The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

conviction

We point attention to this subject, not in the spirit
of vain-glorious rejoicing. It convinces not us that
the truth—ardently as it is preached, strong as it is in
itself, and certain, ultimately, to triumph—is even yet
perceptibly making head against the darkness of error.
Its subtle enemy still winds his alluring coils around
the hearts of thousands, unperceived and unnoted ;
still crawls like the adder to poison the pure well-
springs ; still blasts, like the upas tree, wherever its
dark shadow falls upon the vegetation which the faith-
ful minister of the pure light of the NVord has watered
with his tears, and vivified with his prayers. We raise
up from their spiritual and moral death a few chosen
branches—a few reflecting, thinking, reasoning chil-
dren of error ; whilst Rome allures her thousands of
the reckless, the giddy, and the thoughtless to drink
of the Lethean stream, by whose intoxicating waters
they are swept away into the depths of the darkness
in which she has raised her soul-destroying empire.

Why, it will be said, do we take this dispairing view
of our Protestant position ? Is not the grasp of Rome
upon our high places struck down ? Is not her place
amongst the noble of the land vacant ? Are not our
noblest institutions, our altars and our throne, sur-
rounded by the good and true of the Protestant faith ?
Have we not now a Conservative administration, and
why then do we utter the notes of warning and lamen-
tation ? Reader, it is because we cannot but see a dis-
position to trust too much to our position; to be con-
tent with the strength we have secured; to stand idle
and unarm ourselves and make merry, behind the bul-
warks of our constitution, when we should be warring
in their front ! It is because we have piled our swords
and spears, and are preparing to lay aside our shields,
when Rome is mining the walls under our very feet !
Does her sleepless eye ever close ? Is her arm ever
hung listless by her side ? Look around you fellow-
townsmen and answer us !

Here, within an arm's length of the walls in which
many of you worship, is rising a Nunnery. Here, a
Chapel, which in splendour will shame the noblest of
your churches. Here, in a few short years, will spring
up a College, whilst around you on both sides of the
Mersey smaller erections, dedicated to the inculcation
of the dark errors of Rome, are being planted, to en-
trap your thoughtless children—to blind and bewilder,
perhaps, yourselves. Rome treads no more amongst
you like a conqueror ; her proud foot is no longer upon
the necks of princes and peers; yet, a dark and
noisome stream, she glides on still—

" Labitur et labetur in omne voluminus oevum."

And shall we be told, then, that this is a time for
Protestants to hang back—for our Protestant Associa-
tions to slumber at their posts ? When your clergy
are assailing the enemy within his entrenchments, and
dragging human trophies—converted souls—from the
very centre of his hosts, is this a time for you to desert
your trust—to fall back from the position which they
and you have won ? NO ! The lay Protestantism of
the empire must still hold fast—must still cheer on
the faithful few who fight the good fight—must still
present a phalanx, watchful and firm, and resolute to
resist attack, whether it come with the armed hand and
the defying front, or with the grasp of the false friend
and the smile of the betrayer !

Well know we the wiles of Rome—her Proteus
changes—her serpent windings—the weapons of alter-
nate blandishment and terrorism with which she works !
And, therefore, we repeat that the hour of incipient
triumph over her is not the hour for Protestantism to
slumber. Do we wish for converts from Rome ?
Then, Protestantism must skew itself in its strength,
for those rescued men and women to entrench themselves
amongst ! If we have brought out those rescued men
and women from a land of darkness and foulness—if
we have broken up their friendships, and their ties of
relationship even—for with all this Rome visits her
seceding children—we must have new friendships to
offer them, new protectors to defend, and new advisers
to cheer and sustain. For this work, we ask, what
body so well fitted as our Protestant Associations, to
which the cause of truth already owes so much, and
from whom it is destined, we trust, to receive so much

