The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-09 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The correspondent who writes to us respecting the " Colonial
Passengers Bill" will obtain the information he requires
at the Government Emigration Office, Union-street. We
are unable to answer his queries, as we have not a copy of
the bill.
We shall of course attend to the request of Lord Kenyon.
We highly appreciate, and are deeply grateful for,. the kind
testimonial of his lordship in favour of our efforts for the
dissemination of conservative truths. The spontaneous
assurance of his lordship that "the LIVERPOOL STAN-
DARD is the ablest paper he sees," is no trifling encourage-
ment for increased exertions in the advocacy of the princi-
ples which we have always ardently maintained.
THE MAGAZINES. Our reviewer has devoted himself
ardulously to his monthly task, but the fruit of his labour
" availed] us nothing," the assize intelligence completely
occupying our columns. He speaks highly of Fraser,
Blackwood, and the Dublin university. Our Mess, Handy
Andy, he especially extols—Coombe Abbey, and the Belle
Assemblee—a good number. The Farmer's Sportsman,
Cadton's Traits of the Irish Peasantry, a new serial, and
a very clever one. Punch—famous—and a host of others
have come to hand. We will try and make room for
notices before the month is out ; if we cannot, in the
mean time, we recommend them all to the attention of our
readers.
Mr. Henry Cromwell has requested us to publish the follow-
ing statement with reference to a paragraph inserted in the
STANDARD of Tuesday last, headed "A Trumpery Case,"
which was tried at the Court of Passage some time during
the previous week :—" I had occasion, in my business, to
call at Mr. Timothy's, in Lime-street. The defendant,
Garner, met me there. He offered five pounds to one
against Attila winning the Derby; I accepted it, and then
left. On the following day I met him again; he asked if
I would double the bet, as he always considered the field
the best chance. I told him that I was not a betting man,
and did not wish to be considered so. However, he pressed
me, and I took his second bet of five to one, and that, too,
in the presence of gentlemen whose respectability will not
be doubted. I booked it, read it over to him, and he
assented to it; and the gentlemen who heard the bet, still
affirm that lam entitled to the money. Unfortunately,
my witnesses were not in court when the case came on,
and that is the only reason why it broke down."

Ebt F..therpool Maiibarb.

THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1342

It will be seen by a report in our columns this day
that judgment has at length been given, by the highest
court in the realm, in the long disputed case of Lady
Hewley's charity. By this decision the claim of the
Socinian party to the funds in question is finally set at
rest, and we have no doubt that, as its result, that
party will now be compelled to unclose their grasp
upon numberless similar charities which they have for
years past usurped and perverted to the spread of their
noxious and itristian schism.

The community owe not a little to the editor of the
Liverpool Journal—(or possibly to some reverend
bachelor who may have occupied his stool on Saturday
last)—for the admissions with which he has furnished
us in his remarks upon the subject of the corporation
schools ;

" The Education Committee," &c., writes the Journal,
" from whom a return is at last wrung, state, we observe, the
number of pupils on the books of the corporation schools at—

N. School
Members of the Church of England 614...
Protestant Dissenters
Roman Catholics

S. School,
... 423
... 86
... 49

874 558
We strongly suspect that in the second term are included
methodists, and they principally ; for though methodists do
not call themselves dissenters, they are the only protestants
we are aware of not in communion with the established
church, who can consistently allow their children to receive
the religious education now given in these schools. That
there is, properly speaking, one Roman catholic in the
schools, we do not believe. We believe that the authors of
that report, whoever they be—of course the chairman and
majority of the members of the committee are mere puppets
in the matter—are telling in substance, if not in terms, a
shameless falsehood. We do not believe there is one child
who is in communion, or whose parents are in communion
with the church to which it is said he belongs. If he enters
the school a Roman catholic, it is impossible that a Roman
catholic he can remain ; for, by whatever priest he applies
to for the rites of his church, he will be told that he is daily
in the commission of sin by complying with the regulations
of the school in religious matters."

