The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

1 P';l Cfle t be ell SOCier' TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1854 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. LOCAL BILLS.—The following miscellaneous bills, pro- ' moted by the undermentioned public bodies, were passed by the examiners :—New River Company, and London Life Association —Liverpool Improvement : To widen and improve existing streets ; to make a new street from Dale-street to St. John's-lane ; for purchase and appro priation of land for the Free Public Library, Museum, and Gallery of Arts, and for regulation of piers, wharfs, and landing-stages. Adjourned to Thursday : Liverpool Sani tary Improvement, Liverpool Police Superannuation Fund, and Norwich Equitable Fire Assurance. A MEETING OP CARTOWNERS was held at the Claren don-rooms on Friday, " for the purpose of considering the determination of the Council to reduce the rates of cartage." THE CHILD OF THE WRECIT.—Mr. J. E. Benny, steward of the City of Dublin Company's steamer the Prince, having lost a child a fortnight ago, has under taken to adopt the little parentless relic saved so singu larly in the wreck of the Tayleur. Mr. Benny resides at 39, Great Nelson-street, in this town ; and, as there are other claimants for the honour, he has got up a certificate, signed by 200 of our townsmen, certifying to his respec tability and competency for the charge. He is willing, indeed anxious, that the proceeds of the subscription in progress should be invested for the personal benefit of the poor orphan, should it live to come of age. The child is at present in the temporary custody of the Rev. J. H. Armstrong, of Dublin. &Intim:l.—On Thursday, about midnight, some dis orderly women and blacks, a number of whom haunt the neighbourhood, were proceeding from Old Hall-street down Prussia-street towards St. Paul's-square, when one of the women was overheard to state that she would not mind stabbing the first white man she met. Some dis turbance took place opposite the door of a man named Edwards, the keeper of a beerhouse and lodging-house in Prussia-street ; and, on his going out to remonstrate with the parties, he was stabbed, it is said, by a coloured man, who made his escape. Edwards was taken to his own house, and promptly attended to by Mr. Osborne, surgeon, St. Paul's-square, who found that he had sustained a deep punctured wound, apparently, from its extent, made by some such instrument as the knife which so many foreign seamen in our port carry in their belts. It had pierced the thorax, narrowly missing the heart and the left lung. The poor man lies in great danger. THE Pamstox STRIKE.—At a meeting of the Masters' Association on Thursday, it was unanimously resolved : That this meeting, deeply regretting that although the applications for work since the 29th of December last have been more numerous than at any previous period of the turn-out, still they have not been sufficiently general to enable the masters to resume work, do at its rising ad journ to Thursday, the 23d of February next, with the understanding that, should it be ascertained in the mean time that there is an increased disposition on the part of the operatives to return to their work, immediate steps will be taken by the associated masters to open their mills, and effective measures adopted to proteet the ope ratives against any improper interference or molestation. —The men had a meeting the same day, when it was resolved, " That we, the people of Preston, are determined that we will never resume work until our masters uncon ditionally comply with our just requests." TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH THB ISLE OF MAN.—Mr. Charles T. Bright, of this town, and engineer of the English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, in reference to the suggestion of Mr. John Johnson, for the establishment of a line of telegraph between Great Britain and the Isle of Man, says—" The only obstacle to such a connexion being made is the certainty of consider able loss to the promoters, unless some annual guarantee of traffic was provided by the inhabitants of the island, as something towards a return upon the outlay ; which, from Newton Stewart by Barrow Head to the Point of Ayr, and thence to Douglas, would amount to nearly £12,000. There are not two submarine cables to Ireland—one only being in operation from Portpatrick to Donaghadee, laid by the Magnetic Telegraph Company, four attempts, at various times, having failed, including that at Holyhead ; so that at present there is about £30,000 worth of tele graphic lost property lying in the channel. PROPOSED NEW CHURCH AT THE NORTH END.—The following circular has been issued by the Rev. Rector Campbell, soliciting aid towards a new church and par sonage proposed to be built in the north end of the town : " Liverpool, January 9, 1854.—Dear sir,—Mr. Leigh has given me 1,500 yards of land, worth £3,000, for a church and parsonage house in the north-west extremity of Liver pool, near the new docks, where there are now 6,000 or 7,000 working people, and will be 12,000 or 15,000. I wish to get £5,000: £3,500 for the church, £5OO for a repair fund, and £l,OOO for the house. I will give £2OO myself, and beg you to help me. I shall not ask for the money till I have raised £4,000, which will enable me to begin building. The appointment is to be in three trustees — the Bishop, the Rector of Liverpool, and the Rector of Walton.—Yours very truly, AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL." ST. MA.TTIIEW'S CHURCH TEA PARTY.—The annual congregational tea party in connexion with St. Matthew's Church, Hill-street, Toxteth-park, was held on Tuesday evening, in the school-room below the church. There were about 500 persons present. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Wm. Brewster, the incumbent of the church, and amongst other ministers present were the Rev. Mr. Wolseley, the curate, and the Rev. D. T. Barry. The Rev. Mr. Wolseley said his labours in St. Matthew's dis trict had been attended with enlarged success, but he had observed a very strange fact relative to the circuit. He found that a large number of protestant men had married Roman catholic women ; but, on the other hand, he had found few protestant women marrying Roman catholic men. It was stated that the schools were in a very l architect, of this town, has been commis 2°iled to supply the plans for the church and chapel and ground of a cemetery for Carlisle. TER POOR-LkW Bo Aim intend to separate from the to l l neorn, and add to the Warrington Union the following a, Stilton, Lower :—Norton, Moor, Kekewick, Halton, Higher at nips Lower Walton, Acton-grange, Appleton, and h e I!HALTIt COMMITTEE.—There being only four mem- Present at the hour of meeting on Thursday, they "J °ll rned without transacting any business. 1/ Trol LATE ma. HoLsiss.—We are informed that p,,,, r lsaac Holmes has withdrawn his opposition to the th; v w,,g of the will of the late Mr. James Holmes ; and w ill was proved at York during the last week. — "la's Herald. of l 'a„ I AINTREE CHARITY BALL, under the patronage ne Countess of Sefton, is announced for Wednesday, week. This is usually a gay and fashionable gather -17,2 and will, doubtless, be as attractive on the next as it -"` been on past occasions. POULTRY.—At the Manchester Poultry Show, vllesdaY Captain Hornby, of Knowsley, took two prizes SPanish'fosils, one for Do kings, one for game fowls, e for a cock and hen, and one for geese. Mr. G. W. Os, of this town, took the prize for black bantams ; and 7 ; 4 . Worrall, of Knotty Ash, for ducks. wilra, LARGEST SHIP EVER BUILT IN LIVERPOOL been launched this week. This immense vessel which al, ; u een some time in course of construction at Messrs. sp",t. ° and Getty's yard, Brunswick dock, is the largest F;ti , ever built in Liverpool, and has long been a source ° so ,7nliration to those interested in ship-building. She is 4ert wood. a on the North American principle, namely, of L.' lll l Voce", SCHOOL.—The last admission of pupils ofg a . the present session is announced in our columns th e "s,, day. The opportunity offered by the . directors of oacred, Harmonic Society for the attainment of a .„" w 'edge of vocal music should not be neglected. ras-- lESTS AND FRISONS.—A public meeting was held se r ae Corn-exchange, Manchester, on Monday last week, at e „ue Purpose of adopting a memorial to Lord Palmer ae,Z/rotesting against the proposal to appoint and en nomish priests to the government prisons. The f r , r • Canon Stowell occupied the chair, and, after addresses w ' - ' 3l various speakers, a memorial to the Home Secretary Etdopted. I , ol 4 trxloar TO HOUSEOWNERS.—On Wednesday the ,„' l ee-magistrate was occupied several hours in hearing i t 'a determining about sixty informations preferred by ,i ) ;'• Fresh, the inspector of nuisances, against owners of 4 ° Derts-, for not cleansing, whitewashing, and purifying , s7 h e o unig-houses, which were found in a filthy and un ion_ lesome condition. Fines varying from £2, and costs ' 3 • were inflicted. Lltaxv&L OUT OF THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP. The Hurricane, from Port Phillip, in 83 days, brings news that the Great Britain had arrived in Hobson's Bay, Melbourne, on the 16th of October.. This, we be !,r dray e 65 days from Liverpocill (there being a loss °ne going to Australia, via Cape of Good Hope, ;7 4 1 difference of longitude), and the shortest passage 4 1:r made t o Melbourne, taking into account the greater „tance from Liverpool than Southampton. atgcn MARINE STORE DEALERS.—SamueI M'Culloch, t treet, was brought up at the a tPolice-cour, on Thurs. tie , Charged with having in his possession large quan -41,..,0f old metal, ropes, &c., for which he could not satis "'ay account. When the officers discovered the metal os , ti premises, he offered to give them a sovereign if . 'would deal with him as lightly as possible." The ,17efitrate indicted a penalty of £2 and costs ; the license - .0 to be revoked. A, e RAR GE OF NEGLECT AND CRUELTY AGAINST AN CAPTAIN.—On Tuesday, a third investigation held before the coroner, respecting the death of a 4 11 or named Charles Thompson. The deceased was em ',o,°Yed on board of the ship Ensign, Captain Walker, C harg es traded between this port and Bonny River. The the against the captain were, that he had neglected e deceased, and some others of the crew, on the home (lard voyage , withheld from them lime juice and other ecessary articles of food and medicine. The investiga '43 been adjourned till next Monday. MOTHER.—At the Police-court, on Thursday, Zest Brown was charged by Joseph Bamber, of the Derby workhouse, with cruelly ill-using her child Wednesday afternoon. The prisoner, who had two b,,egitimate children, had been in the workhouse for the 4 - 3,,t nine years, and on Wednesday she obtained leave of ab sence, and returned in the evening in a state of intox.i s7n, and struck her child, about four years of age, ,_,:resal times on the head.—Mr. Mansfield said, if the Zsault had gone further, he should certainly have sent her t, gaol for six months ; as it was she must go prison for gaol days. luar.,,kre.l. ACCIDENT.