The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-17 00:00:00

rjAEICT'N AID SOCIETY FETING AT CHES Am interesting and influential meeting of the members and i at the Town- friends of the Foreign Aid So hall, Chester, on Tuesday I the objects of the Bishop of above valuable i beater occupied the chub present the Marquis of Cholmonde M.P., the Rev. Char the Rev. J. Collins, the corn Artillery in the garrison, M society), and a numerous body of tt The proceedings possessed great int handsome collection was made. On Friday evenir friends of the society v street. The weather wa the attendance was I very large, respectably filled Among tho of the Liverpool we observed the Rev. Hugh the Rev. R. Burgess, the Rev. F. Barker, the Rev. W. Currie, of Waterloo, the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, the Rev. Mr. Hughes, the Rev. Mr. Bromilaw, of Billinge, Major Thorp, G. Duncan, Esq., J. Middleton, Esq., &c. &c. On the motion of the Rev. F M'Neile was unanimously requt the proceedings having been c Rev. Hugh the chair ,th a supplication ,ing upon them of the Divine The Rev. CHAIRM._ oecomes my duty to inform you briefly concerning the nature and objects of that society upon whose behalf we are assembled this evening. The object of the Foreign Aid Society in England is to mani fest sympathy with the struggles, and to minister assistance to the necessities, of the orthodox christians upon the conti nent of Europe, especially, at present, in France and Swit zerland. The condition of the Protestants in France is little known, generally speaking, in England. There exists a very general idea that the population of France is wholly Roman Catholic as to profession, although divided, as regards ind' vidual character, into the superstif and the infidel. Unhappily this is too true, .... of the great mass of the population of that country there is a very considerable AN said—lt 'no apply, a number of Protesta bars to a million and a half a the Protestants in—Frilc out of the reforr allthe_powers of the state obligedto take ref that without exa anion r us devotee, the care a description' ioin this does not persecution o , on the breakin e hunted with and ding-places of the eart scription given by the apostle of the suffer saints, of whom the world was tute, afflicted, tormented. This per part of the reign of Louis the 14th, excess; and about the middle of the reign of that celebrated monarch, it seemed as if France had been absolutely de prived of all Protestants—it seemed as if the Protestants had been exterminated and controversy silenced, not by ar gument, but by the edge of:the sword. Very little is known concerning the struggles of the Protestants of France from that period till the breaking out of the great revolution ; but no sooner had the fury of the revolution passed away, and Napoleon Bonaparte c ome i n t o t h e ascendant, than a law was passed giving full toleration for Prote' scribing the order of the ecclesi of the ancient It worth they were desti- ion, in the early carried to a great p, and pra t discipline, under .re to t f Frar , verned. That with regard to which the Protestant churches law of Buonaparte is still the law o, Protestant churches. It was recognise,_ and confirmed by the charter in 1830. ft,. conducted by what they call consistories, with the power ac corded by law, of uniting in one synod. A consistory, accord ing to the law of Napoleon, is composed of the pastors of a certain district, assisted with a few laymen, not less than six in number, and not more than twelve in each consistory : these laymen were not to he elected by the pastors or any of the Protestants of ''-` • absolutely designated by the letter of the 1 the laymen in that district who pay the annual income tax, so they are, at least s ,or any number between six and twelve, of the richest laymen in that district. These were ex officio members of the consistory. Of such consistories there are at present in France ninety, without reckoning a few Lutheran consistories upon the eastern boundary of the kingdom. aong the banks of the Rhine. The ninety consistories of France have now about four hundred pastors. Unfortunately, many of these pastors, and many of their coadjutors, the laymen in the consistories, do not hold Scriptural orthodox doctrines ; they have been af fected with the neology of Germany and other infidel and semi -infidel and Socinian views, in opposition to the revealed truth of God. Some of them have been taught better; and of late years an increasing number of the pastors and laymen comprising these consistories have become christian and or thodox men. In proportion as they have themselves been taught divine truth they have become, as all men so taught will ever become, anxious that others should learn the same; and they have formed themselves into societies, called Evan gelical Societies, for the purpose of disseminating more widely among the members of their own consistories, and the congregations assembling under those pastors, the saving knowledge of God's revealed will. It is, then, to aid these societies, these " Societes Evangeliques," or Evangelical So cieties, that this institution has been formed in England. You must perceive from this brief sketch of the, state of things in the Protestant Church of France, that such societies, still in a minority and struggling upwards, must needs re quire assistance ; they require the countenance of christian people in other countries ; and beinoor, the require not only christian sympathy, but the genuine produce y of christian sympathy, christian liberality. This briefly explains our immediate object in this association. Then, if you inquire about the nature of the church government under which these people are, I have already said that they are allowed by law to have their consistories, and to assemble, if they will, in a general synod. The synod is to be composed of one pastor and one layman from each consistory, which should be the representative in the synod of the particular district from which consistory they were sent. Hitherto the general synod would have been composed of so large a majority of Neologians or other infidels that no good results could possibly have been err— bling of such a synod ; but - a peace in 1815 governmen —they are to be rgest amount of assem that if general syr.e u we.,. as tar as the pastors are concerned, there would be a majority of the orthodox, and we have every reason to hope, that if the progress of divine truth that has manifested itself of late years among them continues a few years more, the assembly of a general synod would enable them to pass resolutions that would greatly advance the cause of divine truth in France. As yet, how ever, no synod has been called ; they are struggling upwards; they are helpine. themselves; an d t h ey ask us, not to send missionarie s to France, not to attempt the work by our own agents, but to give them our countenance, and give them some portion of our superfluities from this country. That is simply the object in view. These persons have not the same sort of church government it is our happiness to have. They have never had the opportunity of such. When the Reformation tee!: place upon the continent none of the bishops becatee reformers. No bi s h op in France, no bishop in Switzerland, became personally a reformer. The conse quence was, that the people of those countries imagined— and the same applies to Scotland —that bishops were identical with Papists, and episcopacy and papacy must stand or fall together; therefore, although sound argument was against them, yet the outward appearance of the case being in favour of that view, the people threw off episcopacy at the same time they threw off papacy; and the Reformation in Switzer land, arid Scotland, and France assumed a Presbyterian aspect. These churches in France, therefore, have done no more than protest against P o p ery, as we did in England, only in England— mar the difference,—some of the leading protestors were themselves bishops. The Archbishop of Canterbury (a name familiar to you ail), in those days, was Cranmer ; the Bishop of London, Ridley; the Bishop of Worcester, Latimer; the Bishop of Gloucester, Hooper. When these men came forward as reformers, the people of England saw the difference between episcopacy and Popery: they saw Protestant bishops ; they saw their protest in the persons of these bishops ; and in England alone the people had the great happiness of getting rid of popery without shaking off the orginal, primitive, Scriptural episcopacy of the Christian church. (Cheers.) The churches in France are not to be blamed ; they never had the opportunity, even if they had the wish, to put themselves under episcopal government; and it would be a refinement of barbarity, and not Christian orthodoxy, for any man in England, under pretence of a jealousy for the form of church government which lie has the happiness to live under, to withhold his right hand of fellowship from them because they have not that form of church government themselves. They could not have it. There is a great difference between them and those in this country who, with an apostolic church within their reach, do willingly and wilfully separate themselves from it, and refuse to avail themselves of it. (Cheers.) I may say, without any unkindness, and certainly without intend ing to wound the feelings of any, but for the sake of truth, that I think those who so dissent in this country are cer tainly to blame, because a better way is in their reach, and they refuse to avail themselves of it ; but in France there is not the same blame, because they cannot have bishops without having Popery ; and, well as I love a bishop, I would rather never see one than have Popery. (Cheers.) Everything is comparative. I would rather have this hand cut off than protest against episcopacy; but I would rather have both cut off than submit to the Papacy. (Cheers.) This explains the position, as clearly as I can in a few words, of a Christian church upon the Continent; and I am happy to say I am highly and strictly orthodox at this moment, standing not in the exercise of mere private judgment, but I stand delivering the sentiments of my diocesan. (Hear.) On Tuesday last I attended a meeting in the city of Chester on behalf of the Foreign Aid Society : it was my happiness to behold the Lord Bishop of the diocese in the chair—to behold him supported by a noble marquis (Cholmondeley)— and, in the midst of a large company of the rank and dis tinction of the county of Chester, of seeing the truly Pro testant member of parliament for one of the divisions of the county, Mr. Tollemache. (Cheers.) I do but speak the sentiments of the Bishop, then ; and therefore, I say, I am highly and strictly orthodox in drawing this line of distinc tion; and if any of you wish for further authority upon this point, I would refer you to a publication of the present Bishop of London, made by the junior rector of Liverpool— republished, I should say, in this town by the junior rector of Liverpool, with a preface expressly written to advance the circulation of the tract, in which these very sentiments dre laid down with the clearness and the perspicuity for which the present Bishop of London is so remarkable. This dis tinction will, therefore, I think, satisfy the minds of many who have a godly jealousy for apostolic church government, in which I entirely agree with them. I entertain a godly jealousy for that government, but I entertain, I trust, a godly Sympathy for our dear friends upon the Continent, who can not have such government. I believe they have all th a t we hold e ssent i a l to a Ch r i s tian chur c h, though riot all we desire for the perfection of such a church. The Church of E ng l an d decla res th at t h e apos t o li c form of government is ancient— from th e t i me o f t h e a p os tles : she declares it essential for communion with herself—that she has a right to do as every society has a right to do, so far as communion with herself and participation in her advantages; land nowhere declares that it is essential for th e salvation of a sinner. Th e hi g h e st and best defenders of the Church of England, from the days of tl' e