The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

Manchester and Birmingham Railway, too, unprovided with
an eligible junction with Liverpool, will lay down the mer-

chandise brought by it, ust at theprecise point from which

Rochdale a

and hardy'

for transmission to this port. The cutlery

have travelled

Leffield—the whole of which must othe

ilway—will now necessarily travel

per canal from the same point to Liverpool !
We should really imagine, that with these significant facts
before them, the Liverpool and Manchester Board will begin

of this hntortu

them up. First—not to speak of private interests—the inte-
rest of the Leeds and Manchester Railway to cut out its com-
petitor, the Sheffield and Manchester, from any share in the
carrying trade from Liverpool to the north and east of Eng-
land. The Ashton Canal—to strike a blow at the same un-
dertaking. The Old Quay Company and the New Quay Com-
pany—to seize upon the traffic from Yorkshire at Hunt's
Bank. The Rochdale Canal Company, and the various car-
riers using it—to seize upon the traffic left isolated at Store-
street. The Birmingham Company—to keep its traffic from
the Grand Junction ; and the Bolton Company—to carry out
ultimately, by the aid of the Leeds Company, its projected
northern line to Liverpool itself? An amount of influence
here, actually at work, and intimately dovetailed together,
which those who have been its dupes will, in time, learn to
weigh and to value accurately.
We shall be told that it is too late now to turn back from
the course into which the Liverpool Company have been se-
duced. It may be so. Still that company, we presume, is
not fastened to this splendid" spacious station " scheme. If
they are so let them keep out of it.

ORANGE I SM

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,--14iind by last Saturday's Journal, that the " smooth
style" of my last letter has ruffled the amiable temper of my
friend " Argus." He has, however, placed me in the good
company of oily tongued Irish parsons," and, in return, I
forgive him. I hope his naughty language has not the sanc-
tion of habit. He allows that the Orangeman's initiatory
address is " very nice and good ;" but he does not like to see
it in print, and Ido not wonder. There are those who wish
Orange principles kept out of sight, in order that their slan-
ders may escape with impunity ; but it shall be ours to pub-
lish our laws, and to disabuse the public mind of all false
impressions. I have no doubt that "Argus" himself found
it easier to write a column of abuse, than to persuade himself
he was writing truth after he had perused my quotation.
" Argus" has a very perverse genius. He knows nothing
of purple marksmen• by his own admission, yet he charitably
supposes it means " purple crimes," and he then logically
reasons upon the consequences of tolerating the title. The
" recruit" would be raw indeed who would glory in a dis-
tinction of so dishonourable a character. For " Argus's"
satisfaction I will, therefore state that its signification is of a
religious, loyal, and patriotic nature ; and more than this it
is not necessary to state till " Argus" is prepared in his heart
to become a Protestant loyalist.

" Argus" uses even worse argument than he exhibits bad
taste. He would prefer, forsooth, " better game than a re-
cruit." I should think so, unless he were a cannibal. I can
promise him, however, that if he bags his bird, he will find
him rather tough in the digestion ! "fis a pity to see him
waste so much powder. But " Argus" is also very clever at
stratagem, and takes great credit for having now obtained
information which everybody else knew, namely, that the
Orangemen were going to walk in peace, under the protection
of the authorities.

We are told that we honour the memory of a Dutchman,
and we agree ; but add, in addition, that this Dutchman was
rightful King of England. Will " Argus" say the same ?
As for the defence of Sarsfield, and the avowal of repeal, I
leave the matter in the hands of the public, and I have no
fear that the man who fought several times against the King
of England de jure et de facto, was a rebel, and that the
burly agitator, who howls for repeal, does not lose by the
speculation. Morality, indeed, and in such circumstances l
—Let Raphael tell the moral he has drawn from the affair at
Carlow.

