The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-12 00:00:00

IMPROMPTU,

Founded on the fact of two Royal Institution youths being
caught with an " English translation, by Walton," of
Ovid's Metamorphoses, such translations being " upper-
form"-erly designated " cabs."

Two Royal youths, intently bent on finding
A royal road to learning, and not minding
The style of their conveyance ;
Whilst snugly seated in the Athenrcum,
Chuckling that there no eyes could see 'em,
Secur'd from magister's surveillance;
When lo! behold, before them stood,
" The Doctor," who, in punning mood,
Thus the youths address'd :
" Ah ! I see," (a smile his face adorning)—
" Enjoying, eh! a cab' this morning?"
By his presence not oppress'd,
And for an answer not distress'd,
The youths replied,
(And you'll decide
Whether or not the pun's a lame and halt one,)
" We did not like to go by "bus,'
But took a cab,' when you caught us,
Wishing to have a peep, this morn, at ' Walton.' "
S. K.
Per Printer's Devil.—For the benefit of the Maids of Honour,
who always read the Standard, and who may not be acquainted
with the fact we have to inform them, that " Walton is a Village
near Liverpool, and that" Omnibi (as the Classical J. Hume
designated such conveyances) do run actually hourly, to this
village from Liverpool.

EPIGRAM.

TIJERMOPATHY AND HYDROPATHY.

Between hot bathing and cold water cure,
Of holy life at least the patient's sure,—
For, like a parson, in two cures he dwells,
Or, like a Bishop, in a Bath and Wells !

PUBLIC MEETING OF ROMAN CATHOLICS-
INTRODUCTION OF THE JESUITS INTO LI-
VERPOOL.

The Roman Catholics held a public meeting in the Amphi-
theatre, on Tuesday evening, for " the purpose of considering
and determining upon the best means for raising the neces-
sary funds for building a new church, to be dedicated to the
honour of God, under the name of St. Francis Xavier,
the great apostle of the Indies"—in other words, the
founder of the Jesuits. The intended new church is pro-
posed to be built on some land belonging to Mr. Ewart, in
Salisbury-street, Islington, at no very great distance from
the Collegiate Institution. The meeting was Attended by a
tolerable number of people—the gallery, to which admission
was given gratis, being crowded, whilst the boxes, pit, and
stage, the tickets for which were charged for, were but
scantily filled. This circumstance will be considered as
somewhat surprising when it is stated, that for a week pre.
vious to the meeting placards were profusely distributed iri
different parts of the town announcing that the Right
Honourable Daniel O'Connell, M.P., Lord Mayor of Dub-
lin," would attend to advocate the cause in hand.
The Rev. Mr. LYTHGOE occupied the chair, and Mr.
SHELL moved the first resolution, which was to the effect
that additional church accommodation was necessary. Mr.
MORGAN O'CosrsELL seconded the resolution, and it was
carried.
Mr. O'CONNELL moved the second resolution, which de-
clared that in opinion of the meeting it would be highly con-
ducive to the good of religion, that the fathers of the society
of Jesus be enabled to resume their
i am labours in the sacred
ministry, in the town of Liverpool.delighted he said,
to have such a resolution to propose : and am not a little
pleased to have to propose it in this place. I do not know
any place I should like, or do like , more to address a few
words of sarcasm and scorn to the bigots, of charity to the
well-thinking, of exultation at the progress of truth to the
christian—there is no spot in which I should more delight to
do all this than in your town of Liverpool. Will you be so
good as to tell me whether there be a more bigotted town iu
the British dominions, because, if there be one,
look for it. I will go and
am convinced there is more practical bigotry
in Liverpool than in any ten other towns in Great Britain !
Why, they encourage it in every way ! It is in their
pnlitics ; they are bad politicans because they ate bigots.
It is in their corporation : they are unchristian, because they
are narrow bigots. It is in their return of members to parlia-
ment—Oh, to be sure they look a little to their own individual

