The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-15 00:00:00

heh ; 11 p e gave c"" rer O a" Or biefor be. Prl l o o (1, vv o_ 05 rouc ) 0 1 1 , by Teals yet no t re , s reP fr° g ree ted sce o ' irce deri? t$- re , pr_ resent " s ,'lfer 9 !in 1.!IS of end er tio e cesol4 11 Pleat e r_s d thel Oct, 15, 1850. ?Loud p.tths. c,...there is n o truth in the report of an intention to erect ifurrn Exchange on the site of Islington Market. bust E. Smith, the sculptor, has just completed a „ the late Rev. Dr. Byrth, rector of Wallasey. mi4 -in Thursday there was another extensive sale of inaho -11at Birkenhead. The competition was spirited, and IPrices were realised. th e letcclogregation of Christ Church have presented to Dors el% rie lding Ould a rich salver, together with a e contng one hundred and sixty guineas. 044.reeeting of the electors of St. Paul's Ward was held p e - Friday evening, when a resolution was passed to sup- Portetthe claims of Mr. Thomas Savage. 11 week the captain of an emigrant ship from this Who Mled on the Calf of Man half a dozen Irishmen 0 had stowed themselves away on board his vessel. Messr s. Thursday a young wan was killed in the yard of ieHumble and Grayson by some timber falling on e e b ei l : r ing the last few days the weather has become very ape the heavy rains have fallen. Sunday was cloudy, rt'Lie air frosty. Several showers of very fine rain fell ervals. Yesterday was sharp and seasonable. te E. Yates, Esq., has liberally presented a donation of *els an addi t i onal prize for the best copy of Latin verses •, Sch ool fY the young gentlemen of the Royal Institution We ereceiv r esPectable yo ung It a li an, a convert from Popery, ated into communion with the Church of England, th :, e t. Bride's, in this town, last Wednesday evening, by teertev. D. D . Stewart, the incumbent. Zmitnittee, consisting of Messrs. Ansdell, Bishop, thi s agliSh, has been appointed by the St. Helens Com thesioners to confer with the Liverpool Corporation as to gusueply of water to that town. is enbnEN D EATH.—On Saturday, a man, whose name e lse t known, was taken up in Dale-street, in a state of and subs and conveyed to the Vauxhall Bridewell, died subsequently to the Northern Hospital, where he ?it on Sunday. bee n John Deane Case, the senior vice-chairman, has Wei 6 un animously elected chairman of the Wirral Boerd eetierdians, in the room of the late Rev. James Main lieetu,; and the Rev. M. Coxon, rector of Heswall, Th e Petrel sailed on Friday for Australia, full of goods Cone as sengers. She is succee d e d by her sister ship see teat, on the 10th o f D ecem b er. Th is is t h e fi rst ves eec eqat has e ver sa il e d f rom E ngland, w i th b erths all o a sed, for £lO per adult in the steerage. ton,n w Wednesday, a police-officer, named Thos. Hough was was engaged on bo a rd a flat in p ro t ec ti ng the l 'ship Providence, tripped ag . ainst a piece of 1 tid ed fell into the water, and was carried away by the I I ree c atti ir o z sailor, name d B ar t on , f e ll on F r id ay f rom th e Do e kt'sail yard of the ship Pakenham lying in the Albert see and died on the way to the hospital. He was the Wa s "' a highly respectable gentleman at Cambridge, and I: Youth of great promise. a ay IeaREASE OF THE AUSTRALIAN TRADE.—On Wednes /eel:st, two fine ships, each 1,000 tons register, just re led from Port Phillip and Adelaide, went into the Ad e l r t bock to discharge. The ship Pakenham, from t;t•ide direct, also went into the Albert Dock. t he ri kT n esdaY, John Thompson, a s ea m a n, belonging to the e'en Providence, wrec k e d on M on d a y n i g ht outside rho Port, died at the Northern Hospital. He wasrl severe er o e f tree ken o ff t h e wreck, but had received several kit • Wee e „ Pakenham from Adelaide, arrived on Tuesday, Cee `a o tons of copper ore, having made the run, round ber and Horn, i n 104 days. She sailed from here in Decem- lo , leavin out the me sh was din the co in,* g voyageb asti round e world in six months ee d „, undaays. to "oy morning week a daring attempt was made . es liter into the dwelling-house of Mr. John White, le ee t e end house agent ; and that gentleman, who had ,des - e r , e ading the details of the Frimley burglary and mue ,ale,'„”e'T so affected by the fright that he became insensid ntea_ndedidien.ot recover until two medical gentleman had tee n , impostor has been raising money at Edge-hill, by !ei ot forged no t es as f rom th e R ev . Frederick Barker, k trent members of his congregation, recomme , nn lied Resk e th an d family," or " Thomas Jones ' who , t o b e e ast th ree h orses, to their charity. The proper course bin t ake n is to detain the parties until enquiry has Made into the truth of their story. tit e "ere se ems every probability now that the postoffice ter . 9ees tion will be s e ttl e d sa ti s f ac t or il y — at l east t h e met tle:: a gain befo re th e treasury, an d M i. H ayter, the se vesidrY, will, it is said, visit Liverpool this week, with se tee officials from the London postoffice, to report on to in ta'ssibility of ad a pti ng th e ava il a bl e space i n t h e Cus tx'C'ese to the purpse. Dth AMINATION OF o MASTERS AND MATES.—On the a tid 11th inst Captain Joseph Barrett, master of the k e e t tolie ire," of " Cork, was qualified for a first-class elate" certificate and Mr. Robert Gavner Wilson Fer gus °f the " Naomi," of Liverpool, and Mr. William Goeon, lat e second mate of the "Sandford," of Liver- . W ill , . Obtained first-class mate's certificates ; and Mr. Of Richard Hill, late seaman of the " Sovereign," i e s gow, a second-class certificate. -a e eseet about three o'clock on Tuesday morn- COe Windmill in Chadwick-street, at the bottom a aseic se e tihale-street, and abutting upon Loye-lane, was °ll te e .e ,," to be on fire. Four engines were immediately tho t•;•',, V, from the fire-police station, and two from t ' e"'e Dock • but notwithstanding all their exer nd a e • eetie emises were burnt down. Three pigs Pat number of poultry were destroyed. The e9 r , was insured in the Globe office -100 The ae stock insured in the Yorkshire for Rill Coe The loss is estimated at £e,ooo. b t e s 'e-lero ee that winter is approaching most families 1 - 1 'at e e sirous of obtaining a supply of coals at as cheap Co mps as Possible ,• and an address from the Ince Hall fl er abl e "Y' in our advertising columns, announcee a coiesi egeY sepree,duption in that article, whilst the quality which Pre P'Y is as excellent as that of any coal which can esanec,Ored. The company are public benefactors in for t ali nin g an article which is indispensable for the corn :tate. - ." ; ,even the health of the inhabitants. The com "Meetsileply their c . ustomers direct, and no doubt a re to meet the wishes of the public will be abun- ATl.rarded. at 8 : 11St realent, called a " screamer," for giving signals m°4o' w as exhibited on Friday at the Underwriters' lit oed • It is simply a railway whistle, condensed air, in tteem, being used •, but it can also act as a ven `,ie ° „'.t is very effective for both purposes. Th . e ma :"eael: "'itch owes its origin to Mr. Wells, is very simple, t:teyee'eandeurable, and not only exhausts foul air out of Colto' t , Mos, ships' holds, &F., . but . also injects fresh aePt and ber m . In addition to this, it dries the ship's tim- 1 4f Pr eserves them from rotting At the sa m e t ime , tenet ?„ he screamer," the sound made by it may be (Hs , Ve ne ard for a distance of five miles. :hi, cc WALL A EMBANKMENT.—This embankment, t w i l a e ol f s to: north sare aw re extends along nearly the bank of aware, channel from Leasowe to l ealt °ll ,l l l of the Dee has suffered considerable damage ' 4 s'" "e gale on Monday and Tuesday last, several ex theslve ebreaches having been made by the sea. One of itirliell;relcia.de near Leasowe Castle, the grounds about I, e inundated to a cons i d era bl e ex t en t, an d th e , 1 011 l at b. the sid e next the shore washed away. Sir Ed. f 4 tDo; cl etived a n um b er o f men , w h o set to work for the -teelleawtd. repairing the damage; but such was the fury a that the men were glad to make their hb T he y consequence was, that the low land in the fearnorhood of Thurstaston, Caldy, &c., was under , (4 .4 , Lind large crops of turnips, and potatoes, it .is ti e ‘''re e a °,e been seriously damaged. Large quantities t 4) 41 / a S f av e come ashore - nearly one hundred pun telbas cl e (l p ot turn have been safely deposited in the Cus tee ter nu at Hoylake, and it is expected that a much etq e „ a e n titY will be secured. The cost of repairing th e "enlent rests with the Corporation ofLiver seteleiseons?ave sent a body of workmen to the shore for tl. tit of "of renewing the wall. Such, however, is the ""ea the damage, that 400 men will be occupied for t4k e t nonth. Ett,at: A s,ANT WITH A COVEY OF PARTRIDGES.