-- On Wednesday an inquest was r 'u:,9n the body of Richard Rhodes, aged 67, a butcher, Z,"'lng in Upper Mann-street. On Friday deceased was Th(reeding down Warwick-street, when the large gates of e Yard belonging to Mr. Major fell upon and crushed h o ' l lseverely. He was immediately conveyed to his own of used, and surgical assistance was promptly procured, but meat no avail. The jury returned a verdict of accidental RA.TING A COUNTY COURT. — The case of the Queen af%inte r was a special case brought before the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday ; the question being 'Tether the treasurer of the County Court held at Man- Tester was rateable to the poor - rate in respect of his oc ''Pation of a building used exclusively for the purposes of ",k;oluity Court. There had been an appeal to the sessions Manchester, when the Recorder decided in favour of 'te appellant. Lord Campbell said it might have been ex- P4lient and just that the poor-rate should still be payable i h , t resPeet of this building, but there was - no enactment to ad t e 9 ff e e o ct n . si In er the absence of such enactment, the court cupation, or whether the treasurer had a beneficial oe- Profit ? / I; ceupied as trustee for others who derived w as not a ' 8 (Lord Campbell's) opinion was, that there was de ,. b eneficial occupation in this case ; that no profit the e a,,...'",ed; and, consequently, it did not come within • te of Elizabeth, so as to be rateable. The other es ex co ug Pressing similar opinions, the decision of the Re ur OTas affirmed. L *C gr eat AND WARD POOR RELIEF FUND.—Owing to the scarcity and high price of the necessaries of life, and e Prevaili ng distress, a few benevolent individuals in the 1 , 4 : above w ar d met for the purpose of raising a fund for alleviation of distress. On that occasion £55 was col s, and subsequently increased to £l2O. Notwith ;'!ndlng the lack o f a s y s t ema ti c organisation in the 'f,,sp_ensation of the relief, owing to the immediate necessity the case, soup, bread, oatmeal, herrings, and coals were b ountifully supplied. During the five days of the com raittee's operations, about 15,000 tickets were distributed -*o the most necessitous poor. A f a vourable change in the W eather took place, the labouring classes were enabled to hume their employment, a n d th e pra i sewor thy efforts of e committee were deemed no longer necessary. Great ties is due to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, of Scotland-road,who tr ,, „I: 1 4 granted not only the use of their boilers and other - uveniences connected with their dye-works (which were 4,1 7 1 nrably adapted for the purpose, in manufacturing m .IP and distributing the various articles of food), but ir i ° for their untiring exertions to carry out the objects of : Committee. Mr. John Dumbell took the purveying ) 7 i yartment, and exerted himself in supplying Mr. Lloyd i t ch the a r ti c l es necess a r y for relief. A general meeting 111:,1 16 committee was held on Monday last week, at Mr. hard Blundell's, Scotland-road, to settle all accounts, .p., 0 - ' 44 was promptly done, and thanks voted to Mr. a,,L 4 _lcillor Woodruff, chairman ,• Mr. Councillor Thomson, trs nrer ; Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd; and Messrs. Dumbell, Ivi•„,' ls _ e rsedge Sefton, Watson, Blundell, Bowers, M`Millan, 16.7r , er, nathgate, Oulton, Crilly, Simpson, Holt, and (the originator of the project); and the company ted, highly gratified with the good they had done to TaufFertng poor of the ward. ,let ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCH2SOLOGICAL SOCIETY . 1 1 4 at the Royal Institution, Colquitt-street, on Wednes- Ael,'Yrancis Horner, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Boult, the tin - sc h .,' 4l 7, announced the receipt of the following dons tio:4:—Minutes, in continuation, from the Royal Institu „:' of British Architects ; Results of Sanitary Improve -1,74t, by Southwood Smith, M.D., from Mr. Picton ; 17 e hitectural Notices of Churches recently erected in 4 ee e rPool, reprinted from the Ecclesiologist, from the th retary ; and a letter from Mrs. Barber, acknowledging at! receipt of condolence, adopted at the last meeting. bin Barry read the second part of his " Notes on Neigh ttl'ln.g Churches," confining his observations chiefly to s e , Pointing out of the numerous errors fallen into by the : e siological commissioner, and commenting upon the N . eness and injustice of his criticism upon the new ,itch in Liverpool. In the course of the discussion tl A „ e n ensued. Mr. Boult remarked that if the new (~•,`relies of this town were not so fine, in an architectural of view, as they might be expected to be, it was not Y'lllch the fault of the architect as it was in consequence tn,t• desire to supply a supposed want of churches, by p e nng as many as possible, at the least possible ex r'e ; and, moreover, that the committees who had built churches were not satisfied that they should be "ti, t and substantial, but required a building which would ta;? . et attention. From a want of funds, the attempt to -- "e the building attractive must necessarily fail ; where the same amount of money, a church more pure siOrle of architecture, though not so attractive at first Might have been built. b kPRAI AT MANCHESTER.—There was a grand Reform poilleOlet at Manchester, on Tuesday, at which the leading foerians of the Manchester school were present. Mr. r r ic er Gibson insisted that reform should not be put off Si i „,'"ar • It was the very reason why the representation It ( , ) ,T". have a more effective control over the expenditure— ttlst be largely increased and defended by the ballot. k r % Do, ke favourably of the peace policy of Lord Aberdeen. bi l t'obden urged that representation should be redistri kid in proportion to the increased ratio of population IS a v r °Perty, and no other principle should be tolerated Permanent settlemnt of the question. He laid down t4l'an for the systematic agitation of the ballot, after the tie tt li ne r of the Anti-Corn Law League, and spoke energe that y against going to war with Russia. He declared ar e 4, nssia had no antipathy to England—" Englishmen slis k 4 °where more popular, nowhere exercise more social e, than in Russia." England and Russia were the .llntries that had a rich aristocracy remaining. . I fri,7, 4 °len allowed that the proceedings of the Czar, as Atia - ,,2 1- ' Turkey, were unjust, aggressive, and insolent, cola"aa loudly ch eer ed for the sentence ; but then he *'ere i lded that our policy should be one of non-in ter._ ; or, if w e mus t i n t er fere, why not begin on behbehalftale Y, where you have a high-spirited people groaning 411 .4 fo reign interference. But the question ought to be no one of interest to ourselves—and that interest was Ab e ",, a r• We had reason to be most thankful to Lord pri:ren for the co urse he had taken, and whose guiding 1'4 4 '9 4 had been to prevent an European war. But war bsli e li nroinent sheerybody felt it so, though he would not 1 0 .,ve it till read the bulletin of the first battle. tl ah : who now cried for war would be the first to ex ts a oT t e i against, when it came and taxes increased. He se tlaga.bast laying the burden on posterity. They must too e i„,,e Income-tax to twenty per cent., if necessary. In prayed on, quoting the words of a Scotch divine, he a gi' o 7 t l o nost fervently that we might not have war to put ting the great improvement in the social system now Scatter thou the people that delight in war." noz,i'Ll n, Pglot f . ollowed, arguing at length in favour of a Lervention policy. He proposed to lower the frau- Iq uzian to include every frugal, industrious, and aspiring 00 1 ;pi- orderly, efficient, and, with the exception of a trifling debt . , in a prosperous condition. The scripture reader was now labouring diligently in St. Matthew's district, and with the happiest success, and there had been established lately a system of cottage lectures ; at the last one, though held in a poor but cleanly ce ll ar, nub - less than thirty persons had attended. An exhibition of dissolving views added much to the pleasure of the evening's proceedings. GALE ow Tnnwsnew.—From 9 a.m. till noon, there were frequent gusts of wind, producing pressure of about 20 pounds on the square foot. At a quarter before 11 a.m. the pressure was 431bs on the square foot; this being the greatest pressure recorded since the erection of the ane mometer in 1851. The squall which produced this was . accompanied with hail, and (lid not last more than two or three minutes. The atmosphere during the night appears to have been highly charged with electricity, a large amount of ozone having been detected at the Liverpool Observatory by observations with Dr. Schonbein's azono meter. The barometer was rising fast during the heaviest part of the gale, which produced a heavy swell in the river for two or three hours in the forenoon, and the ships riding at anchor had considerable difficulty in keeping their ground. About ten o'clock the new American ship Red Jacket, which arrived here from Boston on Wednesday, was driven from her anchorage off Seacombe, and drifted against the small landing-stage. She was then carried by the force of the storm in the direction of the Prince's Pier, and were it not for the timely assistance of three steam tugs, which took her in tow, she would have struck against the pier-head, and the results, probably, would have been disastrous. The Red Jacket was afterwards safely moored in the stream. During the forenoon, John Baines, an apprentice employed in the shipbuilding yard of Mr. Major, at the south end of the town, was blown from a scaffolding into the adjoining yard of Mr. Cato, and sustained some fractured ribs and other injuries. He was removed to the Southern Hospital. In the evening the wind abated. DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting was held on Thursday, Mr. Turner in the chair.—The warehouse sub committee submitted a memorial from Mr. W. H. Shake speare, No. 1, Albert warehouse-keeper, requesting the consideration of the committee, having been incapacitated from duty by the loss of his sight. After some conversa tion, it was resolved that the committee, denying the right on the part of any other of their servants to a superannua tion allowance, refer the memorial to the sub-committee. —Mr. Robinson said it might be a satisfaction to the com mittee to know that the warehouses were all full, and the sub-committee had lately been compelled to refuse the reception of additional goods.—Mr. Tobin inquired when the new warehouses at the Stanley Dock would be ready. —The Surveyor was afraid they would not be ready before next midsummer.—The Chairman inquired if they could not get on with those at the south end.—The Surveyor replied that they were doing so.—The Chairman suggested that the Harbour Masters' Sub-committee should consider whether it would not be advisable to stop the works at the quay on the south side, so as to get on with the stack of warehouses at the south side.