We point the especial attention of our readers to the
part which we have marked with italics. To what-
ever priest a Roman Catholic child who attends these
schools may apply for the rites of his church, by that
priest he will be refused those rites. He will be told
that in attending the corporation schools he is " DAT LY
IN THE COMMISSION OF SIN !" In submitting to
hear read, not the Church Catechism, not Church of
England doctrines, but THE BIBLE, unaccompanied
by Romish comments and notes—the word of God,
unaccompanied by the glossings of man—he is offend-
ing against God W and is to be put forth from the
church to which he belongs ! But proceed we with
the remarks of our Romish journalist :

' " It is just possible that there may be that number of
children of the most dissolute and destitute classes of society,
whose parents, having been originally catholics or of catholic
descent, without openly renouncing their creed have adopted
no other, and are practically without any profession of re-
ligion at all. It is certainly very proper that these poor
children should be educated ; it is proper that if their parents
wish it they should be brought up as protestants—much
better, we think the most zealous catholic must allow, than
that they should receive no spiritual care, no moral culture
whatever."

The admissions here, coining from a Romish organ,
are certainly important and striking. There may be,
we are told, a number of children of Romish parents
who are "PRACTICALLY WITHOUT RELIGION AT
ALL ;" and these Romanism would allow to be edu-
cated and even to "be brought up as Protestants."
The latter even is "much better than that they should
receive no spiritual care, no moral culture whatever !"
But what says this very doctor in the passage just be-
fore quoted ? Why, that these very children, not in
being "brought up as Protestants," which, in fact,
they are not, but in " complying with the regulations
of the school in religious matters"—in reading any
version of the Scriptures which is not accompanied by
Romish comments—are "daily in the commission of
sin !" These very neglected children—" children of
the most dissolute and destitute classes of society"—
will be told by their priests, if they apply for the rites
of the church which professes to have the spiritual care
of their souls, that they are "daily in the commission of
sin," unless they resign that education which is ad-
mitted to be " better than no spiritual care, no moral
culture whatever !" Truly, Popery preaches • a most
irreconcileable doctrine when she allows herself to be
betrayed into professions of tolerance and liberality !

But let us contrast the doctrine of the learned
Journalist with that of another learned Theban—Mr.
Francis Jordan. That eminent authority has for
thirty years been connected with Saint Patrick's school,
and esteems its greatest merit to consist in the fact
that there "no religion is taught"—that there "reli-
gion is excluded" altogether ! How, then, can the
Journal for a moment hesitate in giving his preference,
even:for the children of poor Roman Catholics, to the
corporation schools, as at present conducted, over the
school in question, when he admits that " the most
zealous Catholic must allow" the education received in
the former to be " much better" for the children in
question " than that they should receive no spiritual
care, no moral culture, whatever ?" 'We leave the
jesuit and the layman to settle this discrepancy between
them.

There are one or two facts, ,Which the debate of
Wednesday and the comments upon it of the Romish
journalist are amply sufficient to establish ; and we
would recommend them to the serious consideration
of that portion of the Conservative body in the council
who profess to be guided, in their future conduct upon
the subject of education in the corporation schools, by

tho working of tho gyatent of tho present committee.
In the first place it is plain that the publication of re-
turns such as are here commented upon can never be
other than most inimical to the really advantageous
working of the system. It must bring priestly influ-
ence to bear upon the hundreds of poor Roman Cath-
olic parents who, but for such influence, would gladly
embrace the benefits offered them in these schools for
their destitute children. To no good result, that we
know of, can it lead; for admitting that in time the
returns may show a large increase of Roman Catholic
scholars, we shall always have jesuitical commentators
n.ady to prove that the very result which they show is
not, and cannot he true !

In the next place it is plain that, notwithstanding
the efforts which may be used by the priesthood to
prevent the attendance of the children of Roman
Catholics at these schools, the present excitement upon
the subject and these "returns," which tend to pro-
long it, being withdrawn, a large field of usefulness is
open to the Education Committee. No Roman Catholic
child, we are told by the Journal,—none, at least,
" who is in communion or whose parents are in com-
munion" with the Church of Rome—can possibly be
an attendant of the schools without ipse facto ceasing
to be " a Catholic." But may we not ask how many
are there of the 80,000 Roman Catholics resident in
Liverpool who are not "in communion"—who are, in
fact, although " Catholics" in name, yet " practically
without any profession of religion at all ?" There are,
we may venture to say, THOUSANDS amongst us of
this " most dissolute and destitute class"—thousands
for whom Popery does absolutely nothing,—who are
wrecks upon the face of society, abandoned, untaught,
and uncared for ;—unnoticed, even, except when a
contribution is tb be extorted for " the church" or a
"rint" for some truculent agitator. Amongst the
children of this " destitute class" of our fellow-towns-
men, the benefits of a Scriptural education may be
widely diffused, if the council and the committee fear-
lessly do their duty. Nay, it is because those benefits
will be so diffused—because those thousands of children
who are " practically without religion at all" are about,
we trust, to he raised from their present degrading
ignorance, and placed, in intelligence and in Scriptural
knowledge, above the bigotry of Rome, that Popery
FEARS THE PRESENT SYSTEM, AND WOULD PUT IT
DOWN !

