The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

Mar. 25, 1845. total anb Vrobinrial The • talrilttee syss Z i P n t a s at the Manchester Custom-house for the 25th instant, are likely to be £lO,OOO. fo r th Thursday, a lad, named Peter Evans, was committed tee months, with hard labour, for picking pockets. Os sr, siednesd ay l ast, a man, named Whittle, was killed 11 ' 4 fighting at Manchester. lit -I a l r ing th e l ast few days three children and one young de at .,°,st thei r li ves in Liverpool by their clothes acct.. '149 taking fire.th Lit e , e House of Com mons , on T ues d a y even i ng , th e errler'4l°l G uardian Gas Bill was read a second time, and ed to be committed. l u t Paster Quarter Sessions are fixed to be held at das7 t er, ou Monday, April 7; at Preston, on Wednes 4ketle, aril 9 ; at Sal foray, d on Apr Mday, April 14; and at s on at Sal 23. un fortunate man i ac, name d F an h urst, t h e w if e o f a ateeetable mechanic, residing at Miles Platting, near 01phester, h ung herself and her child, fourteen months' In her bed-room, on Monday last. eot„ l ll . ll nMarried woman , name d Ann O'Donnell, was foe w it ted on Monday last, by th e magis t ra t es a t Bolton, Inurd th e at the ensuing assizes at Liverpool, charged with I , er of her new-born infant. itis`ahatque Lawrence belonging to Messrs. Robinson le: s lr ein, Captain C. Jackson, arrived at this port, tango"lY, from Manilla. She brines the first direct th of certified free-labour sugar yet imported from attarter. isonn Thursday Edward Ford was sentenced, at the srs -401:' to tr ansportation for fourteen years for receiving pi o n goods. The particulars of the case, which trans.. was tit the Police -court, appeared in our last. His wife • ee quitt ' Yo e , e • "'au man, named Joseph Bradley, seventeen years s ta t e... , Went to a shooting gallery at Manchester on %CY* and after having fired two shots with a r!fle, he ktrnenced loadings pistol, in doing which, the pistol by ileal ln erins was di sc h arge d, an d th e b a ll l o d ge d in his He instantly fell dead. Yout7IMPTED SUICIDE.—OD Wednesday even'tig a . r a e ats ! w oman, about twenty years of age, named teta'`r, residing with her parents in Oriel-street, at theri;ed to, drown herself by jumping into the river off S i h ; rinse's Pier. She was rescued immediately by a the4g-hoat She had become , unfortunately, insane inleh illness. beidearri,elENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—OD Wed . - the fj• l ast, the Mayor, James Lawrence, Esq., sat in tglo„. Prius Court, to hear informations preferred %C.!' sh opkeepers and °theca, for using illegal weights me ss satins nees. His worship, in adjudicating upon the said cases, deprecated the conduct . of the delinquents tras4 l Was the poor who suffered in consequence of the lics 4 B ' and expressed his determination, so far a . s in his tae t i. , to suppress such practices. Several parties were A t : t i l l Penalties varying from ss. to 9s. 6d. 're e k e sale of Van Aanborgh's stud, at Manchester, last di t tiuY Messrs, Lucas, of this town, a fine black maned tas t ea th n s lion sold for £350, a male lion cub about eight % be , sold for £l2 lOs and a female . cub of the Ye ars a ffe was sold for £35. Another lion, about six t for •;', l s d , went for £3lO. The elephant Bolivar wen tea '"ul and a very fine giraffe for £4OO. The horses I , 4 f r allY sold at fair prices. The greatest competition . a tte st c". a grey gelding, named " Doctor ;" which, after b deal of bidding, was knocked down for £6O. 44 111 t A , FROM BURNING.—On Thursday an inquest h e'd before the borough coroner, on view of the body r ail arY Boland, married woman, aged 57 years, wife of lOth ( . / r. livi ng in Naylor-court, Fontenot'-street. On the te r ;natant, while the deceased was prep ba arin break fas adi e uithes t ook fire, and before her husband could effect. , kJ ass ist her, s h e was severely burnt over her breast, t ai and 'lrms• She was taken to the Northern Hospi ' *he • oft., . every attention was paid to her, but she i died . de t e Injuries on Thursday morning. Verdict, Acci tal ~ C o eath Nib ,N°EALING A BIRTH.—On Thursday, a woman, the e ts% 4lll l Thomas, who had latterly been an inmate of eh, vsorkhouse, was brought before the magis . trates, htidtd with concealing the birth of a child, of which she tra„i:e_n delivered. On the 14th of February last, she eprosst service at the Grand Junction Hotel, and from cir ass • ant 's which shortly afterwards took place, a search teileicinsitituted, and the body . of a child was found con -4 d in . n the chamber utensil, in the prisoner's bedroom. s he nieiteuee of opinion existed between . the medical t : I st: 4l ' 4lo g that it had died from debility, the ,resulted ' r ata ea uses, and the other that death had It„,htsuffocation. Under these circumstances, Mr.. cop e '34 remanded the case for consideration.. The pri- assiz._*.as, yesterday, committed for trial at the present ? A v ... , tor the concealment. the tre es ,v l No AND SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS.—At re. *44(1.1 Meeting on Thursday, Mr. James Aspina p _ i %e t ts C omp'aints having been made as to the state . of 440 ward-street, it was stated that the usual notices thathad een given previous to the street undergoing a tho rePair. It was stated in the course of conversation Ito se aar t i es thro w i ng coa l s on t h e f oot-way for the pur ts b e °I having th em put t h roug h the coal-hole were liable hik fine d. - -The offer of Mather, Ledvvard, and Co., to athe old iron in the hands of the Commissioners at htve s , l 9n was accepted.—Mr. Kaye reported that he had ts a . "'gated the charges of drunkenness and abusive lan -14,41.1 'ada .by Mr. Masker, sough watchman, agarost sligb,e,, s ub-surveyor, and found there was not the . 11 tr e f• s ea t ground for the accusation. Musker was se rsri tePrimanded, and ordered to be suspended for a 111 glit. ' , 11 ,1 t (3 0 Ny t 1 , 8 RIP OF WEST DERBY.—On Thursday a meet lks:Lue ratepayers of the above township was held at Pro tn a p u . ,lic Office Harper-street, for the purpose of re or tin,: il uing four ' or more competent persons as assessors Chair, ens uing year. Mr. Peter Youd was T called to the l eco n d Was proposed by Mr. William IN althew, and • ed 0 Y Mr. 'l'. Smith. that, in consequence of the tDeit y Ine tease of population, and the large amount of pro st ' tn be assessed, the township be divided into two " o .l tl-- "No. 1, embracing the municipal boundary, and ttle eti , the rural or out portions of the township. The atia then Proceeded to the appointment as to of assessor, poit;,toe close of a long discussion, who should be ~,r. f e ll , and w h e th er i t wou ld b e expe di ent to elect t5,,, 5 4 ; G• Dolling, and Mr. Hodeson, paid officers of atesi",ingania, it w as u l t i ma t e l y propose d an d carr i e d , that 6',. ly" and n Rowland, b r. Hodgson e for the '44.lj;lasi divisioMn'r a . nd Joh M and Mr. assessors Thomas frr the rural. 1 lt 1 1 4 FROM DROWNING.—An inquisition was bheld e rd T• Curry, on Thursday. touching the death of pteiiZat aa; "avis. a btoyriao of six year of age, wh lived with a in Vic-place, Pr s ince Edwin-s o treet. An 't he l a` nt boy of nine years of ate, named Brennan, said eeeased, whose name I did not know, went to the al % ,aehool with me. On Monday last, about twelve th e d n € ceased and I went dow . Dryden-street, ,Qe saw some boys breaking the ice on a pit there. P il son -n ; ea sed went on the ice to pick up a big stone that h ' h tle t • th . t , when the ice broke and he fell in, and went t h';" k e lee and his head never came up again, but he ts t- _ 4 et i l;i a . n o da: O P. The other boss ran away, but I tried 0 ? far Z w . t the deceased but could not . do so, as he was haer e b u .nsler the ice for me to reach him. I did not know bit hs h i ," o arents lived, but at night I told my father what Daicned, when he came home. I ascertained where D i e t 'ts lived, and told his father, who went to the pit, fe,e„ll4l ( !corn i patiied him, and the body of the de . ceased . is tal lo u.„: The jury returned a verdict of Accidental 044 s e „ pit is unprotected, is close to a street, and liter nd 'eel). The father of the d ecease d i s a police 11tt n i ' 1, I the croner d him Mr. to 't 'l i n e facts ' o so that the directe rs to owne may inform be required to 400, ePlac e in teare k C ostal' THURSDAY.