The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

Dec. 9, 18.46 I. oral mat probittrtal getvo. The Manchester parks are expected to be opened in anne next. The sum of one hundred and ten pounds was realised for the poor last week at Birkenhead, by a sale of fancy work and clothing. Joseph Mallaby, Esq., has resigned the office of clerk to the Guardians of the Wirral Union, in consequence of his increasing engagements. The first cargo of foreign wheat forwarded from Liver pool, from the import ship, under bond, has just been warehoused in the bonded warehouses, Salford. The seven men charged with attempting to scuttle the barque Chimplain were on Tuesday committed for trial at the assizes. • SUPPOSED FORGERY.—A person named Mitchell, who is charged with uttering a forged bill of exchange for £2,000 at Carlisle. has been apprehended in Birkenhead. Low CHILDREN.—The number of lost (i.e. strayed) children in the borough of Salford, reported at the police office from Oct. 23, 1844, to Oct. 14, 1845. was 1,037. The Devon, lighter, left Devonport on Thursday after noon for Liverpool, with Mr. Mills and party of seamen for the Caledonia, 120, to navigate the Inflexible, steam sloop, from Liverpool to Devonport. At Birkenhead, Jane Anderton, an old offender, was committed for trial on a charge o f ste alin g a satin dress from the house of Mary Russell, with whom she had lodged, in Oak street. A pretty-looking female, named Steers, who professes to tell fortunes, has been committed by the Birkenhead magistrates to the House of Correction for a month, for stealing a check shirt. On Monday, the members of St. Saviour's Church presented to their respected minister, the Rev. W. R. Hunt, a beautiful gold watch with appendages, and a purse of gold, as a mark of their esteem. At Manchester, Elizabeth Moores, 7 years of age, fell in a flagged yard, and the point of a clasp knife, with which she had been cutting an apple, entered the right side of her-cock, penetrated the jugular vain, and caused death. Great excitement prevails at Oldham and the neigh bourhood, in consequence of the Poor Law Commission ers having ordered that and other parishes to be formed into a union. The majority of the inhabitants appear de termined to resist the introduction of the law. A new station is now in the course of erection in Smithdown-lane, at the rear of the old station , in Crown street, for the drand Junction Company. It is intended, for the convenience of parties travelling by the cheap trains, and also for the accommodation of farmers and others bringing fruit, vegetables, milk, &c., to market. On Monday night an unfortunate sailor, whilst in a state of intoxication, was induced to enter a disreputable house in Clarence-street, where he was robbed of his wstch n twenty-two sovereigns. The watch was after wards a ret d urned to him, but the money has not been found. OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—On Wednesday John Robinson, a time-keeper of the Dock Trustees was committed by Mr. Rushton for trial on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. The prisoner had on several cases put down more time than the men had worked, and told them lie had done so in or der to rectify a mistake in another workman's bill. THE CESAREAN OPERATION.—This very difficult and hazardous operation was successfully performed in Sal ford, on the morning of Thursday se'nnight, by Dr. Rad ford, and Mr. Goodman, surgeon; and, so far, both mo ther and child are not only alive but doing well. It is stated that there is but one other clear and well authenti cated case of this operation being successfully performed in England, namely , by Mr. Knowles, surgeon, of Bir mingham. CAPT. JOHNSTONE, OF THE SHIP TORY.—This indivi dual, whose name is familiar to the whole kingdom, and by this time in many places beyond it, as being accused of fearful and appalling murders committed on the high seas, is a native of the parish of Du.net, in the county of Caithness. He served his apprenticeship to the sea on board the George Sinclair, of Wick ; and, since he had 'command of the Tory, resided, when at home, at Liver pool. He is His fa her was long an elder in e church and parish of Dunnet. INQUESTS.—On Saturday, on view of the body of Margaret Baker, aged 76 years. About three months .ago, deceased, who lived in Wood-street, was looking down the , outer cellar stairs of the house she inhabited, when she lost her balance a nd fell to the bottom. by which her shoulder was dislocated. A few days afterwards she was taken to the Infirmary, where she remained for three weeks, but not recovering , again went home, where she continued to get worse, until Friday, when she died. — Verdict, " Accidental death."—On the body of a new born male child, which was found on Friday night, wrapped in a cloth, in a yard leading to Thompson's place, Dean-street.—Verdict, after a post mortem ex amination, to the effect that the child was " WEST DERBY UNION, TUESDAY.--It was announced that all the townships in the union having paid in the se veral calls on them, there was in the hands of the treasurer £2387 7s. 7d. ; on which fund cheques were filled up for the immediate payment of the County Rolls for the current quarter, amounting to £1935 9s. 9d., £lOO for out-door relief for the ensuing week, and others for some smaller paymepts ; end a fresh call was ordered on the'several townships, to be paid on or before the 16th instant, to enable the board to wind up the quarter, and to meet current expenses. A deputation was appointed to confer with Mr. Harbord, as to whether he would resign his office of public vaccinator, so that that office might be, by the union of the office with that of district medical officer, resigned by Mr. Harbord, be made more worthy the acceptance of a medical gentleman. A nqtice of mo tion was given for the appointment of a relieving officer for Toxteth-park, and also for an addition of 180 per an num to the salary of the clerk of the board. SENDING AN INFANT IN A BASKET TO THE FE MALE ORPHAN ASYLUM.—Between the hours of six and seven o'clock on Friday evening last, two respectably 'attired females met a lad, of the name of James Burrows, in Back Berry-street, and, handing him a basket with a handle to it, told him to take it to the Female Orphan Asylum, Myrtle-street They said that, as it contained glass, be was to be particularly careful not to break it, or knock up against any person in the streets through which he passed ; and for the trouble he was to have in c o nveying it to its destination they gave him a piece ot' money. which lie put in his pocket, and which they said was sixpence. The lad proceeded on his errand, and, on being admitted at the institution, the basket was opened, and, underneath a pile of children's caps, petticoats, handkerchiefs, and socks, there was found a very fine, healthy-looking female infant, fast asleep. By its side was lying a bottle filled with milk, and a paper, written in a good female hand, of which the following is a copy : " Christianfriends, pray take care of this dear little or phan. I will send you a sum in a few days." The inmates of the institution were, of course, much surprised; the lad, perhaps, much more so than any body else. There appears no reason to doubt the boy story, but all search to discover the females h as provell unavailing. The boy said he had received a piece of money for his trouble, and ton putting his hand into his pocket and drawing it forth, it turned out not to be a sixpence, as they told him, but a half sovereign. The basket with its caps, &c. has been sent to the commissioners' office. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS, TUESDAY.—The dwelling-houses, at the righthand entrance of the old market, were ordered to be converted into a building for keeping the fire-engine; and, on the suggestion of Mr. Mallaby, the Watch Committee were directed to obtain . from government a plan of a bridewell suitable for the township, in order that they mig ht have a claim on the magistrates to erect such a place or pay a rent for it , if the commissioners erected it. — 'the cost of the market and land was stated to have been £31,890, and the value of the land now. on sale in Ilamilton-street and Market. street was £35,536, leaving a balance of £3,645 to the credit of the township. The estimated annual income from rent of shops, stalls, vaults, &c., if all were now let at the present rent, is £2132, and the expenses, in sala ries, &c., £699 125., leaving a balance in favour of the township of £1432 Bs., to pay the interest on the total sum of £31,890 6s. 4d.—A contract was entered into with Messrs. Forester and Co . for the erection of a ne steamer. Mr. Wood inquired why the ferry accounts had not been published, when Mr. Mallaby said they ought to have been ready. Mr. Bentham said, that a large sum had been carried to the credit of the township. Mr. Wood : Like that of last year, I suppose ; £6OOO to the credit, and £7OOO to the debit.—Plans and specifications were adopted for the sale of the market land and , the land at Flaybrick II ill ; and Mr. Paxton was instructed to produce plans of •the park land still unsold, for the sale of it.