Reformation to our o wn d ays, have hailed the Protestant Church of France as a sister church; they have manifested a desire and a wish to keep up a fraternal communication them,withdthe right ha andtognivdeotfheferlot‘hve. countenance of our sympathy an ship, by a s si s ti ng h er in everyl will not, i n the po s iti on you h ave ca way we can. called upon me to occupy, t a k e up Your time longer, but call on the he operations o norarysecretary give i t s o soci _ you some detail s c o nnectedwithth ety. I w ill j ust a dd f or you r information, however, that th e persons through whose instrumentality our assistance is ren dered ar e th e l ea di ng men ou r honorary secretary, who in those little societies I described just no w , persona ll y known to them so that every pain s takes great delight in this work, who is often upon the Con tinent, and sees them and knows ih.e and practicable, to guard will be and h as b een taken against any i m p os ition upon n " the ss liberality of Englishmen. Those orthodox men who are the m edium through which this money is administered, e Burgess, re c t or o f Upper Chelsea, known to the Rev. Mr. sea, who has long devoted himself to thi s no bl e a nd evangelical work of brotherly and Christian ki n d ness a b r oad, and whom rev• chairman thenl shall have the plea sure to introduce to your notice. (The resumed his seat amidst much applause.) The Rev. R ICHARD BURGESS, rector of Upper Chelsea, then rose to move the first resolution. He said that, after the clear and lucid statement which the chairman had wade of the nature and objects of the Foreign Aid Society, the only thing that remained for him was to endeavour to follow the line of argument he (the chairman) had laid down, and to fill up some of the vacancies which he had left. The chairman had spoken of authority. They were clergymen, and they gloried in the privilege of being clergymen of the established church • they delighted in her apostolic for m o f government, not because it was essentially connected with salvation, but because it was the best adapted to hand down divine truth from one generation to another without loss. This was not the case with Presbyterianism. So long as the truth was preached, wbether by Presbyterian or Episco palian, God would own his own word : but the question was its preservation—they were bound to see it preserved; and on that account they delighted in the episcopal form of church government. They had the precedents of all the most dis tinguished bishops of the church in this work; and further, this was not new work, for, previous to the depression of the reformed church, our bishops —even those who had the reputation of being the highest churchmen—were in constant communication with the reformed churches of the Continent. Letters were extant which shewed that the most delightful Christian intercourse was carried on between our bishops and the members of the reformed Continental churches : y went to France, they communicated together ; d neither bishop nor Presbyterian, when they were there, when the )out church government; but 'they had all (Hear, hear.) Referring to living e reverend gentleman quoted some passages !e Sermons preached by the Bishop of London during Lent 1842, in St. James's Church, published with a preface by the Rev. Augustus Campbell, jun. rector of Liverpool, and one of his lordship's chaplains. It was there laid down that none of the Continental Protestant churches were ;•• things in common the Thre in any sense schismatic, because they held all the essentials of sound doctrine. The Lord Bishop of London, therefore, had given his sanction to the objects of this and the Rector of Liverpool fully approved of them y giving his imprimatur to these sermons. The meeting, therefore, were assembled to promote the interests of a society, the object of which was to assist those brethren who could not, in their positions, be considered as schismatics. He would refer only once more to the authority of the Bishop of London, just to show what the right rev. prelate consi dered would justify separation from the national church— namely, if she required us to hold as scripture what was not in the word of God. This was a justification of separa tion : it justified us in separating from the Church of Rome at the time of the reformation, and it would justify us in separating again if it should come to pass that she required us to receive some article of faith at variance with the fun damental truths of the gospel—for instance, if she com --Tied some act of worship, such as falling down to images, as forbidden by the word of God. He need say no more upon authority ; but after what he had said he trustel every churchman would be convinced that this was a lawful object, and that he might give the right hand of fellowship to those continental churches, who, although not holding one form of government still held the head, confessing that Jesus Christ is the son of the living God. There was another question which the meeting was entitled to have answered. They had just heard that large numbers of the pastors of the churches were affected with the neology of Germany, Sbci nianism, and Arianism, and with unsound doctrine : the chairman had also told them there were a certain number who did hold the orthodox faith, but the question was, what is that orthodox faith ; have they any document to show that what they called orthodox faith was what we should call or thodox faith ? Now, if he (Mr. Burgess) could not show this, he did not see how he could conscientiously call upon the meeting to support the Foreign Aid Society ; and, there fore, he would first say a few words upon the orthodoxy of principle. He held in his hand a paper published twice a week in Paris, which was the organ of the leading pastors, who called themselves orthodox. The same question had been put to them in France, and in answer the pastors, in this their publication, stated that they conf esse d the faith of Christ crucified. The reverend gentleman read several passages from this publication, which shewed that the supporters of it were earnest in asserting and maintaining the faith of Christ our Saviour. They preached, he continued, and propagated just such doc trine as we would wish to see spreading throughout the length and breadth of the land. The next thing would be to inform the meeting vi hat the Societes Evangeliques had really done. There were three of them with which the Fo reign Aid Society was in connection. The first, the central committee of which assembled at Paris, was formed in 1833, and it bad now 128 agents in occupation as schoolmasters, missionaries, and colporteurs. From its commencement to the present time, it had sent out 270 agents ; and it had extended its influence over 26 of the departments of France. society mar which w opening many places of public worship, founding many schools, and altogether operating upon a population of not less than three millions of people. Another society with which the Foreign Aid Society was in connection was one formed at Bordeaux, which had extended its operations throughout five departments, in all of which it was preaching the doctrines of the Gospel. The third society with which this institution was in connection was formed at Geneva, and of this Mr. Currie would give some details. Another society, which had lately been formed in the North of France, had made application to b e t a k en i nto connection: it was founded upon sound principles, and he hoped it would be taken into association, so as to receive occasional help. Besides these great societies, there were institutions in dif ferent parts of France which sprung out of them. For in stance, the Evangelical Society of Paris had established a normal school for educating teachers to teach Protestant doctrine. Other schools had been established in different parts of the country, and within the last six months two young English girls had been rescued from consignment to a nunnery through the instrumentality of one of them. The rev. gentleman then entered into some interesting details, in the course of which he stated that a Protestant church was about to be erected at a place called Sourmont, on the very spot where one had been destroyed in the time of Henry IV. Since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, this town had been entirely without a Protestant church ; but the first stone of the new erection was laid by the mayor on the 18th of August last. This was one of the works which the Fo reign Aid Society was solicited to assist. It must not, how ever, be supposed that all this was going on without opposi tion : it was not likely that, in the midst of a Romish popu lation, with priests in every village, everything would go on in peace and quiet. At this moment there were pending in the courts of France certain trials of those who had re sum mayored otfothperecaocmhmiunne. Mr. villages, Burgesscontra then h contrary to the wish th isho a f t p , tl i i n e violation of the fifth article of the Charge Constitugionnelle, which enacted that every man should have liberty to profess his own religion and have toleration for it, much persecution had been inflicted upon the Protestant pastors. The details into which he entered on this part of the subject were too long to report : at the close of them he hoped that the pro ceedings which had been taken, in violation of the letter of the constitution, would serve to enhance the value of the religious liberty which we ourselves possessed. The great obstacle to the spread of the Gospel in France was Popery. (Hear.) Popery was the great enemy to the preaching of the Gospel in France, as it was to the spread of truth every where; but it was such Popery as we had scarcely any idea of in this country. He was told that it was very bad in Ireland, but he doubted whether the superstitions of Ireland could equal the superstitions of France and the Continent. The rev. gentleman here adduced some horrible blasphemies from the charge of the Cardinal Bishop of Lyons to his clergy, and shewed that there must neceesarily be the great est opposition between Popery, which held such doctrines, and the truth of the Gospel. Here, then. he said in conclu sion, was a field for Christian missious! It appeared to him, indeed, that there was as much need of the Gospel in France as there was in New Zealand. It seemed, too, to have de volved upon the Christians of this country to bring the thirty-two millions of France out of the darkness, just as much as it did the hundred millions of heathen under the British crown. He concluded by moving the first resolu tion. The Rev. JAMES CURRIE, in seconding the resolution, entered into some details of the operation of the Evangelical Society of Geneva. The resolution was unanimously carried. The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL, after a few general observa tions in support of the objects of the society, moved the second resolution. The Rev. F. BARKER seconded the resolution. 1•-la said it had occurred to him, since the last publication of the Parker Society, that the Foreign Aid Society must be come, to all persons acquainted with those publications, a subject of much greater interest than it had hitherto been. No person could peruse the letters written by the most emirient reformers of England, upon the death of Queen Mary, and the accession of the great and good Queen Eliza beth, without feeling the deep obligation under which this country lay to such persons as Peter Martyr, Bullenger, and others, whom the reformers Sands, Jewell, and others, ap pear to have consulted on all occasions. To his mind this was a pleasing opportunity of expressing the acknowledge ments under which the Church of England lay to the foreign (Applause.) The resolution was then carried. reformers Major THORPE moved the next resolution ; and after a few general remarks, he said there was work enough to do in Geneva and France, in spreading the gospel, if the society had ten times its present amount of income. The Lord was every day, in those countries, opening fresh doors through which Protestantism could be forwarded and error put aside, but the society had not the means. Funds were wanting. Money was the sinews of war, and without it nothing could be done. The gallant officer then showed how the interests of Protestanism were advancing in different parts of the con tinent—first, by the conversion of Roman Catholics, and next, by the operation of the societies in connection with the Foreign Aid Society ; and he concluded by a few words of affectionate Christian exhortation. Mr. MIDDLETON seconded the motion, and it was carried The Rev. Mr. BURGESS here said there was one duty yet to perform, and a pleasing duty it was; it was for him to move the cordial thanks of the meeting to the Rev. Chairman for his able services on this occasion, and for the exertions he had made on behalf of the Foreign Aid Society. The Rev. Mr. CURRIB seconded the motion, and it was carried by acclamation. Mr. M'NEILE then returned thanks for the compliir arid, atter singing the doxology, the meeting separated. TH E MILITIA.