The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

Ebt Eibtrpoot & tanbatt. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1848. WE remarked only three weeks ago upon the fallaciousness or—it may be a strong word to use — the utter want of confidence to be placed in the re turns, issued from time to time from the statistical department of the Board of Trade. We added at the time a slight hint as to the bias, especially with respect to the social and industrial condition of our sugar colonies, of the officials of the colonial office. We went even further than that; and doubted even the honesty of these boards—these men of figures and of red tape—these ready officials of pigeon holes and red boxes—whose especial avoca tion it seems to be to " get up "—we use the mild est phrase we can find, which is significant—evi dence and a case for any minister who may happen for the time being to preside in Downing-street. But we stopped short, perhaps too short, in our imputations of underhand and uncandid practices. We attributed to the men of statistics and arith metic too much of the onus of having misled us ; for, unfortunately for the cause of truth, and for the real interests of the country, it appears that, whilst mere officials can torture figures, cabinet ministers can suppress facts, when they are so stub born as to bear unfavourably upon preconcerted theories and political leanings. Returns, statistical and otherwise, can not only be tortured, but they can be kept back, if they chance not to suit the objects of a Whig ministry. The press of the queen's printer is, of course, of the best construc tion, its compositors are as apt in their business as those of our own or of any metropolitan paper; and it appears to us singular, therefore, that their labours should so frequently be second editions, published long after all th e worl d has known what th ey had to chronicle, or should lay before us evidence with respect to matters, upon which we had already given, and often, a wrong verdict. There seems something like contrivance in this; but we make no imputation. Of course we know that "Brutus is an honourable man." This pernicious practice of the suppressio yeri has been especially evinced in the persons of her Ma jesty's administrator of the affairs of the Colonial Office, and some of his officials, in the matter of the condition of our sugar colonies in the West Indies. On the fourth of February last the debate upon Lord George Bentinck's motion for a com mittee on the West India question was decided ; and five minutes afterwards despatches from Lord Harris, most adverse to the views and to the repre sentations of the government, were laid on the table. The under secretary for the colonies admitted, be fore Lord George Bentinck's committee, the pre vious receipt of the despatches in question; but they were delayed in printing he said because of the anxiety of government to give along with them some other despatches, although they had been re ceived by the Colonial Office more than a month be fore, and were ready. Yet Lord Grey, perfectly aware of their import, never once referred to the despatches in question,—because they told against him ! In one of them Lord Harris, governor of Trinidad, condemned the Coolie immigration as too. costly, although he admits it bad produced a valu able effect upon the Creole labour. In another, dated the 4th September, his lordship says : " I would venture to hope that you will take into con sideration the propriety of rendering further assistance to these colonies for immigration purposes. The introduc tion of from 500 to 1000 in each year can have no percep tible effect upon the price of labour; and unless that is reduced, and quickly, I do not see how the cultivation of the cane can be carried on with any prospect of success. I can assure your Lordship that I have it from the best authority, that under the most favourable circumstances the price of sugar will not repay the cost of production ; and that the distress which in consequence at present exists in this colony has never been equalled." A more recent attempt to shuffle, as to the mode in which these documents were dealt with, occurred on Friday night, in the House of Commons. Lord Grey and the Chancellor of the Exchequer —these strange twins—were in possession of this information from a responsible officer of [the Crown of undoubted character. They suppressed it in the debate ; and dwelt instead upon the testi mony of a Mr. Scotland, a shopkeeper in Jamaica, and a Doctor Jelly, persons unknown altogether to either her Majesty's Government, or perhaps to the creditors of the one and the patients of the other. On the 21st Sep ., 1847 Sir Charles Grey in a dis patch to Lord Grey, accessible to no one but him self, and again on the 22nd November insisted on the claim of the planters to relief. Sir Charles Grey's opinions were kept .. back, as were those of Lord Harris, and Governors Light and Higgin son, the and former was reprimanded for expressing them too broadly ; yet with these opinions before him Lord Grey stated "men of energy, science, and capital," who would resort to our colonies, and embark in the cultivation of sugar " could not fail of perfect success." Of a truth colonial secretaries have different sorts of consciences to men engaged in the ordinary pursuits of life ! This very recommendation of Lord Grey, brings to our mind a similar one, cited by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, as having being given by Lord Glenelg on the 12th October, 1835, referring however to the faith to be placed in the honesty of a British Parliament—by the bye, with a Whig Ministry at its head. We quote it for the sake of the context which shall follow it : " The purchaser of a claim under the Slavery abolition act does not incur the slightest assignable risk of losing his money ; he has for his security the national faith of Great Britain and Ireland, pledged in the most solemn form in which such an engagement was ever yet made. If the seller, supposes that any danger really exists, he la bours under an illusion so gross, as without further proof to demonstrate that he is not in a state of general infor mation to deal on equal terms with the speculators to whom his right is transferred." Now this was before the apprenticeship compact was broken in upon ; and Lord Glenelg was no doubt a mistaken man, although we cannot impugn his love of truth. But we have to do with Lord Grey and the recommendation quoted above, and shall quote a memorial which was in his lordship's hands at the very time he gave it—mind !—a memo rial received and only made public five minutes after the conclusion of the debate ! " MEMORIAL to the Right Honourable the Earl Grey, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c. &c. &c. " MY LORD, "We pray your earnest attention to the following facts. " We, the undersigned, are the owners of 19, and the lessees of 13 sugar estates in the west end of the island of Jamaica, on which properties we employ daily an average of 2,898 labourers, who represent families numbering 14,490 people, lately redeemed from slavery. Our sugar estates, 32 in number, are expected to make this year 2,769 hogsheads of sugar and 1,354 puncheons of rum, which will cost us, by accurate computation, £60,315 13s. sd. We have no hope of realising more than £l5 per hogshead and £l4 per puncheon (the maximum price of the market at present), at which rate our produce will bring £60,896, leaving a balance over our expenditure of £5BO 6s. 7d. to go against six per cent., the common rate of interest which money bears in the colony, and which on £60,315 13s. sd. would b e £3,618 18s. 9d. Our capital invested on these 32 sugar estates in live stock and implements of husbandry, amounts in live stock to £32,094, in implements £14,630, upon which wear-and tear capital we receive no interest whatever. The 19 sugar estates that we own cost us £94,784, and we pay a rental for the 13 other estates of £3,110 per annum, which sunk capital is likewise wholly profitless. We are not so absurd as to expect that the British nation should abandon the principles of free trade, now upheld by . the majority of the people, in order to afford us protection, but we submit it cannot be consonant with the spirit of free trade to give to the slave colonies a mo nopoly of the sugar market by allowing them to cultivate sugar with means (slaves) denied to us ; and we submit they must have that monopoly if the British West Indies Dense to supply the market with sugar, as your