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4. f Ett suran ce Notitt% TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1854. Zo be **lb or 'let. To be LET, a Large OFFICE, with nort h t k , s _ o lif i tit, 35, Oldhall-street. Rent £3o.—Apply • - - - I ° E, j 1 , 15 , e LET, FURNISHED, for Six Months, with ztiat e crile.liate possession , a Desirable RESIDENCE, wilta 4 the n eighbourhood Of Clauahton-p irk, Birkenhead, 'g Two Entertainin.„- rooms, Four Bedrooms, Bath, totstater-loget.—For particulavi apply to Mr. S. WATER .IImbe.. SOLD, by PRIVATE TREATY, an ESTATE 'S Acres of L\ AND, in a good state of Cultivation, six i crei el or l of Liverpool ; one Ditto, near Childwall, with 10 ea of ; one Ditto, at West Derby, with 10 000 Yards I tre I; a ° s ile Ditto, at Mosley Vale, with upwards of 10,000 ius of LAND tileV, ) • e SOLD • ? or LET, a Villa Residence, near Great Sutton, ,Ive Rea The House contains Three Entertaining-rooms, "Plvard: roo ms, large Garden, Coach-house, Stable, & c., with •• • f Eight Acres of LAND. io be LET a splendid and SOP. Ranelah- ltre et ! one Ditto, , Basnett-street ; oHOUSE ne Ditto, H Great Georgge °Exclbotie Ditto, Birkenhead ; an excellent Fancily REST °to btnear the Prince's-park ; one Ditto, Netherfield-road ; Liitird)"o, Fairfield ; one Ditto, Berkeley-street ; one Ditto, A DI 'road, Stanley. ts. c h Y t° WILLIAMS, 47, Ranelagh-street, or Philadel 46!lbersz No. 3, Hackin's-hey, where an excellent OFFICE is to be LET. Nte °T TISH WIDOWS' FUND AND LIFE OoTleE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. CAL Gp,.'a HEREBY GIEN . , that the FOR . TIET h II I A d N . • , ' , ERAL COURT o f this SOCIETY will be e in zit,y nivAOYAL int, on FRIDAY, the 26th L l aY next at Th r ee o'clock p.m., in terms of and for VollPuttlt specified In the Articles of Constitution ; and st % ; l u't there will be submit ed for consideration certain . C(44 1 411( 41' or Bye-laws, approved of by the Extraordinary 11,0 f Directors and which have for their object. extend the amount ot risk which may be undertaken 1 the Society, by way of Assurance upon any one Life; t° ,give the Di rec t ors a discretionary power in regard to • th e e xPeeses attending the Remittance of Monies. E(ii" WM. LINDESAY, Secretary. 5, St. Andrew-square, 21st April, 1854. ArAjERLOO LIFE, EDUCATION, CA SUALTY, AND SF,LF-RELIEF ASSURANCE IN. COMPANY. .+- h porated under Statute 7 ant S Vic., cap. t Ah Subscribed Capital, ,e4oomo. - OFFICE, 355, STRAND, LONDON. TO THE PARISHIONERS OF LIVER POOL—The Churchwardens feel it incumbent upon them to disabuse the Public mind of much misrepresentation regarding the proposed CHURCH RATE of THREE FARTHINGS in the Pound. ... ...- The TWOPENNY Rate is NOT a CHURCH RATE, but a "PAROCHIAL" Rate, which it is compulsory upon them to levy under special Acts of Parliament : one-half of which is an equivalent for ecclesiastical property formerly surren dered to the Parish, on the express conditio,i that such Rate should be levied in perpetuity; and the other one-half to pay the instalments due on the purchase of the Walton Cemetery. This TWOPENNY Rate will realise less than <t'6,ooo—not £9,000, as erroneously stated. The THREE-FA RTH ING Rate is absohotely indispensable for the maintenance of PUBLIC WORSHIP IN YOUR PARISH CHURCHES, and for the ordinary and necessary Repairs of these sacred edifices. The Churchwardens, therefore. throw themselves upon the support of the Parishioners, fully relying on their sense of honour, and their respect for the law of the land. to uphold them in duly discharging the duties of an office which they accepted upon the faith that the usual means to fulfil their legal obligations would of course be provided. CHAS. F. CARNE, ROBERT HUTCHISON, }Churchwardens. [ADVERTISEMENT.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. SIR,—In your Paper of this day you state— " At the Annual Vestry, held on Tuesday last, a rate of "2d. in the pound was laid for all the legal and obligatory "expenses connected with the parochial churches. The "stipends of the Rectors and Curates, and the necessary "repairs of the several Edifices, were provided for in that "rate." We beg most distinctly to deny the correctness of that statement, or of our having made it. The twopenny rate is levied for the purpose of carrying ont certain special Acts of Parliament, which Arts neither provide for the repairs nor the maintenance of the Parish Churches Hence the necessity of the Church-rate which we are asking the parishioners to con tribute, and without which the old Parish Churches—essen tially the Poor Man's Church—cannot be effectively main tained. We remain, Sir, Yours, respectfully, C. FREDK. CARNE, ROBT. HUTCUISON. Liverpool, April 21, 1854. p 0 THE PARISHIONERS.—The L CHURCH WARDENS of LIVERPOOL, anxious to disabuse the Public mind of much misrepresentation that appears to prevail relative to the Rates laid for the ensuing Year, and which is industriously circulated by some opponents of the proposed measure, beg leave to lay before the Parishioners the following statement The Twopenny Rate is levied ut der the following Acts :- 10 and 11 William Third; 2 George Third, cap. 68; 7 George Third, cap. So; 26 George Third, cap. 15; 3 George Fourth, cap. 72; and 1 and 2 Victoria, cap. 98 ; and to cover the following payments : .SalariesUf the Two Rectors and four Curates.. £1,440 Repairs and Maitrenance of ST. Jon N'SCHMICH, estimated at Repairs and Maintenance of ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, estimated at , • 900 WALTON CEMETEM —Je2,790 Payments on account of Purchase overdue on 25th March, 1854 Instalment to be paid during the current Year, 1854-1855 £1,200 Estimated Expenditure for Interments and Interest, &c. .'6,p The Twopenny Rate last year produced only 5,523. Not One Penny of this Rate can be applied to the Repairs or the Maintenance of th , Two Parish‘Churches. The Church-rate of Three Farthings in the Pound is intended to apply to the folloefing-contemphited Expenditure , : Present Balance on this Account due to the Treasurer £356 Necessary Repairs to the Parish Churches of ST. PETER'S and ST. NICHOLAS', Salaries of Or4anists and Singers, Clerks, Sextons, and Bellrinzers, Insurance, Cleaning of the Churches, and Washing, Wine and Bread for the Sacrament 1,300 Sr. MArrittAs', estimated Expenditure, including Bread and Wine for the:Sacrament 3O ST. TuomAs', Bread and Wine for Sacrament 8 ST. JOHN'S Ditto Ditto 5 ST. PAHL'S Ditto Ditto 6 Miscellaneous Expenses; estimated at 2OO ei,soo A Three Farthings Rate is estimated to produce .t It will thus be seen 'that, in the event of the Rate being refused, the foregoing Items of Expenditure are wholly unprovided for. C. FRED. CARNE, } Churchwardens. ROBT. HUTCHISON, IADVERTISEMENT.] THE VESTRY MEETING. LIVERPOOL LOCAL BOARD DIRECTORS. g l airman.—Hilton Ha!head, Esq., Merchant. Robert Bickersteth, F.R.C.S. J ames Bland, Esq., Merchant. M atthew (Jregson, Esq., Merchant. William Joseph Horsfidl. Esq., Merchant. It ja mes Lord, Esq., Merclant. `EDICAL REFEREE.—AIfred Stephens, Esq., 4, ItA, Upper Parliament-street. DER.—Mr. Chas. Batten, Cuthbert's-buildings, Clayton-square. tb the II FEATURES Ol' THIS COMPANY. Y 1 4 ' r•il u a pPropriation of 'profits, a Fund will be created for ? h e llion of Chrildren of qualified Assurers upon Votun e'reil n , eiPles, alsa for the relief of qualified Assurers sod tilkih%tlers, their Widows ant Orphans, by providing An ile^.tllillirl Homes 'or Asylums. PdeP t lnces granted ngtinst paralysis, blindness, iwsanity, and other afflictions. th; jr ati or i tl granted. Family endowments. No charge to ta red for policy stamps. Medic a l men always pail for ?ne e ! ° r,!s. Louis granted in connexion with 'Life As -4,lllltlt•esTif premium moderate. etai l ,, r t_ally ro liberal commission allowed to Agents. spec'tuses may be bad on application to T. G. WILLIAMS, JUN.. ESQ., head 0 . MANAGER AND SECRETARY. `ce, 355, Strand, London. A o lt p tgßOF LIVERPOOL.--At the ANNUAL h , i...,ERAL VESTRY, held at the Church of St. Nicho aa ar ene ' r a'ree TUESDAY, the 18th day of April, 1854, a tile Archdeacon BROOKS, one of the Rectors, in the Chair, Ncti„ 4, ere ._ canvening the Meeting was read ; - atirt e Vall, it was moved by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, ti;t4t tb i Mr. Churchwarden HUTCH Isom, and resolved,- 6 1 3 leeting become adjourned to the Sessions-house, pl ace ar ,_aPel-street, and such adjournment having taken e k e te . i "di "Y , Notiee was again read, as also the Summary of 41.,' -c alnts of the Ch urc h war d ens ' for theimst year. lci;,rrna_owyed by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE saconded by aiyab va ,, r ta eo arden HUTCH ISON,—Tbat the Accounts of the lt eo ` lazi% , n ` cve 7 , now read, do pass. bysotp JOHN amen d men t, by Mr. T os.URQUHA RT, a It tre a s z n a i i d n g ar t (i l i e m o t rgt s do . ' 4 114. ; and the votes beoimn'gnotal:e—nriflol r and it was declared by the Chai r men to be c a r r i e d. t i tot t i.