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OWN EDITION. LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT OPERATIVE SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the Prot , stant Operative Asso ciation was held et seven o'clock last evening, in the Commercial-hall, Gloucester-street, which was filled by a crowded' and attentive autaory. A considerable body of clergy were ptese , it, and nuny influential laymen; but the bulk ef the wetting consisted of operatives, their wives and families, who manifested the greatest interest throughout the proceedings. Mr. GhORGE JONES was called to the choir; and the Divioe blessing was suppli cated by the Rev. JosEPti BArLEE. The CHAIRMAN having addressed a few introductory olaervatioris to the meeting, expressive of his firm at tachment to the principles ri 1 3 ,otestantism, the Secre tary read the Crmini , ttee's report of their proceedings durine the year jest terminated. This was an elaborate and well-written production. It commenced by explain ing the grounds of the Society's constitution, and the necessity which existed for its continued operation. Fro testantism was in a crisis. The d, bt which had presed upon the Associat , oo for some time was now liquidated ; and it was comeropl-ded to revive V:e Tract Committee, the operati,•ns of which bed been so efficient two years ago.—The accounts were next read ; from which it ap peared that after dischlrgitez every claim There was a small balance renniihine ;1, the hands of the Treasurer. • The Rev. JOSEPH BAY LEE r s an idst much applause, to move the firs res. ; and he commenced by ex pressing the pleasure he f, It. at asaqt meeting the Protestant operreives of Liverpool. lie wouttl much rather attend such a meeting as this, than one of the higher classes, who had eten4ed rolities were mixed up with religion, but who had (e-erted them now that they met for .religion without politics. classes of individuals were neceesa t • each - other; and he was just as well pleased, nay better r!leased, to stand among his rrotestant opera live brethren, than Le should be to appear in an assembly of more wealthy person: ; for he behoved he was standing among men who were less tain ed by the iniquities of the world, and more ready than many of the others to lay dawn their live a for Christ's sa ke. But they must remem ber their strength lay not in mt.ney, but in God our Sa viour, and that if they wished to be saved it must be by standing upon their religious rather than upon their poli tical principles. Our battle with Romanism was not !Ton political grounds only, but it must be fought upon political & religious principles ; and, though he was not a politician, be could respect the politician that was a man of religious principle. Lord Eldon said, the church was joined with the state not for the pi.rpose of tnskitig the church politi csl, hut for the purpose of making the state religious; and if the Protestant operatise s broueht r , lieion into their po litics, it was not to make religion viitcal, but to make politics religious. (Loud cheers.) The resolution he had to move was, tl.at the retort be ado; ted, printed, and cir culated, under the direct-on of the committee. We beard, in these days, many people speaking of popery being liberalized; that Reinanists now erjoyed religious freedom. There were upon the platform some examples of the religious freedom of popery. Here the reverend gentleman related the outlines of the cases of Signor Ciocci and Mr. Day, whose natr.tives of the persecutions they have suffered from the popi-h priesthood are before the public. He (\4e. Bayleel w s not, however, one of those who looked with gloomy tlesi - 0 nlency upon the pre sent aspect of thn.gs ; he regarded it rather as a motive for energy and activity. We should never expect an army of Coutitful, wavering, h , &rating. trembling sol• diers, would be able to gain it vire ory. (Cheers.) Let us then. ie the 'sloe of God's truth, do our duty. (Cheers.) 'We had statesn an, who were for ed.by die circums'ances of toe times to tamper w't ery : but let them do so at their peril : for it thee did God would not honour their staternanship. It ve.s vrry t ifficult for us to feel for the position of the Prime MinSter of the pre sent day ; it was easier for us to point out the main point to remedy. If we remembered that the Prime Minister was but the representative of the majority of the people, in the long run, it was easy to see that the helm of afr&rs must go with the majority of the people. Purify the people, then. (Cheers.) M , ke the people Protestant. (Cheers.) Make the majority of the people what they ought to he—men who do riot care who is the Prime Mi nister, but who require that he most be a Protestant Rime Minister. heers.) We none of us felt so del ply as we ought to feel towar!s Romsnists. We should always draw a distiucfon between Romani.sun and Ro manists. (Ele-r, he: r.) we des , red to bring a Ro manist from his f rro', how were we to do it ? By ridi cule. unkindness, and needless exposure of his crrots ? Far from it. A Vorcg.—What do you think of the Pnseyites? (Some coefusion, and a cry of "Turn him out.") Mr. BAYLKE.—No: let 1 i a not be turned out; it was very ennd question, mid he s .ould be very glad to answer it. (Cheers ) He thong) t that a Puscyite was little worse that, a Romanist. (Great cheers, and applause.) When he resid d es he d'd for four years, in the west of Ireland, there were twit ttoman Catholic archtiisliops, both well know" ; ore cells Dr. Murray, of Dubliu, and the other was D:. of Timm. Dr. M'Hale was very zealous and violent; but Dr. Murray spoke soft things—he could sit at the same table with the Protestant archhishap to provide au united education for Rh - nimists and Prote-t in s --and it t a oi to he said they would much rather have Ir. Ilnle than Dr. Murray. just us we would mu -h rath 'r have a man with a pitchfork over his shoulder than a met, with one mid: r his cloak. (Hear. bear.) Now he (Mr. Bavlee) would much rather have a Roman Catholic prteet in his parish than he would a Pu seyite, because the puseyite brought Romanist') into the church, hut the Roman Catholic hrotieht it only outside the dour. (Great applause ) lie would rather have Pu seyism outside the door an t me. (Cheers.) In the ra dical papers he had himselt ben addrs- s d as a Puseyite, and spoken of as if he was a traitor, t e , use he desired in his own church 'o teach i it people to love the prayer biok of the Chutch or England in all its integrity. He had never wanted to ado ()le letter to. or to take one letter from. it; but he sh old he glad, es every sound Protestant in that room mu he, to have the service of the church in its fulness, as laid dew(' in the prayer-book. (Hear.) Take, for examp:,, the case of last Saturday, November 30, mlfch ass (I sr% ed in the prayer-bock as St. Andrew's day. Whit did the Bit:le tell us was St. Aw'r w ? Ati sc plc of J hit the Baptist, who, as soon as he heard Jesus Christ, immediately followed him ; and when be rotted was the S:vilur. he went and brought his brother Simon. Now he would put it to every man present, was it a b..(1 thing for those who had time to meet together in God's h-o -e, to pray, in the week-day, and to have brought before them what the Scriptures taught about the holy man of God mentioned ou that day? (War.) As a clergyman Itf the Church of Eng land, when be entered the church he declared his un feigned assent and consent to all that is contained in the Book of Common Prayer. He wanted no candles at the Lord's table, no surplice in the pulpit : he was glad to have a good Protestant gown in the pulpit—the emblem and mat k of the Reformation, for it etas then for the first time that the academic gown was worn in the pulpit. (C eers.) Ile wanted not the mitovations of Pueeyism ; and, above all, he wattled n)t th- doctiines of Post yism. (Renewed cheers.) In shoo, I s answer was that he thought a Pu seyite w: s a palest inside the Church, and he would much rather have a papist not of the Church. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman thin to umed his consideration of the cha racter of Romanist.; and in the remaining part of his speech. which was ( f ereat length, he slowed that Popery takes the Word of God trim the people; that it sets the priest between the sinner and his God ; that it enfetters the mind and e 'slaves the body; and that it is dan gerous to the soul. Dr. BETTELH EIM, an Austrian physician, and a con verted jew, who is on his way to Palestine for the purpose of labouring among his brethern of the house of Israel, seconded the motion in a speech of much length. The Doctor spoke Engli-h with fluency, and in a very ani mated manner he stated his conviction that by defending Protestanti-m we were best advancing the great cause of Converting Jews to Christianity The Rev. A. Ittwiels supported the motion in a most able speech. Signor Cloccr followed, with a short narrative of the treatment he had received at Rome, the circumstances of which have already been published. The motion was carried. The Rev. D. JAMBS moved "that whilst this meeting desires to express its gratitude to Almighty God for the national pros•Jerity which we enjoy under the present government, it cannot, at the same time hut feel alarmed at the concess'ons made to the Church of Rome, and the continuance of the anti-protestant system ot education in Ireland." During the r•ading of the report he felethe confirmation of a conv•cti•in in bis own mind that we were arrived at a crisis in the h'stery of Engli•li ote•tan ism. The persons v ho drew t p tat report mast have observed what he had ob creed, f r they had conveyed sta'ements which had torsome time been impressing themselves upon bis thoughts. There had been for several years past a quiet movement, which might be called an under current, setting in within the bosom of the Church of England, within the domain of the Protestawi•m • of our country. For a time it was unobserved ; but it had acquired strength in its progress, until it had at last burst into view in dif ferent parts of the empire. This movement had been de signated by the specious name of " a return to ancient and Catholic usages ;" and it had borne along with it a large number of persons high in station and distin guished for piety and intellect, whilst it had also carried with it a hest of individuals whose only claim to public notice rested upon their arroant assumption of authority as derivable from the sacred office which they filled. But those who were intell7gent among them, who had put themselves forward as guides of the movement and directors of its course, had declared openly that they could not bring the Church of England to that standard which properly belonged to a churc of Christ, so long as the suhject of Protestantism was discussed and recom mended from the platform to the attention of the masses of the people. (Cheers.) Protestantism, therefore, had been denounced by these parties as a barrier stand ng in the way of those desirable improvements in the cha racter and condition of the Church of England, which it was the aim of those parties to attain. (Hear. bear.) The effect produced by this denunciation had had been two-fAcl. In the first place it had produced an impression On the mind of a great number of the true friends of he Church of Engl an d, t h at our P rotesta nfa-n had something essentially wrong in it because it was stated to be antagonistic to the progressive improvement of the Established Church of the realm. The o . her effect had been upon the class of individuals who sill retained their opinions of Protestantismathpautreitfm andthe artiagthet.btahtinwgh—o thing— that it was Christianity in had been driven to this conclus i, n. that it w as expedient to yield to the movement for the present. and no longer lift up their voices against the encrcaelitnetits of Popery. lie (Mr. James) was glad to hear Mr. Bvylee say he did not look with anything lice despondency at this state of things; hut it was necessary, seeing that we were ar riving at a crisis in the history of England's Protestantism - --- —the c rcuaistences ot the case tercel it upon us—to re consider the subject, and to ask ours-Ives, " What is it we advocate? Is there anything essentially wrong in th' Protestantism we advocate and recomm-nd ?" Was there any attempt to withl old the Bible from the inhebi , ant s of the land ? That was popery. Did we advocate the dis seminatien of the Word of God in the lengulge which the people understood among all classes of society ? Vint was Protestantism. What was it we denounced ? We de nounced any attempt on the part of Rornish priest teto sub stitute the offering ot the sacrifice of the mass for the one sacrifice of the cross. That was Popery. We advocate the atonement of Christ's. death—the cne death he died on Calvary—as a sufficient atonement for the sins of . the world. That was Protestantism. Vre denounced' all attempts to teach the people to bow down to idols and images, to relies, and to the other senseless things they worship—the bon:ve of the knee, of the body, and the worship of the lip, which belonged to Almighty God alone. This was done by Papists, and this was Popery. We, on the other side, said that divine worship should be addressed to Almighty God through the mediation of His Son; and this was Protestantism. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) We denounced those e - ho attempted to bring the Virgin Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ into the' position of intereessor, or the apcstles and canonised saints as mediators with Jesus Christ on our behalf, that be might be with Ged ; we advocated, on the other hand, the Scriptural doctrine, that there was hut one mediatorbetween God and man—the man ChristJeu . This was our Protestantism. (Cheers.) He felt, then, after tinlexau ination of the principles of Pre-tes enti.m, there was no reason why any ineieidual connected with the Chitr,•h of England should believe there was anvtliittg essentially wrong in the principles thus advocated and in culcated upon the people. Our Protestantism was pure Scriptural truth. Then as to expediency ; and we must c •nsider th s suhjeet in two hearings, first as to the feel legs of ti e and then in its prospective effect upon the welfare of the country. It was true the r were reasons for individuals wishing to retire from what thee called the public agitation of Protestant principles, bet was it profitable to the country that we should give tie our meetings? If ever there should come such a time when we from expediency must give up our advocacy— whether from the Popish camp or from a traitorous go vernn;ent—he was determined to cling to the wreck of Protesten ism! (Cheers.) And if, in an ev .1 hour, any of throe bright advocates of Protestantism, who had pre sented themselves at different times upon our plat.. forms, should be persuaded to withdrew their con nect:on with the associations in existence, and he hoped still int-nding to exist, he had no hesitat'on in declaring that expediency, like the tail or the dri , gon, would sweep them away, and their name would go down to posterity coneeited with di race, with want of courage, and with change, and all this was traitorous to the faith of Christ. (Tremendous cheers.) There was a time when Sir Robert Peel thought proper to &Aries, his sentiments and his conduct in reference to the claims of the Roman Catholics of Ireland The position he held in the country previous to that change was higher