lordship must have ascertained that a supply from the East Indies cannot be obtained at the rates of slave-grown produce. " Now we are resident proprietors, and all of us, with one exception, have purchased and leased our properties since the Emancipation Act. It will be evident from the facts stated that we cannot cultivate for another year; in deed, we have not the means, unaided, of taking off the present crop, and the British West India merchants are now unable to assist us, and of course disinclined, where there is no hope of profit or even of recovering their ad vances. If we, being proprietors and lessees, living on and managing our own properties, brought up to tropical agri culture, and availing ourselves of every practical improve ment, have only such a result to exhibit as is set forth in the statement of these facts, the inference is conclusive that the position of the absentee proprietor or mortgagee, represented by paid agencies, is still more deplorable. It is evident that unless some mode of suppressing slavery and the slave trade more effectual than that hitherto pur sued be adopted, and without immediate aid, in the shape of money loans, sugar cultivation, upon which 300,000 of the emancipated negroes are wholly dependent, must cease in Jamaica. But our object in submitting these facts to your lord ship is to enable you to draw your own inferences, and suggest your own remedies, and we beg you will consider our desperate position as an excuse for troubling you with the statement. " We have, &c., " (Signed) " H. A WHITELOCK, (and 15 others.)" We have to acknowledge the industry and intel ligence of Mr. Jacob Omni= for this further evidence of the dishonesty of Free-trade. We are confident he will pardon us. But, really, is not such trickery and perversion of evidence—such reckless disregard of truth disgusting to the mind of any honourable man ? " Quousque tandem, Catalina ?" was the question of the Great Roman orator—and by the bye our leading type-founders, as many of our contemporaries will remember, have reiterated the question upon us members of the fourth estate—; but to whom can it be more legi timately put than to the Whig-Radical Statesmen and Free-traders of the present day To whom more especially than to the people of the Board of Trade and the Colonial-office—we might say the Foreign-office ? Quousque tandem ? If we were to give our own English version of the question, we might perchance be considered too plain. THE REV. RECTOR BROOKS AND THE CLERGY OF LIVERPOOL. The following address to the Rev. J. Brooks, proposed by Dr. M`Neile, and seconded by the Rev. J. B. Monk, was unanimously agreed to at a meeting of the clergy, held in the Savings Bank, on Wednesday, the Rev. A. Campbell in the chair : "TO THE REV. JONATHAN BROOKS, CLERK, MASTER OF TO ADVERTISERS. We beg respectfully to call the attention of Merchants, Brokers, Auctioneers, and others, to the important fact that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD IS NOW THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY ON TUESDAY, which can be read on that day by the thousands of Manufacturers and others attending THE TUESDAY'S MARKET IN MANCHESTER. The STANDARD is taken at all the Newsrooms and respectable Inns in that town and the surrounding manufacturing district. A SECOND EDI7ION is published at Half-past Two, in time for the North Mails, containing the MARKETS, and any news of importance that may arrive in the course of the morning. ARTS, SENIOR RECTOR OF LIVERPOOL. "Rev. and Dear Sir,—We, the undersigned clergy of the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, desire to avail ourselves of the opportunity now afforded us of conveying to you, on the completion of your 50th year in the minis try of our church, the unanimous and cordial expression of our respect and esteem. "We feel assured that in your labours, sustained through so long a portion of the life of man, to promote the reli gious interests and social improvement of all classes in your native town, it has been your study so to temper zeal with discretion, as to give no offence, lest the ministry should be blamed ; and we rejoice to perceive that it has been your happy recompense to win golden opinions from all. " In the performance of your duty, you have endea voured to disarm the hostility, without courting the favour of ' those who oppose themselves.' Firm in pur pose, you have been courteous in its execution ; and we are bound to say, or rather we gladly and gratefully volunteer the saying, that in your communications with us, you have manifested that urbanity and `brotherly kindness which, without diminishing our respect for your station, or our willing subordination to your authority, have caused us to regard you with those feelings of affec tionate esteem which ought ever to subsist between men who, 'servants of one master, even Christ,' are also children of one family, and so ' brethren in the Lord.' "Although you have now passed the common age of man, and are advancing to that period wherein, as the Psalmist says, his `strength is but labour and sorrow,' we pray that Almighty God will be pleased to prolong your days, so far as they can be prolcnged with comfort to yourself and usefulness to others ; and with the re newed expression of our respect and regard, we remain, rev. and dear Sir, your very faithful friends and fellow labourers in the Gospel." The Rev. Rector Bnooxs replied as follows : My dear Mr. Campbell. and my reverend and highly. respected brethren—l really know not in what terms to convey to you the gratification which I feel at the kind sympathy and the expressions of esteem, regard, and affection which are embodied in the address you have just presented to me, on the completion of the fiftieth year of my ministerial duties. It is, indeed, as you ob serve, a large portion of the life of man. I cannot look back upon it without being sensible of many deficiencies, without being conscious that I have committed many errors and many omissions. It is consolatory to me to find that you are willing to put the most favourable con struction upon them, and to mark my general conduct as deserving your approbation. It has always been my anxious wish to imbibe the spirit of the religion which it is my province to teach, and to live, as far as possible, in charity with all men. If, in so doing, I have endeavoured not to provoke hostility, I am happy to think that you consider that I have done it without any sacrifice of prin ciple. In regard to the urbanity and courtesy for which you give me credit in my intercourse with yourselves, how could it be otherwise ? I have always been in the habit of receiving from you - every degree of respect and atten tion. We have all the same object in view, we are all servants of one master, Nye are all labourers in the same vineyard, we are all looking to promote as far as we can the temporal comforts and the eternal salvation of those committed to our care ; and how can we do this more effectually—how can we preach the gospel of peace with more success—than by harmony amongst ourselves, and by the powerful eloquence of example ? For the prayer for my future welfare, in the concluding part of your address, I sincerely thank you. lam arrived at that time of life when I cannot expect to be much longer amongst you, and when the physical and mental faculties must naturally fall into decay ; but I am fortunate in being associated with a colleague in the superintendence of this parish, with whom I have lived in habits of strict intimacy and friendship, who is always willing to afford his assistance and advice, and to join me in everything which we may think calculated to promote the common good. lam fortunate also in having around me a body of clergy who are notorious for a high tone of good and kindly feeling, for the absence of all petty jealousies, and who, as I have often heard our late respected diocesan declare, are most faithful in the discharge of their duties. I trust the same cordiality will continue to exist amongst us, that we shall continue to experience in ourselves, and to hold up an example to others, how delightful and plea sant a thing it is to dwell together in union. I again thank you for the kindness you have this day shown towards me, and beg to offer you my sincere wishes for your temporal welfare here, and your eternal happiness hereafter., The ferryage from Liverpool to Woodside and Monks' Ferry bas now been reduced to one penny. A full-grown child was found dead in Bittern-street, on Friday. Peter Edger, shipkeeper on board the Hannah Watson, dropped down dead on the vessel on Thursday. SACRILEGE.