„ lit 3 loved by Nonce,R *ANDERSON, Esq , I l uari es s I' Mr. JOHN and resolyed,—That Mr. Frederick Carne be re-elected aeChurchwarden for lt v _ ri n ulfr. year. ita(leted was moved by Mr. HARMOOD WA , LCOT BANNER, se her.t „I Mr. THOMAS CLARKE, and resolved,—That Mr. satta Hutchison be re-elected a Cberchwarden for the elt ~;: Year. !...D3Oved by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded alet te • C hurchwarden CARNE, and resolved,—That Sir. Geo. It„.,au he appointed Vestryman for two years. Vas Moved by Mr. Churchwarden Ittrreir !SON, seconded AiChurchwarden CARNF, and resolved,—That Mr. Jas. les be re-appointed a Select Vestryman for three years. ah„a r ati moved by Mr. Churchwarden Hrercti more. seconded top Churchwarden CARNE, and resolved,—That Mr. John ,111 be re-appointed a Select Vestryman for tin' e years. Tr :Zs moved by Mr. Churchwarden"CA LINE, seconded by ;'l4lprehWarden HUTCH IsoN, and resolved,—That Mr. ' - 'lat k r r a t ilcker anti Mr. Peter Bourne Drin k water be appointed 11-‘z. o , far the ensuing year. aekle l ,' l l (wed by Mr. ehurchwa , den altrrenisoN, seconded 41 1,:,01‘ , JA RD PERRY M 4 KNIGHT, and resolved,—That Mr. /t2Of„be nominated for appointment by the Magistrates ire, M oved Overseers of the Poor for the ensuing year. W r iy. (Toyed by Mr. Churchwarden litrrcHisoN, seconded Y,aat prehwarden CARNE, and resolved, — That Mr. Chas. li. `taw be re-appointed a SelectNestryman for three j,,. Ila li .tlj er moved by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, seconded by ati o , h ehwarden HUTCHISON, and .resolved,—That Mr. I 11. ."'aw I e be appointed a Select Vestryman for three tb . ' t aa, a 4t ,,-,le moved bMr. Churchwarden HUTCH ISON , seconded C hurchwarden CARNE,—That Mr. Thomas Henry 1 % 4 Wai t 4 appointed a Select Vesryman for three years. BraSeco_ aaed, as an amendment, by Mr. RICHARD .10H it i , o tk, r l : l ed by Mr. JAMES DENTON,—That Mr. Edward eite .„ f "r appointed a Select Vestryman for three years, l b . ne es ., .alr. Satchel!. eat t r l nal motion having been withdrawn, and the amend iare?Lutt been put from the Chair, the.amendment was 4 be carried. r-:-eved by Mr. Churchwarden HUT,3HISON, seconded ekallo a - 7 11 rehwarden CARNE,—That Mr. Joseph Gardner be t at e , r.. ll for appointment ensuing te Mgistrates as one of the `avo-,°,..af the Poor for the year. 11 4t aal eu 'rred as an amendment by Mr. WILLIAM BROWN, ari,(l irit ZY Mr. CHARLES CHALK,—That MT. Luff he nomi- Chadr a ,J, e ad of Mr. Gardner, which amendment having been plali a .;a.and the original motion having been put by the Le h tit was declared carried. il ert alt",-;", ( wed by Mr Churchwarden El urcrusoN, seconded to aallirchw d C NE and resolved —That Mr. Jas. Rat 1:4 4 b_ _ ren AR t h ,7. , nominatel for appointment by.the Magistrates as ''.o-Verseers of the Poor for the ensuing year. lit 1t p es r i ueved by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded tOto e ilatleetwarden CARNE, and resolved,—That Mr. Thos. t ale e ivanominated for appointment by theNagistrates 1,42 t he Overseers of the Poor for the ensuing year. 8 1 1 1 r moved by Mr. Churchwarden Htrretarsort, seconded t 4tee a ;flu rchwarden CA ENE. and resolved,—Th at M u - p h la o , Pia:milted a Seed Vestryman fort wo yealsr. Thos. h',ll! t tr. Moved by Mr. JOHN DOWNEY, seconded by Mr. mo t _, , arriear, and resolved,—That Mr. James Chesney be aaji,;( l a - Select Vestryman for oneayear. Inoved,s an amendment, war Mr. Churchrden p l i) e • i,N. seconded by Mr. Churchen CARNE,-That 4 r , a„'alar . ll Johnson be appointed a Select Vestryman for ill„'!) t2 o instend of . Ir. Chesney ; and this ,amendnaent i t at e irle wrthdrawn tn consequence of Mr. Johnsonthav fl,4 la o4 aed to act,if elected, )`l,tit,nlored, as a further amendment, by Mr, Churchwar top'.lW.e!arsoN, seconded by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, — .an, „ s ealward 13rancker be appointed a Select Vestryman' 41,4 instead of Mr. Chesney. to }:411,, motion, with the last amendment, having been tt , ,.._aut from the Chair, time original motion was declared n, ed in the appointment of Mr. Chesney. e ;a a. drved by M r. -Churchwarden HUTCH iso Iv, seconded N r , ty s e ßrehwarden CARNE , anti resolved,—That Mr. Thos. I WI. "'bell be appointed a Select Vestryman for -three k,as "r. — eyed b Mr. Churchwarden HtrreHrsoN, seconded l tay e t tl e u_rchwlrden . CAlLlkE, and resolved,—That Mr, John t Was e-a epointed a Select Vestryman for three years. ep e ,te m o ved by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded I,..vtboaurchavarden CARNE, and resolyed,—That Mr. Jas. of i t t Rad Mr. John Williams he appointed Churchwar ay %Ns Church for the ensuing year. 7 ed by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHrsoN, seconded ta i ' ll atn n ":.!chavarden CARNE,-and resolved,—That Mr. Geo. ,I t t elay er 'T Me. Theophilus Palmer Gwatkin be appointed tt . e, eB ens of St. John's Church for the ensuing year. k ei lltiep t i uered by Sir. JOHN BLVHAM, seconded by Mr. J. h 4 at4., and resolved unanimously,—That it be a recom litial„ ErOM this meeting to the select vestry, to appoint 16 ° - ';', l ,umittee of their body, for the purpose of super -IIN - tat e making and revising the assessments to the ere aud that such committee he requested to report hay rri -c eedings to the select vestry, at each of their fort-- 4 eetinol 11 1 4 4 Inov • roe e b.ur _v* by Mr. Churchwarden , CARNE. and seconded 04,fa rtb; _Tlarden HUTCHISON,— I ha a C hurch- rate of i '•t t a - erll ' hor li cii ,Z , or e ( 1 ! e i n e &ou it n N d o b h e er la e ld ox fo i r tile:1;1 1 m g t r i f i r o . o of 11% , aeoll;wardens to lay a rate of tZ a p l e ne nce:in e th i e n pound, to o "' di z , e a l l 'e Parochial and Cemetery upon Rate," for the pur- te % iargi ng l c t 7 th nd the obligations imposed n them by i II William 111., cap. 56; and George 111. , George 111. cap. 80 • 26th George cap. 15 ; latt care 72; and Ist'and and Victoria., cap. 98. s teer ' e u bY Mr. Churchwarden CAerce, seconded by attliatio,otwarden Hurroisort, and resolved,—That the 11' 1 4 1 1 arda "a r ers . be, and they are hereby appointed, collectors i. tia,e_s,. tarn 'T., in accordance with the provisions of the said Ctikae St on „ety :—Messrs. Charles Fry, William Williams, J. Blackte. Edward Able, John Moly ee -.s 1,1 vil son pow" John K, Thompson, John Rogers, William Christian, Matthew Cottam. tp ti : tt cou `p_t as an amendment, by Ma. J. R. Jeersma, t V.,—That this subject be adjourned for cone. ~lernward, t his day week, and that in the meantime the ea rl _ 'la be requested to ascertain the amounts which tr,o a side collected during the last three years ; the names 13 1 t ,tio o : le es of each defaulter, and the amount of the tiltCl4" rUoe d ~tlp4Aps . ,:!-T as a further amendment, by Mr. THOMAS VI ! , -rat e and seconded by Mr. J. R. JEFFERY,—That no 0, 0 votes h ey aid for the present year. .a., 1 1,,e, th e ing been taken for and against the original w ao den t l tam e was declared to be negatived, whereupon a ttar.lia ,oved enued by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE. k'ko h by Alr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded d er b °dr - "warden CARNE, and resolved ,—T hat Mr. Geo. itioPar,aealinairm.ood Walcot Banner, and Mr. John Branc- COMmiStiOners of Saint Paul's and Saint a-C o ere o „, " _ea, M supply existing vacancies. bore lwarde dby Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, seconded by %1 1 , (1 1 , 4 th e , n RatesHUTCHION, and resolved,—That the K t 4 e, enintary Committee be read. It and Re , as all amendment, by Mr. KINDER LIVER !tit: C4,'"rt ate by Mr. CHARLES WILLMER,—That the atstio„anitt e also of the Account of the said Voluntary I )4a th is e be received for consideration at an adjourned . cl oc Vestry, to be held on this day fortnight, at 4 411:h1 ,4, hai rbu r tti er , t w , n CARNE having . withdrawn his motion, Nne4itlrrie" Put by the Chairman, and declared by I!it' 4 ek l ii.aara: l , L t A N now announced that the present Meeting 4, o lla p a th e p Until Thursday next, the 20th instant, at Ten laws e" f o renoon , at the Sessions-house aforesaid, for (14i -a .11 , e. eking the Poll demanded by Mr. Church j VaaAleer'rrnon - JONATHAN BROOKS. Chairman. %tab.% ) „alan ( -,,aving vacated the Chair, it was moved by aq h e " ta- so s ir PER, seconded by Mr. Churchwarden Li, et i,,tive n unanimously,—That time thanks of the et h ,.," th e et a he Chairman for his able and impartial raol 1811eair, CHMILES VIART Vestry Clerk. April, 1854. WANTED, an - Experienced NURSE. None need apply who cannot give respectable references. Roman Catholics need not apply.—Apply to Miss SPExcEtt, St. George's hill, tiverton. THE Patronage and • Support of the Public of Liverpool are respectfully invited on behalf of the CENTRAL ASSOCIATION in aid of the WIVES and FAMILIES of SOLDIERS ordered to the East, which is under the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and His Rayal Highness Prince Albert. GENERAL - COMMITTEE. H.R.H. the Duke of Cam- IJ. C. Co!quhoun. Esq., bridge, K.G., Col. Dunne, M.P., TheArclbishopofCanterbury, Capt. James D The Bishop of London, John Letsum Elliot, Esq., The Duke of Manchester. _Hon. A. Kitinairii, M.P., The Marquis of ,Blandford, Lieut.