We have entered upon these remarks, in connexion
with the gratifying circumstance which immediately
called them forth, because—(why should we hesitate to
confess it ?)—we consider our Protestant Associations
the best allies of our clergy in the good work which
they are pursuing ; and because we have seen in the
former bodies of late an inertness which grieves us.
This must not be ! We are politically, for the present
at least, as a party, in the ascendant. To the Protes-
tant Associations of Great Britain we attribute much
of the success which has attended our efforts. In Li-
verpool, we say it without hesitation, we owe nearly all
to that body ! By their aid we have shown to the em-
pire that the tie of a common faith is the only tie which
can withstand every shock which enemies or false
friends can bring against it—that all other ties are a
rope of sand I We cannot, therefore, even the hour of
triumph, contemplate the unbinding or the weakening
of that tie without sad misgivings of the result by which
such a calamity must be attended. To our Protestant
Associations, therefore, we say—STAND FAST ! Keep
a firm and united front against the advancing waters, whe-
ther they come like the ripple of a summer's tide, or like
the dash of the winter's torrent,—STAND FAST, for
it will be too late to gird yourselves for the encounter
when the smiling waters have risen to your lips, or the
dark torrent has borne the trophies of past victories
and the hope of the future into the deep which yawns
to receive them 1

Look around you, fellow protestants, we again pray
you, at the aspect with which popery, that humbled (!)
thing, even now confronts you. But a few days ago
its mendicant prophet—Daniel O'Connell—declared,
before assembled peers and gentlemen of England,
that HE YET HOPED TO HEAR THE SACRIFICE OF

THE MASS PERFORMED UPON THE HIGH ALTAR
OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY ! Turn from this boast
of the impostor, and contemplate, from an occurrence
detailed in another column, what manner of men they
be, by whom that SACRIFICE (!) must be performed—
by whom those venerable walls must be POLLUTED !

PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO CAPTAIN COBB, OF THE
SIDDONS.—The passengers of the packet-ship Siddons pre-
sented to Captain E. B. Cobb, a beautiful silver pitcher,
manufactured in London, and bearing a suitable inscription,
for his gentlemanly and seamanlike conduct during his last
voyage from New York to this port. The plate was presented
to Captain Cobb at a dinner given to him at the Adelphi
Hotel. The deputation appointed to select the plate consisted
of Mr. Woolf, and Mr. Johnson, of New York, and Captain
Watson, of the British Army.

FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY.—This society held its public
meeting at the Music-hall, on Tuesday evening. The room
was quite full, and intolerably hot. Handel's magnificent
oratorio of " Joshua" was performed. Mr. George Eyton,
leader; organist, Mr. John Richardson; principal vocalists,
Miss Leach (from Manchester), Mrs. Armstrong. Mr.
Armstrong, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Davies, and Mr. Evans,
with a full band of instrumental performers and a chorus of
180 singers. The choruses were admirably performed, es-
pecially " See the Conquering Hero Comes," which was
unanimously encored. The fine effect was, however, quite
lost, the room being unsuitable for such an immense body of
sound. Mrs. and Mr. Armstrong sang the solos allotted
to them with much feeling and taste, and the performers ap-
peared generally to give satisfaction.
DEPRESSION OF TRADE.—PUBLIC MEETING OF SHOP-
KEEPERS.—On Tuesday evening last, a meeting of shop-
keepers, retail dealers, innkeepers, and cottage owners of
Manchester, was held at the Town-hall of that town, for the
purpose of making known, as far as possible, the distress
prevailing among them, with a view of obtaining a remedy.
The chairman read letters from several shopkeepers and
retail dealers, containing comparative statements of the
receipts of the present and last year, which showed a great
falling off in the present year, as compared with 1841. Reso-
lutions were moved to the effect that the present depression
in trade is without a parallel, and that legislative interference
is indispensable for the purpose of removing that depression.
The chartists in the room then moved an amendment in
favour of the charter, which caused such confusion that the
meeting was at length dissolved without any definite termi-
nation.—[A similar meeting is, we believe, proposed to he
held in Liverpool shortly, and which we hope will be attended
with some more practical result.—ED. L.S.]
CONVERSIONS FROM ROMANISM IN BIRKENHEAD.—On
Sunday last, Dr. Graham, a respectable surgeon in Birken-
head, publicly read his recantation of the errors of Roman-
ism in Holy Trinity Church. The solemn ceremony was
very impressive, and evidently produced a deep effect on the
minds of many Romanists who were present. The form of
recantation used by the Rev. J. Baylee on those occasions is
that prepared by Archbishop Wake. The rev. gentleman
announced the gratifying intelligence that three others were
prepared to recant on the following Wednesday. His church
was
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and attended by a large number of Romanists. Two women
man renounced the errors of Romanism. The ser-
mon w
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It was listened to with the greatest
attention, and at tile
Ro-
manists, with whom
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communication, r. Baylee has been for some time in
We have thus expressedpractical
their anxious wish to do the same.
zealous efforts to "banishla proof of the value of faithful and
strange doctrine contraryto
ond drive away
,all erroneous and
small gratification to Mr. BaGiod's word. ' It must be no
his controversial lectures. W
gay lee thus to reap the fruits of
We heartily wish him to go on
and prosper.