—A cs °I this t who owns a manor at some dis -eie., a e e Own le e ic e ne who retires occasionally from the turmoils of te 4 t eeti o e, 4 Private business to the enjoyment of country A u % eee`loB,, observed, in the course of the last summer, 1)14 You ne c iated with a certain brood of partridges, was a t lee t satt c ock Pheasant. In the spring, no doot, a Wee or „ egg bad by some chance been dropped in the lollthe-bPartridge, and the young cock had been reared iee; l e fun r e n .Q. It was thought that when the bird grew t 4 h i t s ph";„" i gnitY of his plumage, and felt himself every Pe e ,•`°. te,`"sant, lie would quit his humble fosterers, rF tep"iiie ieli),rown covers, associate with his kind, and in ti) o Pf "re to himself some of the long-tailed daugh 'ls:ti4g °wri race. At the commencement of the Ae,elY angasec, however, he was found in open ground sPri l with his early friends. Whenever this covey f o ti r Ve arose with them, and his presence gave t ived" , ho w I _ l4l e. immunity from powder and diet. A ern,, and v _ever, the .season for pheasant shooting art be 'tetic,o t h e Presence of the noble bird was no longer a tee e ° th e e his old friends. The covey was known to lelet, Se t e ne of the manor. It was scientifically f irst 3 t wi th due sagacity the covey rose with their , t i blrd ,Taged assoeiiite amongst them, and he was the teejee e ' 'et on that manor on the first of October. d'eA„ lt Y t 01pte• SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.—An ead Place on Tuesday, touching the death of a de jte' iii de it i th s° ,O, aged twent-fou'r years cotton was found (.71,"Use of William Hawthorne,-waste A tte' 'eet eaPside, on Sunday morning. Considerable elladelteie•l that.hailed in the neighbourhood,. owing to a rite iltif •Young woman had met with her death C o m e of alr r qt olle tape eurostances, and it was added that the co ut u t a_d been added to that of murder. The l ik avtteVsele w ,"as crowded with friends of the deceaeed. move he tee, statae, resides opposite the house of Mr. 4 1 0 44 4 e:1 litt er e e u d that he heard a scream, supposed d to ho p r tie Se otee . hY the deceased, early . on Sun ay liedie e e e nYil ig ' l , o n was increased by the wife of Haw- eta ban ‘e s ' vr .uen first questioned on the subject, that l ine ° ie," e n the this town, but saying that he was in te'se, w " assi st , ght of the occurrence. Henry Hollins, hopse ~ as nt to Hawthorne, and lodges in the same reee ned eued „ l la ei e e, _ell witness, and stated that "he knew he r j• On Saturday night, she ran into the sneewteor odgingsl!eapside, and asked Mrs. Hawthorne to rj e jter eed S he was very tipsy at the time. Mrs. 'tie last `)Ile ' and the deceased sat down and had ! eo vs, he fiv e 0 , e io nt to bed about twelve o'clock. About 1 t1RT,49 t: ca e i k i i l l the morning, on coming down flairaße 'te e ( ..lece ase ,;' toe children, who slept in the same NelWOOine of u ‘ e when he found something obstruct (mit' h li g h t ',Lie door, and, on going to the room he t i' ilee. l ight a ro undfo the deceased lying on the ti tie Mrs. Hawthorne to a l' 4 olelfte l : e l l t7s i e n e g g l e ' a e n r on the bed." Mr. George Woods tY, th od v : 4 B. 4 : a d i e c a au p se o s s: mortena examine e res,it‘stu found the cause of death to be 6te pr c• slues to the, bare not bieb they ded goi withou ,ber and Are i t S , a of. ai gar' and Bra e )t that he t `, l Sect" nf ,5.e :nil hi ig s pg . ,opc , a wh lc ' 8 0 rdo ef ' 4 1 alP` he tha t- f fgps 0 rob' r' a se Or e it h doeBP °l'd h ! bat ; dile! , I D I Tile! , s' it ; o us ,essoo is st Pr°. . 00 10 e sd th e _ fig main in rr cb B $ 1 ! Ca 4° o hp,* 3 it '- 0 1 ‘ d :,00t1i, ree• suc h eld f r t.:_ ;0 0 elic'tbe t$ fir < • ' e r „„o. PHILHARMONIC CONCERT. On Tuesday evening one of the most delightful con certs of the present, or any other season, was given at the Philharmonic Society's Hall, the principal attractions being the appearance of Miss Catherine Hayes, Herr Carl Formes, the celebrated basso, and Signor Bordas. The name of Madame Macfarren also appeared in the programme. The musical world had heard much of Miss Hayes since her first appearance here, her singing having created a perfect furore in her own country ; and we were naturally anxious to hear whether her successful career in Ireland was due to real merit, or to the fact of her being a native, and therefore regarded with that favour which local connexions and patriotic pride create. Herr Carl Formes had also added laurels to his previous high repu tation since his last appearance amongst us, and been placed by metropolitan critics at the head of our basso singers. Of both these artists the result of Tuesday's concert has been to justify all that fame had reported of them. Miss Catharine Hayes is unquestionably a vocalist of the very highest capabilities. Her voice is pure and flexible, its compass extensive, and her style is chaste, and formed after the best models. She does not electrify us, like Jenny Lind, by the execution of difficult vocal feats, although we would by no means have it inferred that she is deficient in the power to reach the capability, in this respect, of her contemporaries, one only excepted. Her style, however, is rather classical than profusely or nate ; and wherever intricacies of vocalisations are intro duced, we have not, as in too many cases, to complain that she is displaying her own acquirements at the ex pense of the meaning of the composer. In the first piece —a quartet from Mozart's " Idome neo"—despite of very apparent timidity, Miss Hayes created an impression, which her other efforts during the evening more than confirmed. In Meyerbeer's air from " Le Prophete "—sung, by the bye, in the French ver sion, although the Italian was given in the books, an an noyance to the audience of too frequent occurrence, and which ought to be avoided—she wa+ really great, and shewed herself capable of giving full expression to the impassioned music of the composer. She was encored most enthusiastically. In her next effort—the " Vestale" duet from Mercadante, with Madame Macfarren—she was most successful. Her rendering of the repeat— " Pianto eterno io versaro, Teco almeno io piangiero"— was most beautiful. The ballad, by Lavenu, allotted her in this ; the second part— " Those happy days are gone, And I am lonely now" — was given with exquisite feeling, a characteristic, indeed, of Miss Hayes' singing. Nothing could be more beauti ful than her rendering of the refrain— " The silent tears I shed, Shall ne'er be seen by thee; Those happy days are fled, And thou art lost to me." The feeling embodied in the last line in particular was a perfect gem. This song was rapturously encored. The first piece which brought fully before us the powers of Herr Carl Formes was Mozart's air from Zauberflote— .. " In diesel heilgen Hellen"— which was sung by him magnificently, and in a style which shewed his perfect appreciation of the genius of one of the greatest masters of his own or any other coun try. The two last lines in each verse were especially beautiful. In this piece we recognised at once a rotun dity of voice, much increased since we last heard him ; and a precision and sostenuto, which no other bass singer that we ever heard has equalled : an encore rewarded his effort. His next song was the " Piff, paff, piff, paff," from Meyerbeer's " Huguenots," and was splendidly sung, eliciting an enthusiastic encore. A most beau tiful aria was, however, given instead, the singer accompanying himself on the piano -forte. In this piece, Formes proved to the world that, in him, the basso voice is capable of the most exquisite modulation ; and that his piano is as rich as his forte is majestic and powerful. As in the air, from Zanberflote, his low notes were given with the greatest clearness and precision, whilst his upper notes, given without falsetto, were sweet, and delivered without the slightest appearance of effort. Madame Macfarren, although not attaining to the ex cellence of either of her gifted associates, was respectable throughout. Her most meritorious efforts were her two German songs in the second pert. In the first part a beautiful air with variations, the composition of Mohr, was played on the clarionet by Mr. H. P. Sorge. The society, and his musical fellow-towns men, have reason to be proud of this young gentleman, who will assuredly be ranked by-and-bye, if he is not already, as second to none in his management of a diffi cult instrument. His tone is fine, his execution very cle ver, and his playing is full of feeling and good taste. We have, by-the-bye, passed over Signor Bordas. This gentleman has a good tenor voice, not however of the most flexible and mellow character, and considerable power. A recitative and air, from Verdi, was very finely sung by him, especially the last verse of the air, Ange, viers qui s'envole, In the course orthe concert two four-part pieces were finely sung and played by the members. The first was Best's " Harvest Home," and the second from Men delssohn— 0 hills, 0 vales of pleasure ! " The latter was very beautiful, and was encored. Its effect was greatly increased by the very excellent violin accompaniment played by the first violinist, Mr. Thomas. As a whole, this concert, we may repeat, was a most successful one, and the attendance one of the most nu merous and brilliant of the season. THE COACH AND CAB FARES.