-Col. B. Knox, M.P., M.P., Hon. Capt. Knox, M.P., The Earl of Annesley, MX., Capt. Laffan, M.P., The Earl of Cavan, Lieut.. Col. Lawrenson, The Earl of Effingham, Lt.,Col.Hon.J.Lindsay,M.P,„ The Earl of Feverahatn, Gen. Sir P. Maitland, G.C. R., The Earl of Shaftesbury, Right Hon. J. Napier, M.P., Viscount Hill, Col. North, M.P., Viscount Ingestre. Capt. Owen, R. 8., Aland ilk, M.P - J. W. Patten, Es.' M.P Viscount Mandeville, „ Viscount Sondes, Melville Portal, Eq., M.P., Lord Lilford, - Majorthe Hon. H: L. Powys, Lord E. Howard, M.P„ A. Sp dtiswoode, Esq., Lnrd H. Cholmondeley, M.P, A. Stafford, Esq., M.P., Lord C. Clinton, M.P., Lieut.-Col. Taylor, M.P., Capt. Archdall, M.P., - Capt. W. E. Vernon, Col. Baker, . ,Sir William Verner, M.P., Col. Boldero, M.P., Shirley Woolmer, Esq., Lt.-Col. Hunter Blair, MX., General Wyndham, M.P., Lt.-Col. Caulfield, M.P., Sir Robert Gerard. TREASURER. HONORARY SECRETARY. Sir John Kirkland. I Major.the Hon. H. L. Powys. The Wives of Soldiers now embarking for the East may be divided into three classes:- Ist—Those women who are.married with military sanction, and have been allowed to embark with their hus bands, at the rate of four.women (without families) to every hundred men. 2d—Those women who, though married with military sanc tion, have not been allowed to embark.(though pre pared to do so), in consequence of the:number being reduced from six per cent. to four, and in consequence of their having tamilies. 3d—Those women who are married without military sane -I.ion, and have no claim whatever to military favour .or indulgence of any kind. Of .these three classes, the second is most especially the object of she care and protection of the Association-; though I, from the.third class relief and assistance will not bemithheld in certified eases of urgent distress and respectability of cha racter. The Government pays the passage of all soldiers' wives to their parisliel, and then in most cases the workhouse is the only alternative. IN here the Government leaves them this Association proposes to take them up, Fon tr as gyro-ENT THAT THE -PUBLIC WILL NOT ALLOW THAT THE ONLY HOME FOR THE SOLDIER'S WIFE AND CHILDREN SHOULD BE THE WORKHOUSE. The plan already carried out by the Association is as fol lows :- Ist—To furnish the Commanding Officers of Regiments previous to .embarkation, with small printed cards, to be distributed amongst those Wives of Soldiers who remain behind and are sent to their parishes; these cards being signed by the Commandingofficers, prove the identity of the person who holds them. 2d—On receipt of nominal rolls of all the Women and Chil dren left behind., to administer temporary relief to the most urgent cases, through the Officer command ing the dep& or regiment, or through some clergy. man of the parish, or through the Paymaster of pen sioners of the district, or any other trustworthy channel. Nominal rolls have already been received from fifteen regiments, and to eighteen regiments some relief has been granted, both through the Command ing Officera and the Army Chaplains. 3d—T Asylums for Motherless Children, and fur Children whose mothers consent to part from them in consequence of the largeness of their family. 4th—To provide Employment for Mothers, and assist them in the Education of their Children. The Association has already been instrumental in purchasing hand looms and mangles for Women anxious to work. With a view of encouraging e fforts to And employment by these Women themselves, the standing ru l e of the Association is not to give permanent pecuniary relief in any case where employment has not been obtained after a certain time. So that the greatest claim a woman shall have upon the Associa tion will be her having obtained some employment, however small, or her being able to prove satisfactorily that she has Made every effort in her power to find employment. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE FOR LIVERPOOL. J. B. Lloyd, Esq., Mayor. Geo. C. Arbuthnot, Esq., Wm. Jones Esq., C. Balleny, Esq., T. W. Keiglitley, Esq Chris. Bushell, Esq., Joseph Langton, Esq., Chas. Cotesworth, Esq.,R.N., Rev. C. W. Lawrence, Col. Derinzy, Geo. H. Lawrence, Esq., John Eden, Esq., Thos. Littledale, Esq., Rev. W. M. Falloon, M.A., Chas. M'lver, Esq., .Adam Gladstone, Esq., Rev. If. MiNeile, D.D., Capt. Greig, Jas. Middleton, Esq., T. B. Horsfall, Esq.. M.P., Thos. Edwardes Moss, Esq., Geo. H. Horsfall Esq., Hugh Neill, Esq' Sir T. G. Beaked) , Bart., Rev. F. Ould, Rev. John Jones, John Torr, Esq. TREASURER. Major BoUrne, Heatlifield•house, Wavertree. SECRETARIES. Capt. Westmacott, R.E., 3, North view, Edge-hill. Rev. John It. Conor, M.A., 16, Canterbury-street. Contributions will be thankfully received by the Treasurer and the Secretaries, and alto at MeS4M, Moss's Bank, [ADVERTISEMENT.] WORKING MEN'S PROTESTANT REFORMATION SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR, —At a Meeting held in this town on Mon dayko evening last, it was my sinzular good fortune to be the subject of attack by three reverend gentlemen, and in no fewer than five speeches to be lectured in unmeasured terms. The cause of offence was a speech delivered by me three months ago, in connexion with the Working Men's Sunday Services. Two reports of Monday night's meeting have appeared, and as each supplies deficiencies in the other, it will be necessary to quote from both. I have frequently been w:trned since my speech was published to prepare for the impending blow, and am at last enabled to judge of the force of the home thrult by its rebound. I em not indis posed to receive in good feeling any advice to act charitably towards my fellow men ; yet such advice hardly comes with good grace from men who seldom appear in public without betraying the absence of true Christian meekness and charity; and it is rather inconsistent in them, when their misconduct is exposed, to turn round and lecture any individual who has the temerity to draw aside the veil and exhibit their proceed ings in their true colours. Liverpool has been long afflicted with a party of Protestant Priests, who, reared in Ireland, and reeking from its Orange hot-bed, have planted themselves here as in a soil more congenial to their peculiar talents; yet is it not marvellous that it has never struck them (in their zeal for Protestantism) that Papist Ireland is a much better field for their zealous and disinterested labour than the Protestant community of " Liverpool? Would it be uncharitable to suppose that there are sterling reasons why the Roman Catholics of Ireland are left by these gentlemen to the teaching of their priests, while the English Protestants are diverted with polemics, to the neglect of the more important duties of religion? The Rev. V. M. White charges me with "misrepresenta tion," with "condemning Scripture Readers' Societies, Town Missions, and Foreign Missions." How can one deal with a minister who construes a censure upon the bitterness of controversy, and inflammatory appeals to ignorant and violent men, into a condemnation of objects and institutions, which I not only hold in high estimation, but whose excel. ience was expressly admitted in the speech which Mr. White held in his hand, and from which he affected to be reading? Even Mr. White, hi reference to the Protestant Reformation Society, "confessed that he felt something like an opinion that the name • Working Men's Reformation Society' was not exactly the name which the purposes of the society would lead him to choose." Why, then, in the name of common sense, is a title chosen opposed to the practice of Mr. White and his friends ; and why is such fault found with me for detecting and exposing the inconsistency? If the name under which they are acting does not express the "purposes of the society," why don't they adopt one that does? If they had called it "A No-Popery Association," or "A Presbyterian and Prelatic Anti-Papist Society," there would have been no mistake, and the real object would have been honestly stated. Why borrow a name that does not express the purposes of their action? A jackdaw in borrowed plumes is still a jack daw, and if gentlemen will wear feathers that do not belong to them. they must expeet, some time or other, to beplucked. Mr. White has flocked much of late with the polemic rookery. This is little to his credit as a dissenter, and it hurts his gene ral usefulness; but in the end he will most likely he served as others have been served before; he may chatter and caw with the brood so log as it is fancied his services may " promote the end they all have in view ;" but the moment lie has answered their purpose, lie will receive the gentle hint that in their estimation he is no rook, but only a jackdaw; he may flirt with them and flutter about their steeples for a season, but at last he will he told that the sooner he wings his flieht to his own little conventicle in Islington, the better; and, let me tell him, he can there serve his Master better than 'by peppering poor Papists from the platform. The charge of "misrepresentation" is made because of my pointing out the danger of addressing inflammatory language to Orange