—We have good authority for stating that the Militia for this county will be raised early in the course of the ensuing spring ; that a ballot will take place when they will be regularly embodied, and had up for twenty-eight days' training and exercise. Preparations are already making to carry this object into effect. THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NIGHT.—The public funds have continued heavy all day. There was a slight reaction in the first few operations of the morning, but the advance was not wholly supported up to the close of business. The brokers and jobbers are now principally occupied with the arrange ment of the th ree accoun t s , w hi c h f a ll f or settlement in the early part of next week. In foreign stocks the settlement will be made on Monday, and the Consols and the other English securities the day following. Money, of course, in the present abundance is procurable at very easy rates, so that little fear appears to he entertained for the resuls of the ge neral adjustment of differences. Consols for money and the account left off at 94+ to .-}, and for the opening, 94R ; Bank Stock, 1711 to 1721 ; Exchequer-bills, 60s. to 625. premium ; India Stock, 261 k to 262/ ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 95 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 101 to 3; New Three -and-a-Half per Cents., 101 ; Long Annuities, 121 ; India Bonds, 555. to 575. premium; and South Sea Stock, 1051. In foreign stocks, Spanish Actives were quoted 18k to ; ditto, New, 234 to ; Mexican, 31+ to 32+ ; ditto, De ferred, 94- ; Danish, 84/ to 85/ ; Colombian, 23+ to Brazilian, 72 to 73; Belgian, 102 to 3; Dutch Two-and-a Half per Ce n t s ., 52 to ; and Port uguese C onverte d , 35i to 36.1. The Cheshire county rate for the ensuing year has been fixed at a penny in the pound. WANT OF EMPLovmENT..—An advertisement having been inserted in the Times, for a respectable young man as clerk or messenger, salary 30s. per week, a person applied at the address given, and found at seven o'clock above GOO letters. He was told that 130 came by the six o'clock post; that there was another post then to come, and the country letters next morning. The letters by hand were also pouring in as fast as they could be received. Tun LATE Loan HILL.—The following anecdote, for which we are indebted to a correspondent, shows that, like his great friend "The Duke," Lord Hill was on principle opposed to warfare. The truly valiant warrior laments the necessity for war when winning victories :—" The late Lord Hill, when he heard of the successful results of the Indian and Chinese wars, was so overcome that he exclaim e d, with tears of joy b urst i ng f rom hi s e y e s—' Th an k God, I have lived to hear of these glorious victories, and to know that there is an end of war ! horrid war!' "—Salopiart Journal. DREADFUL STORM AND DESTRUCTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY lowest point which it indicat of the Gth and The barometer, on Friday , fell two degrees below the h it in , !icp..ed previously to the great storm h lary, 1839; end continued to waver at an extraordinary depression throughout the day, so as to create considerable alarm in the public mind, from such in dication being the almost certain forerunner of a storm. Mr. Abraham, optician, of Lord -street, was of opinion, on Friday evening, from the fluctuating state of the instrument for some time, that, though we might have a heavy gale, the force of the storm would not be local, but elsewhere at no very great distance, and this opinion proved to be, in some measure, well founded ; for, though we have felt the gale to be very violent, its strength was, probably, equally if not more severely felt over a breadth of the island further to the southward. The wind throughout Friday, while daylight remained, was occasionally fresh, with heavy showers ; but it did not amount to 'a gale, though it was evident, from the rapidity with which the carry passed along the sky, that there was a much stronger current of air above. Towards evening the wind increased fearfully in violence, and at midnight be came a perfect hurricane. In the opinion of many persons, the gale was as terrific as that of the 6th January, 1839, though we are not of the same opinion, and the casualties which have reached our ears, though awful enough, are, certainly, not so numerous, or of such a destructive character, as those occa sioned by that memorable storm. We extract the following state of the baromter, at Liverpool and Holyhead, at threw periods on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. At three, pm., At eight, a.m., At eight, am., Thursday, Jan. 12. Friday, Jan. 13. Saturday, Jan. 14 28.05 .. 28.78 27.58 .. 28.44 Liverpool Holyhead CASUALTIES IN THE TOWN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD The wind came in fearful gusts, blowing a perfect hurri cane, and between one-and three o'clock on Saturday morn ing reached its height, slates, chimney-pots, and bricks fell during the night in all parts of the town. Many of the inha bitants, particularly in exposed parts, fearful of accidents by the falling of chimneys, congregated in the lower apartments of their houses for safety, and scarcely closed their eyes. As far as our information extends, no fatality, we are glad to say occurred in the town though several had extraordinary escapes. In Gloucester-place, Everton, a house was partially unroofed. A house in Salisbury-street also similarly suf fered. Part of a garden wall in Brownlow-street, and another in George's-road, West Derby, were blown down. A stable belonging to Mr. Crosby, West Derby, was unroofed, and the shed at the back of the Fish Market was blown away. In Rokeby-street a chimney penetrated the roof of a house, but we are happy to say did not injure any of the inhabitants. A yard wall near the Zoologic , l Gardens was blown down. Tl,e severest casualty was the falling of a house in Epworth street, and as the details connected with it are interesting, though melancholy, we will give them from the graphic pen of an eye witness of the disaster. FALL OF THE CHIMNEY AND INTERIOR OF A HOUSE Soon after four o'clock in the morning, Mr. Walker, a reporter connected with this office, left his house, in Finch street, and went into London-road, to inquire of the police whether they had heard of any accidents during the night. He met two police-officers at the end of Gildart-street, and they stated tliat they had heard of nothing particular in the town with the exception of the falling of some bricks, slates, and chimney mugs in different directions, but that they had learned that a ship, supposed to be an American, was in dis tress in the river, not tar from the sea-wall. (It appears that she was afterwards got out of the perilous situation without much damage.) He walked with one of the officers up Lon don-road and Prescot-street, as far as the lower or west cor ner of Epworth-street, remarking that some broken chimney pots had fallen close to the lamp-post. They heard no noise or alarm at that time, nor, though they looked along Ep worth-street, saw the least appearance of any accident to a building. They returned down London-road. At the end of Gildart-street Mr. Inspector Morley came up, and with officer J. Curry, (336,) was again proceeding up London road, on the opposite side, when a gentleman came up in quiring for the police, as he said be was apprehensive that some accident had occurred in some house near that inhabited by himself and family, all of whom had been disturbed and alarmed for some hours by the cries, from time to time, of a man, as if under the ruins ; but from the violence of the wind, he could not tell precisely what house it was, and had seen no appearance of a fallen buildi n g. The whole accom panied him to hit house—next door, to the westward, of the Corner of EpArth-street. The gentleman was Mr. Relps, and his wife and children, and a foreign gentleman, a teacher of the Spanish language, were in the front parlour, and in considerable alarm—the cries of some sufferer being heard by them at intervals from about half-past one o'clock up to that hour. They all went up the back yard of the house, which is bounded by the high wall of a house in Epworth street on the east, and another—detached from it—on the north, the gable of which runs westward. They listened for a short time, and on Mr. Morley repeatedly shouting, the cries of a man from apparently under ruins were repeatedly heard, and appeared to issue from that on the east, which being a single house, presented a high dead wall to the yard, without any opening in that direction. Mr. Morley shouted to him to make himself as easy as possible as assistance was at hand, and the whble party proceeded out, and went round the corner into Epworth-stteet. There was at the first view no appearance of damage in the imperfect light, but Mr. Walker and Mr. Morley soon discovered, in going up to the house in question (three stories high) that the windows above and below were cousiderably,broken, and through these they could perceive that the roof had fallen down from top to bottom interiorly, carrying the whole of the floors into the cellar, and burying the inmates in the ruins and rubbish. The first thing to be done was to procure a light. Some of the neighbours were roused, and candles were got, but it was impossible to keep them in. Meantime it was suggested by Mr. W. that a lantern might be-,;ot by knocking up anybody in the neighbourhood that kept stables, but they were stated to be all closed and to have left their premises. A man run down to the car proprietor'z, nearly opposite the Green Man Still, but found no one there. A lantern was, however, soon after brought by our reporter from• a bakehouse in Prescot-st. The fallen house was inhabited by Mr. Pace, an organ builder, and his family, consisting of his wife and three children. Meantime the outer door was broken open below with a hammer, by Mr. Morley. The stairs are just oppo site to the door ; and, as some children were heard in the cellar, an attempt was made to get at them by the cellar door, but it was so jambed up with rubbish and wreck that this was found impossible. The lower pannels of the parlour door were then broken in by Mr. Morley, and Police-officer 43, (Davies,) got into a sort of recess found between the cellar wall and the fallen materials of the floors. The children were close at hand, within a bed, which had partly turned over upon them, forming a layer or stratum, but they were pressed down pretty tightly by the materials above them, — and moreover caged in by the portions of the beams of the parlour floor which had there fallen perpendi cularly, and stripped of their plaster, so as to form bars. Three of their naked legs projected from the materials next the door, but neither their bodies nor heads were yet seen, though they could both speak, and they did speak cheer fully and encouragingly to each other, as efforts were being made to get them out. A saw was got, and Hughes began to cut one of the beams that caged them in. There was room for only one man to work in the recess at a time, and that, too, in an awkward position ; and as the saw was a bad one for cross-cutting, and continued to jam tight, notwithstand ing the occasional application