—A man named John Rawle Jones, was committed for trial on Tuesday, for stealing a number of books from St. Andrew's Church, St. John's Church and Brunswick Chapel. ESCAPE OF A BURGLAR.—On the night of the 14th instant, a prisoner named Alexander Worral, contrived to make his escape from Kirkdale Gaol, whither he had been committed for trial at the assizes, by Mr. H. L. Trafford, for a burglary committed in Salford a short time ago. So apprehensive is he of being transported, if found guilty on trial, that since his committal to Kirkdale he has tried (but unsuccessfully of course) to commit suicide by hanging himself. Cotton is now so much depressed that prices of the most current qualities of American are 8 to 10 ney cent under the lowest point ever before reached. Mobile low mid dling cotton can be bought to-day at 3id. per pound, (about £7 per bale,) and so moderate are the charges in this port that the expense of holding it for twelve months, including interest upon purchase money at 5 per cent., brokerages, warehouse rent, fire insurance, &c., will only be a small fraction over Id. per pound, and the cost even then will still be within the lowest price of any former pe riod. The half-yearly examination of the infants of the south Church of England schools, Cornwallis-street, took place on Friday evening last, before a numerous assembly, in cluding the Rev. Dr. Carpenter, of St. Jude's, the Rev. H. Carpenter, of St. Michael's, &c. The children ac quitted themselves most admirably, and reflected the greatest credit on Mr. Clark, the master. The Rev. Dr. Carpenter, in a short address, at the conclusion, remarked that he had visited many infant schools previously, and had been highly delighted, but that, till the present occa sion, he had thought it an impossibility for infants to at tain to such proficiency, as he had just witnessed in those before him. The Scripture lesson and Geography, in connection with history, met with the most decided masks o f approbation from all present. The proceedings of the evening were enlivened by several pieces (including one to the " Prince of Wales"), su ng by th e teachers in training at the school, in a manner which did honour to the exer tions of their music master, Mr. Taylor. LANDING STAGE AT THE SOUTH END.—Mr. Harbord deserves much praise for his exertions to procure for the inhabitants for the . south part of the tow n i ncreased land ing accommodation. The Finance Committee have not complied with the request of a memorial pre sente d to them to that effect. Mr. Willoughby, however, has expressed his willingness to enter into an agreement to run a boat to the south end two hours before and after high water, or whenever practicable, from any slip which would be the most convenient, at the reduced ferry rate of Id : A me morial to the Council has been agreed on setting forth that application for a slip had been made hitherto without success ; that there existed no difficulties in the way, and that a slip might be constructed near the Toxteth Dock ; or such other places as might be considered suitable to the purpose ; the boats to run three hours before and two hours after high water. The memorial concluded by stating that there were now in the Park one hundred thousand inhabitants, and that a ferry would be a great advantage to the township, and a source of convenience and comfort to all classes of the community. THE DIFFERENCE IN THE DEPRECIATION OF WEST INDIAN AND FOREIGN SLAVE-GROWN SUGARS NOT ATTRIBUTABLE. TO THE RE CENT COMMERCIAL CRISIS. It was asserted by one of the Free Trsde speakers at the meeting in the Sessions-house on Tuesday last, that the West Indian sugar cultivators had only suffered in common with the foreigner, in the recent depreciation of his products. Of course the gentleman who made this assertion went there with a set speech to deliver, and could not have remembered the fact adduced by a pre ceding speaker, Mr. Adam Hodgson, that whereas since the act of 1846, and the change of prices in the sugar mar ket which followed, West Indian has fallen 15s. 2d. per cwt., the produce of slave-growing countries had only fallen 6d. per cwt. We give, as the best reply to this fallacy the following conclusive evidence from Mr. Jacob Omnium's pamphlet : " Perhaps the most convincing answer to the assertion that British Colonial property is only depreciated in com mon with all other property by the circumstances of the times, is contained in the following extracts from the ' Trade Circular? of Messrs. Drake, Brothers, and Co., the leading merchants of the Havana, themselves exten sive proprietors of sutrar estates in that island:— " In 1344, they stated that— , They had no expectation of the price of sugar being improved except by having the English market opened to the produce of the island, where, if this could be effected at a rate even of 50 per cent. above the duty on English colonial sugar, still they should obtain for their produce double the amount they can obtain at present.' " On the Bth of Jan. 1848, they say—' The production of 1847 has far exceeded that any previous year, and the prices obtained by planters have been so highly remune rative, that they are enabled to adopt every means for the further extension of their crops.' " Another price current, subsequent in date, adds— ' During the past year, the prices of sugar in our markets were supported at high rates, with but slight and tern porary fluctuations, notwithstanding the large crop. This was mainly owing to the unprecedentedly heavy shipments to the United States and to Great Britain, aided by a well-sustained enquiry from Spain, with a fair demand from other parts.'". An elderly gentleman, named Worthington, belonging to Worthington, dropped down dead on one of the Wood side boats, on Wednesday evening. On Tuesday, a small lugger boat, with a gentleman and two boatmen on board, was run down by the New Brighton steamer. Fortunately, the persons on board . were rescued, having sustained no injury beyond a wetting. A deputation consisting of Mr. Bramley Moore and Mr. Edward Johnston, from the Brazilian Association of Li verpool, accompanied by Mr. Cardwell, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday, at his official residence in Downing-street. WRESTLING. — This sport took place at the New Cattle market on Tuesday and Wednesday. The prize for the light weights was won by Joseph Noble, of Netherton ; that for the heavy weights by R. Atkinson, of Sleagill ; and the prize given for the residents in Liverpool by B. Pennington of Low-wood. The t ' ambria Captain Harrison, took her departure on Saturday for Halifax and Boston, with the North American mails and about 90 passengers. The Hibernia, with the inward mails may be expected to arrive here to day, bringing advices from New York to the 7th inst., and Halifax to the 10th. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—The midsummer exami nation, last week, gave the very greatest satisfaction. The drawings from the girls' school were beautiful, and the specimens of mapping by the pupils were greatly ad mired. The delivery of prizes took place on Thursday, the chair being occupied by James Riley, Esq. Since the establishment of the institution, no fewer than 14,000 specimens of their teaching have been sent from the schools.. FIRE IN BYROM-STREET.—On Tuesday night, the house occupied by Mr. Hughes, hatter of Byrom-street, was completely destroyed by fire. At the time of the breaking out of the flames, there was not any one on the premises Mr. Hughes himself and all his family having gone to the Zoological Gardens, and stopped at a friend's house on their return. It was with much difficulty the surrounding premises, which consisted of carpenters shops, were saved. Mr. Hughes is insured. BEBINGTON HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION.—The first flower-show of the season will take place in the beautiful pleasure-ground of the Royal Rock Ferry Hotel, on Thursday next. These exhibitions are invariably graced with the fashion and elegance of the neighbourhood to view the early products of the earth, which are generally brought in great abundance. Our readers will no doubt attend to view the interesting exhibition, which will at once instruct and gratify them. A ft er the late abundant rains, the flowers and agricultural products will no doubt be more than usually numerous and forward. OPENING. OF NEW DOCKS.