The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-26 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 P. 34

Only a very moderate enquiry for Cotton to-day. About
2000 bales sold at yesterday's prices; about 200 bales taken
for export, with a steady and firm feeling.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

TUESDAY, APRIL 26.—Wind South

Muir VED.—Coronation, Richardson, from Savaunah—Sisters,
—, from Nassau—Ann & Kate, Smith, from Wexford—and
ElnitY, Wood, from Woodbridge.

Otterspool, Little, from Calcutta, off the Cove ; sailed 24th Nov.
and from St. Helena 16th Feb. Passad a ,great number of vessels,
homeward bound, off Cape Clear
Pandora, from New Orleans, off the Cove
Mary, Henderson, from Savannah, off Cape Clear
Packet, from Laguna, ditto
Oxford, and Chieftain, hence to New York, off Cove
Dykes, hence for Newfoundland, off Kinsale

TEE OPERATION OF THE TARIFF.—A gentleman of
Bradford, who visited the south of Scotland last week, has
favoured us with the following " notes of a traveller' :—ln
the prospect of Sir Robert's tariff acting injudiciously to the
farmers' interests, sheep and cattle are weekly falling in va-
lue. At a large sheep market held the week before last in
the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, a fall of 20 per cent. was
experienced on last year's prices. Cattle have given way £:3
per head, and leave a direct loss on the winter's keep.
Wheat, which is scarce, rates at 635. to 655. ; oats about 255. ;
barley 365. The growers are sadly in the dumps respecting
the approaching clip of wool, and from what I could gather,
will be somewhat more supple and pliant with the stapler
than they have been a whilome back. They are now ready
to acknowledge, that live stock, as well as produce, has been
rgooywnivelly, 500
unnaturally and unwarrantably high.—Bradford Observer.
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misgovernment.
THE WAKEFIELD EI.EOTION COMMITTEE has decided
diet Mr. Holdsworth had not been duly elected, and that
Mr. Lascelles had.

A DISCOVERY.—We understand that there is a man in
town, who has talked to a man, who has a piece of the
breeches of the man who knows who married Capt. Schinley.
—New York paper.
A gentleman in Towcaster has made a wager that he will,
by the 29th of September, gather seven bushels of peas in the
pod, the produce of seven peas which are at the present time
growing in his garden.

AN AMERICAN EXCEPTION.—The Boston (America)
Atlas says, The steam-boat Oneida, which left Wheeling
on Thursday for Louisville, took fire and was burned to the
water's edge, with everything on board except the passengers."
THE COST OF A SOLDIER.—La Presse calculates that in
England the annual expense of a soldier is 540 f. ; in France,
340 f. ; in Prussia, 212 f. ; in Austria, 240 f. ; and in Russia,
120 f.

A VOLUNTEER TAR-PAYER.—The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer begs to acknowledge the receipt of £5OO (transmit-
ted to him under cover to Mrs. Goulburn) by one who styles
himself " a sincere admirer of the manly spirit in which you
have met the difficulties of your position by a direct taxa-
tion," and to acquaint him that the said sum will he paid into
the Exchequer.—Downing-street, April 18, 1842.
MAILS FOR INDIA.—The following notice has been issued
by the Postoffice authorities :—" General Postoffice, April
20.—The next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, and India, via Falmouth, will be despatched hence
on the 30th instant. The next mail for India, &c., via Mar-
seilles, will be made up here on the 4th of May."
A commission of bankruptcy has been issued out against
Messrs. Wilson and Beere, the proprietors of the Gresham
Hotel, Dublin, which they: purchased some five or six years
ago for £3o,ooo—they paid £lO,OOO in hand and 5,000 sub-
sequently, by instalment ; the premises are covered by a
mortgage for the difference, and if the mortgagees get pri-
ority, there will be hardly any thing for the other creditors.
Their liabilities amount to £30,000, £20,000 of which are
due to English creditors, principally in Liverpool and Man-
chester.

THE JOCKEY CLUB.—The following is an official report of
the meeting on Tuesday laat :—" Lord G. Bentinck stated,
that anxious to conciliate the goodwill of the club, whilst he
adheres to all the principles and maxims of turf law laid
down in his protest of the 12th of February, he is desirous to
withdraw and express his regret for so much of the language
in which that protest has been couched as has been felt to be
offensive to the feelings of the Jockey Club." It was unan-
imously resolved, that this statement was satisfactory to the
club.

REPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—It is whispered in
privileged circles that one of our radical pair of representa-
tives is " indisposed," and, therefore, about to accept the
Chiltern Hundreds. It is, moreover, asserted by others,
that he is not so much indisposed as having a desire to vacate
his seat in favour of the Hon. E. J. Stanley, who has, there-
fore withdrawn his pretensions from the Montrose Burghs,
in the hope that an arrangement may be quietly entered into
with the Stockport constituency.—Stockport Advertiser.
DARING ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE AT SOUTH-
AMPTON.—On Thursday night a respectable man rushed into
the shop of Mr. Morris, shoemaker, Above Bar, and, seizing
a knife, made an attempt on the life of the errand-boy, by
making a plunge at his throat. The boy was dreadfully cut
across the upper part of the chin, completely severing tne
lower lip. The assassin then endeavoured to stab himself,
exclaiming, " I have done for the boy and myself too." At
the station-house, the prisoner refused to state who or what
he was, and expressed no concern whatever for the innocent
object of his attack. He is considered to be insane.
THE QUEEN'S FANCY BALL.—At the grand ball our
young and lovely sovereign is to enact Queen Philippa—her
royal consort, the Hero of Crescy. Prince Albert will wear
the panoply of Edward the Third. The costume of a queen
of that period will be embarrassing, although no doubt it will
be ably modified by her Majesty's costume maker. When
we say this, we allude to the headdress rising so high, and
so pointed, and bearing on its sides such exuberant appen-
dages. All the great officers of the Crown are to wear the
costume of their offices in King Edward's reign. It has
been suggested that the ambassadors of the different courts
should adopt the costume of their country in the 14th cen-
tury.—Morning Post.
BERLIN, APRIL 11.—The English residents here, whose
number has recently greatly increased, intend to build a
church for the English ritual, and the subject is to be taken
into more particular consideration on the return of the Eng-
lish Ambassador, the Earl of Westmoreland. We also learn
that a new evangelical church is to be built at the Potsdam-
gate. Including the Catholic church building at Kopwick-
fields, Berlin will soon be adorned with three new splendid
churches. A Court Counsellor has been directed by autho-
rity to visit England for the purpose of observing the style
of ecclesiastical architecture in that country.
The following are the receipts of the principal railways for
the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the re-
spective returns are made, viz.:—Brighton, £2,259 ; Black-
wall, £700; Birmingham and Glocester, £1,517 ; Hull and
Selby, £911; Eastern Counties. £870; Manchester and
Birmingham, £343; Birmingham, £16,941 ; Greenwich,
£797 ; Great Western, £12,954 ; Northern and Eastern,
£1,128 ; Manchester and Leeds, £4,427 ; South Western,
£6,002 ; Birmingham and Derby, £1,036 ; North Midland,
£3,987 ; Midland Counties, £2,529 ; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, £1,821; and York and North Midland, £1,567.
AN ANECDOTE OF LORD ROLLE.—" We have lost a good
master," said an old crabber ; " he was a very kind friend
to me. Before there were any revenue men I was had up
by the excise before his lordship for a little smuggling affair,
and obliged to find two bondsmen. So I attended at the
justice room at Bicton. The excise officer examined my
bondsmen about their property, and refused one because his
property was leasehold. I said it would be a great trouble to
me, as I was then engaged to attend a gentleman's yacht,
and I thought a leasehold under his lordship would have
been sufficient. No, he would not take it. We bad some
trouble to get him to take the other surety, but his lordship
said, ' Oh, I know him ; he has property, and is an honest
man.' However, this one he (the officer) would not take,
when presently his lordship stepped up to the offihecer, "You
won't object to my being one, will you " T excisemn
was (to use the fisherman's word) struck quite pale when
his lordship took up his pen and signed himself as bond in
the sum of £5O for the poor fisherman. It is not astonishing
to find the poor and friendless regretting the loss of the noble
and wealthy, when, by such acts of kindness, they rivet to
themselves the best affections of the people, and our aristo-
cracy are not lax in deeds of kindness and mercy.
THE FRENCH POST-OFFICE V. VIVIER, ONE OF THE
COURIERS OF THE " MORNING HERALD," AND OTHER
LONDON MORNING PAPERS.—" The tribunal declares
Vivier guilty of having interfered in the transmission cf let-
ters and parcels, and the president, alter haiing read the
articles let and sth of the Arr'et des Consuls, of 27th Prairial,
year 9, as therein specified, condemns Vivier in 150 francs
and costs. The court grants six months for the payment of
the same, in default of which, to be arrested and imprisoned."
This extraordinary case, at the same time, produced the
most rigid activity and unprecedented severity on the part of
the French authorities, as regards the penalty for carrying
letters. Two others of a similar nature, as regards the se-
verity of the law, have met with the same fate; one was an
English lady, who arrived from Dover by mail packet on the
3d instant, who was also fined 150 f. (X 6), the same as the
courier, for two letters which were found by the custom-
officers in her pocket-book. Captain Wingfield, of the
Emerald steamer, belonging to the commercial steam-packet
company, was also fined the same sum for bringing a letter
from London, directed to the company's agent at Boulogne.
It is highly important that this severity of the French post-
office law should be made known to the public, who, from
motives of complaisance (as was the case with the lady in
question) may bring upon themselves such serious conse-
quences ; for the whole expenses may amount to £lO.
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF A MISER.—A miserable
old man, named Costello, died a few months ago at Boyanagh,
near Castledaly, in the barony of Clonlonan, leaving a large
sum of money—which he scraped together during a long life
of penury—to one of his sons, on condition " that he should
take care of it and never spend it." A few days since this'
son was seized with typhus fever, and during his Wriest; his
priest (Father O'F.) attended him, and when "in extremis"
got him to make a will, bequeathing a sum of £5O for the
redemption of his father's soul and his own, out of purga-
tory—the money was agreed to be expended on the building
of the new Roman Catholic Chapel of Longford. On the
13th instant the £5O was to be handed over to the rev. gen-
tleman, but the nursetender having told the patient in the
mean time that he got a cool and would recover, he thought
it better to reserve a life interest in the £5O, and so deter-
mined on disappointing his reverence for the present, He
was, however, destined to part with his treasure much sooner
than he intended, and in a manner that neither he nor the
priest once calculated on, for on that very night a gang of
seven desperadoes, with their faces blackened, entered Cos-
tello's hovel, raised him out of bed, ripped open the tick, and
much to their surprise found no less a sum than £l2o—all
made up of old six, five, and three-shilling pieces, seine
half-crowns, and but two notes for £3, es the old miser bad
always a dread of the banks failing. The captain of the party
took possession of the booty, and jeeringly told the young
miser that they were good doctors, that he bled well, though
not freely, and as they softened his couch and left him
nothing to fret about, they would insure him a safe and
speedy recovery. Information of the audacious outrage and
robbery was speedily conveyed to the adjacent constabulary
station, and on Thursday last they succeeded in arresting
three notorious characters in the neighbourhood, Jem Claffy,
John Daly, and Owen Glynn, one of whom, we understand,
is identified by the nursetender and servant girl, who was in
attendance on the sick man during the occurrence ; and a
clue is obtained, which, it is hoped, will ultimately lead to
the apprehension of the rest of the gang. The unfortunate
miser is recovering from the fever, but the loss of his loved
treasure has so much affected his mind, that it is feared he
will be a lunatic for life. Mr. Fallon, acting county inspec-
tor, has since paid a visit to the house of Costello, regardless
of infection, and found some articles which the robbers
dropped, and which are likely to lead to the remainder of the
gang being detected.—Westmeath Guardian.
BLASTING ROCKS BY GALVANISM.—A spectator gives
the following description of the blasting operations at Wester
Craig's Quarry on Tuesday ;—" The workmen, under the
Superintendent of the quarry, had nearly completed their part
of the operations before Mr. Roberts (the inventor of the
new system) and Mr. Wilson made their appearance, ac-
companied by assistants, with the battery and connecting
wires for conveying the galvanic current to the charges of
powder. These gentlemen assiduously and carefully super-
intended the placing of the charges in the rock, and connecting
coils of wire with the cartridges. When the arrangements
were completed, and it was observed that the battery was
placed on the top of the precipice over the quarry—whence
the distance to the charges to be fired was shortest, and en-
tirely free from danger—the spectators, by Mr. Roberts's
advice, placed themselves on the summit of the precipice,
and at the outside of the curved line of the rock, from which
an excellent view could be obtained of the effects. The two
charges at the foot of the rock were first to be fired ; and
having been uncertain where I should place myself, I was in
the act of moving from eest to west along the top of the pre-
cipice, when the signal was given while I was immediately
behind and close to the battery at the moment the two gal-
vanic poles were brought together. The effect was instan-
taneous as the lightning's flash from " summer clouds. "
The bill upon which I stood was shaken to its foundation, as
if by an earthquake, and the riven mass of rock went crash-
ing down into the depths of the quarry. This was startling
and beautiful, but fell far short of what took place upon the
second application of the galvanic current to the two charges
placed over each other in the face of the perpendicular cliff.
A short time was required to remove the scaffolding that
had been used by the workmen in preparing the two upright
blasts, and in placing the connecting wires, and applying
screens in front of the charges to prevent the scattering of
the splinters of stone when -the explosion tool place ; these
arrangements gave me sufficient time to gain an excellent
position for observation. Everything was at length com-
pleted, and every eye then was fixed, and the breath held in
anxious suspense ; then came the ready from Mr. Wilson,
who remained in the bed of the quarry ; the assistant at the
battery brought the discs in contact, and the whole face of
the rock was riven asunder from top to bottom, and from
300 to 400 tons of stone were torn from the bill, and came
thundering down like an avalanche. It is impossible to
imagine anything more grand or interesting than this triumph
of science as applied to practical utility, in rendering a hitherto
most dangerous process perfectly safe and simple in execution
Glasgow Chronicle