than it ever had 1) , en since ; and though we were obliged to tolerate him at t e head of our Protestant government, because we could not replace him with a better, he forfeited our confidence the day that he changed. We never could think of him as the same man again (hear.) Lord Stanley told him a startling truth, when he (Sir R. Peel) was in oppositiori ; that his name would go down to posterity connected with change and with tat thing else; and he (Mr. James) had nn question in his mind, that when Sir Robert Peel should go to his rest, his name, while it would call forth approbation up n tie score of intellect, tact, and pelicv, would still be coneetted with something like treachery to the Protest .nt faith and Church of England, while Vie name of Elden would be gilded with glery. (Tremen dous cheers.) The gt nuns of popery, after the most m ture examination of its character, he was fully convinced was an emanation from the regions of darkness. It came from that place in which dwelt misery and wee for ever. It brought in its hand a quill plucked from the wines ore demon, dip ped in wormwood ; anti it wrote destruction to the souls and to the bodies of mankind in every land. Whilst the genius ot Protestantism was an emanation from the man sions ebove ; it came down from the place ofthe great God, with a quill plucked from the wings of a cherub in its hand, dipped in the love of Emenuel. and it wrote upon the pages of our heart and our fai'h " Peace and Salvation to the ends of the earth, through the blood of the Lamb for ever aid ever. (Immense applause ) Mr. SAMUEL PHILLIPS DAY, from Yonghall, late monk, followed with some details a the system of pottery in Ireland, and ef its effect upon the population He put fore ard the celebrated motte,—" No peace with Rome till Rome makes peace with God." • The resolution watt carried. and the meeting separated shortly before eleven o'clock. • MISS WSILLRR'S CONCERT.—AS announced. Miss Christiana Weller's " farewell concert ' tons place last night, at the R, yal Assembly Rooms. Great George-stri et. and was mo't num, rously and respectably attended, a large concourse of the elite and their families being present. The services of some o our first local performers were called forth on the occasion incluu. ing those of Miss Whitnatl, Miss Joseph, Mr. Lewis (who ahty presided at the piano), and Mr Percival the flutist.) Mi s Whitziatl and Miss Joseph sang the several pieces allotted to them with great taste end feeling, and were on several occarions encored. Mr. Percival played a fantasia in which he exhibited great taste and much execution, on that difficnit and rather imperfect itistrumet:t—the flute. Mr. Lewis sang one of h'Q own songs, to his own Vane. accompaniment, with deserved ap. phuse. The great w traction of the evening, however. was Miss Weller's pe formances on the piano. - We have before had occasion to notice the extraord nary talent of this young lady as a pianiste, and our admiratin of her powers—which could not t efore be loci ens-el—were doubly ed We have not, at this hte hour the space, had we even the ability end the scope. to do her justice in detail ; hut we cannot do less than say that she possesses a mastery over the instrument which is of rare acquiremei tin a life-time. stud be nu re est nishing at I er ear!) , years. Thl is to Fe neccuoted for (rem a p-culiarly fine ear. erect r atural taste, suprrior tuition. stud indom table ersevertuice. Miss Weller is, in fine, a musical ge ius. and still is her com mand of finger and of conception, that in playing the pieces of her favourite Thalberg. and other great misters. she diverges in spite f herself, into adornments the most beautiful and well timed, which the comrosers themselves would he delighted to hear. She exhibited In r powers as a comp , ser with equal effect. We regret to say. that owing to the evident indisposition of Miss W., an apology was made for her non-performance of one of the pieces in the bill and was heard with regret. The concert concluded with a duett, by Clementi Miss W beine companied pn another piano by her younger sister, Miss De laney Weller, a most interesting and promising performer. The precision, force, execution, and variety t f intonation wi h which this was executed by the two sisters. sitting at a considerab'e distarce from each other,lnld the iisteners in silent admiration. Miss Weller) as a nonneed this as her farewell" concert We hope this only means " farewell" for the present ; and th-t. as we are proud of her AS belonging to our town, she will after acquiring new laurels in the smith, revisit the • glimpses" of "the good old town." where, we feel assured. she will ever he hailed with a hearty welcome by all the lovers of musical talent. LONDON NEWS OF YESTERDAY. MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE. There was a large arrival of wheat during the past week, a great proportion from Lincoln& ire to the millers direct. There was a moderate arrival to this day's market from the home counti; s; the finest tins were taken at last Monday's prices; inferior sorts very dull, and difficult of disposal Free foreign goes off in •mal parcels at late rates. Bonded <.nly nominal. The supply of English barley was too large for the demand, and although offered at a reduction of Is. to 2s. per qr., some quantity remained unsold. Grinding sells at full terms. Malt arid Beans la. cheaper. Peas in favour of the sellers. Our arrivals of Oats last week were again short, and chiefly consisting of foreign cargoes. There was in addition only three or four vessels from Ireland fresh up this morning. A sma.l extent of business was only transacted. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEAcURE. Wheat, Essex and Keut. s. d. s. d. Red White 46 0 s 6 0 Norfolk and Lincoln, red ,B 0 46 0 White.. Irish, red Rye, old New Barley, Grinding 36 o —3l 0 Malting Chevalier 3B 0— 40 0 Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk 5B 0 02 0 Brown 56 0 60 0 Kingst , . , n and Ware C3 0 —6; 0 • ( hevalier Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed 22 0 23 0 Potatoe Yonghall and Cork, flack Cork. white Scotch, feed Beans, tick 35 0 -37 0 Pigeons Pease, Grey Maple White Boilers Flour, town made Suffolk Stockton and Norfolk 38 0 - 42 0 35 I. -37 0 36 0 - 40 0 36 0-38 0 38 0 - 43 0 48 0-45 0 '3 0-35 0 33 0-35 0 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat, Dantzic 32 0 36 0 Hamburg Barley 27 0 —29 0 Oats, new Feed Beans 24 0 —2g o Peas 2B 0 32 0 Flot..r, American ' Baltic 2O 0 YESTERDAY'S LONDON SHARE MARKET. There has been an increase in the trans ctions in Railway Shares, with an upward tendency in prices. Great Western have been last done at 141, Birmingham 229, Manchester and iverpool 28y, Birmingham and Glouc. ster 98. Bristol and Gloucester 33. Churnet Valley::, Direct Northern .3. Edinburg and Glasgow 613, Beghton 48. South Western 81, after being 82. London and York 43, Manchester and Leeds 1143. Midland 108, Newcastle Junction 61, South Eater' 373, Norwich and Brandon 123, Treht Valley 8. Selby Scrip 61, Bou:ogne and Amiens 53, Oilcans and Vierzon 213, Orleans and Bourdeaux 73, Paris and Or:eans 413. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. For the time of the year, we have had a full average number of Beasts on sale. The trade in the dead markets was vi ry firm, and the attendance of buyers numerous. The demand for alt kinds of Beasts. b t more particular y for the primel Scots, &c., was decided'y active, at an wivonce in the currencies ob tained on this day se'i night of quite 2d. per Sibs., 4s 4d. being readily paid as a top figure, indeed in some few instances, the rates exceeded that range. At the close of the market very few head remained unsold. 