of grease, considerable time was occupied In even getting half through the beam, though it was of comparatively slender dimensions. A good tenant saw was then brought by a neighbour, and the work, so far, was completed. While this was going on care was taken to postpone attempting to remove or tread upon the ruins piled up in the front parlour,lest the superincumbent mass should set tle down upon and crush the children. At length, about a quar ter past five, by great coution and exertion, during which the children did their best, in moving so far as they could, accord ing to the directions given them, one of them was drawn o u t at the bottom of the bed by the legs—the face downwards. This was Henry Pace, a brave little fellow, between seven and eight years of age, who had shown great coolness throughout. He hod been nearly four hours in the perilous situation stated, but was not hurt. During the night he had frequently encouraged his father (who was at some distance in the ruins) to shout again and he would shout too. He was wrapped in a blanket brought by Mr. Sheppard, flour dealer, opposite, who paid similar attention to all the suffe rers—afterwards receiving two of them into his house— and carried to the house of Mr. Inspector Morley, a short distance off on the other side of the street. Soon afterwards the eldest boy (Thomas, aged ten years) was taken out, through the opening made by severing the beam, with great care, as he complained that he thought his leg was broken. When brought up through the pannels of the door, it was, however, found that this was a mistake, and that the pain he felt proceeded from a fracture of the hip joint. He was carried to Mr. Sheppard's. He, too, kept up his spirits. This little fellow cried out in the night—" Father, if we get out don't take a corner house again." It had previously been found that Mr. Pace, his wife, and a child, William, aged two years, was under the ruins at from one and a half yard to two yards from them and rather below them. The officers now directed their efforts to extricate them, and to effect this entered by the parlour window. The child was got out first. It had been lying on its mother's breast, and after the accident " fought very hard with her," as she expressed it, so that she was much exhausted. and, indeed, at times nearly stifled. The child was taken out un hurt. By very great exertions, and much care in removing the bricks, timber, and rubbish, Mr. Pace was got out about six o'clock. He was not hurt, but a good deal exhausted. His wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy, was next got out, with still greater difficulty. She was carefully carried over the ruins in the interior ; lowered from the window into the street, and conveyed, with a blanket round her, to Mr. Morley's, where her husband was. She appeared very pale and exhriusted, and had evidently, from her situation, suffered more, from inability to breathe freely, than any of the others. She at first, indeed: fainted in the arms of one of the officers (we believe Robert Hall), with whom were officers John Curry and Maddocks. The greatest attention was paid to the sufferers at both houses where they were received. Dr. Gratreax was sent for and was soon in attendance. He and others advised that the boy Thomas should be sent to the Infirmary, which was complied with ; and we are glad to learn, that he is found not to be so severely injured as was at first supposed—so that his speedy recovery is expected. On inquiry yesi.esday morning, we learned that the mother was a good deal recovered. Leeches had been applied to her breast on Sunday, and her breathing was still considerably affected. _ The whole of the family were sleeping in the middle room un stairs at the time of the accident. The two elder boys used to sleep in the attic, but, on this occasion,their bed was brought down to the room below, and placed under that of their parents. It is, therefore, somewhat extraordinary that they should be found so far separated in the ruins—which is to be accounted for by the particular way in which the floors gave way and fell, so as to launch them apart from each other. The house, as before stated, is completely gutted from top to bottom—the four walls remaining alone entire. The partition wall between the staircase and the rooms was very much shattered, particularly that portion of it near the cellar. The whole destruction was caused by the falling of a stack of chimneys at the top of the west or back wall of the building, which had been thrown on the roof by the gale, and carried all before it. The timber of the floors, &c., was of a most slender description, and scarcely a piece of it is left in the walls. The operation of extracting the parties from the ruins was one of considerable danger throughout, the tall shell of building being alone left without any interior bind ing, —so that a strong gust of wind would, in all probability, have brought down portions of the walls, and buried those who were assisting. Luckily, however, the gale had consi derably abated by the time Mr. Morley came up, and con tinued to decrease as the morning advanced. Great praise is due to Mr. Morley and his men for the coolness and intrepidity they evinced throughout, as well as several neighbours and gentlemen present. Mr. Relphs kindly offered the use of his house for the reception of the sufferers, but it was found more convenient to convey them to the places named. The num b ers o f the officers employed, all of whom were most acti v e, were 33 6, 198, 43, 494, and 303. The houses in Netherfield-road, Everton, and the more exposed parts of Toxteth-park, suffered more or less injury. On the Cheshire side of the Mersey, in Birkenhead and its vicinity, the only loss which has yet come to our knowledge is that sustained by the falling in of the gable of a new house in Wellington-terrace, as well as the destruction of an in. , complete cottage in a small street near grange -lane, besides occasional breaches made in the roofs of the houses here and there. A. house in Rocky-lane, Wes; Derby, was partially unroofed. se of forwarding ion. The Lord I there were al. Tollemache, Esq., ley. H. M`D DISASTERS ON THE BANKS AND IN THE RIVER The only casualties that we are aware of in the river, are the sinking of a schooner in the quarantine ground, (the crew of which were saved) and the blowing away of the land ing stage at the George's-pier. The Woodside boats ceased to ply at half-past nine, and those at the other ferries about an hour and a half previously. The Cleveland, Woodside ferry steam-boat, was obliged to return to Woodside without being able to land all her passengers on this side, a few of the younger ones only having reached the pier by jumping from the boat : the remainder prudently returned to Cheshire, where they remained all night. .Lieutenant Sarsfield, R.N. of the Mail-packet, Princess, who arrived on Saturday morning, about eleven o'clock, from Dublin, states that he never encountered a severer night. As he was coming through the Formby Channel, he saw a schooner sunk off Crosby Point. The gallant officer immediately took measures to save any of the crew who might survive. • The schooner was the Hale, from Creetown, on the'south coast of Scotland. The crew had consisted of five persons : four• of these had been swept off and drowned : the master was the only survivor, and had saved himself up to the moment of his rescue by clinging to the vessel's rig ging. He was taken on board the steamer, and the means there used restored him to a state of comparative sensibility. Two other vessels in a crippled state, which had suffered in the tempest, were enabled to reach port safely, through Lieutenant Sarsfield's pilotage and instrumentality. Captain Evans, of the Hale, has written a letter of thanks to Lieut. Sarsfield, and to Mr. Sayers of the receiving -house, for their kind attention to him. The American ship St. Petersburgb, from New Orleans, in attempting to run in, got on shore on Jordan Flats, about eleven o'clock at night. Captain Trask ordered the masts to be cut away, which was promptly executed. This deci sive measure enabled the ship to hold together during the night, until succour arrived in the morning. As soon as her perilous situation was perceived from the shore, the life• boat anti one of the steam-tugs went alongside and took off the crew, who were brought to town by the latter. Many of the poor fellows were in an exhausted state, but they all soon recovered on being brought on shore. On Saturday night the vessel was got off, and, full of water, brought into dock. Thousands of people have visited the dock to see the wreck. The following authentic particulars are derived, by our own reporter, from an intelligent person on board : The St. Petersburgh, of Boston, sailed from New Orleans on the 17th December, with 2,900 bales of cotton. Nothing of importance occurred unti lshe took a pilot off Point Lynas, on Friday morning, when about half way between the N.W. buoy and the above land shortened sail; but so terrific was the gale, that eighteen men, the first and second mate, were on the maintopsailyard from five o'clock until nine, without being able to furl the maintopsail, and were, at length, com pelled to relinquish the task, allowing the vessel to drift in wards. At half-past twelve the pilot called all hands to rouse the cables on deck, and clear away the anchors. At about one o'clock, when near the light-ship, cut away the mizen mast, and at two o'clock cut away the mainmast. At about half-past two let go both anchors, one with one hundred, and the other with ninety fathoms of chain attached, in about ten fathoms of water: at three o'clock cut away the foremast. At four in seven fathonms of water, striking heavily, cleared away the long-boats, and left her till daylight. At half-past eight slipped both cables, their being no sign of a steamer, made sail on a jurry foremast, and run for the beach. A 4 about nine observed a steamer steering for them, hauled their wind, and let her lay close at it amongst the breakers. Shortly after which the Albert Steam Tug took her in tow with two hausers, but both parted ; she now hove heavily on the edge of Jordan flats, and cracked amid ships with a fearful crash. The captain, pilot, and all hands, then went on board the life-boat of the Steam Tug Company, but we understand the pilot afterwards returned, and remained with the mate until she was got off by two of the Steam Tug Company's boats. We visited the vessel yesterday. She was brought into the George's Doek Basin, where she yet lies. During the whole of Sunday, parties were employed in discharging the cotton from the water-logged vessel, and the whole quay is yet covered by the bales, of which proba bly upwards of 1,000 have been discharged, most of them in a damaged state, being saturated with water. The hold was filled with water up to between-decks, and vast numbers of persons went to see her as she lay alongside the quay, and walked along the stages to look into the several holds. The St. Petersburgh is a very large handsome vessel. Her rudder andipart of her stern post below have been smashed off. The wheel house, several of the deck-houses further forward, and other erections, as well as several of the boats, are made complete wreck off—having been dashed about the deck, by the seas she shipped. She will be taken into the Graving Dock for survey, and, no doubt, extensive repairs. The American ship John Cumming, Captain Thayer, from Savannah, which was at anchor in Bootle Bay, was in im minent danger of becoming a total wreck. The sea made repeated and complete breaches over her. The violence of the storm and the sea caused both her anchors to drag, until she tailed on the Bootle sands, where, at the fall of the tide, she lay high and dry. The bottom being soft sand, the ves sel has not sustained much damage. On Sunday, however, some fears were entertained lest, from the very softness of the sand, she should get embedded in it before she could be got off. We have since ascertained that on Sunday morn ing two steamers went down at tide time to endeavour to get her off, but failed in the attempt. She was nearly high and dry at low