operatives, convinced that the denunciation of Popery to such men can only lead to consequences that would fall upon the beads of Papists. Mr.. White says (and in this he is supported by Mr. Taylor) that "every seeaker carefully inculcated the necessity of distinguishing between the sin 'reprobated and the man who commits it." If this be an ex post facto discovery of what ought to have been done, I can not help thinking it is rather too bad to blame me for not seeing what is not in the report of the meeting from which I quoted. Mr. White must alloW that there are those who are likely to know working-men as well as he or his quondam friends can be expected to do. Blind zeal prevents men from looking at the facts Of a case; and blind, indeed, must be the zeal of that man seiho has not made the discovery that such inflammatory appeals to ignorant and violent men can :only have the effect I described, "excite envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness—promote rancour among neighbours—provoke party feuds and street fights.. Nay, further, there is nothing which so thoroughly disgusts reflecting working mien with, the professors of religion, and so directly tends to bring it into contempt, as such unseemly exhibitions by its minissnrs. It is easy to discriminate between the preacher of the cross and the polemic, between 'the Christian minister and the political parson ; and whilst I revere the one, I will raise my voice against the other, as a social evil and a political nest. Mr. While also took 'up the cudgels for his friend. Dr. Baylee, and charged me with "ascribing false motives'" to that gentleman in referring to his twopenny collection for providing additional curates for Liverpool. I simply quoted facts from Dr. Baylee's report, which stated that a great many twopences had been collected, " some from families so poor that they could not afford a second room ; that a poor widow (a lone widow) contributed her penny ; and another poor widow, havinga family, a halfpenny ; that even the:kelp of a poor washerwoman,. with tears in her eyes, was not re fused." I did the receiver justice, by adding that lie slid "confess to teeing in some cases ashamed to take the money." I cordially agreed with the worthy doctor, and quoted his own words, and merely added that the promoters of that movementwere in my opinion greviously mistaken. The Rev. W. F. Taylor next charges me with being guilty of the "most flagrant inconsistency," &c., Sec., .quoting many texts for my edification, and talking loudly and largely of charity, while he, a minister of the Church of Enzland, quotes Scripture for the purpose of making a miserable pun upon my name. 'Of the taste of its introduction, and the charity of the sentiment, I leave others to judge. The Rev. S. B. eutton bad the good sense to draw. a prace tical inference ; be said, "he was glad that reference had been made to my observations, for it would teach clergymen to look more narrowly to their duties. Many working men looked upon clergymen as mere schemers, and religion as a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence." That fact long per sonal experience enables me to verify ; and my object in mak ing the observation was to bring out this view of the matter, in the hope that it might have the effect of provoking to good works, anti I greatly rejoice in believing that such will be the result. Now, before concluding, will Mr. Sutttn and his friends allow a plain, practical min—one more accustomed to figures than figures of speech—to ask them one plain question,—" If working men look upon clergymen as mere schemers. and religion as a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence,"are their prejudices likely to be uprooted by a movement whose most prominent feature is the employment of men in course of education for clergymen as collectors of -twopences?t the taxing of thohard earnings of their toil likely to recom mend to working men the Gospel of Jesus, which invites ail to " Buy without money and without price?" Oh, but Mr. White tells us that our Lord commended the poor widow for casting her mite into the treasury. Will Mr. White point out the passage where, in s-nding his disciples to the common people. Jesus bade them first go round the town and collect two-pences from workmen, pennies, or half-pennies, from widows—lone widows and weeping washerwomen? If'the disciples bad done this, I trow the common people would hardly have heard them quite so gladly. No, they did not beg on, year after year, waiting for a church and a parson age, telling up their twopences. It was no part of their mis sion to beg from lone widows and washerwomen. Amongst all sects I have heard of begging parsons, but never such begging as this—beggars begging from beggars. A beggarly business, truly, for gentlemen and clergymen to follow. Yours truly, NATHANIEL CAINE. * If any proof be necescary, it is-supplied by the following .extract from the annual report of the Rev. C. F. Bishop : —" Polemical excitement has lost none of its virulence during the past year. It is astonishing, as welt as grievous, to-witness to what an extent religious (so-called) and political bitterness is found to prevail amongst some of the lahouring , classes ; and, in most cases, the violence of the feeling is in ,proportion to the wickedness _of the life. Men, who neglect their duties as husbands and fathers, who spend their earn ings in the public house, and allow their children to wander in the streets, ars ready, on the slightest provocation, to ,fieht in the name of religion, and to treat with the greatest ferocity all who are of the opposite party. This apply :almost equally to certain sections of both Protestants and Catholics. The sight of a green ribbon on the one side, or an orange ribbon on the other, is sufficient to anger these foolish people into a state of frenzy. The orange procession of the 12th July rekindled all the dying embers-of-strife, end the flames still continue to rage. On the nieht after that procession went both into Orange and Catholic -districts whered was known, with the view of doing what.l could to allay the evil spirit that had been raised, and I was thus en gaged tilt after midnight. Besides the collisions in the .principal streets, many savage fights took place in more retired neighbourhoods, and in several ,courts I saw-case ments with nothing in them but shattered glass. From one house of disreputable character one of the wretched inmates was carried to the hospital with a broken arm, which she had got in one of, these religions frays; for even that miserable class shared ip the agitation, and ranged themselves on their respective sides. 'The feeling, as I have said, has not died away. Just at the-close of the year I was requested to-call and see a man whoevas one of the flag bearers in the above procession. He had been drinking at a public house, and was there reproached by some of the other party because of his share in the proceedings of the carpenter lads, , on Prince William's day, and, after the usual taunts about the Pope and the confessional on the one side, and the character of Henry and his connexion with the reformed religion. on the other, the fiagbearer was waylaid by several men as he left the.house, who threw him down and kicked him with such brutality that he had to be assisted, bruised and bleed ing, by the police to his home, where he lay for a fortnight in a disabled state. Such are the results in the courts an I homes of the poor of the unholy polemical agitations which are too often promoted by those who have every .means of knowing better, and for whom the same excuse cannot be alleged as we ought, perhaps, to make for the ignorant people, whose worst passions they stimulate into such ferocious activity. Even the very children catch in some degree the same evil spirit, and it is us unusual thing to hear little urchins propose - "three groans for the Pope," or " three groans for the jump ers," under which cognomen all protestants are included. It is worthy of note that, seen after the 12th July, I saw a party of boys, varying in age from eight to fourteen years, armed with long sticks, with which they were getting up a mimic row; with all its movements and noises. One of the little fellows pretended to be felled by a blow on the head received from one of his companions. There he lay, apparently stunned. They came about him and pretended to raise him. He dropped his hands, and arms, and legs, exactly as if he had been senseless, and they laid him out as if they would carry him to the hospital. In what a school, thought I, are those children tieing educated? And what tan he expected of them when they feel the passions which they thus horribly mimic. Oh,.when will this spirit of foul antipathy be laid, and was differ from man as brother from brother? Not till a more lowly and charitable demeanour, and a less proud and arro gate spirit, are manifested by the leaders of sects and parties. The feeling that prompts the educated man to the use of in jurious words will urge the ignorant man to resort to wound ing blows. t A` Every one who is a collector is a student of St.'Aidan's." —The Rev. Dr. Baylee's speech at the Collegiate Institution, 11th Jan., 1853. TEE Cnox,Ene.