67 Beasts and 14 Sheep having arrived at Hull, from Rotterdam ; while the arrivals for L .)ndon have consisted of 43 uxen and Cows from Schiedam, and 60 Beasts and 195 Sheep from Rotterdam The supply of foreign stock here, this morning amounted to 35. Beasts and 67 Sheep. The former quality was tolerably good ; but in the latter a great improvement was noticed, the whole having found buyers, at prices varying trom 36s to 41s. lier head. Fresh up today, about f,i 00 Beasts ca ne to hand from Lir - colnshire. Leicester.hire, and Nortnati pttinshtre ; while from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and f ambridgeshire, the receipts amounted to 40 Scots, Arc.; from the western a d middlin districts, s'oo Herefords, D, vons, ru.•ts. &C.; from other part. of Enzland, 400 of various ki us ; from Scotland, t.. 00 horned and polled Scots, end fr m Ireland. 40 Beasts. The supply of she p was fu ly equal to the wants of the trade. The Mutton or de was tolerabi) at•eady. ye , list week's r.d• vancJd rates were with difficulty suypooted. Calves, the supply THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. of hich NA as very Inn teal, met a very heavy demand .A t week's priccs. Prime k Mall Porkers were quite as dear, but all other kinds of Pigs were a mere drug. IM ITATION TO UNITED PRAYER, FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, ON WED NESDAY. IST OF JANUARY, 1845, BEING THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s d. s. d.. s. d. s. d Inferior Beasts.... 2 8— 2 1n Second quality do. 3 2 3 6 Second quality do. 3 0— 3 6 Coarse do. 3 8— 3 10 Prime lar. e Oxen. 3 8— 4 0 Soutlidown Wethers 4 4 2 Prime Scots, &C... 4 2 4 4Do out of th... wool -- ,Ciarse Calves ... i 3 0— 3 6 1 argi. O gs small do. Stickling do. each.; 8 0-31 a Qr. tld Pigs, each 16 o— . 'l) 0 Inferior Sheep 2 8— 3 0 Lambs SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. 3,420 Sheep, 27,730.... Calves, 102 .. Pigs, 431 The Rev. Dr. Cramer. Principal ot• New Inn Hall, and Professor of Modern History ;n the University (it Oxford, s appointed by her Majesty to be Dean of Carli,le. The Rev. Mr. Ward was sounnoned before the Vice Chancellor of Oxford on Saturday: and requested two day's lime to consider whether he should a, ow himself the author of his notorious and scandalous work. ..... May the Lord accompany these means of crace, or such others as may he adopted, with his abundant blessing! Oh! may it indeed be a season of special refreshment from der presence of the Lord! Let this be the prayer of all who read this paper; and as the new year is now approaching, it would be a great kindness if those who approve the otject, and have influ ence over the press, would republish and circulate this invitation, which any one, into whose hands it tn,ty fall, has full permission to do. Peace be wi h all who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity ! This prays their aff, ctionate Brother, And servant in the JAM ES HALDANE STEWART. Sl. Bride's, Liverpool. • .S - e the s üblished liepolts of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scott nd. in May and August. 1811. t Sam. xiv. 14. t Ezek. 19. _ _ . See their Report, that of the Irish Society for 1844 CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.—The usual November cattle fair was held on Thur.d.q. There were but few milch cows shown. Fat Beef of good qn,dity was worth sd. per lb. and sink. Fat sheep sold for 54d. and 6d. The horse fair was indifferently attended. The show was poor and the demand limited. 2.115 s AIARIINEAU AND MESMERISM. Ti e .Atheneetim contains a lung communicati .n from Mies !Martineau, detailing the particulars of a wonderful cure which, she says, has been effected by mesmerism. DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD,—It is with feelings after a serims illness of five years and a half. Of the of grreetul thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father, that I character of the disease under which she suffered, she now, for the ninth time, renew my annual invitation for a thus speaks :—" This is not the place in which to give et neral concert fur Prayer for the outpouring of the Holy any details of disease. It will be sufficient to explain Spirit, which, by divine permission, will be held on the briefly, in order to render my story intelligiele, that the fist day of the New Year, Wedm-soay, January Ist, 1845. internal disease under which I suffered appears to have Upon entering upon so spiritual a service, it will be well been coming on for many years; that, after warnings of re bear in mind that striking passage in the 59th chapter failing health, which I carelessly overlooked, I broke of the Prophet Isaiah—" Behold. the Lord's band is not down. while travelling abroad, in June 1839 ; that I sank shortened, that it cennot save; neither is his ear heavy, lower and lower for three years after my return, and rea that it cannot hear: but your inequities have separated mained nearly stationary fir two more preceding last between you and your God, end your sins have hid his June. During these five years I never felt wholly at ease face from you, that he will not hear." for one single hour. I seldom had severe pain, but never For, whilst this scripture shews us the Lord's readiness entire comfort. Ab, setting sickle ss, almost disablirg to beer our pet titans, and his ability to grant our utmost me from taking food for two years, brought me very low, desires, and thus encourages us to draw nigh to a " throne and, together with other evils, it confined me to a condi of grace," it will lead us to do this with a deeper sense of tion of almost entire stillness—to a life passed between ous minnifola infirmities, with a humble confession of our my bed and my sofa. It was not till after many attempts individual -hortcomings e and with a personal application at gentle exercise that my friends agreed with me that the to that " precious blood, which cleanses from all sin." cost was too great for any advantage gained ; and at length Thus it was that holy Daniel offered up his prayer. it was clear that even going down one flight of stairs was First, with humble catifeesion, and then with earnest sup- imprudent. From that time I lay still, and by means of plication. this undisturbed quiet, and such an increase of opiates as And, surely, at this time such a course is peculiarly re- kept down my most urgent di-comforts, I passed the last quisite, to give us that confidence in prayer, without two years with less suffering than the three preceding. which it cannot be effectual. For,- without referring to There was, however, no favourable change in the disease. those open transgressions of the ungodly, for which " the Everything was done for me that the best medical skill Lord is angry with then. every day," consider the present arid science could sugeest, and the most indefatigable state of the church ot Christ Who that compote s his own humanity and amily affection devi-e, but nothing could Personal religion with the standard laid down in the Word avail teyond mere alleviation. My dependence on opiates of God, but will be ready to smite upon his breast, and was desperate. My kind and vigilant medical friend—the sey, with the publican, •' God be merciful to me a sinner." most sanguine marl I know, and the most bent upon keep- For reflect upon the description given of the minister. of ing his patient hopeful—avowed to me last Christmas, Christ, and of the trust reposed to them. They are drilled and twice afterwards. that he found himself compelled to •• Men of God," " Ambassadors for Christ," " the glory give up all hope of affecting the disease—of doing mote of the churches ;" they are "in Chri-t's stead ;" they are . than keeping me up, in collateral respects, to the highest set as " examples ot the believers