GAM WrEITEENT RAllow47,lpti hAve bun ludo that
the receipts for this company reac R 20,000 a week dinin
this gunmen—T. Mpgazine.
Sir I. Brunel, the eminent engineer, has left England to
visit the• King of Sardinia, to ascertain the capabilities of that
country for the construction of railroads.

Mr.' Thornton has commencedan action against the
stewards of the Jockey Club, for a libel, in pronouncing him,
according to their long-established laws, " a defaulter " on
the turf.

CURIOSITY.—Some English people were visiting an ele-
gant private garden at Palermo, in Sicily, and among the
little ornamental buildings, they came to one upon which
was written "Non aperite," that is, "Don't open." This
prohibition only served to excite their curiosity, and they
very uncivilly proceeded to disobey the hospitable owner's
injunction. On opening the door, a forcible jet of water was
squirted full in their faces—a very just, though not a very
severe, retribution.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN GERMANY.—FRANKFORT,
APRIL 18.—Yesterday evening there was a collision on the
Tannus Railway, at the station of Ilattersheim, between the
two last trains from Frankfort and Mentz. Several car-
riages were dashed to pieces by the dreadful shock, and 30
persons more or less injured.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—The share-
holders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway met last
week to sanction an application to parliament for the exten-
sion of their act, which was given unanimously. The ques-
tion of Sunday travelling on this line was not raised at this
meeting, but Sir Andrew Agnew reserved to himself the
right of bringing it forward on any other occasion.
At the Devon quarter sessions, last week, the Earl of De-
von, in his charge to the sessions grand jury, referred to the
bill intended to be brought in by the government for the im-
provement of the present county constabulary force. Lord
Devon said, " From what I have heard of the details of the
proposed measure, I am inclined to think it one that will give
very general satisfaction. It will enable two or three parishes
to unite, for the mutual raisingand paying a sufficient number
of properly qualified persons to act as constables, without in-
fringing any local privilege."

ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon a boy
about 12 years of age, residing with his parents at No. 10,
Parker-street, Drury-lane, London, went into the room of
a lodger in the house, named Ellen Smith (a woman of dis-
reputable character), for whom he had been in the habit of
going on errands. Upon his entering the room she imme-
diately seized him with her left hand, and at the same moment
inflicted a severe wound on the side of his throat with a razor
which she held in her right hand. The mother of the boy
ran into the room upon hearing his screams, and rescued her
son. The police soon after arrived, and conveyed the woman
to Bow-street. She declared her only reason for attempt-
ing the boy's life was that she had made up her mind to
commit a murder, and he was the first person that came in
her way. It appeared she was drunk at the time. The boy
was taken to Portugal-street Hospital, and although very
weak from loss of blood, yet it is hoped that he may recover,
as none pf the principal vessels were injured.
FALSE ALARM.—In the forenoon of Sunday last during
divine service at St. David's church, Exeter, and while the
minister was engaged in reading the Litany, the congrega-
tion became alarmed by loud reports, evidently in connection
with the pipes of the steam apparatus by which the church
is warmed. The alarm spread, and the terror became so
strong that the cries of distress were uttered by females, and
numbers quitted the church, many females being minus their
shawls, boas, brooches, &c. The Rev. E. C. Harington, the
incumbent, who was officiating, remained in his reading desk,
and endeavoured to calm the fears of the congregation ; and
it was soon discovered that the cause of those reports was an
insufficient quantity of water in the feeder or cistern, and
that in consequence of this the pipes became filled with hot
or rarified air, which having in its progress to encounter that
of a colder and denser description, occasioned the sounds
which led to the alarm. Finding, however, at length, that
that calm which:is so requisite to the profitable performance
of divine worship was not likely to be soon restored, Mr.
Harington addressed those of his congregation who remained
with him in the church, saying he thought it advisable to
conclude the service, and that the afternoon service would
commence at the usual time, which was the case.—Bristol
Jnurnal.

POWERFUL OPPOSIITION TO THE NEW TARIFF.—On
Wednesday last a public meeting of the very wonderful num-
ber of 20 agriculturists, took place at Newport Pagnell, in
this county, to oppose the tariff proposed by her majesty's
government. From what passed at the meeting the public
may judge of the absurdity of getting up a meeting to oppose
the new tariff, and of the little sympathy the farmers exhibit
in matters which so slightly affect their interests. To cut the
matter short, the meeting nullified their petition, by the
adoption of a proposal to introduce into it a declaration of
confidence in the government, made by T. A. Boswell, Esq. ;
but the Rev. Mr. Lawe came to the rescue, and got 14 of the
company to vote for leaving it out against six, and thus
" saved their bacon" by a very large majority of eight.—
Bucks Gazette.