—A notification from the Board of Health, endorsed, we regret to say, by alarming intelli gence from Ireland, warns us that the cholera has not yet departed from our shores, but that, on the contrary, a fresh and more virulent outbreak of it is to be expected. This expectation is founded on the fact that in 1831, and again in 1848, the epidemic declined, and all but disap peared, in a similar manner, only to break forth with increased virulence in the following spring and summer. These facts serve as a text, on which the Board of Health enlarges for the purpose of precautionary measures. We cannot help saying that the Board of Health is greatly to blame for having delayed this notification until the return of the warm weather when, according to their own statement, some of the most important operations in the way of deansing can no longer be performed with safety. But above all we cannot suppress our astonishment,—to use no stronger term,—that when such an official intima ton is sent forth, advantage should not be taken of the approaching day of humiliation and prayer to make the impending visitation the subject of an address to the Throne of Grace.—John Bull. 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PARKER'S LIQUID HAIR DYE; PARKER'S BA LM OF N ERTI A ; PARKER'S RECAPILATORY FLUID, for cleansing the Head from all kinds of Dandruff. Sold at the Proprietor's Establishment, 22, Hamilton street, Birkenhead. Eiberpool tattbarbf TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25,1854. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL CHRONICLE. SlR,—Your.leading article in this day's Taper __concluded as follows We may here remark, in addition to the three cases stated by Mr. Jeffery, et the Vestry . Meeting, that Mr. Carne and Mr. Hutchison have both obtained reductions upon warehouse parish assessments since MO, the former upon two buildings in Kay-street, to the extent of £620 ; and the latter upon four others, situate in Pownall-street, of £312." This statemont is incorrect, so far as 1 am concerned, inasmuch as I lave never owned, rented, or occupied any warehouse, or-other tenement whatever, in Pownall-street or the neighbourhood.—l am, Sir, yours, trimly, 22nd April,-11144. ROI3T. HUTCHISON. C Et •Er 'R •C 'H 'RATES.. -STATE OF THE POLL. THIRD DAY, MONDAY, APRIL 24. For the Rate Bl6 Persons. 2044 Votes. Against do. Majority against the Rate 470 „ 321 „ The Churchwardens, in announcing the result of the Third Day's Poll, take thi opportunity of informing the Parishioners of the consequences which must ensue from a rejection of the Rate. There are employed, in connexion with the Parish Churches, 2 Clerks, 7 Vergers and Sextons, 2 Organists, 10 Singers, and 21 Bellringers. Unless the Parishioners provide Funds for paying these, the whole must be at once discharged—the Organs silenced—the Bells cease,to be rung—the Clocks stopped—and the Property allowed to go to-ruin. It is untrue (as stated in a Local Paper) that the Rectors are opposed to the Rate. The Churchwardens trust that the Parishioners will support them by recordinz their Votes without delay. .C. FRED. CARNE. ll Churchwardens. ROBERT H UTCH ISON, N.B.— The Parishioners only pay for Fire Singers in ,each Church. 411 the-additional assistance rendered to the Choirs is gratuitous on the part of individuals. NATIONAL EDUCATION. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENE RAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. PRESENT POSITION OF POLITICAL PARTIES. THERE is, perhaps, no subject which has occupied more of public attention, undergone more discus sion, and yet with less satisfactory result, than that of the education of that immense majority of the rising population who have no other means of beneficial instruction than what is afforded by the State, or by the - aid of private beneficence. The great difficulty appears to be in arriving at any fixed opinion as to the necessity to be provided for ; and, in the mean time, while something should be done—if the generation which will suc ceed us is to be in fact, as well 'as in name, a Christian population—the race is growing up in a great measure uninstructed. This is not for want of schools, for they abound in most populous localities ; but there is an evident deficiency in the results sought to be obtained, and conflicting - ideas as to the best means of accomplishing them. Much of the evil arises from the erroneous esti mates as to education, confounding causes with effects, and attributing good to means which may produce either good or evil. At the last quarter -sessions for the county of Somerset, the chairman, in addressing the 'grand jury, lamented the want of education, which, he said, was evident in the number of prisoners to be tried, the greater num ber of whom could neither read nor write. This is a key to the fallacy which generally prevails on the subject. Ignorance is at once concluded to be the want of being able to read or write, and the remedy is, therefore, the instruction in these ele mentary branches of knowledge, without any ap parent thought that both may be acquired without any other than evil results, and that a man may be a good subject and a good Christian, and yet ignorant of either. In the much maligned times when a reverence for Church and State was esteemed a positive duty enjoined by Holy Scrip ture, before Whiggery substituted registration of marriages, births, and deaths for the offices of the Church, the children of the poor were brought to be baptised, and their parents enjoined that they should be instructed in the catechism, and having been examined as to their knowledge of its truths by the parish clergyman, should be brought to the bishop to be confirmed. Here was a simple machinery for imparting to all a knowledge of their responsibilities as immortal beings ; and so long as obedience to such regulations was esteemed a privilege, there might be less of the refinements of education, but there was also infinitely less of practical infidelity. Now, however, the functions of the Church have been in a great measure super seded by Whig concessions to popular clamour for religious liberty, and the melancholy result is practical heathenism and, with a multiplication of schools, an actual increase of ignorance, and thousands of our population growing up without any apparent knowledge of the God which male them, except to profane His name. On such a subject it may appear strange to look for example to the people of China, and yet the system pursued in that empire affords many points worthy of deep and attentive consideration. In Blackwood's _Magazine for January last is an article ou The Past and Fixture of China," which affords some highly interesting information on this subject. There the education of the people has been from the earliest times under the especial care of the State ; and a work written before the Chris tian era (says Mr. DAVIS, who has long been familiar with China) speaks of " the ancient system of instruction," which required that every town and village, down to only a few families, should have a common school. On this all-important matter of education, the Chinese hare followed a system different from all other nations. The great aim both in Europe ,and America has been to -enlarge the intellect of man, to impart to him a knowledge of the physical world and the marvels •of science, and to exalt the human intellect by developing its varied powers. No such educa tional system found favour with the practical mind of China. The system which has there existed has been eminently utilitarian ; but it is utilitarianism in its best form. It is not of that sort which exhibits itself in those schools among ourselves which are styled " commercial," whose object is to impart merely those branches of knowledge which are calculated to advance one's material interests, and which may be used against one's fellows as much as for them. On the contrary, Chinese education, contemplates man even less as an indivi dual than as a member of society, and enjoins upon him, by line upon line and precept upon precept, the manifold duties of humanity and court( sy which he owes to his fellow-men. The object of all European systems i s t o en l arg e man's intellect ; but that of the Chinese is to mould his habits and affections. The teaching of their great philoso pher CoNnycius was, to use the words of one of his disciples, "to possess rectitude of heart, and to love one's neighbour as one's self." With us the great object of education is knowledge—with the Chinese it is morality. The moral and social lessons which with us are left to be taught in private, or to' be acquired by experience of actual life, are made the first step and fundamental prin ciple of training in China. They prepare the youth for being a good man and a good member of society, and place science only in a secondary rank. It is much to be lamented that, in a nation like ours, enjoying the pure light of Revelation, and having advantages such as the Chinese never pos sessed, we should be so far behind them in appre ciating