water, and her anchors being got out, the crew, with assistance, succeeded in getting her afloat at high water the following tide (Sunday night) ; when two steamers towed her up to port, and she is now in Waterloo Dock gut, ap parently with little or no damage. The American ship Adirond;ck, Captain Hackstaff, from New York, arrived on Saturday morning; sailed on the 22d ult., from Sandy Hook, and on the 20th, from New York. Captain Hackstaff bad two men blown off the foreyard, and two men maimed by being blown on deck, during the night. He himself sustained personal injury. He describes the tempest as having been as severe as any he ever encountered. When the ship lurched, it seemed as if the waves actually washed over the mizen topmast head. The schooner Isabella, of Belfast, bound to Runcorn, laden with pipe clay, &c., was wrecked on West Hoyle during the night. Whether the crew were saved or lost we have not heard. They were. it is but too probable, lost. Several pieces of wreck, painted yellow inside, apparently part of a large vessel, have been washed on shore on Hilbre Island, at the mouth of the Dee. Part of a barometer, made at Marseilles, has also been washed on shore on the island. Two flats were driven on shore at Hoyllice. The packet-ship Hottinguer, Captain Bursley, which sailed on Wednesday, for New York, put back on Saturday morn ing. Captain Bursley saw the packet-ship North America, Captain Lowber, on Friday, about one mile to leeward, off Ramsey, Isle of Man. On Saturday she yens off the Great Ormshead, all well, and is, by this time, well round Holy head. The Acorn, for this port, is on shore near Southport. The Holyhead letter, received on Saturday morning, which was posted on F r id ay n i ght, at seven o ' c lock, state d t h at t h e it, " a whole ga l e. " T he barometer conti nue d to fall during the day , and that, at half past four in the afternoo n , it blew,Abeona, a s the writ er expresse d Attridge from this port to Cork, had p u t b ac k with foretopsa il sp lit. Th e St. G eorge, in, with l oss o f main boom, main gaff , and l oss of bulwarks. Lever, from D emerara to this port, h a d put in with l oss o f fore topgallant m as t. Th e C atherine, of Glasgow, had also put The letter a dd e d, t h at several other vess els had tak en re f uge at Holyhead fr om th e e ff ects of t h e t e mpest. The 'Prince of Wales, iro n s teamer, running between this port and C or k, got into Cove at six on the evening of Thurs day, so that she escaped being a t sea during the height of the gale. She go t up t o Cork, where, at two in the afternoon, it began to rain and lighten. It blew so violently during the night that follo we d, t h at the posts on the quays at C or k were torn away, an d it was necessary to carr y the P r i nce ' s an chors on shore, an d b e d them jrl the quay to bold her on. She started f rom C or k on Saturday a ft ernoon a t one o ' clock, and arrived h ere i n sa f ety on Sun d ay . Th e usua l passages made by thi s fi ne vessel are from 22 to 23 hours. Th e dis tance all the way to Cork is little short of 290 miles. The mate states that the city of Cork has suffered very severely, many of the houses having been thrown down or much da maged. The ravages of the storm on the whole line of coast, both in the west and south of the island, are said to have been very 'great; and it is rumoured that upwards of one hundred fishing-boats and other small vessels were lost, be sides some ships. The captain had never observed the ba rometer so low before. The little Manx steamer " Mona's Isle" was out during the whole of the hurricane, and weathered it well. " The Queen of the Isl e ," the largest vessel, should have gone that day, but was not ready, and the Mona took her passengers. She left at ten o'clock on the morning of Friday, and got in on Saturday morn i ng, with no other d amage than the loss of a few boards f rom h er bulwarks. A n o ld man on board, who had bee* thi r t y - s i x ex perienced such a ga l e , at one period of its violence. It quite, , he said "put his years at sea, states that he never Pipe out." - She was full of passengers. 1 No accident took place. The fine, large Glasow steam-ship " Princess Royal" was at sea during the storm, and fully proved her excellent qua lities as a sea-boat. She left Glasgow at eight o'clock on Friday night, and Greenock at half-past eleven o'clock. They experienced the greatest severity of the hurricane from twelve o'clock to about three, on Saturday morning, and arrived safely here, without the slightest damage, at five o'clock on Saturday—having completed the run (certainly with fair wind) in 18 hours. On Friday night , the sma ll steame r Skim mer , f r o m W a l es, with pigs, got into the G eorge ' s Slip to di s charge them, an d , through some mi smanagement, when the tide fell, she got her paddle-boxes much damaged. LOSS Or LIVE STOCK IN THE GALE We have ascertained fro m au thority the number of pi gs , i s h ee p, &c., lost n several of the Scotch, Irish, and other steamers, during the storm : The William Penn, from Waterford, which arrived on Saturday night, had on board 37 Pigs , 2 sheep, and 1 cow, which died on the passage, by the violence of the wind and sea. The Nithsdale steamer, from Scotland, had 9 sheep that perished on the passage, The Royal Victoria, which arrived on Saturday morning from Carlisle, had on board 116 dead pigs and 3 dead oxen. They died from the water flowing over them on the passage. LOSS OF THE SCHOONER " VERNON." At day-break several of the parties connected with the life boat at the Magazines, and others, were on the look-out for any vessels that might be observed in danger, and the boat was got in readiness to go to their as s i s t ance i n such event. In a short time they observed a vessel on the Great Burbo Bank. George Atherton, Esq . immediately offered the use of his steamer to tow out the life-boat, and the crew of the life-boat went on board of the former to assist in weighing her anchors. While they were so engaged the government steamer Merlin, with the outward mails for Dublin, came up, and, being hailed, her commander readily consented to lend them what assistance was in his power.. He towed the life-boat out to some distance to the windward of the Rock the life-boat had reached the tChannel, wreck. It that t wtahse thencre abo o t considered nlne they o'clock, cu . l could andthence the fetch wind was still blowing fresh from the . N.W. with a very heavy sea. Shortly after, when eastern end of the Great Burbo Bank, and about 11 mile from the wreck, the Albert Steam-tug, with the life-boat be longing to the company in tow, passed the Magazine boat. In a few minutes afterwards the latter was spoken by a ring to take any notice of her. fishing-boat, and informed that the crew of the stranded r P ta e l l tied some doubt of its accuracy, vessel had been rescued by a steamer some time before. This information was rendered the more probable from the y some persons in the rig circumstance of their observing the Albert pass the wreck reireached the vessel, and scuing five of the crew— T s h n o o r y t l s y ti a l f l t , e i r i , o w w e i v t e h r o , u o t nt a e p . mate, and the cook hay and fortunately perseveringly rowed on towards the wreck, by aheavy sea dashing her against found necessary to take the weather At one time the life ibgtonhi y n nge g n gpo. e rrne a ela r vyA i t i n oste g uuxhrse w avl rylhitfyilboocpenhroesssnt_thswtetuohyacne: c heoc : ea u dedpi l etn d daci idcnie,nct overboard.thrhe be that of the schooner Vernon, ne thebo a life boat wreck, it it nearly havings tov b e e e i n o , side of her. The Liverpool life-boat was, however, pulling about, outside the breakers, at some little distanc ' e • anti would, doubtless, have come to their assistance had such ' a casTuhaelt wreck T o e c c c k u occurred. proved to of the smallest of the fine line_ of traders of the line, ' that run between this port . and Glasgo w . pm.dritt, sleet, She had long been commanded by Captain Maclean, a man highly respected by all who knew him, and whose loss will long be deeply y de plored. The vessel sailed from the ;Mersey on Fridaymorn ing last, with a general cargo, the principal portion of which all sight of the lights Saturday morning, while . was, we learn, cotton and pig lead. She had not made much progress northward when the.gale commenced. During the night (of Friday) the s Aboutso thick half-past hat those tlr c o o on 0 , boardclock olostrain, and haze became thus uncertain of her course, and desirous to return to port, she struck on some bank, not to them precisely known, but supposed to be somewhere between the Bell Buoy and Burbo. She did not receive much damage from this, and dragged over the bank. She soon after, however, got upon Great Burbo, and beat so heavily, the sea being tremendous, that she almost immediately sunk. This was about half-past eight o'clock. Shortly after she struck she shipped a sea aft, which, filling the lower part of the mainsail, carried away the main-boom, the rolling fragments of which struck the captain and broke his legs. About eight o'clock the same unfortunate individual was washed overboard by a heavy sea. The crew, when the vessel sunk, took to the rigging. The mate was soon after washed out of the fore rigging, and also disappeared. , The cook had taken to the lee side of the main rigging. One of the men, Thompson, continued through the trying occasion td en courage his shipmates to hold on as well as they could, and not to despair of assistance reaching them. Seeing the cook, as he thought, in an insecure position (on the lee side), he asked him to thrust himself through the rattling, or endea vour to gain the weather side ; but when next he looked the poor man was gone. The weather was extremely severe, and the sea making a clear breach over them. became at length so benumbed by the cold and ea, to be nearly powerless ; and when Thompson was taken from the rigging, he was holding on to one of the rattlings only by his teeth! Another of the men dropped off t just as the boat got along-si boat-hook. The whole of th The survivor !, and was picked up wide a hull of the vessel was under water. The main rigging on the larboard (and lee) side was carried away with the exception of one shroud—probably by the sea that washed away the cook. The main topmast and all the running rigging was also carried away. Three men were taken from the fore and two from the main rigging. At the time the life-boat left her part of the cargo, cotton, &c., was floating out of her, and it is not possible that she can be got off. Soon as the rescued parties were landed at the Magazines, they were taken to the house of Mr. Roberts, publican, who had volunteered his services in the boat, in place of one of the crew who was absent. Two of them were so much ex. hausted that they had to be carried. One of these, indeed, was in a state of delirium. The other three walked with assistance. They were put into comfortable beds, and every humane attention was paid to them. Mr. Dunlevie and Mr. Baker, surgeons, of Liscard, were immediately in at tendance :—the former, indeed, happened to be on the spot. The usual remedies were applied, and they were all soon in a fair way of recovery. They are, however, a good deal hurt and bruised, particularly on their hands. Their names are Daniel M'Farlane, of Ellensborough ; John Galbraith, of Loch Gilpie (Argvleshire); John Thompson; John M`Lellan, of Glasgow; and Robert Kelly, of Greenock. The following persons perished :—Captain Maclean ; Dun can M'Donald, Argyleshire, and the cook, whose name we did not learn. Great credit is due to the crew of the Magazine life-boat for their perseverance on this occasion. Had they declined to proceed, after the mistaken information they received from the fishing boat, all on board the schooner would, in all probability, have soon died from exposure and exhaustion. Their names are—Thomas Evans, captain ; Henry. Evans (who was captain daring the storm of the 6th of January, 1839) ; John Evans—all three brothers;—Williarn Whittle; Thomas Whittle (his son); John Hughes; Samuel Dane; William Bell ; John Hilliard ; Richard Sherlock ; and William