—Present, Messrs. titer•t, (in Hors T . TEE. , e chair), Nicol, Molyneux, Houghton, Mit tri~44 -re fs'', Mann, Boyden, Kendal, Sandbac , SC,4 er l , Evans Tobin, Aikin, Chilton Bold, Wood, spaerl , n • The Chairman stated that the ' Trinity Board s•rahn introduce a clause into the new Dock . Bill, ti t alte t i n ' l lg the Dock Committee from placing new lights ti of -R "le Position of the old ones without the.sanc porilairiethat board. Mr. Worthington, the solicitor. dC t e s fn that the Trinity Board had exactly the . same lai t ,isiC t general act, and that, by the . proposed intro !poleasdvue Dock Committee would give up no right , 104 ad er J°Yed. Mr. Aikin and Mr. Evans strongly 44de nn e I ntroduction of such a clause as unnecessary, 1 1 , Si l n ln eed, in strong terms, the conduct of the lor.ed ' o ar & After a lengthened conversation, it was ~lter t n re sist the introduction of the clause : but not peril the bill. Another clause, providing for I stt s -r atae, 4l , 4 of the dock rates, was referred to the Par thsc k •otrimittee for revision. The Chairman re th, with regard to the Birkenhead Dock Bill not !all, tri ate l e r,. at opposition had been Offered. They had Nt i eti on s '0 introduce the same clause as regarded the ° Y; t ‘tag (If light dues that was put in the former bill. I r•'lti s i st ated that it was urecessary. It was excluded 4 reae •• 1 / I ItY of thirteen to one. One thousand copies Sili l r e ed ajine Surveyors"relegraphic Alphabet were c. Prined. A return of the number of vessels Lls,}aroan:lng Docks, agreeably to the order last week, --ed, but it ' was referred back to the Harbour 4.; i tra. 4 Dub-Committee as incomplete. A letter from e nits„s a netin and Ewing was referred to the Sub -114 114 Works. . 16 on , a tt;' at I NDIANS.—The exhibitions of these In- Ittivstenl"le Parthenon Assembly-rooms, Great Char ,N,,Sut~,thcir' will be continued to-day and to-morrow 4 0j 0 „ engagement le ts ' do ; and those who have not yet seen them iCe;ol to avail themselves of the opportunity that Leri , a ,rei es ac , I f. The pa'rty consists of fourteen (and their S wiJ* inelUdilig chiefs and warriors, old and young, kte fr y "' aCtos, and daughters of several of them. , 4 tt s . sky As "' the heart of the American wilderness, near 'll4;ettiii ''onotains. They are dressed in varied and Oti 0 ,,e style, with visages also variously painted, the 11 0 1 a r "heir ishtribe permitting a great latitude of . taste ar e e t. Their countenances, though decidedly ;:ttrt;sl'o pager o means ferocious, and those of several tS, Portion retty an d interesting, though etal typ ti ' O O Profuse use of red saint. Mr. Catlin. siti,a s nd ( en Hall, London, accompanies them as their ; arid no man is better qualified to ex smatZted ff:areras, manners their various dances (some I :ll t 7li st ,s; irtl°llse them in war, ' and others to amuse and ti tl e% % Mich P e ace), their pastimes, games, songs,. &c., s te t , I ta,,. are illustrated by themselves, with their at al - .uln a et a h et 1 1 Music, on the platform. During the i bri w :en each' bra nc h of their performance, he 11'14;1,44f i nteresting address, or lecture, in which irate, Ira 8 own experiences during a residence of 4rn°ngst the,e extraordinary, and t by m no m m d eans P ittjaee t i ( l l nth w ai r k t e people. Severa t l he of h eli kro:k„litlyttgisredsessecariplive. of some of ir exploits, and List 4 14 an d to the audience, which Mr. Catlin e, 11,„ 014 which are curious and interesting, as the .llt e ernanations of mind in these children of .41 3' e;;P e ed but add the room (which is new) is mfortable and coromcdious. SELECT VESTRY PROCEEDINGS, TUESDAY.—By the return of the out-door expenditure it appears the number of eases relieved during the past fortnight was 7277 and £875 2s. 6d. against 7854 and £845 ss. for the same pe riod last year. By the weekly sick report, it appears there is an increa-e of about twenty cases more than the last return, nearly half of them being fever cases.—Mr. Ford gave notice, for the next meeting, to appoint an ar chitect or surveyor for the alterations of the workhouse. —A communication from Mr. Gray, assistant overseer, on the subject of Sir James Graham's new law of settle ment bill, and the mode in keeping the accounts in the overseers' department having been read, Mr. Church warden Houghton gave notice that Mr. Gray's letter be referred to a sub-committee of the Select Vestry to be appointed at the next meeting.—On the motion of Mr. Houghton it was resolved that a special meeting of the Select Vestry to be held on Monday next, the 24th in stant, at twelve o'clock, to decide upon the tenders sent in, according to advertisement, for the supplies for the Workhouse and Industrial School. SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Saturday, before the borough coroner, touching the death of Elizabeth Worrell. The deceased, who was 68 years of age, resided with some relations in Golden -court, Shaw's-brow. For three weeks the deceased had been confined to her bed. and suffered from shortness of breath. She was attended by a surgeon. On Tuesday afternoon last, she sent her grand daughter down stairs to bring a razor, which she said she wanted to cut her corns with. The girl took it to her in bed, when deceased told her to take a sponge cake out of the table drawer and eat it. The girl refused to take it, and deceased then lay down in bed and turned her back. The girl knelt upon the bed to cover her with the clothes, and, in doing so, saw deceased cutting her throat with the razor. She took it from her as soon as she could and gave thealarm. Some neighbours came in, and the deceased's son, who was in another part of the room, also came up. She bled a great deal, but the wound was not a large one. A surgeon was called, and he dressed the wound, but she died from its effects on Thursday morning. tier son stated, that for some time the deceased had been troubled with asthma and difficulty of breathing, and that she was in very low spirits in con sequence, and continually murmuring. She was then at tended by a surgeon. Several other witnesses spoke to deceased's depressed state of mind, and to her conversa tion recently, which seemed to indicate occasional abber ration of intellect. The jury delivered a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from the wound she had her self inflicted during temporary insanity. Two MEN KILLED IN A TIMBER-YARD.—An inquest was held on Thursday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., on view of the bodies of James Finch and Edward Hurst Lewman. It appeared that on Wednesday afternoon the deceased were employed in the timber-yard of Messrs." Brereton and Jones, Jordan-street,—Finch in assisting in loading a cart with planks, and Lawman in measuring them as they were delivered. Finch stood at the top of the pile, which was about 20 planks in height, and which was placed against another pile of planks of about forty making to the top 15 or 16 feet in height, and Lewman was below. While the deceased were thus engaged the higher pile fell down upon them. Assistance was im mediately procured, and the deals were taken off as quickly as possible, but they were both found to be quite dead— their heads being completely crushed. It appeared from several witnesses that the planks were piled one upon another in the usual way, and appeared to the carter to be plum and firm. They had stood there for some months. The coroner suggested to the jury to put any questions to the witnesses, or make any suggestion with a view to pre vent the recurrence of so lamentable an accident in a timber-yard. About 10 or 12 of the planks fell upon the deceased. It appeared to the coroner, to some of the jury, and a police-officer, that several of the piles in the yard were in a dangerous position. The person who su perintended the yard said the planks were piled shortly before Christmas, during the heavy fall of snow. Tine deceased Finch had been working amongst the timber for ten or eleven years. When the yard was not level sleepers were laid to render it so for the piles. The planks were 3 inches thick, 7 to 8 inches wide, and from 19 to 27 feet in length. They were worth about 2s 6d. each. Lewman was apprentice to Messrs. Brereton and Jones. The coroner carefully summed up, snd the jury returned a verdict of " accidental death„ with a recom mendation to timber dealers that the piles of deals, &c., should be carefully formed. The coroner stated that it was the intention of Messrs. Brereton and Jones to do something for the family of Finch. INQUESTS.—On Tuesday three inquests were held be fore the borough coroner. The first was on the body of Edward Butler, a stevedore, 49 years of age. He was working on board the brig Crowther, at the Queen's Dock, and in the act of taking some chains out of the forehatch, when a piece of wood, called the top-gallant outrigger, fell from the rigging, struck him on the head, and knocked him down. He died very shorily after, of fracture of the skull, at the Southern Hospital. The se cond was on Patrick Fitzgerald, 42 years of age, who went into a house in Midgliall-street, on Monday, and, while smoking a pipe in his usual good health, was seized with a cough, fell forward and almost immediately expired. The cause of death was rupture of an aneurism of the aorta.—The third was on the body of a young woman named Catherine Morgan, of Slater-street, who acciden tally took fire, and was so severely burned that she died the following day.