The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

THE BUTTER TRADE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sin,—Having seen in a late number of your paper a letter
signed George Casey, in which my character is assailed, I
trust you will have the goodness through the same medium
to permit me to defend myself against the scurrility and false-
hood which that document contains. He states that I was
sent by the committee of merchants of Cork, in order to
write home slanders which may appear in print, &c. To that
assertion I give the most unqualified denial. I was not sent,
nor would I have come, on such an errand. The resolution
of the committee of merchants will speak for itself :—" Re-
solved,—That one of our butter inspectors, Mr. Richard
Townly, be forthwith despatched to Liverpool to ascertain
the extent of these practices, and to report to this board."
How have I complied with that resolution? By simply sending
the number of firkins, and the places to where shipped, the
entire of which information I derived from public documents,
to which every person may have access. Was this slander ?
The veracious Mr. C. says it was. He has added that part
of my business was to assure the simple folk of Liverpool
that German butter was not Irish. My duty consisted in au
endeavour to show, that butter produced in Hamburgh was
made to appear as Cork butter, thereby calculated to bring
Irish butter into disrepute, and to the injury of the fair trader
in that article. If Mr. C. had no object in view but fair open
dealing, why had he recourse to that which had no existence
in truth ?

I remain, dear sir, your obedient servant,
RICHARD TOWNLY.

THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

ADDRESSES FROM THE LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIA-
TION, PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, AND THE
TOXTETH-PARK PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.

SIRE,—We, the vice-presidents and committee, &c., of
the Liverpool Protestant Association, most respectfully, and
with heartfelt satisfaction, welcome your Majesty to the
shores of England. _ _

Associated as we are for the maintenance of that best of
all blessings, the Scriptural Protestantism happily established
in this land, we cannot but look with peculiar thankfulness
to the example which, by the grace of God, your Majesty
has been enabled to exhibit in the eyes of all Europe; most
devoutly praying, that He " by whom kings reign and princes
decree justice" may continue to guide your Majesty's coun-
cils, and to crown with signal success whatever your Majesty
shall undertake for the glory of His great name, and the pro-
motion of His holy cause.
It has been your Majesty's happy privilege to devise, and
to assist in the execution of, a noble project for the union of
Christian churches and the effectual promotion of our high-
est interests, by establishing a Protestant bishopric in the
holy city of Jerusalem ; and this we hail with more abundant
thankfulness, since it includes that, without which all schemes
for the prosperity of the universal church must be inefficient
—the in-gathering of the lost sheep of the house of Israel to
the fold of Christ.

We bear in mind that your Majesty, treading in the steps
of your royal father of happy memory, and in those of your
august ancestors under whose pious care the Reformation
was cradled in Germany, still extends a fostering hand over
the.exiled Protestants of the Tyrol; and that your Majesty
also continues to oppose with equal temperance and firmness
the encroachments of foreign ecclesiastical aggression in your
Majesty's dominions.
It is on these grounds, Sire, that we avail ourselves of the
present auspicious occasion to express our respect for your
Majesty's character, our sincere attachment to your royal
person, and our unbounded gratification at beholding your
Majesty in the sacred and endearing character of sponsor to
our beloved infant Prince of Wales.
That the ties so happily formed may long endure, uniting
Prussia with Great Britain on the firm foundation of our
most holy faith ; and that the God of all grace may still
guide, defend, and bless your Majesty with every temporal
and spiritual blessing, is the unfeigned desire and prayer of
[Here follow the signatures.]
ANSWER.
4, Carlton-terrace, February 22, 1842.
SlR,—Having had the honour to lay before his Majesty
the King of Prussia the address voted by your society, I have
received from his Majesty the gratifying commands to express
to you the satisfaction his Majesty feels at the loyal and
Christian sentiments embodied therein, and to thank you
for the expressions of attachment and affection which it con-
tains. It is a source of high gratification to his Majesty to
have joined the British church and nation in two such im-
portant and sacred, acts, as the extension of the church in
foreign countries, and the imploring of the divine blessing
upon the future ruler of that nation ; and it is his confident
hope that this blessing will be alike upon the ruler and the
nation.

In thus executing his Majesty's orders, I beg to apologise
for the delay caused by an indisposition from which I was
suffering immediately after his Majesty's departure ; and
have the honour to be,
Sir, your obedient, humble servant,
John Rigby, Esq. BUNSEN.