—A letter was read from the Chamber of Commerce, calling attention to the improper and filthy condition of the dock quays, on which fine goods for export were placed, and to the serious infury which was likely to result to the port from the cause. A notice to shipowners, which was advertised in the newspapers, was quoted, intimating that, in consequence of the ex tremely dirty state of the Liverpool dock quays, the Vision would load in the Birkenhead docks ; and the letter con eluded by expressing the regret of the Chamber of Com merce that a plan to remedy this evil, which they had recommended some time ago, had never been carried out. —The Chairman stated that Mr. Beesley, the owner of the Vision, had attended before the sub-committee on the pre vious day, and stated that he had inserted the advertise ment on account of the filthy state of the quays. The harbour-master and the head sweeper were fully examined, and the Harbour-masters' Committee were considering what they should recommend to that committee, in order to remedy the evil complained of. They had not come to any conclusion on the matter, but they would be prepared with a report next week.—After some conversation the subject dropped, the letter being referred to the Harbour masters' Committee.—A letter was read from Mr. Bushell, chairman of a public meeting held some time ago for the purpose of considering Mr. Grantham's proposed high-level railway for the docks. The letter called the attention of the committee to the resolutions passed at the meeting, and urged on them the necessity of adopting some such plan, in order to provide for the traffic along the docks, which was now so much on the increase. After some con versation, the subject was referred to the sub-committee. WEST DERKY GEIBDIANS.—On Wednesday, at the weekly meeting of this body, Mr. Harrison presided. The governor's report showed that the number of paupers in the house was 726, being twelve more than last week, and an increase of ten over the corresponding week of last year. A letter was read from Mr. Fitzpatrick, medical officer of West Derby, expressing his surprise that a notice of motion had been given for the appointment of a vacci nator for West Derby village, inasmuch as he had held the situation for five years, during which period no com plaint of neglect had been preferred against him. He was called before the board. The objection was, it appeared, that he resided about a mile and a quarter out of the Til lage. He promised to attend for two days in the week, and was continued in the appointment.—Mr. Cleaver read a letter from Mr. Samuel Cottrell, contractor for the supply of bread to outdoor paupers in West Derby district, re specting a statement made at the last board meeting, that he had overcharged for the bread supplied to the poor. He denied that such had been the case; and stated that he bad charged no more than 2d. per lb.—Mr. Kirkus ex onerated Mr. Cottrell, and the matter dropped‘—Mr. Heyes remar ked upon the injustice to contracting parties of o pening contracts and applications for situations after the day named in the advertisement ; and moved that, in fu ture, no contract or application be attended to after the day advertised. The proposition was seconded by Mr. Shaw, and carried. The board then adjourned.—The guar dians met on Wednesday to transact business, for the first time, in the new board-room, which has been erected con tiguous to the workhouse. I in rice i l v' haf,s f 3' rs Op. d tP ell3f r ice re o 014! 1t 0; 1' und~p iet3 . l ,y rev , ' f4 e ;i134[:61 n•defilef /1°,f44, r y.l9ll' , 3ite THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COISEMERCIAL ADVERTISER. and I was very apprehensive we would not get clear of the Irish coast ; we were standing on, the larboard tack from, nine o'clock on Friday evening until we struck on Satur day ; the wind, when we struck, was S.S.W., but not blowing very hard ; it was reported on Friday evening that we passed some land or light;: from the time that I looked at my watch on Saturday morning, until we struck we were sailing ; I never heard or .sew any soundings be ing taken during the voyage. To a Juror.—l don't think the captain knew what land it was we struck on ; when we landed he asked for dry matches, from which I inferred that he thought we were on an island; if the anchor had nat given way, in my opinion the ship would have gone ta leeward of the island and all hands would have been saved; from the time that the cry of " Land ahead " was made, until we struck, the captain did everything to wear the ship, but she would not work, through the stiff ropes, and the inefficient crew ; I cannot say whether the land was seen first by a look-out man ; I could not say who had the watch at the time ; when I had the conversation with the second-mate that I alluded to, there were several mem present ; the ship obeyed her helm well and steered like a duck ; I lost my wife and daughter ; when we left Liverpool it was blowing very light, which afterwards increased, and we left the steam-tug behind. Mr. Michael Ready, of Scariff, county Clare, gentleman : I was onboard the vessel when the accident occurred ; I was on board from the 16th ; on Friday morning, at four o'clock, I was below, and a friend of mine, a Mr. Holland, came down to me and said that there was the greatest confusion on deck, and that, if any accident occurred, I would have a better chance on deck than I would have below, and I accordingly went on deck, and saw the greatest confusion ; I saw one of the sails torn, and the rest flapping about, without any one taking care of them; there were very few sailors on deck ; there were two sailors hauling on a rope near the mainmast ' • I went to assist them, as I saw they were not able todothe work ; Captain Noble came on deck and asked one of the men what they were doing : one of the men answered him, and the cap tain appeared satisfied. The captain went away for a few yards, and the man he was speaking to complained that there were two men sleeping in the cradle. The cap tain said if he caught them asleep " they would recollect the time." I then said to the captain that the passengers on board felt greatly disappointed in the crew, and the more so from having a confidence in him, from his charac ter, that he would not go to sea with such hands : he said, " I knew no more of what they were than you did; they engaged themselves in Liverpool as good and efficient men, and I had no opportunity of knowing what they were until now, and I now find they are not, and even as they are the fellows have gone down and hidden them selves in the passengers' berths." I said, " the opinion on board was that there were only twenty-five men to work the ship." he said there were sixty-five, including stewards. I remained on deck at that time for about an hour ; I do not know anything about nautical mat ters, but I observed the crew several times attempting to reef or take in sails ; I spoke to some sailor pas sengers, who said such bungling they never witnessed, and that with proper hands the work they took two hours to do would be done in ten minutes. From the Friday morning I formed the opinion that the crew were] insufficient, and I likewise formed the question that no person would be justified in thinking his life safe ; when I went on deck on Friday morning I only saw two men, but there might have been others on deck ; I saw some foreign sailors on board ; I did not hear a cry of " Land ahead; I went on deck about three-quar ters of an hour before she struck; the wind had abated considerably ; there was heavy hazy weather at the time, but when I came on deck I saw the land plain ahead ; it was about a mile or a mile and a-half from us ; that was three-quarters of an hour before she struck ; I heard, the night before she struck, that we had passed some lights, and one man told me he knew the lights, and that they were the Isle of Man lights ; while I was on deck for that three-quarters of an hour the captain was doing everything he could to wear the ship ; it was not blowing hard at the time, it was a nice breeze ; I heard the anchors dropped ; I was on the rigging when she struck; she dropped in slowly to the rocks, and not with any great crash; the cap tain said, if the people would only keep quiet, that he would be able to construct something that would be ;the means of saving them, but in the confusion, every one tried to save himself, and the captain's order were not carried out. Robert Holland, of Galway, gentleman : I was a pas senger ; I first went on board on Tuesday ; she sailed on Thursday, about one o'clock ; the pilot left us about seven o'clock in the evening, between Holyhead and Skerries Lighthouse ; after that it commenced to blow very hard, about half a gale of wind from the south ; I know some thing of nautical affairs ; I have had two yachts ; I did not go to bed that night, in consequence of seeing the ship was not properly handled; I saw some of the sails clewed up and others flapping ; the mizen topsail and the main topsail were torn ; I assisted myself in endeavouring to furl and clew up those sails, as I saw the men were not capable of doing it, and thinking my services sadly wanting; I don't think there was enough of hands aboard to manage the ship in the way she was at the time, it might do very well if there was a steady breeze ; I mixed amongst the crew myself continaally ; there was a number of them foreigners ; I spoke to several of them frequently myself, and they could not understand me, or I them ; even after they came ashore 1 heard them trying to get something to eat, but they could not make themselves understood ; I was' a first-cabin passenger. On the night of Thursday, or about two o'clock on Friday morning, my apprehensions were so excited from the manner in which I saw the ship handled, and the rapid pace we were going through the water, and the great confusion that was on deck, I went into the second cabin and called some of my friends, as I dreaded we might go on the Irish coast, which I thought was to leeward, I said to these that I thought there was no danger, and urged them to come up ; some of them said they would be no use on deck ; at this time I saw the captain on the quarterdeck ; I considered •we were in great danger at the ,time ; the ropes were new, and the blocks were too small for them to run through, at least the ropes would not run freely through them; at one time I saw a sailor having to go aloft to grease some of the ropes in order to lift the main topsail ; I observed that difficulty on Thursday night, and I heard the sailors cursing the niggers for the condition they had sent them to sea in ; from my observations, I pon't think the crew were efficient, - but I am certain that if she was properly manned, the accident would not have occurred ; some of the foreigners were not strong-looking men, others were ; I never went to bed at all until shortly before we struck, when I lay dowd in my clothes ; about twelve o'clock on Saturday an elderly gentleman, named Pierce came down to me, and said he understood there was land a head ; I immediately went on deck, and when I saw the land I knew nothing