On Monday last Lord Sandon presented a petition to the
House of Commons from Liverpool, praying for an inquiry
into the system of education adopted at Maynooth College.
The Rev. Fielding Ould will leave town this week for a
short sojourn in Cumberland. The Rev. Mr. Brown, curate
of Christ Church, preached his farewell sermon on Sunday
last. He is going to Ireland for a temporary duty of a few
weeks, but we believe he has not recived any permanent ap-
pointment.

The King of Prussia has presented Professors Jacob and
Bessel with 3000 dollars, to enable them to be present at the
British Association at Manchester.

MR. MOLINEUX'S CONCERT.-Mr. Molineux's pupils'
concert took place at Mr. Lassells' Saloon, St. Anne's, on
Tuesday last. It was very fashionably attended. The pupils
acquitted themselves greatly to the satisfaction of those
present, doing their instructor great credit.

THE BOTANIC GARDENS.—The plan for relieving the
gardens from their difficulties by advances of moderate sums
of money secured on the gardens themselves, and paying three
per cent. interest, instead of the five per cent which is now
paid, makes great progress. Upwards of £lO5O of the £2700
required to place them in an independent self-sustaining po-
sition has already been subscribed, and we hope and believe
that the remainder of the sum will he raised without much
difficulty. It would be a public loss, and a disgrace to the
town, if this interesting establishment was broken up, when
it can be preserved in all its beauty and usefulness by so tri-
fling a sacrifice.

THE SCHOOL FOR THli BLIND.—The annual report of this
most excellent institution has just been published. From it
we learn that the number of pupils in the school on the 31st
December, 1840, was 107. In 1841, 22 were admitted, and
24 quitted, so that the number remaining at the close of last
year was 105. Since the commencement of the institution
in 1791, to December 1841, 671 pupils, totally blind, and
413 partially blind, have been admitted into the school, mak-
ing a total of 1084, of whom 181 belonged to the parish of
Liverpool, 243 to other parishes in the county of Lancaster,
and 660 to other parts of the United Kingdom. We are
sure not one word need be said in recommendation of an
institution of this nature to the charitable consideration of
the public. Its name is sufficient to enlist the warmest
sympathies of our nature.
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WOODSIDE FERRY.—Our readers will perceive by an ad-
vertisement in another column, that important alterations to
the public are about to take place, on the Ist of July next, at
this ferry. After this day the steam-packets will sail from
Woodside every half hour, from 5 30 a.m. until 10 30 p.m. ;
and from Liverpool from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. ; and an extra
boat will sail from Woodside at 11 30 p.m. and from Liver-
pool at 11 and 12 p.m. Tbis arrangement will prove of in-
calculable benefit to the public on both sides the water.
TOWN COUNCIL ARITIIMETIC.—During the discussion in
Wednesday's council, Mr. Robinson made a grand arithme-
tical discovery. At the price of £6OO, the sum offered for the
entire seven and a half yards of land proposed to be pur-
chased from the Messrs. Waterhouse, it was correctly calcu-
lated by Mr. Thomas Bolton that the price per yard would
be £BO. Mr. Robinson calculated that this was £ll 2s. 3d.
per inch Query.—Would it not be well, in the next alpha-
bet published in the style of " A was an archer, and shot at
a frog," to have " It is for Robinson, the great " rithmeti-
cian."

BAZAAR FOR ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH.—WC are sorry
to find this laudable undertaking does not meet with that
encouragement to which we think it entitled. The room is
chastely decorated, the stalls abundantly supplied with fancy
articles of every description, some of them of the most ex-
quisite design and execution, and the fair vendors most
anxious to effect sales ; but the attendance of visiters, we
regret to say, is most discouraging, and we are inclined to
believe the public are scarcely aware that there is at present
such an exhibition in the town. Yesterday the committee
most kindly invited the children of the Blue-coat Hospital
to visit the Bazaar ; who, though not liberal purchasers,
were highly gratified with the treat, and Mr. Brown and
other friends very handsomely presented them with numer-
ous fancy articles for their amusement. The Bazaar will
continue open for the remainder of the week.