in word, in converse cticable point. This was no surprise to me, for when Lion, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity ;" they a specific medicine is taken for above two years without " put in trust with the gospel ;" they "watch for souls. as a ecting the disease, there is no more ground for hope in they that must give au account ;" and such is their love reason then in feeling. In June last. I suffered more than for their divine enlister, that. they "count not their lives usual, and new measures of alleviation were resorted tn. deer unto themselves, so that they might finish their As to all the essential points of the disease I was never course with joy, and the ministry which they have received lower than immediately before I made trial of mesmer of the Lord Jesus." ism." Miss eiertineau then gives the following 'arra- Such is their high and holy calling. Who that minis- tire :—" On Saturday, June 22, Mr. Spencer Hall and ters before the Lord, when he compares himself eitt, this my medical friend came, as arranged, at ray worst hour standard, will not feel as the prophet did when he said, of the day, let tween the expiration of one opiate and the "Wois me for I am undone, for lam a man of unclean taking of another. By an accident, the gentlem,n were lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips." rather in a hurry —a circumstance unfavourable to a first (I,iiiali vi. 5.) experiment. But result enough was obtained to encou- Then mark the description given of the Lord's faithful rage a further trial, though it was of a nature entirely people. They are "the salt ot toe earth," " the light of unanticipated by me. I had no other idea than that I the world," " a city set upon a hill ;" they " have their should either crop asleep or feel nothing. I did not drop conversation in heaven ;" they are directed •• to li ld forth asleep, and I did feel something very strange. Various t e word of life in the whist of . a croaked and perverse paws were tried by Mr. Hall ; the first that appeared generation ;" to be follower, of God as dear children; to effectual, and the most so for some time after, were passes walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, arid given him- over the bead made from behind, passes from the forehead self f•rus; to be "as servants who wait for their Lord, to the baa of the head, aid a title way down the spine. :het, when he cometh and koocketh, they may open unto A very short time after these were tried, and 20 minutes him immediately." from the beg airing of the aiance, I became sensible of an If it be asked where shall we meet with Christians of extraordinary appearance, most unexpected, and wholly th•s scriptural standard ? Will not the most devoted unlike anything I had ever conceived of. Something among the Lord's people be ready to say, •• My terseness, seemed to diffuse itself through the atmosuhere—not like my leanness. Wo unto me, the treacherous dealers gave smoke, nor team, nor haze—but most like a clear twi dealt very treacherously." (Isaiah xxiv. 16.) How ne- lighe closing in from the windows arid down from the cessary, then, is ii, when we enter upon this spiritual ser- ceiling, and in which one object after another melted vi, e, to bear in mind the scripture to which I have refer- away tell scarcely aeythitig was left visible before my red. wide-open eye.. Fleet the owl ne of all objects was For the new year approaches under such interesting cir- blurred : then a bust, standing on a pedestal in a strong couastances, as may well call forth our most ardetit pray- light, melted quite away ; then the opposite bust ; then ere. Thus, through the good provideece of God, there i 3 the table with its gay ever; then the floor, and the coil. at this moment peace tareughout all the week'. .1 he So- jog, till one small picture, high up on the opposite wall. vereign Ruler of the Universe, also, has given to our gra- only remained visible, like a patch of phosphoric light. cious Queen so large an extent of territory, and such a I feared to move my eyes, lest the singular appearance commanding influence among the nations, that there is should vanish ; and I cried out, '0! deepen it! deepen scarcely a portion of the habitable globe, into which either it !' supposing this the precur-or of the sleep. It could our Christian missionaries, or the pure Word of God, not be deepened, however ; and when I glanced .aside may riot find art entrance. Such is he present position of from the luminous point I found that I reed not fear the the British empire, so peculiarly favourable for the spread return of objects to their ordinary appearance while the of divine truth. t es-es were continued. The busts re-appeared, ghost- Frirther, whilst in England there are, alas, many things, like, in the dim atmosphere, like faint shadows, except as noticed in torreer athiresses—which, to use the words that their outlines, and the parts in the highest relief, of the Prophet Ezekiel "are for a !mention,' and shall be burned with the same phosphoric light. The features of tor a lamenta ion," still the new year will come in, under one, an Isis wish bent head, Deemed to he illumined by a tree encouragieg auspice: , . That there is a general feel- fire on the liter, though this bust has its back to the win ing amongst the influentitl o•.ders of society. that the dews. Wherever I glanced all outlines were dressed in pi osperiry, it not the absolute safety ot our country de- this beauthul light; and so they have been, at every t rends upon diffusing sound Scriptural religion among the *trance, without exception, to this nay ; though the ap wurking classes ; raisin :A their moral condition by eecou- pearance has rather given way to drowsiness since I left raging them in habits of industry, temperance, and fru- off opiates entirely. This appearance continued during eality ; arid in promoting their geeeral comfort by short- the remaining 20 minutes before the gentlemen were erring their hours of late ur, improving their dwellings, and obliged to leave me. The other effects produced were, assietmg them in husbanding the resources which their first, heat. oppression, and sickness, and. for a few Fours own geed conduct may supply. Various steps have been after, disorde ed stomach. Mitre ed, in the course of the taken for carrying these benevolent sentiments into effect. evenine, by a feeling of lightness and relief in which I May we tot expect that these plans, if the Lord be en- thought I could hardly be mistaken." treated, may prove the germ of tar greater b!e.sings. That The second application of mesmerism was made by they may produce kindlier feelings amo• g all classes, a Miss Martineau', maid. " Mr. Hall," says Miss Mar closer union arnoeg the members of our church, and es- tineau, " was prevented by illness from coining over, too peeially A greater readiness to receive the glorious truths late to let n e know. Unwilling to take my opiate while of the Gospel of Christ. in expectation of his arrival, and too wretched to do In Scotland, also, the dawn of hope appears. For whilst without some resource, I rang for my mai.d, and asked at the do-e of the last year, we had but to lenient a dis- whether she bad any objection to at!empt what she saw ruption in the established church; during this year, we Mr. Hall do the day before. With the greatest alacrity might have seen the general as-embly of those who left she complied. Within one minute the twilight and ',hos tler communion, meeting in a truly Christian spirit, with- phonic light- appeared ; and 'in two or three more a deli- out using any reproachful words against their brethren, eious sensation of ease spread throtigh me—a cool com bat, in deep abaseurent of heart, humbling themselves be- fort, before a hich all pain anti distress gave way. orteirte tore the God of their Fat hers, for their own personal out, as it were, at the soles of my feet. During that hour, short coming., and for the low state of relizion through- arid almost the whole evening, 1 coup no more help ex vat the laud.