The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD the circulation of the STANDARD is now greater than that of any Conservative journal in Liver pool, and we think we may add, of any provincial Protestant paper in England. The high respecta bility of its readers has always been acknowledged. our advertisements lred per cent. Crig Killtruool ~.-;->tanbarb. Within the last twelve month d nearly one h have incr an Atha 1 y Subscri c, o , t Credit, 15s. TUESDAY 310 RN/NG, MAY 13, 1847, :chequ rt the tsures adopted by the Chancellor of the thus far, having for their declared ob- 'ehef of the monetary difficulties of the commercial world, have not produced as yet any acrease of EXchequer Bills, .noi- he rate of interest y kept above par; and the proposal of Government to discount instalments of the last loan, if paid in anticipation, is condemned in many influential quarters. On the whole it seems to he _ght that Sir Charles Wood is not precisely the man to deal with the present emer and the want of confidence produced by ion is increasing the embarrassment of generally thot &ency expre t throughout the - country, discounts of 1g almost impossible to procure on any reasonable terms. By this state of things, and in the absence of a bold and intelligible policy for our extrication from existing difficulties, some of the leading sources of these difficulties are being aggravated. We labour under a deficient supply, and high prices of human food. Yet merchants dare not send for ward their orders to those markets, in which it is to be had, from the uncertainty of being able to procure the discounts or to realize the securities to enable them to meet the paper which must be drawn against their purchases. We have orders for manufactured goods already in the country and more orders to arrive, by the execution of which we might bring foreign exchanges more in our favour, and furnish a medium more satisfactory than bullion to pay for the breadstuff - s we require. B'ut merchants and manufacturers are disinclined to execute them, from the difficulty of realizing the Bills, in the first instance to be remitted or drawn for payment. In a word, our position is of this anomalous kind that, wanting food, and having the industry of our manufacturing population to pay for that food, with customers willing to receive the products of that industry, we have not either confidence or a sufficient circulating medium to enable us to arrange the required exchange of com modities. As the result, the commodities which we most want—breadstuffs ----are rising in the hands of holders here, and our principal raw mate rial, here and in the markets from which we de- rive it, are rising, because of the decreased pro spect of an early supply of either to keep specula tion in check ; whilst the manufacturer is daily limiting his production of fabrics, which he is not permitted by the monetary circumstances of the times to It is a ,nae obstinacy Y which induces a finance importunities with which urrounded, the part of our most eminent commer laoufac toren, to to eTer expedient— brick of tl- Sank Chart( shift and trifling hould displace one difice, erected by the Day by day that mea and more unfit for a If more t. It wa crisis li .ever calculated fo trade ; and much will spread TO CORRESPONDENTS. difilculty in the mind of "IL. T." tifust hare been occa- Itonnac allui'ed to We find thiit we week, in stating that the iton Marsh, had probably been . 7613—whereas we find that the year giving them an antiquity, as tegards pres, 'e under a inistate,' in our para*raph last - hazel-nuts found embedded in .Bid rroosited about: the eir.• sso far back; 1113— ervation, o upwards _ a _ of seven centuries and quarter. is giving, in a former number, the preface to a series of sketches, entitled " Experiences of a Liverpool Surgeon," which will appear from time to tine' in our columns, w • omitted to state that they are kindly furnished us by the writer of a paper in the April number. of Prater's Magazine —" The Teacher of Music : a Tale of Epidemic." The tim ketch, " Death in a Court, amber. will be found in one preset] operation under a system of fre farther att tempt to E brce its operation abroad disaster and nun, amongst all classes of our ended with outbreak, elation. With famine F life—with the trade prices of all the ze portion of our suspended and with fever sta st us, to add its horrors to the crisisL MI arm it can never b : borne that mere theorists, however sagacious in times of less trial, should be permitted to stand between the nation and its demand for release from suffering unparalleled; and, with a Burleigh-like shake of its head, bid us to struggle on for a few months longer, and delude us with in tangible and impalpable hopes that we shall all be right again, when we have pl which the misconduct of the Bank is said by son , d through the fire and our a recent in in mad speculations tis lon .er," indeed ! men, engag 'd in tradin if a merearaire or a merelyreiail assure himself of the ability to endure a ti rolongation of the present have heard already of the for IT y by some of the ere are other or other sh s, to a ( selves. ;per, th, could tell Sir how hopeless on for A glance at rn.ercial sur, f their stubborn THE ma sense of the k Con )f a su Aton Wool, t net. d not s is prop, )f the to meet his for If the 1 is cott ni, and the uch derives ion, surely Liverpoo' 3k at it in it the B ose hor small in sment and 1( Lumber must t withdrawn from tl embod -men who have of England alleged s . - of corn nor of d in railway s •-acquired property t a rate unknown, er, or even lan tradesmen, the arer and the artizan s unparalelled, vamped if this screw lem, or its p elaxed. These men nd Sir Robert Peel )r them to " struggle Led in our corn- e present condition ad the accounts of our working popu- It to awaken govern r which is before them y is persisted in on of the Chair api intment der the propriety on of any o' istics of human nature that wl one of the n any I to any one d to put in . In the n should on which ;d by the upon the )tition of a stirpl the dist or any other simila msidered of itled to have 3 a different shape real bearings )e exempted from le of consumption the most important the legislature has taxation ; and why ? cotton fabrics to the to enable the manufac i competitor upon equal thus wisely deal with the e staple article of ommittee of Liv from the shipping bringing propoit ion of their revenue, imitate theexa . mple. On national con siderations it is desirable that cotton should be laid down here at as low an expense as possible. For the benefit of the manufacturing interest it is de sirable ; and it is shown that this would be a benefit to those classes, by the fact that, by the remission of dock dues on the article, England would possess equal, or even greater facilities for the manufacture o heavy fabrics, in which alone America rivals 113 in cheapness in foreign markets, than America her self. Another consideration ought not to he oVEY: - looked. Cotton is the only article which pays any great amount of outward . duty; and certainly any reduction of the cost of laying down here is calcu lated to bring about the defirable result of 'render ing Liverpool the great depot of cotton for the onsumption of Europe. Upon . one point in particular, which was brought prominently forward during the discussion, we feel inclined to remark. It was urged that people out of doors regarded the favour shown to cotton as a blow ainfed at the dock on the opposite side of the Mersey. We certainly must -express our disbelief that any such splenetic or circumscribed notion could enter into the head of the Chairman of the Liverpool Dock Committee. But suppose it had been so. Let us ask these gentlemen out of doors, what is it that has ever been urged as the main ad vantage of encouraging the enterprise of the Bir kenhead Dock Commissioners ? Why that com pe.tition, arising from those docks, would compel the Liverpool Dock Trustees to reduce their dues. Such