—The Ferry and Finance Committees were appointed a special committee to meet Mr. Rendel on the improve ments of the Woodside Ferry and the contemplated landing-places in Liverpool.—A letter was read from William Sharp, Esq., offering to throw open the road leading to Clifton'Park, through Clifton-crescent, and to remove the toll-gate, provided the road was adopted by the Commissioners, and lighted at the expense of the township.—The letter was referred to the Road Corn- mittee. Docx COMMITTEE, (Thursday).—A design was sub mitted for a clock, to be placed in en elevated position, at the entrance to the north docks ; a suitable erection would be required for placing it so as to serve the purposes Of a telegraph and lighthouse ; and the surveyor was ordered to proceed with the foundation, under the direc tion of the Marine Committee. An increase of salary (namely, from 15s. to 20s. each time of active serviee) to the. master of the Formby life-boat, was confirmed.—An explanation was given es to the cause of the delay in not answering the signal for two tug-boars required by the GI eat Britain ; the whole had originated in a mistake, and the explanation was considered satisfactory to the committee.—A letter from Mr. G. S. Jackson, requesting shed accommodation for certain vessels at George's Pier, was referred.—A communication was received from the Trinity Board, as to' the Point of Ayr light being mistaken for the north-west light; the Board were of a❑ opinion that no such mistake was probable, but further measures would be taken in connexion with the subject.—Directions were given for carrying out the measures for regulating the discharge ,of timber at the east side of Brunswick Dock.—Mr. Nicol brought forward his motion for an al teration in the mode of transacting the dock business, by . appointing a daily committee, consisting of the chairman,. or deputy-chairman, and two members, to act in rotation, whose proceedings should, however, be submitted weekly to the general Board ; the said committee to visit the docks and warehouses, and report on their condition at each weekly meeting of the general 'committee. Mr. Nicol explained that he did not wish to do away with sub committees altogether, but they were only to be appointed for special purposee, as the daily committee would be quite adequate to transact the current business of the estate. Some discussion ensued, during which several members, amongst whom were Mr. Tobin and Mr. Ripley, deprecated the plan as being unnecessary and impracticable. The motion was seconded by Mr. Smith, and carried by a majority of five, eleven voting for and six against it. o ero,,,rtbe ; clarli oi des , .veti °s r Org'' ' in ge l !' Chris: ; lanß7 i g sell" is i ciPle tbe git t its 0 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. tog adopted -that system, what , was the consequence? The immediate practical exclusion of the children who were then receiving education in the schools. (Applause.) Now, this was a fact, which no one could deny. His object was not so much to arraign the conduct of his pre decessors, as to defend their own. He believed that the great error of the Reform Council arose from a desire to teach what others wished to learn,-rather than what they themselves believed to be the best, —acting upon expedi ency rather than principle—forgetting that they alone were the trustees—that they were responsible, and to a higher than an earthly tribunal, for the truth or error taught within their schools. (Hear and loud applause.) He would not dwell longer upon this point, for his object was not to attack others, but to defend the present committee. What was the effect of the system so introduced? He had no hesitation in answering that the town made a stand against it. (Hear, hear, ironically from Mr. Earle.) They did make a stand, and a most determined stand it was.. The clergy united as one man; and it had been eloquently said, " let the clergy be united and there never stood a statesman in the British Senate—there never sat a monarch on the British throne, that could resist the moral influence they would possess." (Loud applause.) They united as one man; and what was the result? Not only the erection of two noble buildings in the town, as monuments of the determination of the people of Liver pool to maintain scriptural education, but another result was the return els° to the Council Chamber of a large and overwhelming majority of the friends of scriptural educa tion. (Loud applause.) Now, what was the course pur sued by those gentlemen when they were returned to the Council ? Denying the right of any man, or of any body of men, corporate or otherwise, to withhold from the children committed to their care a single precept, a single promise of the Word of God, they restored the pure, unadulterated, authorised version of the Scriptores to its proper position in the schools. (Hear, hear.) That was the course they adopted ; and what had that course been termed? What had the requirement of the use of the authorised version of the Scriptures been termed ? It had been termed a system of injustice ! He looked at it, in the first place, as .a matter of pecuniary obligation, for Mr. Higgins had asked at the last council why he should be called upon to subscribe to his own dissenting school and the schools of the corporation besides. But Mr. Iliggins did not contribute to the corporation schools. He paid his town-dues, for certain privileges—the privi lege of trading in Liverpool, and the legislature had taken the funds out of his hands and placed them in the hands of the electors, and the electors sent men into the council to administer those funds. (Hear, hear.) Why, then, did they tell him that it was a system of injustice ? Because it was a system of exclusion. (Hear, hear, from Mr. Earle.) Mr. Earle said " hear, hear ;" and be ho if ped that that gentleman, in his reply, would tell him, he could, any one system that was not exclusive. (Great applause.) Mr. Earle would not tell him that the system, adopted by the reformers was not exclusive, for it was ex clusive both in theory and practice. (Hear, hear.) Mr. . DOCK COMMITTEE. Earle contended for the principle of abstract right; and In reply to Mr. Higgins and Mr. Robinson, the Council had been told that every individual in the Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORS said, he was unable to state, community had the abstract right to participate in the with any certainty as to time, when the Albert dock ware- education afforded at the corporation schools. Now fol houses were likely to be opened. The south-east side low that out. The Reform system, any more than the would probably be completed in a week, but there was no present system, did not act upon that principle. The prospect of the west side being finished for the next six Roman Catholics and the Protestants were not the only months. The landing-stage for the Prince's pier was pro- portions of this community. There was a large body of gressing, and would be ready within the time specified in Jews in Liverpool, and, he regretted to say, a large body the Act of Parliament—August next. . - of infidels also; and upon that principle of abstract right The' proceedings were confirmed, so also were the pro- if the Jews w ere to be a dmitted, the Council would have ceedings of the Improvement Committee , with this addi- no ri g ht to introduce any portion of the New Testament ; ti on ,—that the Town-clerk be directed to serve notic es on nor , if t he infidels were to be admitted, any • portion of the owners of warehouses in Water-street and of the va- the Scriptures. (Hear, hear.) Then it was said, adopt cant ground in Hope-street and Mount-pleasant, and that the s ecular s ystem, and exclude religious instruction those notices be included in the bill for which the Coun- altogether : for he liked to meet the ar g uments fairly. cil are going to Parliament next session. Then he, asked if that system was not exclusive ? For he The proceedings of the Courts of Law Committee were maintained that there was a much larger portion of the confirmed, and that Committee were authorised to obtain inhabitants of Liverpool who would object to sending estimates for erecting a pediment, upon a plan sent in by their children where there was religious instruction af- Mr. Cockrell, at the front of the law courts, forded. That principle, therefore, was alike exclusive ; EDUCATION COMMITTEE. and he challenged Mr. Earle, or any other man, to deny This Committee reported that there were were 1042 the fact. (Applause.) children in the schools. Mr. CHALMER — What is Mr. Horsfall replying to ? Mr. MOLYNEI I X moved the confirmation of the pro- Surely not to my speech. ceedings. Mr. HORSFALL said he was replying to a charge of in- Mr. CHALKIER moved, as an amendment, that the Corn- justice, which he would never submit to, and he claimed mittee be instructed to furnish a re t u r n , ma d e u p to the the right at the hands of Englishmen, of replying to that 3rd instant, of the attendance of children at the schools, charge. (Hears bear.) If they refused to afford secular distinguishing the wards from which they came, how