SMUGGLED TOBACCO FOUND IN POSSESSION OF A FE-
MALE.—A girl, named Isabella Roberts, was yesterday
brought before Mr. William Rathboue, at the Police-court,
ou a charge of having been found in the streets with a con-
siderable quantity of foreign manufactured tobacco. An
officer of the customs stated that, on Wednesday, about 12
o'clock, he observed the prisoner going along Hilford-street
with a bundle, and, suspecting something was wrong, he fol-
lowed her into Anson-street, and there stopped her. She
said, in reply to his questions, that a woman had given her
the bundle to carry for her, telling her to wait for her till
she came up, and she would give her sixpence for her trou-
ble. The bundle was found to contain 461bs of foreign manu-
factured tobacco, and she was consequentlygiven into custody.
Mr. Wardle, who appeared for the prisoner, said that the
girl was employed in charring, and knew nothing of the con-
tents of the parcel, which she thought were clothes. She
was remanded until Tuesday, when the determination of the
commissioners of excise in London will be known respecting
her.

FORGED BEGGING PETITIONS.—TWO men, Alexander
Elonner and Richard Delany, were yesterday charged with
endeavouring to obtain money from several respectable par-
ties by means of a forged petition and another document,
purporting to be an inventory of furniture belonging to one
of them, which would be sacrificed if he failed to obtain the
assistance of the humane. They had applied to Mr. Ed-
wards, of the firm of Edwards and Danson, wool brokers,
and had obtained that gentleman's signature and (it appears)
some money. They had afterwards gone to Mr. Danson, at
his own house, and said that they were sent by Mr. C.
Bushell, whose compliments they said they were to present.
He suspected them to he begging impostors, and refused to
assist them. The petition purported to be written by Mr.
James, slater and plasterer, but was a forgery. The prison-
ers had also attempted to obtain money in the same manner
from Mr. Johnson, timber merchant, London-road. They
gave false names as their own. They were apprehended by
Inspector Brown. The case being proved by the gentlemen
named, the prisoners were committed to the House of Cor-
rection for three months.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS.—OR Monday
last, the officers and members of the Loyal Pride of the Vil-
lage lodge, No. 1937, Liscard, Cheshire. celebrated their
fourth anniversary by attending divine service at St. John's
Church, Liscard, where an excellent discourse was delivered
by the Rev. John Tobin, A.M., minister, and a collection
made, the amount of which was left in the hands of the wor-
thy clergyman, to appropriate to such charitable purpose as
he might approve of. After the procession from the church,
the members and their friends returned to the lodge-room,
where upwards of 100 sat down to an excellent dinner pro-
vided Host Allen, of the King's Arms Inn, with his usual
good taste and liberality, the chairs being filled by the respec-
tive officers of the lodge. The cloth having been removed,
and the usual loyal toasts having been disposed of with due
honours, the committee appointed for the purpose took the
opportunity, when proposing the health of the Rev. John
Tobin, A.M. of presenting that gentleman with a splendid
and elaborately chased silver inkstand, manufactured by Mr.
Lewis Samuel, Lord-street, in this town, bearing the follow-
ing inscription Presented to the Rev. John Tobin, A.M.,
by the members of the Loyal Pride of the Village lodge, No.
1937, 1.0. F., M.U.. L.D., as a small though sincere token
of their regard for his valuable services as honorary treasurer
to the lodge. Liscard, June, 1842." The rev, gentleman
was rather taken by surprise at this unexpected and valuable
present, for which he returned thanks in a most feeling and
impressive manner. After the retirement of the principal
guests, the harmony and enjoyment of the evening was kept
up tc a late hour.
JORDAN-STREET SEROOLS.—The annual examination of
the Wesleyan day-schools (boys', girls', and infants',) in
Jordan-street, in the Liverpool South Circuit, took place
on Thursday last, the Rev. William Vevers in the chair; on
which occasion a very gratifying instance of spontaneous re-
spect and esteem was exhibited towards Mr. John Davies,
who has occupied the situation of master of the boys' school
there for the period of 21 years, in the presentation to him
of a copy of the Illustrated Family Bible, and Hannay's
Concordance, elegantly bound, containing the following in-
scription :—" Presented to Mr. John Davies, by the Chil-
dren of Jordan-street School and some of their Parents, as
a small token of esteem and affection, he having completed
his 21st year as Head Teacher in the above Institution.
June 16, 1842." The result of the examination of the three
schools proved most satisfactory to the members of the com-
mittee and friends present, and highly creditable to both
teachers and children. The following report was presented
as to the number of children in the schools, their attain-
ments, &c. _ _ _