—On Saturday on the body of Elizabeth Cain, aged 43. On Wednesday night last, about half-past eleven o'clock, as Nathan Smith, a publican living in Fontenoy-street, was going cut of his house, he saw the deceased sitting en the steps of the next house. Thinning she was in a state of intoxication he sent for a police officer, and when he came it was found that she was dead. The surgeon, who made a post mortem examination, found that deceased had died from disease of the heart, the result of natural cause. Verdict accordingly.—On the body of Hannah Rankin, twenty-nine years old, who resided in Victoria-place, Bond-street. On Friday week, a female who lived opposite heard screams, and on open ing the deceased's door found her standing in the yard all in flames. Assistance was called, and the fire was put out, but deceased was severely burnt all over. She was afterwards regularly attended by a surgeon, but kept get tile worse, and died on Friday night. Deceased told her husband, (a shipwright,) that she bad been snuffing a lighted candle, when the burnt wick fell upon her dress and set it on fire. The jury returned a verdict of " acci dentally burnt."—On the body of John Mullicrane, aged 45, who lived in St. Martin-street. On Thursday night last, at half-past eight o'clock, the deceased went up stairs to bed, and was then quite well. A little before twelve o'clock, his wife went up to go to bed, and found the de ceased quite dead. The surgeon stated that he was called in at one o'clock on Friday morning, but could not tell the cause of death without an examination, which he af terwards made, and found deceased had died from disease of the right aurical of the heart, arising from natural causes. Verdict accordingly. ALARMING AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Thursday afternoon, about twenty•five minutes before four o'clock, dense black smoke was observed suddenly to issue from some of the top windows of the warehouse and drug. mill belonging to the Apothecaries' Hall, in Back Colquitt street, corner of 'Wood-street. which former street, run ning north and south, divides it from the back portion of the premises known as the Hall, which is very extensive, and, in frontage to Colquitt-street, one of the finest and most classical stone buildings in the town, and at all times contains a very valuable stock. The fire wa, first observed by a labourer named Dilston, who was at work in the ware house, which was four stories in height, but without cel lars, and has a door to each in Back Colquitt-street, with two large windows on each side, or 16, and three in each in Wood-street, making in all 28 windows and 4 doors. A fire-engihe kept on the premises was immedi ately got out, and a police-officer sent the alarm to the fire station, from which proceeded a short time all the engines, new and old, of the force, together with a number of laden water carts. Short, however, as the interval was before they could be worked, it was vain to attempt to save the ignited building, so combustible were the contents, and every energy was directed to saving the hall itself, the back of which was long in imminent danger, the flames being borne across the narrow street towards it, and throwing out so intense a heat as to split away large portions of the heavy stone cornicing and other decorations, rendered more fragile by fire in consequence of the long frost. There was in a short time a very fair supply of water from the mains in the neighbourhood, and the engines being vi gorously played from both sides, the fury of the blaze was somewhat reduced, though at times so intense that spec tators were fain to run back from its scorching effect, and the doors and other wood-work of the back of the hall were kept so bathed that, though some of them were burned, the actual ignition of the combustible within, which at one time seemed inevitable, was prevented. In that quarter, therefore, the damage was chiefly confined to the exterior stonework, and the damage done be the flood ing of the floors, from one of the hig,ust of which the fire men played with considerable effect on the burning ware house, which about five o'clock was interiorly one mass of flame, sometimes intensely white, end at others presenting varied bright tints according to the material. then in com bustion. Adjoining it on the west is a building of small elevation, inhabited by Mr. Cato, publican, from the roof of which a branch pipe was played to prevent the fire from extending in that direction. Similar means were taken Irene the roofs of the lower buildings adjacent in Beck Colquitt-street. The wareholi,e, or laboratory, was filled with castor-oil, other oils, balsam, and a variety of drugs more or less inflammable, and several explosions took place. We have never witnessed a smarter or more rapid and intense fire, or greater exertions made by tine police and others to subdue it ; and the preservation of the hell itself was truly a great " save," for had the fire effectually caught it, the whole pile, and probably touch more in Col quitt-street; and even beyond it, would have been de stroyed, the little wind there was buns from about the W.N.W. Several parties in the neighbourhood removed their goods from their dwellings and other premises, and in the precipitation of the moment considerable damage was no doubt the result. The Mayor was early at the spot, as were Mr. Rushton, Mr. Aldern.an Turner, Mr. J. Aspi nal!, Mr. Harbord, and many other gentlemen known in public life, together with nearly the whole of the heads of our police force, all equally anxious and active. Towards six o'clock the building being entirely gutted, and hang ing in broken ruins towards Back Colquitt-street, which was strewed with huge pieces of broken freestone from the cornicing of both buildings, the flames, on w hi c h a d e l uge of water had been thrown for nearly two hours, became exhausted by having consumed nearly all they had fed upon, and all further danger was at an end. The loss, in cluding the building, stock, machinery of a grinding mill, &c., is £50,000, the greater part of which w as i nsure d i n the Manchester, West of England, Phoenix, and another office. The origin of the fire is not ascertained. The tall round chimney of the engine furnace remained firm, the stonework at the top being alone slightly broken by the action of the flames ; and here it may be stated that this fire demonstrated the impolicy of placing heavy projecting free-stone cornicing on such buildings, and over the win dows, such material being readily fractured by fire, caus ing great danger in its fall to those engaged with the en gines THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD LORD SANDON AND MR. M`NEILE We gave in our last the letter of the Rev. H. M'Neile to Lord Sandon. A London contemporary on the subject of that letter has the following remarks :—" Mr. M'Neile has done, or at least has endeavoured to do, a great ser vice to the cause of truth. Finding himself met, at Li verpool, as we are everywhere else, by this intangible phantom of a supposed compact or engagement, for the support of Maynooth, entered into, no one can tell where or when, he has distinctly addressed himself to Lord Sandon, one of the most respectable of the public men who have adopted this fanny, and has begged of him to furnish, if he can, some particulars of the nature and cir cumstances of an undertaking which is thus asserted to keep the nation fast bound to Popery. Lord Sandon be ing Mr. M'Neile's own representative, and having taken this ground in a public letter, may fairly, without the least imputation of obtrusion, be asked to furnish this explana tion ; and it could not have been solicited in a more cour teous or friendly manner than Mr. M`Neile has unaffect edly exhibited." Another contemporary, in giving Lord Sandon's reply, remarks •—" We must say, while giving his lordship cre dit for the utmost sincerity in the view he has adopted, that his speech on the first night of the session would have led us to suppose that the question put by his reve rend correspondent admitted of a more definite answer. What his lordship said was, that • he thought it the duty of parliament to carry out the engagements which had been entered into with the College of Maynonth, both in the spirit and LETTER.' " On this subject his lordship, in a letter which appears in another part of our paper, corrects an error which has inadvertently been made in reference to his lordship's observations. JEWISH MISSIONS OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND The Nev. Dr. Keith, of the Free Church of Scotland, the author of the celebrated work on the " Evidences of Prophecy," visited Liverpool, last week, for the purpose of awakening public attention to the duty of taking a deeper interest in the state and prospects of the Jewish people, and for the purpose of explaining what had been done in the Jtvvish cause by the missions of the Free Church. On Sabbath, the 16th, he preached in the forenoon to the Rev. Mr. WPlsh's congregation ; and in the evening, in the hall of the Mechanics' institution, to the congrega