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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-08-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE BY TURN-OUT JOINERs.—On Saturday night last an attempt was made by a party of seven or eight persons, supposed to be all turn-out joiners, to murder a man named Thomas Bridden, a joiner, in the employ of Messrs. Buxton and Sons, Oxford-road. It appears that Bridden, who is a native of Derbyshire, came to work with Messrs. Buxton, on the turn-out of their men, and was shortly afterwards induced, by the intimidation offered by the turn-outs, to leave the town, and go to Bolton, where he was apprehended under a warrant for deserting his work, and, being brought before the magistrates, was ordered to return. Shortly afterwards he again absented himself ; but returned to work of his own accord, by which he appears to have given great offence to the turnouts; and given rise to the murderous attack made upon him on Saturday night. About eleven o'clock he was standing in Clarendon-street, within a few yards of his own door, when two men came out of a beer-shop in the neighbourhood, and, after a short parley, began to abuse and threaten him with violence. He was retreating to his own house, when six or seven other men came up; and, just as he laid his hand on the latch of his door, one of them seized him by the collar, and struck him two or three times upon the neck and the side of the head. Ile got away into the house, and then found that be had been severely wounded in the neck by repeated stabs of some sharp instrument ; and that one of his ears was nearly divided, apparently by drawing a sharp knife across it. The murderous intention, however, failed; none of the stabs having taken effect in a vital place. We are glad to learn that two of the men are known ; and a warrant has been issued for their apprehension. A reward of twenty-five sovereigns has been offered for the discovery of the man who inflicted the wounds.—Manchester Guardian.  CONNUBIAL Biass.—On Tuesday last, a rather aged son of the last, whose name we did not happen to hear, appeared on summons before the sitting magistrates at the Town Hall, to answer the complaint of his better half, who attended by his side to complain of ill usage. He was in the constant habit of beating and punching her, she said and she prayed their worships to interpose their authority in her behalf.' Crispin, in defence, did not exactly deny the charge, but alleged in justification, that his wife's tongue was too unruly for his management, and he prayed their worships to be so good as to separate them.— The magistrates, however, did not feel disposed to fall in with this suggestion, and, after consulting a white, intimated to the husband that he was to find sureties to keep the peace towards his wife. " No, no," exclaimed Crispin, amid the laughter of all present, "no, no, I'll not be bound in that way, !" " How," quoth the bench, "you will not be bound?" "No, no," was the reply, " I will not be bound to keep the peace her." It was finally arranged that this happy couple should separate.— They had been married just twelve months !—Preston Pilot.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-09-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LIVERPOOL POLICE.  ASSAULT UPON A JotAINRYSIAN PA INTER:—Yesterday, three journeymen painters were brought before the Mayor and Alderman Leyland, charged with an assault of a most atrocious character on Stewart M‘ Water. The prisoners went into the room where M'Water was working, took. his brushes from him, and then painted his face, hands, and clothes, in a most unsparing manner, threatening him at,the same time that if he continued to work for Mr. Thompson, his present master, they would murder him, and that he might expect to be a corpse in less than two days. After they had quitted the house, buzzing, and calling out " black sheep," one of them had the audacity to return to repeat the operation; but a woman who was scour • iug the house, pitying the deplorable situation in which poor M'Water was left, locked the room-dcor, and prevented Wein from re-entering. The following is the substance of the evidence brought forward by the prosecutor:— Steward M'Water.—l am a painter, in the employ of Mr. Thompson, but do not belong to the trades unions. On. Monday I was at work at a house in Bedford-street, Abercrombie-square, when the prisoners, George Ncwsham, Joseph Carson, and Daniel Goodwin came up to me. Carson said, " You have nothing to do with working in this town at all." I did not say any thing. Carson then took a brush and daubed me with paint all over my face and clothes. Ile then daubed my work over, and spoiled it. The other two assisted Carson in painting me and spoiling my work. They then went away, and Carson came back and said, " If you lift another stroke we will murder you." Jane Redman was present. I know that the three prisoners belong to the Union. Jane Redman.