We are told that the flags carried on St. Patrick's day did
not create a tumult ; but does this justify the proceeding ?
Praise to English forbearance, we allow our feelings to be
outraged in our own town to preserve peace, and are to be
told, in return, that we are to be hid in our houses—and this
too in a Protestant town! It is asserted that Hibernian so-
cieties are legal and loyal. I hope they are : but are Ribbon
societies legal ? and pray how do we know but that every
nominal benefit society of Ilibernians is not practically a
Ribbon lodge? Look at the late proceedings before Mr.
Rushton, when a society, with rules certified by a barrister,
yet paid hirelings to go to Ireland—for purposes which, in
reality, arc never known, but which may be guessed. Orange
societies have printed rules, which may be had by the public,
and Orange benefit societies are legally enrolled, and are
open to all loyal Protestants.
It is not necessary to notice the statements about coldness
to the Queen, or the escape of the Marquis of Wellesley, be-
yond merely stating that they are false so far as Orange
lodges are concerned, and I dare him to prove the agency of
these loyal bodies.

" Argus" mistakes sneers for arguments when he writes
about the reasons of Orange lodges being discountenanced.
He is witty in intention about the scrutiny Orange lodges
underwent before parliament. Allow me to refer him to Mr.
and Mrs. Hall's Ireland, where Orange societies are spoken
of, annhe will find that the society " stood the test of two
most scrutinizing parliamentary committees—one of the
Lords, in the year 1825, and one of the Commons, in 1836
without the slightest imputation being cast upon it which
has any weight with rational men." It is true, that when
self-styled liberals had the power to insult their opponents,
during the mad times of reform, that they acted up to their
bigoted principles, by crushing their fallen rivals ; for they
knew that the strongholds of true liberty and genuine Pro-
testantism are found in Orange lodges. We have bid adieu
to the past : like the phoenix, our institution has risen from
its ashes, and now once more takes its heavenward flight,
and soars majestically above the puny darts of its assailants.
" Argus" does not allude to my remarks upon the peace-
able manner we purpose walking,And the desire to avoid giv-
ing intentional offence. That does not suit his andpurpose,e_
he can only condescend to lower his dignity so
far
as to
ie
and
ture magistrates upon the duty of discouraging I°Ydone
Protestantism. 0 shame, where is thy blush! I have
for the present with " Argus."
With regard to another t j feel glad in
correspondent of the
who signs XXX, I have only to observe thlrang
e purposes
having his testimony that the collectors for
yu .journal's,
are doing their duty so well ; and when re
the 12th July, and
friend's " asto-
nishment" is over, I hope to meet him on
us
and immortal
drink a pot of XX to the " glorious, Po
memory. '—l remain, sir, your's, 84c.,
AN ORANGEMAN & PURPLE MARKSMAN.
Liverpool, 30th May, 1842.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

The weather during the past week has been extremely fine,
varied by occasional showers, which must have been of infi-
lite service to the growing crops. The face of the surround-
ig country looks surpassingly beautiful.—Stockport Adver-

THE WEATHER. —Fine fertilising showers have fallen
during the week, by which the crops of grass and corn have

been materially -stiengthened,
been by an alternation of war
our neighbourhood look most love
a most prolific crop of all ki'
counts throughout the country give the sau._
sentations.—Leeds latelligeneer.
Throughout this part of the north the country presents a
charming aspect. The late rains have produced a striking
change in the appearance of the crops, which now give pro-
mise of abundance. The wheat is strong and healthy. The
oats just bursting into blade look remarkably we" -
flax-

aided as their growth has
in sunshine. The gardens in
I there is promise of
The general so-
cheering repre-

Lids of I

_.„ and the
, generally, wears such an appearance as must be highly
gratifying to those who take an interest in the efforts now
' --- to improve the cultivation of tl

lat valuable crop.