instruction, then they were met with the cry of—teach all many came from each ward, the present cost of support- religions, or teach Roman Catholics in one part of the ing the schools, the cost of supporting them under the school and Protestants in another part. He put it to the Reform Council, and the number of children in attend- council, as honest men,—how could they teach one set of ante at the time the Reformers were in power. He con- children in one part of the school, that there was but one tended that the children only came from six out of the Mediator between God and man, and teach another set of sixteen wards; and that, compared with the Everton and children in another part, that there were many mediators. Kirkdale school, where 448 children were educated for (Hear, bear, and applause.) He never could lend himself £205, the cost of the Corporation schools was exceed- to such a system as that, and were such a system intro ingly great. Amongst other things, there was a charge of duced he would cease to be a member of the Education £ll5 for cleansing the schools. Committee. He should be sorry even to countenance a Mr. HORSFALL said, he was exceedingly sorry that Mr. system of injustice ; but he must say, that the system Chalmer had not adopted the usual course and given some carried on in the Corporation schools was, he believed, a notice of the present motion ; for he (Mr. H.) should have most correct system. From the little he saw of its been happy to have anticipated it, and provided him with working, he believed it to be founded on justice and prin the details he wished to have, so far as the information was ciple. It was a good practical system. It was a system in his possession. Mr. Chalmer had alluded to the Ever- which taught the children brought up in those schools, to ton and Kirkdale school, of the committee of which the be good sons, and good daughters, and, as they got older, Mayor and he (Mr. H.) were members, and he had told to be good husbands, good wives, good masters, good ser the Council that that school was efficiently conducted. He vents, good citizens, good patriots, and good Christians. was most happy to confirm that statement. But Mr. (Loud applause.) This was the system in the Corpora- Chalmer also told the Councilthat it was much naoreeco- tion schools; and he should be very sorry it was said, nominally conducted than the schools of the Corporation. that the Education Committee placed themselves in a po- This he (Mr. H.) admitted; but he considered that the sition in which any c hildren educated in their schools Corporation had ever been distinguished for its proverbial —nay, for its princely liberality , and he shoul d be sorry could turn to them and say, in the language of bitter elo quence—" My parents, ignorant and unenlightened, to think that the schools of the Corporation were to be minded not that I should read the word of God, but you, placed upon a footing with the charitable schools of the who were not ignorant and unenlightened, by your acqui town. (Hear, hear.) If the committee to the Everton escence, instead of yourlprotest, led me to think that it school had the rich funds:of the Corporation to fall back was unimportant." (Hear.) He should be soma to be upon instead of the benevolence of private individuals placed in such a position • and he would observe , in con their school would be much more e ffi cientl y conducted elusion , t hat he ho p ed the council would not tolerate such than they were. (Cries of " Hear," and applause.) Ano- charges, as charges of injustice, when brought against ther of his assertions was, that the Corporation schools such a system as the one carried on in the Corporation were extravagantly conducted, considering the number of schools—nay, more, he asked them to continue to sup pupils in attendance. He (Mr. H.) believed that they port that system, for, by doing so, they would, he was were more economically conducted now than they were at sure, have the approval of their own consciences, the sup the time that the Reform party were in power ; and with port of the Christian public, and, what was more, the respect to any falling off in the attendance, Mr. Chalmer blessing of the God of heaven ! Mr. Horsfall here re must be aware that of late many schools had been erected sumed his seat, amid loud cheers from all parts of the in the neighbourhood of those belonging to the Corpora- TOOm. tion, both Roman Catholic and other schools (hear , hear.) Mr. RATHBONE contended that the system at p resent But 11r. Chalmer fastened on one item in the expenditure pursued in the schools was one of injustice, He did not of the Corporation Schools, and that was the money paid mean to make the charge personal to any one ;he spoke to the poor charwomen. Now, it so happened, that the merely of the principle, He also contended, in reply to very first thing he (Mr. H.) put his hand on, when, year, he had the honour of being placed u p on the Educe- • last Mr. Horsfall, that every inh abitant of the town contri buted to the support of the schools, and that error was tion Committee wasahe expense of the charwomen ; and never taught in them under the Reform Council. that led him to ask at the time when those women were Mr. SHAND defended the Education Committee, and appointed. He found that they were every one appointed said he should be a traitor to his country and his God if under the reform committee. (Hear, hear.) One was a he countenanced the reading of any version of the scrip poor Roman Catholic widow, another was the wife of a . Roman Catholic, and the third was a member of a dis- tures but the authorised o ne. Mr. EARLE believed that the real object of all the agi seriting congregation. He was unwilling to act then, like his reform predecessors had acted in t h e council, who dis. tation which had been going on about the school question was to turn the Radicals out of power. The clergy took missed every one' right and left who had been appointed it up ; and from' every pulpit in the town the Radicals by their predecessors; and he did not dismiss them. He were denounced as heathens. And by whom ? By 32 agreed with Mr. Chalmer that their expense was a heavy Clergymen who signed around robin that they could not one, but the onus of levying it did not rest with the pre- I enter the schools. How many of them bad entered the sent Education Committee (applause.) ' But it was im- schools prior to their signing it ? Were they diligent in possible not to perceive that this was not a question of fi- the discharge of their duties ? Did they go regularly ? nance at all. (Hear, bear.) It was a question of principle; Did they flock into the schools, now that the smell of Po and if the committee were subjec t, and j ustl y sub j ect, to a pery was exclud ed from them ? He paused for an an charge which, with a flourish of trumpets, was brought swer, agairist'them at the list Metting of the schools, of conti- M r . HARBORD—Yes, there is a very g ood attendance. nuing a system of injustice , then the sooner the hools were Mr. EARLE expressed his belief that their zeal had abandoned the better. (Applause.) But if he were ena- cooled since they kicked the Radicals out. bled to show that they were conducted on a principle of Mr. GLAZEBROOK contended that it was for the public perfect justice and proper principles, then he thought the council would not hesitate so long as they were conte nt to benefit that all children should be well instructed in the principles of the word of God, and that as members of the 'sink £6S:OO or £7OOO a year in the erection of a noble national council, and subjects of a Protestant state, the building, partly for the promotion of pleasure but princi- . council had'a right to support those principles. pally for the punishment of crime—to grant £l2OO a-year In reply to Mr. Higgins, who promised to move here with a view to the prevention of crime. (Hear, hear.) after that the schools be sold, Mr. HORSFALL said that Before he noticed the point of continuing a system of in- the minority of the children in the Corporation Schools justice, he must allude to the conduct of their predeces- belonged to the Church of England, and that Dissenters sors in the council. He should like to see not only the and Roman Catholics formed the majority. state of the schools as they were at present, but the state 1 Mr. CHALMER expressed his surprise at the turn the of the schools as they were under the reform committee debate had taken; but it seemed to him, unexpected as of management, and their state under the old committee the discussion was, that every gun was charged, and well o f management—under what some would call the old , co ra charged' too, with double bullets. rupt, Tory corporation. He would abstain f r o m sa y in g Mr. MOLY NEUX said he had no ob j ection to furnish an ything personally offensive. There was no necessity for the returns sought for, provided they were required for introducing charges of religious bigotry. (Hear.) He purposes of information. wanted not to indulge in any abuse ; and , if he mad e a n y The Council divided upon Mr. Chalmer's amendment, remarks which could give offence, he was sure the gentle- when