could save her ; it was now blow ing hard at the time, I considered we were too long on that tack, and I said if we kept much longer we must be near land ; when I came; on deck the anchor was let go ; it gave her a little check, but did not do any good ; the. N essel would neither wear or stay at the time, I heard the captain making the remark to cut away the mizenmast ; I think if it was cut away a great many more would have been saved ; there was a small screw-steamer put on board in Liverpool; she was not iron ; the funnel was taken out of her ; it was close to the compasses ; I did not hear or see any soundings taken ; when I came on deck the weather was hazy, but I could see half-a-mile. Robert Davison, of Kent, was the next witness : I am a seaman ; I was a passenger on board the Tayleur ; I have been twenty-six years at sea. I went on board on Wed nesday afternoon, and she sailed on Thursday; she was in great confusion, like all other new ships; when I went on board the riggers had not done with her at the time ; there was all new running rigging ; the ropes had been stretched in cold weather; had they been stretched in warm weather they would do better ; I sometimes helped to pull some of the ropes, and it was with a great deal of trouble ; they run very hard. The pilot left us about half past seven o'clock* Thursday evening; we were then in the neighbourhood of a light, which I think was Holy head. There was a single reef in the topsails at the time; the wind was pretty fresh ; I think the vessel fell off to the westward ; she was on the larboard tack ; I came on deck about ten o'clock that night, it was then blowing very heavy ' • on Friday morning, about seven o'clock, we were under double-reefed topsails, the breeze blowing very fresh ; I remained on deck all day, off and on ; I saw the crew reef the mizen ; the vessel was not at that time sufficiently manned; but, in my opinion, when the men would get accustomed to each other they would work her comfortably ; I mixed through the crew between that period and the time she struck ; there were a great many, I think twelve or fourteen foreigners among them ; I think about eight of these foreigners understood English, and the rest did not, and had to be interpreted to by the others ; I know that better now from hearing them at the Sailors' Home; in moments of danger it is of the greatest importance that men should' know the orders given to them. In my opinion the ship was fit for sea if the people were used to the gear, and everything in its proper place; I think everything that was out of place was re moved as quickly as possible ; that was done on Friday ; the crew were occupied in . settling the reef tackles and other things on Friday that should have been done before we left Liverpool ; the night before Friday was squally, and might have put things out of their place ; I did not hear or see soundings taken ; the captain endeavoured to get an observation of the sun about noon on Friday ; the weather was fine for about an' hour and a half; the ship was on the same tack from nine o'clock on Friday night until she struck ; during the whole of Friday night she was not going more than lf knot an hour ; the vessel used to answer her helm very well when on a wind I saw the steamer that was on board ; she was lashed from the break of the poop to the mainmast, on the starboard side ; it was about eight feet from the steamer to the first or " tell-tale" compass, and thirty-three feet to the second or binnacle compass; the fan of the steamer was close to the break of the poop ; I looked on Saturday, in the two hours before she struck, four times at the binnacle compass: the wind was about south, her head being W.S.W.; Ido not know the lie of the channel well ; but, if the ship had made her course with that steering, she would have fetched clear of everything ; or, if we struck, it would be some where about Ballycotton ; with an efficient crew the three topsails ought to be comfortably reefed in-an houi and a half, one after another ; if the crew were all British seamen they might have reefed in a better manner; I saw on Friday the men reefing the mizen topsail, and it was not done as British sailors ought to do it, they were so long over it, and went so lubberly about it, the canvas being new and the gear stiff: we first saw land about twenty minutes to eleven o'clock on Saturday ; it was then about one mile and a-half away ; there were four of the foreign sailors reefing the mizen topsail, three of whom were good men ; after I came on deck, and saw the land on Saturday morning, there was an attempt made to wear the ship; when it was first descried the land was on the lee bow ; the wind was blow ing a stiff breeze, but not too much for a vessel of her size ; the weather was very hazy, with slight showers of rain, very thick ; the captain was on deck when I came up ; she had three close-reefed topsails, and a foretopmast staysail on her at the time, and, in my opinion, if she had more sail on her she would have gone clear of land attempt was made to wear her; she made about a third of a circle, but would not go round any further, whick, I think, was on account of there being so many boats on the spars ; there were a lot of spars, flush with the poop, in which the boati were placed, in the same manner as whalers carry their boats ; the attempt that was made to wear her was the first attempt that I saw made to alter her course, from nine o'clock on Friday night ; I saw the caPta:vs , taking an observation about noon on Friday; if he bad; made it he could have told his position, and if his some Passes were wrong he could have told it if he tried; to= the time we left Liverpool until we sighted Lambay, I hadino fear of danger • on Friday they shook the reefs out of the topsails and took them in again ; I was repeat edly told by the passengers that they thought there was danger, but I told them that it was always the way in a new - ship ; after we failed to wear the ship the captain set the foresail, hauled out and set the spanker, and then he,tried to set the main staysail, but the sheet got off the belaying pin, knocked two or three men down, and we were obliged to haul the sail down, and, soon as it was hauled down, the captain shouted out " Let go the anchor," and ran forward himself to see it done ; the starboard anchor was let go, and took about ninety fathoms of cable ; the-cable snapped, but it ought not to have snapped, as there-was not a heavy sea, and there was very little way on her; there might have been a flaw in the cable ; before the , cable snapped they tried to clear the port anchor, bat, to the best of my belief, it was foul; she then fell off before- the wind, and nearly cleared the island, when the sails filled, and she went alongside the rocks broadside on.; from the time we sighted Lambay until we went on the-rocks, the captain and the crew, and every man on board used every exertion to save the vessel ; I can only attribute the catastrophe to the vessel being out of her course. In the course of the examination, Lieut. Prior, the assistant emigration commissioner, was requested to state the exact number of the crew. He said there were 71 hands, of whom 57 composed the crew, viz., captain, three mates, boatswain and mate, carpenter, steward, cook, 26 able seamen, 11 ordinary seamen, 6 apprentices, 2 passen ger cooks, 2. dn. stewards, 1 clerk. Of the 26 able seamen 12 were foreigners, all of whom, except two Chinese, could speak English. The tonnage of the ship was 1,997 tons, and the complement of men required by the emigra tion commissioner was generally 3 to the 100 tons. The government ships had a complement of 4 men to the 100 tons, even when only carrying stores. At five o'clock the inquest was adjourned to Saturday. SATURDAY. it on Saturday he was on the look ,out himself—generally. There were look-outs properly stationed. He expected to be at a distance of from eighteen to twenty miles up to the time he saw the land.. He heard. no cry of " land" from any one. He declared it would be false if any one said he ever observed "he believed, the crew to be an indifferent set, but that he found, they were worse than he thought them." He also denied. that he said that " some of the crew were hiding below amongst the pas sengers." He likewise denied he gave orders to the carpenter to " put stays upon the blocks, to keep them from bursting." Mr. Holland was here confronted-with Captain Noble, who before him made the foregoing denialsof his evidence. After some further answers to points in his direct testi mony, the coroner called The first mate of the Tayleur, Michael Murphy, who said he read the log prepared by Captain Noble, and be lieved it to be correct. He found the crew of the ship a very fair crew. Part of them were very good men. There were 20 good ones of 23 able seamen. Four or five of the able seamen were foreigners. He heard no complaints from the passengers of the inefficiency of the crew. He found some of the foreigners—not the able seamen— skulking. He found them in the forecastle, and reported them to the captain. The other seamen were pretty good sailors, but not so good as the able-bodied. men. To Mr. Barry.—l do not think the ordinary seamen were the worst to be found in Liverpool. I did not con skier them bad men. The crew was in my opinion suf ficient. I saw the sailors reefing the mizentops. The did not do it in a lubberly manner. The running gear worked fairly ; it was somewhat stiff,,but he did not see grease put into a block. If 10 more, or 50 more seamen were aboard, the ship would not have been saved. No ticed the differences in the compasses at eight o'clock on Saturday morning —the day before there was a slight dif ference. I have a master's certificate. The witness Ready was here re-called,. and asked did the captain observe to him that the crew was a bad crew ? Ready repeated the facts in his evidence. He heard the captain swear that he would punish the fellows who had been caught asleep in the tops, and. who had been dis covered skulking below. The Captain denied the truth of Ready's statement. I Mr. Fitzgibbon, for the owners of the ship, suggested that the only question for the jary was, how the deceased came by their deaths. The Coroner asked the jury if they were satisfied they had heard evidence enough ? Mr. Coffey here produced a copy of a deposition taken By Captain Walker, in Jervis-street Hospital from Mr. Nichol, and urged that for the ends of justice this evidence ought to be taken. He asked for an adjournment of the' inquest to produce further evidence:,` Mr. Fitzgibbon not offering any objection, the deposi tion of Mr. Nichol was read by the coroner. George Cutts, of Hull, a passenger on board the Tayleur, heard the captain sax to the carpenter the blocks should ' be stayed. Captain Walker, R,N., suggested that it was " eased," not stayed, because blocks are not stayed. Witness.—From what he saw he did not think the crew an efficient one. Before the accident he expressed that opinion, and he heard others. of the passengers express a similar opinion. Mr. Coffey said the ship's papers ought to be forthcom ing before this inquiry was closed. The inquest was then adjourned to one o'clock yester day (Monday) afternoon. The inquest was resumed this morning. J. Noble, of Whitehaven, sworn.