while the potatoes are just what an Irishman loves to 100 k
at in the ridges. Yesterday morning we had a slight thunder
storm, and the rain fell very heavily for a short time, but it
oon cleared up, and we had a delis

afternoon.—U/st

ISLE• OF MAN.—At the commencement of the week the
atmosphere was exceedingly chill, owing to the prevalence of
the easterly wind, which changed, however, a few points on
Tuesday, rendering the air more genial. Copious showers
of rain have occasionally watered the smiling face of Mona,
which fell chiefly in the night. The fruit blossoms are now
carefully expanded, and seldom, indeed, hare the gardens
and orchards given greater promise of abundant produce, and
throughout the island agricultural crops of every description
are looking remarkably healthy. On the whole, produce of
all kinds gives hope of great abundance, and if fine weather
continues, an early harvest will afford to the country a great
relief from the pressure of the times which now prevails to
a great extent among the labouring poor both in this island
and across the channel.

The Rev. W. R. Sibthorp was on Saturday admitted to
Priest's Orders at the Roman Catholic College at Oscott.
The coal trade is reviving at Newport. A number of ves-
sels have arrived within the last fortnight.
A FAT laviNG.—The annual value of the Prebend in
Wells Cathedral, which has lately become vacant by the death
of the Rev. T. Escott, is three pounds!
The railway from Naples to Rome has at length obtained
the approval of the Holy See. It is said that au arrange-
ment has been made between the two states, according to
which Naples will undertake the work and the expense, and Rome repay its share in annuities. A railway from Rome to
Florence is spoken of as a thing quite resolved on.
The Augsburg Gazette announces that the Russian army
in Poland is about being placed on the peace establishment ;
the cavalry is to return to Russia; but the Gazette thinks
that these measures indicate a concentration of a large
military force in the southern parts of the empire, for the
purpose of carrying on active operations in Circassia.
In the neighbourhood of Guildford-street, Southwark, an
accoucheur, residing there, rejoices in the appeopriate name
of " Caudle." Not less so, in the Broadway, Blackfriars,
is a hairdresser, literally and truly bearing the name of
" Catchpole."

The Cologne Gazette states, from the frontiers of Italy,
that since the closing of the University of Pisa, occasioned
by the seditious and tumultuous conduct of the students,
several arrests have taken place among that body.
WOFUL WIT.—How do a feeling-hearted man and a cart-
horse resemble each other ? Because they both stop at the
cry of " Wo !"

Osbaldistone, the great horse dealer, now a bankrupt, is
Llso a solicitor and coroner for Hertford.

On the 19th instant the railroad between Hamburgh and
Bergedorff was opened, and 800 passengers were conveyed
along it. On the 20th, the number was 900. Considering the
present circumstances of Hamburgh, this may be regarded
as a large number.

A party returning about half-past eight o'clock on Friday
evening, from an excursion up the river Thames, in a small
pleasure-boat, accidentally ran in between the New Cadogan-
pier and a steam-boat, which immersed the party, and two
lives were lost.

A Vienna letter of the 16th instant says—" The works on
our railroads are going on with great perseverance ; that to
Prague will be finished in three years, and that to Trieste in

six years.

The Courrier de Lyon says :—" The accident on the
Versailles Railroad has not diminished the traffic on ours.
In the four days of the festival of Whitsuntide 10,493 pas-
sengers, being upon an average of 2,576 a day, were conveyed
by it. During the same period in last year the
9,776, being 720 less than on the last occasion.'
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued
an order to admit 12 shipwrights' apprentices at the Wool-
wich Dockyard immediately, that number being a regulated
proportion, according to the men borne on the books of this
dockyard. Their lordships have also decided upon entering
100 apprentices every year, to be distributed amongst the
various dockyards, in the proportion of men borne on their
books