interest there, but beyond that oigotry is the polar
guides them on the voyage of voting. It is to be fount
Joint Stock Churches, and when they have not practical.
bigots of their own, they import them red hot from Ireland.
* * * After some coarse' abuse of Mr. M'Neile,
whom he called " the deuce's own lump of a liar," the
the speaker reviewed the state of popery in North America,
Prussia, France, Sweden and Norway, Spain, Portugal, and
lastly in England, and said it was expanding in every direc-
tion, whilst Protestantism was contracting. He defied
M'Neile to show him one country upon the face of the earth
where Protestantism was increasing, What was the state of
England in this respect at the present movement? I sup-
pose, he continued, there is not one among you who has not
of the Oxford Tracts; there is not one of you who has net
heard of Pusey, and the Puseyites. " What are they but
Catholics with Protestant names," says 'somebody to• me.
No, said I, " Protestants they are, but it is upon Catholic
tenets, and if von take the pounds, shillings, and pence from
them, the entire balance remaining would be written off at
once, and they would become Catolics at once." I have
here a book published at Oxford, called the British Critic and
Quarterly Theological Review (for July ;) it is published
every quarter of a year, to maintain the opinions of the class
of divines at Oxford. Having set forth the opinions and ar-
guments against them, they go on to say this—" the other
argument against us is the supposed identity of our doctrine
with the received Roman Theology." That is the argument
against them—that they meet us who are Catholics. What
answer do they give? Why that what what makes the truth
of them more probable is the great amount of consent in so
many churches. There's Protestantism for you! They say
their doctrine is the same with Catholicism : indeed they do
not call themselves Protestants, but Anglicans, and they say
that their doctrine is the more probable by its being the doc-
trine of the Catholic church! I wish M`Neile would
read that ! Remember that these men whom you call Protest-
ants are the men that have now the large living's, the men
who are reading the services of the church in their parishes
every Sunday ;—remember that these are the men who wrote
what I have read, and am going to read. (Mr. O'Connell
here read a note from the same number of the British Critic,
which characterised as tyrannies all systems which differed
from " the centre of unity.") If Dr. Wiseman had ben
called upon to write this, he would not have done it differ-
ently. He would not change one word of it. It is Catholic
doctrine ! Oh ! let it be understood through the empire—
through the world, that there is a great section of the Pr; -
testant clergy, as they are called; of those who are in the pos-
session of the livings, praying and preaching, as they call it,
for Protestants, who are publishing every three months a book
containing Catholic doctrines, thus offering immediate and
emphatic testitnony to the truth of Catholicity. Does it not
encourage you to have another Catholic church in Li-
verpool? Why I declare you will want a dozen of them
before half a-dozen years are over ! They are coming, and
they must come. to us ! It is, therefore, very pleasant to
me, at such a period as this, to move this resolution. * *
I have shown you the symptoms of the times, which make
it imperatively necessary that every exertion should be made
to extend the number of your churches. I rejoice emphati-
cally in this, that in the erection of this church the ecclesias-
tical authorities of every class all concur. The bishop gives it
his sanction and his blessing, the clergy of the secular orders
crowd around to wish it every success, and the regular
clergy promote the restoration to works of usefulness, in
the practice of which they were interrupted by that calamity
to the church, the suppression of the order. 'The greatest
blow ever yet inflicted upon religion was the suppression of
the order of the Jesuits, and accordingly a bitter punishment
has followed upon the nations that committed that crime.
They have been punished with the severity of a scourge of
iron, and tears of blood would hardly atone for the crime
which they thus committed against themselves ; they were
abandoned to themselves, I think I may without profaneness
say it, by the just anger of the Deity ! But here they are
again ! The Jesuits again! I remember the time when a
man would have been knocked down who ventured to call
out " Hurrah for the Jesuits !" (The meeting here gave
three cheers for the Jesuits.) * * * * * * I may be
told I am dreaming when I reckon among the members of
the Catholic church the Puseyites and the Tractarians. It
may be so. All I know is this, that God has given them to
see the promised land, to behold the truth, to publish the
truth, and to proclaim Catholic doctrine. I know not
whether they will have grace to attain the land of promise,
and to separate themselves from every connection necessary
in order to be united with the centre, the centre of unity,
without an attachment to which Catholicity cannot subsist.
I am not to prophecy—that is, in the hands of God, but I
see this with my profane eyes, that there is every prospect even
of the ministers themselves coming over. There is a certainty
that the rising generation will not be embued with the pre-
judices of their fathers against the truths of Catholicity.
The speech of the Lord Mayor of Dublin concluded by a
loud profession of attachment to civil and religious liberty.
The Very Rev. WM. BREWER, Provincial of the Bene-
dictines, Mr. JOHN ROSSON, Mr. LEONARD, the Rev. Mr.
BARROW, President of Stonyhurst, the Rev. PETER WILCOX,
and several others afterwards addressed the meeting, and the
proceedings concluded at ten o'clock.