The news furnished us by the arrival of the overland
mail from India are of a nature which it is difficult
indeed to contemplate with satisfaction. It is true we
have no disastrous reverses to grieve over. So far as
we can understand it, our policy in Affghanistan has
been attended with entire success. No apparent enemy
threatens the safety of our troops in that country. No
overwhelming difficulty seems to exist to prevent our
vindication of the power and the prestige of Great
Britain in the eyes of the Asiatic nations, by a march
upon Cabul and the dictation of terms of peace to an
humbled if not a subjugated enemy. And yet we have
every reason to believe that the armies of England are
about to withdraw—we shrink from saying, to retreat
—beyond the Indus,—the honour and the power of
England but feebly asserted, and our slaughtered
fellow-countrymen, whose bones now whiten upon the
field of their death, unburied and unavenged.
We have never urged, and we urge not now, a war
of retaliation—of RETRIBUTORY MURDER—against
the tribes of Affghanistan. We entered their territory,
in the outset, with a criminal object in view. We have
outraged by this unhappy step international law and
eternal justice; and the doom which fell upon our
heads, dare we say it was not the award of an avenging
God upon us for a national crime ? It is, perhaps,
not more than the submission which we owe to out-
raged humanity and justice that we should retract from
our criminal quarrel. But we are far from being con-
vinced that it is in such a spirit that the alleged ordi-
nance of the Governor-General of India has been
issued for the withdrawal of our troops from beyond
the Indus. From Lord Ellenhorough and from the
present administration we expected no blind perseve-
rance in a fatal wrong—no murderous and revengeful
policy; no colonization of a country to which we have
no claim ;—bnt as little did we anticipate a step, such
as the immediate abandonment of Aflghanistan ap-
pears to be, which must fasten upon our reputation, in
the eyes of the savage tribes by whom our Indian em-
pire is surrounded, the taint of weakness in maintaining
a quarrel superadded to that of injustice in commencing
one !

Most strongly do we fear, therefore, that the posi-
tion of British power in India is not at this moment so
secure as we would wish it to be ;—that our retirement
from AfFghanistan is a step dictated by imperious ne-
cessity, to preserve us from threatening evils nearer
the centre of our own territory. We cannot for a mo-
ment bring ourselves to believe, that without some
strong overruling circumstances, such a step would be
taken. We are confident, at least, that the Governor-
General of India would never dare so far to outrage
the feelings of Englishmen as to desert those unhappy
fellow-countrymen and countrywomen who are held in
bondage by their barbarous and treacherous captors,
whilst the possibility remained within his reach of
striking a blow for their relief.

With our present deficiency of information we shall
say no more upon this distressing subject. But, if we
mistake not, a day must shortly come when it will be
not our duty alone but the duty of every Englishman
to speak out upon it, and to speak firmly and deci-
sively ; and when no legislature will be permitted to
throw its shield between CRIMINALS, against the Bri-
tish nation, however high their rank, and the just
punishment which they have earned !

