The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

brought • a,p an oppo himself mations of the Corn Lord Lin reform ! with vi cation of us cheap blindfi their fall but I from h notion " the co not of Lincoln R colour a government agriculture ; 1 linst every TO CORRESPONDENTS Mainly have appeared I N leis will r n accord onl COMMI a position amor, >se who had to ti d Lincoln, on !counts plays is lerhaps an e trly I,st his ttaches to it, is ,ard Lord I exponent of the , en main clown er , the d bles us to tion in We propose here s in CM or two upon some at some pains to refute a charge that he has been all his life en to a charge c Did not ti to be at this, he lays been acting Lg very government, from the ion, commence that great econorni linated , in the repeal of the corn with some exela- that this refc Orm, was not of recent date, Dth 1 in the year 1842 n in that gov most ew ment, I gal ,nd most zealous sup- An would not have it to be 'probable t , ermination. Rather, -the Repeal of cipitated by having been pre hilst urging forward lywas the secret kept by s that it was orit " great economical ;ricultural mind I I you loo: teachen len, are teachers within t I should a. I b to both one and the other, the qualit t, and the charact Reading and It the limns to education, not educaCiOn itself it the instruments, and unless you teach th !lave of scho for teact h in t a system of )m the pr to a q they set. thei THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. mses in order, recognized and at- dependants, you i voured count .esuit of t 1 ;Val v(i. Ti;., sere d 3 be— Mr. Ald is was a q of far too e to ti ad, at tt at every information rid that by no i upon ", i pu .." I Ire glad to hear that th the grounds, I ity in a position of lareho. no difficulty in of the lin, onerous. be, we are not in to the .obably t a question .e with his by the di he re- vineed me, by th a t asser ti on , th a t th e education is suffi blem?,n and aentlemen of Ireland taken the course, MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS IN THE dent ; nay, even if you prove to me that those school*. are years ago; upon which SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY - 1 1 attended, and that a lame per centag - e of the popula- . they seem now bent ; _ had f paup , looked to the proper cultivation j rooms; for the purpose of - determining upon the proprit. of the soil, originated measures of emigration or 1 of aiding the effort resolved upon by a similar meeting, o' ionizati on , f os t ere d commerce , s hi pp i ng , fish held in Man c h es t er l as t wee k, to procure a change i n t h e ' body of influential holders were in attendance. Mr. C Illbry naturally as great as those of the most fa- Charles Holland was moved to the chair, and Mr. "les of Europe, their present suffering Townley acted as secretary. It was requested by the lan Nicol, the number of their sha;;3, and be area to pay whatever small pro rata sum might be red to meet the expenses likely to be in he meeting had been called owing to the great dissa ion existing amongst the Liverpool shareholders the management of the Sheffield and Manchester ay. It was known that a large traffic was ready to upon the line ; but it was prevented doing so by the .cy of the accommodation provided, although, if It means were at hand, the railway would be a The chairman referred to the of Manelleider shareholtlars. and stated that he to be given by them to the board, who would co-olierate in the carrying out of any reasonable Steps recommended, and that a committee had been appointed who would report. He then called upon Mr. Alderman Nicol to move the first resolution. r. NICOL, in introducing the resolution, stated that Id come to the' meeting very imper is which its promoters had ly acquainted 's were disposed to receive ►lders favourably, and had ting was of opinion that energy on rs was all that was regtiire he meeting in Man had had much correspondence with the had been met by him in a most candid /um with a list of parties eligible to be appointed directors, and he believed they would be most happy to have some new blood infused amongst them. With respect to the traffic, he was convinced that the merchandi ,e could be doubled in three or six months. Their deficiency of ac commodation at the station was at present a great hin ' ce to them. They had, however, bought a warehouse t. They had 1842. But :rent" of a silks and cheap gloves, how lied that the appli principle would ultimately give There, is something tricky ad tectionists have been tickled —baited to arge ova age or the precipice -plums and cheap bijouterie ; nd his colleagues were all along and perfectly aware of the of ihi o the I tors of SOuth Not g he suddenly awoke ake of t )tectiom of public confidence), and hick the should ho post of - parliainent. hat rwould never ) vote to: pledged to protection of nat voted with that n•ernment Aim for the removal or the miti- corn ! Still, .ering to, in idence le pri ;uld indu its of boy 1 up the people in liab ail TIP IS of rvry.ll,l.