About four o'clock in the afternoon of Friday last the good
people of Middlesbro'-on-Tees were thrown into a state of
consternation, by something resembling the shock of an
earthquake, which was found to proceed from the explosion
of the boiler of an engine, at the iron-foundry of Messrs.
Blockon and Vaughan. The roof of the building was com-
pletely blown off, fragments of which were scattered in all
directions, and in some instances at a considerable distance.
It was soon ascertained that one man had been killed, and
several others severely injured. How the accident occurred
seems at present to be veiled in mystery. Verdict of a coro-
ner's jury, " Accidental Death," with a deodand of I on
the engine.—Durham Advertiser.

TRADE OF DUNDEE.--We are happy to observe that the
accounts just received from the manufacturing districts in
England are not so desponding as they have been for some
time past. The feeling is now becoming pretty general that
prices have seen their lowest, and that an improvement is
certain as soon as the Ministerial measures are considered
secure. Our trade has undergone no change worthy of no-
tice within the last eight days. Flax on the spot is a shade
lower, which is, no doubt, owing in some measure to the re-
cent arrivals from the lower Baltic ports. Tows and codil-
las maintain their prices, because of their continued scarcity.
In hemp, hemp codilla' and jute, there is little doing, and
prices are the same as formerly. Yarns and linens move off
slowly at their old low rates; and, with the exception of
some weights of flax yarns, there is nothing accumulating in
this market.—Dundee Cormier.

A Cadiz journal gives an afflicting account of the suffer-
ings of that city from extreme drought. Water is so rare
that a small barrel is not to be obtained under two reals,
and all articles of food have become so scarce and dear, that
the population is in danger of sinking from hunger as well as
thirst. The magistrates have held sittings to devise, if pos-
sible, means for relieving the general distress.
Mr. Lockhart, in his interesting " Life of Sir Walter
Scott," gives the following anecdote, which, as it is indica-
tive not only cf the great good sense f that eminent charac-
ter, but is of universal application, inasmuch as it reproves
a very common fault in society, we take leave to extract :
" Sir Walter's daughter Anne one day happened to say
something (on what subject is forgotten), that " she could
not abide it—it was vulgar." "My love," said her father,"
you speak like a very young lady ; do you know, after all,
the meaning of the word vulgar? 'Tis only common;
nothing that is common, except wickedness, can deserve to
be spoken of in a tone of contempt ; and when you have
lived to my years you will be disposed to agree with me in
thanking God that nothing really worth having or caring
about in this world is uncommon."

SINGULAR DEATH FROM LOCK-JAW. -On Sunday
morning Mr. T. Horwood, the master baker of Newington
workhouse, Surrey, expired in Guy's Hospital, London,
from the effects of a lock-jaw, produced under the following
singular circumstances :—lt appears that on Monday week
Mr. Horwood was assisting a brewer in carrying a cask of
beer into the house, when the little finger of his right hand
accidentally got jambed between the edge of the cart and
the slings, by which the skin was lightly grazed ; no notice
was taken of it until Friday evening, when it began to swell,
and the symptoms rapidly assumed so alarming an appear-
ance that it was deemed advisable to remove him to the
above hospital, when lock-jaw took place and he died in a
few hours.

HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.--,Th.?, accounts presented
at the Hull and Selby meeting, held last week, were in their
general results satisfactory, the receipts for the last six
months having been £16,722, showing an increase of 50 per
cent. It was stated that if the profit of the company in-
creased in proportion to the receipts, there would be a rea-
sonable expectation of a dividend of 5 per cent. being divided
among the shareholders. Economy was urged in the work-
ing of the line, at present about 55 per cent., and the direc-
tors promised they would endeavour to reduce it if possible
to the average of other lines, stated to be about 40 per cent.
This line, it appears, has cost in construction £llO to £ll5
per mile.

ARREARS OF CASES IN THE COMMON LAW COURTS.—
There are 94 rules for new trials standing undisposed of in
the Court of Queen's Bench, the first of which was moved
so long ago as Easter Tenn, 1841. The list of the same court,
called " the special paper," contains 5 demurrers, and the
" special cases" upon points of law for argument and the de-
cision of the court. The new trial paper does not comprise
any motions for a new trial in actions tried before the sheriff,
which are disposed of as ordinary rules. In the Common
Pleas there are 31 " new trials" and 23 demurrers, &c. In
the Exchequer there are 15 rules for new trials, 16 in the
special paper, and 11 in the " peremptory paper." The num-
ber of new trials will be considerably augmented in the
course of the present term from the causes tried at the late

assizes.
Of the sixty-nine words which make up the Lord's Prayer,
only five are not Saxon. In our moat classical writers, as
Milton and Addison, the Words of Saxon derivation greatly
predominate.
IF NOT AN INTELLECTUAL, AT LEAST A. CHEAP
SURGEON.—The following is an exact copy of a bill delivered
to Mr. Greenhalgh, one of the relieving officers of the Bolton
union, this week :—" Bradshaw, March 22d, 1842, Mr.
Edward Greenhalgh to Doctor Platt, Dr.: to 9 times dressing
sores, and fisick and ointment, and Jornes and calico for
plasters and sope and water, for washing the Boyels of Mary
Greenhalgh, total amount £0 Os. 6d."
The number of effective horses for the military service in
the inner territorial divisions of France amop-its to 56,865.
Deducting those of the gendarmerie and municipal guards, of
the officers of the other corps, and those at the Riding School
at Saumur, there will remain 38,944 for mounting the cavalry
in general. The horses are renewed by eights, or 5868 per
annum, costing a yearly expenditure of 2,716,191 f, which may
be thus divided—viz., 806 horses for the heavy cavalry, at
750 f each ; 1343 for the dragoons and lancers, at 550 f each ;
1208 for the chasseurs and hussars, at 480 f ; 37 picked horses
for the school at Saumur, 533 f ; 1070 for the artillery and
waggon trains, at 500 f ; 414 for the horse artillery, of which
332 are geldings at 600 f, and 82 mares at 540 f. If to the
above sum of 2,716,191 f be added 199,946 f for the purchase
of officers' horses, the total annual expense for the general
remounting of the army, according to its effective force on
Ist January, 1841, will be 2,916.131 f. In the above calcula-
tion are not included the newly-formed regiments of chas-
seurs and hussars, comprising about 2200 horses, the annual
cost of which may be estimated at 132,000 f. The daily ration
of each horse, according to the contracts entered into for five
years from the Ist January, 1830, was if 13c, but since 1840
this price has been increased by 2c a ration.
CURIOUS EPITAPHS.—In the churchyard of Truro are the
following epitaphs
" Here lie two little ones,
Whose ears were tender as their bones."
The second is equally original :
" Father, and mother, and I,
Chose to be buried as under :
Father and mother lies buried here,
And I lies buried yonder!"