—We believe that the terms for a settlement of the dispute between the Council and the car-owners are nearly adjusted, and that the committee, who had a long interview with a deputation from the car proprietors, on Wednesday, will be prepared to report to the Council at the special meeting on Mon day, the 28th instant. The fares have been fixed upon the principle of sixpence every half mile. In order to facilitate the computation of distances, one of the assis tants in the office of Mr. Weightman, the surveyor, has prepared a map of the town, divided into thirty-two hex agons, and showing the distances from all the coach stands in the borough. All licensed drivers will wear a badge on the arm, and no driver wiil be allowed to smoke on the box. A ticket, with the number of the car and the came of the owner, will be given by the driver to the person who hires the car, as he enters the vehicie. Tn the event of imposition, or any cause being given for complaint, the hirer will retain the ticket ; but if there be no cause of complaint, the ticket will, of course, be re turned on the completion of the fare. After the Man chester fashion, a small flag will be displayed when the car is on hire. When the vehicle is hired this flag will, of course, be taken down, and replaced again as soon as the fare is out. ATLANTIC STEAM SHlPS.—Shortly after leaving the Clyde, on Sunday week, the City of Glasgow, steamer, experienced the full force of the late gale, and lost her jibboom. Captain Matthews consequently determined to shape his course for Belfast. putting back for the first time in a career of ninety-six Atlantic voyages. After remaining until the gale subsided, and to refit and coal, sbe again steamed on her voyage, taking the south of Ireland track. She was very full of passengers, amongst whom is Sir W. Don, the noted theatrical baronet.—On Wednesday, letters were received from Waterford an nouncing a very creditable act of gallantry performed by the British and North American royal mail steam-ship America, Neil Shannon, commander. She left the Mersey on Saturday week, with 105 passengers and the usual mails, for Halifax and Boston. Off the coast of Ireland she encountered the gale from the westward, which has caused so lamentable a loss of life and property on that coast, but, notwithstanding, made a good pro gress until she discovered the Seraph, from C ar diff, f or Waterford, dismasted at sea. Captain Shannon imme diately took her in tow, and navigated her to the entrance of Wateiford Harbour. After waiting some time the crew were taken off by a small boat, and the America proceeded on her run with the mails. Subsequently, the Seraph was picked up by some fishermen and towed into Dunmore Bay. The storm was very severely felt at Bel fast, and hailstones are said to have fallen there " as large as a boy's spinning top, and pointed in a similar manner." The Greek brig Alcibiades was lost off the port of Ayr, Ramsey, but the crew were saved. THE FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY.—The members of this popular musical association gave their forty-ninth public performance on Thursday evening in the theatre of the Collegiate Institution. The programme was an at tractive one to the admirers of sacred music, being Dr. F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy's psalm, "As the hart pants ;" a selection from Mozart's Requiem ; and his cantata in B flat, " Lord have mercy ;" with selections from the works of Haydn, &c. &c. The principal vocalists were Mrs. G. Holden, Mrs. M`Dougall, Mr. Ryalls, and Mr. Arm strong. Mr. G. Holden was the conductor. The instru mentalists occupied the same position in the role as usual. The efforts of the amateurs, both ladies and gentlemen, composing the Choral Society, have hitherto been so justly appreciated, and the individuals are so well-known to the public, that any critical review of their performances would be out of place. The merits of the professional singers and instrumentalists who took part in the perform ance are equally well known and admired. The best proof of this public esteem was furnished by the very large attendance at the Collegiate on Thursday evening, not withstanding the torrents of rain which descended inces santly from seven o'clock until the time at which the en tertainment commenced. The change from the Music= hall to the Collegiate is a good one, conducing to the comfort of the public and the increased patronage of the society. The solo parts were loudly applauded, as were many of the chorusses : the latter were given with more truth and taste than on some former occasions, the conse quence of the study and practice of the younger members. The leaders of the society may justly be congratulated on the result of the performance, of which it is not too much to say, that as it was one of the best they have ever fur nished ; their efforts and talents have not been ill bestowed. We long to hear the Society in their proper place, St. George's Hall. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, ROBBERY OF PLATE.—The investigation of the charge against Mr. Sirrell was resumed on Tuesday at Liverpool. The court was densely crowded. The prosecutor was first examined, and detailed the circumstances connected with the robbery. Several witnesses were afterwards examined, among them Inspector Keogh, of the detective force, who spoke to the circumstances connected with the apprehen sion of the prisoner Sirrel at his place of business in Barbican, London. Mr. Lewis, solicitor, of London, and Mr. Simon, barrister, having addressed the court on behalf of their respective clients, the prisoners were re manded till Tuesday. Several of the articles produced were identified by th e R ev . M r . T a yl or , R oman C a th o lic priest, of Crosby. Amongst those identified were the two pyxes, the two holy oil stocks, and a sugar-spoon. The pyxes and the oil stocks were those he missed from the sacristy. The table and teaspoons were, he believed, those which had been borrowed, and which he had used on the Saturday prior to the robbery. The prisoners were all remanded, the magistrate declining to take bail. Many parties in London and the neighbourhood have THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. claimed articles from among those which have been seized. Mr. Clough arrived from London on Saturday, and on Sunday Inspector Lund and Sergeant Whitcher, the talented and ingenious officers of the detective depart ment, Scotland-yard, arrived in this town from the met ropolis, bringing with them four tolerably-sized packages of plate and jewellery, no doubt the produce of robberies ; and as it is thought not improbable that some of it had been stolen in Liverpool, by the " suburban" and other burglars, it will be open for inspection and identification at the Central Police-office this morning. In the even ing information was conveyed to parties who have re cently been plundered in Liverpool and the neighbour hood ; and, as it is known to the polioe that Sirrell has received several parcels from Liverpool of late, doubtless some of the articles will be identified. The collection includes silver spoons, forks, teapots, and other utensils, most of which are marked with initials or crests. There are also a number of cases and works, and signet, mourn ing, gem, and other rings, in great variety. Sirrell is simply a refiner, and his shop in the Barbican has a very unpretending and unattractive appearance. The window is obscured by a wire blind, and the panes are of ground glass or some such semi-opaque material, which is only relieved by a tew lengths of gold and silver lace. His wife died about twelve months ago, and he has an only daughter, who is described as a beautiful girl, and just emerging from her " teens" into the ripe maturity of womanhood, He occupied a delightful residence in the neighbourhood of Holloway, and drove to town in his brougham. Among his papers a number of letters have been found written very indifferently and misspelt. They evidently refer to transmissions of plate, supposed to have been the produce of robberies in all parts of the king dom. On Wednesday a man named Jones was committed for three months for an attempt to extort money from Edward Cropper, Esq., of Dingle Bank, by means of a forged begging petition, to which the name of the Rev. F. Parry was fraudulently attached. On Thursday six seafaring men were committed for three months for plundering the wreck of the Providence. A boy named Furniss was on Friday committed for stealing a pair of boots from the shop-door of Mr. G. Scott, Ranelagh-street. Mr. Rushton strongly repre hended the practice of shopkeepers exposing their goods at their shop-doors within reach. Four cases which will cost the borough £2O had been before him that week. Charles Dillon, the keeper of Mr. Tuton's Rooms in Lime-street, was fined £5 on Friday for allowing prosti tutes and disreputable characters to assemble there and remain until three o'clock in the morning. Much dis turbance is created in the neighbourhood when they break up. Mr. Rushton said the conduct of the parties was most disgraceful, and he was determined to abolish the nuisance in some way. How THE MILK TRADE IS MADE TO PAY.—Three milk dealers, named Lyner, Moore, and Gannon, were summoned on Friday, for obstructing the public tho roughfare in Kaye-street, by placing milk cans on the pathway. Lyner acted as spokesman for himself and fellow-tradesmen, and in reply to the charge said, "Well, what are we to do, sir ? They will not build us a milk market." The officer said there was a place near to the railway station assigned to the milk dealers, but they re fused to go there. Lyner said the place was so filthy and dirty that no one would purchase milk if it was taken there. Mr. Rushton : " Well, why don't you set to and give it a good clear.ing ?