competition has not arisen as yet. Not a cotton ship that we know of has yet entered the Birkenhead docks. But why complain of us for being beforehand with the compulsion threatened ? Why complain of men for doing, with a good grace, what they were told they must ultimately do in their despite ? Besides, in abolishing the dues upon cotton, the Liverpool Dock Trustees will only be doing what the Birkenhead Dock Committee boast loudly of doing upon every other commodity. Surely we may be allowed to imitate so excellent an example in so doing, especially when we have at present a clear surplus of upwards of £lOO.OOO, after paying the interest of our debt to enable its to do so with safety. We are not, of Course, arguing that other com modities than cotton should be refused a participa tion in the advantages afforded by a reduction of dues. But we must say that we perfectly agree with the Dock Chairman that little reductions, like little way, lead to nothing but the frittering away of revenue, with no public advantage, Dissipate the present surplus over the whole Tariff of im ported and exported articles ; and it will be a boon sensibly felt by nobody. Divide it among some few of the principal imports of Liverpool; and it will both benefit the consumer and draw a vast in crease of shipping to the port, thus enhancing the value of property in the town, and giving increased employment to its industrious population. INCREASED LIVERPOOL CUSTOMS RECEIPTS LAST WEEK. We learn that the receipts at our Custom-house last week exceeded those of the corresponding week last year by upwards of £4OOO. This increase is in part attribut able to the settlement of the rates of duties to be levied upon spirits, which were received at the Custom-house on Thursday last. The following are the altered rates:— Spirits or strong waters not sweetened. If Imported into England, the Gallon.. 8s 91 Scotland, „ . 4s Ireland, „ 3s _99 Rum, the Produce of any British Possession within the limits of the East India Company's Charter. If imported into England, the Gallon.. Bs. 7d. 11 Scotland, „ , 4s. sd. Ireland, „ 3s. sd. Rum Shrub, the same rates. THE IRISH STEAM-PACKET AGENTS AND THE VESTRY A statement is going the round of the Press, to the effect that, three cases of incipent fever have been last week found on board of one steamer from Ireland, and the patients placed in the Lazarettoes. The St. Patrick, from Dundalk, was inspected on her arrival on Friday, and three patients, as represented, were taken out of her. Another, under similir circumstances, was taken out of the Free Trader belonging to the same company. The agents sent a medical man of their own to examine the patient and that gentleman gave his opinion that they were not then affected with fever, they were discharged on the day af - er their being put on board the lazarettoes. The Steam-boat Companies complain heavily of the detention caused in finding medical men on the steamers nd of the supply being insufficient, arriving in the rii from Nrhich several vessels have logt their cargoes. They suggest also that they might be spared the sail up the river to the lazarettoes, by a hulk, or some station for the nen being placed off the Magazines. Their sug gestions, we doubt not, will meet with due consideration from the members of the Vestry, who in their endeavours the public health, should not press too hardly 'uals. upon indiv brough londay, the 31st instant. I.OPES FROM ON BOARD A VESSEL.—At the Police Court yesterday, two men, John Perry and John Lloyd, were charged with stealing a qmmtity of ropes, the property of a ship captain. Both of them had frequently moorings on STEALING I The summer is at length opening out in a manner which affords strong ground for the hope that we shall yet experience a fine and prolific season. On Saturday evening, soft rain fell, and the downfall was copious during the whole of the night, and until the after noon of Sunday. This was most genial and refreshing. We have since had others, with oceasional warm sunshine, and the crops, in general, look fresh and wholesome, espe cially the wheat and potatoes. Vegetation proceeds ra pidly, and the country presents so far a delightful verdant annearance. There is a fine show for fruit, the blossom r, having been so long kept back, that now that it is de veloped there is, at this advanced period of the year, little chance of its being injured by further frosts or chilling Inds. GRATIFYIN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WHEAT CROP. clay shown, by Mr. Chadburn, optician, r of wheat pulled in this neighbourhood, through a powerfully magnifying microscope, which was most beautifully and distinctly in formation, though yet, it may be said in embryo. It resembled, as does the full- grown ear, an aggregation, or clustering of grapes; and these were full of vigour and juices, as if ready to swell There was not the slightest ap- )id maturity ce of destructive insect or disease, and as this small is as far forward as wheat generally was at this st year, we may assume that with a continuance of t fine feeding weather, and warmer suns here hall be be blessed with abuudance of "the tim the pres after, golden )p," from our own home soi s AFFRAY AT BIRKENHE A. disrgaceful, A nine o'clock on Sunday evening, in ead. For some years past, the ibourhood of Back Chester-street has been resorted the Sabbath by the loose and disorderly characters, e lowest class of Irish, in the neighbour ;on pitch and toss, and other games. On ng, two of the police attempted to put ,ecration, when they were set upon by:Se -eds of the mob, and cruelly beaten. As tortly arrived ; and one of the ringleaders was A. second was handcuffed, but made _ in pursuit._ The first man s .1 hund: his escape decoying the pol curely lodged in the lockup.. But for the interference and cries of shame of the women in the neighbourhood, the first two policemen would have been murdered by their brutal assailant COMPARATIVE Sr OF RIVER STEAMERS.—In con aph in our last publication relative to ursion ofMesers. Willoughby's new Birkenhead the Britannia, we have been called upon by a n connected with the New Brighton boats, who at there is considerable exaggeration in the ac count in question—it not having been explained, first, . . kitty had previously met with a ut of dock. with her en , rig a boat full of lumber d, secondly, that the James Atherton, had had bu :er of the Britannia, which did no then: ste ail Other trial yesterday morni them was very little, but that was in favour I Atherton, and that the Britannia again n one or ar trial ( Lpeed, in order to set the matt I very f rn the utmost sucee IMMIGRATION OF I get a rep at rest. A CHURCH _MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETING. - ANNUAL The Annual Meeting of this Society was held yester day morning, at eleven o'clock, in the Collegiate Institu tion. The meeting was numerously and most respectably attended. Amongst those on the platform we observed the following clergymen and gentlemen :—Rev. Henry Hampton, Rev. W. Maynard, Rev. Dr. M'Neile, Rev. Dr. Byrthe, Rev. Robert Davies, Rev. S. Fenton, Rev. Dr. Hume, Rev. C. Boutflower, Rev. R. Anderson, Rev. J. Crump, Rev. —. Cowen, Rev. W. W. Ewbank, Rev. Wm. Pollock, Rev. D. Anderson, Rev. F. Parry, Rev. J. Cordeaux, Rev. J. Hughes, Rev. P. Irvine, Rev. J. Gabbet, Macclesfield, Rev. C. W. Lawrence, Rev. J. H. Browne, Rev. H. Jones, Rev. D. James, Rev. B. Mar shall, Rev. S. Cathbert, Rev. R. Ryan, Rev. G. Dover, Rev. H. H. Higgins, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., C. Inman, Esq., J. H. H. Stratham, Esq. Sortly after eleven o'clock, the hour appointed, the Rev. Chancellor RAIKES entered the meeting, amid loud applause, and took the Chair. The meeting having been opened by the Rev. Mr. EN9IANK offering, up an appropriate prayer, The Rev. CIIANCiLLOR rose, and . said that when first he anticipated the present meeting—looking back at the fruits of the recent meeting held in London—he thought that it would have been one of universal