* Surely this is a favourable si.ei—for if hu claiming with pleasure than a person in torture crying mil ty be the soil in which Christian love flourishes, may nut with pain. 1 became hungry, and ate with relish, for we not hope that this lowly spirit, if earnest prayer be the first time for five years. There was no best, opprea mane, will read to a fervent desire that every separating aion, or sickness during the ye - once. nor any disorder af cau'ke may be removed, and that all who believe it, the terwards. During the whole evening, instead of the leis , Lord Jesus Christ, may as His disciples of old, "be knit hot ease of opiates, under which pail is felt to lie in wait, t settler in love," and brotherly union. Oh ! that it may I experienced something of the indeserib eble sensation of re thus, that He. " who devises means, that his banished heel h. which 1 had quite lost and forgotten. I walked ones be not expelled from Him," •l• would yet so unite the about my no ins, and was gay and talks lees Someteing two churches, that they might, like Ephretm and Judah, of this relief remained till the next meriting; and then be "as one stick in the hand of the Lord."e• there was tio reettion. I was no worse than usual ; and in our sister land also more pleasing prospects appear. perhaps rather better. Those " monster meetings;" as they have been termed, " Nothing is to me more unquestionable and more which last year distracted the country, are now no more : striking about this influence than the absence of all re and by tire blessing of God newt the society for edecating action. Its highest exhilaration is followed, not by de the native Irish iu their own language, and other religious pression or exhaustion, but by a further renovation. institutions. a deep impress-ion has lately been made in From the first hour to the present, I have never fallen several places, and a great desire produced for the Holy back a single step. Every point gained has been steadily Scriptures, and for the faithful preaching of the Gospel of held. Improved composure of nerve and spirits has fol- Christ. lowed upon every mesmeric exhilaration. I have been The cause of God's ancient people also is assuming a spared all the weaknesses of convalescence, and carried more interesting state. The influx of the Jews into the through all the usually formidable enterprises of return holy land has been very great of late.' There is no more from deep disease to health with a steadiness and trate reom in Jerusalem for them, and they have already spread quillity astonishing to all witnesses. At this tinte, before over a part of the Turkish quarter. Tire number of in- venturing to speak of my health as established, 1 believe quirers after the truth are increasing. Some have been myself more firm in nerve, more calm and steady in mind publicly baptized under roost trying t ircurristances ; per- and spirits, than at any time of my life before. So n.uch nrissioir has also been given to erect our Protestant Church in considerations of the natural and common fear of the in Jerusalem ; the building of which will be again ream. mesmeric influence as pernicious excitement—as a kind med. - Added to these tokens of God's returnieg faaour to of itttexicre ion." his people, the Sultan has issued a decree, wit hdrawing in Miss Martineau mentions several incidents. " Another souse cases the punishment of death from those who re- striking incident occurred in one of the earliest of my flounced Mahotnedanism, thus abrogating to that extent walks. My mesmerist and I had reached a headland the laws of their prophet, and this in the 1260th year of nearly half a mile from home, and were resting there, the Hegira! when she proposed to mesmerize me a little—partly to Such are the circumstances with which the new year refresh me for our return, and tartly to see whether any approaches. effect. would be produced in a new place and while a fresh Do not these favourable tokens afford powerful reasons freeze was blowing. She merely laid her hand on my for our again uniting in fervent prayer for the outpouring fore' sad, and in a minute or two the usual appearances of the Holy Spirit, and for doing this under a sense of our came, assuming a strange air of novel y from the scene in own manifold shortcomings, with humble confession of which I was. After the blurring of the outlines, which our sins, and with earner supplication, that nothing may made all objects more dim than the dull gray day had separate between God and us; hot that /ravine all our sins already made them, the pkisphotic lights appeared, gin. put away through "the blood of the Limb," and our souls rifying every rock and headland, the horizon, aid all the chatted with His perfect righteousness, we niay "draw vessels in s , ght. One of the dirtiest and meanest of the near to the throne of grace with a true heart. in till assu- steam tugs in the port was passieg at the time, and it was ranee of faith," remembering that the Lord has said all dressed in heavenly radiance—the last object th.t any " open thy mouth wide, and 1 will fill it." " Ask what imagitiation would select as an element of a vision Then, thou wilt, and it shalt be done unto thee." and often before and since, did it occur to me that it 1 Allow me then to renew my annual invitation, and to had been a pious and very ignorant Catholic, 1 could not request all who love the Lord Je-us in sincerity, to corn- have escaped the persuasion that I had seen heavenly vi mence the new year, by uniting in the general concert for sione. Every glerified object before my open eyes would prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, on Wednes- have been a revelation , and my n,esnielist. with the white nesday, Ist of January, 1845. halo round her head, and the illuminated profile, would Tire following suggestions are respectfully offered, to have been a saint or e n ange l " assist those a he are, desirous of a similar union on Wed nesday, Jan. 1, 1845: "Ist. Let Christians follow the example of our blessed Lord, (Mark i. 25,) who rose up a great while before the day tor secret prayer. Let them thus secure the blessing ' of Him who says, " Pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which Teeth in secret shall reward thee openly. " 2nd. Let them call upon the Lord in their families, for his Spirit to be poured upon themselves and their households, their neighbours, their country, includitig Great Britain and 'retired arid our Colonies, the ministers of The Lord, the churches of Christ, the remnant of scat tered Judah and outcast Israel, and upon the Gentile world. " 3d. Where circumstances will admit of a morning service, let the congregation be assembled, and, in r ddi lion to the appointed prayers and a sulable sermon, let `all who are devoutly disposed partake together of the Supper of the Lord —or, as may be me re convenient, let the whole congregation meet in the evening for public wore ship, and let'an appropriate discourse be preached, "4th. Let the ministers of the Lord meet on the fol lowing day, with their brethren of their own communion, in earnest prayer for themselves, their flocks, the whole body of Christ, and the world at large; and then especi ally coesult together wren the most effectual means for hasteiring the coming of the Lord's kingdom, and parti cularly for the continuance of such a general concert for prayer, that the year may proceed according tothis devout commencement." THE NEW PARISH OF ST. BARNABAS. (Abridged fiorn the Manchester Gv.nrdiun.) Most of our remos are aware that the parish of Man chester is a very extensive one ; comprising an area of 34,507 statute acres, and containing thirty townships (of which the ptircipa are Manchester, Salford. Chorlton on-Medlock, Hulme, and ArdWick), and 353.390 inha bitants. lts ecclesiastical government is vested in the dean and chapter of Manchester; and the whole parish, up to the passing of a recent ac - , has hitherto been main tained intact, not. ithstanding its great extent and immense population. An act was passed. however, in July, 1843, (6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37.) the ninth clause of which, recognising the existence of large distrcts in which the provision for public worship and pastoral superintendence was insufficient for the spiritual wants of the inhabitants, enacts, that the ecclesiastical commissioners, with the consent of the bishop of the diocese, may constitute such districts, having no consecrated church or chapel in use, separate districts for spiritual purposes, provided that the minister of such district be permanently endowed w i t h not less than .