to a man that is really a servant of God to be judged of
man's judgment; but, oh! if this system is one that you
know in your own consciences cannot bear exposure even to
the eyes of man—oh ! consider how must you appear when
you are summoned to the bar of Him who will bring that
which is spoken in darkness into light—when your immortal
souls must stand upon an issue which you dare not encounter,
even before your fellow worms. May God enlighten and
deliver you and the vast multitudes whom you lead from
Christ to refuges that cannot save, is the sincere prayer of
your friend and servant in the truth,

R. J. M`GBEE

A copy of the following letter has been forwarded to Lon-
don, from the Rev. Mr. M'Ghee, addressed to the Lord
Mayor of Dublin. It now remains to be seen what course
Mr. O'Connell will adopt. If he believe the system of
education adopted at Maynooth to be pure and good, as he
has so often asserted—if he be conscious that the professors
of that establishment can come unscathed through such an
inquiry as that sought by the petition—and this he has
boasted over and over again must be the case—then his clear
course is to support its prayer. If he do not take this
course, he gives a practical falsification to all his former
statements, and belies his own assertion of his belief in the
Maynooth course of education :

TO THE RIGHT HON. DANIEL O'CONNELL, M.P. LORD

MAYOR OF DUBLIN

" My Lord Mayor,—l have the honour of transmitting
herewith copies of two petitions, one to be signed by Pro-
testants, bringing certain weighty charges against the college
of Maynooth and the Roman Catholic bishops and priests,
and praying an investigation by parliament to prove those
charges true ; and the other petition, to be signed by Roman
Catholics and all liberal Protestants, denying and denouncing
the charges in the foregoing petition, and praying an investi-
gation by parliament to prove them false.
" Now, in the last debate, on Mr. Colquhoun's motion, ns
to Maynooth, I recollect you said you fully believed all that
is taught in that college, and it is unnecessary to quote any
of your letters or speeches to prove the high estimation in
which you hold your bishops and priests.
" Now, hereby, shall you be tested before the Roman Ca-
tholics of Ireland. If you know the statements made in the
Protestant petition, on the subject of the College of May-
nooth, and against your bishops and priests to be true, then
you will cushion this letter or you will affect to despise the
petition, and when the writer or you will have recourse to
some other artifice or finesse to get rid of the subject. But
if you believe these statements to be false, if you believe that
so far from their being substantiated, the innocence of your
bishops, priests, and college would be established by investi-
gation, then you will take this Protestant petition in your
hand into the House of Commons—you will read with indig-
nation the charges that are in it—you will demand of the
house, not as a party question, but as an act of public na-
tional justice, to grant a committee to investigate these
charges, to vindicate these injured men, and, indeed, to jus-
tify themselves in the grant they made to support this insti-
tution. Now, I say, my Lord Mayor, this shall prove whe-
ther you are honest in your professions to the Roman Catho-
lics of Ireland, or whether you are leagued with your bishops
and priests to enslave and oppress them. You shall bear
your part in this, my Lord Mayor. You shall justify, as far
as in your lies, these charges by your silence—or else you
shall endeavour to disprove them by a hold straight-forward
appeal to the nation. This is what I call JUSTICE FOR
IRELAND.'-I have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor, a
faithful sincere friend to the best interests of the Roman
Catholics of Ireland. " R. J. M'GriEE."

DEATH OF A MISFR. —James Heywood, aged 80 years,
who has always resided' in a small cottage, at Butler-green,
Chadderton, near Oldham, and who was never married,
died on the 16 of May last ; and although he never followed
any other trade or occupation than that of a cotton haudloom
leftweaver,sheofhaxs6oos
war property to the amount of nearly £2,000.
For
money, out at interest, the rest is
freehold property. r
upwards of 40 years past he had
only had one pair of clogs, and one suit of clothes. A few
weeks previous to his
death. be requested that his old
clogs and clothing might
with him, which haseen be put into his coffin and interred
done. He made his will in 1837,
and appointed two old women
and a man, upwards of 40, nearly 80 years of age each,
has ordered that £2O per annumyear t
years
ef, age as his executors. He
expended in calico, clogs,
and stockings, to be given to children
age, of the name of Heywood, who re ate om 2 to 12 years of
hi the Township
of Chadderton. One of the old women, who
is
appointed as
principal executrix, had resided with him upwards of 27
married, ; she was never married, and is to have rs.
and a cottage during her life. The rest of the er
property week,
is
to be put out to interest for 121 years, and then to be given
to the next heir then alive, and in case therCare no relations
at that time, the interest of the money is to be expended
annually in calico, clogs, and stockings, and to be given to
all old maids and bachelors who are upwards of 60 years of
age each, and residents in Chadderton.

j -ECON-D

Standard Office, Three o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—This DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Ci;Tular.)