tion of the Rev. Mr. Fergusson,—on both occasions to overflowing audiences. On the evening of Wednesday, he addressed the congregation of the Rev. Mr. Gardner, in the Presbyterian Church of Birkenhead • and on the Thursday evening he addr ess ed a large and influential meeting in the Music-hall, Bold-street. Oa the motion of the Rev. Mr. Welsh, JAMES ADAM, Esq. took the chair. Around the chair we observed the Rev. Messrs. Rowland, Fergusson, Welsh, Dr. M'Cul loch, Blackburn, Duncan, Hibhert Taylor, Messrs. J. Cropper, J. P. Jones, J. bowie, R. Macauley, and A. Bro,‘n, Jun., &c., &c. The meeting having been opened with prayer, Dr. KEITH addressed the meeting at great length, and in a speech of great power and eloquence, of which we can only give the following abstract :—H is opening obser vations were to tt , e effect that the land and people of Israel were fraught with the highest interest to every christian mind, and that there never was a people so scattered among the nations, and so trodden down by the Gentiles, as the people of Israel had been. He then remarked upon the altered tone in which the public writers of the day were beginning to speak of the Jews, and of the different manner in which kings and the councils of nations were now deliberating and consulting together concerning them. In proof of this he remarked, that Sir Moses Montefiore, a Jew, had been appointed High• Sheriff of Kent, by the Queen and her Council, and that a bill had been brought into parliament for the removal of the civil disabilities of the Jews. thereby enabling them to be elected to the highest municipal offices in the state. Re cently, in the city of Trieste, the Emperor had ennobled two of the house of Israel, and within the last few years a Jew went in procession, at noon-day, through the streets of Constantinople, where previously Jews were treated with all manner of indignities, and had had an interview with the Sultan of the sublime Porte, from whom he re ceived a firman, giving equal liberty to all Jews through out the empire of Turkey, as to his other subjects. These were striking changes in their condition, unknown in an cient times, but now rising up in familiar illustration day after day. Again, only six or seven years ago, there was not a single consul from any kingdom in the world resi dent at Jerusalem ; and thus the plaintive complaint of the prophet, that " Jerusalem had become an outcast," was literally fulfilled. At present there were seven con suls there : Dr. Alexander, the bishop, was also there, and lie was one of the tribe of Judah. But altered as the feelings of Gentiles happily were towards that people, yet very little change had, in this respect, been effected, com pared with the change which, of late years, had been tak ing place in the House of Israel itself. When visiting different countries of Europe, on his way to Palestine, about six years ago, he found a very prevalent belief en tertained among the Jews, that, in the year 1840, they were to be delivered—that then the grand year of their release and deliverance was to come, and that the Mes siah was then to appear and bring them to the land of their fathers. But the year arrived, and passed away, and, with it, all their fondly-cherished hopes vanished. Another change had come over them :—Down to the end of the last century, they were under the influence of their Talmud or their traditions, but now a sect of reformed or rationalised Jews had sprung up in every continental city, whose minds were not blinded by the traditions of their forefathers, and who were absolutely discussing the question as to whether circumcision was adapted to the cold climates of Europe. Some Jews at Frankfort, more over, were of opinion that the rising generation should be trained up in the religion of the country in which they happened to live. Dr. Keith then proceeded to shew that Syria had become desolate and depopulated, and said that the British Consul at Beyrcut, in an official document laid before Parliament, had given it as his opinion that the population was reduced to a tithe of what the land could abundantly support, and that the land itself, under proper cultivation, could be made to yield ten-fold its present produce. On one side of the Jordan, no fewer than 446 cities had become ruined or deserted places. The Bedouins had now spread unresistingly over the great plains of the country, and along the very shores of Syria, the fat thest from their native desert, their camps were now to be seen. From one of the house-tops in Askalon he surveyed the whole territory towards the north, and found it literally covered with hundreds and thousands of sheep, goats, and camels, and about 8000 Bedouins, who, wherever they went, turned every place into a desert, and stripped the people of their possessions. According to a recent calculation, the Bedouins had 50,000 tents and 500,000 camels, extending over the whole breadth of the Promised Land. Dr. Keith proceeded to urge on all Christians the necessity of supporting in an efficient manner the mission to the Jews, which, greatly to their credit, the Free Church of Scotland had estab lished, and sat down amid loud applause. The Rev. Mr. FERGUSSON moved an expression of thanks to Dr. Keith for his presence and for his inte resting address, and stated his delight that his fellow townsmen had had an opportunity of hearing the claims of the Jews advocated by a member of the first deputa tion that ever went forth om any Christian church with a message of love to Israel. Associations had previously been formed, and societies had laboured for this object; but the Church of Scotland had been the first, in h r capacity as a church, to seek the good of Israel, and the first act passed by the Free Church of Scotland, upon her separation from the state, was a recorded resoluion to labour for bringing a blessing to Israel. He (Mr. F.) believed that this was the secret of the success of the Free Church—the fulfilment of the promise, " Blessed is he that blesseth her : they shall prosper that love her." We understand that the contributions here to the funds of the mission have somewhat exceeded £lOO, and that a meeting of ladies was held in the Presbyterian Church, Rathbone-place, on Friday morning, at which, after an address from Dr. Keith, it was resolved to organise a ladies' association for the prosecution of the Jewish cause CORRESPONDENCE THE REV HUGH MiNEILE AND THE GRANT TO MAYNOOTU COLLEGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Stn,—That you were right in attributing the Rev. H. M'Neile's late unwonted silence upon a subject of the highest importance to the Protestant and best interests of the empire, is now apparent,—at least, it is plain from the tone of the Mail, that the party connected with that paper are tar from wishing anything like a public demon stration in the cause of religion at the present time,—that lee has been deserted by Mem. What else could possibly have led that journal to adopt as a maxim, that it is use less complaining of an infliction before it happens— guarding against an evil before it comes? 'Tis true the nursery maxim says so—" Never cry before you tire hurt" ; and we presume there it was the scribe learnt it, and thence adopted it, as deeming that he was addressi:t-4 those who either would not or could not think for diva:_ selves. Mr. 'Editor, I am not a politician—unfortunately. I have no access to state papers, nor even to public news rooms. 1 see but as the majority of my brethren see— at a distance. But what I do profess to see, I see clearly. A mountain to me is a mountain—not the less plainly, because 1 cannot define its exa'q shape, or distinguish a windmill on its side. I am certain of the first. The Mail says it is wrong to anticipate a measure before we are acquainted with its details. To anticipate details, or anything else with which we are entirely unacquainted, is foolish, at least.' But are we unacquainted with the nature of the measure proposed? Mr: M`Neile certainly attacks nothing else: he has not said a word about details. We, as Protestants, object to the m easure i n tato. We -deny the justice of any grant at all to Maynooth, on the highest possible grounds. And are we wrong in suppo sing, or rather assuming it for granted, that government intends to propose, and, if possible, to carry, an increased grant ? Let our opponents, then, meet us on this ground —the justice or injustice of any grant. I am not aware that Mr. M'Neile ever allowed of any. Where, then, is his inconsistency in arguing thus :—" We deny the right of government to tax the nation at all in support of a false religi.m. Just at this time government says, W e will increase the grant to Maynooth.' We know that Sir Rabert Peel's government is strong enough to carry any measure concoctPd with his party. We feel that opposi tion to the principle of that measure in the House of Commons is useless. It is only out of parliament that such opposition presents any hope of success. It is, therefore, our duty to