the real object of education. The first and prominent duty should be the inculcation of those religious truths which far surpass all secular know ledge, while the latter should be merely subsidiary, and used simply as a means to an end. Bdt so long as national schools are made the vehicles - for intellectual advancement, irrespective or secondary only to moral teaching, we can expect no other results than those which are evident around us — one part of the population acquiring ideas far beyond their worldly circumstances, and the other with no instruction at all, filling our gaols and swelling the calendars at assize courts and quarter sessions. vation of our constitutional privileges and their legitimate representation in the House of Com mons, would place political principles once more on an intelligible footing ; would revive almost despairing hopes, encourage the timid, sustain the wavering, give practical efficiency to the efforts of the bold, and, under the blessing of Providence, rescue the National Faith from the insidious de signs of Rome. The opportunity for action cannot much longer be delayed ; but the most prudent course is to be prepared, and, while all admit that union is strength, its application was never more important than in helping to secure the blessings of a Constitutional Government. Tim Easter recess has, as usual, caused a lull in the political world ; and, even without this pause in the business of legislation, it would be difficult to point to any one great question which occupies public attention, except it be the all absorbing subject of the impending war. It would seem, indeed, as though the coalition of opposing factions had afflicted the public mind with apathy, and that the spirit which is sometimes aroused at a contested election had been quenched in listless indifference. If our institutions were assailed with the definite attacks of any one of the various phases assumed by Liberalism for party objects, we could imagine that the true Conservative spirit which animates every honest and intelligent man might be awakened into vigorous activity ; but the conglomeration of political opinions which consti tute the present Administration have neutralised each other, and the Conservative public appear to have concluded that such a fusion, though inca pable of doing any good, is powerless to do harm. We have not yet recovered from the excitement which struggled so manfully for ascendancy at the last election, and was rendered futile through Peelite treachery ; but it is almost time that the country was once more aroused to the importance of the cause at issue, with the advantage of all the experience which has since been acquired. There should no longer be a compromise between duty and inclination, or any foolish reliance on specious promises of Conservative tendencies. The ground of difference should be the intelligible one of ad herence to the Constitutional principles avowed by the supporters of the Earl of DERBY, as opposed to any support of the present Ministry. The Peelites laid claim to the dignity of being Con servatives in all but their adherence to the doc trines of Free Trade, but their claim should on no account be admitted. All the value of their pre vious services has been cancelled, their professions have been proved to be false and utterly worthless, and in future they ought to be ranked with the ultra-Radicals, with whom they have chosen to ally themselves. Indeed, in estimating the title to public confidence of any representative when he shall again seek the suffrages of his constituents, the surest test should be the support or opposition which he has afforded to the Coalition Cabinet in their, fortunately, unsUccessful attempts to revo lutionise the country by concessions to democracy. We are by no means premature in directing at tention to the necessity of being prepared for another appeal to the country. The Ministry are inherently weak ; and, however ingenious they may be in patching up their quarrels and conceal ing their defects, they have already shown many unmistakeable signs of speedy decay. Scarcely had they been formed, when three of their Romanist allies tendered their resignation, because Lord J. RUSSELL had given vent to one of his occasional fits of Protestantism ; the mysterious resignation and resumption of office by Lord PALMERSTON has not yet been explained, except on an hypothesis which no one believes, however probable may be its truth ; a similar course by the President of the Poor-law Board, and its injurious consequence in the with drawal of the bill for the alteration of the Law of Settlement, has not been without a damaging effect.; and only recently, the loss of their principal man in the House of Commons has been with difficulty avoided by allowing him to give vent to his mortification in a flood of tears. It may be thought impossible that any Ministry, however strong their tenacity for office, can long endure such assaults.; and though their cautious craft has enabledthemto steer clear of shipwreck, by literally doing nothing—postponing every measure, suc cumbing to every reverse, and falsifying every promise—it is a course which cannot long put off the day of reckoning. They have also had their share of fortuitous circumstances on which to found a claim for the forbearance of their oppo nents, and the suspension of popular indignation for their multiplied failings. In 1851 the Great Exhibition served as a convenient excuse to enable Lord JOHN RUSSELL to hold office for another year without precipitating his own downfal ; and, I now, bad management, treachery, or something worse, have involved the country in an expensive war, which is made to serve a similar office for that legislative trifling which consists in proposing measures which no one cordially approves —mere compromises between Whiggery, Peelism, and Radicalism—and afterwards withdrawing them when their discussion becomes dangerous. The war, however, is not without its inconveniences, the worst of which have yet to come. It may suit the complacency of Mr. GLADSTONE, whose career as a Chancellor of the Exchequer has been a series of financial blunders, to talk of not drawing on posterity for the cost of the war, and providing for the expenses of the first expedition by an issue of a million and three quarters of Exchequer Bills ; and subsequently by a proposal for the issue of six millions of Exchequer Bonds, to be repaid out of the anticipated surplus ; but long before another Session of Parliament the coun try must be called upon to burden itself with new taxes, if we are to expect that success to our arms for which we are called upon to-morrow to offer our prayers to the Majesty of Heaven. The demand upon the national resources must be made, despite the shuffling off which the question has yet received from Peelite insincerity, and the discus sion may prove more dangerous to Ministerial stability than even the dreaded infliction of that democratic abortion, the Reform Bill. With such prospects of political changes before us, where are the preparations for the coming struggle, which cannot be indefinitely postponed ? What associations are formed to collect the scattered elements of Conservative strength, and, by union, to present a fair front in defence of the great principles of Church and State, endangered by hostility from without, and treachery from within ? Where is the rallying point where the standard should be reared, and from whence the trumpet should sound to call England to its duty, and, mindful of its former glory, to ensure victory abroad by loyalty and fidelity at home ? Alas, it would seem that the incubus of Whiggery has paralysed our noblest energies, and that, having been defeated in one contest, we hesitate to engage in another. We should not need to be *minded of former triumphs, but let us not forget that Liverpool led the van en the last occasion, and to Liverpool the country will again look for an en couraging example when political principles are once more tried in the balance. The metropolis has lost its prestige in its huge parliamentary boroughs given over to the short-sighted selfish ness of the ten-pound householders in the hack streets ; and Liverpool, the great head of British commerce, should justify its well-earned reputation by proving also the great centre of Conservative principles. Manchester, to carry out its Free trade policy, inoculated the whole country with its dogmas, and did not relax its 'exertions till it had achieved its object. Liverpool should take example from its earnestness, and redouble its exertions for a far worthier cause ; and who dare doubt of its success ? There is ample Conservative feeling throughout the country for the call to be cordially responded to, and all that is required is for a nucleus to be formed, which would rapidly bring within its influence the electoral resources of the Empire. An association of a purely national character, with the avowed object of uniting all CoriOgiViltiVeS in one comm-on bond for the preser. THE WAR IN THE EAST. THE all-engrossing topic of discussion is still the war with Russia, and many are the anxious inqui ries