triumph. All the circumstances disclosed at that meeting were- calcu lated, in a pre-eminent degree, to fill the heart of any Christian man with animation and joy. But he was sorry to find that in Liverpool the success which attended the efforts of their brethren in the Other portions of the king dom were not so fully manifested as he could wish. He was sorry to find that considerable disappointment had been felt with the result of the annual collections in aid of that society. It was rather a strange circumstance that such should be the case in Liverpool—a town which has invariably aided by its munificent contributions all the charities and benevolent institutions of the empire. (Hear, hear.) Whether this was attributable to the fact that from the frequent appeals recently made to their ge nerosity on behalf of other objects of charity—and which had been liberally responded to—or whether it was attri butable to the great and unparalleled mercantile crisis which was at present affecting the community of this town, he could not tell ; but in consequence of this or some other cause, the collections of yesterday would, he was told, fall short of what had been expected. He feared that this meeting would be one of a varied character, where the light and shade of rejoicing and regret would be exhibited in consequence of this falling off in their exertions. They should, however, feel grateful to the Lord for what little they had effected, and bow themselves in humbleness before Him, for having given them so much. Such lessons of adversity were, he thought, as useful to Christians and to Christian societies as the utmost degree of prosperity could be, At their meeting to-day he anticipated they would have a little sunshine to fill their hearts with gratitude to the great Author of life and the Giver of all good gifts, and a little shade, in order to make them feel their dependence on Him for all that they enjoyed i n thi s lif e . (Hear, hear, hear.) And if they did but thankfully receive the bounty of God, and humble themselves to him in the spirit of prayer, an increased and increasing fervour in his holy cause will be the result ; and if in such a spirit of humility and prayerfulness they looked to God alone for their resources, they would have the satisfaction of never being disappointed. He felt, however, that they had no cause for desponding at the present apparent failure in their re sources, for he knew that any of the circumstances to which he had alluded—in conjunction with which was to be con sidered the unfavourable state of the weather—were calcu lated to produce that temporarydepression which had taken place yesterday. They had worse than that temporary depression to regret ; for he had been told that, during the last two years, there had been a gradual falling off in their exertions—a falling off to the amount of £3OO during that period. (Hear, hear, hear.) He would submit to th e consideration of the christian friends and brethren by whom he was surrounded, whether they had not reason to apprehend that something was wrong in the present state of their missionary dnterprise in Liverpool. Considering the wealth of this kingdom, and the high eminence which this kingdom has ever held, he did think that it would tell badly for the christian character of the country, if it went abroad to the world that, in the missionary enterprise of England, there was a falling off; but that was not the fact, as the report of the Parent Society evinced. It appeared to him, however, that something should be done to restore the missionary enterprise to the high and palmy position which it used to occupy. Their past prosperity had been productive of so little good that he could not but regard their adversity as something coming from the hand of God himself to force the British public back to their old prin ciples on the subject of missionary enterprise. (Hear, hear, hear.) He was of opinion that the great reason why they did not occupy the post which they ought was because they did not seriously feel that which they professed to feel in the cause of religion ; for if they were as serious as they ought to be in their endeavours to carry the light of the gospel to the poor heathens, their gifts would be more in the spirit of Christian liberality. He begged to submit to his reverend friends around him, whether it would not be important for them to look closely to the state of the various branch societies with which they were connected, and also to address their respective congregations on the subject ; for he knew the powerful influence which they exercised on all occasions, and he also knew that nothing could be more calculated to excite their powers for the promotion of all that was good than the perfect state of the Church Missionary Society, (Hear, hear, hear.) If there was but a cloud hanging over them now, why did they not act like the child when it beheld a cloud on the face of its father, per severe in their 'endeavours to remove that cloud ? And if fuch was in heaven pass away, and all the brightness and sunshine of his love return in all its usual effulgence. The Rev. Chancellor then resumed his seat, amidst loud applause. The Rev. Mr. EWBANK, in the unavoidable absence of the Rev. Mr. Carpenter, (the Senior Secretary,) read the following report : JLl5h all Co err to the pointed remarks on this our Recon vesterd ig of the May Borough S and he appears to have sti hat if the tide of imr most part, the chanical or oth -off in th , . stitute of capital, of ra lso of industry and pc nd empinym means of pri re town, and leaving them without t uting their dustrial cl will be felt in the locality for a long time to I apprehensions are well founded, if we may the almost increasing imports of human beings d, under the circumstances, within the last I, "n the cost of transit has been doubled. ay last), before the advance in fare e new quarantine regulations, the nember of immb: , s 1,614. On the day after, the would-be emi- On the 1 2th (Wednesd grants, staggered by the price, were reduced to 889. On the following day, however, (Friday, the 14th), they , mounted up to 1,028, an d on S a t ur d a y t o 1,670, th ul showing that there was little or no difference in the desire; or, apparently, in the means of the parties to visit our shores. On Sunday, when, we believe, fewer vessels sail from Ireland, the import was 1,168 ! The return for yes terday was not received at the Watch-office last night, but we doubt not but it will show an increase even upon Saturday. THE ITV 11141 t STANDARD. REPORT FOR 1846 The Subscribers of the Liverpool Church Missionary Asso ciation will be thankful to hear that the Society to which they belong, is now in as prosperous a condition as perhaps at any former period of its existence. Its funds are large, its Mis sionaries are devoted to Their work; and its labors among the Heathen are acknowledged by God in the conversion and' edi fication of souls. In reference to funds, the committee have to report that, notwithstanding the grievous pecuniary embar rassments' of late, the Society's income instead of declining as was feared by some has considerably advanced. Last yeai: it amounted to £102,458; this year it has reached £116,817. This is the largest sum ever collected in one year by the Church Missionary Society. A considerable portion of this- increase arises from the munificent bequest of the late John Scott, Esq., surgeon. But much of it has also come from the more regular channels of the Society's income, namely, the Associations throughout the country. The increase from these sources above the former year amounts to £3,585. This is a gratifying fact, because these are the more fixed and permanent sources of the Society's income, and because they afford the most cer tain test for ascertaining the progress which the Missionary cause is making in the affections of the Clergy and people of our Church. But while the Committee rejoice in this increase of liberality to the cause of Christ among the Members of this Society, they fee more than ever alive to the importance of having living devoted Missionaries, as well as large funds, to carry on the Society's work among the Heathen. For after all, what would money avail, without living instruments such as God usually owns and honors in preaching the " unsearchable riches of Christ." When & Missionary Society is well provided with these, then is it in a really healthful condition. Then is it flourishing indeed when its Missionaries are men of God, men of faith, of prayer, and love ; men burning with zeal for God's glory and the salvation of souls ; and whose fixed resolve it is, with the Great Missionary of the New Testament, to "know nothing among the Heathen save Jesus Christ and Him cruci fied." To provide such Missionaries is the work of Christ alone. Many of this stamp, He has already graciously pro vided for the Church Missionary Society ; men " who count not their lives dear unto them, so that they may finish their course with joy,- and the ministry they have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God."