Roberts—who volunteered. Mr. Scameral, constable of the township of Wallasey, was also very active in rendering every necessary assistance. The present Magazine Lite-boat was built by the corpora tion of Liverpool about six months after the great hurricane of 1839. She is constructed on a much-approved principle, and the site of the shed in which she is kept is well chosen, to render her readily available in cases of casualty at the mouth of the river. The Magazine life-boat has often been highly successful. The boat in use before the present one was commanded by Henry Evans, and in three years saved the lives of no fewer than 98 persons. The present boat, commanded by his brother, saved the crew of the Corsair, of Halifax, 24 in number, in January 1840. About three months ago, the boat of the government steamer Medina took off the crew of the schooner " Cooner Baba," which was lost on Great Burbo Bank : the boat, however, became half full of water, and the Magazine life-boat took the whole of the people out of her. We mention these facts with a view to the merits of these men, which, as they do not live in the town, are not generally known; and we trust the Shipwreck and Humane Society, or other individuals who may have the power, may be inducedto give them some reward a of their approval of their past services, and an encouragement for their future exertions for the saving of human life, at considerable personal risk, from the frequent perils to which it is exposed in the locality in which their services are so immediately available. PLYMOUTH This town sustained damage from the storm. The casual ties on the land were confined principally to the prostration of chimnies and partial unroofing of houses. The schooner Belle, of Plymouth, was beached at Deadman's Bay, but has been warped off. The brigs Sea Witch, Southampton, and General Brock, all of London, are stranded. The barque Bragilla. of Falmouth, is a total wreck at Bovisand Bay. A brigantine from Marseilles for this port (Liverpool) went into the port with loss of sails. The brig Mayflower, which stranded on the south side of the breakwater on the 3d inst., has been carried by the force of the waves clear over it, and now lies nearly perpendicular on the north or inner side. The _ . . latest accounts state that there is considerable apprehension of the ultimate safety of the Sea Witch and Southampton. Nearly a ton of lead was peeled off one of the sheds in her Majesty's dockyard. In the Plymouth citadel the slates were blown from the roof of the barracks to the ramparts, and the lead on the chapel there has been turned up like so much paper. The roof of Salham-house, the seat of the Right Hon. Earl Morley, has sustained considerable damage. PORTSMOUTH On Friday morning, a sloop and a two-masted vessel were observed at anchor riding heavily, about five miles S.S.W. of Cumberland fort at daylight; they both sank shortly af terward-, and it is feared all hands have perished. The mast heads of the two-masted vessel were visible at the last ac count. Several houses are much damaged, and the dockyard buildings slightly. Lord Ashburton's new marine villa in Stokes bay is seriously injured. Several vessels had been on shore, but had not sustained much damage. BRISTOL Among other accidents the Gothic window of St. Nicho las's Church, in the clock tower, was torn completely out of its framework and dashed in. The vane of St. Philip's Church also was torn off. Flom St. Werberg's Church se veral copingstones of large size were blown down. At the West of England Stay Factory the entire stack of chimnies was blown down, and, falling on the roof, dashed it in, and the whole mass forced its way through the ceiling of a room in which upwards of fifty girls were at work, causing, of course. the utmost consternation. Many of the females went into hysterics, but providentially none of them were severely injured, most of them having escaped with a few bruises. A stack of chimnies was also blown down at Mr. Ames's seat near Westbury, at Diment and Grimer's, York-street, and at the corner of Philadelphia-street. In Queen-street a very large elm tree was torn up by the roots, as were also several trees in the neighbourhood. At Trowbridge the chimnies of a large factory were blown down, and, as we hear, upwards of £6OO of damage done. At the time of the hurricane several ves sels were lying at anchor in Kingsroad, and much apprehension was felt for their safety. It was found that most of them had started their anchors and were driven ashore at the mouth of the river, but without suffering much damage. The Pomona, bound for the West Indies, started her anchors and was driven down Channel quite out of sight; but so variable was the wind, that shortly afterwards she was driven back again by the fury of the tempest, and went ashore in the mouth of the river. Among those which went ashore, were the Reform from Glasgow, the Caroline for Tobago, the Mayflower for Bonny, the Active for Bridgewater, a Prussian brig, and one or two others. The sloop Anne of Berkeley, from Black Rock, foundered near the mouth of the river, fortunately, however, without loss of life, the crew being saved. The Mermaid steamer, from Cork, Captain Horne, belonging to the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company, arrived on Friday, after having experienced the full fury of the gale, by which she was much damaged, her bulwarks being stove in and her starboard paddle-box broken in fragments. She states that she first encountered the hur ricane when about midway across the Irish Channel on Thursday night. She weathered the gale until she came abreast of Lundy Island on Friday afternoon, where her bul warks were stove in, and upwards of fifty pigs washed over board. During the remainder of the voyage the sea continued to sweep over her with fearful violence, and pour into her hold, by which means, upon her arrival, it was found that upwards of 200 pigs were washed overboard or suffocated. Nothing but the superiority of her machinery saved her, in the opinion of the crew. The Irish packets did not sail on Friday, but one or two of them sailed this morning. Some apprehension, also, is felt for the safety of the Dublin and Waterford packets, which were due here yesterday, but they may not have sailed. Nothing certain, however, is known. BRIGHTON The Prince Regent, a vessel belonging to London and bound to Portsmouth with a general cargo. She swung to, and was carried to, within about 50 yards of the shore be tween Brunswick-terrace and Copperas-gap. The life-boat put off, but it stuck fast in the beach. By means of Captain Manby's mortar a line was thrown over the vessel and a rope was communicated with the vessel. Young, the chief boat man of the Copperas-gap Coast guard station, succeeded, al though at great peril, in reaching the vessel. The crew were found in an extremely exhausted state, but they were success fully hauled on shore, the captain being the last to leave his vessel. On reaching land, the crew, consisting altogether of only five, with the captain, gave a hearty cheer, led by the youngest boy, only about 12 years of age. The whole, with one exception, were obliged to be carried to the next inn, (the Ship, at Hove,) where they were put to bed. While the tide remained high every breaker dashed ovcr the vessel, sending the spray a couple of hundred feet inland. She is now, the tide having left her, dry on the beach, and exertions are making to land a part of the cargo; but, the gale continuing to blow with unabated fury, it is feared that at the next high tide the vessel will go to pieces. The John and 'William, a fine vessel belonging to Brighton, with 550 quarters of barley is lost, about eight miles eastward of that port, and two of the crew are drowned. She is a compl e t e wrec k an d not a grain of the barley is to be seen. The Defiance stage coach, was upset by the wind with more than a dozen passengers, but no one was hurt. Several stacks of chi mn i es h ave f a ll en ' in various parts of the town, and unfo r t unate l y i n one i nstance killed a little child, and several other parties had narrow escapes. YARMOUTH The schooner Phoenix, of was driven ashore early on Friday morning, and it was f, ared she would go to pieces. The crew saved themselves by the boats. Two other vessels went on the bank, but they were expected to be got off if the weather moderated. During the morning up wards of 200 vessels lost their anchors and cables by the extraordinary violence of the wind. At Sheerness tour ves sels dro e on shore, and they were expected to become wrecks. The stern of the Friends' Goodwill, of Colchester, was thrown on the beach near Dover ; and it appears the vessel was capsized during the voyage, and the crew only es caped by jumping into the stern-boat, which they managed to cot away. Several schooners were nearly lost. About the same hour the Ann and Avis schooner, from London, capsized in the channel, and immediately went down. About ten o'clock on Friday morning, a large American ship called the Sarnarang, from New York to Hull, having a valuable cargo on board, was seen by the Deal pilots drifting away to sea from the Downs, wholly unmanageable; both masts had been cut away, and the crew had abandoned the vessel. Her fate is at present unknown. Her crew have since reacheh Broadstairs in safety. LONDON. The hurricane was at its height at London at one o'clock on Friday, having commenced early in the morning. The metropolitan journals of Saturday give distressing accounts of its ravages in and around the metropolis. Some of the streets were strewed with fragments of broken chimney-pots, tiles, slates, &c. ; while out of town, trees, palings, &c. bad been blown down in all directions. Mr. Feltham, a cow keeper, of Somerstown, was killed by the fall of a stack of chimnies in Portland-place. The steamer Monarch sunk in the river at Limehouse. The crew were saved, but the cargo (teas, &c.) is next to valueless. IRELAND. The hurricane was severely felt over the whole of Ireland. A letter from Wexford, dated Saturday, 'informs us, that it began to blow early on the preceding evening, and increased, towards midnight, to a complete tempest. We lament to state, that the ship Santon, Captain Huxtable, from Calcutta for this port, one of Messrs. T. and J, Brocklebank's fleet, went on shore, in the course of the night, in Ballyteigue Bay, about two miles from the spot where the American ship Vermont was lost a few months ago. Captain Huxtable and three of his crew, we lament to add, were drowned. The ship would, it was feared, become a complete wreck. SUNDERLAND At Sunderland, two ships were wrecked in the course of Thursday night. On Friday forenoon two brigs were driven on shore at Tynemouth. One was the Percy, Hair, from Sunderland, which soon broke in pieces. Her crew (all townsmen, the most of whose families were amongst the as sembled spectators on the beach) were exposed to the most fearful danger. A rope was thrown to the deck, a n d th e • . apparatus put into operation. Captain Hair, the cook, and his son were put into the slings, but, from the lurching of the vessel, to which the rope was attached, they were, it is supposed, thrown out, and all three drowned. The fate of Air. Hair (who struggled for nearly twenty m i nu t es am id st '` . • • the raging surf, catching at one time the rope with his heels, and then approaching almost to the rock, as if determined not to die) was past describing; but, alas! he, as well as his comrades, perished under the eye of friends, family, and ac quaintance. His body has since been found. The remainder of the crew were saved by the heroism and bravery of a boatman at Tynemouth Haven, who stripped off his clothes, put off in a boat, and succeeded in rescuing the remainder of the crew, four in number. The life-boat approached so near as to hazard in great peril the lives of the men in her, but did not succeed In reaching the vessel. ILFRACOMBE SALCOMBE, &C At Ilfracombe the schooner Ringdove, from Prince Ed ward's Island, was totally lost during the storm within s few miles of the Harbour, and has since gone to pieces. The crew were saved by a boat belonging to the Coast Guard Service, which