there appeared :—For it, 10—against it, 32. The men to whom he might apply them would excuse him far amendment was consequently lost. The following gen sooner than he would excuse himself. (Hear, bear.) He tlemen voted in the division : —For it—Messrs. Chalmer, would just refer then to the state of the schools before the Preston, Rathbone, Holmes, Robinson, Higgins, Hornhy, reform council took• the management of them; and he Earle, Lace, and Thomas Lloyd ; against it—Messrs. would give their state, not upon any doubtful -authority, but upon an authority which would be respected by every Atherton, Shaw, Shand, Tyrer, Middleton , L ittledale, Henderson, Stewart, Toulmin , Aspinall , Southern, C. G. gen tleman in that room—upon the authority of a gentle - Floridly. Royden, Birkett, Wood, Reade, Kilshaw, Par man whom the reformed corporation did themselves ho. ker, G. H. Lawrence, Booker, Plumpton, Glazebrook, nour in selecting as their first chief magistrate—the late Jones, Ilarbord, Mann, and Aldermen Houglitonallors Mr. William Wallace Currie— given deliberately and fall, Crook, Nicol, Bramley-Moore, Molyneux, and t' upon cath before the commissioners upon the municipal Mayor. inquiry. COMMERCIAL RESTRICTIONS AT LIVERPOOL. " Having had the honour to be appointed one of the sub committee for drawing up rules and regulations for the manage- very ably report from The TOWN-CLERK read a ment of the schools, lam well acquainted with the general sys- Special Committee on this subject, and on the presen, tern, more especially as pursued at the South Free School, on the system of porterage. The committee reported, on the committee of which I have acted for a great many years ; and, subject of porterage, that a serious loss of time was occa so far from its being my impression that the system pursued at sioned, " arising mainly from the non-attendance of the the Corporation Schools is a bad one, I think it a particularly good ore. It was stated yesterday, that the childrers,attending porters at the . proper hours—the confusion and loss of the schools do not understand, or at least that no pains are time occasioned by the unnecessary employment of se taken to make them acquainted with the meaning of what they venal sets or gangs of porters at one vessel,—and very read. Now, I beg to state, that as a visitor, from month to frequently from the want of a proper and responsible su. month, I have been in the habit-of attending the schools. I perintendent. Your committee feel that nothing short of have seen the master examining the different classes. I have seen the master exam ning, the different classes. I have taken a legislative enactment will effect uall y p rovide a remedy ; they therefore venture to recommend tha t the y be autho. the liberty to examine them on all occasions m yself, and have ques ti on ed the children as to their knowledge of what they rized to communicate with the Dock Committee, .with a read. I speak, however, more particularly as to the school with view of obtaining the insertion of a clause in their pro which lam connected. With respect t o what has been said as posed new Act requiring the employment of one ea of por to the appointment of masters, I have to observe, that Mr. ters only in the discharge of the entire cargo of any vessel Barrett, the master of that school, came highly recommended unloading from the Blue Coat School. The character of the school of that in the Liverpool docks ; the expe nse of such discharge to be,borne, as heretofore, respectively by each es t a blishment you have already in evidence; and a more a ttentive, a more exemplary, a more popular schoolmaster consignee of goods. The adoption of the foregoing views amongst the children does not exist than Mr. Barrett. The will present a fitting occasion for the revision of the rates are about to leavo, applications are made for the ad sclinol is such a favourite one, thst in main , instances when of porterage. The scale which-is now in operation ap scholarsmission of younger brothers and sisters in their places; and it frequently happens that several members of the same family, p ears to have been established in the year 1810, since which period the Whole system of commercial . operations from the eldest to the youngest, are educated in that schoOl. has materially changed. The committee beg, therefore, The monthly applications to the committee for the admission of respectfully, to recommend a revision of the present scale, scholars are more numerous than can be attended to." I so as to make it bear more equitably on the various arti- So much for the mana g ement of the schools under the ' cies of import." The report went on to allude to the old Tory Corporation. (Hear and applause.) system of porterage in warehouses, but the question was Mr. EARLF..—What was the number of children in the surrounded with difficulties. With reference to the time schools at, that time ? I allowed for the discharge of vessels, the committee " are Mr. HORSFAL—I believe upwards of 1000. What not prepared to recommend to the Board of Customs that was the course the reformers adopted ? They adopted a the hours of discharge should be longer than eight to four s ystem, which lie gave them credit for believing it to be ain the winter, arid from eight to half-past five in the sum right one. They adopted, what was called, the Irish mer, except in cases of emergency,. for which- the Board system of education. H e was not g oin g into an y hack nied ' of Customs has already provided." dispute, as to whether the Bible was literally excluded or 1 The report was adopted, after a brief speech from Mr. not; but he boldly asserted, that the Irish system of HoESFALL, explanatory of the difficulties under which education, which was adopted, was professedly established the committee laboured, in arriving at some some of their to remedy the so-called vital defects of other systems, conclusions, and the committee were directed to carry which required the reading of the scriptures ; and he .out the suggestions. thought this was very synonymous. (Hear, hear.) Hay- The Council adjourned at four o'clock. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. On Friday afternoon, a numerous meeting took place in the music Hall of gentlemen, in order to adopt mea sures for attempting to meet the spiritual wants of the large and increasing population of Toxteth Park, by erecting therein three new churches, with schools to each. The Lord Bishop of the Diocese, who visited Liverpool for the purpose of holding a confirmation that day at St. Augustine 's Church, was announced as chairman. The meeting was attended by a large number of ladies, and shortly after two his lordship entered the room amidst loud cheers, accompanied by a large body of the local clergy. Among those present, we noticed :—The Rev. J. H. Stewart, the Rev. D. D. Stewart, the Rev. J. Jones, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile. the Rev. H. Hampton, the Rev. T. Nolan, the Rev. F. Ould, the Rev. H. Hig gins, the Rev. F. Parry, the Rev. J. G. Leigh, the Rev. C. Lawrence, the Rev. W. Falloon, the Rev. J. R. Con nor, the Rev. R. M`Konkey, the Rev. H. Carpenter, the Rev. F. Barker, the Rev. R. L. Townsend, the Rev. Ct. Marshall, the Rev, B. A. Marshall, the Rev. T. Bold, the Rev. W. Butler, &c., &c. Among the laity were Al dermen Houghton, Chilton, and Horsfall; Councillors Glazebrook, Roydon, Harbord, R. L, Jones, end Mann, Jno. Rigby, Esq., H. Rigby, Esq., H. Moore, Esq., H. Walbrend, Esq., J. Howard, Esq., W. Jones, Esq., J. Swire, - Esq., J. Torr, Esq., R. Mac Andrew, Esq., J. Senior, Esq., R. Rigby, Esq., &c., &c. On the motion of R. HARBORD, Esq., seconded by T. CHILTON, Esq., the Lord Bishop of the Diocese was called to the chair amid loud applause. His LORDSHIP then called upon the Rev. D. D. Stewart,SecretarytotheCommittee,tocommence the busi ness of the day by asking the blessing of God ; after which, His LORDSHIP said,—ln opening the proceedings it was only necessary to say, that they had been called together for the purpose of considering a special want, which was found to exist in a particular part of the district of Liver pool, and to which attention had been called. The clergy of the district were the proper persons to make that want known to the public at large. They could not help feel ing, so constantly going through that crowded population, how unsatisfactory their labours were, in a spiritual sense, how inadequate in every respect, and that, after all, sup posing they were blessed by God, so as to be enabled to bring some of the multitude to desire to serve and wor ship Him, there was no place open for them in which they could be received, and no accommodation for them even in those churches which were called the churches of the land, but which, he was sorry to say, in some towns, could no longer claim that :distinctive appellation ; nor could they any longer be called the poor man's churches, for no poor man was received into them. He thought, therefore, the clergy were taking their place ; for though it was not in their power to supply these wants, it was in their power to make them known to those who possessed the ability, and