---(Acts - 24.) In this spirit the Rev. 1)r. Krapf, (to select one out - devoted Missionaries,) carries or " ' - ' - ‘ , "irs among the ot many 111, • Jcs...r. Heathen tribes, on the Eastern side of Africa. There, in the face of discouragementa, privations, and bereavements, by the grace of God, he carries on, without weariness, his " work and labor of love." It is from that arduous . field of conflict, where he himself has been_ in "deaths often," and where his be loved wife and child have already fallen; that be thus writes to the Committee in London :—" Never mind the victims that may fall in this glorious-warfare : only, carry forward the gospel of Christ. We g hall not live to see it victorious. But in heaven we shall rejoice to hear, that Satan is.expelled from Africa, by "the blood of the Lamb, and by the testimony of Jesus." With a band of witnesses, scattered among the. Heathens all animated, more or less, by this spirit, who shall doubt th , presence of the great Head of the Church ; can we- ibt that among thelleithen ; He has done so in times past? He will do so in times to come. Already through our Missionaries has He taken out of the Heathen a people to himself. In western. Africa, in northern and southern India, in Tinneselly, in north west America,end New Zealand many have been converted and live to Christ, and still more have died in hope of a blessed resurrection It not within the province of this Report to enter into de tails, but the records of the Society afford ample evidence, that in every mission of the Society, "God is with our labourers of ing so was, because, if they were then passed over, they might not he again noticed. The first was a donation of £5O given by the Rev. Mr. Mc. Fie, who was a member of the Church of Scotland (cheers) ; but that did not pre vent him from aiding in the cause of Christianity, no mat= ter by what church that cause was advanced. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The other was a legacy of £5O left by the late Charles Horsfall, of this town. (Cheers.) Be fore sitting down he would read, as he had been requested, the treasurer's account. The Rev. JOHN JONES then came forward to propose the first resolution, which was to the effect, that the com mittee and officers of the society be re-appointed. He said he had been reminded by the report of the propriety of their all coming forward with increased zeal in the cause, by the feeling allusion that document made to the removal from amongst them of his dear friend Dr. Tattershall, with whom he had the honour and the pleasure of being con nected for upwards of 30 years. He (Mr. Jones) had the pleasure of his acquaintance when in college, and his in tercourse with him was never interrupted from that period until the time when it pleased God to take him from this earth to a better state. From the first moment he became acquainted with Dr. Tattershall, he had ever found him pro gressing in knowledge and in christian grace and goodness. He never knew him make one retrograde step in a life which was adorned by the exercise of every christian virtue. (Hear.) He was also forcibly struck with the force of an observation which he had read, as being made at the re cent meeting in London.—Mr. Dickenson said in his speech that although the society was not formed half a century, yet of the 20 clergymen who preached the first anniversary sermons, 3 only were now in existence; and of the first twelve, only one was now alive. He thought that the circumstance of a falling off taking place recently was symptomatic of the existence of something which should not have an existence. He attributed it to a lack of piety or zeal amongst the friends of the society themselves. He owned, after all, that very much depended on the way in which the machinery of such a society was worked. Men might be very good, and very humble before God in private; and yet they might not contribute anything for missionary purposes, because they were never brought into the way of giving it, or they were not asked for it. It was well known that from Liverpool many of the most respectable inhabitants departed during the summer months. Such was the case, he knew, in his own congregation, and he was cer tain that it was the case with many more. (Hear, hear.) They should therefore endeavour to enlist new recruits in the cans(. It was almost impossible for clergymen to do all that was necessary in this cause ; but if they had the assistance of the laity in the cause, the advantages would soon be felt. (Hear, hear.) After some further obser vations, the reverend gentleman proceeded to state that he was very much pleased with many circumstances no ticed in the Report of the parent Society, especially one of them respecting the readiness evinced by some of the Eastern churches to coalesce with the British Church. How much it would strengthen them, if the Eastern Churches, which are not connected with Papacy, came into the true fold of Christ ! Then it would not be the conversion of individuals, but it would be the conversion of whole churches which they would be accomplishing. (Hear, near.) He was certain that the time would soon come, when Popery would not have to boast that it pos sessed many churches in the climes of the East. (Hear, hear.) He looked forward with pleasure to the day, which he thanked God was fast approaching, when the Christian British Church would be as triumphant there as -in other climes. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He re joiced at the spirit of toleration hich was manifested by the Mahomedan Government ; for owing to the change which the Lord had wrought there, Christians could now go about preaching the gospel, without fear of being torn about and persecuted by the Government of the country. The reverend gentleman then proceeded to review the state of the missionary enterprises of the British Church in India and China, calling on the people of this country to take example by the efforts which were being made by the propaganda for the furtherance of a bad cause, and increasing their exertions for the advancement of a good, a noble, and a holy cause, and concluded by making a fervent appeal on behalf of the society. The Rev. Mr. DALLAS then presented himself, and was loudly applauded. He said that in secandinc , the re solution Aich had been proposed by the rev. speaker who had just preceded him, it would not be necessary for him to read it. He desired howeverto thank that rev. gentle man for several passages contained in his excellent ad dress ; and if he might be allowed that privilege he would select one from it. (Hear, hear.) He mentioned that in London it was the earnest desire of the Committee, that there should be an increased tone of solemnity- in all their proceedings. (Hear, hear.) He might just state to them that such indeed was the most earnest desire of the committee. He thought that if they entered on this great and important work more thoroughly imbued with divine and Christian feelings—feelings more in consonance with the nature and character of the work they had in hand, if they were to raise their thoughts more to heaven, where there are multitudes of angels watching the progress of their work—assembled as they were in the presence of God for the promotion of his gospel truth—he was certain that greater success would attend their efforts.