-", R ,ssuecl is bringing the q me to be urge him in prefer DWI ng circ st the cor TO THE ELECTORS 0 ninr_ron fITO •I'• A %rm., _ I state, alty to t attemj )n to ur vote 9 an exp: to a I. ion of Of msider to be the vital question at issue —viz., lcessions are to be made to the Church of rfurth (" Cor 'of trucl it our duty- to inform you, that we look ur the son o upon principl .e the One powerless, its credulit )ther d (Signed on 1: s a member of the ,ional Chur whose name :is illustrious for his Itantism ; but we have been bit- L. however wawa] .e are obliged to say, ti lore his succes auction on the part of this r aich we regard as For ou would rather be Ix tray them His 101 l thinks th ;half of the Protestant Committee,) " HUGH STOWELL, President.' used to a ten hours' b millowners and their operative amongst themselv( aship is Of could come to an arrangement arguments upon this question free-trade sort, and will s ser of labour, although not w riployed. Upon the other topics remarked upon in the speech, and in reply to t lordship numerous ( pressed the i by the Conservative however, he sails as s as that gentleman anting to Ireland 3 put to him, his nions entertained I Irish - policy, iel O'Connell's ire. He is for which, of course y of civil right lore complete tr-ansfe 11 corporat nto the hand Popish faction discord and sedit disturbers of The old tale tie genuine Peel policy. Give a sop to the seditious, coax him, flatter his vanity or his avarice, in order to convert him into a good subject. But the loyal man—the quiet and orderly He is disregarded. and subject—what of him ? Detb_ans visited with ciiscoura because he is loy Lord Lincoln is much ti plan of ptitting down sedition by leaving your good front of .our premises prive the for Oreakir. open to get them. On the whole, the impression made by his lordship upon the constituency is said to h a most favourable one but v must confess ti our opinion of his chance of being return a mere Whig to create any very deep attachment towards him in the minds of the mass of the Conservative party, especially those of the middle and operative classes ; and the aristocratic Whias of Manchester can do little without their own operatives and middle classes, who are,, apparently, admirers of the Rochdale Quaker. A MOST important meeting of the peers, repre sentatives, and gentry of Ireland was held in Dublin on Thursday last, the result of which, and Aeeling which it proves to have been excited in the minds of our Hibernian fellow-countrymen by their present disastrous position, will, we trust, lead to measures of rational and practical improve ment of the social condition of the population. —nay, for centuries past, Ireland has been distracted by her contending factions. Her people have been afflicted with all the evils of feudalism, whilst they have enjoyed none of the solid comforts For year ,em, in countries d gently situated, the owners of the soil for protection or support has been a mere figment. Her middle cl s, con- sisting of an unnatural body, holding a position between the owners of the soil and the poor, have intercepted the benefits derivable by each from the vhieh e: between the two extrem Is in other countrie s of the social fabric , reducing th owner a to a condition 1 , and crushing the small fanner and the peasant into one which is scarcely a remove from pauperism. Religious strife has furnished another ingredient in the bitter potion of ill which Ireland has had to swallow ; and agrarian disturbar , superstition, ignorance, and the indo lence of her people, partly constitutional and partly . . 'ement to which her sum of miser at length become too great for endurance. The object of this gathering of her landowners and leading members of parliament, and the tem porary fusion of 'all differences, religious and poli tical, which appears to have been satisfactorily aPng accomplished, is to direct the energies of the intel- !outs the was a mt excuse for such conduct which the Council •• UJ Every speaker throughout the ,proce _ willing testimony to the ability with which the ss of the bench is discharged by the stipen and the only circumstance to be regretted ted with the subject is the fact, that the Lrty motives zs bore conne proposition was ever introduced at all, and the inindirimig nar+ial;+‘, should have placed him in a mortifying pb, before his fellow-townsmen. for the advantage of the himself , public and of Mr. Rushton It is now a fact admitted on all hands, that he is over-worked, and that his power's are unfairly tasked. The Council has placed its veto upon the principle attempted to he established, •At the work of two men is to be thrown upon 'ho - alders of one in order that that one may nai( l . We ask that body now, and we "1 of Mr. Rushton's friends and of be doubly pall the borough magistrates, to be consistent. Since they cannot carry their point in the shape of a pecuniary recompense, they must resort - to the alternative of lessening the pressure of his duties. We do not abate one iota of our demand for an additional police court, and a division of the borougt are, on the contrary, strengthened in the views which we have all along expressed with respect to the necessity of such a measure. The convenience of the public requires that it should be adopted ; most active advocates of the claim put torward in behalf of Mr. Rushton's increase admit, that at no distant period it must be adopted. In the meantime, however, a middle course is open. _ trates of Liverpool are now, we - . 1 4 1 - ,; I and th orough ma to do t y, and to relieve the There can be no aeir du _ stipendiary of some of his work difficult in removing from him i disor erly eas, merely routine ( are in pc :ession of the hono upon the bench will devote an occa hour of their time to the public service for their over-worked brother magistrate YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ris:sociauons, unner this title, have wi ars been formed in the metropolis " ' ier young men, a actice of religion ; and s in .:view, has just beer id held its first meeting on Fridal room of the Charitable Institutioi in Slater-street, which was crowded on the occa2. formed in Livery sion. The Rev. W. Fanoon, Incumbent of St. John's Church, delivered, on this occasion, an impressive lecture, enforeinc , the precepts of the Gosp e l on . his audience, warning the young men present of the danger of indulging, in sinful habi and propensities, too common amongst them,. and urging th em t o accep t t h e a id s t o virtue and religion, and the protection from the temptations by which they are surrounded, which were offered them by this so- with great and, of times, almost breathless attention, for about an hour a nd a h a lf ; an d a ft er the thanks of the meeting to the rev. gentleman had been expressed by ac clamation, the proceedings terminated, as they had com- menced, with prayer To-morrow week a screw steamer will commence plying wifh goods only, between this port and Glasgow. On Sunday last, the sum of £56 13s. was collected in St. Silas' Church, for the relief of the Irish and Scotch poor. Unfortunately no notice was given the Sunday On Sunday last, at St. George's Church, Everton, after a sermon by the Rev. W. Withers Ewbank, the sum of £217 was collected for the relief of those, who are suffer ing from famine in Scotland and Ireland. We had at short intervals last week ch again set in on Saturday night very THE WEATHER re frost BAPTIST'S CHURCH, TOXTETH-PARK ;, after a sermon by the Rev , unclay last lief of the podr of this church and district. ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, WINDSOR.—The congrega tion of St. Clements have responded to an appeal of respected minister, the Rev. F. Parry, in b , sufferers in Ireland and Scotland, by the contribution of £lO4 18s. 6d. On Sunday night, the body of a man unl picked up in the rivere• . - half of the very liberal 1g in the water, and was hooked out by a captain life. He had on a pair of lie troy trowsers, dark waistcoat, and was of _ morning last, after a po w e r f u l an d ver y tirring appeal from the Rev. 1). Stewart, the sum of £172 Bs. 9d. was collected in St. Bride's church, for the relief of the destitute Scoth and Irtsh. £2O of the amount was given for Scotland, £lO for _ Ireland, and the remainder We are ivas divided equally between the two countries. ;ld .. to leap! that, at Aigburth, the congregation calamity wh )on which Irishrn of INIr )de in the )roceedino . . gated by principally exist. The . pre' nnell w- happily, only a requi. The bulk The ( k part in ated by a ra Ler than a disgrace )erity and pots rks, upon which the destitute people of we been employed, should be borne by .corinise the ius- n at lame. mot re we iy jII6L. Provi s, has placed the )ut, in such a crisis as th aided by our own exert isn people in a cone 44-4. -e ition of superior combo: ps, in may 1, althouah su Mane ment of this happy combination ( for a n position to judo- It cann We believe, b wrun real ana solid advar lity and gentry of Ireland united in a pract____ or their country's prosperity and improve must be listened to ; and, if the result be a mtitution of practical measures for the which have ever formed the st _ poured down upon them from Lincolnshire and Notting hamshire, that they had been obliged to give notice of their inability to accommodate it. The speaker con cluded by seconding the resolution. A Sheffield proprietor intimated that most of the pr 0....... ....... debate in the Council upon the motion of prietors there were in favour of this movement. Ir. Sands for an increase of the salary of Mr. A Liverpool proprietor objected to the wording of the ushton presents some features which, whilst they resolution, inasmuch as it seemed to reflect on the di lust have been gratifying to that gentleman, rectors; but on explanation withdrew his objection, and effect great credit u p on th e Conservativ the motion was carried unanimously.e portion Mr. FORSYTH moved that a committee should be ap of that body. The fact, that both the mover and 4,-;-4-„A 4-- -- ---4-- -4;14, 44,- iir.,-„L_„4..... ______,—__ All which Whig achni t or sound goo( sense displayed at this meeting is hroug )on the revising of these measures, Nye entertain no'fear of the success of the movement. the prop osii ws that the decision nservatives,;after which )S. TERSEYMAN, who appeared as a deputation ..4..4 1.1- mittee were doing, and expressed his great confidence in the worth of t undertaki whieli - he felt su become one of the first lines out of Manchester would The meeting then proceeded to the appointment of a committee, when Mr. Nicol, Mr. Townley, and the chair-. man were moved as members. Ultimately, (Mr. Nicol not being present,) Mr. Townley, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Chapman and the chairman agreed to form such commit- Mr. Nicol tee ; and it was arranged that the services of and Mr. Jack, a large shareholder, should he rear Thanks were voted by acclamation to the chairman, - and EXCESSIVE PRICE OF POTATOES. We have been shown a sample of potatoes, of excellent quality, of which we are told a large supply may be had, at a price very much below .what we are now paying in this town for a far worse article. The potatoes in ques tion have been received by an hotel keeper, from Mirfield, in Yorkshire, at 9s. per load, of 240 lbs. • and the cost of conveyance per railway to Liverpool, will add to this about 2s. per load, making them lls. delivered here, whilst we are paying 7s. to 7s. Gd. per 90 lbs. for pink eyes, or upwards of double the price. Our inform- . s done from the confident expect ns that by that time he will be and in of quantities stored up, award before the new crop This ought to be a seasnnphip ier districts, having gi which must be brought into the marlet LU w►e larniers in our amulet, who are holding back in expectation of still higher prices, not to lose their present opportunity of realizing, and to consumers gene rally to send their orders into the interior of the country, if they find themselves unable to buy at home on reason able terms. The consumers in Manchester are already "-* ~ as the result ?otatoes there a SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL liament-str Meeting linnrd_r is valuable Charity N .uring the I The following t the operation; of the Institutic In Out Total Cured 445 1397 1842 Relieved l2 0 12 Left Hos. at own request 12 0 ' 12 Irregular l3 0 13 Dead 34 11 45 Under treatment. 57 28 85 573 1436 2009 7 13 20 _53 1089 1452 Of the 34 dead, fourteen died within 24 hours after ad ission, the other twenty surviving for various longe Dead, when brought to the hospital.... .. Patients in the hospital during 1845.. .... Admitted from Ist Jan., 1846, to do. 1847 Of these were discharged, cured or relieved 482 Dead . 