who, it was trusted, possessed also the will. The clergy, among their various appellations and duties, were required to be watch-men; and there was no time at which a watch-man was more executing his duty than when informing the neighbourhood of the ex istence of danger, and he (the Chairman) was sure that there could be no greater danger than being surrounded with a' neglected, an uneducated, and unrestrained popu lation (hear, hear); and, therefore, he would say that the clergy had done their duty in convening the meeting that day ; and further, it was owing to a neglect of duty, thirty, forty, or fifty, or a hundred :years ago, they were brought to the state they were in at present. It was because persons at those times, seeing the population increasing, and experiencing their own powers to remedy the mischief, nevertheless allowed the evil to go on unchecked. be coming more formidable, day by day, that a heavy duty now devolved upon society. It was because such was the case then, that they had now seen the long road they bad to travel—that hill which they had to surmount, to arrive at something like a level with the population, and by these means obtain for them ample church accommoda tion. That the public expected that these wants should be made known, he (the chairman) had had a special opportunity of judging, for since it was known that he was about to attend the present meeting, be had received a letter from a person who evinced great anxiety about St. Anne's district, in dile town. He wrote that, though it was desirable that Toxtetb-park should be attended to, be also hoped that St. Anne's district would not be for gotten,—St. Anne's being, as he stated, no better off, and in the same letter he said that there were residing in the neighbourhood to which he called attention, many influential and wealthy persons who only required to be 'called on, to come forward and satisfy all demands. (Great cheers.) He (the chairman) trusted, therefore, that no person would think it at all a strange thing to be called upon, as they had been by the clergy, to assist to the utmost of their power in relieving the wants of the particular district of Toxteth-park. When they read the circular, as probably they all already had done, summoning them to attend that day. they would read a description of spiritual destitution which he was sure they would never allow to remain in its present state. It was no matter in what light they looked upon it ; if as citizens, they could never consent to their neigh bours being so placed ; if as philanthropists, they would not consent to the greatest of necessities being unsupplied ; it did not matter in what light they re garded the circumstances of the case, they were bound by the more stirring and irresistible voice which belonged to their Christian character to refuse to permit things to remain as they existed in Toxteth-park. (Cheers.) The book by which they were guided directed them to make sacrifices and praaice self-denial, and they had now an opportunity. The same book told them to do good to all men, and now they could do no greater good then by providing the means of sanctification for their poorer brethren. What work could be better than that in which they were now engaged? There could. indeed, be but otie objection to—one hesitation to—one argument against, that work ; and these were, that the work could never be accomplished, that the destitution was too great for re medy, the evil too extended for cure; that the Hydra could not be overcome—a Hydra, not with a hundred, but a hundred thousand beads, whose demands were insatia ble, whose calls could not be complied with; that the .work could not be accomplished by private benevolence, and that it must be left to the collective community. The answer to this was, that such objections had been before encountered and overcome, and that a labour, undertaken for the glorifying of God, would be blessed by God, and would prosper; and, to prove that it had already pros pered, he would lay before them a few facts. In 1835, the population of Lancashire, south of the Ribble, and which, in Ecclesiastical language, was called the arch-Deanery of Manchester, was 1,344,000, and the churches provided numbered 208, that is, one church to every 6,500 persons, and the clergy for that distri t amounted to 270 persons— that is, one Minister to every 5,000 persons.. During the last ten years, efforts had been made, efforts which had met with success—and the present statement, relative to the same district. was as follows :—the population was 1,638,000, the churches number 308, being one church to every 5000 persons, and the clergy are 520 in number, be ing one minister to every 3000 persons. The success, slight as it in reality was, would have, ten years ago, ap peared incredible, and was certainly an encouragement to all future exertions ; but, on the good principle that no thing was done whilst anything remained to do, renewed labour and renewed vigour were called for. (Hear.) It proved that God had smiled on and blessed their endea vours, and it was to be hoped that he would equally bless the endeavours which would take their origin from that meeting.. Before heaconcluded, be would ask two ques tions one was, whether any person—and at every meet ing of a like nature.in .Liverpool.. such persons were in attendanc.—who had already assisted in and contributed to the formation of church extension, wished that back again which be had given to the cause ? Could it have been bestowed more beneficially on objects of luxury, of vanity, or of extravagance ? And his next question was, and it was still more important, if they were now less able than ten years ago to make an exertion in that cause ? Was the town of Liverpool in no better position than in the year 1825 ? It was not for him to answer that ques tion, but he had only, in looking around him, to observe the buildings that were being erected, the streets that were being laid out, and the energies, and the means being displayed, to receive a reply. If they were to judge by the prosperity, the blessing of God had not been withheld from the community ; and sure he was that the power of the blessing would not be diminished if the resources, arisinz from that prosperity, were employed in the cause of Him by whom, and by whom alone, it was given. (Cheers.) The Rev.We LTERBUTLER, incumbent of St, Thomas's, Toxteth-park, proposed the. first resolution :—" That the present condition of the districts of Saint Jarne's and Saint Thomas's, Toxteth-park, is such as to require a prompt and vigorous effort for the moral and spiritual im provement of the inhabitants."—The Rev. gentleman said that any objection which he might have to address the meeting was overcome by the conviction that as a clergyman in the district for which they were about to exert themselves, he was bound to give all the information of which in his experience be had become possessed. This district, (that of St. James's) comprehended 3,118 houses, 53 streets, and 181 courts. The population was about 7000, with the exception of some 3000 persons, composed of the working classes, depending fbr existence on their daily labours, and especially of the classes of ship-carpenters and !' navies," and therefore controlled not without extreme difficulty by a clergyman. It was also an emigrating population, constantly altering in the individuals of whom it was composed; so that of one hundred of the inhabitants a few months before, there might not be a single individual now remaining. Before a church had been built in it, the district was part of another district, having a population of 2,500. There were now, in addition to the incumbent, a curate, who hid, during the year, visited upwards of a thousand houses ; Scripture-readers, who paid sick visits, and who held 800 small meetings in the year—meetings most int( r esting in their character and beneficial in their results ; fourteen district visitors, who went over the whole dis trict, and annually collected from the poor £7OO, Which, when required, was returned ; and also a great number of young men who'rendered efficient service by their dis triblition of tracts. All that hail been detailed had follow. ed as the natural result of the building of one church, and the extent of the improvement, therefore, in the neighbourhood, and in the morals of its inhabitants, could very well be conceived. Schoo's capable of giving instruction to 800 children, were being organised, and would be opened at the commencement of the year, and the very low state of education, existing in the district, would therefore very speedily be ameliorated. Of the 3118 houses, there were, he regretted to say, 114 which were public-houses—that is, one public-house to every thirty houses. It was to be hoped that the new churches, which they were about to erect. should be emphatically the poor man's churches ; that they would hasten to carry out this great object ; that his Lordship (the chairman) would not have attended there in vain, but that he might have cause to rejoice in the work whic h had now been so happily begun. (Cheers.) The Rev. H. HAMPTON, Incumbent of St. James's, after some remarks as to the origin of the appeal, said — The population in the districts of St. James's and St. The annual monthly meeting of the Council took place on Wednesday at the Town-hall. The proceedings of the Finance Committee comprised a notice from the Liverpool and Bury Railway Committee, relative to the land required under' their act in Thornton street. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE moved their confirmation. Mr. EARLE called attention to the improvements which were required to be made at the corner of Water-street, and also at the corner of Hope-street and Mount-plea sant. He presumed the Finance Committee had acted properly in declining Mr. John Gladstone's offer to sell the land at the corner of Hope-street at the rate of four guineas a yard. He wished gentlemen would imitate the conduct of Mr. George,Holt, who gave up the sum of £llOO to the public, which he might, if he chose, have re tained. It was a disgrace to the town that such a man as Mr. Holt should have been turned out of the Council. He hoped that Mr. Gladstone would see that he owed something to Liverpool ; but if he could not be treated with on a reasonable footing, the Council should seek for powers in their proposed act to compel him. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said the improvements at the bottom of Water-street had not been overlooked by the Finance Committee. He thought Mr. Gladstone's name ought not to be mentioned in reproachful terms ; for that gentleman had not been indifferent to the wants of the town : be had built and endowed a church, and he had also built a school. With respect to the purchase of parks, be explained to the. Council the position in which they stood relative to the disbursement of their funds. They were bound down by the strict letter of theiruq of Parliament ; and he was not sorry that they were so bound, for, with out some such check or drag chain, the Corporation estate would hardly be worth 12 years purchase, so many and va rious were the schemes which were being constantly forced upon their attention. Since it became known that the comparative surplus amounted to £lB,OOO, he had received proposals innumerable for widening streets and making various other improvements. He thought the time was come when they ought to tell their fellow-townsmen to put their shoulders to the wheel, for the purpose of making improvements, which were certainly very much required ; and with that view be suggested that a public meeting ought to be called, to be presided over by the Mayor. The laying on of the borough-rate for the purpose, would be a disgrace to the Council; but, if a full explanation were made as to how the Council were situated, he did not tbink the inhabitants would refuse to bear their share of the ne cessary expense, in the same manner of Manchester had done, and Bristol was doing. Mr. EARLE said, a most unwarrantable attack had been made upon him. He denied that he had held up Mr. Gladstone as an object of attack; but he certainly had held up Mr. Holt as an example to the community at large. Mr. Lawrence's was a most irregular, inconsistent speech, for, according to him, a borough-rate was, and it was not a disgrace. 1 CHURCH -EXTENSION IN TOXTETH PARK. Thomas's is above 37,000. The Established Church has of the calumnies of the world,—" Depend upon it, no provided for these 1,834 sittings, of which 88 are f r ee to man, in the long run, was ever really injured but by the poor. Eighty-eight free sittings for 37,000 inhabi- himself, The rev. gentleman sac down amidst great tants ! I would almost venture to assert, my lord, that applause. there is not a similar case of appalling spiritual destitution Mr. GLAzeogooK moved, and Mr. HOWARD seconded in Great Britain. But startling as such a statement may the last resolution, which was carried unanimously, seem, I have a worse case still. In my own district, St. "That the gentlemen who have hitherto acted as corn- James's, separating it from St. Thomas's, are 20,000 peo- mtee for promoting and carrying into effect the proposed pie with.not one free sitting. Don't let me be misunder- plan of Church Extension, be continued, with power to stood, and in order to prevent it I would say that the poor add to their number, and that such arrangements as who are'allowed to sit in St. James's are there by suffer- they have already made be confirmed." ance only, and could be turned out if we were cruel and On the motion of Mr. MANN, seconded by the Rev. unchristian enough to do so. But as it is, many have Mr. LEIGH, thanks were returned to the chairman, and been so fastidious as to quit the church rather than come his Lordship having briefly replied the —.meeting separated. in such close contact with the poor. Crowding the aisles is certainly inconvenient to all, and uncomfortable to the poor themselves. In this statement, my lord, I need not introduce an almost when I say that this is without a parallel. Now, if not another word were said, here is a On Monday, the Ist instant, at Ince, on the body of case made out, amply sufficient to justify the proposal, I William Baxter, aged 40 years. The deceased was seen large as it may appear, which we have this day brought by the lock-keeper on the banks of the canal, on his way before you. Can you, dear Christian friends, wonder home, and it is supposed that in crossing the lock he that we should under such circumstances call you together, must hive been dazzled ny the lights of a colliery, and and endeavour to arouse your feelings, and enlist your missing his footing, fell into the canal. The lock-keeper sympathies in an effort to amend so sad and so deplorable found his body the next morning, and the deceased's a state of things ? What stronger appeal could be adduced watch had stopped immediately after the lock-keeper to elicit the zealous co-operation and liberal assistance of saw him. It is remarkable, that he had his left hand in every sincere Christian and every true-hearted patriot? his coat pocket when the lock-keeper saw him just as he But, my lord, whilst the Established Church has been had when his body was found. thus culpably asleep, the Dissenters have not been so - On the same day, at Abram, on the body of John negligent : they have made provision, in the district of Baines, who was descending a coal pit with another St. James's, previous to my appointment to it, for 4,300 collier, and it appears that one of the hooks of the basket persons, of which 1,000 sittings are free. How can we which they were in had been hooked to the twigs instead be surprised that the people, and especially the poor, of to the car; the twigs gave way, and the deceased was should become alienated from the Church of England, thrown out of the basket to the bottom of the coal pit, which we are wont emphatically, and perhaps boastfully, and was killed. to call the poor man's church ; how can we, I repeat, be On Tuesday, the 2nd instant, at Whiston, on the body astonished, if their affections be estranged from it, and of John Wareing, a bricklayer, the deceased was found attached to those who have shown a care for their highest by the engineer of one of the trains near Pilch-lane interests ? The next feature we shall call attention to is, bridge, at_Roby, with his head crushed to pieces • the that in these districts there are 28,536 persons without deceased was last seen the night before , on his way home, church accommodation, and at least 2,000 more will be rather tipsy. , added before our projected plan ca n be accom p lished. The verdict, in each of the above cases, was accidental My lord, I hope I shall not appear to exaggerate when I death. say the half of these should have a provision, i.e., oppor- On the same day, at Woolton, on the body of John tunity within the walls of our national church. My expe- Mitchell, gardener to Mr. Shand, of Allerton. On the rience (17 years) tells me that half a population, when 23rd ult. deceased complained to one of his fellow ser moderately looked after, will go to a place of worship. vents that he had hurt his thumb ;he recollected falling Well, then, with a present provision for 1,834, we ought upon some broken stones ;he was not aware ttat his to be making room for at least 10,000, one-third of the thumb was hurt till he got home; the wound, which ap surplus, instead of which we are exulting in the prospect peered slight, seemed to fester. On Tuesday, the 27th ult. of erecting three new churches, to accommodate 4,500, Mr. Pearson, surgeon, saw it, and ordered poultices. of which 2,500, at least, are to be free. But think for a On Friday following, the deceased showed symptoms of moment of the fearful and rapid increase of population in lockjaw. Mr. Pearson saw him four times on Saturday, Toxteth-park. Why, before one church can be built, but the lock-jaw continued until Sunday at noon, when the increase will be more than would fill it. Contem- he died, having lived only seven days from the time of plate, then, as rational beings and Christians, what will it hurting his thumb . be in a few years hence! This is no visionary opinion or On the 3rd instant, at Warrington, on the body of speculation of mine, but it is a