number ivas

PALLIATION.—" Pray, sir," said the commissioner to an
insolvent brought up to be discharged on his petition—" Pray,
sir, how could you wilfully, and with your eyes open, con-
tract such a number of debts without any visible means of
paying them ?" "My Lord," said the petitioner, " you
labour under a great mistake—l have never in my life wil-
fully contracted a debt; on the contrary, I have invariably
done everything to enlarge them !"
The Nuremburgh Correspondent announces that 6,000
marks have already been remitted to Hamburg from that
city, and 10,000 from Augsburgh, and that the Bavarian
ministers, in the absence of the king, had made a general
appeal to the people of Bavaria in favour of the distressed
inhabitants of Hamburgh. The Post Ampt Gazette of
Frankfort informs us that at Stuttgardt the booksellers are
getting up a lottery of books and prints, the profits of which
are to be sent to Hamburg.

A very considerable fire occurred at Kingston, Jamaica,
on the 9th ult., by which the steam bread bakery of Messrs.
Atkinson and Hozin was burnt to the ground, and property
to the value of £50,000 destroyed ; it is presumed to be the
act of an incendiary. The Jamaica papers mention that the
troops and men-of-war's boats and crews rendered effectual
assistance.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following calculation of the
last weekly returns of 38 railways, 1,345 miles in length, will
be of interest :—Number of passengers on 23 railways,
280,644 ; consequently, the total of the week must be about
400,000. The receipts for passengers on 37 railways,
£71,048 12s. lid ; ditto for goods on 30 railways, £18,452
19s. Id ; total, £89,501 12s. This is an average of £66 10s.
per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the
rate of more than £3,000,000 a year, and carrying 15,000,000
of passengers.—Railway Magazine.
LANDS HELD OR FORFEITED BY A GAME OF CRESS.—
There is a method of playing at chess called Curzier Spiel at
Stroepke, a village between Magdeburg and Brunswick, on a
board of 8 squares by 12. This village holds its lands upon
the tenure of forfeiture if any of their community loses a game
at chess. Some of the inhabitants are expert at this play,
but as the stake is so high, they decline finishing a game with
a stranger, and defer the party sine die.

A NEW COPPER MINE IN JAMAICA.—We are exceed-
ingly gratified to be enabled to announce that another valua-
ble copper mine has been found in the neighbourhood of this
parish, situated upon Flamstead Plantation, Port Royal
Mountains, the property of the Rev. Mr. Fyfe ; and that so
satisfactory are the indications, that the necessary capital
has at once been subscribed for by one or two opulent and
influential houses in this city, which will thus prevent the oc-
currence of much of that indecision and delay which generally
accompany appeals for public co-operation. Who knows
but that this is only the commencement of a new era in the
existence of Jamaica, and that from an almost exclusively
sugar-growing colony, she may yet rise to equal, if not su-
perior, importance in mineralogical wealth. Should this and
the Mount Vernon mine succeed in fulfilling the hopes of
their 'projectors, we need have little doubt of seeing many
others following in the same steps. Jamaica Standard,
April 15.

INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR TIIE PROPAGATION OF
THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.--The 141st anniversary
meeting of the members and friends of this society was held
on Friday, at St. Paul's Cathedral. The clergy, in their
robes, met at three o'clock in the Consistory Court, at the
west-end of the cathedral, to meet his Grace the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the president of the society. There were
present the Lord Mayor. aldermen, and sheriffs, the Bishops
of London, Durham, Winchester, Chester, Lincoln, Nor-
wich, Salisbury, Llandaff, Sodor and Man, the Archdeacons
Hale and Robinson, the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, the Rev. A.
M. Campbell, Rev. C. B. Dalton, Rev. W. Dodsworth, Rev.
Thomas Dale, Rev. W. Harvey, and a very large number of
the metropolitan' clergy. Full cathedral service was per-
formed, after which the Bishop of Salisbury preached the
sermon. His lordship's discourse was founded on the 17th
chapter of St. John's Gospel, 20 and 21 verses. It was
listened to with profound attention. An anthem was sung,
and the Bishop of London pronounced the benediction. It
appears from statements put forth by the society, that there
is still a great want of colonial clergymen, more especially in
Van Diemen's Land, for which place a bishop will very
shortly be appointed. The Bishop of Australia has also re-
presented to the society his need of clerical assistance. In
the diocese of Toronto a college has been established for the
education of candidates for holy orders.