—At the weekly meeting of the Dock Committee, held on Thursday,. Mr. Alderman Nicol in the chair, a report was read from Mr. Hartley, the veteran surveyor to the dock estate, announcing that five of the nine new docks, which have been for years in course of formation at the north end of the town, will be opened for the accommodation of the shipping frequent ing the port in the last week of July or the first of August. Two of them will not, however, be immediately available, the quays as yet not being so far completed as to admit of their being put into working condition. This immensely increased shipping accommodation is a gratifying indica tion, of the progressive increase of our commercial marine. It has not yet been announced on whom the honour of opening the new docks will devolve. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.—His grace the Duke of Rutland, accompanied by Lord John. Manners and Lord Forrester, embarked on board the noble duke's yacht, the Resolution, on Thursday last, intending to visit the Isle of Man, Scotland, and afterwards to proceed to Norway. During their brief sojourn, the noble party visited the docks, and the Albert warehouses, with which they ex pressed themselves highly delighted. On Wednesday, the duke and his friends partook of an elegant dejguner at Mr. Harold Littledale's, and afterwards inspected his celebrated model farm, with which his grace expressed himself not only delighted but astonished ; thence the party proceeded to Birkenhead, and on board the yacht. It may be in the recollection of some old inhabitants, that the Dake of Rutland, in 1813, resided in Liverpool, for a short time while in the command of his regiment. REFRIGERATOR.—Mr. R. M'Clav, of Liverpool, has recently registered a design for a refrigerator, which, externally, has the appearance of a cupboard or sideboard, and, internally, is arranged in this novel manner : Within the outside casting is placed another casting of wood, and, between the two, a statum of charcoal, or other non-conductor of heat, and, next the inner casting, is a casing of glass—the use of glass being one of the great features of the design. The refrigerator, being in form of a cupboard, has doors in front, by means of which the same may be charged with ice, and the wine or water coolers placed therein, it being also arranged that the liquid may be drawn off without opening these doors, whereby the uniform temperature within the refrigerator will remain unaltered for a greater period, and conse quently, economise the ice. FRIGHTFUL GIG ACCIDENT.—On Saturday week as a drag, laden with three gentlemen, was coming down St. James's-place, about nine o'clock, it came in contact with the wheel of a stone-cart. The shaft broke, and the horse set off at full gallop. When at the corner of Parliament street, the infuriated animal knocked down two females, who were crossing the street, and the vehicle, which was hanging by the shattered traces. passed over them. The horse then ran against the gable of Mr. Richard's shop, in Parliament-street, and afterwards turned up, much injured, into Great George's-place, where it was stopped. The two females were conveyed to the Northern Dispensary, much injured. The first, Mrs. Wade, of Warwick -street, received a severe scalp wound, had her rib fractured, and her face much disfigured. She has since died from the effects of these injuries. The other, Mrs. Canny, of Henderson street, received, besides other injuries, a severe lacerated wound in the scalp. THE HALIFAX AND NEW YORK STEAMERS.—The United States, American steamer, left Liverpool on the 17th May, and according to a telegraphic communication said to have been received at Boston just before the sailing of the Caledonia from that port, she reached New York on the morning of the 31st, making a voyage 0f . 14 days. The Niagara, Halifax and Boston royal-mail steamer, left Liverpool on the 20th of May, three days after the United States, and arrived at Boston on the Ist of June, (one day after the United States arrived at New York), making a passage of 12} days, The Niagara would have arrived a day earlier if she had not been delayed by four days of excessively bad weather. which caused her to make less way, by 50 miles, in four days, than she had made in the previous three. From the extraordinary progress which the America, Halifax and Boston steamer, had made when spoken with by the Caledonia, it is expected that she will have made one of the shortest passages known. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—A splendid banquet was given at the Town Hall, on Thursday evening, by the Worship ful the Mayor, Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq., to the Rev. Rector Brooks, and a large party of the clergy and county magistrates, in honour of the Rev. Rector having attained the fiftieth year of his ministry in the town. Among the guests were—the Reverends Rector Brooks and Rector Campbell, the Dean of Ardagh, the Rev. John Jones, Rural Dean, Rev. T. Bold, Rev. Dr. M'Neile, Rev. W. J. Conybeare, Rev. W. Rawson, Rev. F. Barker, Rev. James North, Rev. Miles Formby, Rev. T. Nolan, Rev. G. Leigh, Rev. C. Lawrence, Rev. Thomas Hornby, Rev. E. P. Campbell, Rev. R. Appleton, Rev. T. Halton, Rev. J. Headlam, and Rev. Joseph Brooks. Joseph Langton and George Grant (who acted as vice presidents) ; Wm. Hulton, of Hulton Park, J. R. Shaw, of Arrow Hall, Dr. Formby, Thomas Tobin, Harold Littledale, John Wright, John Moss, Thomas Moss, Joseph Hornby, Adam Hodgson, Stanley Percival, William Earle, Ed ward Rushton, William Shuttleworth, (Town-clerk) W. Statham, H. Statham, Thomas Ripley, and Robert Hors fall, Esqrs. Lords Skelmersdale and Stanley, and Sir John Gladstone sent letters of apology, expressive of their high appreciation of our venerable rector. The various speeches were full of Christian feeling, and patriotic and affectionate sentiment. The Mayor did not omit to set forth and adorn every topic which could gratefully and gracefully compliment their honoured guest. The rev. Rector's response was touching and thrilling, and will be long remembered. Rector Campbell spontaneously rose and solicited permission to take one toast out of the hands of the Mayor, and to propose the health of Dr. M'Neile, who responded in like feeling and felicitous terms. Mr. Halton made an admirable speech in re sponding to the toast, "The Magistrates of the County." And the truly-gratifying warmth and fervour felt by the whole company towards our esteemed .Rector will be further indicated by the circumstance that they all in stinctively stood up and heartily joined in the chorus of the song which followed the toast of the evening=" The Rector Brooke." COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION-DELIVERY OF PRIZES. The annual distribution of prizes took place on Thurs day. The spacious lecture hall was crowded with the fashion of the town. The rev. Principal was present, and on the platform were the two rectors and several of the local clergy, and a great number of our leading merchants. The Principal, in opening the proceedings, alluded to the loss which the Institution had sustained in the re moval of the Bishop of Chester. He referred to the Can ning Exhibition, the certificate for which had been gained by Alfred Hunt, who was congratulated on his success by his master, and who, he (the m a ste r ), was sure , wou ld represent e school with credit at Oxford, whither he was going. The following is a list of the prizes :- I.I.PPER SCHOOL.—Junior Divinity Medal, James Raw don •, Historical Medal, L. Bouch ; Mathematical Medal, J. Woodhouse.—Class Prizes : J. Rogers, T. Bowman, Edward Jones, E. H. Hodgson, J. Booker, R. P. Stain ton.—Certificates : Payne Park, W. B. Jones, Killick, C. Killick, and G. Rawdon. Payne, E. Jones, and Raw don, mentioned as second best in their departments. MIDDLE SCHOOL.—Divinity Medal, Rigby, but he hav ing got it before, transferred to Bowman ; nomination to Upper School, Thomas Atkinson ; Historical Geographical Medal, transferred from Atkinson to Bowman ; Mathe matics, Thomas Atkinson ; French, Swift ; Drawing J. Lindsay; Penmanship, Nott.—Class Prizes: Potter, scholarship, transferred from T. Atkinson to Bowman ; Metcalfe, Prudhomme, jun., M. D. Lewis, Fauset, E. P. Arthur.—Certificates: A. Metcalfe, S. Metcalfe, C. B. Hobson, Belk Agett, Rigby, Ireland, C. Walker, Brock, Orme, and Wilson. First M`Neile Scholarship, T. Atkin son ; second ditto, Metcalfe. Head Master's Divinity Prize, Pearce ; Singing Certificate, Osborne ; Mr. Wilson's Classical Prize, Seddon. LOWER SCHOOL. —Divinity, C. P. Maddock ; nomina tion to Middle School, T. Lowe ; History, A. P. Kirby ; Arithmetic, G. Downward; Penmanship, W. Eastwood.