—(Cheers.) He was also of opinion that very much of the failure which. had hitherto marked their proceedings was to be attributed to the absence of that high tone of heavenly feeling which, ought to animate them in a cause so holy. He prayed fervently that the Spirit of Christ might be amongst them ; and that every speaker might feel that he stood in the presence of God.—(Hear. hear.) Before entering upon the details of the few observations which he bad to make to them, he begged leave to state that he most heartily and cordially concurred in the speech of his friend Mr- Jones.—(Hear.) When they (the deputations from the Parent Society) came to Liverpool some years ago—when ‘4.4,:ta nll +ho nbnpninact in P.n - came in in the Word of Go ye God, for the Lord had said in his blessed Word— unto all nations, and preach the Gospel unto every crea ture." They then came in obedience to that divine com mand. They came to say that God had commanded them to go into the world and preach his gospel to the people; and to the appeals then made to the Christian public, England, ever foremost amongst nations in the work of philan throphy, generously responded. (Cheers.) During the early years of the society's existence there was but little faith shown by the people in the society's objects, and,. consequently, but little means contributed by them. But subsequently, both increased; for, from annual receipts of £1,500, they increased to £15,000, and from that to £40,000; and , afterwards to £lOO,OOO and £116,000 per an num. (Cheers.) But they came at present to another_ principle. They came to say that God has been pleased to accept the instrumentality offered by the Church, and that, therefore, the Church had every reason to rejoice. (Cheers.) And with this instrumentality, the little means they possessed, God had been working little short of miracles in the conversion of souls to the light of his word. (Cheers.) He took this as the most remarkable evidence that the Lord had been with them in their efforts to raise his kingdom on earth. When they took into consideration the many appeals which had ever been made on the generous sympathy of the Christians of England—when they reflected on the great depres sion which at present existed in the trade and com merce of the entire kingdom, when they remembered that they had,from this country poured streams of gold into the neighbouring kingdom to relieve the distress and destitution there prevalent ; when they thought on these circumstances, and not only on these drains alone, but on the many rills of money which flowed from every private family to assist the charitable donations of congregations ; it would be seen that this year they had not neglected the Church Missionary Society. (Cheers.) On the contrary, if there had been a failure of ten or twenty thousand. this year, it would under all the circumstances, have been a triumph. (Cheers.) But instead of that, they had an increase of £14,000, and a contribution of £116,00a alto gether. Although they thanked Mr. Scott for his £30,000 —and a most liberal donation it was, still he would rather have 10,000 sovereigns. from 10,000 people. But independent of this donation, there was an increase in the receipts this year of £3500._ (Loud cheers.) H thought they had no cause of- complaint in contemplating the receipts even in Liverpool this year ; for if Liverpool was not this year—owing to the peculiarly harassing posi tion in which it is placed —was not to contribute a far thing, still there would be £1,500 of a surplus. He ' - 1, to remark, with reference to the Roman Catholic for the propagation of the faith, that Mr. Jones, sting a statement which originated with the Rev. about. the matter Ren. labouring under a mistake 'as perfectly true that £150,000 had been collected by the itomaniits for theTurpose of poshing forward their missionary works ; but it should be recollected that if such was the case, it was gathered over the whole of Europe :. England and Ireland, too, h( sor to say, contributed their portion ot , , it. They con tributed fully £lO,OOO of that sum.. And if they bore in mind that the British empire alone had given to the Church Missionary Society during the past year the sum sum of £116,000. they would soon perceive where the true spirit of Christian charity rested. (Hear hear.) . •, ea •• ZS • for Romish apostacy ;—and he used.the words " Romish apostacy" purposely, for he held this. to be the time when every man who had the welfare of Protestantism at heart shmild speak bold.' their proper names and fearlessly out not deterred, by any false d from deninmcing that which was evil. He contended that at error for Christian ministers to, u weak and mild expressions as were calculated to lead th public to believe that they concurred in the false doctrin that the Romish apostacy was a Christian church. (Hem hear, and cheers.) But to leave that digression, h( remind them that the members of the Society for th Propagation of the Faith suppose and believe that by paying a very small sum weekly, and by attending mass A a particular time, they will be entitled to certain belle . immunities from the pains of purgatory for either hemselves or others.—(Cheers and laughter.) Therefore he contended that it was.a different thing getting £150,000 from the superstitious credulity of the poor Romish laity, and getting X 116,000 from the intellectual heads and bene- hits } or vole - nt hearts of Christian Englishmen—(hear, hear, and cheers)—who desire to have the heathens converted and the gospel spread - over the universe. He did not wish to trespass further on the attention of the meeting, as he would have another opportunity of addressing'ti Liverpool public before he departed from amongst them ; but he could scarcely sit down without alluding to the position which the society occupied with reference to the world and the operations of its missionaries. They should .re member that God had influenced the hearts of the people of England to give a large amount of money this season for the assistance of their society ; and they should also bear in mind that this pre-eminent success is a manifesta tion of the divine will directing us to make efforts in our holy-work on a larger scale than we have hitherto done. — (Hear, hear.) Mr. Jones had shewn them that China was in want of missionaries ; but that was a point on which he should dwell on another occasion. Hereto fore they could not enter China ; but recently the Lord had been pleased lo open, up the country, and now five of the imperial citiei were open to the flritish public,. But whilst China has been thus opened, all that has been done by the Church. Missionary Society has been to explore the country. That, however, they have effectually done; and now the society knows how to conduct its operations on a broad and extensive scale. (Hear, hear.) The so ciety is now wanting fifty missionaries for that mission ; and nothing now remained in their way there but the want of the money and the men to go to that Christian field of labour. He knew, however, that they would not want either long ; for the guiding hand of God, which had already directed all their movements, would not now desert them ; and when they placed their dependence on Him, there was but little danger of their being deceived. (Hear, hear.) Africa was also open for them ; and in both they would find ample scope for their endeavours for some time yet to come. The reverend gentleman then went on to draw a parallel between the efforts of the .British people in their holy missionary warfare, and the exertions of the people of this country in