fact to which the experi - Mary Fod e n , a g ed 20, the wife of William Foden, de ence of the last year forbids a contradiction, that the in- ceased, was subject to epileptic fits, and being seized crease in one year will be more than would fill one church. with one fell upon a grate in a stable adjoining her bus- Now permit me to ask, is it not our bounden duty to our . band's coal-yard, when her clothes took fire, and she was faithful God and blessed Saviour—is it not our bounden so dreadfully burned that she died the following morning. duty to our country and our neighbour, and to ourselves Verdicts accordingly. —at least to keep pace with, if not to anticipate, the On the 3rd instant, at Ashton, on the bodies of Agnes wants—yes, the wishes and demands—of the people, in- Blinstone, and her son, an infant about nine months old. stead of tardily lagging behind until the Dissenters and The deceased Agnes was about 32 years old, and the wife Roman Catholics goad and stimulate us reluctantly to of Thomas Blinstone, of Ashton, weaver. Peter Brit take our proper position in providing churches and schools tale, one of the witnesses, proved that she was in hiri for them? The rev. gentleman went on in an animated house en the 27th of November, when she complained of strain to press the object of the meeting on the liberality a pain in her head, and she said if the pain continued she of the audience. should go to her sister. This sister is in the Lunatic The resolution was afterwards put to the meeting, and Asylum, at Lancaster. She left witness's house, and carried unanimously. about an hour after her husband came to enquire for her ; The 'Rev. T. NOLAN, incumbent of St. Barnabas's —he was told she was gone—he came a second time the Church, in a lengthy and able speech, proposed the se- same night to enquire for her. Witness felt uneasy, and cond resolution : went to all the pits in the neighbourhood, but observed " That the parochial system, by applying the energies nothing. On the Sunday following, he examined the pit of a clergyman to a specified district, supplies the first where she was afterwards found, but could not see any remedy for such spiritual destitution, and that the blessing thing of her. On Tuesday last, witness went again to of -God may be expected to follow an increase of churches the same pit, with the draghooks, and immediatel The child was calities." at her breast held by her left arm close to her bod y , and The Rev. JAMES STEWART, of St. Bride's, seconded her right hand was hold of his clothes. The deceased had the resolution. Carried unanimously. been married to her husband between three and four THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL., Esq , next rose, and years, and had bad two children. The deceased Agnes after saying that, though he had no immediate connexion was very low spirited, but never was heard to express with the district of Toxteth-park, he could not have jug- anything that would lead her husband to suppose that tified a refusal to the request to attend and address the she would commit suicide. Verdict , tempo rar y insanit y meeting convened for such an object, proposed the follow ing resolution : " That it is the duty of the friends of the church, `every man according to his ability,' to co-operate in a plan which, by multiplying places of worship, increasing the amount of free accommodation, subdividing the dis tricts of over-burdened clergymen, and adding to the number of visiting pastors, will extend the influence of recognised means of grace, promote the glory of God, and the best interests of the lab ourin g classes." Mr. Horsfall then proceeded to say, that on the two classes into which the assemb l y mi g ht be divided—that and was i class which considered it inc umbent u p on their rulers to man being in a state of provide for the wants now under consideration, and that class which believed the , onus to rest upon the commu nity—there was in the present instance; an equal respon sibility and an equal claim ; on the one, because experi- °` ence had proved the demand for churc h extension to be beyond the power of their rulers to s a t isf y : and on the seaman named Reason. other, because it was to opinions like those entertained It appears that the captain hav in g rendered himself perfectly frantic from drink, and in a state of induced in by it that the conveners of the meeting then appealed (hear, hear.) The resolution which he now moved ap- sanity, imagined that the crew were conspiring against him, and proceeded to cut at several of them with a cutlas, pealed to every one to contribute according to his ability ; which, with loaded pistols, he kept constantly by him. and in such a community, in so flourishing a town, where ,l he mates at first affected to aid him in chasing the men daily and hourly exertions were being made for facilita through the ship, but when the captain declared his inten ting the operations of commerce, for the adding to the tion to murder them all, they called the men together splendour of the streets, for the advancerrient of science, sp around them with belaying pins and capstan bars, and and for the heaping of luxuries upon luxuries, such an ap hatgged of them to secure the captain in the cabin.' For peal could not but meet with a response as gratifying to out three . quarters of an hour they consented to stand the promoters of the objects of the meeting, as creditable on the defensive, but his not appearing, and being under to the principles and morals of the inhabitants. The re the dread of the mutiny law, they threw down their wea - solution professed that what was prop osed to be done would be for the benefit of the labouring classes ; but he I p ans ' and refused to stand by the mates. The conse uences were fatal—horrible. would go a little further than the resolution and say. that ' q The following evidence is sufficient to show the utt er the advantages intended to be confe rred would not be helplessness of men who have no leader, and want confi conferred on the labouring classes alone—for he had deuce in one another. found that blessing conferred upon one class of society, William Dunn, the cook, was called and sworn. He were blessings conferred upon all, and that society was so deposed as follows :-1 was in the cabin when Reason was i n t erw oven, and in its varied relations so closely allie d, called down, about. half-past twelve o'clock one day, and that the good enjoyed by one portion of it was a good saw the captain, with a bayonet in his hand, standing over participated in throughout (cheers.) He was convinced Reason. 1 heard a noise, as if th e ca p tain was stickin g a that all they desired would be carried out , and that b y the bayonet -into Reason's head, and he was calling out for liberality of a Christian public, they would be enabled, mercy, to which the captain said he would show him none with Christian exultation, to point to the c hurches they at an. The boy Glover then came into the pantry where purposed to erect, and say, ' , I was kept, and told me the captain had killed Reason. "These temples of our God, how beautiful they stand, • Julian Cordivisllo said the captain repeatedly called The glories of our native plains, the bulwarks of our land!" Mars " Brute, brute, brute," and cut him with a sword. The REV. HUGH NI`NEILE seconded the resolution, The captain,'while at dinner, kept throwing the sword at and in doing so said, that though he found he was called Mars, and sometimes it stuck in one place and sometimes upon to address himself, on an exhausted subject, to an in another; and when it fell he told little Harry to pick it exhausted auditory, in an exhausted evening, he could up and throw it at him again, for be meant to stick him not depart without gividg his cordial assent to the appeal 1 all over (great sensation). Well, then, after he had done made by his friencl, the, honorary secretary of the infant ' so, and all the blood came from his body, the captain said society (the Rev. Mr. Stewart), to a sense of whose I d'Take that brute away—take him away--squeese him." merits and exertions he was glad of the opportunity of The captain said, " What for don't you arm yourselves? giving public expression . It was a source of satisfaction Go and call all bands to squeese that brute — to him (Mr. M'Neile), to feel that they, the clergy, were or else I'll squeese somebody else." a more distinct account engaged in their proper place , at th eir p ro p er work, doing William Dunn, the cook, gave that which they would be glad to be found doing when as to what occurred when Mars was first called int o the their master came among them. The words of the reso- cabin, after the captain came aboard from Fayal, about lotion implied that they were about to secure the best the 25th September. The captain, on his return to the interests of the poor, and this was true. The interests of ; island, sent for Mars and spoke to him, and immediately the poor were now attracting and occupying attention ; I struck him with the cutlass. The first gash was across his the insalubrity of their dwellings was being ameliorated, I whiskers, on the right side of his face—a dreadful