— Class Prizes : First Molyneux Scholarship, Thomas Whitty ; second ditto, John Ramsden, J. W. Sutton, J. T. Moss, J. Chesworth, E. B. Christian, J. J. Clark, and W. Wood. — Certificates r J. Hornby, W. G. Jones, White, W, Lowe, J. Morgan, E. Johnson, H. Leigh, H. E. Talbot, T. T. Edwards, J. E. Briant, S. H. Talbot, J. Oddie, J. Jones, W. Wharton, E. Crellin, J. Holden. — Extra Prizes George Wm. Henry Evans, E. H. Wood ward, W. H. Royle, A. Blanc. Head Master's Divinity Prize, T. Lowe. Distinguished themselves, T. Beckett, J. ornby, M. Tyson, W. Bettely, G. Downward, F. Wainwright, T. Beckett, W. Eastwood, J. Chalmers, H. H. Hodgson, S. Lazarus, G. Lingham, G. Clapham, J. Mortimore, T. Cannel, H. N. Williams, W. Robinson, J. J. Sowerby, S. Wright, C. Newton, W. W. Guiball, W. Leatherbarrow, G. Robinson, W. Hardman, J. Sterry, J. Terris, T. Drinkwater, J. R. Sutton ; M`Neile Scholar ship, A. P. Kirby. EVENING ScnooL.—English, J. Allen ; Mathematics, W. L. Candling ; Arithmetic, G. Williams and R. Young ; equal Penmanship, J. D. Thomas. After the prizes had been distributed, Rector Brooks remarked that Atkinson had raised himself from the lower to the middle school, and again to the upper school in a very short space of time. This was highly commendable in the youth himself. and likely to encourage all those by whom he was surrounded. He was sorry that their proceedings should be mingled with any cause of regret, especially such an one as the loss of their valued Principal. After paying a deserved eulogium to that esteemed gen tleman, he went on to say that he had been commissioned by the masters of the institution to present their Principal with his portrait, which was to remain in the institution during his life, and then to be at his own disposal. He had also been desired by the pupils to present to the same gentleman a silver salver, in testimony of the regard in which they held his zeal and' energy during the time he had been connected with the institution. The Principal, in a very feeling address, thanked the donors for these pleasing presents, and concluded by an affectionate and admonitory appeal to the youths of the schools, exhorting them to use their education in after life to the glory of God and the good of their fellow men. The proceedings terminated with the boys singing the national anthem. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. STEALING A GOLD PENCIL CASE.—OHN Friday, a man in the service of Dr. Macrorie r of Duke-street, was com mitted for trial for stealing a valuable gold pencil-case belonging to his master. It had been offered in pledge by a young woman, who stated that the prisoner had given it to her to pledge. ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—On Thursday, Edward Powell, Wm. Powell, and James Simpson, were brought before Mr. Rushton. charged with having savagely as saulted police-constable Rainford (193) and his wife. It appeared the assault had been committed in consequence of the officer having previously given evidence before the magistrates against one of the Powells. Mr. Rushton admitted a severe reprimand to the fellows, and commit ted them for three months, in default of paying a fine of £5, and further required they should find sureties at the expiration of this time, two of £2O, and themselves in £lO, or be again imprisoned for four months. To one he adjudged six months, in default of bail for making use of a threat in court. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Friday, a young man, named Thomas Philip Ward, an apprentice and collecting-clerk, in the employ of Messrs James and Thomas Bold, ship owners, Water-street, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on the charge of having embezzled £94 19s. ld., the money received on account of his employers, from Messrs. Thompson, Kay, and Findlay, merchants, Exchange buildings. On the sth instant the prisoner went to the office of Messrs. Thompson and Co. for the payment of two accounts due to Messrs. Bold and Co. The amount claimed was paid by a banker's cheque upon the Branch Bank of England, less the usual interest. The prisoner, it was shown, had not accounted for the receipt of the money to the cash-keeper. The prisoner was committed for trial. POLICE ESPIONAGE.—On Thursday evening, a young man named Thomas Allen, was apprehended in Soho street, by Constable 33. On the following morning the case came before Mr. Rushton, in due course, when it appeared, defendant's crime was that of walking through the streets with a quantity of shoemakers' tools under his coat. On hearing the charge and the affirmation on the part of Allen that the tools were his own, Mr. Rushton at once dismissed the case and administered a reprimand to the officious officer. Mr. Rushton : You have no business to stop persons in this way.—Officer : He refused to tell his name.—Mr. Rushton : Well, but you must have some sense, either there must be suspicious circum stances or the person's character must be known to be bad. At this rate nobody will be safe." OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF BAILIFFS.—On Wednes day, Richard Hall, (in the employ of Mr. Kirby, sheriff's officer,) Peter Jackson, John Russell, and Solomon James Sowerby, also bailiffs, were brought up on a charge of stealing some surgical instruments from William Russell. Mr. Russell, the complainant, had lately arrived from France with his wife and mother-in-law, neither of whom could speak English. The parties lived in Paradise-street, at the house of Mr. Leary, and being distrained upon for £1 125., the prisoners behaved in such a brutal manner, that the mother-in-law became so alarmed that she was paralysis. Mr. Russell offered them his gold watch, with ,vilich they declared was not sufficient—they must have two watches; and, rushing at Mrs. Russell, took a gold watch from her neck. A case of instruments, worth £ll, was missing, which had been purloined by the pri soners. Mr. Rushton said, the conduct of the prisoners was most abominable and oppressive. and though he did not mean to charge them with felony, there was no doubt the article missing had been removed by the fellow Jack ton. There were abundance of remedies against the offending parties, either in the county court, by writ, or by common law. He would detain Jackson, but discharge the other prisoners. On Thursday Jackson was again brought up and further remanded, Mr. Rushton observ ing that so many cases had occurred latterly of improper conduct by bailiffs, that he would make a representation to the authorities on the subject. ROBBERY OF NOTES AT TRANMERE.—On Saturday, Mary Hughes, alias Henrietta, Terence Murphy, Hannah Mitchell, George Hullock, Hugh Murphy, and Ann Smith, were brought before the Birkenhead magistrates, charged with having robbed Mr. J. Dawson of £1,005. They had been previously examined and remanded. Mr. Dawson stated that, on the previous Saturday evening, he was on the road between Tranmere and Rock Ferry, with upwards of £l,Booon his person, when hewas accosted by a female, in whose company he remained about twenty minutes. After leaving her he found that he had been robbed of notes to the value of £1,005. The police were immediately in formed, and on Monday the prisoner Hughes was detected while offering tn, or w,n notes, a xacy, in payment corner passage to America. On Tuesday the prisoner Mitchell, who keeps a beerhouse in Grange-lane, Birkenhead, was taken into custody, she at the time acknowledging that she had some of the notes in her possession, which had been given to her by a man to take care of. Theyamounted in value to between £7OO and £BOO, and she handed them over to the prisoner Murphy. Mitchell was kept in cus tody, and subsequently Ann Smith was apprehended at a house in Back Chester-street, she having attempted to change one of the stolen notes. The other prisoners were afterwards apprehended on suspicion. Evidence was pro duced that went to show that the prisoners were seen to gether on Sunday, and that a woman named Ann Rooney was the person supposed to have committed the robbery. Rooney was seen to change her dress, in order, it is pre sumed, to escape detection, and she had a quantity of notes in her possession. There was no evidence against Hullock, and he was discharged, but bound over to pro secute as a witness. The other prisoners were committed for trial at the ensuing sessions at Knutsford. Two other persons, supposed to be in some way or other connected with the robbery, were apprehended at Birkenhead on Saturday evening. Eitarirt 43030. At the Parish Church of Blackburn, on Sunday week, there were no less than fifty children christened. On Saturday last, a viper of the unusual length of thirty-three inches, was killed at Poulton-le-Fylde. It has been p resen t e d to the Preston Museum. WRITSUN WEEK.