took them off the vessel just before she struck. Another vessel called the Diligence, Edwards mas ter, of Aberdovy, went down in deep water off the Grassholnv. The crew took to the boat, and landed at St. David's abuut four o'clock on Friday afternoon. The vessels are valued at £1,200. SALCOMBE —A fearful storm raged here for twenty-four hours, unroofing the houses in the town, and tearing up trees by their roots. In the river several vessels have driven from their moorings, and two ships, the Dove and the Commerce, are on shore outside the harbour, in a most dan- gerous situation. At Hull the gale was also severely felt. A vessel called the John and Susan, from Shoreham to Stocton, was wrecked at about 4 o'clock in the morning, near Lower Coates' for tunately the crew were saved. Among other wrecks reported to have occurred in the hurricane are the brig Resolution at Orfordness, crew saved ; a Scotch schooner near the same spot; the William the --••a the Moore upon the sands in Stokes-bav he T Broth Despatch on shore at Mistley ; t -wo aers on shore Southsea beach.; the Henry Brougham on shore at Pake- field, and two others. It is feared that two or three vessels foundered in the course of Friday morning off Dungenness, and that all on board perished. A dreadful shipwreck happened near Boulogne, within a short distance of the spot where the Reliance East Indiaman was lost a short time since. The Albion, Captain Thompson, in making through the Downs for the Thames, was driven on shore, where she became a wreck. The crew, it is feared all perished. We learn, from the Cork Constitution of Saturday, that the storm was severely, though not fatally, felt in and near the city, particularly on Friday. It commenced with vivid flashes of lightning ; and thunder was heard from the west ward. At six in the morning it blew a hurricane, and con tinued with little abatement until evening. The shops' shut ters were closed during the day, lest the glass should be blown in. A number of large trees were blown► down in the neighbourhood. At Cove some of the shipping sustained damage—including the Royal Saxon, from China. THE EXTRAORDINARY FALL OF THE BAROMETER The Manchester Guardian, of Saturday, thus notices the phenomenon of the extraordinary fall of the mercury : `Yesterday there was one of the most remarkable depressions of the barometer that has been observed in this town since the year 1824, when one very nearly similar occurred. Du- ring the greater part of Thursday, although there was a severe frost, the mercury was low, and inclining downwards. Towards evening it began to fall with great rapidity ; and, at eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, had reached the extraor dinary law point of 27,90, according to avery good barometer, belonging to Mr. Ronchetti, of Market-street. Most of the wheel-barometers in the town, including the one upon the Exchange, which is a very good one, had passed the lowest point of depression marked upon them, and appeared to be a little above 'settled fair.' About half-past eleven, the ba rometer began slowly to rise again ; at seven o'clock yester day evening it had reached 28,10, and was then steadily rising. No doubt this very extraordinary variation in the barometic pressure was connected with some violent convul sion of the atmosphere, of which we shall, probably, hear the particulars in a few days. Here we had nothing more extraordinary than a strong gale from the south or southwest, which began shortly after midnight, and blew in sudden and violent gusts unlil seven or eight o'clock in the morning. The remainder of the day was nearly calm, with occasional showers; and towards evening heavy rain set in, with every appearance of a continuance. •` Since the above was written, we have received a com munication from Dr Dalton, through M r. Peter Clare, which gives a somewhat different account of the depression yester day. And it is obvious from a comparison of the results obtained from his and Mr. Ronchetti's instruments, that they are differently graduated ; Dr, Dalton's standing about one-tenth of an inch higher on each observation. The fol following are the particulars with which the doctor has fur nished us : " Yesterday (Thursday) `at 6 o'clock p.m., the mercury began to descend in the barometer, and in flue hours sunk •12 of an inch, when it stood at 28,03 inches. This, (Friday) morning at eight o'clock, it stood 28.15 in., and gradually descended until 2 p.m., when it was observed at 28 62, being lower by •16 of an inch than Dr. Dalton ever observed it at Manchester. The only depression which he has found in his journal of observations made in Manchester for upwards of 49 years, that approaches the nearest to the present, oc curred on the 23rd of November, 1824, when the mercury stood at 28-18 inches. The mean height of the Barometer, as adduced from the doctor's observations for the last 49 years, is 26,885, being 1-865 inch higher than the height it stood at to-day (Friday). The mercury is now ascending rapidly at 4 p.m., it was 28-10 ; at 8 p.m.. it was 28-20 at 9 p.m., it was 28-27-' Mr. Holden, the astronomer, has also noticed the phe-; nomenon in a letter addressed to the editor of the Preston Pilot. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON PILOT " SlR,—This morning. (Friday, January 13th) the baro. meter was lower than I have seen it at any time since I began to observe. At Bh., a.m., the mercury, in a standard ba rometer was at 27-99 ; at 11h. 30m., a.m. it stood at 27.93. This is very uncommon, and particularly so at the low eleva tion which my house is above the level of the sea, whilli cannot exceed 80 feet. As then heel barometers, some of them have actually gone round to ' very dry ' I expect we shall hear of a great storm that has happened somewhere, either this morning or last night.—l am, sir, yours, Sec.,_ __ _ "Jordan-street. "M. H OLDEN." ' STATEMENT OF BAROMETER AT THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION, ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1812, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Barometer Attached Thermometer 5O• External • do. 36• CORRESPONDENCE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, request the favour of your inserting in to-morrow's Standard the enclosed correspondence. Those numbered 1,2, 3, are copies; that 4, is the original. To the dispas sionate judgment of the parishioners generally, I leave it to be decided whether the coarse and offensive language applied to me in the letter No. 4 could possibly be justified by the fact of my having civilly requested the writer to correct the exclusive title of " Catholic," which, as I have always maintained, belongs to the clergy of that branch of the Catholic Church established in this realm, and is unjustly assumed by the separatists who adhere to the foreign Church of Rome ; and whether the threat of personal violence which that letter contains can possibly be worthy the character and principles of one who boasts of himself that h e i s ep i scopa ll y ordained, and therefore a divinely consecrated minister of the gospel of peace. I am not sorry, a l so , t o f urn i sh the parishioners with a specimen of what they might expect in language and temper, if ever such a priesthood should ge upper hand. —1 am ( y c o h u u r r cohbwe WILLIAM L s o e fi r tA v h a me n p t o ßiE L T iv T er , pool.) January 16th, 1843. " accordance with the resolution, of which we hand you a copy on the other side, we, the Catholic clergy of St. Mary's Chapel, Edmund-street, on behalf of our con gregation, beg respectfully to lay before you the destitute state of the poor children committed to our pastoral care, in the hope that, as a friend to morality and education, you may be induced to aid us in providing them with the means of instruction. " Our district comprises the whole of that part of the town which lies north of Dale-street, and west of Byrom-street and Vauxhali-road, and is, as will readily he conceived, the poorest district and most densely populated with Catholic children of any in the town. " From the result of our inquiries, we are assured that there are upwards or 1,000 poor Catholic children in our district left in total ignorance, for whilst every other district in the town has a school attached to each Catholic chapel, which though inadequate to the wants of the Catholic popu lation in those districts, affords education to large numbers of children, in our district the poverty of otif Hock has hith erto rendered them unable to build a school, but with the blessing of God and the aid of a generous public, we propose to remedy this crying evil, and to erect a school capable of containing a thuusand children, where they may receive an education that will not only contribute to their advancement in life, but by teaching them the duties of man to his fellow man, and of the creature to his Creator, make them become good citizens and worthy members of society. " Whilst the school question was in agitation, and we had the sympathy and support of men of great character and attainments who differed from us in religious views, we had ' hoped almost against hope' that provision would be made out of the public funds for the education of the poor, but now that the town-council have by a large majority decided that we shall not have education upon the only terms which, con sistently with our religious principles, we can accept it, we ask you —we entreat all by the instinctive feeling of sympathy which man feels for his fellow-man, by the natural claims which the poor have upon the wealthy, and above all, and before all, by the touching appeal of the ignorant and unen lightened for their information and instruction, to help us in erecting a school for their accommodation. " Though our appeal be now to the benevolence and charity of the public, we may humbly suggest that our children, having been deprived of a participation in the com mon funds of the borough, they have indirectly some claim upon the justice of the community to provide them with education. " Subscriptions will be gratefully received at our Chap( House, 50, Edmund-street, and at the Liverpool Boroug Bank, in Water-street. " THOMAS FISHER, " JAMES WILKINSON, " WILLIAM DALE. " Edmund-street, Liverpool, 19th Dec., 1842." " 'At a MEETING Of CATHOLICS of the DISTRICT of ST. MARY'S CHAPEL, Edmund-street, Liverpool, held at the Grecian Hotel, on the 16th December, 1842, The Rev. JAMES WILKINSON in the Chair, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : " I.—That this meeting views, with feelings of deep re gret, the decision of the Town Council, on Wednesday last, whereby all hope of the poor Catholic children of the town being educated at the expense of the common fund of the borough has been virtually annihilated, and the burden of educating their destitute poor has thus been thrown on the members of the faith already overburdened with the support of their own churches and charitable institutions, for they cannot receive instruction in the form now offered at th Corporation Schools. " '2.—That considering education to be one of the great y - 17) s 4-71 est blessings that can be conferred upiyquth,.*"rftrp.l notwithstanding onr many other res r duty as Catholic,, as men, to 11:Hi; Y. t ' to educate the Catholic chit the n„4.' been abandoned to ii;tioratic c and crime by y. the public purse. " `3.—That in pursuance of the above resolution, we forthwith issue an address to the friends of education, of all religious denominations, in the town, intreating them to aid us by their contribution_ ' • children, which has been duty it was to have provided " ' 4.—That we ten, hers of the Town Council who, creed, have so ably and so well advocated the poor Catholic children to a secular echi•-•••' their religious principles. Mr f T Our I 4 JAMES WILK! tent wits "REVEREND SIR,-1 have to acknowieu,,, a printed circular, signed Thomas Fisher, James VI and William Dale, in which they style themse Catholic clergy of St. Alary's Chapel, Edmt , together with a printed copy of resolutions a' meeting of Catholics of the district of St. M• Edmund -street, held on the 16th Dece n d which you presided. " As I cannot recognise any on,. of this town, who has not taken orders, and made a dec.