Boys. Girls. I❑fts. Total
Number of Children in the Schools 340 210 196 746
Average daily attendance 265 160 136 561
Average Sunday attendance..
Number of Children who read the
Holy Scriptures..
Number of Children who read one
and two syllables
Number of children who write on
paper 199 100 299
Number of children who cast ac-
counts

STEALING FROM A SLAUGIITER-HOUSE.—Yesterdav, at
the Police-court, a man named William Hughes was placed
at the bar. He had been apprehended on Wednesday fore-
noon, while offering some lead for sale at a marine-store in
Harrington-street, and which was probably stolen, but a
much heavier offence having afterwards attached itself to
him, the former charge was not proceeded with. It appeared
that a person named Phillips, who has a slaughter house in
No. 1 Court, Key-street, had from time to time missed con-
siderable quantities of meat, and latterly the carcass of a
lamb and another of a sheep. An entrance to the place had
been effected by scaling a back wall about eight feet high,
and the meat taken. The animals were slaughtered on Tues-
day morning and missed on the following morning, when in-
formation was given to the police. After he had been ap-
prehended on suspicion of having stolen the lead, two officers
went to his house, which is not far from the slaughter-house,
and found portions of the lamb and sheep, part of them
wrapped in a leather apron, some hid in a straw bed, some
tied in rags, and some concealed in the fire-grate. The man
who had slaughtered the beasts identified part of the lamb
from the peculiar way in which it was dressed, which (he
being a stranger in the town) was different from the practice
here, as he pointed out. The whole of the meat was much
soiled with dirt, and, apparently, soot. A little boy, who
lived in the court, said he was sitting up on Tuesday night
waiting for his uncle, who was attending his club ; and about
eleven o'clock he saw a man in the yard, coming down from
the wall by a door. The prisoner ran away. He had no
doubt of the prisoner being the same man. It appeared also
that there was glass on the top of the wall, and the prisoner's
hand was cut, as if by it, when he was apprehended. The
prisoner attempted a defence—alleging that on the night in
question he was lying drunk in a public-house, and that the
cut in his hand was produced by a knife, with which a man
had previously assaulted him. He called the names of seve-
ral witnesses to prove this, but only one woman appeared,
and her evidence being by no means satisfactory on that
point, he was committed to take his trial at the sessions.
BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—After the usual routine of busi-
ness had been transacted on Tuesday last, the board pro-
ceeded to consider the report presented by Messrs. Stewart,
Holmes, Wightman, Picton, and Cunningham, the five sur-
veyors appointed to examine the designs which had been sent
for approval in reference to the new schools for the work-
house. The report having been read, which unanimously
recommended the plans No. 8 and No. 34, for the first and
second prizes, it was moved by Mr. Wm. Earle and seconded
by Mr. Arthur Henderson, that it be adopted. Mr. Cooper
moved as an amendment, which was seconded by Mr. Kil-
shaw, " That the designs No. 24 and No. 8 having been de-
cided by the board to be entitled to the first and second
prizes, if they could be executed for the sum specified, the
authors be called upon to prove whether this can be done, and
that the motion of last week, being irregular, be rescinded."
On a division the original motion was carried by a majority
of eleven to ten. The following is a list of those who voted .
For the original motion—Rector Campbell, Mr. Deakin,
Mr. Thornely, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Henshaw, Mr. Foster,
Mr.
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and No. 34 in ascertaining the expense for which they can be
executed. This motion was negatived by a majority ..af 12 to
8. The following are the names :—For time motion—Mr.
Hand, Mr. Kilshaw, Mr. Groom, Mr. Scholfield, Mr.
MMr. Mellor, ill
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