—During four days of last week, 9298 persons travelled on the Liverpool and Manchester Rail way; 22,100 on the East Lancashire. In Manchester the Sunday scholars bad, as usual, their excursions into the country. About 10,000 scholars travelled by the Leeds line. To Scarborough, by the same line, 600 ; to Goole, 2.400 ; Hull, 2,400 ; to the Lakes, from 60 to 70 a day since the 9th instant ; to the Isle of Man (four days), 1 ) 000; to Fleetwood, 600; to Liverpool, 600 ; special train to Glasgow and Edinburgh, 800. By the Birmingham line, 12,410 scholars travelled. Not the slightest accident occurred: _ . DREADFITL BOILER EXPLOSION.—On Saturday last, the boiler at the Sovereign Mills, Stanley-street, Preston, burst with disastrous consequences. Eight persons who, with others, were getting their breakfasts, were scalded in, a dreadful manner, and, we regret to say, that four have since died. Their names are James Ashton. Joseph Harris, Wm. Southward, and Wm. Durham. The boiler was, it is said, and has been for some time, in a condition unfit for working. The steam and water dashed through the open doors of the boiler-house, pouring in volumes across the yard, smashed the windows in the room oppo site, and in all the stories above. THE EFFICACY OF LIQUID MANURE.—An experiment to test the efficacy of applying manure in the liquid form, has lately been tried by the Manchester Irrigation Com pany, on a clover field belonging to Mr. J. G. Smith, of Barton. About three tons of urine, largely diluted with water from the Irwell (itself containing large quantities of fertilising matter), was distributed by means of a steam pump and jet, over each acre of the field, on the 23rd of March, and again on the 4th of May, a portion of the field being left untouched, for the purpose of comparison. Specimens of the clover and grass were cut on the 31st of May, when it was found that the product on the nnirrigated portion was eight and a-half tons, and on the irrigated portion, rather more than seventeen tons per acre. In quality, the latter was somewhat superior. This land was manured three years ago, and since then, one crop of po tatoes and two of grain have been removed. Several other experiments, followed by similar results, have been tried, but we have not yet received an exact statement of the facts. The expediency of employing manure in , the liquid form will shortly be placed beyond all question. THE LABOURING CLASSES. We find in the " Labofirer's Friend" for the present month, a full report of the speeches delivered at the fourth annual meeting of the " Society for the Improvement of the Labouring Classes," on the 18th ult., at which Prince Albert presided. The following is a verbatim report of the admirable address of the Rev. Dr. M`Neile on that occasion, whilst seconding the resolution which had been proposed by the Duke of Argyle " To co-operate, under any circumstances, in any of his labours of Christian benevolence, with the noble lord who brought this report before your Royal Highness I esteem a very distinguished privilege. (Cheers.) I readily, therefore, obeyed the call of his lordship three years ago in this interesting cause. But I must confess, his re quest that I would occupy so prominent a position on the present auspicious occasion has made a demand on my nervous system at this moment such as I never before ex perienced, and under the influence of which I must throw myself on your Royal Highness's gracious indulgence. Our immediate object, after ' reporting progress for the past year, is so to commend the objects and operations of this society to the public generally, as that the pecuniary re sources and consequent practical usefulness of the insti tution may be largely increased. One point connected with its operations, alluded to by your illustrious presi dent, and again by the noble lord, is calculated in an eminent degree to give us favour in the eyes of really practical men, because it is calculated to show that we are not engaged in a chimerical enterprise. mean, that we are only setting examples, and from the report it ap pears that our examples are being followed. The direct operations of this institution, compared with the work to be accomplished, are, it must be confessed, on a very diminutive scale; but the passage in the report to which I have referred shows that the effects produced are by no means to be confined to our own direct opera tions. (Hear.) It is this :—' Such has been the effect produced by the George-street House upon the public mind, that already four different cases in which- inde pendent parties have begun to entertain or carry on similar undertakings have come to the committee's-know ledge.' This is hopeful. (Cheers.) English proprietors are reasonably alive to their own interests, and if it can be shown to the proprietors of lodging-houses that it is to their interest to improve the accommodations of the poor, we may be instrumental in extending to an indefi nite amount an. amelioration of the condition of the labouring classes, of a most gratifying character. I. am sorry to perceive that the same difficulty, indeed, the confessed impracticability, complained of on formerocca sions in the matter of loan funds still remains. Perhaps one cause is, that the object contemplated is of too , high a character, involving sums of money too large for the working man to deal with. No working man can give adequate security for a loan of sufficient amount to make any important improvement in his dwelling-place. (Hear, hear.) I will take the liberty of briefly describing to this meeting a very simple operation on behalf of the labour ing poor, which,.though on a small scale of expenditure, has been attended with the most gratifying results.. No apology is indeed required for it on account of its little ness, since no process on behalf of the labouring poor can be naturally and permanently beneficial in its results without being minute in its operations. (Hear, and cheers.) Arrangements are made for receiving small weekly instalments, or deposits of money from the work ing man. By the hand of his wife or child he sends to our treasurer, at an appointed and convenient place, his weekly payment, saved from his weekly wages. To be received on our list, hemustbe sent to us by some recommending sub scriber, i. e., by some friend who pays for the poor man the same amount that he pays for himself. He thus obtains in our book a weekly credit for double the amount of his own weekly contribution, and that without any charge upon us. This goes on the year round, and in the month of October, every year, a supply of warm clothing,full of comfort, and of what is of quite as much value, full of kindness,—(loud cheers,)—is ready for every contributor. There is no loss here—no risk of loss. Our recommend ing subscribers keep pace with our poor contributors, so that our accounts must balance ; while we secure this vast advantage, that the system operates as a perpetual en couragement. to the working man to make self-denying, and therein self-ennobling efforts systematically to save a portion of his earnings. (Cheers.) I can speak with some confidence of this operation—of its advantage, both to the working man and to his family ; because I have had the happiness of superintending the progress and result of such an operation for a number of years—for twelve years, in an agricultural parish in Surrey, and also for fourteen years in a populous district of the town of Liverpool. (Cheers.) I have said that this operation is full of kindness, and this leads me to consider what I think the most important feature in this whole case—l mean the manner and tone in which our efforts to benefit the working poor are conducted. (Hear, hear.) The re presentations commonly made of the state of the working classes, and the statistics commonly given in illustration of their degraded and demoralized con dition,, however painfully true in themselves, and how ever urgent in their appeals to us to do something, are not encouraging. They are not,. I think, the way best calculated to interest the public mind. They present us with a dark picture, which, while it de mands interference, does at the same time