effecting the overthrow of the tyrant Napoleon ; and concluded by making an animated and a fervent appeal to the ladies present, impressing on them the necessity of watching over the education of the youths who were placed by God under their care. He enjoined them to rear them up in the true spirit of Christianity, and called on them to make them as familiar with the history of the Christian missions and the biography of the missionaries, as with the history of their own kingdom and the biography of her greatest ornaments. On the rev. gentleman resu ming his seat, he was loudly applauded. A collection was then made, after which the second resolution, expressive of confidence in the exertions of the Church Missionary Society in the cause of God, was moved by the Rev. Mr. PARRY, and seconded by the Rev. Mr. POWELL, missionary from the island of Ceylon, when the meeting concluded with the usual devotional exercises. THE CURRENCY OF THE COUNTRY , (From the Scotch Reformers' Gazette.) It is almost universally admitted that a radical change in the currency is imperatively called for, to save every in terest in the country from nominal bankruptcy, and this to most people in a community like ours is real bank ruptcy. We hope, therefore, that the locking of the sta ble will not as usual be deferred till after the steed has been stolen. If, as all seem to admit, the Bank of England and all other banks are as sound now as banks ever were—and the mercantile community never before were in nearly so sound a condition as at present—it will be wretched ma nagement if these great interests are made to appear bankrupt, even if this did not involve in ruin every inter est in the community. The grave responsibility of Ministers is infinitely heightened by the fact, that though there may be ques tions as to the best mode of effecting the object, there is none as to the object itself, which undoubtedly is to staunch the oozing away of the life-blood of the currency by putting gold to a market-price like any other commo dity. Now, we hold that if Lord John Russell will do this, in whatever way he chooses for the moment, till Parliament has time to condescend on the permanent measure, the Premier will deserve and will get the blessings of millions, and the approval of almost every intelligent and humane man in the community. It is in the periods of commercial gloom as in the dark ness of the night—the darkest moment immediately pre cedes the dawn ; and our idea how very soon the dawn of our monetary affairs may come upon us, may be gathered from our distinctly repeating that we believe it is entirely in the hands of the Minister. That valuable newspaper, the Economist, promises us a plan this week. In the meantime, we are unaware of any other tangible proposal being made except the very radi cal one which our friend Mr. Isaac Buchanan brings for ward ; and as we think it important for our readers to have a general view of the position taken, and stuck to with a• tenacity which is a sufficient guarantee were that required, for the perfect honesty of Mr. Buchanan in bis opposition to Free Trade, and in his desire for protection to the cur rency, we to-day transfer to our columns from the Li verpool European Times, an elaborate collection of his letters and statements bearing on the currency. It will be observed that Mr. Buchanan considers our chief diffi ficulty at present arises from our not seeing that the ques tion of customs' duties and protection to the currency are only one and not two questions. Air. Buchanan's remedy for the present money panic is contained in the following quotation from the Liverpdol paper alluded to : "Mr. Buchanan seems to have no more doubt than when Sir Robert Peel's Free Trade announcement, he published (In the London Standard of 9th February, 1846,) his first letter to the members of the Imperial Parliament, that The want of confi dence, or paralysis, caused by P the Alien and Anti-British prin ciple of THE LATE P REMIER'S FREE TRADE MEASURES WILL RENDER UNAVOIDABLE A NO LESS SWEEPING CHANGE IN THE CURRENCY THAN THE MAKING SILVER (TWENTY SHILLINGS TO THE POUND) A LEGAL TENDER EQUALLY WITH GOLD.' "The Bankei=, or the person owing the debt, would thus have it in his power to pay which ever he pleased, (either being equally valuable in the trade of this country,) THE PARTY DRAWING SPECIE FOR EXPORTATION BEING THUS OBLIGED TO PAY THE MARKET PRICE for the coin which will suit him, or take what will not suit to send abroad, and being thus led to see that British labour (or manufactures) is the most profitable thing he can take." EASTERN DISPENSARY -ANNUAL MEETING Yesterday, the annual meeting of the subscribers to this institution was held in the Clarendon Rooms, for the usual purposes, and to elect an honorary physician and surgeon,—the Rev. Fielding Ould, in. the chair. The treasurer, Mr. HENDERSON, read a statement of the accounts, from which it appeared that there was a balance of £l2 ss. Bd. in the hands of the treasurer in 1844, when the accounts were last audited ; and in the Bank of Liverpool, at the same period,, £35 18s. 9d. In addition to this, they had received, during that time, £833, 15s. in donations and subscriptions; cut of which they had expended, in various ways, the sum of £759 4d., leaving a balance of £74 lls.-9d. due to the Dispensary; £7O 10s. 6d. of which is in the Bank of Liverpool, and the balance in the hands of the treasurer., Mr. HENDERSON then stated that he was sorry to say they were not proceeding so favourably as they should do; nor were their exertions, on behalf of the poor, met with anythinglike becomingliberality. As they increased in their endeavours to render the institution useful, the funds necessary to effect that object were becoming every day more and more limited. • In 1841, they-had 4232 patients, and in that year the subscriptions amounted to £l3l. During the past year, the number of patients relieved was 8,491, whilst the receipts only amounted to £137 ! If such a state of things were allowed to continue, he felt certain that the Dispensary, however useful it might be, must inevitably go down. He had made an estimate of the sum which would be requisite for its support, and he found that, upon the lowest calculation, it could not be kept up upon less than £3OO per annum. They were getting into debt day after day ; and, unless some effort was made to relieve that charity from the difficulties in which it was then placed, they would soon be obliged to close it altogether. The Rev. CHAIRMAN was of opinion that, if some effort was not speedily made, it would be better to give up that which they could no longer support. Mr. 1-li . NDERSON, in continuation, stated that they were already £6OO in debt, and that they had only £lOO avail able for its liquidation. In consequence of this state of things, the appointment of the medical officers was adjourned for a week, and, in the meantime, efforts are to be made to raise funds for carrying on the institution ; and, in. the event of failure, it will be closed.. We hope this will be prevented. The parliamentary committee yesterday (Monday) de clared the preamble of the Corporation Water Works Bill proved, and the clauses with a few amendments were gone_through, A large a fi • ne organ, intended for the new church, Pit - , Bolton. It is described as one of the largest and most complete instruments ever finished by any provincial builder Mr: Jackson is the builder. STEALING BREAD TlNS.—Yesterday, at the Police court, a female named Mary M`Cann was placed at the bar, charged with having obtained on false pretences ten bread-tins, some from Mr. MfiNally, of Thurlow-street, baker, and'others from Mr. Reed, a person in the same Al on Thursday, and some on Friday, on pretence of want ing thern.for bread to be baked, (for which it is customary for bakers to lend them,) hut they were not returned, prisoner having sold them. to a broker in Rose-place, giving her name as Cowell.. She was committed for trial at the sessions ASSA OLTING POLICE-0 yesterday, a tall stout n charged with taking part iii police officers, Nos. 110 and while they were in the exec pressing a disgraceful riot i At the Police-cot tan, named John Taylor, was Ating most violently two 4, iii Mill 7 street, on Sunday mob was very violent ;.