—whitewash it." Lyner : "We pay them (the railway company) well for the carriage of the milk—three farthings a gallon." Mr. Rushton : " Oh, you make a good thing of it, my lad." Lyner : " We pay for the milk sixpence-halfpenny a gallon, and sell it for sevenpence, besides paying carriage." Mr. Rushton : " Oh, nonsense ! there is a pump conven;ent. We know all about it." (Laughter.) Lyner: "If they would build us a market the same as that in Lime-street." Mr. Rushton : " You don't suppose the railway company built the market in Lime-street ? " Lyner : " Yes." Mr. Rushton : " Nonsense ! it was built by the Corpora tion, out of the public funds." Fines were imposed. LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY BIBLE. SOCIETY The annual meeting of this society was- held on Wed nesday, in the Collegiate Institution. The Lord Bishop of Chester presided. The meeting was well attended. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, briefly referred to the object of the society, whose interests they had met to promote, and then paid a high tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Davies, one of the joint secretaries of the society, and then called on Dr. Raffles, the other secretary, to read the report. _ _ The report stated that the annual subscriptions for the present year amounted to £397 4s. Id., being £1 4s. 11d. less than the subscriptions of the year preceding; but a sum of £l5 4s. 6d. had been received since the accounts were closed, being arrears for 1849. making a total of £412 Bs. 7d. The donations during the year had been £6O ls. Ild., being £49 7s. less than was obtained in 1848. The ladies' branch had contributed £44 Is. 21d., being in excess of the previous year. The decline was attributed to the amount of poverty existing among the lower classes, and the want of collectors. In addition to the above there had been received from Prescot £56 95., St. Helen's £54, Southport £63 18s. Ind., Ormskirk £46 6s. 9d., Orrell £l2 15s. Bd., Wallasey £lB 9s. I ld., Chowbent £4 45., Chorley £27 195., Tildesley £7 95., Wavertree £3O s. Bd., Scarisbrick 12s. 6d., from the mechanics in the employ of Mr. Haigh £7 13s. P being £2 less than the previous year. Th e amoun t o f sales of books bad been £574 19s. 7d., which was £35 Os. 94d. beyond the proceeds of the year preceding. A sum of £B5 had been collected from the circulation of the Bible on the continent. The Welsh branch had subscribed £350 this year • and the total amount received by the Auxiliary for the year 1849 was £2208 14s. Id., being £42 7s. 2d. less than the receipts of the previous year. The number of Bibles and Testaments distributed during the year was 19.257, being 4848 more than the year pre ceding; and since the opening of the branch in 1841, there had been 404,802 Bibles and Testaments distributed by it. Mr. BOURNE, one of the secretaries of the parent society, proposed the first resolution, and in doing so hoped that the income of the Liverpool Auxiliary Society for the year 1850 would be far more prosperous. He was glad to say the parent society was in a prosperous state; its issue being 27,000 more than that of the previous year, and during the last year there had been a continuous stream of Bibles going out at the rate of five per minute. (Hear.) Their income had been £2,000 more than the previous years; and for the first quarter of the current year £1,700 additional had been received, available for the general objects of the association. The patronage of her Majesty will still be continued to the society ; and his Royal Highness Prince Albert had sent them £5O, and requested his name to be added to the list of life governors of the Bible Society. (Cheers.) Sixteen thousand two hundred Bibles bad been distributed in the Thames alone to seamen ; the same thing had been going . on at Liverpool, Shields, Newcastle, and along the eastern coast ; and he knew that no vessel had left this country with emigrants but had an offer of copies of the Word of God for the use of the emigrants. Eleven thousand copies of the Bible had been distributed to schools brought into operation during the last year, for affording scrip. tural education to the youth of the country, and thirty thousand copies had been voted for Ireland, where thou sands of conversions were taking place from Romanism to Protestantism, in consequence of the reading of the Bible there. He then referred to the operations of the society in France, where, during the last few years, two millions of Bibles had been received. Three thousand to Algeria had taken with them three thousand Bibles, and they had heard most gratifying intelligence of the results. Bibles were sold in large quantities to the National Guards. In Belgium they were countenanced by the king, and forty thousand Bibles had been circu lated in that country. The King of Prussia, and the King of Hanover, also countenanced the society, whilst the Emperor of Russia had admitted 50,000 Bibles into his dominions free of duty. In Australia the operations of the society were carried on, and 50,000 Bibles had been supplied to the New Zealanders. In Southern Africa the work was going on with more than anticipated success. In Western Africa they found a Bible Society estab lished, and that society paid them £39 for Bibles, and sent them a free donation of £37. From Barbadoes they had received, about three months ago, £2OO as a dona tion. After a reference to the efforts of the society in the Polynesian Islands, be concluded by moving that the report read be adopted and printed. The Rev. Dr. M'NEILE, in a long and able address, seconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted. A collection was then made, after which a series of resolutions were proposed and seconded by the Rev. R. Newstead, the Rev. W. M. Falloon, Mr. J. Blackburne, the Rev. G. Smith, the Mayor, and Mr. Adam Hodgson. The proceedings then terminated as they had begun, with devotional exercises. HEALTH COMMITTEE.-At the usual weekly meeting of this committee, held on Thursday, a letter was read from Mr. J. M'Connochie, declining to act further in the exa mination of furnaces, &c., in connexion with smoke infor mations. Mr. Fernihough called attention to some re marks made at the meeting on that day fortnight, imput ing that swindlers were employed in the Cornwallis-street establishment, and reference was made to a person named J. Edwards. Mr. Godfrey explained that he meant no reflection on the officers or the committee. The Chair man said Mr. Godfrey sent more recommendations than all the members put together. Mr. Godfrey replied that he had recommended two or three persons, but they were respectable shopkeepers, honourable men, and not swin dlers. It was ultimately agreed that Mr. Ashlin should employ extra writers in his office when required.—The meiical officers' report for the week ending the 28th of September shewed the number of deaths to be 204, being an increase of four on the previous week. The tempera ture was 521, being 41- degrees lower than in the previous week.—A letter from Mr. Charles Holland, expressing his willingness to adhere to a plan proposed in 1848, for widening Wright-street, in connexion with the continua tion of Mill-street to Aigburth-road, was referred to the Finance Committee.—Mr. Lloyd moved that the engineer prepare plans for houses and baths in High Park-street. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS IN IRELAND.—A meeting of the promoters of these schools was held on Tuesday evening, in St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-street; Mr. John Adam in the chair. Dr. Gill, In a speech of great length, pointed out the necessity of instructing the Irish people in the truths of the gospel, more especially through the medium of their native language. He stated that there was at present one most flourishing class of schools under a Belfast Ladies' Committee, of various denominations, assisted by his distinguished coun tryman Dr. Edgar; another maintained by their distin guished countryman Mr. Dallas ; and a third which, though not officially connected with his (Dr. Dill's) church, was under the care of her missionaries, and su perintended by his brother, Mr. Allen. Wherever the missionaries went over a district of some fifty miles dia meter, having Ballina, in the county of Mayo, for a centre, hundreds flocked around them for religious in struction ; and as the only way to meet the demand, they resolved on establishing a number of preaching stations for the adults, and schools for the young. They had thirty-four schools, with six Scripture readers, and nine ordained missionaries, upwards of 2,000 scholars, and several thousand adults, nine-tenths of whom, 4 years ago were Roman Catholics, and so ignorant as scarce to know who Jesus was—(applause)—and nothing but want of means seemed to stand in the way of the indefinite ex tension of this agency. The rev. gentleman made an appeal to the meeting in aid of the schools, and the fol lowing gentlemen were appointed a committee to prose cute the object :—The Rev. V. M. White, convener, Dr. Chrichton, Rev. D. Fergusson, Rev. W. Smith, John Adam, Esq., Mr. Pryde, Mr. Arnott, Mr. Reed, Mr. Martin, Mr. Burt, Mr. M'Henry, and Mr. Gardner, treasurer, with power to add to their number. YESTERDAY. TURNING THE TABLES. — Charlotte Shaw, a servant girl in the service of a person named Cavanagh, who keeps a beer-shop in Gilbert-street, charged her mistress with having robbed her of two sovereigns. The girl's statement was to the effect that she had two sovereigns wrapped in a rag in her pocket ; that her mistress, assisted by her sister, forcibly " bereft" her of this