34 Remaining in the hospital Jan. 1, . • 57 The CHAIRMAN said that the committee had to regret much that several minor cases were excluded from the benefit of the institution in consequence of the inadequate accommodation, and the board would require £2060 more before they would. be able to render the establishment efficient. They had now accommodation for 60 in -door patients, but when they had completed the intended enlargement, there would be twice the number of beds. He said that unless the call was better responded to in sent than during the past year, some delay would unavoidably take place ; and without the sum he had named it would be morally impossible to meet the wants of the poor. The report, which was ordered to be printed, stated that the cases of extreme distress were more numerous last year than ever, and many accidents, and a large number of medical cases, had been excluded,• for want of accommodation. The committee appealed to shipowners and gentlemen engaged in the timber and foreign trades for more sympathy on behalf of the institution, as the committee consider that the efficient maintenance of the hospital can be proved in various ways to be essential to the well-being of Liverpool. The enlargement of the building must ere long be proceeded with, if it be intended to keep pace in any degree with the requirements occa sioned by the extension of the docks. The committee express their grateful thanks to the clergy, and especially to the Rev. Mr. Nolan, their worthy chaplain, for their effective appeals to their congregations. It was moved by the Rev. Mr. HESRETH, and seconded by Mr. EDWARD CROPPER, " That the thanks of the meeting be given to Jos. B. Yates, for his valuable ser vices as President during the past year, and that he be requested to continue that office." Several gentlemen present spoke most warmly as to his ability and zeal for the good of the charity. A vote of thanks was, voted to the Vice-President, Mr. Platt, the Treasurer, and the members of the com mittee. The President, Treasurer,_ and several gentlemen, after le motion of thanks to t Chaplain, elq d the deep obl the tin NATIONAL EDUCATION, SIR,—As the subject of education is likely to a attention of her Maie3tv's Ministers for the en Jan. 19, 1847. _ BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANCE ups AI a late hour last night we received this document, nt -crisis of the cotton trade, is of unu- MGSMUIL of rarnament, I deem the present a fitting oppor- sual importance. We therefore hasten to give a few of tunity to submit to your consideration a mode of providing the most important statistics which it contains, and which for the national education, and for securing, at the same we regret to find are not calculated to impress us with time, religious instruction, without wounding the feelings very favourable opinion of the operation of our commerce or prejudices of Churchmen or Dissenters. during the past year, or of our prospects for the year to I propose that every religious denomination shall have come. schools of their own, and maintained at the national The article which ranks No. lin Mr. Burn's tables !is expense ; and in order that I, as a Churchman, may not that of cotton yarn, one in the manufacture of which the have my money applied to extend and disseminate religious least amount of industry is employed. Yet this is one of opinions at variance with my own, or the Dissenters in the only articles of importance in which we find an in like manner to disseminate relhArmq nntinnc -e I. A.. • 4-1. -- 418LOLLJ 1/,11,1U110 aIIvCFMU ; crease of exports (luring tue past year. In 1845 we ex theirs, I propose that a tax be levied upon all parties ported of cotton yarn 131,937,9351b5. ; and in the past assessed to the poor, and that the money paid by the year, 157,130,0251b5—an increase of 25 millions of pounds, different denominations of Christi.n. hc. nnnliod ti, _ special use _ rur , cac4JG Vl mai, year over tue preceamg was short of two and the collection of this tax would be easy and simple— million pounds. The increase this year is principally to it would incur no additional expense by new machinery to Belgium, the Hanse Towns, Holland, India, and China, bring it into operation ; and the scheme solves the diffi- (from 16,518,987 lbs in 1845, to 24,502,908 lbs.) Naples culty of giving education and religious instruction at the and Sicily, Sweden and Norway, Sardinia, Tuscany, &c., same time, which can never be accomplished where all I Trieste and Austrian ports, Turkey and the Levant: To denominations are taught toge Christi.,.ther. ;+ Russia there is a consider a bl e an d con ti nuous falling off. Wh per cent over the exports of 1815 The in- ;ance is a purely evil. oi secular eaucation,staple ot our manufactures—which exhibits a Ve - r - y .;ular education I hold to be a great national slight advance, the exports being, in 1846, 618,839,181 yards, against 613,138,645 yards. The slight 'amount of mode of levying the education tax would be as fol- this increase may be judged of by the fact that the exports ds, by an additional line or column on the poor-rate of this fabric in 1842 were only 366,010,519 yards; that it paper, and each person to declare his religion I rose 150 million yards in 1843, and nearly 50 millions more yards in 1844. In printed cottons—a more advanced manufacture—we c.minn—scr • 267,084,797 Ting a falling John Good • In the lesessment. pound. Amount, d. s d. 41.1116, 111 10 yards, against 310,850,697 yards in 1815 —cc _c Elibited a ;very slight .i. ms CUII/U UC .ecuitnieu Jur, to a comm ission in every on 01 in per cent. The y ear 18 45 ex. town or district of sufficient importanCe, and applied ac- falling off as compared with 1844. cordi There is a falling off i n th e exports of cotton thread, ngly - .4,-,,..:,...t0 each denomination. • i^ +hat I forbear to damasks and diapers, cambrics and muslins, counterpanes, quilts, cotton and linen mixed, gingham; (nearly 50 per One great good aosiery, shawls and handkerchiefs, 6,pas and une numerated goods : and a slip-ht. inerpo.n _ • to result from this plan would be, that cent) station they occupy in society. Gentlemen who talk so The loudly in favour of enlightenm en t an d e d uca ti on , b u t w h o and ti contribute nothing, will be silenced, and the few who now against .