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

MISCELLANEOUS

A letter has been received in Ireland from the Roman
College de propaganda, which states that all the Papal de-
crees and edicts against Freemasonry are in full force at this
moment.

The Wesleyan body have recently taken the chapel in
Jewin-street, London, which was built for the Unitarians,
and has been occupied by them for many years. The chapel
is expected to be opened early in the ensuing month, by the
Rev. Robert Newton.
Auckland, the capital of New Zealand, where there were
in January, 1841, only 210 persons, contained in August
.last
upwards of 1600, and the number was continually increasing.
They had then a newspaper, and were about building a me-
tropolitan church dedicated to St. Paul.

Innkeepers' allowance for artillery and cavalry horses on
billet is reduced to one shilling a night.

Fine green peas were exhibited in Exeter market on Fri-
day, at only ls. per single peck !
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Rev. C. Alderson, Rector of
Kirkheaton, near Huddersfield, at his rent day on Monday
last, made a return of 5 per cent. to each of his tenants.

The Earl of Coventry died on Thursday, at Brighton, in
the 59th year of his age. The title descends to his eldest
son, now in his 35th year of his age.

In several large dairy establishments in the neighbourhood
of Birmingham, the cows are fed and thrive well upon gorse
which is crushed for this purpose into pulp by a small steam-
engine.

Without wishing to disparage the claims of the sufferers by
the late conflagration at Hamburg upon the sympathy and
assistance of our countrymen, we may be permitted to ob-
serve that the contributions which have been made on
their behalf in this country, would have lost none of their
grace if they had been preceded by equal exertions on behalf
of our own poor. The ties by which the interests of our
merchants are connected with those of our own population,
are at least as strong as those which subsist between the for-
mer and the citizens of foreign states. It is by the labour
and ingenuity of our manufacturing operatives, that our
merchants are enabled to establish commercial relations with
other countries ; and they should never forget that the real
springs and sources of their wealth are the workshops of
Manchester, Stockport, and Paisley. In a season of great
commercial depression, affecting so severely the operatives
of our manufacturing districts, they ought to consider that
these have the first claim upon their benevolent regard and
assistance. Yet we have, as yet, seen no general or exten-
sive effort on their behalf in our commercial cities, although
the news of the Hamburg disaster had scarcely reached
London, Manchester, and Liverpool, before large subscrip-
tions were entered into to repair it, in each of those places—
amounting in London to about £25,000, in Manchester to
£6,000. and in Liverpool to a proportionate sum.
Surely after so much has been said and written about the
existing distress in the manufacturing districts, ignorance of
the fact cannot be pleaded as an excuse for the general indif-
ference to it. The Relief Committee of this town have is-
sued two circulars, stating in strong but not exaggerated
terms, the extent to which it prevails here ; and we know
that applications have been made in quarters where a very
little effort would have secured a large amount of assistance,
and made in vain. The operations of the Relief Committee
are now suspended for want of funds, although their last cir-
cular showed a return of upwards of 13,000 individuals sub-
sisting on an average weekly income of 9id. per head ; and
it is well known that great, if not equal distress, exists in
Manchester and the manufacturing towns of Lancashire.
Let our noblemen, bankers, and merchants give, and give
freely, to the relief of those who urge their claims from
abroad ; but let them not forget, while they are contributing
to the aid of distant sufferers, that they are, in their own
country, at their own doors, thousands of unemployed arti-
sans in want of the common necessaries of life, whose skill
and industry have been the means of creating their own for-
tunes, and of adding to the wealth and power of their own
country, and whose sufferings are not the less severe for
being borne in a spirit of unexampled patience and sub-
mission.—Stockport Advertiser.