—l was captain of the ship Tayleur. She left Liverpool about noon on Thursday, the 19th instant. She was 1979 tons register, new mea surement. Her draft 17 feet forward, 18 feet 3 inches aft . The pilot left us between Point Lynas and Skerries. The wind S.W., fresh breeze, increasing fast- We had single reef topsail courses. Hauled up maintop-gallant sail, dewed up. We shortened sail. I had the crew on board three or four days before we sailed. We seldom know anything of the crew before sailing. The only men of the crew I knew before was the third mate's. Thursday night was very stormy. I was on deck the whole night. I found my crew to work very well. I had an opportunity of try ing the vessel while the pilot was on board, in smooth water, and she went steady on one tack. Friday, blowing hard under close-reefed topsails and fore-topmast staysail. After having the helm aweather and after yards squared for some considerable time, the ship would not pay off. This occurred about eight o'clock on Friday morning, and was the first time I tried to wear ship. I could assign no cause for her not paying off, but was much surprised at it. I know the vessel was built from the keel for a sailing vessel. She answered the helm very badly on the first attempt to wear her; and either on that occasion or the next I attempted to wear her, I had to clew up the mizen topsail. Even then she was a long time coming round; it took nearly an hour before she was turned on another tack, and she drifted about five miles. Au ordinary vessel ought to have done this work in half the time, and lose only half the distance. I mean by an or dinary vessel, the general average of sailing-vessels. I found a difference in working this vessel and work ing smaller vessels. I do not know that there is a larger ship in England. She was an iron vessel. The largest vessel I ever commanded before was the Australia, 1,170 tons. Had I the Australia to wear under the cir cumstances stated, I should expect to have done in forty minutes, and not lose more than three miles. We lost sight of the Skerries light shortly before four o'clock in the morning of Saturday. The wind was S.S.W., the ship going about two knots an hour. The whole of Friday I did not take an observation, although I was on the look out for it, and should have done so if.l could. I had the sextant with me on deck that day, about half-past twelve o'clock. I had the sextant to my eye several times for the purpose, but could not get a clear horizon. We made sail after four o'clock on Saturday morning. From the time she left Liverpool to the time she strucl never was in bed, or had my clothes off. I wore ship about eleven o'clock on Friday night, the Skerries light in sight, and was on the port tack. The whole night after I was on that tack up to the time she struck. Up to four o'clock on Saturday morning she rolled about, and had barely steerage way on her. A little before four o'clock I set the reef-courses. To wards six o'clock the breeze freshened, and backed round to the southward; after that to the south-east, and, in two or three hours more, changed to S.E. and by south. The ship heading S.W. and by west, going about four or five knots an hour. I heaved the log several times be tween six and eight o'clock. The wind increased, and about seven or eight o'clock set single-reefed topsail and stay sail. Hazy weather, and when the single-reef sails were set she was going about eight knots an hour. By ten o'clock on that morning it was blowing a heavy gale. The ship's head was rather SW., or SW. by south. We shortened sail about ten o'clock. At eleven o'clock it was still blowing hard. Ship's head SW. by S. and under close-reefedfor andmizen topsail, double-reefed maintopsail, foresail unreefed, foretopmust staysail and spanker.- At half-past eleven o'clock wind suddenly shifted in a squall to S.S.W. from S.E. About the time the ship was paying off to the shift of wind, and I was in the act of taking in the foresail, but had not got it started, I saw the land. Before I saw it I was somewhat farther than what I was. But how much I cannot tell. I suppose myself to be about three or four miles from the land I saw. I did not then know what particular part of the coast it was. The first thing I did was to order the hands, most of whom were at the time engaged at the foresail, to wear ship. Ido not know whether the mate had had all hands on deck or not, but they were all at work as quickly as if they had all been up. They went at once to execute the orders I had given. After the ship had changed her course the land bore broad on the lee bow. The ship went off nearly a point in obedience to the rudder, but from the time. 15 minutes, which she took to go off that point, and from the rate she was forging through the water while breaking off, I sawlshe would go ashore before she could get her head round altogether. The sails alone would not have brought her round that point without the assistance of the helm. The latter was not hard to work. I had two men at it at the time—under the circumstances the Australia would have cleared the island easily. When I first saw land I had no doubt whatever that I should have been able to wear her round, and that the Tayleur would oave cleared it, and she would have done so if she had worked properly ; by that I mean, if she had answered her helm quickly, and as any ordinary vessel would do. A Juror.—Do you think it would have made any differ ence if you had had 10 more men on board ? Witness.—lf I had had 100 more men additional on board Ido not think I could have done any better. I did not ask any of the passengers to assist the crew in work ing the ship, nor did any of them lay hands on a rope that I know. The crew were amply sufficient to do so. In my opinion I had hands enough. Lord Talbot de Malahide asked witness—Did the new ness of the tackle interfere with the working of the ship ? Witness.—lt was not, of course, as easy to work with it ; but it did not interfere materially with the working of it. The tackle was good. The crew were good. I mean that the ship was properlyfound. I suppose the compasses to have been wrong. I detected a difference in. them my self. After finding I could not clear land I brought the ship to the wind again and made sail as fast as possible. I got on additional after canvas. I put on the spanker and mizen-staysail, maintopmast-staysail, and I had given orders, to loose the mainsail and the jib, but I thought the ship would not bear it as it was blowing too hard, and I therefore gave up the idea. No matter what sail I had on, I do not think the ship would have stayed, as there was too much sea running. If I could have got her round on the other tack, either by staying or wearing, I would have got clear of the island. I do not think that either the Australia or any other ship would have stayed under the circumstances, but it was my only chance, and all Isould do was to try it. The wind wrs blowing S.S.W., and a heavy gale. I did not see any appearance of land, except in the one place Lambay. When I found she would not stay, and that I could do ns good by keeping :the sails on the ,ship, I cleared away the port anchor, and let go ; hauled .down fall the staysails, and let go the fore and main .topsail sheet, the mizentopsail sheets remaining fast, 'and hauled up the foresail, in order to take the way of the ship as much as possible. The cable of the port anchor ran out to seventy or eighty fathoms, and parted, but before it broke the order was given to let go the starboard anchor. It likewise ran out about eighty fathoms of chain, which was on deck, and about twenty fathoms out of locker, and parted ; neither of the cables fouled in running out. The ship was not going two knots an hour at the time, and the moment the sails were let go, what way she had on her was lost imme diately, as the sea was dead against her. If the cables had not parted, the vessel would have been saved ; but it , was as much as one could expect them to hold the ship, with the sea running in on a lee shore from the whole I breadth of the Channel. The ship then drifted right ashore, and grounded very easily. She first took the ground aft, near the rudder, which she unshipped. I kept the yards braced full, so as to swing her broadside upon the rocks, to give the passengers a chance of getting off. No boat could have lived out, owing to the sea then running. We had seven boats on board, which were ready for lowering, if there had been any chance of saving the passengers by means of themi I never felt myself at a loss for hands after I left Liverpool. My opinion, as a seafaring man, why the vessel did not answer her helm was, that the foremast, and probably all the other masts, were too far aft, and perhaps her rudder was too small. The position of the boats on the spars and in the davits, did not influence the sailing or trim of the vessel. I was not hurried in any way on leaving port. I went on shore myself and told the owners that the vessel was all ready, and begged of them to get me off immediately, as there was a slant of wind at the time, which would take me clear of Holyhead. No soundings were:taken. No table of errors was furnished to me by the parties who tried the compasses. The boats were not ordered out when the vessel struck, because I thought it would be injudicious to do so, seeing the state of the sea. One of the boats had been lowered notwithstanding. The entire of the cables had not been run out when they parted. On board the Australia I had a crew of 33, twenty being able seamen. Captain Noble underwent a lengthy cross-examination by Mr. Coffey, on the part of Mr. Codd, and Mr. Barry, for Mr. Carmichael. In the course of his further evidence he said he made no experiment as to the capacity of the ship before she cleared out on her voyage ; nor was he aware that the owners had caused any experiment to be made. A few days before they sailed her compasses were adjusted. The helm of the ship was tried by the pilot in the tideway after she left the dock. This was done to avoid the vessels lying in her way. She then answered her helm ; if she had not the fact would have been noticed at once. The vessel was swung some time in Nov a when her compasses were found to be correct ; and from that to the day she cleared out the vessel was not again swung for that purpose, but the compasses were examined a week or fortnight before the vessel sailed. The day the wreck occurred he examined the compasses, and discovered an error in three of them. One showed a difference of two points., another one-and-a-haif, and the third also at vari ance:. When he wore the ship for the first time he found bet slew to answer her held ; this proved to be a consi de',rable defect. Every block and every rope in the ship was in good working order. At eight o'clock, mid from THE - WRECK OF THE TAILEUR. Tnis melancholy catastrophe has continued to excite a large share of public attention, and many conflicting state ments