-. • 1 1 , rds an, weight of yarn in manufactured goods, yarn , exported in 1846, was 354,291,749 lbs., in 1815, the increase being. 336,866 nave to give so largely, would be able to direct their bene- more man accounted for by the additional exports of volence into other channels. yarn. The value of the co tt on goo d s expor t e d i n 184 6 The tax on the community would be trifling, the ad- was £23,475,941, against £22,063,898 in 1845. The con vantages and gain to the nation incalcul a bl e; b y t ra i n i ng sumption per week i n 1846, M r. B urn est i mates at 31,793 up children in the way in which they should go—by mak- bales, against 30,933 in 1845. The quantity of yarn spun -- them good husbands, in 1846 he mak es 495,033,109 lbs., again s t 494,766 , 487 lb s . -R of society, instead of a curse to themselves and in 1845. Deducting from these respective amounts the yarn exported, we have manufactured into goods in 18-4 f b. " 903,084 lbs. of yarn, against 362,828,552 lbs. in 1845, ... - -•fr of 25,000,000 lbs. of yarn, the ma memo; .w..,,,.. vi vvulcu Into goons nas been lost to our In the corporation schools, the numbers on the books working . population. Deducting the total weight ex are 1709, but the number in actual attendance is 1221, ported in yarn and goods from the total yarn spun, we and the cost of maintenance amounts to £1244, or a b ou t have 140,741,360 lbs. manuf ac t ure d an d consumed in £1 per head. 1846 by the home trade, aninst 1 57,9')0,160 consumed by us last year—a falling off in our h ome consumption of According to the evidence of Dr. Collins, (corporation inquiry, p. 462), the number of children a tte n di ng th e 17,000,000 lbs of yarn. Roman Catholic schools in Liverpool, was 1478, and the cost of the whole amounted to £798, or rather less than lls. per head. At this inquiry it was shown the number of children deriving instruction from all the public schools was 9484 ; if we estimate th em , th ere f ore, now to amount „ - --- . .. t9be ,. l3s. per head, we should 'leir maintenance, with rents in I ,255, but.the actual amou being 65,471 r, at this rate, would be £9540; th , - as to leave ample margin to increase 0 F F ICIAL INQUIRY AT BIRKENHEAD beyond my estimate Stich a scheme would throw the burden equally, and the tax fall so lightly, that none but " born gr um bl ers " er day, Henry Robert Goldfinch, Esq., barrister-at nd George Rennie, Esq., civil engineer, presided at wn-hall, Birkenhead, for the purpose of examining es and reporting to both Houses of Parliament re o an intended application to Parliament for an act to the Birkenhead Improvement Water Works. witn t iry was held pursuant to the provisions of an act ument passed in the last session, intituled " An i aking preliminary inquiries in certain cases of Th e i n(' •' for loco bills. Mr. John Buck Lloyd, Solicitor, appeared on behalf of the promoters of the bill, who are the commissioners of the M.. r-L- T -!--i sy3tem of education relating '' and several others of the commissioners were on the same side. Mr. William Jackson, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Hicklin, and Mr. Highfield appeared as ratepayers and opponents, and cross-examined the several witnesses at considerable These are important points to corn hooe•n4.e. and denominations meet fallacy to su sated where only secular education is afforded, and to look for blessings being showered on the nation, where The proceedings were opened by Mr. J. B. Lloyd reading the Commission from the Woods and Forests, under which Messrs. Goldfinch and Rennie were mit would, indeed, be to gather grapes from thistles. Before I conclude, permit me to give you a practical illustration of the fruits of secular and religious education. I might quote several of the Judges, the most learned men, clerical arid lay, to prove the danger of giving secular instruction only to the rising generation, but I will confine myself within smaller limits, and first shew the state of crime, at two distinct periods, in this county, -1 1843, which are the latest in my possession. powered to act in the capacity of surveying officers. Mr. GOLDFINCH read the instructions himself, and his colleague had been furnished with them. These instruc tions were to the effect that they should survey the &S.- ' ' ld report to both Houses of ;, examine witness, Committed Neiti 980 1111 122 10 Parliament, prior to the 4th of March. The ()bject of the inquiry was to institute inquiries, and obtain more trustworthy informations, preliminary to any investigation before committees of the house. It was believed that this course of proceeding would save expense, and that in . the result the interest of all parties would be fully 45 cent. 76 p et. 76 cent From these returns you will perceive, that N amounted to 45 per cent among those who can read , it is swelled to 76 per cent; " well;" or, in other words, crime has increased at a ra tio of 31 per cent. with those who have received the spu rious education of the times, over and above those who 'e received no instruction whatever every case I' have examined, to be against those who can read imperfectly" and " well." I cannot resist quoting the following from one of Mr. Justice Coleridge's charges : it is brief, and is much to the re a ver This shows that such an e that it was of no avail unless the persons who received it - 1- rt to