STATISTICS OF MANUFACTURES.—From a work recently
published, entitled " Fowler's Compendium," we find the
following results, showing the number of manufactories and
persons employed in the three kingdoms :—England, Cotton
mills, 1,705 ; woollen and worsted ditto, 1,655 • flax ditto,
186; total, 3,546. Persons employed—Cotton mills, 220,000;
woollen and worsted ditto, 80,709; flax ditto 16,600; total,
317,300. Scotland—Cotton mills, 198 ; woollen and worsted
ditto, 117: flax ditto, 189; total, 504. Persons employed—
Cotton mills, 35,576 ; woollen and worsted ditto, 6,076 ; flax
ditto, 17,197; total, 58,549. Ireland—Cotton mills, 25 ; wool-
len and worsted do., 47; flax do., 44; total, 116 mills. Persons
employed—Cotton mills, 4,622 ; woollen and worsted ditto,
1,231; flax ditto, 9,017; total, 24,870. From this state-
ment, we find that the relative proportion, according to the
population of each country, employed in the manufacture of
cotton, woollen, and worsted, and flax, together, to be as
follows :—ln Scotland, one in every 45 of the whole popula-
tion • in England, one in evsry 50 of the simici in Ireland,
one in every 552 of the same. '

TIMATRE.HOYAL, LIVERPOOT

This present TUESDAY, April 26, Shalcspeare's
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM;
which will be repeated on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri-
day, after which it will be finally withdrawn.

The entertainments of this evening will conclude with, for
the second time, Hood's Farce of
YORK AND LANCASTER,
Oa, A SCHOOL WITHOUT SCHOLARS,
Which was received on Friday last with shouts of laughter
and applause.

EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION.
NOW OPEN EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING

AT THE
ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH- STREET,
A GRAND CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY,
11- 200 feet long, with a vertical Circle upwards of 40
feet in circumference, round which a Carriage 200 pounds
in weight, containing a Lady or Gentleman, will revolve
at the rate of ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR, with
perfect safety ; also, immense Iron Weights and Buckets of
,Water will be placed in the Carriage, and, although the whole
will be completely inverted, not a weight or a drop of water
will be displaced. Also, a brilliant Display of the ON Y-
HYDROGEN LIGHT, with other interesting Scientific
Experiments.

Open from Three to Five in the Afternoon, and from Six
to Nine in the Evening.
Admission—Boxes, ls.; Pit, 6d.

lir R. TEMPLETON announces his intention of giving
a CONCE UT, in the Assembly-rooms, Albion Hotel,
Birkenhead, on FRIDAY next, the 29th instant.
For particulars see Bills.
One of the Woodside Steamers will leave for Liverpool im-
mediately after the Concert.

Tickets to be had at the principal Hotels, Birkenhead, and
principal Music-shops, Liverpool.

CONCERT AT MR. LASSELL'S ROOM,
GT. RICHMOND-STREET, ST. ANN'S.
Vr R. WEISS takes the liberty to inform his Friends and
M
the Public that he intends giving a CONCERT at the
above elegant Room on THURSDAY, the sth of May next, in
order to Introduce his SON, just arrived from Paris, to a
Liverpool Audience.

Mr: WILLOUGIIBY WEISS will be assisted by Madame
BALFE, and his Preceptor, Mr. BALFE, Mr. Donn, and
Mrs. ST. ALBIN.
Mr. WEISS will feel particularly obliged by an early ap-
plication for Tickets, as -no more will be issued than the Room
can comfortably accommodate.

Tickets, live Shillings each, to. be had at the principal
Music Warehouses.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The STANDARD is forwarded to the The Advertiser Office,
Stockport, every Tuesday.
The letters of " P." we will do our best to make room for,
but he would oblige us by keeping them as concise as pos-
sible.

Eibrrpool attanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1842

There could be no better example of the difficulty
attendant upon any amendment of the tariff of a coun-
try, containing interests so varied as our own, than is
afforded by the course taken, with respect to the pro-
position of Sir Robert Peel, by the timber trade of Li-
verpool. Upon the first promulgation of the govern-
ment measures, an influential portion of our timber
merchants were up in arms to exclaim against it. We
were then told that the proposition to bring the altered
duties into immediate operation was fraught with cer-
tain ruin to the trade. A deputation proceeded to
London to urge their views upon the premier and his
colleagues; the doors of the Treasury and of the Board
of Trade were besieged with supplications; and, as the
result, by the amended scheme, the period from which
the operation of the measure, so far as timber is con-
cerned, was to commence, has been postponed from the
sth April to the 10th October. By the proceedings of
a meeting held on Friday last, it will be seen, however,
that by another section of the trade—and, we believe,
the most important section—the postponement in ques-
tion is viewed as infinitely more ruinous than the car-
rying into immediate operation of the measure origin-
ally proposed. The government and parliament are
now urged, as they value the interests of the trade and
of the public, to rescind their changed determination
and to act upon their own original measure as the best
for all classes of the community !

How, we ask, is a minister to act in such a case ?
With what justice can he be blamed if, after having
bestowed the fullest consideration upon the details of a
measure—having weighed each conflicting interest,
calculated every circumstance, and formed, upon deli-
berate conviction and upon the best of information, an
impartial judgment—he refuses to be swayed by the
outcry of parties who imagined themselves to be ag-
grieved, or who, not being the majority of those inte-
rested, are, in reality, aggrieved? The best course,
we maintain, is to abide by his original conviction, if
arrived at upon sound and well considered data; and
we are therefore satisfied that it would have been infi-
nitely better if the period of the coming into operation
of the altered duties upon timber had been adhered to
by Sir Robert Peel as it was fixed upon in his original
proposition.