MILNER'S PATENT FIRE PROOF BOXES.
Amongst the inventions of the present age which claim more
than common notice in the public estimation, for their utility,
may be reckoned Milner's Fire Proof Boxes. These boxes
have been the means no doubt of sending many a man home
to his family with a strong feeling of security, and en-
joyment of the knowledge that his property, his books, and
valuable papers, come what will in disasters by fire, must be
safe. Mercantile men owe a debt of gratitude to the inventors
of these boxes ; for the awful agency of fire appears, by the
testimonials we have seen, to have been completely rendered
powerless upon them. Although these boxes have been
exposed to its influence for a period of time apparently in-
credible, they have sustained little or no damage. The most
combustible articles have been placed within them, as well as
materials highly susceptible to heat, without the least apparent
damage. Gunpowder has been inclosed, as may be seen by
the following testimonial, and although the heat must have
been intense, still without any explosion taking place.
" Liverpool, June 20th, 1842.
" We have this day witnessed the trial of one of Milners'
Patent Fire-proof Double-celled Gunpowder Magazines, of
twelve inches external, and six inches internal diameter and
height, filled with highly combustible materials, papers, and
a packet of gunpowder.
The same was placed in the centre of a fire consisting of
five to six cwt. of coal and a quantity of wood, and remained
therein upwards of three hours, during two-thirds of which
time the magazine was surrounded by a complete furnace of
intense heat.

"Neither the inner magazine nor its contents were at all in-
jured by the fire, hor did they evince any signs of the severe
ordeal to which they had been exposed, beyond being per-
vaded to the very centre with steam from alkaline solution,
contained in tubes imbedded in the nonconductor occupying
the chamber of each cell.
" In' the proof of the intense heat of the fire, the wood:was
wholly consumed, the entire quantity of coal converted into
coke, and the bricks upon which the fire was made were
taken out red hot.