£100; and, if of 1-ss value than £l5O, to be in creased to that sum, at the least, so soon as the district shall have become a new parish. The fifteenth clause enacts, that when any church or chapel shall be built, purchased, or acquired, in such district, such district shall, from and after the consecration of such church or chapel, be deemed to be a new parish for ecclesiastical purposes, and shall be known as such by the name of " the new parish of -," instead of " the district of ;" and such church or chapel to be the church of such new parish. Thereupon it is to be lawful to publish banns of ma.rimorty, and to solemnise marriages, bap tisms, churchings, and burials; receiving fees thereon, (except for baptisms,) to be fixed by the chancellor of the diocese, and the like Easter offerines and dues as, before the separation, were payable to the incumbent of the principal pariah church. • The s i x teenth cla use enacts , that on the di-trict becoming a parish , th e minister shall become perpetual curate of the new parish. Toe seven tent 1., t at two churchwardens, "members of the united Church of England and lieland," shall be chosen ; one by the perpetual curate arid the other by the inhabitants of the new parish, within twenty-one days from the con secration of the church. The 19th clause provides for the endowment or augmentation of income of the minister or perpetual curate, and gives an annual sum as compensation to the incumbent of the mother church. Clauses 20 and 21 relate to the patronage to these, new c h urc h es ; and the 24th section enacts that the church-bUldinz commission ers may make grants for the purposes of this act. Then, another short. art (chiefly explanatory of the former) was passed, on the 9th August last, (7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 94,1 the first clause of which enacts that the crown may tio initiate the minister or perpetual curate; and the 9th clause Rives power to vary the bounds of districts within a limited time. NOTICES. Report of TVilliam Fairbairn. Esq., C rn the con strue'inn of Fireproof Buildings. With Introduc ory Remarks, by Samuel Ifolme. Liverpool: printed by Thomas Baines. Our townsman Mr. Samuel Holate, who last year de livered a talented discourse on " the public improvements of Liverpool," at the Polytechnic Society, (afterwards published,) in which he evinced much classical taste an architect, has just put forth a most interesting and, at the • present time, when fireproof buildings are in rapiA pro gress as essential to the commercial prosperity of , le town, a most important pamphlet under the title quoted, which we have no hesitation in strongly recommending to all persons interested in the security of our mercantile buildings, and especially to those who cor template the construction of fireproof warehouses. The • frightful number and extent of the fires that have occurred for forty years past, and within the last five years especially. in our town,—involving an immense loss of properly , a' well as a great loss of life, and the consequent increase of insurances,—at length roused a, portion of the moneyed community to a sense of the necessity of erecting build ings that would withstand the ordinary risks. In the expressive language of Mr. Hohne, `• whole neighbour hoods have been swept away, principally be the r , pidity with which cotton has been consumed; sad it has beer. no uncommon circumstance to see at once a number of warehouses, offices, stables, and dwellings, reduced in a few hours to one smouldering mass of ruin and devasta tion. Since the year 1795 it is conjectured that ab.ive sixty lives have been lost during our conflagratim , s, be sides numbers who hare been mutilated or injured; and, independently of the losses which have had to be borne by the insurance offices, and by those who have, unfortu nately, h-en uninsured, or only parrial'y covered," (amounting in all to upwards of £2,000,000 sterling.) " the ; our who real& in the vicinity of our warehouses hate suffered to an extent of which few have any concep tion, by the breakage and removal of their furniture, and by being burnt out of their dwellings at a ll h o urs and seasons." Further on in his " lntr .ductory Remarks," our author, with equal point, after noticing th , long apa thy towards improvement, which had previously found its way in the manufacturing districts, says—" The Formby street fire having, however, burnt us into conviction that some improvement was necessary in our warehouses, and the only building that was saved in that conflagration being the fireproof warehouses belonging to the Royal Bank, which escaped with very trival injury, though filled with cotton at the time, several gentlemen determined on erecting fireproof buildings, amongst whom were Mr Anthony L. Molyneux. Mr. Harold Littledale, and Mr. Hieginson. These have been followed by Mr. P. W• Braricker, in Dublin -street, Mr. James Rrarcker, in Mathew-street, and several other parties. The buildings erecting by the Messrs. Brander are of a most extr nsive character, and when completed will he of the most secure description. The splendid pile in Dublin -street, which covers nearly an acre of ground, will probably be the most complete set of private warehouses that his ever been elected. But some fears having been expressed, that the principle of substituting iron beams and arched floors for the old method of construction was likely to result in danger, and that goods would not be more secure from fire in one mode of building than another, it was deemed advisable to request the opinion of some eminent man or. this most important subject who had no local connection w,th Liverpool, not only to allay the fears of those who were investing, large sums in the erection of the buildings, but as a justification to those who had advised thrs mode of construction." Mr. Fairbairn, a gentleman of great experience and high attainments as an engineer, was selected to visit several of the new warehouses that had been built, and also to inspe •t the plans and details of those in course of erection for Mr. P. W. Biancker, which cover near!y au acre of ground. He did inspect them, and here we have his valuable report, also the joint r port of him-e'f and Mr. Henhouse on the causes that led to the destruction of Messrs. Radeliffe's mill at Oldham, showing that that fatality did not arise from any want of security in fire. proof warehouses, of iron and brick, but from unskilful construction and want of sufficient strength and prop' r api livation in the iron tension rods and beams. Mr. Fanbairies report on fireproof warehouses generally is exceedingly interesting thtoughout, and the facts he de duces will not be que,tioned by any mechanical or scien tific man of experience, who has studied the subject. He states that, in order to give perfect security to fireproof wan-houses, they must be constructed upon the following principles : " .