- that one of the o was conveyed away_l 4g part the int for the e rtions of some gentlemen on have beet pot, officer illed. The saw a man prisoner made ajara - e defence . , stating severely beaten by the police; Mr. - Rushton, after re marking on the conduct of the prisoner, who, for all he knew, might have been aiding in the rescue of a mur derer, required him to pay a fine of £5,, or be inpriscined for one month. _ SEIZURE FOR CHURCH.RATES.—AIthough totally op posed to the principle that the Society of Friends, or any other body, civil or religious, is justified in refusing to pay such rates and taxes as the law of the land imposes upon them, and prepared, of course, to see the law en forced, we are equally prepared to protest against any harshness exercised in so doing. An instance of such harshness is stated to' us to have occurred in levying the Church-rates due to the chapel of West Derby from a most respectable member of the Society of Friends in this, town. The body to which he belongs, it is well known, arc exemplary for the readiness with which they pay every tax, poor-rates especially, although they sup port their own poor. To Church-rates, however, they object, on religious grounds, and it is the general custom of churchwardens to levy upon some article of an unim portant character, by the sale of which they can be as little, aggrieved as possible. In the present instance, the amount due from the Gentleman in question was six shillings only, and for that paltry amount the officers seized two silver cups of considerable value, enhanced by their having been the present of a friend or friends. The articles were summarily sold by auction at 3s. 6d. per ounce ; the purchaser sold them afterwards at is. 6d., and we understand that their present possessor values them at 10s. or 12s. Such proceedings, which cannot, we trust, have the countenance of the churchwardens of West Derby, are little calculated to bring respect to the Establishment. The cups were worth, we beiieve, nearly ten pounds. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN MARRET.—YESTERDAY. At this day's market, the supply of English Wheat WO short, and found ready buyers at a further advance of ss. to 6 6 . per quarter over the currency of this day week. A fair extent of business was transacted in foreign, at about 4s. to ss. advance. Barrel Flour, 2s. to 35., and Indian Coro, 4s. to ss. dearer. Malting Barley,. Is. to 2s. lower, as the season is nearly over► and the large arrival of foreign has enabled buyers to purchase all descriptions on rather easier terms. No change in the value of Malt, Beans, or Peas. A large ar rival of foreign Oats has prevented any further improvement. and caused buyers to act more on the reserve. The sale was limited, and the currency of Monday last hardly supported. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. —YESTERDAY. The Beef trade was very brisk, and the quotations advanced over those obtained on Monday last from SIXPENCE to EIGHT' PENCE per 8 lb., and at which amount of improvement a total clearance was speedily made. On a comparison of prices we perceive that Beef is now sel ling at Is. 4d. to Is. 6d., Mutton Is. 6d. to 25., Lamb Bd., Veal Bd., and Pork 4d. per 8 lb. more monsy than at the correspond ing period in 1846! And this immense amount of improve' ment has taken place in the face of full average supplies. With Sheep we were but moderately supplied, as most of the butchers were very short of supply ; the Mutton trade was ex ceedingly brisk, at an advance on last week's currencies of fully 4d. per 8 lb., the primest old Downs in the wool selling freely at 6s. 4d. per 81b., those out of the wool producing ss. Eld. per 81b. At the close of the market a total clearance had beep effected. The Lamb trade was extremely brisk, at a further rise iD value of fully 4d. per 81b., the primest Down qualities realising, without difficulty, 6s. Bd. per 81b. There was a large business doing in Calves, the supply of which was moderate, at a rise in value of 4d. per 81b. The Pork trade was very firm, and the quotations advanced from 2d. to 4d. per 81b., with a fair average number of Pigs oti sale. MONEY MARKET—YESTERDAY. The accounts received from the country have had rather It depressing influence on Public Securities. The still exorbitant charges made for money, notwithstanding the daily assevera , tions of contemporaries about the easier state of the discount market, are forcibly illustrated by Exchequer-bills having beet , done at 2 discount. Consols opened at 862 which was f per cent. lower than the close on Saturday, since which they ha'ie been done at 86i for the account, and for money. OPENING GALA AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GAR DENS, LAST NIGHT. These exquisitely arranged Gardens were opened for the first time this season, last night, when from the late refreshing and balmy rains, and the increasing beauty Of the surrounding sh ru b s , they presented a most charming aspect. The company in attendance was numerically ag great as even those who attended Jullien's Monster Caw certs, and while they promenaded the various walks to the music of a new, and we may add, excellent band, they denoted by their smiling faces, the delight they individn' ally experienced. However high anticipation might havo been carried, in respect to the scenic representation on the lake, the most sanguine expectatiOns were more than fully realised ; for taking into consideration the difficulties that beset a first representation, we must pronounce the palace and gardens of Yerseilles as surpassing anything, hitherto produced here. It is certainly the palace ° palaces, and though the gorgeous magnificence in which it is pourtrayed, the height and warmth of the colouring may by some be considered as over-rated, those wh° have visited this museum of the world delare it true to the original, and to them the festive days of Louis Quarto° become more forcibly effective when the gardens, the cherished thought of his soul, which he decked with the prodigality of passion, andnever imagined he enriched enough, or loved too much, are illuminated with those gorgeous displays of fire for which Mr. John Atkins 11 0 now become so celebrated. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT THE WEST-END, sto 1 agst C ossac k DERBY. — 20 to , I agst Glentilt (taken) Con 33 • I Red Heart 1 Van Thromp (t.) 40 I Mr. Martin 1 Mirmillo 50 I Bingham 1 Planet 50 1 Old Port 1 War Eagle 50 r Nottingham 1 Wanota 50 1 Clarendon 1 Montpensier 50 —l , Halo 1 Oxoniun 66 1 Limestone 2000 to 25 agst Retort colt (taken) 1000 10 Deloraine (taken) 4000 25 The Questionable (taken) OAKS. 20 to 1 agst Maid of Motbe I well 910 . 2. agst Clementina B—P - Slander 8— 1 Ellerdale (taken) 120 Lady Lift Filly out of Quilt I Arnold's dam 15-1 - 15-1 , - 16 - 1' - 20 - r - The Farmer's Daughter Filly out of v' „i Steel Vanity Miami So-nice Cosachia EPSOM DERBY AND OAKS, AN ORIGINAL PROPHECY, BY A NOVICE, who says, Limestone and Conyngham will be first 5 ' second. Van Tromp is dangerous. The OAKS Clementina will win. Mr. Daniel O'Connell arrived at Genoa on the 6th inst: The Observer says that the session cannot be brough t to a close before the end of July. The exportation of corn from the Austrian dominions has been prohibited for five months. The Duke of Argyle proposes to from his estates in the Highlands , for trial a A man named Leonard has been committed Birmingham for the wilful murder of his wife.. The population of London increases at the rate of 0 141 thousand a year. The meetinc , of the Royal Agricultural Society for 1948 stohiPCaninave. I°43° persons has been fixed to be held at York. One of the men wounded at Willeahall, South Staffo rd shire, during the riots last week, died on Thursday last; The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord Besborong f ; died on Sunday. The Merlin, steamer, came up river from Dublin, last night, with her colours half was', Messrs-Smith Ln I Son have just published a new O i l of London. It will be of the greatest service to tb v " - going by the cheap train. Sir Charles Napier, it seems, has been suddenly order eil em to hoist his flag at Portsmouth, an d p rocee d to '`ta=ct'- "- commanct`of the Lisbon fleet." The Norwegian Government has annulled the dutl barley, rye, oats, buckwheat, an d ma i ze , to the 3Otn August next. THE COURT.