from all classes of the people as to its progress and prospects. In these days of rapid communi cation, by means of railway and electric telegraphs, we are apt to anticipate events and look for news before the actual occurrence of • the circumstances ; but we must learn to moderate our anxieties, and exercise more patience than we have been recently accustomed to, before we can hope to hear of any thing decisive having been effected. We have had a series of accounts of the shipment of troops in fast-going steamers, and of the despatch of power ful fleets to the scene of expected contest ; but, however rapidly this portion of the business may be performed, the actual operations of a campaign of imposing magnitude require far more time to be developed. The last war is, to the present generation, a matter of history, and little more do the majority know of it than the records of brilliant victories ; but such events required many months of active preparation, and these we have only just entered upon. The ex pedition to the East has not yet reached the scene of anticipated strife, and it was only last week that the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF left the gaieties of Paris to enter upon the active duties of his office. The Baltic fleet, it is true, is already there, in force considered ample for all that may be opposed to it ; but a battle, whether on sea or land, requires an enemy, and Russia has, as yet, pursued her ancient policy of retreating before a foe able to cope with her. Without an opportunity of engaging the Russian fleet, Sir CHARLES NAPIER has orders to effect a rigorous blockade, a duty which he will, no doubt, well perform ; but it of necessity, involves delay, and furnishes but little occasion for those stirring bulletins which excite popular enthusiasm at home. In the East, also, the same causes operate to render delay almost inevitable ; and though powerful steamships may have conveyed our soldiers to Malta, and sub sequently to Gallipoli, with a celerity impracticable during the last war, the advantages there cease, and the marches over the Turkish provinces will, necessarily, prolong the time before the English and French army can have an opportunity of showing their military prowess against the hordes of Russian serfs whom they are sent to drive be fore them.' In the meantime, the electric telegraph is not idle, and we have almost daily rumours of military movements, and sanguinary encounters between the Turkish and Russian forces. So many of these report have, however, been manufactured, merely for stock jobbing purposes, that few of them receive credit, until their correctness is confirmed through a more trustworthy channel. It would appear that Russia still perseveres in her aggressive course ; following up her occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia by crossing the Danube, and that whatever may be the retreating policy at sea, full opportunity will be afforded our troops to show the advantage of courage and discipline over numerical superiority. A treaty, offensive and defensive, has now been definitively concluded between England and France for the defence of the Turkish territory, the osten sible object being the preservation of the peace of Europe, by the resistance of Russian aggression. Austria, it would appear, is more favourably dis posed towards the policy of the Western Powers than was evident a short time since, though the young EMPEROR is more pleasantly occupied with the preparations for his approaching marriage than with the sterner business of State diplomacy. The greatest obstacle to European union is the vacilla lation of the KING OF PRUSSIA, the godfather to our PRINCE OF WALES, who has shown by his recent conduct that he has about as little claim to sanity as the EMPEROR or Russre, and he has, no doubt, been the means of the other Northern powers holding _aloof, and professing to observe a strict neutrality which they will find it impossible to maintain. It will not require much, however, to set all this right. If the opportunity be but afforded to the Baltic fleet to sound the thunders of British cannon in that sea, the whole of the neighbouring ports will be at our command, and we may then assume the tone that " he that is not with us is• against us." Let the same duty be performed in the Black Sea, and Russia will be driven to her own resources, her Empire blockaded from the rest of the world, and not an ally in Europe to look to for aid or assistance, except it may be the petty kingdom of Greece, which will become extinguished in the struggle. THE WIVES AND CHILDREN OF SOLDIERS. An earnest appeal is now being made to the benevolent feelings of the inhabitants of Liverpool, on behalf of the funds of the Association which has been formed in the metropolis, under the sanction and patronage of the highest dignitaries, in aid of the wives and families of our soldiers ordered to the East. The objects of the Associa tion will be found detailed in our advertising columns . f'lt will there be seen that, according to the regulations of the army authorities, only a small proportion of the sol diers' wives, who have been married with military sanc tion, are allowed to accompany their husbands in the expedition ; the remainder have their passage paid to the parishes where they have a settlement, and there, in the majority of, cases, the Union Poor-house is their only resource. It is then that the Association interferes to spare the wives and children of those who are fighting the battles of their country abroad from such a humiliating alternative, and this appeal is made in order to enable it to do so. The aid is not intended to be purely gratuitous, but asylums will be found for the children, and employ ment, as far as possible, provided for the mothers, so that they may be enabled to maintain themselves. It can scarcely be necessary to urge the performance of so mani fest a duty, which must be prompted by every considera tion for those who are hazarding their lives in their coun try's cause. It would be base ingratitude to leave the soldier's wife and children to the Poor-house, while he is called away to danger; and perhaps death; and it should also not be forgotten, that the knowledge that such provi sion is made for those he must leave behind him may, prompt many to fill up the ranks, which the stern necessi ties of war may require replenishing. It will, no doubt, be urged by some that this duty should be performed by the State ; but let it be remembered that the State ha , -, no other resources than the taxes levied on the people, and far better is it that the aid should be the spontaneous act of benevolence, than that it should furnish an excuse for some additional tax, which would prove a more grievous burden. HER MAJESTY and PRINCE ALBERT have liberally contri buted to the fund, and the General Committee comprises some of the highest personages in the kindgdom. A highly-influential local Committee has been formed in Liverpool, at the head of which is the Worshipful the MAYOR, and contributions will be received at Messrs. Moss's bank, as well as by the Treasurer and Secretaries. Let us hope that Liverpool will justify her high character for loyalty and munificence, and set an example which other towns will be studious to emulate. TA THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—A question having been proposed in reference to the contemplated 011ectioil in aid of the Association for the Relief of the Wives and Children of Soldiers now ordered - upon active service, why the families of seamen of the fleet should not be included, we beg permission through your columns to state, that we conceive no exclu sion was intended by the Central Association ; but that it does not appear that any steps have hitherto been proposed by officers of the navy, possibly arising from the circumstance that the regulations provide for the sailor's wife drawing a portion of her husband's pay while absent. This the soldier's wife cannot do, from the simple fact, that, after the usual deductions have been made for rations, for which the soldier pays and the sailor does not, the former has only three shillings per week to meet the supply and wear and tear of boots and clothing ; while the sailor, with his larger pay, clears from 9s. 6d. to 10s. per week. If sailors' wives were left in the same destitute condition as those of soldiers now deprived of their usual means of subsistence, it cannot be doubted that the most perfect union would prevail between both services in obtaining and Administering the assistance that might be required.—We are, Sir, your most obedient servants, Joss B. Colon, S. WESTMACOTT, Capt. R.E., Hon. Secretaries. PRAYER AND HUMILIATION. TO -MORROW (Wednesday) has been appointed, by Royal Proclamation, as a public day of humiliation and prayer, so that we may humble ourselves before the ALMIGHTY, in order to obtain pardon of our sins, and send up our prayers and supplications to the DIVINE MAJESTY, for imploring His blessing and assistance on our arms for the restoration of peace. Business generally will be suspended. Divine service will be celebrated in all churches and chapels, and in most of them the offertory will be devoted to the fund for the relief of the wives and children of the soldiers sent to the East. THE POLL FOR A CHURCH-RATE. TIXE poll for a rate of three farthings in the pound, in order to enable the Churchwardens to maintain the de cencies of public worship in the Parish Churches of Liverpool, is now being proceeded with. The following were the numbers at the close of each day : FIRST DAY-THURSDAY Persons. Votes. .. 