Similar answers have been received to the addresses from
the Liverpool Protestant Operative and Toxteth-park Pro-
testant Operative Associations, by Mr. Joseph Crisp, as
chairman.

THEATRZ•ROYAL.—Last evening Mr. J. S. Thorburne,
the manager and lessee of the Belfast theatre, a gentleman
well-known in the literary and medical circles of this town
for his abilities, appeared as Huon, in Knowles' play of
" Love." Miss Bennett was the Countess. The house was
well attended, and very full at second price. Of Mr. Thor-
burne's acting we can speak praisingly. He showed a true
knowledge of his author, and manifested energy and spirit
where occasion required. it. He seems to possess a good
acquaintance with the stage ; and after the first agitation was
over, on seeing before him many " old familiar faces,"
he applied himself to the business of the play in a man-
ner that frequently drew forth applause. His great fault,
arising, no doubt, for want of sufficient practice, is a free
enunciation. Without for one moment comparing him to
one or two we have been accustomed to see, in the character,
we may pronounce it to be a ver creditable effort. Mr.
Thorbourne will in time become a highly useful member, and
if he studies hard an ornament to the stage : he possesses
many of the requisites, a good voice, expressive features, and
education. Miss Bennett occasionally shined as the countess,
particularly in those pats where a lightness and grace are
requisite; but in the he-alier and deeper portions, it was clear
she had not physical strength to go through, with the idea
she had herself conceived. Mr. Chaplin played Ulric in his
usual singular manner, occasionally walking away from the
person he was in conversation with, addressing apparently
the prompter. Mr. Barton was sententatious as ever in the
stupid lover of Catharine. The pantomime has lost none of
his freshness, " it goes" as well as ever, and appears to de-
light yound and old.
REMARKABLY HIGH TIDES.—The highest conasteucitiv,e,
tides of the present year at this port took place onn, „ails
Sunday, and yesterda ; the height, as indicated in !,11',',',bes,
Almanac, being respectively 21 feet 5 inches, 21 feet l"'
and 20 feetlo inches. They, however, considerable
these heights, the tidal water being thrown
beyond its altitude in calms, by the Prels_i_lera in gales, from
strong winds, in frequent squalls, and at twin 7 (59 rpeE:eildi:nl
Cs Sunday, in par-
the south west quarter of the compile.
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Mersey,—at
almost level
to three feet. About noon, the Me
resting—now " brimful from brink to
its
banks, tossed into
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rapidninte river craft, presented
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were under
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(aa liwparefeaution--a high tide being anticipated) on the
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say, about in a lively manner, but „ loomed" very large.
rocked
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muchaboovveer
and jamming was but trifling. On the west side of the
Brunswick dock the whole of the inclined quay used for un-
loading timber was under water (in some parts to a depth of
three feet), and some deals, and even balks, were floated up.
We regret to add that the tide of Sunday, probably thrown
up the sewers, and otherwise finding its way under ground.
filled Several of the cellars under the warehouses in Strand-
street, and also those on the east side of the King's Dock.
A block-maker's in the former, at the bottom of Red Cross-
street, the cellar under the premises of Mr. Pitt, wholesale
paper dealer, and others, were flooded to a depth of about
24 feet. At the King's Dock considerable damage is done
to sugars and several other goods in one of the cellars.

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The British and Foreign Review: or, European Quarterly
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Lion-court, Fleet-street. Galignani, Paris ; Asher, Ber-

Foreign Quarterly is inferior to

)caries in literary merit, there is no

ale respects it possesses claims, superior

tronage of a commercial community

ttention, and bringing equal talent and

opening poem as a specimen

a to the task of reviewing the native literature

.1 volley of the country, this able work far

lformation which it affords respecting,

mourous and sentimental poems. Many of them are ex-
tremely clever, and show that the author has a talent for
versification. With here and there a plagiarism—and,

" there

is nothing new under the suu"—something very like an
original thought shines out : of the first we may take the

There is in the wide, unfathomed deep
A spol where the sons of Neptune sleep—
A holy, a calm, and Safe retreat;
Whete dark and pale skinned warriors meet;
And the sand beneath is their winding sheet.
Down, down below, there no tempests blow ;
This is the sailor's home.
So sings Mr. Greatrex. The following well-known lyric
iblication in the ability with which it I comes very near it: