The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-15 00:00:00

their dwellings and prepared to make th e i r own escape th e be st manner they might. Very few houses in town that have blnot suffered in some measure ; of several the roofs have been own in ; fi ve or s i x burned, and a large number stripped of slating. Many narrow escapes occurred, from the falling roofs and from fire. Mr. Neal Davis was saved in a most pro bhuNon way. lie had been barricading a window in his ei opposite the church, and was about to quit Cf hen be heard a crashing noise; luckily he had the p re sence nand to fi x hi mse l f in the recess of the window, which he ad Scarcely done, Vi hen the p ort i on o f th e rout over his head fall in, passing su close to hilt' that the timber or slates , tore a Part of his coat, and a piece of the former struck him slightly on the f ace. One of the pinnacles on the church Steepl e wa s blown dow n. But it i s to t h e houses of the poor the greatest damage has bee p. done, or at l east they are the greatest su ff erers, because th e worst a bl e to repair the injury. Five houses on Staball have be en b urned, and almost every thatched house there and ni and about the town stripped of the whole or a part of the thatch or roof. That the entire of the houses on both sides hf the street in which the fire broke out were not burned is t he to the prais ewor th y exeit i ons of the officers and men of 87th depot, and Mr, St, Clair O'Malley and the police. aft i mmense quantity o f h ay an d corn has been blown out Stack, and scattered over the face of the country, Some or the largest trees in the lawn and on the mall have been torn by the roots; and large branches broken from those that e,, itted the violence of the wind: Although nit lives have been lust in this town, we regret to I ,eattl that tio perscitat Were killed near Greenhill, by the fall d94 of their houses. Altogether nu Sti , h storm has ever been . in this pl a c e; Within the memory of man, and we fear that ti 4 ainount onstitut ion: of dama , re proportionate will be to be detarned:— ~ 40 C fOir.eexttact the following BELFAST: from the Whig of yesterday : —" In ,c ua reral di str i cts in our neighbourhood the tempest has been lly severe. H aggards; stored with the rich spoils of liar- W i .YaVe been scattered t o th e w ind s ; a n d many a poor r; itt addition to the logs of his live stock, by the fall of out souses, will have to &meth the deVastation of the grain 00 which h e d epen d s for the pajnetstit of his rent. In a o ` tv ' u n t lrw, we lea rn, much i njury was done, i n t h e blowing or t of the l o f t i est trees, unroofing of houses, &c., and nine o person s were unfortunately hurt, more or less. much from is not a house here but has suffered el l from the e ff ects of the storm—and lam sorry to say that several persons have been killed. At Riverstown two 3?°ll °K men were found dead in the ruins. L o ( From o ur K ennet t y C orrespon d en t.) 4ioleh ot " LIFE.—The storm in this neighbourhood raged gret tfn Sunday night—much injury is done—and, 1 re -4,6 i ° 141 S'; that the rdisf of Captain Drought's house, of Let 's,' (I, has been blown in; burying Mrs, Elliott and another t ",°3' in the ruins! Mrs. Elliott was eister to the late Gen, Ilea& theisThe acceunts from Cashel, Nenagh, and Clonmel; are of Most appalling description. Bale,due on lt was nut until ten o'clock last night that the Holyhead , how Monday morning, reached Kingstown; the , due at ever, moderating, enabled the packet which was Li,two o'clock yesterday to reach this morning, and the dt erh oo l mail arrived at one o'clock this day. The Sheer er, nai,ligstow hich left Liverpool on Sunday evening, reached u_ ing n yesterday morning, after a passage of 36 hours, weatriered a gale such as the oldest seaman on the line nyer before encountered. The conduct of her intrepid com r?der (C aptain Smithett) is represented as beyond all f 0 r411 7. An add ress from the passengers (which will be lee n ' in our advertisin g columns) was presented to the gal iufficer' testifying their gratitude for his bravery and th e o the trying emergency in which he was placed. All ( A . ltiail3 hate now arrived: (From the bublin Etening illail 4- the Statesman of Friday.) W e lmt kicK.—The Club House'roof was thrown down ; and llesley bridge greatly injured, owing to the t essels in the Were e r be ing driven against it. One man and two children drowned at Coonah ; the bank of the river there is destroyed_ 111 r. Powell, county Clare, lost 170 sheep. There o s i llot a si ng l e vessel in port that has not been injured. The worth suffe re d severely ,• some say there was over £36,000 or Property destroyed. log The Limerick Chronicl e says, we beg to add, that the cata- I e of losses by th e l a t e s t orm i s yet i ncom pl e t e , a nd it an e ( ( i lld be t e di ous to enumerate all the minor instances of loss d damage. In our city, £20,000 will not rep a ir the injury I °lte to p r i vate buildings, nor £30,000 compensate for the us e ' e a e l incurred red by the shipping in port. Slaters and masons in request at 7s. 6d. a day wages. Ship carpenters to Per week. l n f ortn ati,n from the coast was anticipated th ,„ 1. 6 0,g a calamit ous a dditi on t o our l oca l su ff er i ngs . Th e es - i t , a titY, by the storm, described in our detail, for the port w imerick; already comprises sixteen deaths, Andrew ar son Mah ony , E sq. son o f Ald erman D. F . G . M a h ony, of this cite, and Robert Patterson, Esq. of Kilrush, both perished in the wreck of the Undies schooner, near Kilrush, itt the storm on Sunday night. The former young gentle- Londonaw passionately fond of the sea, and embarked for in the Undine, a splendid new schooner, commanded °Y his friend, Mr. Patterson. pt Clara, houses were burnt and blown dowu Cl ara, and several in this town. The destruction of pro ,resrtY is beyond description, and several ves have een lost. Lucre were several houses burnt in Kilbegg li an, an b d a vast Portion of timber has been thrown down. roofedetes.—Many houses has been demolished a nd un , and glass to a large amount b r ok e n, p ar ti cu l ar ly i n tour new college. In the country, the produce of whole o'„lands h as been scattered. The interesting ruins of ,"iney Castle, which resisted the lure of tunny a by-gone laic, was last night tottered, and is tiow levelled with the tigt, DR UMSNA.—About fifty houses blown down between this 411 '1 Elphin; immense destruction of property. sk `" gentleman who arrived in witnessed n Tuesday morning by• '"e Limerick coach, says—" I t dreadful havoc and '°,4l along the line of road, cottages unroofed and levelled with the ground, trees torn up by the roots, many broken in t he Middle, shattered, and mangled in every way; some strewed across the road, so as to detain the Limerick mail full six hours. It is greatly to be feared that many serious in- Juries have been sustained, many lives indeed lust from the fan and ruin of cabins. Hay and corn stacks too, I observed scattered and destroyed in a deplorable manner. i C ove. MOND AY , J AN . 7.—Du r in g th e w h o l e o f l ast n i g ht t blew a violent gale a t W.S.W., h av i ng commence d a t n i ne and terminated about four this morning. During its conti nuance it fully equa ll e d any o f t h e storms o f t h e past year. For tunately the damage to the shipping in the harbour has been but trifling. Almost all the vessels hers drove, in eluding H.M.S. Rolla, with two anchors ahead. 'the brig Henryl drove ashore near the Old Fort, and is off again with out sustaining much injury. The schooner Eliza drove ashore More to the westward and is also afloat without damage. The Pilot cutter Mermaid is ashore to the westward of New Quay an d is bilged, and the pilot cutter Waterwich is ashore in the little dock near the Columbine hotel. Her escape was almost Miraculous, having drifted into the dock instead of coming M contact with the quays at either side. Several small boats ark sunk an d stove. T here h as b een no l oss of life that we ha ve yet heard of. The barques Venus and Onondago at pa ssage drove considerably, but did not get ashore. But for the wind being so much to the westward, we would have many casualties to record. The damage to houses here is very c onsid era bl e. Th e v e sse l s remain in g a t C ove t o -d ay are— b e rMajesty's brig Rolla, Baro s sa tr a n s p or t ; b arque S a ll y , I 'g Mary Pring, brig Ringmahon Castle, barque Elizabeth Be sv• Ill 'eY, schooner Aquaforte, undergoing repair s; b r ig rtineon Hardy, schooner Scipio, schooner Consolation, and tVO s chooners that dropped down the river this m or ni ng . Although the barometer is rising a little to-day, yet other ap pearances indicate another storm. La s t ni g ht' s ga l e mus t ave been severely felt on the Welsh coast; also on the Western and north west coasts of Ireland. (From the Waterfinil Chi onicle.) t kATERFORD, JAN. 7.—Durie fight the wea f-ewr was considered moderate, n t g he th wind last genera ortn lly blowing ront W.N.W. to S.W.; but a more furious storm than that wh ich visited us on Sunday night has not been remembered to this city for many years. The wind set in with a strong Kale from the W.S.W., at an early part of the evening, F u, i r e i, h rig gradually increased to an unmitigated hurricane. the night scarcely a house in the city escaped with -Ss clan -loge, more or less ; almost all the trees were covered with- W ith slates, tiles, &c., blown off the different houses ; but the l' h uros seemed to vent its greatest fury on the upper part of sh e t own. From the country we have received accounts at the storm was unprecedented in violence. At Carrick "Sutr several houses fell, whilst many others w ere dis --tanned, One man, we have heard, was killed by the force 0, the storm. There have not been as yet an y accounts uni sea; b u t as th e w i n d was part i a ll y o ff t h e l an d , t h e dis -sterS. site trust, were few, if any. ( From the Wexforil Independent.) w .kWP UL HURRICANE.—On Sunday ni g ht we were v i s it e d it one of the most violent hurricanes from the S. W. ever remembered by the oldest inhabitant ; but owing to the low Position of the town, and the consequent shelter if received lolls the hi g h grounds to t h e westward, the action of the wind vas not so terrible iu its effects as it has been in other places t e lls favoured by their mutual position.—However, we have sYmpathize with many of the iubabtiant on their (lila- Mated chimneys and roofless houses.—Th e s vessels in port, t %l e e ar e happy to add, all escaped uninjured. Our private let " state that considerable damage has been d one to t h e town tof Ross. Several house s s haken to the centre, chimneys own down, and roofs carried away. Mr. French's family yi n a most providential escape from destruction ; as, after s sY had retired to rest, the end wall of the house, which r_ornts the river, fell in, carrying away the whole roof. A 'oartge beam or purloin was precipitated from the attic through i sr e of the stories into the very bed where Mr. and Mrs. th r i ls!ch lay, without doing them the least injury; and two st 6 ur en. with a servant, who were hurled to the basement rY, also escaped unhurt. i From te Drogheda Journal. DROGHEDA, WEDNES h DA Y.—Never, within ) the memory of a til ts ita. ha s this town and neighbourho o d b ee n vi s ited with such 1 -- " awftd stor as that of Monday morning. About eleven ,'clock ou the m previous night, the wind rose from the South : 7„," With a deg ree - of violence as terrific as unprecedented, ..,--"" continued to blow a perfect hurricane until an early hour i f ! tho morning; of yesterday, when it subsided, leaving this !tu--wil a complete wreck. Pew houses have escaped being ne or les s i n j ure d ; and, we are sorry to add, that in souse bust or the roofs were driven in, though we have not heard tthat .there Was any loss of life sustained. The injury done to i:.!)Pertyis very great, an d t h e extent may b e inferred from t if f act that s l aters w il l not work under ten shillings per ini• Two or thre e ca bi ns i n t h e su b ur b s were b urne d , an d I — '' Many I n unfortunashipping te creatures lthe eft h river ousele sustainess at this in- errient season. The d no %.staral injury-, but w e ma y expect t h e worst f or those Which ' ere at setik . We have been informed that the agricultural :aP.loduee, to a large amount, was carried from the respective ckyards in the neighbourhood, and scattered about the Dand fields. The Newry Lark coach returned to this 13: ti on yesterday evening, having proceeded on its way to blitz as far as Ballygarth, the seat of Colonel Pepper slaot, four miles hence), were the road was impassable by t he fallen trees. Its passengers were transferred to the Bel h4" daily mail, which did not reach here till tour o'elock, two _ P uri o after its usual time. We are informed that the Belfast ght mail was delayed fur a considerable period at Clare l!'"ilt, near Dundalk, by a similar cause. (From the Derry Standard.) i ., PREA'DFUL HURR ICA NE.—A tempest, seldom if ever our ell'.seci in violence in this quarter of the globe, visited this o'i " She d ay night last. It commenced about eleven Changed"it the wind about S. E., from which it afterwards to about S. W. It was accompnied at intervals, ti“..at its most vi o l ent periods, by torrents of rain, and con with little a b atement till a b out six o'clock on Monday therning• Chimneys, rooms, windows, &c., in all parts of d e .,, c !tY, have suffered severely, The Court-house is l a good ir',. Winced. It is in vain for us to attempt to name the in flOduals whose property has suffered ; but there are many tealoh.iive reason to thank Providence that their lives have . spared, for so many chimneys having fallen on root!,, it ttrost miraculou s that none have been lost. In the neigh treattritood,.trees have been tome up by the roots, and a very destruction has occurred by the stacks of grain and :Z4Y+ ~ n many Parts of the country having been blown down ,-elcst. Matey of the huts of the peasantry have been an- P,,, e . a or entiiely prostrated, and in not a few cases have 17201_ !wards been totally consutned by their thatch taking tire. Stu:4. preserve the unfortunate sufferers ! From Newtown _l'4(lY We have accounts of the dreadful effects of the o nt i9 ,being much the same as here. Strabane has suffered on the troM the storm but by the inundations consequent ~._ r ain, which had so overflowed the town as to prevent oe Dublin coach passing' through. A correspoadeat sends Os the foll • ' owing:- 13u Nic - 6tb .. , RA NA, JANUARY B.—On the night of Sunday, tlie ,n,... i nstant, the brig William the Fourth, of Tralee, Cou _a":,_coMmander, laden with oats, and bound fur Liverpool, amongstfeet the rocks off this town, with her rnizen mast broken retained above deck, and hanging overboard, where it was nvery the attached rigging. The waves broke fearfully ue ZOtil the Wreck, the hands on board were in a dying state, ._7ee.he hourt an cold and fatig to which th e y h a d b een exposed for 74d'one'Of them had become insensible, and was apparently dead. It was evident to the inhabitants of the town, who were assembled on the beach, that a similar fate would speedily overtake the rest, unless speedily re lieved. At this critical moment, early on Monday morning, Samuel Taylor, chief boatman of the revenue police on this station, John Kennedy, John Stewart, and George William son, at the extreme hazard of their lives, put of; in a small boat for the wreck. These intrepid volunteers succeded in reaching the vessel, and had the satisfaction of rescuing se ven human beings from their perilous situation. Alt the people assembled rejaiced at their success, and evinced an earnest disposition to render the sufferers every assistance in their power. The dyilig sailor was immediately conveyed to the house of the Rev: Hamilton Stewart, where he received every attention humanity could suggest, and i❑ the course of the day this good family had the happiness of seeing him eventually restored: The schooner Venus, of Glasgow, M'Fie, master. from Glasgow to Sligo, with whiskey, sugar, &e., dragged from her anchorage off Ramullen, and struck on a bank at the mouth of Fallen channel at four o'clock in the morning. She immediately tilled with water and fell on her beaus ends—the crew took to the main rigging, where they remained until taken off by the Ramullan water-guard boat, at nine o'clock. The hatches have burst open, and two puncheons of whiskey have floated ashore. They were taken possession of by the water-guards. (From the Galway Patriot.) Never, perhaps, in the memory of the oldest, did the wind attain such a fearful height ; the gale commenced with some of those sweeping gusts which indicate a coming elementary war, about ten o'clock, tem., and continued to rage until four A.M:, on the ensuing morning, with unabated fury. But what a scene presented itself when the abating storm allowed i❑ the morning a passage through the town ; how melancholy to remark the devastation ; houses on all sides roofless, in many eases a heap of ruins; streets impassable from the quantity of bricks ; slates, or tiles strewed abort them ; in fact, every thing wearing the appearance of a prolonged seige. Our shipping, too, such a short time before imagined secure, and looking, indeed, trios and safe, might be seen, some dis• masted; some on their beam ends, some cast high and dry on a rocky shore, and all evidently greatly injured. We are sorry to say, that to these disasters we must add the loss of several lives; principally caused by the falling of old chim neys through the roofs of the houses underneath, carrying with them the craiy floors—it was afflicting its the extreme to behold the distress of thoSe haVing friends missing or killed: fathers might be seen looking for or laanenting their children, and wives in dispair searching for their husbands ; when day light gave a reprieve to their personal feats. The following are the names of those who have fallen a sacrifice to the fury of the storm :—Mrs. Catherine Reid, of Mainguard-street, a very old and respectable inhabitant, and her aged sister Mrs. Callahan; Mrs. Gorman, who was far advanced in pregnancy; Mrs. Shaughnessy and a very fine interesting female between four and five years of age, daughter of Mr. John Morris, of Shop street; a youth named Hurley, in Lombard-street, whose father is not expected to survive ; two sailors severely brnised at the quay, with a number of others its every direc tion of the toWn dangerously maimed and bruised, many of whom will have to undergo amputation. The stores and all the public buildings are completely striped, and mostly all the windows blown to pieces, mote particularly the county court-house. There is scarcely a house in Salt-hill that did not feel the awful effects of the storm, and it is inconceivable to think what ravages were committed between this and Outerard, which latter place is, we hear, a scene of misery and woe. Gort and Athenry shared the same fate. It was heart-rending to witness the number of interments which took place yesterday, and the piercing cries of their sorrow ing friends. The roof of the Rev. Mr. Roache's chapel, at Bohermore was completely swept away, and some of the cut stone ornaments in front of the parish chapel were blown down. (From :he Clare Journal.) ENNIS.—The appearance of the town is dreadful—whole roofs thrown down, the slates torn off others, and the lead and tiles blown off more: To enumerate the number of sufferers would be impossible; but as evidence of the violence of the storm we may mention that some trees have been torn up which have defied ifs power for many years. Tire friary, the poor house, the gaol, and fever hospital, are also damaged. Three pinnacles of the church were blown off, The accounts from the country are also dreadful. Fite houses were blown down at Corofin, and two more burned. At Quin, live houses knocked down, and the roof of the new chapel greatly da maged. (From the Fermanagh Reporter.) For the last forte Years this country was not visited with so Furious a gale of wind, or one as generally and awfully de structive in its effects, as that which took place on Sunday , night last On Mon fay morning the town presented a fright ful aspect; the shops were all closed as if death had visited the inmates of each; the streets were covered with broken slates, thatch, and rubbish from the different chimneys blown down and roofs taken off. An awful extent of damage has been done; windows broken and blown in; trees uprooted; roofs blown off; chimneys thrown down ; floors forced in; cattle maimed and killed, and hay and corn blown away. Pro videntially we have heard of no human lives lost, except one man, who, living near the edge of the lake, went upon the roof of his house during the night to preserve it by putting weights on it, and was himself blown away, and perished in the angry waters.—lt would be impossible for us to enumer ate in detail the losses sustained : but we may mention that three houses have been blown down in Castle.-lane. The large ball-room in the rere of Mr. Willis's hotel, is in ruins, there is scarcely a pane of glass left in the front of the Town hall, the roof and window of the church have been much in jured—the Roman Catholic Chapel is partly unroofed, and the stone cross shattered to fragments. One of the lightming conductors, formed of a thick pole, bound to an immense strong bar of it on, in the Castle barrack, was beaten to th e earth like a twig. The sentry-boxes were upset in all direc tions. There is not a house in the town but has suffered less or more from the effects of the gale. Florence-court House is much injured; and thousands of pounds worth of the large forest trees blown down, besides a long range of the deer-park wall. Castlecool has also suffered severely, several thousands of trees have been uprooted, some snapt across, and others torn to pieces. All the strong timber on the grounds of Richard Dane, Esq., have been destroyed. The seats of all the gentry in the county are dismantled; in fact, wherever we go, desolation stares us in the face. The Belfast mail, which left this on Sunday night, was upset three times; and we learn that the coachman had his thigh broken. Bi RR, JANUARY 9.—This town was visited, on the night of Sunday and morning of Monday last, by the most awful tem pest that has, perhaps, ever occurred in Ireland. The roofs of several houses in Birr have been blown in, and chimneys and walls levelled; and great and many, under the kindness of Providence, have been the hair-breadth escapes of the in habitants. A great part of the barracks here, as well as other houses, were blown down, and a great number of houses stripped. The great reflecting telescope, constructed by Lord Oxmantown, which, with its carriage, weighs about five tons, was lifted off its pltitfotm, and carried to a short distance ; but very fortunately, owing to the small surface it presented to the gale, this interesting tuonutnentof the no ble lord's great science, ingenuity, and perseverance, escaped from any serious injury. Mr. Cooke's dwelling-house and offices.were almost totally laid bare; and the dome (weigh ing about seven cwt.), which covered a reflecting telescope off a small tower, was lifted up, with its wall-plate, and car ried off into au adjoining plot. Some of . the spires which crowned the buttresses of the Roman Catholic church here were blown down ; but the lofty spire over the principal en trance remains uninjured, to testify to the ability of Mr. Mul lins, the eminent architect who planned it. Lead, tiles, chimney crocks, glass, trees, hay, and shrubs, on the follow ing day, lay scattered in one common chaos around the town. At Ballyloghnane, about a mile hence, a boy was killed, and another so dreadfully wounded that he cannot survive. Many houses have been destroyed by fire and storm at Ba nagher; inure have been levelled at Frankford; a person has been killed at Balls cowen. DUNDALK.—The post-master, Mr. J. Parkes, and his clerk, were up waiting the arrival of the Dublin mail, when a stack of chimneys fell, hurling them into cellars. They have been severely injured. Royal. OAK.—The Ross mail this morning was two hours and a half late, owing to the impediment of fallen trees lying across the road at Dunleckney. The coach had to return back to Milford cross, and come here by Leighlin-bridge. The guard had to walk with the mail from the Royal Oak to Bagnalstown, such was the state of the roads Loin fallen timber. CASTLEBELLINGHAM--The beautiful demesne of Lady Bellingham has been destroyed. Upwards of two hundred noble trees are prostrated. PA RSONSTOWN.—There is not a house here but has suffered —several persons have been killed—at Riverstown two young men were found dead in the ruins. KILKENNY. JAN. 7.—The hurricane blew down the new gas chimney, which in his fall levelled all the other works to the ground. :even houses were burned. Sir W. Cuffe,s demesne is spoiled of all its magnificent trees.—At Goose-hill, near the city, two small houses were burned down, the unfor tunate inmates of which, twelve or thirteen in number, kindly received shelter in the house of the Rev. Mr. Sandys, where they remained for the night, and were supplied with food 'And money before they left it next mottling; and in New-street one house and all the property it contained were consumed. Part of the wall surrounding the Bishop's Palace opposite to Troy's Gate, was blown down. The glass which covered the green-house at Jenkinstown, (where upwards of 450 trees %vete blown down in the demesne) was raised off; and after having been carried over a 16-foot wall, was shivered to atoms amongst the trees outside; the green-house at Mr. Wandesforde's, at Castlecomer, was also destroyed, and a number of large trees were uprooted in =slot* the gentlemen's demesnes throughout the county. Ca u Low.—The demesne wall of Oak Park, the seat of Colonel Bruen, was levelled for more than half a wile. DUNLEER.—The dwelling-houses in this town were all more or less injured. The losses to the poor farmers will be most serious, the hay and corn being scattered all over the neighouring country. Ca STLEDEU MOT. —This town and its vicinity has suffered greatly. The destruction of agriculturul property is enormous. MoaTE.—Seventy houses have been reduced to ashes in this town. _ _ _ lA. r. AMORE has suffered great devastation both from fire and storm. MOUNTMELICK., JAN 7.—Not a house in the town but has suffered more or less. Seven cabins were blown down, and trees of immense size torn up by the roots. . M It? BOROIA3 immense destruction of property took place in this town. PORTA LIEGTON.—No town in Ireland for its size suffered more than this. Alt DRI:ACA N—N AVAN.—The Lord Bishop of Meath has had two thousand trees blown down in his demesne at Ardbraccon. Garbally Park, the beautiful seat of Earl Clancarty, is left almost without a tree standing.. The storm committed great ravages in Clones, Kings court, Cootehill, Nobber, Kilmainham wood, and all along the mail-coach road to Dublin. NATIONAL EDUCATION. On Tuesday last, pursuant to notices issued by the Bishop of Chester, a public meeting was held in the Chapter House of Chester Cathedral, to consider the propriety of promoting the general education of the commun it y , on sound reli g iou s' principles, in accordance with the Established Church; and for the purpose of forming a Diocesan Board of Education, in unison with the National Society, in the Diocese of Ches ter. The attendance on this occasion was numerous, especially if we take into consideration the unfavourable state of the weather. Several ladies were present; and amongst the gentlemen we noticed the Lord Bishop, the Rev. Archdeacon Clarke, the Rev. Prebendary Barlow, the Rev. Chancellor Raikes, Sir Phillip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., the lion. and Rev. H. Powys, rector of Warrington, the Rev. E. Parry, the Rev. F. Ackbowm, the Rev. Joseph Eaton, the Rev. Thos. Eaton, the 11ev. W. Clarke, the 11ev. C. B. 'l'ayler, the Rev. James Folliott, R. G. Temple, Esq., the Rev. W. Hutchinson, the Rev. W. G. Eaton, Chaplain of the castle,rthe Rev. 11. J. Statham, rector of Tarpor:ey, the Rev. W. Gleadown, R. G. I'erryn, Esq., the Rev. J. L. foss, J. Hignett, Esq., Major Murray, 81st regiment, Rev. Mr. Drake, of 11alpas, the Rev. J. Partridge, ditto, the Rev. F. Bryans, of Backford, the Rev. Dr. Gunning, of Wigan, the Rev. Mr. Barker, of Edge Hill, Liverpool, the Rev. Mr. Richards, of Manchester, the Rev. Mr. Lutwidge, the Rev. Cares Wilson; vicar of Preston, the Rev. J. Hornby, rector of Winwick, &c. &c. The Lord Bishop presided, and opened the business of the meeting in an admirable address. Several motions were then introduced, and accompanied by seine excellent remarks from the various speakers. We understand, that in consequence of these proceedings, a committee meeting was held on Friday at Newton. at winch the Rev. James Hornbv, rector of Winwick, the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, rector of Warrington, the Rev. R. Parkinson, F.C.C., the 11ev. Rector Campt•ell, J. W. Patten, Esq., NI, P., &c., were present, when it was determined to hold a *neat meeting of the clergy and l ait y of the two coun ties of Chester and Lancaster at Warrington, on Friday, the with instant, for the purpose of furthering the designs solthis excellent inbtittv.i9a. A very. large ineetnag Isanticipated. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. Mrs. WAYLETT'S LAST WEEK. 11IADLLE. CHEVALLIER'S FIRST APPEARANCE. MRS. WAYLETT IN THREE DRAMAS. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 15th, and TO-MORROW, the 16th instant, will be presented a new Drama, never acted here, called THE CROWN PRINCE. Albert Augustus, (the Crown Prince,) Miss Stuart; Fre derick, (his Son) Mrs. Waylett. In the course of the Evening, Mrs. WAYLETT will sing the following popular Songs, &c. ;—" Meet me by Moonlight," "Bell's upon the Wind," (composed expressly for her,) "Kate Kearney," Merry I've been, and merry I'll be." Mademoiselle CHEVALLIER, principal Dancer from her Majesty's Theatre, will appear in her celebrated Shawl Dance. To which will be added the popular Interlude, written for the peculiar talents of Mrs. W AYLETT, called THE FOUR SISTERS. Mr. Mereton Mr. Cooke. After which Mademoiselle CHEVALLIER Will dance the ad mired Highland Fling, in Character., The Evening's Entertainments' will conclude with the Operatic Extravaganza. called GIOVANNI IN LONDON!! OR, THE LIBERTINE RECLAIMED!! On FRIDAY EVENING next, the 18th instant, will be presented a variety of Entertainments, for the Benefit of Mrs. WA Y LETT, and last Night of her Engagement. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had of Mr. JOHN FOGG, at the Theatre, each day from Eleven till Three o'Clock. Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price, half past Eight, Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. No Second Price to the Gallery. Doors to be opened at half-past Six. Performance to commence at Seven precisely. CHARITY BALL. r IHE ANNUAL BALL, i❑ aid of the Funds of the Female Orphan House, and other Catholic Charities, of Liverpool, is appointed to take place on MONDAY, the th February. RD CHALONERt; Lad Patroness, Airs. E 1 WA. —iNni,-, _ y . Tickets 10s. each, to be had at Messrs. Rockliff and Duck worth's, Castle•street; Mr. Parson's and Mr. Palmer's, Bold-street; Mr. Himes, Church-street; and at the other usual places. Doors to be opened at Half-post Eight o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We feel sorry that we have been obliged to postpone until Friday the communication of "Observer," in common with the favour3 of several other correspondents. We have not been able to procure the expected information respecting an accident at Woodside. The letter of "5.W.8." in our next. Will he favour us with his address. We must request our correspondents generally to write on one side only of their paper. They will thus save us a great deal of trouble, and more frequently insure the insertion of their letters. In consequence of the late Post-office regulations, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now dispatched by the Mail which leaves at half past Two o'clock in the morning for London, Birmingham,ManChester,4-c. This arrangement renders it necessary that Adver tisements should be sent to the Office before Eight o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. iLiberpool g..tanbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 15, 1839. NATIONAL EDUCATION.—The subject of popular education having been of late the subject of much agitation, we sincerely rejoice to find that an impor tant step has been recently taken to counteract the insidious machinations of the semi-infidels of the Cen tral Society Committee, whose avowed design it is to secularise the whole process of instruction, and to de tach the affections of the rising generation from the Established Church. We allude to a plan which has been for some time under the consideration of the Chartered National Society, and which, we believe, was originally suggested by the Bishops of London and Winchester. This plan contemplates the establish ment of " commercial schools" for the middle classes, who are generally precluded from availing themselves of the advantages connected with our public schools and universities. The scheme to which we refer em braces the following points:—First, to provide a better class of teachers, by improving the education, condi tion, and prospects of schoolmasters; secondly, to as certain and bring into notice improvements in the plans and management of schools; and, thirdly, to offer to the middle classes, on moderate terms, a gene ral and comprehensive education, based on the religi ous principles of the Established Church. To accom plish these objects, it is proposed to appoint diocesan boards of management, under the presidency of each bishop, with local boards in each deanery, or other ec clesiastical district ; and also to form a central school, attached to each cathedral, to train schoolmasters and parish clerks, and to educate the choristers. It is fur ther proposed to establish a "commercial school" in some leading town in each rural deanery. [t is a subject of congratulation that the system Of education in all these schools is to be Christian, and in strict ac cordance with the Church of England; to ensure which object, the books for instruction are to be pro vided by the National Society, with the sanction of its episcopal members. We cordially wish the society success in this stupendous and truly Christian under taking, and trust that its plans will be speedily brought to maturity, and as promptly carried into execution. INCONSISTENCY OE DISSENTERS.—We have re marked that the Dissenters have been extremely busy of late in urging upon the attention of the public and the legislature the necessity of a national system of education; that is, a comprehensive scheme of instruc tion on certain principles involving a compulsory tax _ . upon the nation for its support. They have also ma nifested considerable alacrity in coming forwards in support of some legislative enactment on the subject of the better observance of the Sabbath—likewise in volving the principle of arbitrary interference with the so-called " civil and religious liberty and equality" for which they so earnestly contend. Now all this is grossly inconsistent with their professions in reference to a national church establishment. In reference to the Church of England they are uncompromising vo luntaries; but as regards the public observance of the Lord's Day, and the education of the poorer classes, they distinctly and unequivocally admit that the state has a right to tax its subjects for the maintenance of institutions in a way which "infringes" (to use the canting phraseology of the Dissenters) upon the con sciences of those who may object to such an imposi• Lion. These immoderately scrupulous and tenderly conscientious Sectarians have no objection at all to the passing of an act of Parliament to prevent the infidel from opening his shop on the Sabbath—to preclude the public offices of the country from transacting any busi ness on the same day—and to deprive the great mass of the community of the pleasure of frequenting the theatres and other places of public amusement on the same day ; but they shrink with instinctive horror from giving their sanction to any enactment for pro viding for the public worship of the Almighty. They see no harm in advocating a measure of national in struction against which the Papist, the Socinian, the Jew, and the Infidel equally exclaim, and against which the members of the Church of England—em bracing three-fourths of the population of Great Bri tain—most solemnly protest ; they would impose a compulsory tax on the public for the support of the Lancasterian schools, thus objected to ; but against a legislative recognition of a national church they con tend with untiring zeal and energy. How can they reconcile these inconsistencies ? PUSEY ISM AND POPERY.—We learn from the New castle Journal that, at a public dinner, given, a few days since, to a Mr. R. Turnbull, of that place, the following, amongst other toasts, were given :—" His Holiness the Pope, the Father of the Christian World" —" The People of England"—" Mr. Charles Ladd n"—"—and " Mr. (Dr.) Pusey and the Church of England Reformers at Oxford, and thanks to them for their excellent tracts." We confess that we felt no surprise whatever when we saw this ominous announcement. It is just what might have been ex pected by • any one conversant with the " Tracts for the Times." It is only an echo of the language and sentiments of Dr. Wiseman and his colleagues, to which we have already given publicity. But when we find clergymen in the Church of England, and those occupying high and responsible stations, thus complimented as valuable auxiliaries to the Church of Rome, we think it is high time that the clergy of the Anglican Church, who hold the strong anti-Papal doctrines of the Reformation, should publicly and ge nerally repudiate the dangerous tenets of the Puseyite section. It is also highly necessary, in order to arrest the further spread of this heresy, especially among the laity, that the orthodox clergy 6hould denounce it from the pulpit. The more distant from Popery we are re moved the nearer shall we approximate to the truth. Let, then, the suspicious advances of the Oxford di vines to the apostate Church of Rome be made the subject of reiterated appeals to our congregations. THE CHARTIST AGITATION. —The arrest of Ste. phens does not appear to have deterred the ultra-radical leaders from pursuing the course of their agitation, or to have caused them to be less truculent in their lan guage. A meeting was held last week at Manchester, preparatory to a general meeting of the delegates of the " National Convention" for Lancashire, Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, and the West Riding of Yorkshire ; at which several most violent and inflam matory speeches were delivered. Mr. Richardson de nounced petitioning, and said that they would petition no longer, but demand what they wanted. A Mr. Peter Bussey said that they would convince their rulers that they were Englishmen ; and that, like their fa- thers in the days of Alfred, they had their firelock, and knew how to use it! Well done, Peter ! This is the first intimation we have ever seen that firelocks sere in use at such an early period of British his tory. But the most outrageous harangue was deli vered by a man named George Julian Harney, who was introduced as the representative of Northumber land. This firebrand remarked, that when they heard of the arrest of Stephens, the " lads of Northumber land" sent delegates to " the canny lads of Newcas• tle," to know if they were to begin ; and that they had the greatest difficulty in prevailing on the dele gates to go back, and say they were not to begin till their leaders should give them the signal if necessary. They were met to petition ; but he was opposed to pe titioning tyrants for mercy, when they ought to take justice themselves. He was resolved, with Bussey, not to sign a petition ; but he held this petition to be a demand—to be a sort of notice to quit; and if the scoundrels did- not go forth from their house, they would put them out. Let their tyrants understand that they, the three millions of fighting men, demanded this. It mattered not how many signed it, unless they held in one hand the petition, and the pike and the musket in the other. They must convince them by the sword. He would tell the cotton lords the deterrnina- tion of the spirit of the north ; and he would tell those who would be assembled in London, in February, the tools of the cotton lords, that if they refused to give them justice—if they violated the hall of their national convention—if they dispersed the assembled dele gates—if they resisted their chosen chieftain—if they dared to cause the arrest of Stephens a second time— then he would tell these cotton lords they would give their flesh to the eagles and their• roof's• to the flames. If their oppressors began the reign of terror, they would bring terror on their oppressors—they would have universal sufi•age, or war to the knife. These cold-blooded threats of a reign of terror, with its accompanying massacres, have been tolerated for many months past by the present government. The foul incendiaries who have given utterance to them have been allowed, time after time, to escape with im- punity. But why need we wonder? Do not the li beral ministers of the day connive at the more trea sonable and atrocious language of O'Connell and his precursory satellites in Ireland ? Do they not offer the premium of perfect impunity—nay, of absolute favour—on the actual perpetration of all the horrible deeds threatened by the chartist agitators? To be consistent, Lord John Russell must bring his dear friend and supporter, Daniel O'Connell, to the gal lows, before he can crush the treason of the ultra-ra dicals. DEFEAT OF THE MANCHESTER CORPORATORS. — The faction that recently obtained a charter incorporating the town of Manchester, and therewith the manifold blessings of an essentially " liberal" Town Council, sustained last week a most signal and mortifying de feat. It appears that they had recently applied in vain to the Finance Committee of the Commissioners of Police for the use of the Town-hall. Imagining that the committee did not speak the sentiments of the great body of commissioners, they got up a notice, signed by 77 of the 240 Commissioners, convening a meeting for the purpose of considering an application for the appropriation of the Town Hall to the meet ings of the medley of Socinians, Papists, Quakers, and Infidels, who compose that august body, the corporation of Manchester. Great pains were taken, it seems, to muster a majority in favour of this concession ; but all was in vain—they might as well have tried to "call spirits from the vasty deep" as to get a majority capa ble of stultifying themselves by acknowledging the validity of the Charter, which would have been the effect of granting the use of the Town Hail for the transaction of Police business. The application was, no doubt, a deep-laid scheme for entrapping the Police Commissioners into such an acknowledgment, which would have been fatal to any opposition to the Charter in a court of law. However, the manoeuvre has failed: the Commissioners rejected the application by a majority of 102 to 92. We are glad to find from the Manchester Courier, that the opposition to the 1 1 charter is likely to prove successful. INSULT TO THE BRITISH FLAG.—We are not all surprised to learn that another deliberate insult has been offered to the British flag by a foreign power. Such occurrences have, unhappily, become so common of late years, and have been submitted to by our government with so much tameness and apparent un concern, that the wonder is, not that our national flag has been insulted, but that it should, in any case, be respected as in former times. The dishonour to which we now allude took place at Mexico, where the French squadron fired upon the Sl►eldrake packet, she having at the time her ensign and pendant distinctly flying. The correspondent of the Standard, in detailing the circumstances, says that they must " doubtless create no small sensation in England." So they undoubtedly would, if we had any other than the present reckless and pusillanimous tools of O'Connell in office. From the same source we understand that our superlatively imbecile ministry hole been so culpably and unpardon ably oblivious of the mercantile interests of Great Britain, as to have ordered only one British man-of war to Mexico, where the French have now a large squadron at anchor. What has become of our splendid navy—our numberless ships in commission—the mari time force "which was never in a better condition than it is at present ?" Can no more than a solitary man of-war be spared for such an important station ? Alas ! how is our country humbled, degraded, and despoiled! When shall we again regain that proud position which the British nation was accustomed to occupy ? TIIE ANTI-CORN-LAW AGITATION.—Other topics of agitation having failed in producing any popular ef fect, the place-loving liberals and their despicable sycophantic adherents have flixed upon the Corn Laws as one of the main points of • attack upon the constitutional party, during the approaching session of parliament. The ballot was for a season tried, — but the British public recoiled at such a deliberate insult to their independence. The extension of the franchise was also proposed as a suitable topic for popular agitation; but the electors who obtained the right of voting under the Reform . Bill soon found out that such a scheme must be considered as a robbery of their dearly-acquired rights. The national education nostrum, on the principle of excluding religious in struction, was next mooted by the self-styled liberal philosophers; but this also was discovered to be re pulsive to the Christian feelings of Englishmen. As a dernier resort the Corn Laws have been finally adopted as the subject of radical agitation- Accord ingly, we find the leading ministerial journals—the degraded hacks in the service and pay of ministers — and the whole liberal press throughout the kingdom, continually harping upon this one subject. There can be no mistake on this point. The pre sent agitation against the Corn Laws is essentially a liberal expedient to strengthen the hands of the minis ters by intimidating the landed and agricultural inter ests, and by exciting unfounded prejudices among the town constituencies. This will be evident if we con sider for a moment the present position of the minis try. Their sole reliance at present is upon the ava ricious fundholders and manufacturers—backed by the O'Connell tail, and the infidel radicals of Scotland. The working classes of England and Wales they have totally alienated from them, whilst the great bulk of the landed proprietary, and all who have their capital invested in fixed property are in hostile array against them. What are they to do in this perplexing pre dicament ? Their baits have not taken—their cajolery has been thrown away—their trickery has been too transparent to deceive—their situation has become more and more precarious—their bungling mismanage ment of the affairs of Canada, and the untoward events which have recently taken place in that colony, have excited the public disgust—their cowardly neglect of British interests in all parts of the globe has produced a redetion against theta which threatens to involve them in still more awkward difficulties. What then do they propose to do in order to appease the general and increasing dissatisfaction which has been mani fested against them, and to extricate themselves from the dilemma in which they are placed ? Nothing less than this—they intend to sacrifice the landed interest of the country—the main support of every other in terest—to the mammon of the monied aristocracy: in other words, they mean to seal the ruin of old Eng land, for the sake of purchasing a few more years' pay. It is of no use to seek to persuade us that the objects of the anti-corn-law agitators are not political, by pointing to the numbers of highly respectable Conser vatives who have arrayed themselves in favour of a free trade in grain. Such 'Conservatives may little suspect that the cunning Whigs—whose only wisdom lies in their low cunning—are making tools of them to serve their own party purposes. We warn them that they will find out their error when it is too late, unless they immediately retrace their steps, and leave the work of destruction in the hands of the fittest in struments for its performance—the Radical political economists. We have been led to make these remarks from per ceiving that the Mayor has convened a meeting, to be held to-morrow in the Sessions House for the purpose of taking the Corn Laws into consideration. What ever resolutions may be originated at the intended meeting we feel every assurance that the liberals have prompted the requisition. We, therefore, warn our conservative friends that if the liberals are enabled to carry their cut-and dry resolutions on the occasion, a signal blow will be struck at the cause of conserva tism itself. If the conservatives of Liverpool mean to be faithful to their principles THEY MUST CRUSH THIS FRESH ATTEMPT OF THE RADICALS TO OBTAIN THE ASCENDANCY. What is the alleged ground for the interference with the present settlement of the corn trade ? Is it not that the manufacturing interests suffer from the pro tective duties on the importation of grain ? In what way do they suffer ? Of course they must be in re ceipt of an inadequate return upon their capital in comparison with the agricultural interests. But is this the case ? Far, very far, indeed from this. The statistical accounts which are considered most entitled to credit state, that the property invested in land and farming stock amounts to £2,971,756,670. And what is the annual return upon this enormous capital ? Only £470,029,688, whilst the yearly profit upon the comparatively small sum of £201,000,000, invested in manufactures, amounts to £262,085,199. Who, in looking at the immense disparity of profits represented by these figures can have the hardihood to assert that the manufacturing interest is destitute of protection. It is a notorious fact that landed property rarely produces more than three or four per cent. Would the manufacturer be satisfied with this ? As to the cry of " cheap bread" which is addressed to the ears of the labouring classes, to enlist then] in favour of this liberal crusade against the landed in terest, we treat it with ineffable contempt. Such lan guage can only be uttered by a fool or a knave, and is calculated to deceive no one but an inmate of a lunatic asylum. The real object in view, as we have said before, is to prop up a tottering administration. THE VICTORIA STEAM TUG.—In another part of our paper we have given insertion to a letter from the Solicitor of the Steam Tug Company, relative to a statement which appeared in our paper of Tuesday last. On the authority of the mate of the Lockwoodg, unfortunately wrecked during the late gales, we cen svred the conduct of the Captain of the Victoria Steam Tug, for demanding remuneration for their services in rescuing their fellow-creatures from a watery grave. On the inquest, the mate thought proper to deny this statement, and accused us of giving publicity to false hood. The fact, however, is of a simple nature, and will be readily understood by the following explana tion :—The publisher of this journal was introduced to the mate and a gentleman passenger, who willingly offered to furnish any particulars connected with the wreck which it might be desirable to publish. This information was communicated in the presence of 10 or 12 persons, who have cheerfully offered to substan tiate the statement as it appeared in this paper. But the general opinion is, that it was the passenger and not the mate who complained of the Captain and crew of the Victoria, and this complaint has been confirmed by the gentleman himself. However, the mate was present, and at least virtually concurred in all that was said by the passenger, which we hope will justify the remarks we made. Of the Captains in charge of the company's boats, we wish to speak in the highest terms, and we regret that we had not time to make the necessary enquiries, but that the late hour at which we received the statement rendered it impossible. THE LATE HURRICANE.—We regret that we are under the necessity of postponing until Friday our re• marks upon the late destructive hurricane, together with several other original articles, which we had in tended for insertion in our present publication. We refer, with pleasure, to the list of donations and sub scriptions which appears in our advertising columns, in aid of the sufferers by the late awful calamity. At the same time we are constrained to exclaim, where is the contribution of the wealthy corporation of Li verpool ? Alas! that radical reform should have pre cluded such an influential body from subscribing to wards such a commendable fund. THE LIVERPOOL HUMANE SOClETY.—Upwardsof £3.000 have been subscribed towards the objects of this society. We trust that the subscription will be rapidly and consider ably augmented. EASTMAN FEnnv.—Some evil disposed person having given rise to a statement that one of the Eastham packets had been lost during the late gale, and such report having gained a wide circulation, Mr. Smith, the proprietor of the Ferry, has issued a circular contradicting the statement, and informs the public that not one of his packets, or any person on board of them, received the slightest injury during the storm. LOSS OF AN IRON STEAM-VESSEL — The Glasgow Consti• tutional of Wednesday notices that the iron steam-boat Tor , bert Castle, having encountered a breeze of wind in one o the Highland lochs, had been totally wrecked. Crew saved —Chronicle. "THE LAND OF MY BIRTH. "--This is the title of a new patriotic song, composed by Dr. Raffles, and set to music by Mr. George Hargreaves, whose talents as a composer are held in high repute. The melody is beautifully simple and well adapted to inspire those patriotic sentiments which the Reverend author has laboured to produce. It is a sufficient recommendation that both the writer and the compos er have endeavoured to give to this song a truly national character. The subject is the advantages and glory of England, and its music richly partakes of the English School. HONESTY BADLY REWARDED.—Thomas Upsion, a 1R- 1 bouring man, well known in the neighbourhood of Wallasey, was the person who picked up the body of Mr. Parsons, of Manchester, and found a gold watch on his person, and upwards of one hundred pounds in his pocket, which he care fully watched till the body was claimed, when the property was delivered likewise in the state in which Upsion found it, for which act of honesty he was only rewarded with ten shil lings! It is to be hoped the friends of Mr. Parsons, or the Liverpool Humane Society, will afford him some more satis factory proof of their approbation of his conduct. Inquiries may be made at the Cheshire Cheese, Wallasey, as to the fact, and Upsion's general good character. THE CARGOES OF THE WRECKED VESSELS.—PeopIe have been busy, since the subsidence of the storm, in saving goods from the vessels stranded during the tempest. Bootle Bay has for several days, been crowded with revenue officers, por ters, and carters, with their lorries, unloading the Oxford and other vessels wrecked there. Flats and other craft have pro ceeded to the wrecks on the Banks, for the purpose of bring ing up as much of their cargoes as can he saved. The cargo of the St: Andrew will, we believe, be landed in better con dition than could reasonably have been expected. The woolen goods will Ile quite spoiled, but those of silk and cotton, though damaged, will be in tolerable condition. As the hull of the Pennsylvania has, from the first, been under water at flood tide, her cargo is, of course, very seriously da maged, whilst no small quantity of it has been plundered by the wreckers, who selected this ship as their especial prey. We are assured, that the value of their cargoes on board the St. Andrew and the Pennsylvania was not less than £400,000, and might reach £500,000. The Crusader's cargo is valued at from £60,000 to £70,000; and other of the stranded vessels had valuable cargoes on board. SHREWSBURY AND LONDON RAMWAY.—We perceive, from a long and excellent report in the ShrewsburD News of Saturday last, that on Thursday a meeting of the projectors of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway was held at the Shire-hall, Shrewsbury, at which the Mayor, (Mr. R. ) ord) presided; and Lord Clive, Lord Hill, Sir IL Hill, Mr. R. A. Slaney, M.P., Sir J. Edwards, M.P., Colonel Wingfield, and many other gentlemen were present, to provide a direct line of communication between Loudon and Dublin. The chairman said he had received a letter from the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway, in which they had expressed their determination to supporta to the best of their ability. On the motion of Lord Clive a resolution was put and:carried unanimously to the effect, "That PorthDynllaen, in Carnarvonshire, is the most desirable position fur a packet station to Ireland, (it being also strongly recommended for a harbour of refuge, so much required on the Welsh coast,) and that by the formation of a line of railway from that port by Bala and Shrewsbury, to the Grand Junction at or near Wolverhampton, the best and most expeditious railway corn munication from London to Dublin would be obtained. The noble lord said, that from the terrible war of elements we have just experienced, and the great losses which have en sued on the Welsh coast, and in the neighbourhood of Li verpool, so far as we can ascertain them, it is peculiarly in cumbent upon us to establish, if possible, a port of refuge on that coast. A deputation, consisting of the Mayor, the Hon. R. Clive, M.P., Sir J. Edwards, Mr. Ormsby - Gore, Mr. M. Williams, and Mr. 'l'. Penson, were then appointed to at tend the meeting in Dublin on this subject, which is fixed for the 19th instant, and the meeting having given three en thusiastic cheers fur Lord Hill, separated: CORRESPONDENCE. ST. ANN'S CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—Do you not think the better feelings of our nature were wantonly outraged by the reckless and coarse senti ments expressed by a certain alderman, respecting St. A nn ' s Church and the burial ground, at the late council ? if the removal he advised was ever seriously contemplated, it was no doubt long since abandoned. as impracticable, —many, many cogent reasons having demonstrated that such a pro ceeding was far indeed from being desirable. He reminds me of a sweeping innovator who last year proposed a similar destruction of valuable Church of England property, for the sake of acquiring (taking Manchester for example) a retired and unimportant locality, to be called " St. Ann's-square." His folly, however, met with a suitable rebuff by the answer his precious scheme elicited in the Liverpool Courier. But, Sir, we bold that church as private property, and even if he could repeal our title to it by a new act of parlia ment, certainly we could demand both a high pecuniary compensation and every other decent arrangement, if the strange and Herculean plan be chosen of transferring the numbrless interments to some other place. In conclusion, with all due deference to Alderman —, I will ask one question, far from entertaining any other principle than the desire to overcome evil with good. We will suppose some of his dearest friends entombed s in St. Nicholas' Church-yard—his own honoured father for instance, (a gentleman who in life was highly respected by all who knew him,)—how would he feel if ere long some inconsiderate member of the council should labour to recommend an act to be expedient, from our important commercial relations, that the Old Church and the burial-ground should immediately be converted into a new dock `a' I can only say with Hamlet, "Angels, and ministers of grace, defend us !"—for 'tis "most horrible I remain, Sir, yours respectfully, A PART OWNER. OF ST. ANN'S CHURCH. Liverpool, January llth, 1839. STEAM TUG VICTORIA. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sr a.— D uring periods of great excitement, various rumours are afloat as to the occurrences of the day ; some of which are true, some partly so, and others totally without founda tion; and I am aware of the difficulty which the editor of a newspaper, in catering for the information and gratification of his readers, has to encounter, is discerning which are true and which are false. I am willing to make every allowance for such difficulty when no circumstances or opportunities arise whereby the truth or falsehood of such rumours may be easily ascertained; but where the character of individuals is at stake, I hold it to be the imperative duty of an editor of a newspaper before publishing such a rumour to make strict enquiry as .to its truth or falsehood. I ajn led to make the foregoing observations in consequence of a paragraph which appeared in the Liverpool Standard of Friday, the 11th instant, charging the crew of the steam-tug Victoria, said to be on the authority of the mate of the Lockwoods, with having shamefully abandoned that vessel under a pretence of not having coal sufficient' to carry her to Liverpool, and threatening to abandon the wreck unless a sufficient remuneration was given them; and with using hard and unfeeling language to the crew and passengers. Now, Sir, the truth or falsehood of such statement might have been ascertained had you made enquiry at the' Steam Tug office; or if you had referred to the Liverpool Mail of Thursday last, which I have no doubt was then lying upon your desk, you would there have found the statement of the master of the Victoria of what had really taken place, which should, at least in my 'opinion, have raised a doubt in your mind whether what you were then writing was the truth or not. The intuitive bravery, and fearless and humane conduct of Captain Eccles, whenever thare is a chance of saving human life, are too well known amongst the seamen of this port to need my pen to defend them : but when such unfounded calumnies are protnulgated to the world and read by those who have not had the same opportunity of judging of the conduct of the captain and crew of the Victoria, during the continuance of the late gale on Tuesday and Wednesday last; who, at the imminent peril of their own lives, saved the lives of one hundred and four of their fellow creatures, I think it my duty to disabuse the minds of those who have been impressed with such acts of unfeeling cruelty, on the part of the crew of the Victoria. For such purpose then, I must here insert an extract from the evidence of the mate of the Lockwoods, taken before the coroner on cross-examination by me, on the inquest held over he bodies of those that were unfortunately drowned. "I never heard either the Captain of the Victoria, or any 'of her crew, ask any fee or reward for taking any person 'on board either whilst alongside of the wreck or at any "other time. They treated me with great kindness. if any 'man has stated that I told him that either the master or the `crew threatened to abandon the wreck. unless sufficient re ' touneration was given, or that they used hard -and unfeeling `language to the crew and passengers, it is false." I make no apology for requesting the insertion•of thisletter n your paper of Tuesday, believing it to .be only an act of ustice on your part to do so. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, PETER WRIGHT. Liverpool, 14th January, 1839. ~a~l=bw GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST,IND.IRD. hope the decision come to at,the meeting has ter minated all differences, and that this noble and national un dertaking will be allowed to proceed to its conclusion without further interruption. The directors have promised to exercise the utmost economy and despatch, and I willingly believe them. That the line will be opened fifty miles from London, in a few months, I have no doubt, while the portion between Bath and Bristol will be completed this year is equally cer- ' tain ; and if we may believe in the engagements of contrac tors and engineers the whole line, excepting the Box tunnel, will be read} , for traffic early next year. The performances of the engines on this line show what really can be accom plished, and facts, despite theories, assure us that a higher rate of speed than is obtained on other lines can be obtained on this at a comparatively t►ifling expenditure. The results of the meeting must satisfy all,rational,minds that the, direc tors, in persevering with the wide guage, have decided pro perly and prudently. My own experience on this line con vinces me that it will far surpass every other already formed. The excellent gradients, and the improvements adopted and contemplated. with the capabilities of the engines, promise the most profitable results. Should the line be much more expensive than is calculated upon, such is (and when com pleted it must he materially increased) the traffic, that a tri fling addition to the fares (which would still be very much inferior to the charge by coach) would afford an ample inte rest on the outlay. The revenue from goods alone must be enormous. In addition to these prospects, I have the satis faction of knowing that in future all petty jealousies will be laid aside, and the directors and their late opponents %ill meet with friendly fellings, and that there is every proba bility that at the next election of directors a portion will be chosen from the Lancashire proprietary, which would be but just to them. The meeting next month will receive a report which must prove highly encouraging and satisfactory to every SHAREHOLDER. January 14, 1838. TO " A CLOSE OBSERVER OF THE TIMES." SIR,—You commence lour letter iu this day's by assuming that it is the increased value of lauded property throughout the country which has enabled us to pay our :axes and the interest of our national debt. You next assert that it is commercial prosperity which increases the value and the rent of land, and not the corn laws. You illustrate their position by the striking fact, that the value of Toxteth.park estate has increased from .£l7 per annum to such an extent, that the late Earl of Sefton sold a portion of it for £500,OCO; and you shrewdly conjecture that the present Earl would not sell the remaining moiety for the same large sum, (possibly not for double,) so greatly enhanced is its value from the commercial prosperity of Li verpool. You select this illustration as being within the scope of the observation of Liverpool people, but consider it applicable to the whole country. Forgetting or overlooking that you have now proved in contestably that the trade of the country has been and is in a state of unexampled prosperity, (viewing it historically,) and knowing as a close observer must do, the sudden and gigantic growth of our cotton manufacture since the peace, and now increasing wore rapidly than the raw article can be produced, and making such immense fortunes to the manu facturers, that like the inflated Mr. Gregg, par example! they must seek for new worlds wherein to employ their sur plus capital! Overlooking, I say, the wonderful commercial prosperity which your fact proves, you suddenly wheel round, and, mirabile dictu, hope that "neither her Majesty's Mi nisters, nor yet the landed interest of England, will persist in the fatal policy which has almost ruined (teste Toxteth Park) our country! Railways and foreign. corn appear to have bewildered you into this strange nun sequitur of a conclusion, to which no other rational person can jump JIM CROW. Jan. 14, 1839. COPY OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS AND THE EDITOR OF THE "BURY POST." Bury St. Edmunds, 6th January, 1839. GENTLEMEN.—AS I have seen in the newspapers no een tradiction of the monstrous statement lately made by Mr. Stephens. as to some work written by a poor law commis sioner, containing . a 'project for destroying all the children of the poor over three in a family. I take the liberty of urging upon you the necessity of giVing well contradiction, being satisfied from my own observation that there is no possibility of stating any thing, however absurd, which will not be cre dited by many' of the opponents of the poor laws, and the particularity of the asset lion—that he himself had seen the book—giving it a weight which any attempt at meeting it by ridicule will fail to remove. As an ardent supporter of the general principles of the new poor law, I ant anxious to be enabled to accompany the statement by a contradietien! from . authority in my paper, ( Bury Post,) printed liii`T4sday uexs. I trust this will be deemed au excuse forms - intrusion. I am, gentlemen, yours most regpettfully,' '• • ..- (Signed) JOHNSON•GEDGE. To the Poor Law Commissioners, &c. Ste, &c. • Poor Law Commission (Vice, Somerset . Howse, 7th farinary,lB39. Stn.—The poor -law commissioners acknowledge the. re ceipt of your lette l r of the 6th instant, and . they - desire to express their thanks to you for the communication. It ds impossible for them to describe the feelings of astonishment with which they have seen the statements made by Mr. Ste phens, to which you allude, as to some work, represented by him to be written by a poor law commissioner, containing a project for destroying all the children of the poor over three in a family. Not only are those statements utterly abhorrent to their feelings, and also totally at variance with any opi nions which they have ever held or expressed, but they are unable even to guess what it is to which he alludes. Of the three poor law commissioners one has never pub lished any work whatever, either with his name or without it; and the only publications which have emanated from the others appeared many years ago, long before the poor law commission was even thought of, and contained neither a statement nor an expression which could by any ingenuity he tortured into a resemblance to such opinions as are put forth by Mr. Stephens. It cannot but be painful in the ext.retne to the commis sioners, that they should be called upon to disavow what they would willingly believe no human being could impute to them ; but if such a disavowal is necessary, they declare that no such publication has ever emanated from them, and that there do not exist persons on the face of the earth who more entirely abhor the sentiments imputed to them by Mr. Ste phens than they do. Signed by order of the hoard, E. CHADWICK, Secretary. Johnson Gedge, Esq., Editor of the? Bury Post, Bury St. Edmunds. S SABBATH LABOUR IN THE TOWN-HALL. TO THE WORSHIPFUL HUGH HORNET', ESQ., .Ii✓IFOR. Sta,--:-Some of the barbers of Liverpool having been de sirous of enjoying the Sabbath as a day of rest, resolved to close their shops on Sundays; but were not willing to do so whilst those. less scrupulous would keep open. They then called upon the magistrates to enforce the law, so as to oblige all in the trade to abstain from business on that day. For my own part, though 1 revere'the Sabbath, I confess that my conscience did not impeach me for smoothing the chins of a few persons before church time, thereby rendering them more comely objects for a ,house of , worship. Compare our crime, in so doing, with that whitti ram about to state,' and you will be surprised that the latter had not the attention of the magistrates long before the " barbers' shops." Perhaps, Sir, you are not aware that the Sabbath is weekly -desecrated within the precincts of the Tovvn-fiall;„that the lower servants are actually engaged, on S'undays - , in clean ing and scouring, in such a way as you will find in no house in Liverpool, save in that establishment. I have witnessed these facts with my own eves, and hundieds have seen and can prove the same. Is the cleaning of that mansion so dif ficult, or of such importance, that it cannot be done either on Saturday or Monday ?—is it a case of such necessity, that the object can only be accomplished by a violation of the Lord's day? I myself can offer no reply except a downright. negative one. I am bound to conclude that you, Sir, are ignorant of such proceedings,—proceedings which would not be tolerated in any respectable house in Liverpool, or any part of England ; for I am convinced that, if von were cognizant of the facts, the practice would be instantly prOhibited. I would ask any reasonable person, whether it is not a less crime to shave a man on Sunday, thereby renderink his appearance more re• spectable and more worthy of that sacred day, than to per form that household drudgery which ought to be done on any other day than the Sabbath ? I have taken the liberty of thus freely. addressing your Worship on this not unimportant subject; - especially as many of my,profession, who would wish to keep open on Sundays, feel indignant that they should be made the victims of a law which, they insist, applies not more forcibly to bar bers than it does to the ►ower servants in the TOwn-hall.— I am, with great respect, Your Worship's most obedient servant, A BARBER AND HAIR-DRESSER. THE WOODSIDE FERRY-BOATS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST./INDARD. Sin,—On Wednesday last I forwarded a basket containing a hare to a friend at Woodside, accompanied by a note. The note was safely delivered without the hare; and on the follow ing morning I send another basket to the same party, which the crew of the steamer refused to take charge -of, I suppose in consequence of the complaints made respecting the loss of the hare. •Now, I should like to know the use of these ferry boats unless they can be made available for the safe trans misssion of parcels, &c., across.the water. Do the company always insist upon the necessity of a messenger to accompany each parcel sent by their boats,, to.see that it is safeh con veyed ?—I am, Sir, &c., . , I. J. MEETING OF THE OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATIQN. Last evening, the monthly meeting of this association was held in the School-room of St. Jude's Church; the Rev. H. iu the chair. The room was densely crowded by at least 500 operatives and their wives: The Rev. CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings with an ap propriate prayer; after which be entered into a review of the necessity which had called for, and what were the. objects of, the society. The society had been established in 1835, and its object was the diffusion of Protestant information amongst the operative classes, to counteract the effects of the prevail ing liberalism of the day in advancing Popery and infidelity. One of the most fashionable arguments of the liberals of the present day, on the subject of religion, was, that all profes sions of religion were alike efficacious with God in saving men from everlasting death, if they were professed and acted upon with sincerity. This was a grand mistake. 'Sincerity was not identical with truth : there might be sincerity in error. What said the Holy Ghost in Proverbs? " There is a way which seerneth right - to a man; but it leadeth unto death." He had an uncle who had been in India, who told him an anecdote of a Hindoo, who made a vow, that if he was preserved from some calamity, he Would keep his hand shut and never open it. The man was preserved and kept his vow; and his nails grew and grew till they entered-his flesh, and finally came out at the back of his hand. (Ex pressions or horror.) The man was sincere, but was he right in so acting? "There was a way which seemed right to the man ; but it led him to death." (flear;•hear.) The rev. chairman then went on to detail the origin of our title as Protestants. There had originall been a' pure church at Rome, to which St. Paul wrote one of his epistles— the Epistle to the Romans ; but gradually- error crept into it, till it became as it were one mass of corruption. (Hear.) 'their forefathers had protested against these abuses, and established another church on the pure doctrines of the original church, and hence were called Protesters or Pro testants. 'That energy with which their forefathers bad for merly acted in putting down these abuses in vital Christianity, hail, by the canting liberalism of the day,tecorne undermined, and Popery, with all its corruption, was again creeping in amongst us. It behoved them,;therefore-, to associate together to convince the people of this, and again to raise a'resolute cry rif "No Popery."—{Great cheering.) He was happy to say-that the association was in a flourishing state; it had not, however, been so efficient as it might have been : • but that they might not associate Without any object, and produce no result from their labours; the-committee - had engaged•an agent, at a salary of 00 a-year, for which-they became personally responsible, to strenuously forward the objects of the associa tion, and carry but the views of the committee, in the distri bution of tracts, the organization of oommittees, Sm.. The rev. gentleman thenl adverted to the advantage of public ad dresses; and advised those who might have to speak to re frain from treading on general topics, .but to stick to facts; to avoid hard words, and have instead soft words and hard ar guments; that was the way to win over those who were op posed to them in opinion. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Watson, Mr. Myers, and other speakers, whOproposeclresolutions forward ing the objects of the society. 5 We have to regret that the la'ieness of the hour, and the new post-office regulations, byiVhich we are obliged to go early to press, prevent us givideany more lengthened report. THE BOLTON POLICE.—We understand that -Inspector Simpton, of the Liverpool police force, has been appointed to the office .of Superintendent of the Bolton police, lately established. • • THE LIVER THEATRE.—Airs. Waylett has been singing and playing during the last Week at this theatre, - in most of her stock characters, and to excellent houses. It has been suggested; and, we believe, +willingly acceded ( ' to , by• Mrs. Waylett, that an evening should be •appropriated for-•the benefit of the sufferers from the late , hurricane, at which Mrs. Waylett will give her valuable services. As this - may be the means of adding a 'cOnsiderable'sum to the fund already raised, we hope the idea mayle Carried out. We doubt not, also, that if the lessee of the Theatre Royal vrere,applied to, that for one night, for such an object, he would 'grantthe use of his theatre. There could be no doubt Of tne'object being successful in drawing a,very crowded bre Da. THOIIBURN'S. LECTURES ON 1 - ?IIYSIOLUGY u t;ip THE LAWS 'OF HEALTH.—Dr. Thortnirn : .cppeloe,dis„h • igl:ily in teresting and instructive course of leAuf#s,, 9pi .-S;Fiday,dast, and again addressed a large audience. ; ..NYR that no course of lectures, delivered at the Institute, as; more generally .attractive and instroctive . . ; "klink;h*.s,been abun .dantiv proved by the very crowded audiences that have at tended. it. From this ." touch" we. have had of .11r. Thor burn's :" duality," and the abundant proof of.his.capabijity and fitness to dress knowledge and extensive infoimatiou in the garb of beauty, and win admirers from the listleSs throng, we venture to hope that he will not act like a jilting fair;and • leave.us thus in regret; but trust that he.willaolluw out this sphere of usefulness which be .has opened.. hope soon again to be one of his admiring, auditory. • , QUEEN'S THEATnii.—Mr. Parish, the manager of this theatre, has liberally offered to the Committee of the Hurri cane ociety to appropriate a night for the benefit of. the distressed suffeters by the late hurricane. The offer has been accepted by the committee, and the nightof Friday next has been fixed upon for the performance. It•is utterly unneces sary we feel assured, to call•urion- our townsmen to seize the opportunity of contributing, by their attendance, to the fund which is raising for so praiseworthy and charitable a purpose, or to request that they will bear , in , mind the generosity of Mr. Parish. p ttstift . CONVEYANCE HOME OF 'Sijit'Enati. 'Flt 'old Tilt 'LATE STORM.—The City of thiblin 'Steam Packet 'Company, and' the St. George Steam Packet Company; have very liberally agreed to convey free, by their boats, such persons as are left' to a state - of destitution by the gales, and who wish to return home, en a certificate being granted• by the - chdirin'aii or secretary of the Humane Society. Such persons will 'have an opportunity of returning to the following places:i-To Portrush, by the , Coleraine; Cork. by'the Margaret ,•' Lon donderry, by the Robert Napier;' GlasgoW, by the ikelmon, Unicorn, Commodore, and City of Glasgow; helfast, by the Reindeer and Falcon. VISIT TO .rriaf SCENES or THE WIIECES.—Ever since the' fatal morning of Monday last, the.NortlShore,,strtived as it is with wrecked vessels, has been the scene ofgreat'attrac tion. On Sunday, however, the ivhule shore, from the Cla rence Dock to Crosby Point, literally swarmed WithAisitors. Thousands upon thousands, on foot, on horseback,,an gigs and coaches, visited it, ,and the beach presented a. must ani mated appearance. The business of discharging the stranded vessels was carried on,, paricularly at low water, when the, tide left them dry, with great activity, and the, spectators around them, especially around the Oxford, were as thick - as flies lump of sugar. The weather was rather tempe:•tu ous, and, about four o'clock, a heavy fall of rain came which drenched and dispersed the multitude. The sands were cleared by the operation of the rain in .. an iucredihly short space of time... 'Ore visitors to. the Cheshire shore, %,vue nu merous, but few compared with the nuMber, that visited the Lancashire sands. " ANOTHER INSTANCE, OF THE PRACTICAL „LIBERALITY Ok LORD FRANCIS •EGERTON.—We understand that, the sub scription for the relief of 11w sufferers _by the late dreadful storm at sea amounted, yesterday afternoon, to upwards of .1:3000. On reference to another culumnrit will be seen that Lord Francis Lgerion has forwarded. to the Mayor the noble contribution of £ioo, to be added to the fund., A suggestion has been made to us, which we think worthy of. ate deepest attention from the committee, —namely, that any surplus, atter the sufferers have been relieved, and the brave iellows, who risked their lives for the rescue of the shipwreCked par ties, have been properly rewarded, shouldbe appropriated as the commencement of a permaneutfund, ty meet future cases bf , a similar:description.;. and' that, in aid of such fund, ship- OWneri should agree to pay, when clearing acthiCustom-, house where some officer.might tie appointed as receiver and t reastirlithe t . elloiving sums respectively for their vessels,— iii , ei biul tigs per ship, three shillings perbrig, •and one shil ling, „ lc ', tot coasters, The charge proposed.wosild be an i e l li ifi c 4o4ritle compared with the satisfactionAlich all ~7,l4s ek itt h irving a fund in readiness to.ineet s -vacrsencies 0 7,:jikc i unfortunate character. We are 5ure 15 ,4114 Lord FrarreircEstettou would greatly rejoice were such an event t o :bellie consequence of this instance of his splendid lihera lity..--,Mod of Saturday,-- . -The subscriptions to.this praise worthy fund amounted yesterday, as will be seen in another part of our paper u to nearly £4OOO. . , • • Charles Kean has been 'engaged by \Vallack, the lessee of the National Theatr e i n N w York,.to act 50 nights, fur which he is to receive at) fur each night's performance. . _ The Commander-in-Chief in India has been pleased to appoint Colonel J. ThackeVell,. of the 3d Light Pta goons, to take rank as-Major General, by brevet,An:the East Indies only.• Commission to be-dated on the 10th-of Janu, arv, 1837. - Orders have been given for the sail-Makers in ifire several dockyards to be employed by task and job froth :life Ist of January to the 31st of March next, and to be paid unlimited earnings. We understand that Mr. Dunn, the Irish bargister," who was committed fur want df sureties to keep khe.peace towards Miss Burdett, has been liberated from pr►son, on..application made to Lord Denman, grounded on an infuren'ality in the commitment.—/Iforniog Chronicle. LORD MULGRAVE'S morpt,conspicuous per sons at the levee yeSierthayovere, DatlielQ'o - ntiell.. Morgan O'Counell, Robert N.,,V.y..qu, .ot; Galway', -theigi*.ed bar rister, Peter Purcell, ang., ex-Sheriff Veevero.,,, o We are obliged to postpone a uublif f iitinf the list,, l butfit..,oall not be lost to our readers. Sir John Awdry, it is said; isto succeed Sir Herhett Comp ton as Chief Justice of Belisha3i,luctri Air. Henry' Ropet is appointed to succeed Sir lit?aid. ADMIRABLE RettuNE.—Lest I should forget to mention it, I put down here a rebuke, - Which, later in - his" life, Sir Walter once gave, in my heariWg,sto liia'daughter Anne. She happened to say of ~ ,i etbing,'lTufget What, that she could not abide it—ii wits t , i4,lar::• 4l tcs4*ii7ei," . said her fa ther, tl speak - like 'a very voting 'ktiovr, after all, tht , Meaning of this word 'yoty-iti,l*-7-Tis:ftiotn.l.dVecsoenti.ve to mon. Nothing that is comm on , exc e pt Wii-kedftWO,t be spoken of in a tone of ecinterhO 'anti.. When - , Ou have lived to my years, you will be'disposed to azree Ni , ith me in thanking God that nothing really worth havinglir caring about in this world is uncrmlizon.tockhart's Life of Scott.