302 852 .. 317 SECOND DAY—FRIDAY. 525 1370 751 1454 THIRD DAY—MONDAY. For the Rate ......... ...... 816 - 2044 Against it 1286 2365 The poll was yesterday again adjourned to this day (Tuesday). On the announcement of the state of the poll yester day, and the adjournment being moved, the Rev. Thactor . CAMPBELL made the following remarks :—" As. For the Rate Against it ... For the Rate Against it .... far as lam concerned, I would close the poll now, not because I am indifferent to the subject, as has been said, but because I am sorry that the- parishioners should refuse a rate for the repairs of their pariah churches and the decent maintenance of public worship, and because Churchmen seem to show such indifference on the subject, that I myself would not prolong the contest. But the continuance of the poll is demanded, and it ought to be granted, to enable the parishioners to record their delibe- rate opinions." It will be a disgrace to the town, if the final result of the poll should be adverse to this small rate, for a purpose to which no man with the slightest appreciation of the blessings of Christianity should take exception. It is ab surd to contend that the faintest conscientious scruple is involved in the objection to the rate, The simple question is the provision of the means of Divine worship for the poor, and those who have no other means of Christian instruction. The Church of England is essentially, really, and practically the poor man's church. Whatever the Dissenters may do in providing accommodation for those who are able and willing to pay for it, they do little for those who cannot afford to pay. It is a fact, which should induce the parishioners to vote for the rate by an over whelming majority, that there are more free sittings in the two parish churches of Liverpool (St. Nicholas' and St. Peter's) than in all the dissenting meeting-houses in the neighbourhood, numerous as they are. Let it be remem bered that the whole of the ground-floor of the parish churches is free, and then let any conscientious man ask himself upon what ground he can refuse to tax himself to the extent'of three farthings in the pound, in order that so much good may be done at so trifling a cost. We con fidently trust that those who have as yet abstained from voting will hasten to the poll, and rescue Protestant Liverpool from the indelible disgrace which the rejection of this rate would inflict upon her reputation. With reference to the absurd objection attempted to be raised about the conscientious scruples of Dissenters, we give the following from an undispUted authority : "Until within the last ten years," said Mr. Baron GURNEY, in summing up a case of a church-rate riot, "no man living had ever heard of conscientious scruples upon this subject from any class of dissenters. I respect the right of dissenters, no man more so; but I feel great distress when I hear made:lce prostituted by a mixture of poli tical feeling. If a man purchases a house, he gives a price subject to all burdens upon it, and he calculates that he shall' have to pay certain rates and taxes, and in pro portion to that, so does he estimate its value ; and I have never heard that any of these persons has paid over to his landlord any sum he may have saved in consequence of the reduction of any tax ; and until any man had done that, the less he said about his conscience the better. The church-rate is an ancient rate, payable by law, and it is the duty of all men to pay it." TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STARDIED Sts,—l cannot believe that the Churchmen of Liverpool really understand the church-rate question, or they never would take it so coolly as they do. If the three farthing rate is refused, the parish churches will remain unrepaired ; all the attendants, except the clergy, unpaid ; the organs, choirs, and bells silenced ; the illuminated clocks darkened; and the means for the decent maintenance of public wor ship withdrawn. Not one sixpence of the twopenny pa rochial rate can be applied to the parish churches ; and do they deliberately and advisedly mean that this should be done ? The opponents of the church-rate say-that the congregations at the . parish churches should furnish the means. Can they seriously mean what they say ? Half of St. Peter's Church is occupied by the poor. The whole of St. Nicholas' is free to all the parishioners ; and the rectors have given up legal statutable claims to pew rents which amounted to £6O a year. Is it meant that such .congregations have the ability, or should be called upon, to furnish money for such purposes as the repair of the parish churches, and the maintenance of parochial worship as it ought to be maintained in a wealthy parish like Liverpool ? They cannot afford it, if they would . . Again, the opponents of the church-rate say that the parish churches and their clergy are of no use to any but those who belong to the church, and therefore should be sup ported by none but churchmen. Is this true? Are the rectors of no use to any but churchmen? Rector Camp bell has, I believe, worked 25 years in the parish, and done quite as much service to dissenters as he has to churchmen. Rector Brooks has worked considerably more than 50 years in his native town, in works of uni versal charity and universal utility, in the service of all, dissenters as well as churchmen ; and do the people of Liverpool mean deliberately and advisedly to cast these gentlemen off in their old age, and throw them on the voluntary principle, and send them, cap in hand, to beg for alms and oblations to wash their surplices, and pay for their organs, and choirs, and the repairs of their churches ? Is this decent ? is this respectful ? is it really what the people of Liverpool really mean ? I can hardly think it possible. Again, speaking to churchmen, I would say, do you mean that the Established Church should re main a part and parcel of the British constitution, or do you not ? If you do, you must support it as such. A man, personating a cobbler, said in vestry, why should he pay to the church ? the church was of no use to him. If he paid the parson for a church he did not use, why should not the parson pay him for a pair of useless shoes-? This king of the:cobblers, no doubt, could cobble a fresh con stitution after his own fashion, and say, what use to me is a Queen, with five or six palaces and 3 o r £400,000 a year ? what do I want with a Mayor, with a cocked hat, and a fine coach, and £2OOO a year, and a set of upstart town councillors, swilling champagne ? Dissenters who' advocate a separation of church and state, are only main taining their principle in refusing a church -rate. Church men, who profess to uphold an established church, desert their principles if they refuse to vote for it. The church rate in Liverpool, after all, has been nothing more than a voluntary rate for many years. Nobody r an b d reae th h ere o f f or t e he th h e arm pre o s n en y t tha op t pos h i as tion pre is va an iled un s ; that could not afford to pay, or had a really consc i entious scruple, has ever been sued, or had hi s conscientious scruples dis caturbededso; long between the parochial clergy and the parishioners, and an unmerited affront to men who have deserved better at their hands.--your obedient servant, ANGLICUS. the e Sl b ß eirs grievedlat‘vba:t.ti t.Peter's TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ' ringing Churches had been discontinued by order of the churchn-ardens, and no doubt the clocks, about the most useful in the town, will aLso cease their usual gyrations. I cannot but think the recent agitation a piece of grea t folly, seeing the churchwardens have not eliforc the rate from dissen ters : indeed I Icaow several parties who have not paid it , tov . rn, who has the slight for years. indeed, movement of Messrs. wiun o U t rg al u lo h w art tihis Jeff fr e es ry h , and Co., is another blow at the Church, and doubtless they will never rest satisfied until Romanism and Dissent reign slight est sattns urely eto e rnyiithroughoutiohldab t a t h h en e tc h. land. nutrhe attack of its enemies to be successful, nor suffer the merry bells and clocks of their p arish churches, purchased by the inhabit.a.nts, to be sacrificed to a " Three farthin gs wise and pound foolish" act of folly.—l am, Si r, yours, eik • ARGus. Liverpool, April 24, 1854, Dining Rooms, Slater-court, FISH TABLE D'HOTES will he provided continuously at on Wednesday (to - niorrow), the Special Fast Day. First Table d'Hote at one o'clock--will be continuous till seven o'clock. Charge, Is. 6d, each. Mer chants' Dinir.g Rooms, Slater -court, Castle-street. e M k r ,:tle F -s ee trZ s , Merchants.