—Her Majesty will give a grand vocal a lth instrumental concert, at Buckingham Palace, on the t w " / instant, at which Mademoiselle Jenny Lind and the PP cipal artistes of both Italian oeras will assist. Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Glads p tone, the candidates fort i l rerepsentation of Oxford University, were both double T t r class men, the former in Easter Term, 1835, and the la' in Michaelmas Term, 1831. There was a desperate riot near Limerick on Thuri vir in which: two policemen were badly wounded. Neat -r ti s niskillen, in the county Clare, there was another ser i° riot, in which blood was shed. The viaduct of the Waterford and Kilkenny railv.rol: cro ssing the Dublin road at Augh ma l og , fell on Fru i t with a tremendous crash. Fourteen persons were 0 riously—four it is feared mortally—injured. SUSPENSION OF THE DUTY UPON RICE N 1 AL . — order of government. dated 11 th inst., has been addres,.s „A p to the Commissioners of Customs, and by them to Collectors at all the ports, to- admit rice meal free of ~,bor until the Ist of September next. The finest steam-ship of the " Ocean Navigation eg t ill e d . pang. of New York," under contract to carry the 01 . . 1 0 , States mail between New Yo r k aa d B remen, via Stii. ampton, will leave New York on the Ist June for °° ampton and Bremen. _ gor AtCOUCHEMENT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On tp3 turday, a lady while travelling on the Eastern. Coon l o railway, presented an addition to the company present ot i the carriage, in the person of a fine little boy. She, 5, just bid her husband good bye, prior to a two years Pkio sence from England, mid the anxiety was- probably cause of the premature event. tte es O XFOR D UNIVERS-IVY ELECTION.—The comm i e , for conducting the election of Mr. Glad Stone and ,et Cardwell are now formed. Among those of the Ear l e . gen tleman are Mr. Justice Wight man , M r . J us ti c e viVr„ , ridge, Sir S. R. Glynne, Sir W. H ea th co t e . & c . On Cardwell's committee we see the names of the Wardel e pt New College, the Maste r o f B a lli o l College, the Pre 3im of Trinity, the Prin c ip a l o f Alb an H a ll, the PrinciPlo m Brasose, the . Master of ,Pembroke, the. .PrinciPP - New Inn Hall, the Dean of Carlisle, &c. t he EXTRAORDINAY, HIGH PRICE OF WHEAT.----'" Windsor market,, on Saturday, some singularly fine pies of wheat realised the enormous sum of £3l per %Jg e A similar price was also obtained for wheat at Usb r Osl, market on the, preceding Thursday. At ChertseY ii eru fair, which was held on Friday, the price of wheat rt'ir'oo from £27 10s. to X3O 10s. per load. Several buyers; to T Wh y ail' TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 17 Wind at Holyhead, W.S.W.. strong breeze, at 6 a.m. a nci Ditto, S.W., strong breeze, 6 p.m. OFT HOLYHEAD, at 9 A.M., ,_ No. 529, Saint Lawrence, ship, from Bombay. 5237, Hinda, barque, from Jamaica, 12, noon. 2789, Douglas, sc ,00ner,from , at 5 and F,:' PH .HE PORT, at 6 30 P.M„ 1 barque,' brig, and 3 MARRIED Lte _l%•liktfri.,l With respect to the Association in Li the Committee sorrow at the removal by death have to exp 4mong the clerical Members of the Coulmittee ie past year. The Rev. Dr. Tattersliall has left a blank :arch at Liverpool which it would be difficult indeed He was one of no common attainments both in and grace. His knowledge was extensive and varied, his judgment exact and discriminating, and his rensonin powers clear and acute. To these were added an integrity c purpose, an honest and unflinching attachment to the grey principles of our Protestant Chureh,l kindness and tendernes . • simplicity faith, a and- a sing liich are rarely found united in one person f such a man s at such a time, the Committee deeply But it is their comfort to know that their sorrow n joy. "To him to live was Christ and to die was pin.' They know too that He who has the residue of the spirit, is Walt) raise up in every age, fit instruments to carry on Hi s work on.tarth. That work shall never want suitable workmen while He lives in whose hands the pleasure of the Lord doth )f teeth,. The Committee cannot conclude without expressing deep regret that the funds of this Association, should have. declined, during the past year. In the former .t 2,811 15s. 9d. was the amount recorded; andin that titer was a deficiency of £328 is., as compared with the precedin year. This year the sum received has only amounted to £2,511 78. 6d., shewing a falling off as compared with last year of .e 360 Bs. 3d.. and as compared with the previous year of rt'6BB 9s. 3d. This is a subject which the Committee cannot regard with indifference. . if the Missionary cause be the cause of Christ, if it be a work in which He will have His people co-operate, ac. cording to their means, it must awaken our concern to per. ceive that the local support of such a cause bas been gradually declining during the two former years. Is there not a fault somewhere? and does it not become us to discover where it lies ? Has our zeal for the Gospel declined ? Has our love for Christ grown cold? Is the world engrossing too much of our time, our thoughts, or our money? These are serious inquiries which it becomes every one to make. We have recently humbled ourselves before God on the day of National Humiliation And -Prover. We have exhibited hopeful indications of re pentance before Him. Let us aim to " bring forth fruits meet for repentance." Among such fruits may surely be numbered A' more earnest and self-denying labour in promoting the cause of Christ among the Heathen. At the conclusion of the report, Mr. EWBAtI . X. said he wished to make a short explanation regarding two sums which appeared there as donations. His reasons for do. Nay iS, 1847. Church, by th ion of th On the 3rd instant, at S Hampton, Mr. THOMAS JONES, flour dealer, of this t_ RYAN, daughter of Mr. John Ryan,Voollen drape James-street to Miss CATS 's Church, by. t' to , On the 10th instant, a A. Graham M.A., Mr. _ SARAH TIPPING. Toxtetl On the 12th inst %. Graham, M A St. Tat HARLI ivs~iiae r te r Church, by til e „. tl O 4. .. RICHARD HAMER, p0r , 707 ,1 `,0P: Miss SARAH BURGESS,. Tox. n te oar pet Al Philip's Church, by the Rev. v." e r 0, 1 Mr. JOHN SKERER, of this town, formerly carper of Majesty's Navy, to GRACE GLEN, eldest daughter c, JAMES PATTERSON, of Renshaw-street. Ite%tC r On the 13th instant, at St. James's Church, bY r. O A. Graham, M.A., Mr. EDWIN ALFRED MIDGE bT mariner, to Miss HARRIET LE FEUVRE, Toxtetky,it to On the 16th instant, at St. James's Church,Tostfno7SlP the Rev. C. A. Graham, M.A. Mr. MICHAEL • Miss E. BUTTERWORTH, ,14- Ashton-street. Alk'slV Same day and place, by the Rev. C. A. Graham'vsll) THOMAS Asiicßorr to Miss ELIZABETH SA both of Bootle. i-pani t St. Jaen Cheihire, ti Same day, at to g DIED. in 0 " e vet Yesterday, after a short but sever e illness of %07. r pr-4 31st year of his age, Mr. WILLIAM NICIiSON, of street, deeply lamented. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1847. 6 PRINTED AND PU131.1 5 E 1E13 .I S EVERY TUESDAY N1011 ,1% :,,55 i By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, o f 59, Grov P 3 r eet, LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-st co,‘ M NO. .4 3 Sr. ST. OKOZOE'S CauseciT, v tron caw, BRl' • (We POS due( — 2. the encr forty exci (trai Ater catii atm best /11PT abut Oa] day Etat 110 PA In i ban atri