oppose it there, and, as the danger is imminent, to oppose it instantly, simultaneously, and strenuously." Yet the Mail say Wait till it is discussed in parliament—that is, till the principle of the measure is acknowledged—ratified by the representatives of the peo ple ; for such must be the case if leave can be granted to discuss the details of such a measure at all. And yet we are forbidden to appeal to the people themselves until such appeal manifestly comes too late! Did our oppo nents ever wait, in their opposition to the principle of a measure, till they were acquainted with its details ? Did they forbear pouring in petitions ? Was not the mere announcement (and ought it not to be so?) of the inten tion abundant cause with them for the most vigorous opposition ? Alas for conservatism ! We are become (at least the Mail wishes we were become) conservative of details forsooth, not principles—of the character and honour of men, not of God! Is this a state of things to be witnessed without so much as a warning cry against it? No. Everlasting is the debt of gratitude Liverpool owes to her tried defender of the " faith once delivered to the Saints," for his not deserting his post on this occasion. We feel that he is right; and whether the clergy of thiN town join him or not, he feels that he has done his duty, in opposing, ere it be too late, though alone and single handed in his opposition, the downfal—not of Protestan tism, we concede so much, but—of a single most impor tant Protestant principle. Further panegyric is needless. Defence of such a man is needless. But my excuse is, that this tribute from one of his own congregation, who confesses withal that, for a space of four years, he never heard from his lips a single sentiment or expression that he would not gladly father—a single uttered thought that breathed not glory to God, gratification to his friends, and that (in the scriptural sense) " heaped" not " coals of fire" upon his enemies—cannot be unacceptable at a time when he must feel, though he may not know (as in my own instance), that he is about to leave a congrega tion every individual of which, I cannot help believing, is bound to him by ties of the strongest attachment and respect. I am, sir, yours respectfully. A CONSTANT READER Islington, March 22, 1845. THE SHIP-BUILDING TRADE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—lt was with astonishment I read the remarks of the Chairman of the Dock Committee on the decrease of shipbuilding in this port, which be imputed to the mono poly of the ship carpenters, who, it was alleged, were re ceiving ss. a day, and refusing to work with men from Whitehaven and Maryport, where wages were 3s. fid. or 3s. Bd. a-day. There are here two slight mistakes which I trust you will allow me to correct. At the time this statement was made, we had not received our 55., but had to wait till Saturday for the first payment. The second is soon answered by the fact, that half the men at work in the town are from other ports, and above one hundred of them from Whitehaven and Maryport. It is the practice in this port to build vessels with apprentices and two or three men, and last week two vessels were launched the men's wages for soth of which would not exceed £500: a small item in the cost our extra wages would be. But, sir, the interests of the operatives have been too long over looked : have they no interest in the firms which have been virtually extinguished ?—firms which formerly paid from £3OO to £lOOO weekly as wages (never to do so again), for we cannot build a Hindostan or a Bentinck in a dog kennel. The Gladstones, Tobins, Sandbachs, Bartons, Shands, &r.—men who are supposed to understand their own in terest—could have their vessels built here. I have seen twelve vessels on at one time in Trentham-street. Humble and Milchrest never lacked a contract when there. And at the meeting between the masters and the men a month ago, Mr. Wilson stated that he had he might say near a dozen contracts, all of which he was compelled to give up finding he could not obtain suitable premises. And are these contracts to be executed by the men who it is alleged get but 3s. 6d. per day ? No ; they went to London, where the wages are 6s. or 6s. 6d. a-day. If Mr. Moore attended the special meeting of the Shipowners' Associa tion, called to hear the memorial sent by the shipwrig ,ts respecting wages, he might have learned something on that subject. What matters it to me whether I get five pieces of white metal, or four, or three per day, provided I can procure the same amount of food, clothing, and as good lodging for the three as the five. If any rr•an will guarantee me that I shall have as good a house at the same rent as I can get in Maryport, and provisions at the same rate ; in one word, if he will engage to keep me and my family at the same price as we could live in those ports I will work here for 3s. 6d. or 3s. Bd. a-day as long as is wished. But if I must pay Liverpool rent, taxes, rates, water, &c.. and higher for my food, surely it must be admitted that I have a right to higher wages. It is a fact that rent, taxes, provisions. wages, are highest in the largest towns. And now, sir, I will not class Mr. Moore with those who would sink the working man into the mere hewer of wood and drawer of water, living only to work, and working that they may live, nor with those who would grind down the poor to one mass of pauperism. I will not say that Mr. Moore intended to do us—a body of 1400 men and our families—any harm ; but I will say that the Chairman of the Dock Committee—a com mittee who have the management of so large a property, and one so intimately connected with the welfare of the port, in which welfare we are so intimately interested— ought to have a little better information before he puts forth statements calculated to injure us in the eyes of those from whom we get our bread ; for I have shewn you that there are ships built in Liverpool in whose cost our wages are not worthy of being mentioned, and that the men* who did and could again employ us in great numbers, be sides other trades, have been prevented by the policy adopted by the Dock Committee.—l remain, your., &c. March 171 h, 1815. A CARPENTER. * If Mr. Wilson had remained at his old yard, or got a new one to suit him, he would have had 150 of us there at work, to say nothing cf the sawyers, joiners, smiths. ironmen, &c. ; but he who kept one of the largest establishments in the world, and who turned out such vessels as the Hindostan and the Bentinck, must now sink into a ship cobbler. CONVERSION TO POPERY TO THE EDITOR OF THE RENFREWSHIRE ADVERTISER. Sir.—Understanding that you intend to publish a letter from Mr. Bremner in reply to one of mine, which your readers may not have seen, and of which they could only form a very imperfect judgment from the garbled extracts given of it by him, I request that you now publish my letter entire, which I herewith send to you for that pur pose, along with my challenge to Bishops Murray and Gillis, to which Mr. Bremner also refers in his reply. Although, in many respects, the details may assume a personal character, yet the subject is of such general in terest and importance, as to demand the most impartial dealing at the hands of public journalists. The reply of Mr. Bremner is characteristic of the man, or rather of the priest. It will open the eyes of Protestant fathers to the astounding fact, that they have a body of men in the midst of them incapabl • of parental sympathy, ready to push them out of their place, and to assume the entire control of their children, seducing them from under their father's roof and protection, making them to speak and act just as they please —nay, in the true character of lioinish priests, availing themselves of their usurped power, and forcing the child to accuse the father, and the father the child ; and thus, in the present case, compelling a father, in defence of his own veracity, and in support of the cause of truth, to undertake the painful and unnatural task of exposing his daughter to the world. But she is still my daughter, and as she was ever dutiful and affec tionate, until she fell under the blighting influence of Rome, I may be excused for desiring to spare her as much as po-sible. I wait, therefore, for the farther disclosures and full statement promised by Mr. Bremner; and I de mand that such statement shall be supported by better evidence than the mere averment of the priest in Paisley, who stands convicted of triekery and duplicity ; or of his bishop in Glasgow, who has made himself responsible for the conduct of his subordinate. Let not, therefore, my friends in Scotland—Protestant or Romanist—of whom, I trust, I have not a few, be, in the least degree, alarmed at the big swelling words of Mr. John Bremner. He is but the tool of his bishop. Their cunning aim is to bring me into farther collision, with my unfortunate and deluded child, whose character, as well as their own, they have already deeply compromised. Her denial