- don in conformity with the rubric of the established church and the laws of the realm, nor any ecclesiastical distrim- -• has not received the legal sanction of the Lord r' Diocese, (the Bishop of Chester,) which, to my certain knowledge, has not, Edmund -street bei fact, within the ecclesiastical district of the Parorl-' of our Lady and St. Nicholas, and under the spin. of the Catholic rectors of the parish and their curates, feel myself under the necessity of returning them to you ft correction in these main particulars. " I am, Reverend Sir, your obedient servant, " WILLIAM BIRKETT, " Churchwarden of the Parish of Liverpu "St. Nicholas' ,3d January, 1843. "To the Rev. James Wilkinson, Chairmn • Catholi ial Chapel 4. " Six,—Though I cannot but characterize the letter which you have been pleased to address to•me as impertinent presumptuous, yet as I readily give you credit for si and attribute in a great measure to ignorance the b . intolerant effusions in which you are in the habit c. ging, I will, for your instruction, reply to your civil er " And, first with regard to my ordination. Thous , ' not entered the ministry by making the declarat; by the rubrics of the established church ; inform you that the rubrics of that church lidity of my ordination ; and if from a desire . labour and better pay on any other equally ereditab, were to apostatize from the faith of my fathers, and embra L a creed in conformity with the" laws of the realm," a bishor, of your church would readily admit the validity of my ordi nation, and at once appoint me to a cure. " Before you, a layman, again take the liberty of writing to a clergyman upon a subject, on which any intelligent and well educated minister of the established church will tell you that you are evidently uninformed, I would respectfully suggest to you that " the bett er part of valour is discretion, and that from other hands you may receive a castigation which it would be unbecoming in me to inflict. " And now as to my designating myself a Catholic clergy man. lam (I say it in all reverence, and with a sense o f my own unworthiness) a " Catholic clergyman" a humbl e mi nister of the ancient faith—" Catholic" in every attribute and in every sense—" Catholic" in all ages and in all nations —" Catholic" by the received and admitted consent of man kind—properly designated " Catholic " in history, in geogra phy, in the works of travellers, in th e senate, at the bar, in the public journals,* in the drawing-room, and in every other depart and locality " (unl ess an exception be found in the vry of the church of our Lady and St. Nichol." " Are we then to be told, in the nineteenth century, by as the ) member of a church established by an d i n conformity with constitution • t ' i l t a u w tio o n f trhenedreeraltmd and whose r ecent origin and very name " Catholic," as applied to his church, a mockery, that we have for centuries usurped a title which he has now discovered belongs to hi m ! Does not this savour of a desire " to assume a virtue if you have it not ?" Even your zeal, as a warden of the t emporalities of the church, and your evident anxiety to have its spiritu a l govern ment committed to your care, can hardly excuse your pre sumption. 'ermit a I have quired Sir, to D have le v motive Hiving now answered your note, permit me, in conclusion, to say that in appealing to you, and I may add to Christians of every denomination in the town, we did so in the hope that seeing the position in which our poor children had been placed by the recent decision of the Town Council, men would forget the bitterness of religious animosity, and yield ing to the better and more noble feelings of their nature, would say to us in charity an d kindness " Th oug h we pity the ignorance and deplore the delusion under which you are labouring, yet as you are actuated by a sincere di save from vice and immorality the children of your f ,we to ith will forget the difference of creed, and as friends of education aid you in instructing the ignorant." " We regret if we have failed to raise your head, but with the settled conviction of the riebt ltiments in ness of our cause, we will persevere in our appeal to the jus tice and sympathies of the public. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES WILKINSON " St. Mary's, Edmund-street, " Liverpool, 9th January, 1843. " William Birkett, Esq., Churchwarden, &c * This word is spelled " jonrnels " In pose it to have been a mere lapsus penna, MR. HAMMOND AND THE MINOR THEATR TO THE PDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAI SIR,—In readihg the Liverpool Albion of thi s d noticed a letter signed " Fair Play," in which tt sistency of the proprietors of the Theatre Royal in th is questioned in protecting the patent rights of that establish ment. In consequence of my being the present lessee of the theatre, and heretofore opposed to the proprietors, as co partner with Mr. Raymond in the management of the Liver Theatre, I reluctantly give publicity to a correspondence with that gentleman on this subject; but I have the less hesita tion in the matter as Mr. Raymond has ceased to be the manager of the Liver Theatre, and, consequently, his in terest cannot be affected by the course I N aaor justice, therefore, to myself, and in deference to the propri etors of the Theatre Royal. whose kindness and liberality to me I take this method publicly to acknowledge, I will as briefly as possible state facts, from which it will appear, however the management of the Liver Theatre might have been rendered liable to penalties by infractions of the patent rights of the Theatre Royal during the period in which I was connected with it, I was not a willing party to proceedings which, being but a partner with Mr. Raymond, I had not the power to prevent. Some time ago I was strenuously urged, in a letter from Mr. Raymond, to be guided by the advice of a professional gentleman in this matter; a n d I refer you to that portion of the letter which bears upon the point in question, which is to the following eflect " Liverpool, 25th Nov., 1833. "By ---'s advice I write a few lines. Holloway Was to have opened last night, but has received a noti ce f rom the proprietors, sayi ng they would prosecute if h e did : he now does not open till we d o . thinks it prob a bl e we may be served with a notice, (which, in my opinion, as well as his, will do no harm,) but recommends us to be prepared against the worst. The following is his advice. " In case of information remove it to the King's Be nc h : we are sure to lose as the law stands, unless they make some flaw : if they succeed they issue execution." This part of the letter is followed by a r ecommendation to give a warrant of attorney, and to use every effort to gain time, to proceed with the season. With the recollection that, a short time previous to the date of this letter, Mr. Raymond and myself, as managers of the Liver Theatre, bad been fined and paid the sum of fifty pounds for a violation of the law at that establishment, I made the following reply : - - - " Sheffield, 27th Nov., 1533. " As regards the notice to Holloway, for my own part I think the proprietors are perfectly right ; it is u se e be sup posed that they would suffer any place of amusement to be opened during the regular season of the Theatre Royal. With respect to the warrant of attorney, I do most decidedly object to it. If the proprietors are determined to prevent the opening of any other theatrical establishment in Liver a interfere er fere pool, all the quirks and trickeries of the law cannot excuse us, and inevitable ruin must be the consequence • but let us honest ly, aft.er the royal hcuse is Aly opinion is, that closed, provided we do not act the legitimate dramas. If they do, we are only in the same situation we have always been, t m h e e et p o ro u p r r f i a e t t e or f s ea w r i l l e l u n l o y t and must battle it out in the best way possible." I refrain from all comment upon this correspondence, and shall only say the letter of Mr. Raymond and my answer are in my possession, and open to the inspection of any person who may be desirous to peruse them. Your insertion of the above in the STANDARD of to-rnorrow will oblige, Sir, Your most obedient servant, W. J. HAMMOND. Theatre Royal, Liverpool, Jan. 16, 1842. an townsmen, STEA`'m --------SHIP " B HE friendHA Ou - r o f this North American Captain BITTENNIA.— Ste Hewitt or rathei " silver" opinionsmiler, continues , coder of men earn roman en" he traverses the storm for all sorts Mirror of the 24th DecemberY Atlantic. We °fi men with whom outward voya that the find by the Boston ex throughout, and Perieneed very vessel had on her last h a dboisterous during which the se also encountered weather almost a broke some slight damage • - ered some over the ship, heavy gales, ing to impede her in her light wood p, and she received noth conduct of CaptaitPl rogress. The -work above, but most skilful and galla H ewitt, The passengers represented the Iris officers and crew, as of the their obligations nt character, a Decamber on boardt° Captain , nd desirous of expressing Silver the ship) Hewitt had (on the 19th of Tea-service , presented him . Ca tai , accompanied with a handsome Lea n John Hewitt, pamed by the following address : Ste r Sir—ln behalf Steamship Britannia , of all the passengers on board the F r orpan..i n _ r g testimonial solicit your acceptance of the ,c -e unceasing exel et al of their esteem and friend -h p. continuance of a on and ability you displave•lduri , ig the mand from us some of unusual severity and durat.o ~ de particularly, as e acknowledgement of our gratitune: more hazard. your activity placed you in imminent personal We request that you our will sense of the sd mirable manner in which they hav e per formed th e i r has now duties; and tr us ting that that Providence wh ich brought our • perilous voyage to a close, will watch over you in all • . and similar dangers, and bestow on you all health Prosperity. We at •e, e, dear sir, faithfully yours, (Signed by five gentlemen on behalf of the passengers. _ With reference to the personal danger allu ded to—to which Captain Hewitt was exposed, we find some interesting facts in a letter from one of the pqssen gers, di:Wi s hed in the Nor York Journal of commerce. It apdears that on the 12th December, while the ship was in longitude 38 . slie encoun tered a tremendous gale of wind from the NW. She was going easy under close - reef ed storm sails, when, at 6in the morning, she shipped a sea' Which struck her on the larboard side, before the paddle box, and completely filled the deck. Captain Hewitt was, at the time, standing on the grating abaft at the wheel giving directions to the steersman, and the third officer was standing near him. The captain was lifted from his feet, and when he recovered from the immersion in the huge wave that appeared to o verwhelm the vessel, he for nd hi mse lf entangled on the guy of spanker boom, outside the saffrail. He instantly took advantage of that slende d r stay and the small iron rail on the top of the .an held on untilhe could draw himself on board, on the sea sub sidin. The third officer had also a narrow eseape, and se. veral of the crew were injured—one of them mortally. The ship, however, suddenly recovered herself, through the force of her engines and her own buoyancy, rising, as if in _ dignantly f ro m the assault, shook off the and water rapidly from her decks. Some of the light gear about the bulwarks was, as might be expected, carried away, but the hull never once complained, and not a screw of the machinery was strained. We may add that such was the force of the sea that broke on on board of her , that the brass ballustrade, or railway, - the top of the saloon was carried away. The Britan • ma and her three sister ships have certainly proved themselves the most perilous voyages during the winter) fast (even in admirable tea-boats. —Captain Hewitt states sailers and overtaken by the recent hurricane which that he was over this locality on Thursday last I afterwards , and then it passed guns . All, however, was right-4 , •en blew waves. or . Britannia ru le s great the