have been published. The pilot who took the Tayleur out to sea states that he had full opportunities of examining the compasses, and that there was a difference of half a point between those on deck and those below. That the ship answered her helm and steered like a fish and that when he left she was making from thirteen to fourteen knots an hour. Mr. Thomson, of this town, son of Councillor Thomson, in a graphic account, says, that the captain and officers were very attentive, but that there appeared to be some deficiency as regarded the crew ; that the captain said; out of a crew of fifty men, he could only muster about fifteen sailors, and that out of eight com passes, one or two that agreed the nearest varied to the extent of two points. In reference to Captain Noble, he states that he never saw him taste a drop of liquor the whole time he was on board, and that he was attentive to his duties. A statement, said to have emanated from Captain Noble, has been published, to the effect that land was sighted at eleven, a.m., distant about six miles, with the wind S.S.E., the ship being under close-reefed topsail, foresail, and staysail, when it suddenly shifted to S.S.W. • that the hands were turned up to wear ship, and the helm i put a weather, and the sails turned for wearing, but that the ship would not go off ; that the helm was put before again and sail made fast as possible, but sufficient weigh could not be got to stay ; at the same time the ship was lying gunwale to, it blowing a most terrific gale and a heavy sea running. We are informed that Mr. Palmer, chairman of the Underwriters' Association, and one of the leading Underwriters of the Tayleur, who would be relieved of all responsibility had the ship been inefficiently manned, has stated that, after a minute inquiry at the Sailors' Home, where the crew of the Tayleur were shipped, he is satisfied that she had her full complement, and that the Underwriters have no ground of complaint against the owners. We subjoin a LIST OF PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED. &Loot{ :—Wm. Thompson. FIRST CLASS :—Samuel Bishop, Wm. Bishop, Francis Bowden, B. Bowden, G. Catts, W. Clarke, T. Comballach, Wm. Cuddy, G. Fisher, Peter F. Framaine, J. Grundy, J. W. Hegarty, R. Hol land, T. Johnston, F. Johnston, T. Kemp, R. T. Lauson, J. M`Nanghten, Pole, J. F. Robinson, R. Sheridan, J. Stoddart, Alexander Thomas, J Thomas, T. Tiberton, Toy S. Tough, Thomas Ward, R. Wearne, Joseph Wearne, A. Wetyle. SEcottn CLiss : —R. Alexander, H. Bray man, Gerald Burke, T. Cattram, F. Coppin, G. Downes, James Eddy, Michael Fleming, J. Gibson, W. A. Gordon, M. Hurst, Albert Jackson, R. Leahy,John Luscan,J. Miller, F. Ormsberg, J. Oufferht, J. Phillips, W. Phillips, Yeo Richard, Michael Ridy, F. S. Shaw, J. Smith, W. Spencer, W. Starman, Edward Tew, John Thompson, J. Thomp son, A Titiss, W. Turner,— Virgo; John Vout, B. Wat son, J. Wilson. THIRD CLASS :—W. Addison, Alex. Berr, John Berr, J. Carter, John Carty, Anne Carty, J. Friend, Koppin, M. Matthews, Thos. Meara, R. Smear!, William Thomas. INTERMEDIATE :—John Ball, Barbio, Rayard, J. Berryman, J. Berryman, W. J. Blair, E. Burne, M. Byrne, S. Carley, Sarah Anne Carley, (his wife,) and R. Carley, (his son,) G. F. Chamberlain, R. Cherry, A. Cow ley, R. Dawson, A. De Comera, Messrs Doite, Jos. Faph, P. Finlay, John Foy, W. Geifrey, Richard Gibbon, John Gill, M. Green, David Hackney, Herman, Thos. James, Samuel Jenkins, T. Kerkhouse, A. Lamane, W. Leggo, G. Lewis, T. Lloyd, Mario, Perrard, S. Prockman, Richard Ryder, John Ryder, Wm. Ryder, Wm. See, J. Shaw, Hamilton Sloan, Lorenzo Stehardt, J. Swift, Samuel Thomas, Joseph Todhunter, J. Tobin, T. Twill, W. Vevers, Vonbourg, J. Whitmarsh, James Williams, J. Worm, G. Yates. STEERAGE :—H. Abrahamson, C. Barrow, Barton, Bentz, Henry Bridgeman, J. Browu, R. P. Browne, Thomas Browne, C. Chaddick, W. Collins, John Collins, T. Connor, Thomas Constantine, P. Cormick, Michael Cormick, G. Crawford, T. Creen, Thomas Crop, J. Dia mond, D. Driscoll, A. Fahy,.Alex. Frazer, Hugh Frazer, W. Good. E. Hall, J. Harpen, S. Huntly, J. Johnston, B. Klatiershaft, William Leneham, Alexander Lyons, A. Magee, G. Mcßride, W. W.Carley, J. M'lcay, James McKay, P. M'Mahon ' T. Moody, J. Montford, J. O'Brien, J. Oldfield, James Organ, J. Popham, J. Raleigh, J. Richmond, Con. Ryan, W. Sawdy. B. Shewell, John Swan, Thomas Taylor, R. Thompson, (of Ohio,) J. Wat son, T. Willite. An infant of nine months old, with no person to claim it ; a man on the island not known ; four left the island ; one black seaman. Total number of passengers saved, 225. The following are the names of the crew who were saved :—Abo, Abo, Abo, three Chinese seamen ; M. A. R. Adams, purser; John Aylmer, seaman; J. Browne, do. ; J. Burban, do.; Thomas Burke, steward; Nicholas Can dari, seaman ; Wm. Cook, passenger, steward ; William Cowan, apprentice ; Wm. Denis, seaman ; J. Ferguson, passenger, steward ; H. Fitzsimon. sailmaker ; J. Frazer, carpenter ; Nicholas George, seaman ; J. Greenub, steward; Thomas Harper, do.: G. Humphrey, assistant purser; Frederick Hunt, seaman; J. Irwine, do. ' • A. Jack, cook's mate ; John Jones, seaman ; Judge Julien, J: M. Lennan, seaman ; B. Leenehan, cook • W. Leene han, do. ; A. Maclean, seaman ; J. J. Martin, do. • John Marromati, do. ; Charles Maxwell, sailmaker ; R. Mit chell, seaman ; Antonio Nicholas, do. ; S. Prairam, steward ; E. Pratt, second-purser ; Wm. Ray, apprentice ; W. Rendell, assistant-steward ; Peter Reed, boy;' John Rice, cook ; F. J. Roberts, steward ; J. Roberts, seaman ; Thomas Roberts, do. ; Demetri Rolando, do. • T. Rowland, do. ; J. Saunderson, sailmaker ; W. D. Sheridan, boat swain; W. Skeizig, steward; William Taylor, passengers' cook ; Thomas Trotter, passenger, servant ; William Trumbell ; H. Wallace, apprentice ; E. Wills, steward ; John West, seaman ; J. Williams, do. ; and Peter Wole chewick. Total passengers saved, 225 ; do. crew, 54 ; Captain Noble, 1; William Murphy, chief-officer, 1; Cowan, 3d officer 1. Total saved, 282. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. The inquiry into the cause of this melancholy disaster was commenced on Friday, at Malahide, by Henry Davis, Esq., county coroner, who had two of the bodies removed by a steam-tug from the island, on Thursday, for the pur poses of the inquest. The bodies, which were those of a fine little boy, the son of Dr. Cunningham, the late medi cal officer of the Tayleur, and that of the second mate of the ship, were chosen on account of their being best known, and therefore the most easily identified. A great number of the friends and relatives of the deceased at- tended to watch the proceedings. The CORONER, in addressing the jury, said,—As to the cause of the death you will have no difficulty in coming to a conclusion, but your attention will be particularly direct ed to the causes which led to such a fearful result, as that a vessel leaving the port of Liverpool should be ship wrecked on an island more like a mountain rising out of the middle of the ocean, and, as I understand it will be placed in evidence before you, at a time when there was no more wind blowing than a sailor would wish to have. What may have been the cause of the accident it is for you to inquire. The following witnesses were then examined. John Aisladre, of Yorkshire, one of the passengeri, said —I was a second-cabin passenger, with my wife and daughter, of four years of age ; I am an upholsterer, and I went on board the vessel on last Saturday week, the 14th, at Liverpool; she was in the roads ; I went in a steamer to her ; I was on board from that till the following Thursday; she was in the roads all that time ; I saw a dead body ; it is that of the second mate • I last saw him alive previous to his being washed over fast Saturday ; I also saw the dead body of a child, but I cannot identify it ; at five mi nutes to eleven o'clock, by my watch, Liverpool time, on Saturday morning, I heard the first cry of " Land ahead ;* I was then below in the cabin ; I looked at my watch at the time, it being on the table ; I remained below with my little daughter for some considerable time, several minutes before I went on deck ; when I reached the deck the vessel had not struck ; it was some few minutes before the star- board anchor was let go; I can't say who it was that cried " Land ahead ;" the fact of the cry raised tremendous con fusion in the cabin ; after the anchor was let go I rushed on deck a second time, I having gone below a little pre viously ; the vessel struck very soon after the anchor was let go ; it was probably gone twelve o'clock ; we were about 60 or 70 yards, not more that 100, from the land when the anchor was let go ; I knew it was let go by the noise of the noise of the cable ; she struck upon the rock broadside on ; it was rather hazy at the time, but there was light to see for some two or three miles about us at least; I was on deck several times during the morning, but I had not seen land; I had very many opportunities of seeing the crew; I was very much interested in that affair ; I am not a nauti cal man, but I have several times been as a passenger, and I am living in a seaport town ; I could not form an idea of the number of the crew, but there were sadly too many of them that were not English ; there were three or four Chinamen. To a Juror.—l don't think any of them could speak or understand English. Witness.—There was a Lascar steward, but, I think, there were no sailors Lascars ; there was a regular med ley of forrignere ; there might be about twenty of the crew Englishmen ; I should say the greater part of the British portion of the crew were able seamen ; accord ing to my opinion, the remainder was ordinary seamen; I mixed with them a considerable deal ; when orders were given to the fereigners they did not appear to un derstand them. To a Juror.—That occurred to me long before the acci dent • in fact, immediately after leaving port. Witness.—l heard directions given to reef the topsails before the Saturday. On that occasion they were not reefed in proper time ; it took upwards of an hour and a half to reef the maintopsail. The delay occurred, princi pally, in my opinion, from there not being enough of able bodied men to do the work. To a Juror.—Capt. Noble told me the crew were 70, and an apprentice told me 32. . Witness : I did not hear the captain make any observa tion about the time it took to reef these sails ; in my opinion there was not half a sufficient number of men on board for such a ship ; the first time I formed that opinion the second mate and I were on the deck, with several other passengers ; that was on the Friday morning pre ceding the accident; on that occasion I said to the second mate I thought they were as badly fixed on deck for a crew as we were below for stewards;" and at the same time I said, "it was my opinion that it was nothing but propel that we should return to Liverpool or put into some place to shelter;" he said, "If we put back to Liver pool or any other port every seaman on board would leave the ship;" and he said it in such a manner as led me to believe he would leave himself; he said- "there was such a scandalous crew on board the ship that it was impossible to manage her in any way ;" about the time we struck, the captain, mate, second mate, and third mate did every thing in their power to prevent the accident. To a Juror: We were on the larboard tack at, the time. They did everything they could to wear the ship, but she would not work from the ropes being too stiff and the crew not being able to the work. Witness.