The duties for the ensuing week are unaltered, with the
exception of Beans, reduced on foreign to 9s. Gd., and on
colonial to ls. per quarter.

We continue to be pretty well supplied with foreign Wheat,
the imports of the past three days amounting to 12,109 qrs.,
—about one-half from Baltic, and the remainder from French
and Mediterranean portsi there are also some further arri-
vals of Flour from Canna and the United States ; but the
quantity of all articles both coastwise and from Ireland, as
usual at this season, is light, the export in those directions
being more than sufficient to counterbalance what' we have
received.

Between Tuesday last and to-day, the trade upon the
whole has remained firm. For Wheat we have bad a more
general inquiry, in consequence of the still unsettled state of
the weather ; and though no transactions of moment have
occurred, the sales made for consumption have been to an
average extent, and at the full rates of that day.
In addition to a good inquiry from town and country mil-
lers at our Corn Exchange this morning, several parcels of
Wheat changed hands on speculation, making the business
done, generally, to a fair amount, at prices quite as high as
those of our last circular, and in a few instances at Id. per
bushel advance. Flour was also a better sale, and rather
dearer. Within this day or two speculative buyers have
again appeared for Oatmeal, and including the transactions
of to-day, about 5,000 loads have been taken for investment :
consumers have also purchased more freely, and we note
prices the turn higher. Oats are held more firmly, but are
without any improvement in the demand or actual value.
In Beans, Barley, and Pease little passing, and prices al-
most nominal.

During the week 3,000 barrels of best States Flour Lave
brought 295. per barrel, in bond, and there are buyers of a
farther quantity at this rate ; at which, however, holders of

choise brands now refuse to sell

Each day this week, with the exception of Wednesday,
has been extremely wet, and the weather still continues

broken and unsettled

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the sth to the 7th July, 1842, inclusive

COA.ST. ,CANADAI PO,

DRscRIPTioN

& U. Tti

REIGN. :TOTAL

12109 12385

Barley Qrs.l 54 114.
5 1199
Malt Qrs. 5 1122 1127
Oats
Rye Qrs. ill 111
Beans Qrs. 90 MO 440
Pease. Qrs. 300 300
Shelled Barley . Qrs.t
Indian Corn .. . Qrs. 23 t 530 553
Rapeseed Qrs. ,
Oatmeal .. . . Loads, 264 3 ' 267
Flom Sacksi 370 229 , 599
Ditto Brls.l 3,171 Q. . ~..,,,

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat,
150 qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids; Flour, sacks.

qrs.; Oats,

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Beans, qrs.; Malt,
qrs.; Oats, qrs ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oat-
meal,— loads; Flour, sacks, 104 brlse—lreland. Wheat, 323
qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Oats, qrs. ; Beans, 16 qrs. ; Indian
Corn, 55 qrs. ; Oatmeal, lOU Ids. ; Flour, sacks 40 brls.--
Coastwise. Wheat, 219 qrs. ; Barley, 73 qrs.; Malt, qrs. ;
Oats, 25 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, 54 qrs. ; Pease, 21 qrs.;
Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, 6o Ids.; Flour, 157 sacks 407
barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending July 2, 1842.
Wheat 635. tid. I Barley 27a. 6d. I Oats.. 21s. 7d. I Rye.. 31s. 7d
Beans.. 345. 4d. I Pease.. 335. 2d.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat— 64a. 3d. I Barley 27.. 7d. I Oats.. 225. ad. 1 Rye.. 325. 3d
Beans.. 345. gd. Pease.. 355. 6d.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Wheat gs.Od. I Barley los. Od. Oats .. . 6s. od. Rye.. gs. Gd
Beans 93.6 a. I Pease.. lOs. 6d.1 Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour ss. sd,

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.... Is. Od. I Barley.. 2s. 6d. Oats ..2s. Od. I Rye.... Is. Od,
Beans.. Is. Od I Pease.. Is. 6d. I Indian Corn.. os. I Flour.. Os.

COTTON MARKET.—THREE o'CLocF

We make no change in our quotations this week. The
demand to-day has been steady for all descriptions. The
public sale went off heavily, and what was sold was at nomi-
nal prices. Exporters have taken 1400, and speculators
1500. The total sales amount to 29,000 bales.

THEATRE-ROYAL

MR. J. RUSSELL'S BENEFIT

THIS EVENING, (FRIDAY,) the Bth instants Will be
performed the Drama of
DOMINIQUE! THE DESERTER.
Dominique.. Mr. J. Russell.
After which,
AN HOUR OF TABLE TALK;
In which he will sing the Songs,
Pasticcio"—" The Old British Oak''
the " Angel's Whisper."
To conclude with the Drama of
RO O'MO RE.
Rory O'More.. Mr. J. Russell,
In which he will introduce the " WIDDY MALONE " which
was honoured with an enthusiastic encore on Wednesday
Evening.

" Persevere"---'