We will not enlarge upon the motives of the party
by whose urgent representations to government the
adoption of the altered plan, which is now found so in-
jurious to the trade, has been procured. The facts are
tolerably notorious. A few influential firms through-
out the country had made a leap in the dark, and leapt
in the wrong direction ! The records of the custom-
houses in our principal ports would sufficiently show
how and when the grievances so loudly complained of,
and which have had so great an influence upon the de-
termination of ministers, arose; and we do think that
a reconsideration of all the circumstances and the re-
flection that the concession which has been made must
have the effect of completely paralyzing an important
branch of industry during the whole of the present
year, would fully warrant Sir Robert Peel in retracing
his steps and determining upon an adherence to the
details of his original measure. We are convinced,
moreover, that, in adopting this course, he would re-
ceive the thanks, at last, of the very parties upon whose
representations he has deviated from the course which
he had at first laid out as the most just and politic.
In expressing this opinion we are occupying no new
ground. From the first agitation of the question we
maintained that the then holders of Canadian timber
had nothing to fear from the immediate reduction of
the duty. The stocks at that time on hand had been
laid in at prices which bade defiance to all competition
from importers under the new tariff; and if, as is un-
doubtedly the case, the few holders of bonded stocks
were more favourably situated than the majority of the
trade—(and this was the pinching point o—those gen-
tlemen who, acting upon the result of a speculative
impression, and hoping to improve their position, had,
within afew days of the introduction of the tariff, paid
the'existing duty, had surely no right to complain if
their neighbours, who trusted to chance merely, were
more fortunate than themselves ; and to secure these
gentlemen from the consequences of a step, taken to
advance their own interests alone, Sir Robert Peel was
not called upon to grant a concession which must throw
into difficulty and distress so large a number of enter-
prising merchants, tradesmen, and industrious ar-
tizans.

The London Times, of Saturday contains the follow-
ing paragraph, which we recommend Co the perusal of
those politicians who give faith to the amusing fiction
maintained by Lord John Russell and the opponents
of the proposed income tax, that Great Britain is at
present in a state of profound peace !
"MORE TROOPS FOR INDIA.—On Wednesday afternoon
the transport-ship Columbus, of 467 tons register, Captain
Short, chartered by the Hon. East India Company, on go-
vernment account, sailed from Gravesend for Bombay,
Madras, and Calcutta. She carries out 220 troops, to aid in
avenging the butcheries committed by the treacherous
Affghans. The Columbus, along with the transport-ships
York, Captain Legg, and Nith, Captain Shaw, also for
Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, left the Downs early yester-
day morning. The following ships are also engaged to con-
vey troops to the seat of war in the East, and all are expected
to sail in about ten days—viz., the Inglis, 400 troops ; Berk-
shire, 200 ; Rajasthan, 300 ; Margaret, 300 ; Henry, 180 ;
Ocean Queen, 230; Mermaid, 200; Volusia, I 60; Dauntless,
150 ; Princess Royal, 250 ; Ann, 250 ; Mellish, 190 ; Ma-
dras, 120 ; Princess Royal, 150 ; Frances Smith, 200 ;
Morley, 200 ; Repulse, 400; Mary, 250 ; Lord Lynedoch,
no ; Boadicea, 160 ; Lady Feversham, 150 ; Charles Kerr,
200 ; Royal Consort, 170 ; Brooke, 230."
Five thousand five hundred and ten British soldiers
are here shown to be preparing for instant embarka-
tion. " Other transports " too, we are informed by
by the same journal, are " about to be chartered for
the conveyance of troops; and the greatest activity
prevails in getting them fitted out with the least
possible delay." Another five thousand men, we may
therefore conclude, shortly follow the detachment
which is now in the act of embarking; and before the
complement is made up not less than twenty thou-
sand troops (.9 will have left Great Britain for the
scene of recent slaughter and shame in Affghanistan.
And with what great object in view does this gallant
army leave our shores ? Is it, as we are here told, "to

In Avenging, tho butcharlez committed by the troy.
Will our slaughtered fellow-
countrymen, sacrificed by Whig recklessness and cow-
ardice, sleep sounder in their bloody graves because the
thunder of the British arms has been heard volleying
in triumph through the mountain passes of Caboul ?
Will they sleep sounder because a heathen lustration
has been poured over their ashes and the blood of the
murderers is made to die the same sod which is already
red with that of the murdered ? With no such unholy
end in view these troops, we trust, are sent out by a
British and Conservative government. History, we
trust, will never have it to record of Great Britain that
she entered into a war of extermination against a horde
of ignorant and fanatical barbarians, with no other ob-
ject in view than that of exacting vengeance for disas-
ters which the meddling and imbecile policy of her own
rulers alone brought down upon her head. No—no !
A better reason—a juster and more defensible reason—
than this of mere passion can surely be given for the
dispatch of twenty thousand British troops to the banks
of the Indus; for all the cost, the sacrifice of life, the
rending asunder of those ties which bind even the sol-
dier to the land of his birth, involved in such a
step ;—and from the government of Sir Robert Peel,
the country will, ere long, we trust, receive a full expo-
sition of the policy and the pressing necessities by
which it is demanded.

clicroug Afrghana

We are well aware, it can never be permitted that the
defeat and disgrace which Whig meddling in the affairs
of Affghanistan has brought down upon our arms,
should be passed by in humiliating submission. The
honour and the name of England—if we are still to
maintain in security our noble Indian empire—must be
vindicated. Let it not be said, however,' that a blind
desire for vengeance is the chief inducing cause which
actuates us in the warlike operations upon which we.
are entering. If vengeance, only, was demanded, it is
not upon the wretched fanatics of Affghanistan that we
would ask for it to fall, but upon the heads of the sel-
fish and dishonest faction by whom a gallant army was
sacrificed to their ignorant fury. To the preservation
of British pre-eminence in India impaired by Whig
imbecility, the armament which is now leaving our
shores is alone directed. To promote this object it may
be necessary that the power of the British arms should
be felt where their weakness and shame has so lately
been witnessed; but there is not, we trust, throughout
Great Britain, one man in ten, or in a hundred, who
desires to see the shedding of one drop of blood more
than is required to repair the injury which defeat has
brought upon the moral strength of our position in
that great continent.