create re pugnance to the effort. (Cheers.) But though true — ales, painfully true—such representations do not convey all the truth. No class of the community, if viewed only from a distance, and as a whole,, can be viewed aright. The outline of it may, indeed, be taken with general accu racy, and the length and breadth of it may be correctly measured ; but this is all superficial. The materials of which it is composed cannot be known at a distance. The agreements or disagreements which exist with and from one another, and with and from a third party—the autho rities of the country, these cannot be appreciated ; nor can the willingness or unwillingness existing among them to avail themselves of opportunities of self-improvement. It is such a view —distant, partial, and prejudiced—that the working classes are taught to take of the aristocracy. The higher classes of society are seen from a distance,,and en masse. The soft and lovely materials which go so largely to the composition of that mass are not known. The noble generosities quietly and unostentatiously prac tised by many are not appreciated ; while the notorious vices of a few are wilfully presented by designing agitators as characteristic of the whole class. (Cheers.) This is not fair. It is felt to be unfair. Equally unfair is the parallel view taken of the working classes, when contem plated from a distance and as a whole. (Cheers.) The vices of comparatively few, after all, are cruelly held forth as characteristic of the whole, and the multitude are de cried and suspected as universally the enemies of good order and good government. It is a libel. (Loud cheers.) No, in that mass, also, soft and lovely materials are to be found not a few ; there, also, generosities are practised, truly noble in principle, though of necessity limited in amount. (Continued cheers.) There, too, it is our hap piness, and will be the happiness of every man who is well acquainted with them, to meet with friends and cham pions of good order, good governm en t, an d t rue rel i g i on. (Cheers.) To be duly appreciated, our working men must be known in detail, not merely as members of a class of the community, but as men—as individuals ; not merely as units in a, great calculation, but as living beings and free agents, actuated by a variety of motives, and exposed to a variety of enuntprs.cting influences, vastly more personal and morepowerfully practical than any ele ments which can enter into a general calculation. (Cheers.) To know the working man aright, you must have access to him when he snatches a few moments from his scanty leisure, (hear, hear,) and beguiles his cares and toils with the sweet converse of his beloved partner in life, to whom he owes and pays an allegiance of heart as pure (hear, hear) as loyalty itself. (Loud cheers.) To know the working man aright, you must have access to him when he sets upon his brawny arm, and presses to his manly bosom one of those prattling pledges of domestic love and peace, dear to him, ay, fondly dear, as a little prince or princess. (Laughter and cheers.) To know him aright, you must have access to him, when he cannot, by honest industry, procure a sufficiency of food for his wife and children, and when at their scanty meal he practises the noblest of self-denial, doing violence to the cravings of his own stimulated appetite, that he may spare the morsel which he perceives is required to stay the last cry of hun ger at his homely board ; or worse, sometimes, when that hungry cry cannot be stayed, and he is obliged to turn away from the distressing scene, hastily to tear himself from all he loves best upon earth, his rising, madden ing emotion should add terror to the cup, already too full, of his poor afflicted wife. (Loud cheers.) He is then a fit subject for the instigations of the lawless agitator, and to know him aright you must have access to him when those instigations are calmly resisted ; and you must see the mine which can be opened in him when, through some kind intervention (often that of his pastor, or the agent, male or fem a l e , d e p u t e d by hi s pastor,) he is again so employed and remunerated as to be able fully to sup ply his family ; you should see him when with a full heart he beholds his wife and children satisfied, and bread to spare. Oh, yes, you should see and hear him, when, with a voice broken by the struggling emotion and the starting tear of gratitude, he utters his short, his eloquent, hiStruly acceptable grace, "Wife, thank God we have enough this week." (Loud and continued cheers). lam well per.. suaded that to do such men good—really to befriend them, and add to their number in the country, the tone in which our kindness is administered deserves our care as much as the material of the kindness itself. Our working men should be contemplated, not merely as subjects of law, creatures possessing rights and addicted to crime, so that they require to be protected from one another—the rights of each guarded by the strong arm of power against the violence of the rest. It is indeed unhappily true, we must ‘loXit & that towards some it i 4 necessary to present this June 20, Mt aspect of severity and coercion. It is too true that neither allotments of land, nor improvements in lodging houses, nor advantageous opportunities offered for husbanding their little resources, can, in their present state of mind, do such persons any real or permanent service. But their numbers are comparatively few. (Hear, hear.) Surely this is so. Our criminal law, however majestic, and rightly so, in its awful solemnities, and negatively useful, on a national scale, by its deterring penalties, operates posi tively on but a fraction, and a small one, of our popula tion. (Hear, hear.) We complain of the number of criminals, and the weight of the calendars at our various gaol deliveries,—and it is indeed distressing that there should be so many ;—but what, after all, are they, com pared with the mass of the population ? The proportions were made strikingly manifest on a recent occasion in this metropolis, when it was deemed advisable that an appeal should be made to the inhabitants as the defenders of order. The result was what might have been anticipated. On the one side, not only all the violent and disorderly, but all who in the excitement were disposed to aid and and abet the disorderly : on the other side, the population ; and the effect—perfect tranquility without the necessity for a single stroke. (Cheers.) If we would do our people good, we must think generously of them ; since coercion, however indespensable for national defence, is inoperative for individual reformation. (Hear, bear.) Our working men must be contemplated as subjects of religion, creatures possessing immortality,. responsi bility, conscience, feeling ; creatures capable of virtues, but exposed to diverse, distresses, and wants, so that they require to be assisted. It is with a smile that we should approach them, not with a frown ; it is with a promise, not a threat r not with the rod or sword; but with the hand of sympathy to lighten the burden of un avoidable misery with which they are afflicted. (Cheers.) The heart of the working-man must be won. (Cheers.) The heart is the scat of love, and love is labour made easy. (Renewed cheers.) This is the peculiar province of religion, and in true religion we have all that is needful for winning the heart of man. Love is not to be pro duced by command, nor by reason, nor by recompence held out. These are all important in their places, and they each have a place in true religion (hear) ; but the turning point of the heart, which is the regulator of the whole man, is not in any of these. Love can be pro duced only by love. We love liras who first loved us, and because HE first loved us. The great fact of the Christian religion is the great manifestation of love to wards man ; and its legitimate produce wherever it is received, is love in man—pardoning love from heaven ' awakening grateful love on earth. (Hear, hear and cheers.) This is what wins the heart ; this is what reclaims the • prodigal ;: this has power to bring back the wanderer from all the eccentricities of an irregular—it may be—of a criminal orbit, and restore him to that system, the centre of which is the Sun of Righteousness, (Cheers.) Only establish love in the heart, and you have the man. (Renewed cheers.) I met a young working-man going into a provincial town, nearly four miles f rom hi s resi dence, between eight and nine o'clock on a fine summer evening. In the afternoon of the same