—l am a char-woman, and was at work in the house in Bedford-street, where M'Water was employed on Monday. Saw the, prisoners come into the house, when they called out " bear.' Saw the prisoners daub M'Water with paint, and spoil his work. John Thompson proved that M'Water was in his employ, as a painter, on the day in question, in Bedford-street. heard that he bad been abused ; went up to Bedford-street and 'found that his work had been. spoiled, and it was in consequence obliged to be washed off. The prisoners are painters in the employ of Mr. Goore, and belong to the trades' unions. The magistrates, after commenting with great severity upon the atrocious character of this outrage, sentenced each of the three aggressors to three months' imprisonment and hard labour at the treadmill in the Kirkdale prison. The young matt so wantonly assaulted is a native of Scotland, and is remarkable for his industry and peaceable disposition. Had he made any resistance it:is not improbable that the affair might have ended in murder. Before the passing of Mr. Hume's bill, for repealing the combination laws, this offence Would have been visited by transportation. 'We think, from the peculiar circumstances of the case, the punishment is not adequate to the offence, although to the full extent which the present law allows.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-01-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IRELAND.  DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM.-The public, who take eep interest in the affairs of Ireland, are anxious to kilo' That is the standard of outrage in that devoted countt xed upon by government, ere the arm of the law is to retched forth to arrest the march of murder, and 0 own that system of denouncement which has caused ead kan to hold his life, as it were, by sufferance. Lela t point of fact, is not, at the present moment, under t vay of England or of English law. She is ruled by t .ch-agitator, through whose incendiary machinati Lose desperate bands have been formed, by whom ter solation, and death have been borne through the lane here is in this beggared country a power beyond Of ' the monarch's, and far above that of the law—a powe dding defiance to the government, and issuing its map rtes with an audacious confidence that they will be iv?, icitly obeyed, which can proceed only from a perf iowledge of the monstrous, despotic, and sanguin fluence it possesses. Whether under the name Captain Rock," of " Whiteboy-s," of "Volunteers," "the Liberator," this authority is alike potent; a a secrecy of its organisation only renders more alarto the sudden and evidently combined mode in whid different places it, at the same moment, displays if rbarity. This many-named tyranny may be divide o two classes—the One, that of the orators who inflani their maddening speeches the worst passions of 0 luded multitude, and who boldly take their stand of very verge of treason ; the other, that of the midnig assins who immolate the victims denounced in t lammatory harangues of the former. These form o ly, having one aim in view, and that aim the extin a of all remnant of authority possessed by Englan r that portion of the empire. But are the miuist rnly to look on and see thus rent away, without resist e, one of the most important members of the kingdom they to deliver up the loyal portion of the Irish co nity, with their possessions, to the infuriated sway ruthless hordes by whom they are at this moment as ed ? Or ought they not energetically, and at once, t in full force the powers with which they are entruste& put down with a vigour proportioned to the erner cy of the case those who have set themselves abovo common feelings of humanity ? It is time the reign .trror and of blood should end ; and, if the laws as no ied are too weak to combat with the Machiavelian an mists they are brought to cope with, let them ngthened until the educated incendiary is made t for the double guilt of instilling treason for the pur of engendering murder. Let this be done, an kly too, or men will turn from loathing those who mate, and those who do the deed of blood, to those permit it to be done with impunity.—Morning Post  HE lEtsH
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-04-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXPOSURE OF THE ASSASSINS OF THE UNIONS.—We find the following in the Times report of a trial at the Old Bailey, on Thursday last. The prosecutor was a carpenter, and the prisoner was his apprentice, who was indicted for assaulting his master, with intent to murder him. On the cross-examination ' of the prosecutor the following facts were elicited, to which we beg the particular attention of his Majesty's ministers. The prosecutor having admitted being a political unionist, Mr. C. Phillips asked him, " Now, pray, have you any particular set of wea_pons in your possession—you know what I mean ? Witness.. No ' • I have a fowling-piece and a brace of pistols. Mr. Phillips. You know that is not what I mean—Have vou not a weapon' called a Maceroni ;' a weapon which, 1 understand, was invented by .Colonel Maceroni, for the use of political unions against the Government? Witness. I have one. A person made many hundreds, and I bought one for Bs. 6cl. It is not a tool for carpenters to work with. Ido not know what it is for, for I never had a handle to it. I bought it to protect my premises. Like many others I was over-persuaded to buy one. On your oath have you not said you got it to murder. the Duke of Wellington • and have you not said you would murder the Duke if you had' an opportunity? Witness. " No." Of course this worthy unionist would not jeopardise himself by answering the last query " yes," but what, my Lord Grey, think you now of the class it heretofore " delighted you to honour?" Here we have the " stubborn fact" that "many hundreds of weapons, invented by an Italian refugee, were; purchased by political unions"—by those very " unions" that your Premiership held in affable regard—by those very unions" roused up by your official missives to regulate the King's choice! We have said your Lordship patronized the " bludgeon and brick-bat" argument of the mobility, ; but it never entered into our mind to ima,,ine that, even debased and degraded as the scoundrelism of "the unions" were, they would fix the stiletto of the Italian bravo on the proud oak of England. Such assassins the " patriot political unions" are now proved to be; we wish your Lordship joy of the discovery. To the people of England, however, we now tarn- and' we .call. upon every honest man in the country to watch well every journeyman, domestic, or workman, who may be attached to these unions." Let every man who has house, home, property, or family—any thing, take ;warning ; he, has nothing to hope from the Ministers for preservation—the union assassins are the Cabinet allies !—Let him trust to himself. We know every true-hearted John Bull, whatever may be his political predilections, will join with us in indignation and horror at the exposd of these " Maceronies !"—Maceroni ! where is the man ? Earl Grey, do your duty! This stilleto-inanufacturer must be found out, and dealtwith according to justice?—London Paper.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-05-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTINCTION OF THE PAPACY.  (From the Standard.)  The late revolution at Rome deserves more consideration than our contemporaries seem disposed to bestow upon it. The question seems properly to force itself upon our attention. Are we fiot now witnessing the fulfilment of one of the most striking prophecies of the 'Apocalypse—the overthrow of the mystic Babylon ? We, at least, shall be thought free from being misled by a strained interpretation of scripture, when it is remembered that, reasoning upon purely political grounds, we predicted more than six months ago that Pius the Ninth would probably be the last Pope of Rome. This was a merely political prediction, and to this we adhere ; for whoever shall conquer in the present strife, the temporal authority of the Pope is extinguished for ever. If the Austrians prevail, as we trust they will, they will not be again guilty of the folly of re-establishing upon their weakest frontier that which has ever proved the disturbing power of Europe. If the French once more achieve the Protectorate of Italy, they, we may be sure, will use it as their predecessors used it forty or fifty years ago. In either case the Papal States will disappear : in the former, absorbed into the Lombardo Venetian kingdom ; in the latter, making part of the French kingdom of Italy. There is something so remarkable in the downfall of the Papacy, be it but temporary, be it final (as we devoutly believe it to be), that we cannot withhold from our recders the striking fact, that a pious interpreter of Scripture prophecies, 147 years ago, fixed the event as foretold in the Apocalypse for this very year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Eight. The prediction will be found in a little tract, by the Rev. Robert Fleming. published in 1701, under the title of " The Rise and Fall of the Papacy." This little work, of which some editions have been lately printed at a cheap rate, is one of the most remarkable and interesting religious works that we have ever seen. It is written in a pure Saxon style, a dear method, and in a sober Christian spirit, as far as possible removed from enthusiasm. The book extracts from the " Apocalypse," by reasoning almost strictly arithmetical, a prediction of the persecution of the French Protestants in 1723—0 f the massacre of the Protestants at Thorn in 1724—0 f the movement against the Jesuits towards the close of the last century, and the destruction of the French monarchy at its end, placing the consummation of that destruction as to be effected before the year " one thousand seven hundred and ninety four"—a prediction fulfilled to the letter by the murder of the king and queen in 1793. Using the same canon of interpretation, Mr. Fleming foretells the obscuration of the Papacy in the first years of the present century (the imprisonment of Pius VI. by Napoleon), and its final destruction for the present year 1848. Mr. Fleming died in 1716, before the fulfilment of any of the extracted predictions of which we have spoken, so as to exempt him from the class of seers who prophecy after the event. ,
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-05-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTINCTION OF THE PAPACY.  (From the Standard.)  