Yes, to avert the consequences—the danger and in-
security—with which the reckless policy of Lord Mel-
bourne's government has surrounded our Indian em-
pire, we are now called upon to furnish fresh troops
for the conquest of a valueless territory in which the
hostile foot of a British soldier ought never to have
trod. Let this fact be ever before the eyes of the Bri-
tish nation ! Let us not, by an appeal to our passions,
be led away from the true positior. in which we are now
placed; let us not, by a cry for " vengeance against
the Afghans," allow the reprobation, which is their
due, to be diverted from the heads of the real offend-
ers ! The blind and selfish councils of Whiggery,
alone, have plunged us into this struggle. It is these
which have induced the necessity for a further sacrifice
of blood and treasure in this unjust and ill-starred
quarrel; and although we know that by every loyal
and devoted Englishman the sacrifice will be cheerfully
made, we would have every coin that is paid and every
drop of blood which is poured out, accompanied, not
with curses upon the wretched beings who are doomed
to be swept before our destroying onset, but with a re-
cord that such is the penalty which humanity is doomed
to pay, when the affairs of a great nation are entrusted
to the guidance of charlatanism, dishonesty, and be-
sotted folly !

The Whig party have always been fond of imputing
the practice of bribery at elections to their political op-
ponents. In every contest where success has crowned
the Conservative cause, the cuckoo cries of " Bribery,"
" Corruption," " Intimidation," have been rung into
our ears by the defeated, in every variety of intonation
from the shriek of a Rathbone to the growl of our
venerable Mercury. The snow was not more spotless
than Whig-Radicalism ; Diana herself was not more
pure than this political vestal, who shrunk, we were
told, with sensitive horror from every contact with
pollution; whilst Conservatism was eagerly branded
with all manner of wicked epithets, and reputed as
guilty of every species of electioneering naughtiness !

We live, however, it seems, in a changed world.
The once pure and immaculate thing Whiggery has
fallen from its lofty position and " taken to bad
courses." Listen reader—listen ye much vilified free-
men of Liverpool—to the following resolutions of the
committee appointed to inquire into the validity of the
election of two Whig gentlemen—two of this exces-
sively pure and chaste faction—for the borough of Ips-
wich ! But first—Freemen of Liverpool !—did you
ever hear of such a man as RIGBY WasoN ? You
have ! Then we proceed :
" 3. Resolved unanimously—That Rigby Wason, Esq.,
and George Rennie, Esq., had by their agents been guilty
of bribery at the last election for theborough of Ipswich.
" 4. Resolved unanimously—That this committee are of
opinion that extensive bribery prevailed at the last election,
and that the issue of a new writ for the said borough ought
to be suspended until the evidence shall have been taken into
consideration by the house.

" 5. Resolved unanimously—That the chairman be re-
quested to move that this report, together with the evidence,
be printed, and that the speaker do not issue his writ for the
return of two members for the borough of Ipswich until
such report and evidence be printed and submitted to the
house."

If we remember right, one of these very gentlemen,
Mr. Rigby Wason, did, not very many years ago,
move the House of Commons to disfranchise the very
corrupt people we are now addressing—the freemen of
Liverpool. That, however, was in the days of Whig,
purit—in those days when a Whig candidate was in
sufficient odour to be able to solicit the suffrages of a
respectable borough without the necessity of having a
bribe in his fist ;—when whiggery had not been drag-
ged through so many political sloughs that electors
cannot be induced to embrace it without being pre-
sented with money to buy soap to cleanse themselves
from the consequences of the contact. Then every
Whig was a patriot—a Reformer—the friend of the
people—the lauded of democracy which knew him not;
now Whiggery is—found out, and that's the whole of
4 ,

We are especially sorry, however, for poor Rigby
Wason. Last night, we find from a notice on the
Journals of the House of Commons, this very imma-
culate was to move an obstruction in committee upon
the Income Tax Bill. Alas ! he was found, however,
to have made another kind of motion, and in company
with the respectable sombre gentleman kicked out for
bribery from the adjoining Borough of Sudbury, was
at that very hour chanting the melancholy lamentation
" Who will fill our vacant places ?
Who will sing our songs to-night ?"

SLATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c.

Our market for Cotton this week has shown an improved
spirit, and a large business has been done, at improved prices,
39,920 bales having been sold during the week ending on
Friday. On Saturday 4000 bales were sold, and 4500 yester-
day, to meet a steady and healthy trade demand. With all
the rumours of closing factories and short time which we
hear around us, it is important to notice the trade purchases
this year are greater than at the same period last year.
339,000 bales have been taken for consumption since the Ist
January, 1842, against 321,000 bales up to this date in 1841.
The firmness displayed in the Cotton Market has been
felt in Manchester, and a better demand for Cloth has been
evinced. Still, however, things Ire far from being as we
would wish them in that market ; and we are afraid that
some time must elapse before confidence is restored, and a
profit upon business transactions will be derived by the
manufacturer.

MECHANICS' INsrrTuTioN.—Arrangements are now
making to render the approaching Exhibition of Works of
Art, Manufactures, &c. in Mount-street, one of the most
complete and interesting exhibitions that have ever yet been
opened in this country. Among the many attractions which
it will possess may be mentioned Mr. Catlin's large collection
of the North American Indians.
el.els than six tons, and it is intended.
Tofhpisaicnotlitnecgtsiocnowstetiigmhessn,
to erect a shed, 90 feet long and 50 feet broad, for its exhi-
bition, which will cause great expense, and render a small
extra charge necessary. The present collection is the fruit
of several years' residence among the Indians, and not only
are their nature and habitsfflustrated by paintings, &c., but
several of Mr. Catlin's assistants will be present, dressed in
full Indian costume. The success which has attended Mr.
C., and the interest which his collection has excited, through-
out the country, warranti
us n saying that it will form one of
the greatest attractions of the approaching exhibition.

THE " ItMLWAY TIMES" AND OURSELVES.