money, by tearing away her pocket, which, with its contents, she had not since seen. In reply, Mrs. Cavanagh stated that on Friday evening last she had in her possession a sove reign and a half. This money was in her pocket when she went to bed : the girl Shaw wasin the habit of coming into her room before aay-light for matches, &c. On Sa turday morning the money was missed and Mrs. Cavanagh sent for her sister, a person named Collington, who in sisted upon having the place searched, as she was con vinced that somebody in the house had taken the money. The girl volunteered to be searched, and commenced by taking her clothes off, as well as her shoes : she particularly invited attention to her stockings as not containing any thing like money, and requested her mistress would put her hand into the shoe for the same purpose ; this was done without result, but as she was about to replace the shoe she heard something jingle, and the result was that a sovereign and a half were found concealed beneath the inner sole. It was stated too that when the girl entered Mrs. Cavanagh's service, she deposited with her sixteen shillings, stating that she had no more money. This she denied to Mr. Rushton, and alleged as a reason for having deposited the silver and not the gold for security, that the latter could be more effectually secured in a bag than t .e greater number of silver pieces. The magistrate ques tioned her rather severely with a view to discover how she came into possession of the money. The girl entered into a minute statement of the sums received by her from her last two situations, but explain them how she would, she was unable to shew receipts to the " amount in hand," and on this ground Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner to be discharged trom custody and her place to be supplied by Shaw. The girl was accordingly placed in the dock and eventually committed fot trial; she, however, lost nothing of her inflexibility and coolness, but repeated seriatim the original charges against her mistress of rob bery, and duplicity on the part of her sister, with the aggravating circumstance of ill-treatment. - FEMALE - HIGHWAY ROBBERS. - Catherine Hopkins, Margaret M'Cartney, Jane Wilson, Margaret Murphy, Jane Lloyd, and Ann M`Donald, all prostitutes and, though young, of the very worst character, were ranged in front of the dock to answer the charge of having as saulted and robbed Michael Duffey of 15s. 54d. The pro secutor, a miserable looking Irishman, said that he was on his way home about eleven o'clock on the preceding night, and when in Spitalfields he was accosted by one of the girls, who invited him to enter the house, but he re fused, upon which the whole bevy rushed out, and, to use the man's own words, entangled him, knocked him down, and dragged him into the house, where he was struck by several, (one using a knife,) and his money taken from him 'ay a girl who had absconded, and bad not been taken by the police. Mr. Rushton committed every one of them for trial. THE RISK OF HARBOURING SMUGGLED GOODS.—A washerwoman named Bray, living in Nelson-court, Milk street, appeared to answer an information for smuggling tobacco. Mr. Chadwick, of the Inland Revenue, stated that Bray's house had been searched, and fifty-six boxes of foreign cigars and seven and a half pounds of loose ones were found in her bed-room. The evidence being conclusive, Mr. Rushton imposed a penalty of £lOO. The woman, who had only just entered the court, then stated that she was in the habit of washing for a number of cap tains who boarded at the house of a man named Cruse, who had sent the cigars to her house in a basket a minute before the officers entered. Mr. Chadwick believed in the statement. Mr. Rushton then asked him why he did not strike at the greater offender.—Mr. Chadwick :' We can't reach him.—Mr. Rushton said there was no doubt she was open to a conviction, but he conceived that it was not the object of the revenue to proceed in a case in which probably the defendant was the unwilling instrument of another; he should, therefore, adjourn the case to the next day. CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS.—Margaret Maguire, a prostitute, was charged with having stolen a coat and a vest belonging to a sailor, named Moore. The man in cautiously accompanied the girl to a brothel in Albion street, on Friday night, and on Saturday found himself unable to leave the house in consequence of his clothes having been taken away while he was asleep. The clothes were eventually found at Mr. Little's, pawnbroker. Mr. Rushton, addressing the pawnbroker said. it was in vain for him to warn them, they still continued to take in clothes from brothels where sailors were stripped and turned out of doors ; pawnbrokers had no business to take sailors' clothes in. He ordered the articles to be given up, and the girl discharged, there being no evidence that she had pledged the clothes. ROBBING A PARENT.—Mary Jones and Sarah Worrall, two girls, the former not more than fourteen years of age, were charged with having stolen a quantity of wear ing apparel, belonging to the prisoner, Jones', father, a decent mechanic, who stated that Worrall was employed by him to execute some needle-work at his house, and that she had taken the opportunity of corrupting his child, who had taken his clothes, and with the proceeds both girls took a jaunt to Manchester. They were remanded for seven days. LOCAL MEETINGS. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The marine-surveyor reported that during the gale on Monday the Crosby Light-ship parted the north-west arm of her moorings, but was re-moored the following day. The sum of £5O was granted to the widow of the late Mr. Gilman, master of the Clarence Dock, and £25 to the widow of the Can ning pier-master. The Chairman submitted the resolu tion of the Special Council in reference to the timber trade, and arrangements were made to meet the Ship building Committee, to negotiate respecting the land available for shipbuilding purposes. The surveyor re ported that the damage to the north dock works by the gale of Monday would not exceed £2OO. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the usual meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Tomkins, the receiving officer, whose conduct had been complained of, was reprimanded by the chairman.—The tender of Messrs. Jones and Parry, for making the whole of the proposed alterations in the Workhouse, for the sum of £1,840, was accepted.— Some discussion then took place relative to the appoint ment of a schoolmistress for the Industrial School. which resulted in Mr. Cleaver's being directed to write to the Poor-law Board, requesting them to confirm the appoint ment of the guardians forthwith. Also to call the atten tion of the board to the necessity of a fresh election of a guardian in the room of Mr. Piers, deceased.—A com mittee having been appointed by the board to inquire into the deficiencies in the chapel and schools, according to the specifications of Mr. H. T. Edwards, the architect, it was resolved, that in consequence of Mr. Edwards hav ing given a certificate for the full contract to Mr. Griffiths, the contractor, a respectable surveyor be employed to ascertain the value of such deficience,, and that Mr. Edwards be apibed to for the amount.. MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL A special meeting of the Council, as Trustees of the Liver pool Docks, was hell on Tuesday. The minutes of the Dock Committee embodied a recom mendation to apply to parliament, in the next session, for a bill to amend the present Dock Acts, as far as they are prohibitory of the use of fires and lights on board vessels in the docks. Also, to seek for proper powers, under the new bill, to estab lish a Home for Emigrants at this port, and to effect other ob jects, which are noticed in Mr. Littledale's speech. Mr. LITTLEDALE, in moving their confirmation. said that until the report of the sub-committee on the subject of fires and lights on board vessels in the docks was made, the Dock Committee were not aware of the extent to which such lights were used. They had employed some detective officers ; in ten days these men discovered not less than thirty-four cases of lights being used on board, and they did not pretend to say that these were the sum total of the lights used during that time, from the great difficulty which they experienced in at all being able to bring home convictions, and to prove ;before the magistrates that naked lights were used. In some instances they found candles stuck up against the bulk heads or sides of the ship; and, indeed, one gentleman stated in his evidence that he believed a majority of the vessels in dock had lights on board almost every evening. Now he (Mr. Littledale), did not know that it would be well to legalise a thing because it had so often been done against the law, but still, from the expressed wish of the town in public meeting, and from the fact that during all the time the subject had been agitated, not a single opinion, as embodied in a deputation, adverse to the proposed change, had appeared before the Dock Committee; he hoped the Council would go so far as to agree that the Dock Commit tee should go to Parliament for powers to permit fires and lights on board vessels. He did not wish to burke the matter at all ; there was a division in the Dock Committee as to the word "fires" being added to the