—My belief is that the vessel had a proper crew aboard, and everything was right, that we would have made a most prosperous voyage, and no accident would have occurred; the ropes would scarcely pull through the blocks; the deck was covered with coils of rope from the manufacturer ; we had a nigger on board who worked up to the last *moment ; the vessel was not fit to sail when she did, and if she was a week longer she would not be fit ; we bad a great many sailers on board as passengers ; the un- prepared state of the vessel and the inefficiency of the crew were salads, at different Ames, of conversation be - I tw?cn us ; it: was blowing. very bud on Thursday night,. RELIEF OF ZILE SUFFERERS. Yesterday a meeting of the subscribers to the fund for the relief of the sufferers, summoned by Messrs. Pilking ton and Wilson, was held at the Underwriters'-rooms, for the purpose of forminc , a eommitte of management for the fund. Captain Schoenberg, R.N., the government emigra tion commissioner, was called to the chair, and amongst those present were John Pilkington, Esq., Edmund Thompson, Esq., James Baines, Esq., J. M. Walthew, Esq., Hon. Jos. unard, S. R. Graves, sq., Peter Stuart, Esq., Robert Carlisle, Esq., Campbell, Esq., &c. Mr. James Baines was unanimously appointed secretary to the committee. The following gentlemen were then nomi-• nated as the committee of management :--Capt. Schoen berg, chairman, S. R. Graves, Esq., Hon. Jos. Cunard, Peter Stuart, Esq., S. G. Rathbone, Esq., Campbell, Esq., Charles Mae Iver, Esq., Edmund Thompson, Esq., and John Pilkington, Esq., with power to add to their number. It was then resolved that the Hon. Jos. Cunard be treasurer, and that the money received be deposited in the Liverpool Royal Bank, to the credit of the committee, and that books for subscriptions be placed in the Under writers' and News Rooms, and the several banks. In answer to a question, it was stated by one of the owners, who was present, that it was their intention to forward the rescued passengers, at their (the owners') expense, without reference to their liability, which, on consulting the act of parliament, it appeared did not exist. It was also stated that the fund would be administered with es pecial reference to the condition of the emigrants, many of whom were left totally destitute. The committee re solved to meet every day, at one o'clock, at the office of Messrs. Jas. Baines and Co. A sermon was preached by the Rev. Fisher Redhead, at Rock Ferry, on Sunday last, in aid of the above fund. (FROM TIIE TIMES.) OF all the disasters recorded during a season unhappily distinguished by such calamities, not one has been an nounced of a charracter more truly horrifying than the dreadful shipwreck reported in our impression of yester day. It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the terrors of so frightful a catastrophe. This very day last week the Tay _ _ leni, a stately ship of more than 2,000 tons burden • carry ing s valuable cargo, and freighted with nearly 600 emi grants, sailed from Liverpool to Australia with every conceivable 'prospect of a fortunate voyage. The vessel itself was of iron, perfectly new, and so splendidly con structed as to have been pronounced one of the most magnificent specimens afloat. She was commanded by a captain of " great experiense and ability ;" the weather was fine, the wind fair, and, as she left the Mersey in tow of a steam-tug to commence her course, it seamed as if no other ship had ever gone out of harbour with promise of a better run. In eight-and-forty short hours from that moment the Tayleur was a perfect wreck, and out of her complement of 660 souls not 300 were left alive. It appears that she made fair weather till she got off Holyhead, when she found herself headed by a strong wind blowing up Channel. Against this gale she appears to have struggled in vain for upwards of 24 hours, when the captain despairing of getting down Channel in the teeth of such a storm, determined to try the course north about, and got the ;ship's head• round accordingly. But the sea was heavy, and the weather thick, and the fog so dense, that no observation could be taken ; so that where they stood on Saturday morning nobody seems to have known. The man at the wheel is said to have sighted, or fancied he sighted, land on the lee quarter ; but the look out in the bows could see nothing of the kind. This, as far as we can ascertain, was between 10 and 12 a.m. on Saturday, though the point is not quite clear, A brief in terval, however, ended every doubt. Exactly at noon land was seen indeed, and the ship was close upon it. What could be done under such circumstances is said to have been done, but to no purpose. In twenty minutes' time the vessel drove right on the rocks, and in less than half an hour nothing was to be seen of the Tayleur and her crew but some hundred of corpses tossed about in the surge, and some shivering wretches on the shore. The scene of the catastrophe proved to be Lambay Is land, a spot in the vicinity of Dublin Bay, and not very far from the little island where Mrs. Kirwan met her death so tragically some few months ago. The incidents of the wreck itself are more than usually dreadful. At the second shock the vessel seems to have gone broadside on, and so near was the crag that some men actually jumped ashore. We are even told that a plank was got across from the ship's side to the rocks, so that between life and death there actually intervened no greater space than passengers traverse every day in walking from a steamer's deck to the pier, Ropes, too, were got out, and, such was the closeness of the chance, that even in the few minutes given for escape more than 200 poor creatures were saved. A quarter of an hour:longer would probably have been the salvation of all the rest but:the ship lurched heavily with the sea, the passengers clinging to the ropes were shaken into the waves, and, at length, as the vessel filled, all was over. It is a terrible thing to read that of 250 women and children on board three only were saved. This shows that it was a scramble for life ; that every one looked to himself, and that the weak fared accordingly. Some examples of heroism are however recorded, and particularly in the case of the ship's surgeon, Mr. Cunningham. This officer not only devoted his life with a natural decision, to the rescue of his wife and child, but used every effort in his power for the gene ral good. Unhappily he was lost, and with him the greater part of all on board. The most accurate accounts appear to give 660 as the whole number of souls in the ship, and 282 as the number saved. Perhaps these figures may hereafter receive some correction but, on the most hopeful estimate, we can scarcely avoid concluding that upwards of 350 human beings were hurried into eternity in the space of half-an-hour. If we search for the causes of so terrible a result we are left without any satisfactory assurance. That the weather was thick, the gale strong, and the sea heavy, are facts which seem to be acknowledged, and they are enough, perhaps, to account for the calamity. It is distinctly .stated, however, that, though the ship herself was of un impeachable goodness, her crew was incompetent to manage her. One witness says, that this became evident to all the passengers accustomed to sea-going on the very first afternoon of the voyage. Another says that a general impression to this effect soon prevailed all through the vessel. It is said that the crew included Chinese and Lascars, who were unable to understand English, and that orders, therefore ' were imperfectly executed. Captain Noble himself also states that the compasses, though fitted with the compensating apparatus adapted to iron-built vessels, varied considerably. A first-cabin passenger seems to allege that, "several hours before the vessel struck," the captain was told by the helmsman that he had seen land, but that the ship's course was not altered. This, however, is reconcilable in part with the captain's own statement, which admits that land was called by the helmsman, but adds that it could not be discovered by the look-out, while, "in order to avoid any possible danger, the ship's course was altered, and she was hauled up two points to windward?' Other noticeable circumstances occur in the various depositions, but the conflict of testi mony shows how unsafe it would be to form as yet any conclusive opinion. The first passenger whose evidence was published, declared, and probably with all sincerity as regarded his own impressi s on of fads, that " until about noon on Saturday all went on well," whereas we have since learnt that all Thursday night and Friday the weat ther was adverse in the extreme; that the crew could no manage the sails ; that the ship had even then been " comt pletely at the.mercy of the wind and waves;" and that it began to be whispered about that they would neve reachthe end of their voyage." These views appear in compatible with each other, but the variation probably arises from the different lights in which different men will regard the different occurrences. It _seems clear that when land was really sighted the vessel was, from some cause or other, practically un manageable. Whether any management whatever could have availed to save her under such circumstances is a point to be ascertained. The weather was exceedingly thick. "It was impossible," the captain says, "to see a cable's length from the ship ;" and the coast was so close that twenty minutes carried her ashore. Whether the crew were competent to do efficiently what was needed to be done, is a second point for inquiry. One witness states that their efforts were impeded by the crowding and con fusion of the alarmed passengers ; but another seems t 9 speak of all the orders given as having been executed, and the captain himself makes no complaint on this score. The investigation, however, which so deplorable a catas trophe will necessarily occasion, may elicit some farther evidence, and furnish the public, perhaps, with a clearer and more instructive conception of an adventure thus calamitously terminated. LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL. AN adjourned meeting of the Town Council was held on Wednesday last, for the purpose of considering the clauses of the Amended Sanitary Bill, and of the proposed bill for establishing a Police Superannuation Fund. The . chair was occupied by his Worship the Mayor. A memo rial from the Houseowners' Society was read. It com plained that many of :the powers sought under the amended bill were oppressive and unjust ; and prayed that the Council would not sanction the passing of the bill. The Council having resolved itself into a