The Railway Times, of Saturday, in a long article com-
menting upon our report of a meeting, recently held in this
town, makes some allusions to us which we cannot allow to
pass uncontradicted. If we understand our contemporary's
somewhat obscure wit, we are suspected to have had some
unworthy motive in noticing as we did the proceedings of the
Thames Haven shareholders and their secretary, Lieutenant
Amsinck. We are said to be " deeply in the confidence of
the Directors of the Thames Haven Dock and Railway Com-
pany," and to have " suppressed" the name of the chairman
of the late meeting, to oblige our " friend" Mr. Amsinck.

Now, we can assure our railway contemporary, however sin-
gular to him it may appear, that in any part which we take
in the advocacy of public undertakings, we consult only, so
far as our judgment enables us to do so, the interests of the
public and of the community to which we belong. Ours is,
upon all occasions, however foolish the confession may make
us appear to the Railway Times, unpaid labour. We look
for no business favours and no remuneration in any other
shape, as the reward for the course which we take towards

any company ; and we most certainly look for none, and have
deserved none, at the hands of the Thames Haven Company.
We reported their late meeting for the information of our
readers and as a matter of course ; and we beg, with all pro-
per respect, to decline the honour, doubtless intended us,
when we are said to be deeply in the confidence of the gen-
tlemen who compose its direction, and the personal friend
of its secretary, Mr. Amsinck.

FIRST FRUITS OF MAGISTERIAL REFORM.—The sore-
ness with which the recent conservative appointments to the
bench have been viewed by the whig-radical party through-
out the country, is not without ample and touching reason.
Many a snug job—many a pleasant preferment—have thus
been withdrawn from the expectant lips of its subservient
tools. Many a longing gaze for the promised sop—many a
hankering for the sweet lickings of office—are doomed from
henceforth to blank and bitter disappointment. The reign
of the Walmsleys and Rathbones, the Potters and Walkers,
is at an end. Melancholy consummation'. Why does the
world still go round, when the whig revel in jobbery is no
more ?

We have this day to record the first manifestation which
has come before us of this awfully changed state of affairs.
A particular friend of the Rev. Joseph Brotherton, Mr.
Wakefield, ejected once from the office of overseer of Salford
with cruel precipitancy, and nominated subsequently by Sir
Thomas Potter and his tail to the snug office of inspector of
weights and measures for the hundred of Salford, has just
been discharged by the newly-appointed conservative magi-
strates, for the very venial offence of making his situation
a trifle too expensive to the public ! The best electioneering
tactician which the borough of Salford ever knew—a Social-
ist, too, or a Muggletonian, we know not which—has thus
been deprived of his bone before he had half picked it clean,
and when the chances are few that whiggery can afford to
throw him another. No wonder, if such be the cruel results
of the magistracy being more equally balanced in political
opinions, that whig expectants are in utter despair, and the

very possessors of place shake in their shoes!

DISTRESSED CONDITION OF THE TOWN OF MANCHES-
TER.—Destitution amongst the population of this once
flourishing CAPITAL of the manufacturing districts goes on
increasing, whilst the Russell opposition appears resolved
that the efforts of the legislature to bring about that revival
of our commerce, by which alone it can be materially lessen-
ed, shall be retarded by every impediment which faction can
throw in their way. A friend of our own, writing yesterday
from Manchester, stites, amongst other distressing facts—
" The soup kitchens still remain open ; indeed, but for the
relief which they afford, I do not know how our poor people
could subsist. I have lately given out fifty tickets per day,
for which I have had at least 250 or 300 applicants ! The
respectability of some would surprise you."
The prolongation of the existing embarrassments in every
branch of industry is, we know, rapidly dragging down the
small tradesman and the shopkeeper to be thus dependent
upon charity for a meal ; but what cares whiggery for the
sufferings of these or any classes of the community, when
engaged in the selfish pursuit of office, or in the patriotic ob-
ject of obstructing the measures of a conservative govern-
ment ?

A CASE FOR A COLLEGE OF CARDINALS.—The Guiana
Times of the 28th February informs us of some curious cir-
cumstances illustrative of the condition of the church of
Rome in that colony. The titular bishop of Oriense, and
vicar-apostolic of British Guiana has involved himself, it ap-
pears, so seriously with his congregations, as to be sum-
moned to Rome to answer for or explain his conduct. The
grounds of offence are thus detailed by our West Indian
contemporary : . .

" The Roman Catholics, to whom Dr. Clancy's conduct
appears objectionable, accuse him, First, of an unwillingness
to account, satisfactorily, for the large sums of money en-
trusted to him on the account of the faith ; he is going away,
and they are anxious to know how the pecuniary affairs of
their church stand, in case he should never return. Se-
condly, of causing two popular, talented, and useful priests,
to quit the vicariate, and ordaining an ignorant man. Thirdly,
of occasioning the abrupt departure, from the Georgetown
nunnery, of one of the nuns, whose further stay was incon-
sistent'with her ideas of propriety. Fourthly, of giving rise
to scandalous remark, by the violation of those precautions
for the separation of the sexes usually observed in all Ro-
man Catholic convents. (I)
" Last week the parties most thoroughly convinced of the
justness of these accusations, issued a short circular, of which
we have seen a copy :
" `Georgetown, 20th'Feb., ISI2.—A variety of circum-
stances having occurred in this vicariate, highly painful to the
feelings of the members, and prejudicial to the interests of
the Catholic Church, it is deemed expedient, that a meeting
of the Catholic body should be convened, with the view of
taking into consideration whether any, and what measures
should be adopted by them to allay present evils, and, if
possible, guard against their recurrence. Your presence
at Mr. Waddell's house, opposite C. Conyers and Co.,
Water-street, Georgetown, immediately after mass on Sunday
next 27th, to assist with your advice, is earnestly requested.
" Yesterday, which was Sunday, the Vicar-apostolic read
this circular at the altar, denounced two of the authors of it
as having names which it was an abomination to mention in
that place, threatened them, if they did not recant and do
penance, with excommunication, and their wives and chil-
dren with a curse, and also pledged himself to excommuni-
cate all who should dare to attend the proposed meeting.
The consequence was, that the meeting did not take place,
and that the parties, feeling themselves deeply aggrieved, re-
solved on going to the Pope himself. "

A very pretty squabble this, so far, and one for which his
holiness, we imagine, will not thank the rev. vicar-apostolic
and titular bishop for originating !