This day—so at least we are informed by placards
posted on our walls—the town of Liverpool is to be
visited by no less a personage than " the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor of Dublin (!)"—better known to the
world as THE BEGGARMAN, DANIEL O'CONNELL !
The object—the professed object, rather,—of this mean
and malignant creature's appearance amongst us—is
to assist in some mendicant exhibition to be got up
to-day at the Amphitheatre, in behalf of " the society
of Saint Francis Xavier." What this society or who
this Saint may be, or what are their joint claims upon
the pockets of the Irish Papists of Liverpool, of course,
the majority of the dupes who may be collected toge-
ther upon the occasion know not. Of the saint him-
self all that we remember at this moment is that he
was the founder of the order of Jesuits—an order
which, for its political interferences with the liberties
of the human race, has been proscribed from time to
time in every state in Europe, and which is at this
moment prohibited, under pains and penalties, from
showing its head in these realms. Of the society
whose progress amongst us the object of the meeting
in the Amphitheatre is to advance, we can only con-
clude that it is, in fact, the obnoxious Jesuit order in
question. Some great Popish work is no doubt just now
to be advanced by the society and the saint, for which
money is required; and, upon the principle, we pre-
sume that great instruments must be used for the
achievement of great ends, the most eminent mendi-
cant of the day has been retained for the occasion, and
will, in addition to the exercise of his excruciating
power of wheedling the gullible public, exhibit his
" most sweet person" at the charge of "two shillings
and sixpence to the boxes and eighteenpence to the pit,"
the gallery being permitted to see and shout at the
monster gratis. _ _

We should not have advertised, as we do, by the
present notice, "the
Right Honourable the Lord
Mayor of Dublin," or
the object for which lie exhibits
himself to-day, but for a whisper which has reached us
of another performance to be enacted during his stay
amongst us, We have heard that a certain unhappy
imbecile—(who is chiefly remarkable as presenting to
the world a living proof that the wisdom of a man is
not in proportion to the breadth of the brim upon his
beaver)—has expressed his intention to accompany the
right honourable beggar in a visit to the merchants
upon our Exchange. Yes,—William Rathbone, Ex,
Ex, Ex, we don't know how many times and from
how many different honourable offices—is about to
enter once more upon the office of Jackall to this Irish
Lion (!)—to provide the right honourable animal with,
what we feel confident will be a meal of contempt and
scorn, sufficient for even his huge stomach to digest.
The Socinian and the Papist agitator, arm in arm, will
this day, we believe, dare the same storm of indignant
reprobation and openly expressed disgust from the
mercantile aristocracy of Liverpool, which rewarded a
similar attempt on a former occasion ; and we venture
to assure them that they will receive it no stinted mea-
sure and in no diluted quality.

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &'e

If the state of our Cotton Market may be taken as any
criterion, the improvement in the trade of this district can,

we should imagine, no longer be denied by the most hardy in

their statements, amongst the distress-mongers. During the
week ending Friday last, the sales made amounted to no less
than 54,000 bales ; and this, be it remarked, was the third
or fourth week of extensive and progressively increasing
firmness of demand. Of the above quantity 13,000 bales
were taken by speculators, and 750 for export, leaving still
upwards of 30,000 bales taken by the trade. The market

closed on Friday very firmly, with an advance upon last

week's quotations, of id. to id. per lb. upon American sorts,

On Saturday the business was again large, amounting to
10,000 bales, of which 2000 are on speculation, and 500 for
The sales yesterday amounted to fully 7000. urin-

export

pally to the trade. Our broker

can depend, remarks in his circular, that " prices are gra-
dually tightening, and although they do not ramble as in
other days, yet there is a feeling of health and confidence
that gives an assurance that, at the bottom the foundation is
good." To those who have witnessed the wildness of specu-
tion in our cotton market in the time of whip prosperity, and

its two frequent disastrous consequences, the present mea-

sures and sober improvement speak volumes in favor of a

Jeturn to sound business

The same encouraging accounts greet us from the manu-
facturing districts. We hear of no "large orders
night-and-day working—no spinners, manufacturers, or

printers flying over the moon, or picking up tens of thou-
sands in a morning. On the contrary, distress still exists to
a greater or less extent amongst all these classes, or nearly
all. The improved business is gradual, but it is felt never-
theless. It is seen in the faces and in the transactions of

men who loudly deny its existence ; and it is seen most in
the increased bustle and activity which pervades every tho-
roughfare throughout our manufacturing towns.
The only drawback we have to notice is a rumour circu-
lated upon our Exchange yesterday, of an approaching turn-
out of the hands of some of our mills. We fear it is too

true that many encroachments upon the wages of these parties
have been made and submitted to during the late severe de-

pression. It is, however, too early now to move towards
a remedy of this evil, and we are confident any movement
now will be fruitless, if indeed it be likely at any future time
to be successful. Manufacturing wages never rise again if
once knocked down ! We trust, however, that the rumour
in question will not be confirmed. •