day I had seen him in the field of a neighbouring farmer, finishing a day's work, quite sufficient to exhaust the energies of any man. On conversing with him, I found it was not authority ex ercised, nor recompence promised, that had induced him to add a walk of eight miles to a long day'o work. No ! it was something vastly more practical, giving a lightness to his step, and a brightness to his countenance, which must ever be looked for in vain, till the heart is touched. (Cheers.) Who can estimate the practical power of a cultivated heart, and above all of a heart captivated with the love of Him who died to save ? This is the true government practically a sinecure. The magistrates and police have no trouble really with Christian men. (Loud cheers.) The law is-not made for the righteous, but for the lawless and the disobedient. (Cheers.) It is the happiness and the glary of the Gospel we delight in, that it raises man above the necessity of law. (Cheers.) It is this that makes the rich man kindly liberal and the poor man patiently contented. (Cheers.) It is this that makes duty pleasure, and the man who performs it the true free. man. It is that, without interfering in the slightest de gree with those distinctions which it has pleased Almighty God to establish in society, exalts the brother of low degree in the ennobling consciousness that he has the character of being sincere in his affections,, and brings down the brother of high degree, to the exercise of a frank and friendly condescension.. (Cheers.) Here we have true brotherhood as well as true liberty. This, I am bold to say, is the only genuine liberty that fallen man can enjoy;: this the only equality that can be maintained in a chequered scene like this fallen world ; this the true fraternity which, based and guaranteed in the love of Him who is every man's brother, shall survive the blight of an uncongenial clime, and flourish in naffed ing lustre in the paradise of his Father and our Father, his God and our God. (Loud cheers.) Only let Chris tian men carry out consistently their own principles, not only in the matter, but also in the manner of bearing the infirmities of the weak, pointed out in the Bible ; let them bear in practical remembrance that the poor have hearts as well as pockets, moral feelings as well as physical wants ; let scriptural, in happy harmony with social and industrial appliances, be multiplied, and we shall soon see in many places, what it is our happiness already to sea in some; we shall see amongst the most apparen tly hoei. less of our population, t rans f orma ti ons o f c h ar acter rea l Iz4 ing what one of our p oe t s h as sweet l y sung as the resu lt of a Moravian mission The wretch who once sang wildly, danced, and laughed, And sucked in dizzy madness with the draught, Has wept a silent flood, reversed his wal s, Is sober, meek, benevolent, and prays ; Feeds sparingly, communicates his store, Abhors the craft he gloried in before, And he who stole has learned to steal no more.' (Cheers.) In seeking to benefit the poor, let the Bible, the poor man's book, be honoured. In the honour done to the Bible lies the true strength of this happy land. (Hear, hear and cheers.) Looking around this hall, lam reminded of the personal co-oporation, in the great work of circulating the Bible, given by a Royal Duke whose portrait smiles upon us from the wall. (The Duke of Kent.) I am reminded of the fact, that for a series of years, during the infant struggles of our noble Bible So ciety, his Royal Highness devoted his unwearied attention, his time, and the weight of his influence, to the delibera tions of the committee. (Hear, hear.) And looking again towards the chair, I am reminded, in the Divine dealings with the family of that Royal Duke, that it is written in the Bible, ' Them that honour me I will ho nour.' (Lo u d an d cont i nued cheering.) his is the golden sceptre of our illustrious Sovereign, , our beloved Queen. This is the true stability of the throne—(hear, hear) the true security of the liberty of the subject. (Cheers.) This, like the constitution of England, based upon it, is at once the assertor of freedom, and the guar dian of order—(renewed cheers) ;—freedom never abused into license, and order never degenerating, into servility. (Continued cheers.) Let the Bible be honoured as in the case referred to, and the protection of God will surround, not children only, but children's children, and ' give peace upon our Israel.' " (Prolonged cheering.) COURT AND FASHION. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, left Osborne House at ten minutes past two, on Wednesday, and arrived at Buckingham Palace that afternoon. On Saturday, her Majesty, Prince Albert, and four of their children, visited the Regents Park Zoological Gar• dens, and in the evening the Queen and the Prince were present at her Majesty's Theatre. The es King of the French and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours paid a visit to the Duchess of Kent, on Wed nesday, at Frogmore House, where they partook of a luncheon. A grand ball will be given in the first week in July, in aid of the Spitalfield weavers. It is understood that the Marchioness of Londonderry is forming a quad rille of the Queens of England, which is to consist of forty couple. The Duchess of Beaufort is also forming one of the Houses of York and Lancaster. ----- The King of Hanover and the Duke of Cambridge are now the only surviving members of the once numerous. family of George the Third. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The late Mrs. Matthewson o , of Harrowgate, has be queathed £25.000 for building churches in Leeds, of which borough she was a native. The Bishop of London has presented the Rev. Henry Mackenzie, M.A., vicar of Yarmouth, to the vicarage of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Sir H. R. Duckinfield. The living is of the value of £1,285 per annum, with a vicarage house. Tuesday, this pupils of King Edward's School,. at Birmingham, presented to their late head master , the ! Rev. Dr. Lee, Bishop o f M anc h es t er , a testimonial of their regard and esteem fo r hi m as a mas ter, a scholar, and as a clergyman. The p r ese n t cons i s t s o f a silver vase, of Roman character. Its extreme height is 24 inches — weight, 230 oz. On the pedestal is an appropriate in scription. INSTALLATION OF THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER. - "" The installation of th e new ly- a p po i n t e d L or d Bishop of Chester, Dr. John Graham, took place on Friday, in the Cathedral Church of his diocese. The ceremony excited considerable interest in the ancient city, and the choir of the cathedral was filled with a highly respectable congre gation some time before the proceedings commenced. Amongst the clergy present from this neighbourhood were, Dr. M`Neile (Hon. Canon), Rev. Rector Brooks, H. Hampton, J. Jones, A. M'Conkey, H. Carpenter, C. Jones, and F. Barber. The members of the chapter pre sent were the Dean, the Rev. F. Anson, D.D., and the Rev. Canons Slade and Eaton, who met his lordship, ac companied by his examining chaplain the Rev. W. Cart mell, H. R,aikes, Esq., the registrar, and C. T. W. Parry, Esq., his lordship's secretary. The processionthen formed, and the usual ceremony and service followed. After the Litany had been read, the bishop, in a distinct voice, and with marked feeling pronounced the benediction, and the service terminated. The dean and canons then returned to the Chapter-house, and, after the necessary legal forms had been gone through, the proceedings closed. RURAL SPORTS.—The festive season of Whitsuntide was kept on Tuesday last at Mr. Solomon's, Claughton, by a revival of a number of the Old English sports ; and what is highly creditable to the conductors, all demoraliz ing or cruel contests were avoided. The farmers and neighbours of the vicinity assembled in considerable numbers, and the day was spent in the greatest hilarity, and without, as is usual, the least disturbance or the slightest dissatisfaction. A. SAFE MEDICINE.—The weak, the feeble, the infirm• the nervous, the delicate, are, we are assured, - in a few days strengthened by Hollingsworth's American Indian Sugar-coated Pills, and the worst complaints are removed by perseverance, witholit the expense of a physician- Adapted to all circumstances and situations, they are said to be the best medicines for families or to take to seas Pre venting scurvy and costiveness, requiring no ellimite el diet,. particular regimen, or cars against talcing coll—See QM.