-
"JOHN WILSON CARTER?
" G. BARNETT,
" THOMAS ARSTALL."
The utility, the absolute necessity, the positive demand
that there exists that these boxes should be everywhere
brought into use, are apparent, as any one possessing com-
bustible materials in his dwelling, or on board his vessel, en-
dangers not only his own life but the lives of others by their
presence, and it is a first duty to provide froni accident. We
may thus briefly describe these excellent boxes, and recom-
mend them to the consideration of our readers. They con-
sist of two strong cases of prepared sheet iron, compressed
and flatted under heavy machine-winked hammers, the
outer one plated 'with tin—tinned iron plate being the least
conductor of heat of any metallic substance ; and whilst care
has been taken to give sufficient strength of substance and
form for use, durability and resistance of pressure, all super-
fluous metal, likely to conduct and retain beat, beyond what
is necessary for securing this object is avoided—the
inner case is placed an inch within the outer, leaving a
' chamber of one inch in width surrounding the contents.
This chamber is filled with a composition possessing extra-
ordinary powers of resistance to the transmission Of heat,
and imbedded therein are metallic tubes, containing a che-
mical fluid of similar properties to the composition. The
tubes are united along their length, and at the ends, by an
amalgam which melts at 212 degrees (boiling heat); and, as
soon as they attain that temperature, they open, and silently,
and without violence, discharge themselves into the non-
conducting composition, thus filling the whole cavity with
moisture. For a much'longer period than that during which
a box would be in direct contact with fire, in the successive
conflagration of the parts of an ordinary building, no greater
heat than 212 degrees will pass through this medium into
the box, a temperature perfectly harmless to books, papers,
parchments, or even bank notes. The cause of the exhaus-
tion of the moisture being so protracted, is, its being sheathed
and protected from rapid vaporization in the absorbent non-
conductor. From each inch of fluid, is slowly evolved 1100
times its own volume of steam and vapour, which passes
into, and is successively condensed in the contents of the
box, rendering them damp and humid, as a newspaper from
the press, and, of consequence, strongly adverse to com-
bustion. The whole process and principle being throughout
conducive, in the most extraordinary manner, to til,,i,.
preservation. For the same reason that the inside of n 1,-,af
in an oven is preserved for hours from being more than
boiled, under circumstances wherein it would be reduced to
a blackened, charred mass, were it not for its own self-
heated size
contained moisture, are materials, the most combustible,
kept from injury in a similar but more perfect manner_
and themmanoY-
within these boxes, when surrounded with burning coal'.
In the same heat that would serve to make a common iron
safe red hot in twenty minutes, these boxes of sufficient
them, will
degreesto contain
aboveone
212, foot
after cubic a inn e
houras u measure e, s wille exposure
p nn
sont r be e;
t(i)erison for its dry
ment the fire subsides, or is exhausted arouNn\d7
cool down rapidly below that temperature.
red hot safe remains an immovable burning
fire has left it.
her( as, the
depositories, a
Within contents,
each consuming sort ihnegs
ethem
chamberedf or hours n
d tubedafter
but attendant and self-
centinel engine may be supposed always
acting, ready not only to extingnish
most valuable property a
prevent fire, with
public, professional, or mercantile offl-ce or
its pipes charged and laid into the
private dwelling
contains—property uninsurable, and yet often exceeding in
letting loose and arousing, in concen-
vinaluites
fialrlstthaantpirtninsthdeese,mlee
to insure—the fire itself,
And as a bottle of wine, put dowinestoonrcype,
concen-
trated operation within the box,
of wine at the end of a se
will be less waste by evaporationefficientrem a
remains
antagonist.oreo ainctehnetsuerynaoeftsyleatrusb,etsh(enrer
bottles) metal-sealed, the efficient;' of principle therefore
continuing undiminished. The Box described, the same as
submitted to public trial in the various towns,
doubled, trebled, or quadrupled in chambers. .
and thick Bess,
still at a moderate .may be
box—which will resist any
But it is quite than a one
unnecessary to have any other
chamber cost, the security increasing in proportion.
range of accident. thing within the common

of the inhabitants o;
In consequence of the obstinacy
k• The greatest in-
churches were not wound up
Chatham in refusing a church-rate,
eteke. clocks of the two
last w
particulary to the
convenience has accordingly arisen,od always regulate their
artisans of the dockyard,
whoer been told that several who
speed by those clocks.
Journal. y
A SERVANT.—Yesterday, a
EXTENSIVE ROBBER:11:s
Frederick Hibbott, about 24
voted against the rate lostWtehieliar call last week.—Maidstone
appearance, underwent examine-
young mr.n, named
bVirlealmsley and Mr. G. Baillie, ma-
upwards of £lOO in notes and
Middlesex, on the charge of having
gistrates at Hanwe
Tiedanrsboeffoargeet,hoefitreevsp.ei,DcCtah.
master. It appeared from the evi-
dence the proper r
that the prisoner had for some time been
adduced, stolen a cash
dence
_Mark Hayes, cheesemonger, in the township
shoprnan to Alt ro.td.
On Friday last, during the absence of
of New Breantf
Hayes Margate, Mrs. Hayes brought down stairs a
-boxtvceon,thaiianing
Mr. 14831-tio cash-box, of rather a large size, containing, in
japanned
Bank of c p.
England notes and gold, considerably above £lOO,
wbinh s in
he placed the parlour. Between 3 and 4 o'clock
e afternoon she sudGoly on the stun missed it, and on .
going
into the ahoy to acquaint the prisoner of her loss, she found
that be had absconded. Information of the robbery was
immediately given at the station-house of the T division in
that tow
n. when the case was placed in the hands of police
constable Hanslow, T 68, an active an ient office
of
his
who subsequently traced the delinquent tontelli g
re the sidence
his friends, in Fleming-street, Kingsland-road and thence
to the neighbourhood of 13Iackwall, where it was ascertained
be had been making large purchases of clothes, &c., with a
view of embarking for New Zealand. On the previous after-
noon, Hanslow succeeded in taking him into custody, and in
recovering a slight portion of the cash stolen. The case
being conclusive against the prisoner, he was fully committed
to Newsate for trial at the Central Criminal Court.

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