of her engage ment with me—the infot mation said to be given me of her movements, and my ready access to her presence—Mr. Bremner's denial of his volunteered declaration—his boasted challenge, which, after all, was but a refusal of mine—the non-delivery of the books sent by Dr. Murdoch, with Dr. Hutchison's alleged admonition, are all of a piece, and are all, so far as they go, confirmatory of what was lately said in a court of justice by a Roman Catholic layman, who solemnly declared that he did riot know a more dishotiour ble class of men in all their dealings and transactions than the Roman Catholic priests of this country ; and that, to his knowledge, other Catholic lay men were of the same opinion, and would make the same avowal but for their fear of persecution. My friends have had some experience of me heretofore ; and I beg of them to believe that I am not off my guard, or in the least inattentive to the difficulties or advantages of my position, and to be assured that truth, albeit in feeble hands, will yet triumph over all assaults and stra tagems of sophistry and error. Let Murdoch and Brem ner then complete their work, and tell out their story, and I promise in due time to reduce these worthies to their proper dimensions. Let me requestithe earnest attention of every friend of his country to the following letter of Bishop Murdoch, and let it be read and studied by every man who regards the great cause of civil and religious liberty. The letter was written arid sent to me after these men had got my daughter into their keeping, and after they bad been in formed that it was the particular desire of her friends that she should not be removed to any great distance from Paisley. LETTER OF BISHOP MURDOCH TO MR. BREWSTER. Glasgow, 27th Feb.. 1845. Rev. Sir,—Allow me, at Miss Brewster's request, to inform you, that she has good grounds to believe, that you have come to the determination of seizing her person, and removing her to some place where she will not have the opportunity of practising the religion to which she con scientiously adheres. In 4hese circumstances, she begs to say, that, unless you pledge your word as her father, and as a clergyman, that you will not, either by stra'agem or violence, attempt such removal of her person agait:st her will, she must immediately apply for legal protection, or withdraw herself to some place of concealment, there to remain until you give her sufficient assurance that she will be safe from all personal molestation. May I, in Miss Brewster's name, request an answer to this commu nication at your earliest convenience. I am, rev, sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) JOHN MURDOCH. To the Rev. P. Brewster. -The foregoing letter, which I deem unworthy of an answer, affords another proof how heartlessly and inso lently these men usurp the place of a father, and set aside the holiest ties of humanity and religion. They are afraid lest reason and affection should resume their empire over the mind and heart of their proselyte; and therefore it is that, under the most groundless pretences, they have re moved her from her father's house, and now seek to place her beyond tae reach and influence of her own family, and even to put her in a place of concealment. They know well that I could never submit to give the pledge PXI lin Bo Ca they demand, which would be a vir-ual admission that I had contemplated, or was capable of, so base and criminal an act—an act, however, which has been done, and may again be done, by Popish priests "educated within a few doors of the inquisition," but which is utterly abhorrent Iron, every principle and feeling of a Christian minister. They surely forget in what country they are, when they venture to make such allegations, and when they even dare to threaten to put a child "in concealment" from her fath'r. Looking to the whole history of Rotnlnism up to the present day, what security could I have for her LIFE, were she ever to renounce her apostacy, and seek to return to her father's house 1" * I am, sir, your obedient servant, P. BREWSTER Blackbyres, March 6th, 1845 * See a Narrative of Persecutions, or Rome in the Nineteenth Century, by Raffaele Ciocei: RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE. The Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway Co. have de termined to go to Parliament, notwithstanding the deci sion of the Board of Trade against them. Mr. Ormsby Gore has given notice of a motion after Easter, for the restoration of the Shrewsbury and Bir mingham Railway Bit!, notwithstanding the report of the Standing Orders Committee against it. A deputation from the Chester and Birkenhead Rail way proprietors waited, on Thursday, on the Chester and Holyhead directors, to endeavour to make better terms for the sale of their line to the latter company, but were met with a decided refusal or► the part of the Chester and Holyhead Board to entertain any, proposal for re-opening the terms of the existing agreement, which has been ar ranged by the directors of the two companies, and been ratified by the shareholders of each. MANCHESTER TO LONDON AND BACK IN ONE DAY.— The board of trade give the following as one of their reasons for reporting in favour of the Churnet Valley and Tree t Valley lines :—" The time of the journey also, by quick trains, under a prover system of combined manage ment, between London and Manchester, may, at the rate of travelling which is now established upon several rail ways, be reduced to five-and-a.half or six hours, so as to admit of the possibility of a person leaving Manchester in the morning, transacting business in London, and re turning the same evening. The Ulster Railway pays a dividend of 17s Gd per share, which would leave on the net profit of the half year, amounting to £9,777 14s 10d, a balance of £692 las 4d to be carried to the reserved fund. Some of the share holders wished the declaration of a higher dividend, but the amendment was not carried, though only lost by a small minority. The to•al receipts from traffic during the half-rear were £14,967 I7s 6d, and the working ex penses £5,190 2s Bd. The revenue of this line is also improving, and the progress of the concern developes satisfactory results. PROJECTED Warewa vs.—The Board of Trade have reported in favour of the Aberdare; Brighton, Lewes, and H astings—Keymer Branch; Cockermouth and Work ington ; Dunstable, London, and Birmingham; Erewash Valley ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction ; Newark and Sheffield; Nerth Wales Mineral Railway— Extension ; Preston and Wyre—Lytham and Blackpool Branches; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester; Sunder land, Durham, and Auckland; Wear Valley ; and recom mended the postponement until a future period of the Ely and Bedford ; Launceston and Tavistock ; South Devon and Tavistock. The Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway pays a dividend of ss. per share on the £25 shares, 2s. 6d. per share on the half-shares, being at the rate of two per cent. per annum. The receipts of the line con tinue to improve, anJ neither present revenue nor dividend, it is stated, can be fairly taken as any index of the real value of the property. Increased harbour accom modation at Greenock, and the connexion of the line with the Clydesdale Junction, will, it is expected, give the traffic of the railway a considerable impetus. The receipts, in cluding the small balance of last half-year's account, were £23,447, and the disbursements £11,830 ss. 4d. LOST PROPERTY IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—It is not generally known that by one of the arrangements by which the London and Birmingham Rail wa y i s distinguished, all articles lost or left at any of the stations. or in any of the carriages, are forwarded to the Euston Station, and duly registered in books kept for the purpose of affording a ready reference to the articles in question. It is necessary that parties inquiring for any article they have lost should be able to know the day on which it was lost, and the train by which they travelled at the time they sustained the loss. The hooks are open at all times to inspection, and afford a ready reference in a room heated with hot air to maintain a prover temperature for the preservation of the articles deposited therein. In that room may be found articles of all descriptions—hats, caps, bonnets, shawls. boas, tippets, shoes, gloves, neckerchiefs, and pocket handkerchiefs, and nearly every article of dress, jewellery of all sorts, spectacles and eye-glasses, hooks, letters, and bundles, parasols, umbrellas, and sticks without end. After these articles have been a certain lime deposited at the Euston Station, they are sold, and the proceeds may be received by the owners on making good their claim to the articles. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—A meeting of this Com pany took place on Tuesday. The gross revenue for the half-year has been £139,042 Ils. 2d. The expenses for the same period amount to £69.288 Os. 2d., and of these the large proportion of £28,949 15s. 2d. was for the South Eastern share of the disbursement of the joint lo comotive committee, which, in the whole divisible among the three comp enies, including the Brighton and Croydon, was £47,871 Bs. 7d. The lease of the Greenwich line gives great promise of being a fair sour ce of revenue to the South Eastern Company, and the receipts to the 14th March, 1815, compared with 1844, show an excess of £1,924 2s. 2d. in money, and of 68,053 in passengers. The receipts in 1845 were £9,151 64. 3d., and in 1844, £7,227 4s. Id. The Whitstable Railway is now com pletely in the hands of the company. The accounts be tween the Brighten and South Eastern Company are not yet settled, but arbitrators are appointed on each side to arrange the dispute. The South Eastern Company claim a large deduction from the amount sought to be established against them. The directors, in answer to numerous in quiries, report that they are not in treaty with any company either for amalgamation or lease. The dividend proposed and carried was 15s. 4d. per share on the paid•up shares, and Is. 11d, per share on the No. 1 shares, subject to in come-tax, which would absorb £45,616 13s. 4d. of the £70,444 17s. 7d. standing to the credit of the company, thereby leaving the large reserve fund of £24,828 4s. 3d. DECISION OF THE BOARD OF TRADE ON THE YORK LINES.—The Board of Trade have at last decided this most important question, and, we feel bound to say, in a manner which has given very general satisfaction. In stead of permitting either party to embark in what, it must be admitted, is a very hazardous and enormously - pensive undertaking—making a new and independent ie out of London to Peterborough— the decision of the card of Trade is, that the existing line from London to .mbridge shall (when improved by the proposed new station at Fa . ringdou-street), be used as the approach to London, the I , ne being continued from Cambridge to Lin coln, and from Lincoln to York, by the united companies of the Cambridge and Lincoln and the Direct Northern. In this way a new line to York is secured, having graeli. ents of a very superior quali'y, supplying Lincolnshire with railway accomodation, and favourable for the thorough traffic, by the great saving of distance over the existing route to Derby. The Direct Northern Company have, with great good sense and discretion, announced their in tention of acquiescing in this decision ; and as a powerful alliance, offensive and defensive, we have reason to be lieve has been formed between them, the Cambridge and Lincoln and Eastern Counties, there cannot he a question this well-conceived combination of the line will be sane tioned by Parliament, and executed. The immense say- ing of capital effected by this arrangement, the vastly superior entrance into London by the Farringdon-street station, and the decidedly superior arrangements of the Direct Northern as to their station at York and mode of junction with the Northern Railway, combined with the unequalled gradients of the whole line, are reasons that will fully justify this decision of the Board of Trade ; and however holders of London and York shares at -5 premi um may grumble and growl, and however much those who went about saying " we are sure of the Board of Trade report in our favour,' . ' may now exclaim against that Tribunal—we feel no manner of doubt that Parlia ment will support their decision. The uniform integral line will be established at the cheapest cost—uniform rates at the lowest scale ; and, besides the passenger traffic, coals, cattle (dead and alive), agricultural produce, fish, &c., will be brought into the very centre of Lon don ; and collaterally with this, the property invested in the Eastern Counties scheme will be pn.tected and im proved. The present station at Shoreditch is to be re placed by one at Farringdon-street, the construction of which will be guaranteed by three powerful companies— the Eastern Counties, the Cambridge and Lincoln, and Direct Northern—with the sanction and approval of the Board of Trade in favour of that arrangement.—Alas. THE TRENT AND CHURNET VALLEY DISTRICTS.— The following abstract of the report of the Board of Trade on these schemes we take from the Railway Record : " The board report in favour of both lines, as forming part of one scheme for shortening the distance of the principal railway communication from the metropolis to Ireland, Scotland, Manchester, and the northern and north-western portions of the kingdom. The Trent Val ley line commences at 10igby, and runs to Stafford, through Tamworth, cutting off the angle of the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction lines. at Birming ham, saving nine miles of actual distance. The Churnet Valley line, together with the above line, and with the existing London and Birmingham, and Manchester and Birmingham Railways, completes a railway communica tion between London and Manchester 19 miles shorter than the present one, and practically, as short a line as any that can be made between the two points. This line runs from Macclesfield, through Leek and Uttoxeter, joining the Trent line at Tamworth, with a branch from Uttoxeter to Willington, near Derby. A saving of dis tance is not the sole object gained by the proposed line; but a mass of population of upwards of a million will benefit by every reduction of distance in the principal communications, besides the local population ; Maccles field, 50,000; Leek, 11,500; Cheadle, Uttoxeter, &C. The fare from London and Manchester, third-class, will be 155., and the time of the journey 54 to 6 hours. The Alrewas branch of the Trent Valley scheme would have been very useful in shortening the distance between Man chester and Derby, but is reported against, in favour of of the more direct route afforded by the Churnet Valley. THE POTTEHIPA.—The accommodation of the Potteries by means of branches, forms part of both the above schemes—one from Leek to Stoke, and the other from Stafford to Stoke. On this subject the board must !peak for itself: " Considering that the scheme was originally proposed with a view to the accommodation of the Potte ries district, as the result of some understood arrange ment with the principal Potteries interests, and thatthose interests now object to it. and urge that the whole ques tion should be postponed for another year, to afford time for consideration, and for maturing some more complete scheme for the a - Tommodation of that important district, it appears to us, without expressing any opinion upon the merits of the projected line, that under these circumstan ces we are justified in recommend no its postponement." The Potteries branches are therefore postponed. The commissioners attach no weight to the objection of the Grand Junction Company to the Churnet line, "that it would create an injurious competition from Manchester to the South ;" nor do they considerthat the Grand June tiun Company, whose traffic is from Liverpool, Ireland, and the North, is in a position to make such objections." THE LATE REV. DR. HEWSON. [The following sketch of this eminent divine, which we take from a Swansea paper, will, we have reason to be lieve, be acceptable to many of our readers.] It becomes our painful duty to record an event, which may justly be deemed, as it will unquestionably be consi dered by this large community, a deep calamity. Swansea has lost one of her best friends, one of her most sincere Christians, one of her most upright magistrates, and one of her most accomplished and highly-gifted residents, in the death of the Rev. Doctor Hewson, who has, during a period of upwards of thirty years, been the vicar and resident minister of this parish. The melancholy event took place in London, whither the reverend gentleman had proceeded, in the hope of recovering his health ; but, alas! he had scarcely reached the metropolis ere the hand of death closed his mortal career. It will be generally admitted that few individuals could have been placed in a situation, such as the Rev. Doctor Hewson occupied in this extensive parish, more capable of successfully competing with the difficulties by which he was surrounded, and of satisfactorily performing the onerous duties imposed on him. The minister of an ex tensive district, densely populated, a great proportion of whose inhabitants differed trom him in religious opinions, he was, nevertheless, the friend of all, and by all was equally respected and beloved ; not only members of the church establishment, but dissenters alike regarded him with affection, frie•idship, and esteem : for whilst he en tertained the tenets of what is called the " high church," he so comported himself as to call forth the animosity of none. It may indeed truly be said of him, that he pos sessed zeal, tempered with discretion ; and religion, wisely and charitably mingled with Christian toleration and mild forbearance. As a preacher, Dr. Hewson's eloquent and lucid dis courses will long be remembered and