The late revolution at Rome deserves more consideration than our contemporaries seem disposed to bestow upon it. The question seems properly to force itself upon our attention. Are we not now witnessing the fulfilment of one of the most striking prophecies of the Apocalypse—the overthrow of the mystic Babylon ? We, at least, shall be thought free from being misled by a strained interpretation of scripture, when it is remembered that, reasoning upon purely political grounds, we predicted more than six months ago that Pius the Ninth would probably be the last Pope of Rome. This was a merely political prediction, and to this we adhere ; for whoever shall conquer in the present strife, the temporal authority of the Pope is extinguished for ever. If the Austrians prevail, as we trust they will, they will not be again guilty of the folly of re-establishing upon their weakest frontier that which has ever proved the disturbing power of Europe. If the French once more achieve the Protectorate of Italy, they, we may be sure, will use it as their predecessors used it forty or fifty years ago. In either case the Papal States will disappear : in the former, absorbed into the Lombardo Venetian kingdom ; in the latter, making part of the French kingdom of Italy. There is something so remarkable in the downfall of the Papacy, be it but temporary, be it final (as we devoutly believe it to be), that we cannot withhold from our renders the striking fact, that a pious interpreter of Scripture prophecies, 147 years ago, fixed the event as foretold in the Apocalypse for this very year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Eight. The prediction will be found in a little tract, by the Rev. Robert Fleming. published in 1701, under the title of " The Rise and Fall of the Papacy." This little work, of which some editions have been lately printed at a cheap rate, is one of the most remarkable and interesting religious works that we have ever seen. It is written in a pure Saxon style, a clear method, and in a sober Christian spirit, as far as possible removed from enthusiasm. The book extracts from the " Apocalypse," by reasoning almost strictly arithmetical, a prediction of the persecution of the French Protestants in 1723—0 f the massacre of the Protestants at Thorn in 1724—0 f the movement against the Jesuits towards the close of the last century, and the destruction of the French monarchy at its end, placing the consummation of that destruction as to be effected before the year " one thousand seven hundred and ninety four"—a prediction fulfilled to the letter by the murder of the king and queen in 1793. Using the same canon of interpretation, Mr. Fleming foretells the obscuration of the Papacy in the first years of the present century (the imprisonment of Pius VI. by Napoleon), and its final destruction for the present year 1848. Mr. Fleming died in 1716, before the fulfilment of any of the extracted predictions of which we have spoken, so as to exempt him from the class of seers who prophecy after the PvAnt.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-03-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SOLDIERS AND MA N UFA CTURERS.—Mr. Cobden is eased to be especially bitter upon the " horrid trade" He characterises it as barbarous and  and would be rid of it at all risks. Now, setang aside the idiocy of his remarks, there is a monstrous of ingratitude in this language of the free-trade eposHad it not been for our arms, where would our mar' If we had succumbed to France instead if humbling her at Waterloo—and we presume that Mr. Cobden would have preferred the former alternative, since he thinks that the Duke should now be preaching forgiveness for the past—where would have been our trade, and ',ere our exportations of calico ? Hindostan is an accountry, and British arms have opened up the mar• and arc these commercial evils ? Really to attempt enforcing a point owes everything to the e'er kets have been  9 of China  it is throwing  way langua Commen  as this  Lions and protection of that military power which these purblind theorists complain of; and were our armaments abolished to-morrow, we should look round us in vain for a customer. And pray what does the arrogant upstart eiean by characterising the honourable profession of a Soldier as a damnable trade ? Does he intend to disgorge "4 contempt and contumely upon the graves of those who e field of battle fighting nobly for their king and Are we now to be told that the names which aYe written in our annals, and embalmed in our meletestable and odious as those of homicides If it hes come to this, and if public scorn nan who can conceive and  country  aeutitnents, then indeed we may benet deMoralisation has partially done its work, and ',lean ethics of Manchester are henceforward to nation. Not damnable nor horrid, unless 'nm be so, is the profession of those who -d in the service of Britain, and died for the maintenance of order, liberty, and religion. Other trades there are far more liable to such epithets, but with these, thank heaven ! we have but little practical acqnanitance. The trade of the greedy taskmaster, who rears infants for his mills, and grinds them to their task until the sinews shrivel up and the limbs are warped into early decrepitude—of him who will not recognise the existence of an imperishable soul within the tender framework of the children whom he makes the victims of his avarice—of the advocate of long hours, because thereby he may keep his human machinery under the complete control of exhaustion,—the trade of that man, we sal, though it may be tolerated in a Christian land, is but one shade less horrid, and not a whit less damnable, than that of the slave-trader, who is now chuckling over .his living cargoes on the ---4—"areoes for which he is indebted to the  are drawn tE  ightened legislation of Mr. Cobden and his liberal con_ crates I Are these the men who are tko revile and tra* our army ?- Faugh ! The leprosy of mammon is In them, and our nature recoils from-their breath.—  alliask  THE SONG or