report. In the sub-commit tee there was a division also, and they had left it to the General Committee whether fires should be added or not. We had an instance in Liverpool, in the Duke's Dock, where fires were used, and had been for a considerable period. There cotton goods and every other description of goods were standing upon the quays to be put into the vessels; and he was not aware that any accidents had ever happened. In London, in the East and West India Docks, fires and lights were used also ; and lie held in his hand one of the "permissions" granted, which were subject to these regulations, that they should not be used be fore six in the morning or after nine at night, and then only in the cabin, store-room, or cook-house on deck. The vessels in the Import Dock there suffered from not having fires and lights, and permission was granted to them so late as the 17th of June in this year. In regard to the Emigrants' Home, it was a subject which had not been so much before the puulic as that of fires and lights, but it was a subject on which the Dock Committee were also anxious, for emigration was now a trade amounting to an enormous sum, occupying the finest vessels comingto the port; and, as such, he thought, it would be wise in the Dock Committee to do all they could to foster and encourage it. The number of emigrants who came to Liver pool was astonishing; and nine-tenths of those, it appeared from the report of the emigration commissioners, were Irish. Now, these were the poor people whom the committee wished to protect. They were landed from the Irish steamers, and were immediately pounced upon by several depredators, who swindled these poor people in a very great degree; and the re ports of the police-office would confirm that statement. The home was proposed to accommodate 1,400 people, and the cost would be £12,000. Suppose the project not to answer, the building could, at the cost of £2,000 additional, be easily con verted into a warehouse. The next subject was the Battery. That was merely carrying out the instructions of the Council, and, therefore, no discussion could arise upon it. Then the bill was also intended to remove doubts which experience had suggested "as to the construction of some clauses in the ex isting acts, but relating principally to matters of a legal and technical character only. He held in his band a report from. Mr. North, solicitor. on this apparently ambiguous matter. He had submitted this to the Town-clerk, and thought he would explain that the points were merely legal or technical, as regarded goods and ships in the Albert Dock and ware houses. In regard to the extension of time for the purchase of property at Wapping, it would put their solicitor and Mr. Stewart, who values on behalf of the Dock Committee, to great inconvenience to have to complete the valuation between this and the 26th of June, which was the limit of time allowed by he act. It was merely a matter of business, so that he thought there could be no objectton to that. He begged to move the confirmation of the proceedings. Mr. JONES seconded the motion, " merely to bring the mat ter properly before the Council." Mr ilArinorto said a duty devolved upon him, rather un gracious in one sense ; that was to move a negative to the de cision of a committee of which he was himself a member; but stern necessity compelled him to do so, and, from the short period which he had been a member, he did so hesitatingly. He should propose, as an amendment, "that, in the opinion of this Council, as trustees of the docks, it is not expedient or needful at the present time to apply to Parliament for addi tional powers, as recommended by the Dock Committee; that the trustees, the re f ore , negat i ve t h e propos i tion of the Dock Commitee." As to lights, there was no objection to use under certain restrictions; but it was thought by some that fires could not be generally sanctioned; and that point was left to the decision of the General Committee. The Emigrants' Home, when. built, would be nothing more or less than a house of refup for the destitute; and coupling that with the juvenile offenders' reformatory, we should soon have located here a large population of the vilest of the vile, from Ireland and other places. (Hear.) The subjects were not of so vital an interest as to justify the expenditure of .e 3,000 or £4,000 in Parliamentary squabbles • although they might be introduced on some other occ as i o n w hen weightier matters required legis lation. As to the Battery, it was an arrangement with Govern ment, which would not squabble with us when no one was pre pared to raise a legal point, and no harm could result from allowing the works to go on to completion. When he saw the way in which one part of the proposition was worded, that for removing technical obscurities from the existing dock acts, he must confess that he viewed it with profound suspicion —(hear, hear,)—and he thought he was justified in stating what he did when he first saw it, that there was some sinister motive. Mr. Littledale had told us that the Emigrants' Home would accom modate 1,400 persons, and cost ('12,000; and that if it did not answer, it could be turned into a warehouse. Now, he thought that calculation was fallacious, unles, it was desirous to "cook" the account like some other sums. He meant to prove that the term had been correctly used on some other occa sion. When we thought of protecting emigrants, we should not forget that there were other interests also which required protection ; and surely the Dock Committee was not in a posi tion to risk its property for the achievement of a possible good. He thought the contrary, for a I their funds were wanted, as proved by the very fact of their wishing for an extension of time for the Wapping purchases. Mr. WOODRUFF seconded the amendment. Mr. PARKER announced that if the amendment were not carried, he was prepared with an instruction to the Dock Committee to insert a certain clause in the bill—a rating clan e. (Hear, hear.) __ Alderman BRAMLEY-?MORE said the proposal to establish an Emigrants' Home divided itself into two heads,—first, the philanthropic view, and the other as affecting the interests of the dock estate and the community at large in this town. The chairman had properly described the course which the emi grant runs from the time he lands in Liverpool. The object which the Dock Committee had in view was to protect those emigrants, who, he contended, were perfectly powerless and helpless when they came here as strangers. It was not the intention of the Dock Committee to turn shopkeepers, and supply those men with provisions, &c.; but their sole object was to provide them a safe home, where they would not be plundered and robbed, and to get them away with that comfort wh ch he was sure all present desired, although they might take different means of accomplishing the object. The Go vernment was greatly interested in this matter, bu. there were great difficulties in the way of Government undertaking any thing of the kind ; therefore, it more naturally devolved itself upon the Dock Committee; and the Council, as trustees, would be giving aid to an excellent cause by supporting the Dock Committee in the measures which they proposed to carry out. In regard to the proposed home itself, if he un derstood the Dock Committee aright, they would simply con struct the buildings and let them, and the tenants would be subject to proper regulations for their management. That would be the extent which the Dock Committee would have to do with them. Now he came to the second part of the subject, as to its effects upon the dock estate. About 164,000 emigrants passed last year through this port; and the trade had now become so important, and was so distinct, that vessels had been expressly constructed to carry this live carrying trade, which was found to be a profitable one. The tonnage in our docks which emigration employed was very great. Last year it numbered 600 large vessels, of 500,000 tons. Thus, it was a matter of great pecuniary importance to the dock estate, and it deserved the very grave consideration of the Council, lest they should lose such a valuable branch of trade. This trade was something new, and lie contended that it had become as necessary for the working of it to construct sheds around the docks for its accommodation as to build sheds for other pro duce. He meant nothing offensive in remarking that every business-man must agree with him that the only difference was, the one was living and the other dead merchandise. Now, this measure had the express sanction of Government. This he could show, but did not wish to trespass upon their time; he had had private communications on the subject, and knew the great interest which they felt in the matter; and if it hail their countenance, he did not thi nk that the trustees should lightly reject a measure of this description. 13ailTereie:a; another point of view ; it was such an important trade that it should be kept in Liverpool, and connected with the Liverpool docks ; for he could assure them that it was no secret that they were most anxious to get this Emigrants' Home across the water; and if they did, it would tae away more ratepayers and inhabitants than any measure yet brought forward in that Council. If the vessels connected with the emigrant trade were once removed across the water to the extent of 50,000 or 60,000 tons, they would take with them all the steamers which brought the emigrants, and all the staff of the various lines of packets connected with emigration. Among the rest whom the removal of the trade would take to Birkenhead would be a large number of shop and house keepe.ts. He urged this upon the consideration of the trustees before they rejected the mea sure which was before them. Mr. Moore then said he was favourable to oil lamps or other covered lights being permitted on board vessels, but was opposed individual;y to the granting of fires. The TOWN-CLERK then read two memorials which had been sent in against the proposed Emigrants' Home : the one from the Vestry, and the other from the Houseowners' Guardian Society. Mr. MANN supported the original motion, replying princi pally to Mr. Harbord. He thought that was the most impor tant meeting which had been held in that room for some time. He believed all were agreed to grant the use of lights, and he was one of those who thought it would be judicious to grant also fires on board. As to the purchases at Wapping, Mr. Mann gave it as his experience that he had never seen any disposition in the committee to " grind " the owners of pro perty there. The contrary was proved from the fact that whilst he was on the Committee of Works, there had not been . a single appeal to a lt was ridiculous to suppose that the Dock Committee was in want of money, for three-fourths of the property was already purchased, and they had more offers of money than they chose to take up. He supposed eloo.oco or so would be all they now required. Mr. LITTLEDALE.—eI4O,OOO. The Council divided, when Mr. Harbord's amendment was carried by a wajfirity of 29 to 9. The following is the division : For Mr. lia;bord's amendment.—Messrs. Walthew, Lungs dal e, Woodruff, Thomson, Preston, Hodson, AtkinAtkinson, Briscoe, Avison, Ferguson, Fernibough, Harbord, Wagstaff, Rogers, Tobin, Jones, G rdner, Lloyd, Johnson, Picton, Parker. Freme, Bennett, Beckwith, Henderson, Fisher, and Lloyd ; Aldermen Cooper and Procter. Against it.—Messrs. G. H. Horsfall, Littledale, Tyrer, Rim mer, W. J. Horsfall, and Mann; Aldermen Bramley-Moore, Chilton, and the Mayor. The MAYOR then 'called attention to a request he had re ceived from the Gateshead Mercantile Association, to sign a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for a change in the stamp duty on receipts. The matter was referred to the Finance Committee, to au thorise the Mayor to affix his signature officially, if they thought fit. THE ROYAL SUPREMACY TO THE REV. DR. MINEILE REV. SlR—Had I known that you had forwarded to me your first letter, I should certainly have shown you the same courtesy. I now offer a few remarks on the personal topics noticed in your second. I shall not enter upon the inquiry which you suggest, " Of whom can the representative body more properly consist than the sove reign, aided by the two archbishops ?" because this is not the present state of the law, and because my only object is to vindicate my protest against existing grievances. Nor need I attempt to discriminate between spiritual things and their temporal accidents, because my present space would not suffice, and because it is already done by Mr. Gladstone in his able pamphlet on the supremacy, and in Archdeacon Manning's letter to the Bishop of Chichester. I will only say that since the Declaration was addressed to the clergy, I see no impropriety in the adoption of logical terms, which are familiar to all who have had a learned education ; neither do I think that the same statement could have been expressed in more popu lar language, without suffering either in exactness or in brevity. I come then to your personal explanations. I did not, as you suppose, assert you to have contradicted the bap tismal service. My words were general, and related to the unfairness of all who are precise in the penal enforce ment of one part of our formularies, while they explain away another. I should have been unwilling to have given so harsh a form to a personal accusation. Again, you deny that you regard the Church of England as only a well-endowed sect. I can only reply, without intend ing to be disrespectful, that this is the exact impression conveyed by your own published volume. But, indeed, I need not go beyond your present letter ; for what is the Church of England but such a sect, if, as you affirm, " it is an abuse of language to call it a spiritual body " ? I will not trust myself to enlarge on this extraordinary statement, which is the key to the whole difference be tween us. No wonder that you do not regard baptism as an unfailing means of grace, nor ascribe authority to the Church's judgment. But your assertion would render our formularies, in my judgment, a mass of confusion, to which no system of bracketting could enable me to sub scribe. But I pass from what is personal to you to what is per sonal to myself. You now admit that the supremacy might be disputed, if we were bound to it only by law, for that you yourself dispute the lawfulness of many recent enactments : your charge against me is founded on the assertion that we are bound to it by subscription also. But this is to take for granted the very point in dispute. I maintain that I Pm not bound by oath except to the ancient supremacy, which was restored to the crown ; you consider yourself bound to that supremacy which has been created by recent statutes. Now why is m y h onesty to be measured by your conscience ? I know not why my opinion should be worse than yours ; for my own guidance I have a right to think it better. In a case which admits, like this, of legal settlement, your private judgment is no public tribunal. What I ask is, not forbearance, but jus tice : I ask that which common equity assigns to all men— not to be condemned without trial. I maintain that, till I am sentenced in court, yon have no right to gibbet me in newspapers. . . I deny your assertion, then, that every honest man must understand the oath of supremacy as you do, be cause it takes fo r grante d the very quest i on which is at issue. I affirm, on the other hand, that I own her Ma jesty's supremacy, in its true sense, when I attribute to her in all causes and over all persons that ancient supre macy, which was not incompatible with the law of Christ. At present no question can arise in any of the courts of the Church—no doctrine or practice can come into discussion, respecting which her Majesty would not give final sen tence. Her privy council, therefore, is, in fact, the high est ecclesiastical court within this realm • her Majesty is the ultimate arbiter in all questions of religious doctrine. It is said that the Queen can only execute laws, and not make them. This is a distinction without a difference— ' fOr the Church's legislative powers are in abeyance, and as the leading authority among Erastians (floadly) has truly said " whosoever hath absolute authority to inter pret any written or spoken laws, it is he who is truly the lawgiver, to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them." How can this be dis puted in the present instance ? If a clergyman were to deny our Lord's divinity, or the inspiration of Scripture, he would not be amenable to ex-pod-facto laws, but to the laws and courts already in existence. With whom would it rest to decide if he was amenable to them, but with the Queen ? Do you say that in these cases the law is so plain that it could not be disputed ? Who would have supposed beforehand that any one who used our ser vice could deny baptismal regeneration ? And do not the Scriptures declare our Lord's divinity ? Yet the Arians accepted them as well as the Catholics. Looking at the insidious growth of neology in Germany, I feel the great est doubt what might be Lord Langdale's decision if a clergyman were articled before him for denying the in spiration of the book of Genesis. Now you have bound yourself to affirm that " the church bath authority in controversies of faith ;" and your construction of the oath of supremacy binds you to admit further, that this authority is properly exercised through those individual judgments which are pronounced by the Queen. For your oath means, not merely that you will submit with patience, as in temporal matters you might, to an unjust decision, but that you admit the Queen's right to deter mine such cases. The statute law gives the Queen a power, which you declare by oath that you approve in conscience. Those who assert that her Majesty ought to determine what a clergyman shall preach, must suppose that a clergyman ought to teach what her Majesty deter mines. So that your nation of the royal supremacy binds you to teach any doctrine which an English sovereign (whether churchman or not), may promulgate as the mind of the Church of England. For, as you admit that " the Church has authority in controversies of faith," you cannot say that its interpretation of Scripture is er roneous. And your explanation of the oath of supre macy binds you to suppose that the Church's laws find their true expression in the Queen's decisions. And this oath you take without conditions. You affirm the sove reign not only to possess present power, but inherent authority, so that your conscience is bound to an abso lute surrender for all time to come. Now, if the Church of England be only a sect, all this is conceivable, though a base and hateful supposition ; that if, as she has herself affirmed, she be truly the Church