cherished by his flock, whilst his earnest and persuasive Christian appeals, whether in the pulpit or in the sick room, or in the way of consolation or reproof, will never be effaced from the minds of those who enjoyed the advantage of hearing 11 , s able expositions and religious exhortations. Strictly orthodox in the creed of the established church, he never failed stoutly to stand forth, and efficaciously to maintain the truth of her tenets, nor fearlessly and faith fully to preach her doctrines in his congregation; whilst his example, both in private and public life, fully testified that the religion he possessed and maintained before the world, was the guide, support, and study of his own blameless life and conversation. In public life, as a loyal subject and an upright and in dependent Magistrate, he was justly looked up to and highly esteemed ; he also contributed much to the comfort, welfare, and happiness of the needy poor, not only by his private and unostentatious charity, but as Chairman of the Swansea Poor Law Guardians, which position he held from the first fcrmation of the " Union" up to the time of his decease :—fulfilling the duties of that highly im portant office to the entire satisfaction of the public,—of the guardians over whom he presided, and also to the advantage of those who either in the course of law or ne cessity became the objects of parochial care. In him his oppressed or poverty-stricken fellow-man ever found a ready advocate, and powerful friend, whilst the public interests were benefitted by his strict and impartial scrutiny, and his able superintendence of the trusts com mitted to his care. In social and private life he was the ornament of the circle in which he moved, the friend to be depended on, and the accomplished and highly educated gentleman, whom all admired and esteemed—a kind and affectionate husband and parent—a lenient and considerate master, and, though last, not least, a truly honest and upright man. Such is the imperfect sketch we have drawn of the character of the accomplished clergyman whom it has pleased Divine Providence to remo‘e from amongst us. His loss will be long and painfully felt by all classes of the community, and his memory deservedly cherished and dearly venere-d, not only by his family and circle of friends, but by the p Nic at large. The regret telt at dec calamity which has, in the hands of the Almighty, befallen us, may, however, be well sof tened in the recollection that our kind Mend and pastor was well prepared to meet his end, and that he has departed this life in sincere and Christian hope, and in humble, though firm, assurance of inhabiting a better world. " For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." THE CLASS BOOKS AT MAYNOOTH We are going, says the John Bull, to increase our annual grant to Maynooth. It is, therefore, of some importance that we should he acquainted with the quid pro quo; in other words, with the nature of the instruction which we pay professors of that seminary to inculcate. Drs. Mur ray and M'Nally, and other authorities of the Romish Church in Ireland, have, both before a Parliamentary Committee, and other public occasions, specified the class books used at Maynooth, and from which the students for the Priesthood are instructed. One class-book specified by Dr. Murray is Cardinal Bellarmine. From this cele brated controversialist's works, Book iii., c. 31, edit. 1628, "we extract the following words : " Heretics can justly be excommunicated, and, there fore, put to death. Knowing that fools will not be want ing who may believe them, and by whom they may be supported, if you confine them in prison, or send them into exile, they corrupt the neighbourhood by their speeches and books ; therefore, the only remedy is to send them forthwith to their own place. It is often useful to the men themselves who are put to death to die, when it is evident they always become worse, nor is it probable they will ever be restored to a sane mind. All these rea sons persuade us that heretics night to be put to death." Another class-book used at Maynooth is the Secunda Secundw of Aquinas. In the question ix., art. 3, p. 93 " Those heretics who continue in their error, after the second reproof, are not only to be consigned to the sen tence of excommunication, but also to the secular princes to be exterminated. If the forgers of money or other malefactors are justly consigned to immediate death by secular princes, much more do heretics, immediately after they are convicted of heresy, deserve not only to be ex communicated, but also justly to be killed." Now, all this may be very orthodox according to the Roman meridian, but it is not a very pleasant prospect for us heretics. Nor can it be expected that we shall feel particularly comfortable in contributing our money to teact, the young Priests of Ireland the duty and expedi ency of making martyrs of us. It may be very mercifully meant on the part of these learned theologians, and it may be very proper on our part to submit patiently to the fiery faggot, but it does seem the very height of despotism on the part of our Roman friends to insist on our paying Professors to teach our fellow-countrymen the knack of putting us to death. It is hard to make us grow our own faggots, light the fire that, is to burn us, and pay the exe cutioners the price of their tuition in their craft. A third class-book used in Maynooth, is Bailly's Moral Theo logy. We venture to affirm what it is easy to prove by copious extracts, that this work is calculated to pollute and contaminate every mind which is schooled and in structed in its vile prescriptions. From Vol. 11., p. 229, the following not very delicate questions are given to the young confessor just emancipated from Maynooth, to be put to every female kneeling before him : " Has not the penitent revolved some improper thoughts in his or her mind? What kind of desire was it? Has he or she felt unlawful passions ? And if the penitent shall answer that he or she has had improper thoughts or irregular desires, the confessor shall ask whether any im proper actions followed." " If the penitent be a girl, she should be asked whether she has adorned herself in order to please the men ? whe ther for this purpose she has used paint, or stripped her arms, shoulders, or neck ? whether she has frequented the churches that she might show herself in the vestibule or window, so as to attract observation? whether she has spoken, or read, or sung-anything immodest? whether she is not attached to somebody with a mote . peculiar af fection? whether she has not permitted him to take some liberty with her? whether she has not allowed herself to be kissed ?—and if occasion occurs for ulterior . inquiries, the confessor," &c., &c. Now, these and other questions it may be very pleasant or very orthodox for bachelor Priests to put to married and unmarried females; but, feeling as most Protestants do, that these queries are the suggestionv of things the penitent may never have dreamed of, and calculated to contaminate the springs of social and domestic purity, it does seem hard that we should he compelled to pay men to teach such theology, and thereby contribute with our funds to the spread and influence of immorality. Dr. DeViegue, another of the class-books and guides, gives the following direction in his Tracialus de Penitentia p. 164 : "That the very great bashfulness with which a penitent may be suffered, from th, confession of certain sins, and the fear lest she may suffrr in the estimation of her con fessor, are not sufficient causes to excuse a person from making an entire confession. This modesty is to be over come, and that confession would he sacrilegious which was cut shot t from a motive so vain:" Such are some • f the lessons we are to pay for. Dis senters deerne paying towards the support of a Protestant church. e in,y now presume they will give vent to a torrent of indignant eloquence at the proposal to teach the lessons, of which we have submitted a specimen or two, to a Lirger number of persons, by contributing twice ten thousand pounds to Maynooth. In these remarks we have made no attempt to discuss the principle involved. because that principle .was sacrificed in the annual grant of XB,OOO a yea r ; b u t it i s sure ly wort h y th e atten tion of Sir Hobert Peel,'Whether this increase of the annual grant to Alayrfooth be not an additional incentive to teach anti social doctrines, destructive alike of the purity and . exist ence of s:miety. It i s a t thi s per i o d t h a t the inquiry may be most nat ura ll y i nst i tu t e d. O ne thing we venture to assert—that either some of the leading and most influen tial Protestants of Ireland, both clergy and laity, are griev ouscouldrevolt calumni a t ors , or M a yoooth is a hotbed of wicked and pestilential doctrines. The latter true, to our certain knowledge ; a n d wer e we not afraid of polluting the m i n d s class -books Protestant o tes f tan i t ay r n e c a o d t e i r l a, . such and horrify them.