cut. I if not entirely cured : ample supply of water to their I heard a great noise in the captain's cabin, and then heard abodes had its enthusiastic advocates, and means were , Mars breathe short and thick, as if he was stran g li ng . being taken that would secure so desirable an ob j ect: and ; Then all was quiet. In a minute I beard a noise again, all these, and many other things, now elicited the bene- and heard the captain tell Mars to jump out of the cabin volent labours of those members of society who were at window. Mars said he could not, and that he wished. to be all times eager in increasing the happiness of their fellow tried by the laws of his country. down fingers were cut to creatures. Now all that was excellent :—they knew the ' pieces, the joints were hanging , and the bone was full value of it : but supposing everything desired effected, sticking out of his lit.le finger. all the accessions to human happiness , and to th e proton- Mary Blewitt deposed, 1 was a passenge r o n be a rd the gation of human life secured , what th en? The question ship Tor. I remember three of the men being in irons y r eiterated itself in all its power , wha t then ? Men had I in some part of the rigging. On the 24th of September, I souls as well as bodies. Improve m e nt committees un d er believe about three or four o'clock, I heard Captain John. the municipal government were admirable; Health of stone' demand that the chief mate should be found and Towns' Associations were admirable things, but when all brought to him wherever he was. The captain had a which these laboured for was attained, the work of works loaded pistol in his left hand, and a cutlass in his right was untouched. The object of those was to cleanse the hand. Captain Johnstone always ordered his pistols to be body; but they would cleanse the soul : they would labour loaded when they were brought to him. He was striking for a supply of the water which, for every man who drank Hambert right and left over the head and shoulders. of it, would spring up as a fountain of everlasting life. While Captain Johnstone was cuttineat him he cried for (Cheers.) Such a resolution must have the concurrence mercy, and said "Spare me." Captain Johnstone said, of the meeting, and he need use no further argument. In " Now, you overgrown monster—you cowardly brute, Toxteth-park, the case was not one of mere destitution ; where are you?" With that he .struck at Rambert with his cutlass. He slashed at him in t his manner about the the evil was not negative; for the s e e ds of evil were in _:.,d. and riliere was a congeniality for , evil in the i h e a d and shoulders. - • - • --- . The noor mete), INQUESTS BEFORE Y O. Y CORONERES, ESQ., COUNT SHIP THE Al ROCITIES ON BOARD THE TORY. We have, within the last few weeks, detailed some of the circumstances attending a charge of piracy and mutiny on boaid the Tory cf Liverpool, on her way from India to England, and we have this week to narrate deeds of atro city which are utterly horrible. They make the heart sick. On Tuesday and 'Wednesday last, Captain Johnstone was brought up at the Thames Police-office, for further examination. ' on remanded. The wretched great debility, was supported by two policemen, and accommodated with a chair. Con trary to expectation, no solicitor or barrister appeared to sustain the charge, and the prisoner only had an attorney ro watch the proceedings. The charge was for the murder "--. mate, Ramberr, the second mate, Mars, and a at rascal, umped overboard and was drowned human soul. These seeds were spread abroad by energe- --- r- ~ . tic agents—men, who, dissatisfied with the present, longed for change, believing change wou ld brin g them advantage, and who to bring about change, stooped to means, and meeting of this body was held on Thursday evening ; H. adopted doctrines which they themselves despised and I Winch, Esq., in the chair. The proceedings of the Im disbelieved. Their object was effected by the circulqiisu provement Committee contained a recommendation that of certain cheap publications among the ignorant, and the gas and water works should be erected on the margin easily deceived population,—publications put forth in of Wallasey Pool; and that measures should be taken for shape and guise. He had himself recently read one, the removal of the powder magazines. The two rates for in the form of an almanac for the next year. and which, the ensuing year were laid, the first for general purposes, among various other subjects, treated on astronomy and and the second for defraying the expenses of obtaining the mesmerism ; and one part of the book, which had par- act; and a special meeting of commissioners was appointed ticularly attracted his attention, was that in which a for the 22d instant, to hear objections, in conformity with mesmeric patient was answering astronomical ques'ions, the 281st sectiein of the act of parliament. Mr. T. K. giving replies of the most irreligious and destructive ten- Hassall was appointed clerk to the commissioners, at a dency. The patient professed to know, by supernatural ,salary of £2OO per annum. agency, that the planets were the after-recipients of the CONCERT. — One of the best minor concerts thst has souls of human beings,—some planets, as Mars and been given during the season took place at the Concert- Jupiter, being hells, and Venus and others places of case. hall, on Wednesday evening last. Miss Whirnall was te in (Laughter.) The patient also de clared that she saw St. excellent voice, and the multiplicity of pieces she d Peter, and she described what sort of a man he was • she were all executed with that taste and strict adherence to also saw Voltaire, and declared he was pretty well off, and musical beauties that characterise her general perform in answer to a question as to who was worse off than him, ances. Her duties were far too arduous, and though she unhesitatingly declared that• H enr y Viii was. singing three times consecutively, was highly delighting (Laughter.) (Mr, M'Neile proceeded to expose the evil to -the audience, it m ust be fatiguing to herself. Mies and Popish tendencies o f s uch doctrines wh e n read b y an Rose Joseph sang the Wandering Gipsy Girl beautifully. ignorant population.) All the arguments which could Mr. Reeves was rapturously received throßghout, and we possibly recommend tbeir adopting their resolution had f cannot omit noticin the performance oWiss Wilkinson been gone over, and they had now received the st r ong est on the piano-orte, whch, considering it was her debut, of all arguments—tile actual extent of the destitution, was perfectly astounding. She fingers well, and has that and the certainty that, if they did not exert themselves, delicacy of touch and taste that predict her becoming one they would deliver over the people to doctrines the most of the first of her day. abominable and destructive that ever were conceived or To-raorrow evening, Love, the Polyphonist, makes his professed. (Hear, hear.) •He sincerely hoped, that even first appearance at the Royal Assembly Rooms. Since greater success than they bad ventured as yet to hope for his previous visit to this town we have had nothing of the would attend the new soeletyfor church extension, and kind in Liverpool which has given such geneial satis that the obstacles which it Wo'ulcl, in the course of things, faction as his entertainments. To compare the merits of encounter, wouldnat deter them from prosecuting a good these productions with anything of similar character and great work. It was auseless attempt, as the story of Presented by other imitative artists, hoWever meritorious, the Painter. proved; tp endeavour to please all men ; for if would be doing injustice to Mr. Love, who does not follow they commenced by, ieeking to please all , t he y would end in any degree the style and manner of his predecessors; in gratifying none (Hear, bear.) Their only plan was but on the contrary, avoids the beaten track, and strikes to do what they believed to be right ; and, in doing t his, out into a p ath untraversed by all who have gone before they must pay no attention what people said of them— him. His vocal peculiarities have never been equalled in nor of what people printed of them either. (Laughter.) our time, and the number of characters he produces, and They would recollect the saying of Crabbe,—a true saying the distances at which some of them are heard, almost though not said in rhyme—that a great lie was like a exceed belief. These excellencies, however. constitute great fish o u t of water; it makes a great splash and a but an inconsiderable item in the attractions of the great splutter; but let it alone and it dies of itself. evening's a musements, which, to form an adequate idea (Laughter.) Tbey would also have to recollect the saying of, must be witnessed, and hearing him we advise all our friends not of another eminent man , to a y oun g friend com p lainin g to lose the opportunity of . ;PM fore seot era' ef e, nice ;led; of hall ord► on, S S net". d th! w aY of ea ,meat Ipti ci ; state )arsesthe s tate, r ad ds 11 e tb llt „tiol3datasi -.. hit). v lli a s , 0 frOl" Jes° 3 O b 511 i ' ..tor 0.