employ it properly, and that it would be were tait of very lit was founded upon morality and religion," I will conclude by giving one more illustration of the effects of secular and religious instruction, and refer to the evidence of Mr. Cook and Mr. Huish, given before the Poor-law Commissioners as regards the boys in the work houses of St. Clement Danes and St. George's, South wark. It would be too long to quote the evidence, and sufficient to state the fact, that in St. Clement's, where there was no religious instruction, nearly all the boys turned out bad, whilst on the other hand, the boys from St. George's, who received religious instruction, turned out generally well ; and of those apprenticed to different tradesmen, about 80 per cent. of them obtained pre miums and rewards. I think I have sufficiently shown the advantages of a sound religious education over one merely secular ; and, as the former is more easily to be obtained, by my plan of a general tax, and without trenching in any way on the rights and liberties of the most scrupulous in religious matters, I venture to commend it to youi consideration. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your very obedient Servant, (Signed,) J. BRAMLEY MOORE. To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart, M.P., &c., &c., Secretary of State, Lom.lon. MR. COBDEN'S PRIVATE REASONS FOR NOT COMING FORWARD AS A CANDIDATE FOR MANCHESTER. Our readers will probably remember a passage of co quetry which took place when the announcement was - made public that Mr. Mark Philips did not intend to pre sent himself again as a candidate for Manchester,.between the Reforiners of that town and Mr. Cobden. The latter offered him of being brought seat. Our contemporary, the Manchester Courier, givt the following hints for a guide to the real state of affi " What were the reasons of a private nature that prove, Mr. Cobden from condescendi ng t o b e put i n nomination We have promised to keep our hands off Mr. Bright's private affairs and transactions: We will keep that pro mise literally, becatise; privately,' we owe the man no ill will although he essayed a puny effort to injure us in our property. There was fair provocation to retaliate then. After much reflection, we have arrived at the conclusion that we have too long refrained from asking Mr. Bright a question, which'relates, indeed, to a private transaction, or perhaps a series of private transactions (the cause from long hesitation), but which, on reflection, appears to us to assume rather a public than a private complexion, since it ;elates to the reason why Mr. Cobden has hitherto refused to stand in the way of Mr. Bright's known designs upon the constituency. We shall put the question with sufficient plainness, if we ask Mr. Bright (as we now ask him, and expect an answer too), whether Mr. Cobden is not, or has not been under PECULIAR obligations to him ? -.... _cird all about this business, and that evasion or subterfuge will not him." ;ht we have 1 of meeting, to allow tile promoters of the neasure to open the case, then to hear the objectors, if -- nIIIIIXI tilP • - making 'a reply. It was considered necessary, in all cases, to dispense with coynsel; and evidence was to be taken by a short-hand writer. Mr. LLOYD opened the case at great length. He divided the heads of the proposed bill under six heads. The_first was to establish water-works ; the si to obtain powers to purchase, by compulsion or agree meat, the existing water-works belonging to the Birken head and Claughton Gas and Water Company ; the third was to obtain water for what might be termed sanatory purposes, such as watering the streets, supplying wash houses and baths, markets, and troughs f or water i ng cattle, and for extinguishing fires, and to levy a public rate for theFe purposes, to be called a water rate ; the fourth was to supply the inhabitants, not not by com pulsion, but according to a scale of rents, for domestic rmi•nncne • fan fifth varno inuptiaes toe ottu was, to supply parties for reannfac turing and trading purposes by agreement ; and the sixth was, to supply shipping coming to the port of Birken head by agreement also. He gave full credit to the existing Company, for having established their water works at a time of some risk . ; but he said the time had arrived when, in the opinion of the inhabitants of many towns, these extensive undertakings must be in the hand 9 of the governing bodies; and he concluded by observinvf that one great object of the proposed bill wou l d be, that' the profits, if any, would go in liquidation of the local rates. Mr. Brunel and Mr. Salter, surveyors and officers of the township,. put in a variety of plans and sections, show ing the geological structure of the locality, and the strati , or beds from whence the supply of water is obtained. They stated that there were 18,145 inhabitants in the township, and 4,039 houses. 2,099 of these houses were inhabited ; 839 were unoccupied ; and 447 were in course of erection and completion. They had classified the rental, and found that there were not - any house§ under £3 per annum. There were four houses above £3 and under £5 per annum ; above £5 and under £lO there were 246 houses ; above £lO and under £l5, 1026 ; above £l5, and under £2O, 544 ; above £2O, and under £3O, 692 ; above £3O, and under £4O, 425 ; above £4O, and under £5O, 228; above £5O, and under £6O, 162 ; above £6O, and under £7O, 92 ; above £7O, and under £BO, 35 ; above £BO, and under £9O, 45 ; above £9o,.and under £lOO, 23; above £lOO, and under £ll O, 42 ; above £llO, and under £l2O, 5 ; above £l2O, and under £l3O, 9 ; above £l3O, and under £l4O, 5 ; ahoy° £l4O, and under £l5O, 4 • above £l5O, and under £l6Ol 1; above £l6O, and under £2OO, 5 ; above £2OO, and under £3OO, 2 ; above £350, 1. Mr. HAWKESLIEY was examined. He stated that bottle of the water of the existing Company's had been analysed by