catholic among us, it is as inconceivable that she should admit this as that any Christian sovereign should desire it. Your obedient servant. ROBT. T. WILBERFORCE. TO ARCHDEACON WILBERFORCE VENERABLE SIR, This correspondence was provoked by the Circular which you sent tne. Hid not interfere till I was called upon. Your Circular and Declaration seemed to me so to commit you, that nothing but their withdrawal, or your secession from the Church of England, would save your conscientious consistency. In pointing this out to you, I endeavoured to fix your attention upon the fact that my observations were " not grounded upon any conduct of your's, in op position to any interpretation of mine ; but on your con duct in defiance of your own interpretation." Your " honesty," therefore, is in no way measured by my conscience ;" neither would it have been called in ques tion at all by me, had you not described yourself, in your Circular, as one of those who are " bound by oath and subscription to the existing state of the law," and at the same time described the existing stare of the law as " at variance with the law of Christ." In reply to my letter, you had recourse to the easy but inconclusive retort of an argumentum ad hominem ; as if my inconsistency, even if proved, could afford any excuse for your's. After briefly defending myself, I returned to the point, and particularly to the words to which we are bound by oath and subscription—words which I observe you do not quote either in your Circular, or your Declaration, or your letters. I quoted them thus : " Our 36th canon is decisive— " The King's Majesty, under God, is the only supreme go vernor of this realm, and of all other his highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal.' " Observe, in all spiritual things or causes, and in all eccle siastical things or causes, as well as in all temporal things or causes. Here are not only temporal things, and the temporal accidents, whatever they may be, of spiritual things, but sri. ri,ual things themselves I pray you mark this." On this you make no comment, but content yourself with a general statement that you did not, and do not, so understand the words. You have not taken the trou ble to justify your understanding of their meaning by any reference to the words themselves. Neither have ycu taken the trouble to shew, or even to attempt to shew, the fallacy of my comment upon them. Read it again. It is nothing more than a dissection of the very words of the Canon, in order to exhibit its various members seria tim. Does it not include spiritual things ? The words are—" as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal." Suppose the writers of the Canon to have intended to say, that the Sovereign of England, under God, is the only supreme Governor in this realm, in all spiritual things, could they have said it in plainer terms ? Could I, or any one who agrees with me, sad it in plainer terms now ? I do not, as you seem to do, separate the Sovereign from the Church, and talk of them as two distinct authorities. On the contrary, I look upon the Sovereign as the chief member of the Church, under CHRIST THE HEAD ; and I look upon any other member of the Church, lay or clerical, who denies or disputes the supreme authority of the Sovereign, as refractory and rebellious. The Divine Head of the Church has given us His own SUPREME LAW, to which our Sovereign, as well as ourselves, is bound to yield implicit obedience. This is our security, and the only security the nature of the case admits of. True it is irdeed that the members of the Church may not all take the same view of the law of Christ, which the chief member takes. This is an in firmity inseparable from human affairs ; and would not ba at all mitigated, but rather in some respects greatly aggravated, by transferring the supreme authority under Christ, from the Sovereign to the majority of a represen tative Synod ; and more particularly a clerical Synod, in whatever way its members were elected. The loud oppo nents of Erastianism are after all Erastians. Their sove reign is a majority liable to all the fluctuations of popular election. Ours is an individual, ascending an hereditary throne, and surrounded by the hallowed precedents of a Royal ancestry. In a word, I prefer Monarchy to republicanism, in the Church, as well as in the State : and rejecting, with all the earnestness of undivided allegiance, the presump tuous usurpation of the Bishop of Rome, I cordially rejoice in the supremacy of our gracious Queen. You assert a distinction between the "ancient supre macy which was restored to the Crown, and the supremacy which has been created by recent statutes " : but you make no attempt to point out wherein the distinction lies, or to shew that it affects the essence of the authority, or extends to any thing more than the manner of its ad ministration. Still, confining yourself to general terms, and refusing to grapple with the distinctions I have pointed out, you adhere to your own construction of the canon, and say that you have a right to your own opinion. Certainly you have. Who can doubt it ? But when you ask my signa ture to your opinion : when you canvass the suffrages of the whole Church (for your Declaration, a copy of which lies before me, is drawn up for the Clergy and Laity to sign) and for the avowed purpose of making use of the signatures, if sufficiently numerous, to influence the Le gislature : then, I have a right to tell you what I think of your opinions and your procedure, and to lay the whole before the public ; or, as you express it, (angrily I fear, certainly not courteously) to " gibbet you in the news papers." It is too late now for you to shrink from this exhibition. It has, I quite agree with you, placed you in a most woful plight ; but you should have thought of this before you issued your Circular. You say you do not ask forbearance, but justice. Then why do you com plain ? Is it because you are not prosecuted ? Before I conclude, I must invite the attention of our readers to another instance of our differing judgments. In my volume to which you refer, I have given the various scriptural significations of the word ;CHURCH—mystical, visible, local, collective—sustaining them by citations and authorities. Under the last head, I have enumerated the episcopal constitution of the Church as one of its scrip tural characteristics; and then declared my conviction, that all these scriptural characteristics, episcopal consti titution and diocesan superintendence specially included, are comprehensively combined in the Church of England. Such was the subject of my first lecture, and it did not contain one syllable on the subject of endowment. Your understanding of all this, or as you tell me, the exact impression conveyed to you from my published volume, is, that I consider and have always asserted the Church of England to be " only an endowed sect." I think you must have confounded my volume, with one by Dr. Chalmers on the same subject. If you had taken as much pains to avoid obscurity of expression, by defining your terms, as I have done, our letters would have been more useful. I have endeavoured to ascertain what you mean by THE CHURCH. I have invited you to tell. I have, in my last letter, entered into distinctions which accord with both the language of Scripture and the facts of the case ; and still, without any attempt to show that those distinctions are unsound, indeed without even noticing them at all, you persevere in using the word Church, in a way which serves to conceal rather than communicate your senti ments. I must candidly confess, therefore, it is not in the hope of making myself intelligible to you, that I again take the liberty of addressing you ; but I still indulge the hope that our correspondence may be of use to others. It will, I trust, prove instrumental in convincing many, of what Mr. Newman, Mr. Maskell, and others, have already discovered, viz., that the Church of England is not and cannot be made (Roman) Catholic ; and that, conse quently, Romanizers within her pale must either leave her, that their budding superstition may be developed in some more genial atmosphere, or else they must, by the help of non-natural interpretations, crush and keep in abeyance their mediaeval convictions. In reply to your observation on tne " penal enforce ment of one part of our formularies while ano th er part i s explained away." permit me to call to your d ev o u t atten tion, the seventeenth of our thirty-nine Articles. Those who value the high and holy truth therein stated, have too git_ much charity to attempt " a p ena l en f orcement " o f th e i r interpretation of the word s , h owever natura l an d inevi table it may seem. It wou ld " ma k e n r -peace" if those who value the langu age o f our 1 34pt i v imitate that charity. A _ "Oy 0111 d ra 4 . *it See also the generalizing gloss (16 - melaiNfeldcgft explaining away of the words),ich•the "%Mule:of Xxv: i p v e e n s s o l el e or t c h e e m v e e n ty t, t aca e s r nf h aro a n s a,s r c e io ce nm n hp t ia l mre y ld p a u yw t ,i u toh p f o hje.w n h tt at e obdse hi jt c lag, ce e of the thirty,silth letter of the Baptismal Service. 4.01 L am , ' Your obe Liverpool, I Ith Oct., 1850. eP like g 'Cli hat e n t 4e , . el% the N il t her' 0 11 ...,e5 ,- 07- w i o v of 10 5 e t ie TO 00 r te 40, tine t ie is . 0 0. test t he or. les lod e o ;e cl, 'a Li f , e co s re 0 t f:, Q9' ,09