committee on the bill, The MAYOR stated that the principle of the bill h av i ng been adopted at the last meeting, the business, that day, was simply to consider and adopt or modify the clauses. He also intimated, that, at a future meeting of the Coun cil, notice might be given to reject the bill altogether. The first, second, and third clauses, of a merely formal nature, were adopted without alteration or discussion. On the fourth clause being read, Mr. Alderman COOPER objected to its adoption, as it went to lessen the time required for notice being given of intended paving or sewering operations, from twenty eight to fourteen days, and did away with the necessity of affixing a notice in front of the Town Hall. It then went on to repeal the 81st and 82d clauses of the Sanitary Act, the first of which gives to an aggrieved party power of ap peal to the Quarter Sessions. He concluded by moving that the 81st clause, which gives the power of appeal, be retained. After some discussion the amendment, that the 81st clause remain, was lost by a majority of 33 to 12. He then moved that twenty-eight days' notice be given, and that a copy of the notice be served upon owne rs . After some further discussion the clause was agreed to, with an addition, that a notice in each case be posted in the pub lic offices, Cornwallis-street. Clause 5 was then passed, as also clause 6, which pro vides that, if the Medical-officer certify a street to be unhealthy, it shall be sewered by the Council. Clause 7 provides that parties laying out new streets shall give 90 days' notice. By the existing act, 42 days' notice is only required. Clauses from the 7th to the 18th inclusive, were then read and passed. The 19th imposes a penalty of £5 a-day, during the time the offence is committed, on all who shall occupy, or suffer to be occupied; cellars in courts The next, the 27th, relating to the consumption of smoke, created a very long and animated discussion. It was to the effect,—" That the sanction of the Sanitary Act, 126, be repealed, and in lieu thereof it be enacted that all furnaces employed in working engines by steam, in manu factories, and on steam boats while in the river, should, in all cases, be constructed and altered so as to burn the smoke arising ; and if any person so negligently used his furnace that it was not consumed, and an unnecessary quantity of smoke was occasioned, every person so offend ding, and the owner and occupier of such place, should forfeit and pay £5 for every day that the nuisance con tinued ; provided that the words " consume or burn the smoke" should not be held to mean consume or burn all the smoke ; -and the magistrates might remit the penalty, provided that the person altered such furnace, &c. Mr. W. J. HOuSrALL contended that it was practically impossible to consume the smoke in some manufactures. and that it was the duty of the Council, before imposing a penalty, to point out the mode. ' Sir JOHN BENT opposed the clause on the same ground, and moved, as an amendment, either that it be modified by the allowance of twenty minutes or half-an-hour after the first lighting of a fire, or that it be struck out alto gether. _ _ . Alderman PARKER seconded the amendment. The Council divided on the question, when it was decided that the clause should stand as part of the bill by a majority of 30 to 17. A second amendment was then passed, that the clause be referred back till the meeting on Wednesday next, for further consideration ; as was also, after some discussion, the clause limiting the width of carriages to seven feet six inches. The 32d, or rating clause, also gave rise to considerable debate. This provides that the owners of all tenements of £lO, and under, in value, shall compound for payment of the rates of their tenants at two-thirds of the assessment ; and that a like option be given to those owners of houses up to £l3 inclusive. After opposition from Mr. Thomson, Mr. Moss, and Mr. Beckwith, Mr. LANGSDALE showed that of the number of 67,000 assessments in the borough, 26,000 only paid, and 41,000 escaped. He showed that small property paid better than other descriptions, and said that if the clause were carried, the Liverpool rate, which was now is. 6d., would be re duced to 14d. ; Kirkdale, now 2s. 3d., to ls. Bd.; and Ever ton, now ls. 10d. to ls. sd. ; West Derby, now Is. Bd., to ls. 4d. ; and Toateth-park, now 2s. ld., to ls. 241. The clause was eventually passed, an amendment that it be struck out being lost by a majority of 29 to 11. The remaining clauses of the bill were then passed. The Council afterwards took into consideration the Police Superannuation Fund Bill, which was passed nem. dis., the only suggession thrown out being one that the market constables be included in the benefits. The Council then adjourned. RAGGED SCHOOL UNION. THE sixth annual Liverpool Ragged School Union was held, on Thursday evening, in the Clayton-hall. The chair was occupied by his Worship the Mayor; and on the plat form were—Mr. W. Brown, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Hume, the Revs. W. F. Taylor, T. Carter (chaplain of the gaol), and Alex. Cromar, J. Kelly ; Mr. J. Cropper, Mr. E. Heath, Mr. J. B. Broughton, Mr. R. Ratcliffe, Mr. J. King, Mr. T. Matheson, Dr. R. H. Taylor, &c., &c. The body of the hall was numerously filled. The proceedings of the meeting were initiated by a prayer from the Rev. Dr. Hume. The M.Kron, in opening the business, alluded to the great meeting held that morning in relation to the abate ment of juvenile delinquency ; and said he looked on ragged schools as a great means of restraining that blot on our social condition. He concluded by calling upon Mr. Burt, the secretary, to read the annual report. Mr. BURT then read a letter from Lord Stanley, who had been invited to attend, but who regretted his inability to be present. He also stated that the Mayor had received a letter, apologising for unavoidable absence, from Mr. Horsfall, M.P. He then read the report of the society's proceedings from May, 1852, to December, 1853, from which it appeared that the schools connected with the union continue to be conducted with energy and efficiency, and the number of children in attendance had increased nearly 800, chiefly caused by the opening of 8 new schools. The total average number of children in attendance in the ragged schools in this town is 3411, of which 2832 attend the evening and 402 the infant schools, whilst the re mainder enjoy the superior instruction of industrial schools, which are open every day and all day long. At the three industrial schools the average attendance was 177; the number that can read is 157 ; 99 have obtained situations; 168 attend places of worship ; and 14 have been drafted to higher class schools. The average attendance at:the 24 evening andday schools is 2,832, of whom 1,800 can:read ; 134 have obtained situations ; 357 attend places of worship ; and 120 have been drafted into higher class schools. The average attendance at the five infant schools is 402, of whom 97 can read ; 40 attend places of worship, and 25 have been drafted to higher class schools. The report mentions that, though so many have been brought within the reach of instruction, it has been computed that there are 67,000 children, between 2 the ages of 31 and 12, classed as poor, either receiving or requiring assistance from the richer part of the community for their education. The accommodation provided for these is not adequate for more than 39,500, leaving a residue of 27,500, from which it is only fair to deduct one-fifth, or 6,600 who are unable to attend, leaving the large number of 22,000 children for whom no school accommodation is provided. The report concluded by congratulating the subscribers to the society on the deepening and widening interest iliich has been latterly manifested on the subject of the education of the poorer children of the community, as evidenced by the recent conference in Birmingham, as well as the meeting in Liverpool that morning, from which this subject pro mised soon to be one of the leading questions of the day ; and the committee expressed a hope that the increasing liberality of their fellow-townsmen would enable them to extend their efforts still more than they had hitherto done. Mr. RITCHIE, the treasurer, read the statement of ac counts ; and, before doing so, he said that they did not interfere with the efforts of those ragged schools which supported themselves. The union was only intended to aid those schools which could not wholly support them selves. The whole amount placed at his disposal during the year had been £l9B 3s. 10d. In conclusion, he; said it was a great fact that from 20,000 to 22,000 children, in. Liverpool and the neighbourhood, were growing up without education ; and, unless they were subdued by education, they would subdue society. The Rev. Mr. ROBINSON moved the adoption of the re port, and the re-apppointment of the eommittee of the Ragged School Union for the ensuing year. Mr.WM. BROWN, M.P., seconded the motion, and, in doing so, said that when he saw the rules of the Ragged School Union he was surprised to find that the 6th appeared to him to exclude all but evangelical Christians from the union. On reading that he immediately wrote :to Mr. Heath, who had invited him to be present, stating that he could not countenance the society unless it embraced the children of all denominations, whether Roman Catholics or Jews, or whatever they might be, who choose to come to receive instruction. On receiving that note, Mr. Heath explained to him that it was never intended to exclude any class of children, and that, in fact, many Roman Catholic children attended the schools ; but, to remove any doubt, he stated that the rule would be altered, to the effect that the union did not exclude the co-operation of any de nonli7 nation of Christians. (Cheers.) The resolution was 1:41 and carried unanimously. • n which The Rev. Mr. CROMAR moved the next resol u atio ' which acknowledged, with thankfulness to God, the !I ged school, had attended the efforts of the Liverpooltahly, had been and the benefits which, by its instruraeli town in which diffused over those poor districts in this they had been established. w hi c h was carr i e d Mr. HEATH seconded the resolut i o n, unanimously. • aid of the object of the A collection was then made in meeting. moved The Rev. Mr. Ksr.zir the next resolution, to the Ling being of opinion that ragg e d effect that "the !' e sc hools, conducted the spirit of evangelical truth, and with a careful regard the condition of the children, were well calculated t o supply the deficiency with the means of educating the really Poor in. our large of juvenil e delin quency, towns, and have a direct tendency to lessen tne amount of strongly recommends them to the support of the public." The Rev. Mr. TAYLOR seconded the motion, which was c arried unanimously. Mr. J. CROPPER moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor f o r presiding, which was seconded by Mr. BROWN, M.P., and unanimously agr ee d to. His WORSHIP acknowledged the compliment ; and the Prooetaugn terminated shortly before ten o'clock.