Dr. Playfair, and that it had been found of excellent quality, softer than that at Nottingham and Manchester, and well adapted for manufacturing purposes, and domestic uses : there was an abundant supply in the neighbourhood for GO or 80,000 inhal was a further abundant supply obtainable at _ aer diem to each of the and there He was for givir entered into a variety of calculations as to thequ that would be required for domestic, manufacturing, and shipping purposes, estimating that quantity at somewhere about 1,600,000 gallons daily. Witnesses were examined to si the present Company was periodi dthoafft it butmu d ena y d s eal r oi d n F d ri t d ? a m ys a i i. ; e was appear tu r i e, how that the supply of cal, and that on Tuen Mr. Hightiel'i he occasion►' ally, and tor short intervals, in order to supply other districts with tities. T from one district? ditional The inquiry lasted from ten until four o'clock, and WO then adjourned un til t en thi s morning. It will, in a ll pro' bability not be terminated to-day should the opponent" of the bill go into a rebutting case. Lord Hatherton will move the address in the House of it this afternoon 14 e Queen will hold a Privy Counci i Palace. ayor of London is now clistrbt.xting,4 -Mr. Ward paid his annte e 4ri on • . Buckingha THE TEN HOURS' BILI Sll- THEA Undi The Publ is - pnga ge d Balfe9 Also, Mr. I THIS / will b Isoline. An MOI na Bish PRICES 2 5. 6d. ; Years of Af The Box- Doors to b< will comm( No Athol the busineE THIS p and ev The mant tial Familie their Chi lds this-Theatr, the venin; pense atten ,public favor - NOV: the attenda Fashionable Comprising that hat The Door ing, and the cisely; the Carriages ir length of th Ran of it, ei time betwee Prices of Juveniles, 2 ls. 6d. ; Jnv CONCE THE Fi SICAL THIS WEEI Body, 3d. at Eight o'a, The CONC Carts, SECRET) the SECRETA Eleven and 1 CONCY M R. B tamed spec b re y MI him from si Russell as hi His Honour ing to pay th, Papers of the Mr. &WIT] of giving his Interspersed and Buffo MONDAY, The ShipwieC The Life Boa wrmoo _ da b mijo o aan n t :t! : cooll°ldrabieKniinitzuffTiPi _...rothe] King Canute, Rockaway, Some Love tc The Maniac, The Ship on The Gambler ,9 1 _ Admission- - Doors to be ROYA M I SS I Frien ds il v la a C l ot ` - :' l C, at th " of Febrth Vices of celebrated from the Sc .s.: f ickets may 47 LStafford-sti kt es erved Se THE SOU; THE SOU Ole goliskatinl from Ladies and Ge SERIES of CC aPPearance. NEW AND ATONSIE tfh -11 oApermotpt Attendance Afternoonnara:n intro 7 the most beaut about EIGHTY There is no c and Physiology r LEC deplorable *no nature of oh ot] "light to be in sciences but tin e i 1 1 the following hc Calf--past Seven 1:-. The Lett TAN Ji FEMALE CHAR TIES o the Mayor and ' t he 15th Februa I,4'rleasiscerks‘se.tits'ocl°sKil Street °C The Doors wu zrs7 A ° " th e fin d es orlA r i l i WOR4 Fie/131i ha nd ~li ec;!ii4,,P,ra F 4e y i ALLEii diateiv su b crib D be I,l i tt r i b : t il o ti n nT ft e ach. RuNDRED Wed net at he should be Aect, let nt to permit us to lion of free trade, With r )us to s far as is end it is not' obscurely hinted ect his objects, he would not ground that it i ►bolition of the malt duty, on the s impossible to raise the five which it brings in, by any tax .ess sensibly felt by the community. a he is ready ' reduced to I.s. lions per annum which would be 1 "imp -.. per pound, if the Chancellor of the EXchecluer can show that no material loss of revenue would result. Upon the subject of education his lordship enters at large, and boldly expeesses his conviction that voluntary efforts are totally inoperative to fill up the great want existing, and that the duty of filling up that want must be performed by the state. It is not sufficient, he says, that schools may be provided ; the quality of the education supplied BMA be looked after. _ . . " Gentlemen, he remarked, you may point to the schools extending throughout the land ; you may prove to me that in almost every parish in this country a school or many sch°°l4 eziat ; but I must declare that you have not con- tutur€ in the I present c permanel ace and property of the nation - to some effort, place, to overcome the dangers of the .s, and in the next, to provide for the !iaracter and of at elevation of the Irish ial condition of the Irish people ss see before them, as theresult of continued lation of the Country amine le Imperial Parliament to me measu doubtless ill-judged, they see are improvident, wasteful, and inefficient for the achievement of the objects in view; and at length the necessity of an attempt to help themselves is forced upon them. Some men wou- acted with promptness upon their convictions " Better late than never," however, is a wise maxim ; although "A stitch in time" is a more homely and a more wise one. We shall not complain, however, that Ireland's nobility and gentry are late in their efforts, if they are henceforth persevering and in earnest The proceedings of the meeting throughout are most creditable, although we could have spared Mr. O'Connell's furious abuse of the London Times and other members of the British press. Men, in formed at the last hour of their duties, ought not to find fault with those who have for years been dinning those duties into their ears. Had the no- ins in ai mittee of gentlemen, in conjunction with the Purdon, the incumbent, and Wm. J. Tomlinso Edward Moon &qrs., Churchwardens. Contribi Imaged by a emu s% Wm. favours . ' I sre received from all parties, wile PHEMY WIT will be obliging eriot ,emous parody whi author of • 4 Irish Dia- the editors 01 maer publication with a new rit and humour. Perhaps he to inform us in what consists the is intended to be witty) of the journal which arrogates to itself tl fit to be rea( GREAT I ght certainly re in a Conelive'of fnfidels: BERALITY.—On Thursday evening last a _ _ School iriends and supporters of the St. Barnab as held in the school-room, Greenland-e' of hearing the Report read, and pass. accounts for the past year. From the Report it ap- for the purpose ! ..e at:11001s are in a pru3e“s--- every thing in the fi nanc i a l d e partment being satisfactory, the accounts were passed unanimously. After the above 1_ II Akira °Ts +nr.ll, 41- ousiness was transacted, the Rev. A. - . toox the op portunity of reading extracts from, v . arious letters whi c h he had received, g i v i ng mos t appalling accounts of the distress at present existing in Ireland, with the view of raising a subscription, for the relief so much needed. A liberal sum was collected in the room, and on Sunday morning last, the Rev. Gentleman brought the subject more generally before his congregation, and we are glad to announce the amount sent in, up to last night, reached £l6O. Las a sr for their general con , ntleman, who, it was stated, besides adininis to the respective spiritual necessities of the nice, every Sunday afternoon, ad edification LAUNCII.—A splendid ric 11 be launch e d froin the building- queen Dock, this dayat noon n built expres him of 650 tons register, rd of Messrs. Clarke She is to be W. and F. and is intended for the East dINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.- 1 Tuesday, the 12th inst : ,Capt. Edward and North Steam-packet Company's vesEels, ined, and found duly qualified for a first-class oyal Ma I BURNING DEATH -On Wednesday morning last, while Ellen Jones, aged 22, servant to Mr. Robert Mitchell, of South Castle-street, was taking a kettle off the fire, her apron became ignited, and set her in a blaze. Mr. Mitchell, to whom she ran up stairs, did his utmost to extinguish the flames by using the carpet, at ceeded, but she died from the injuries on Saturday DEATH FROM PENURY —An inquest was held yester day, on view of the body of Mary Kenney, aged 55. Deceased was the wife of James Kenney, joiner, Toxteth park, but they had not lived together for twelve months, he allowing her eight shillings to twelve shillings a-week to live upon. Deceased was very penurious, and was also addicted to drinking. She resided alone in Great Homer street, and was there found by some neighbours dead in bed, on Saturday last. On an examination of the body, it appeared there was no food on the stomach, and that death was caused by want of sustenance. St. ancnaet's Church, Toxteth-park, by the ICev. Wm Hesketh, the incumbent, on behalf of the unhappy suf d was made on Sunday morning last, at uestitution both to .LAiverpooi and in Ireland, and the very handsome sum of £B2 14s. was collected ; which collection will be divided equally between the funds for Ireland and those of. the District Provident Society. this division had arisen from ti circumstance that starving Irish, and that of 1,080 persons who had received relief from the district Provident Society within the last few days, 765 were Irish. • _ PRAISEWORTHY GENEROSITY OF 'WORKING MEN. — The Liverpool Mercury, which seldom omits an opportu nity of throwing out dirty insinuations against parties to whom he is politically onnnsed rpG‘rr-liur last week to a collection for charitable piirpose's made by the men in tne employ of Messrs S. and J. Holme, stated that such collection had been ma d e un d er th e coercion of their employers for a Church of England Society. Of course, those who kno w th e c h arac t er of these gentleTT,T ll be prepared to find the Mercury's assertion a The collection, which amounts to £22 55., was made voluntarily by the men, unknown to the Messrs. Holme ; a n d it h as no t b een given to the church society, or any Society as yet. We believe, as it.ema n ated from the sympathy felt by the men for the suffer in g s o f their poorer fellow-countrymen, that it will be given , one half t o th e District Provident, and the other to the Liverpool Chari table Society. The effort does honour to a body of men who, themselves in the employment of good masters, although in this severe weather many of them must be temporarily out of work, can recognise the claims of others who are less fortunately situated. of his speech he made a positive announcement re' VLSI!, - 11.1 course • the Ten he Bill: I shall specting . go to the Hoof +nig war to Alan +hi, TT . • -A, flours' Bill came'' ojisUarthilswZa higher authority than my own , an d b e lies , that Lord John Russell will give some modifi ca ti on of Ten Biit lhissuppor , MISSIONARY.-The Gazette du Mi announ ces the arrival at M arse ill es of M. l ' Abbe Gabet ,! Lazar missionary, on hi. - f Mongol' 1 1 1 AN Hours p - a journey o f 4, ace - 0 . /117;1;d z°m l 4 in t re pid ecclesiastic leagues from Chineseartary p , on the confines of Sibero and arrived with his teet frozen in traversing those if e me nse deserts, where the r oa d i s marked solely by .t " ti bones of men and camels. I n th e same passage, and 0 the same day, 40 men were frozen and abandoned. h STEAM TO SPAIN.--The new Spanish steamer Gi_l'aa 6 (late the Fire Kin g .) will. in n A ..t this nnrt nO, thence proceed, IL Lula Southampton, to sev eral of the prioeiP ports in Spain, c Mari ..ay ui u few aays, ca Ina. also at This is another ',snit' 11 a« steam navigation of file enterprisen of our Countrymen - , wl l 5, cannot fail to be accepta b le to sh i ppers of good s and pawn:guy Wily IS O'CONNELL LIKE A TAILOR Because many a g oose in his service is prat, And many a lo . rd is his debtor; And ir;iieaierthe rent is the better LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1846 EVERY PRINTED AND PUBLISHED TUESDAY MORNIN BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Grove street, aigl LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street. At No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. Terms of Subscription for this paper :—On one year, 15s, ; if paid in advance, 13a. laY b Ari AL LE e ewed .A, 2 . ooc ji. 19, S i ICTU THE'. 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