a the company's
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEA.:ft NAVIGATION
mpANy..__The third half-yearly meetipnbgeollfit:oth_p:ochpriaiert,
tro
Co
of this company was held on the 27th inst.
receiveoffi cei
stll 1, eSrte. pi%ofratr ofy - axe,
dSiirreje tool ri as
aenadaideclTarhe a dividend for
the six months ending 31st March last.
the receipts of the company for that half -year report
xs3tl,l9toe do
in excess of the previous half-year ; that 11-, shares of 450 e each had been subscribed for ; that the paid
company amounted to .C 400,787 10s. ; and that
the amount of £169,312 were available for the capitaleonftsthto
a ;unrsttlllemr exten-
sion of the company's operations. It also stated that 703 ad-
ditional shares had been subscribed for in India, where a very
favourable feeling towards the undertaking had been mani-
fested. The Hindostan steamship, of 1800 tons and 520-
horse power, would, it was reported, proceed to take up her
-
station between Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon, and Suez, in
September next, and the Bentinck, of similar size and power,
would soon follow for the same destination. Arrangements
for improving the transit of passengers and goods ttbrforieisgli:
Egypt were stated to be in active progress, and that
of
assurances of the support and co-operation of til A divi-
Egypt in effecting them had been recently recede.areci, and
dend of 31 per cent. for the half year was i
thanks to the directors being moved
conded and carried, the meeting separated.
rzn,n, h catholic churches
POPERY AND TIIE BIBLE.—In .4---- tis alWayS °Witted,
on the continent the second corornandmen
the ninth and
and in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.in the one book,
tenth are placed in different positions and unanimously se-
house" comes first,
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour
snecond commandment they
wife." Thus having omitted th
up
the number. In con-
and in the other, "Thou sliaieotovet thy neighbour's
th willeninth
nn
tdh that
a nd
differently placed in the
their ninth and which is
sequence,div divide th e
however,
t tenth in
ofo twothe..?teo .
ibeing makeic hi s
two books, they cannot teill, into their variouechisms,'
their tenth ; so that if youe look
b Council of Trent find ya or
are
even the large one
of
the
~ which is the first command-
although the questnsecond,,, 4, which is the third," and so
merit, " which is the
come to the last,
on, yet when
they Such are the shifts to which the
tenth commandments.sstem of anti-Christ resort.
creatures of the
Nilson, senior Fellow of T '
The late Dr. N Tr' College,
though a very grave man himself
, was very fond of
Dublin,
d
puzzling the country people 1 p e who came to in-
quizzing an p
friends or relations •
•after their in the college. One
quire tanding in th
seeing
a man a . ....e , court with letter in .
Nvi a his
day, Se' •0. and staring about, d band, gapin„
gravely up to 1 • an not knowing where to
go, be walked ,
~ 0. um, and asked what he wanted ?
u, man answer_eo, Nl', can you tell
Mr. Delallunte ?" " Yes," said me where I can find
that building before you?"
~ -yes
the doctor, " do you see
quadrangle, and take the diameter' Then crucify this
enter the opening before of the plot beyond it
then turn to the left,
and you and ascend the tigreous grades ;
ing in his cubicle, dor • you will find him either peripatout-
pounting through h' trutating in his lectuary, or perresco-
derstood nothin of Is fenestra." The poor man, who
gallun-
this, and remembered not one word
but the last, Jul, And pray, sir, where is the fenestra ?"
To which the doctor replied, " It is an orifice in an edifice,te
to admit luminous particles." " Oh, thank you," said h
poor fellow, and
walked off, more perplexed than before.—
Cant bridge Aci • ' • "
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