—The whole of the building to be coulposed of non-combustible materials, such as iron, stone, or bricks. " 2 order to prevent fire, whether arising from accident or spontaneous combusti 'n, every opening or crevic , communicating with the external atmosphere to be closed. " 3.—An isolated stone or iron staircase (well protected on evt-ry side by brick or stone walls) to be attached to every story, and the staircase to be furnished with a lire of watt r-pipes communicating with the mains in the s . reel, and ascending to the top of the building. " 4.—ln a range of stares, the different warehouses to be divided by strong par ition walls, in no case less than 18 inches thick, and no more openings to be made than are absolutely necessary for the admission of goods and light. " s.—That the iron columns, beams, and brick arches, be of strength sufficient, not only to support a continuous d , ad pressure, but to resist the force of impact to which they are subject by the falling of heavy goods upon the floors. " Lastly, that in order to prevent accident from intense heat melting the columns, in the event of fire, in any of the rooms, a current of cold air be introduced into the hollow of the columns from an arched tunnel under the floors." Adopting these heads, he proceeds to consider each separately. and supplies a mass of valuable information as to the requisite strength of iron, the rise of the arches, &c., to sustain the required weight, or resist the acciden tal falling of heavy packages, and points nut the kind of iron doors, frames, shutters, &e., most suitable, ,trongly recommending tho-e constructed by Messrs. Samuel and James Hr ltrie. After alluding to some objections to firs-- proof vvardi ouses of iron, &c., be concludes by stating— " In my own mind, there is not the shadow of a doubt as to the security of such a structure ; and I do not hes tate, to assert, that a well-built and properly-arranged fire proof warehouse can riot only be constructed. but may he made to entail upon the commercial and manufacturing communities of this country an important and lasting bent-fit. Reverting to Mr. Holme's introduclon to the report, we may state that it comprises a valuable succinct view of the calamities by fire that have for many years a'isen in the town from the manner in which warehouses have been built, and, in some parts, huddled together; as well al from the deficiency of water,—both of which evils will, he anticipates, be smedily removed—the first by improved buildings, and the latbr by the introduction of an abun c,cant supply of water, in virtue of the recent act. In the Appendix, Mr. Holme has supplied, from offi cial sources, a "List of Fires in Liverpool, and Evtimute of Loves which have taken place in Liverpool since the burning of the Town hall, in 1795." This is a truly in terest'ng document, and much trouble and research mutt have been expended in procuring it. We select from it the principal fires only, in whi h the loss in each respec tively amoun ed to £15,000 and upwards, not having room for the whole list : . 1795 Jan. 18 Town-ball 1796 Sept. 22 Middleton's warehouse, Cheapside .. 15,000 1799 May 23 Okill & Co.'s sugar-howe, Preeson's- row 35,000 1802 Srpt , _l5 Goree warehouses, buildings, goods, &c. 399,500 1818 Jan. _3l Parr's warehouse, Suff.lk-street .. 1821 Jan. 31 Caxton printing-office, Bolton-street.. 36,000 1823 Oct. 22 Booth's warehouses, Wapping.. 1826 Nov. 23 Three shipbuilders' pirds, Sefton-st.. 30,000 Tennis-court, Gradwell-street, full of cotton ....... Wright and Acpinall's, Orford-street and Campbell-street 1828 Dec. 25 Holmes's, Old Haymarket 1830 Mar. 21 Downward and Ryland's sugar-house, liarrington-street ....... 30.000 ' 1831 Dec. 22 Heywood's warehouses, Fenwick-street —merchandize only .. 1833* Jan. 14 Lancelot's-hey Fire— Fuorteen warehouses . X 28,000 Five dwell•ng-houses Merchandise.. --198,000 May 24 Dover and Co.'s, Gibraltar-row 40,000 1834 Oct. 10 Birkett's, Lancelot's-hey Dec. 2 Bird's Castle Mills, Meadows-street.. 15,000 1838 Oct. 5 Warehouses and merchandise, Robert street 1841 ---- Sept. 12 Rev. J. Tobin's, Galton•street 23 Great fire, Formby-street.. ' 379 339 Dec. 22 natt and Crane's, Parliament•street 38,663 1843 Match 6 Fawcett & Preston's, York-street, and warehouses in Lydia Anne-street 41,446 19 Wright's warehouies, Jackson-lane 43,587 June 14 Croft's soapery, Comus-street 20,000 Dec. 28 Brancker's, Mathew.street 34,000 Dec. 3, Pa f 1; Manchester,litid r these h ~s beenstatutes the severed new from par theish of parish Bar 7l e cheater, for ecclesiastical purposes , and e rected into parish, with a church, perpetual curate, and ineent Ln; of its own. As this is not only the first slice taken: 4 the perish of Manchester, but as it is also the first cr . r u t i' l of a new parish under the acts noticed, we maY D. d o notice the circumstances of this remarkable change in ecclesiastical constitution of parishes. In the Gazelle of the 221 ult. appeared an 01 ' le d r b i ; council of the 7th ult., containing a scheme el'or' e the ecclesiastical commissieners, dated the 13h last, for constituting a separate district for spirittol.td poses, out of the district of St. George, Manchester. This scheme, after citing the set 6 , t. forth that the district of St. George is of g r e .a re te.t2 4 con'ains a I ,, rge population, and that the procisto in the Pari 9 ; ti public worship and pastoral superintendence thertenot:i insufficient for the spiritual wan's of the inhabitan ts , ; sl o that the pert.cular part described did no t then et. 00 wi bin its limits any consecrated church or chlrl in p r t, for the purpose of divine worship. The cool:010'13%o t herefore, (wit , seal dustcoent of the Bishop of Chestert;et had signed and he scheme,) recommend fir t i ; that part of St. George's district described in the Fchreotoi annexed, be constituted a separate district for 5P 1 , 1 1 , 0 purposes, to be named " The District of St. B ar " P ee Manchester." They further recommend, manently to endow the minister, that they (the ccni! sinters) pay him yearly £lOO, and the further •-,l ltn ..t he £3O on any building being licensed by the bish o P performance of divine service ; and so :man as 2 C or chapel should have been approved of by the co.ato alone and consecrated, and such district shou ld o ,4 thereby become a new parish for erclesi istical non ces e the commissioners tot ay its perpetual curate X. 15 ,? 9 ,1bea The scheme further states, that as £1606 135.4 11 .,P%id tO contributed to such permanent endowment, and the commissioners. and a church had been erected ! Icel , they were satisfied was fit to be approved by thea l !' n el and consecrated by the bishop, and the comalis ta , ° o lbe recommend that the nomination of perpetual c urate ' oi l district or new parish of St. Barnabas shall be flerf la in order by five eentlemen named, as trustees of such righ t O „ t the tronage and nomination. The schedule then set , ° Alias' houndsries of the district or new parish of St. 131 , 111 0 11 The order in council states that the draft of the - ,, 5 tl has been transmitted to the incumbents and lo rt %oll the parish of Manchester, who have consented is scheme ; that it has been approved by her 14"J`' it it council; and having been ratified by the. Majes l P„ b le declared to be effectual in law immediately after 1 t; ' t ot lication in the London Gazelle. It is also directe d tl l this order in council be registered by the registrar °` diocese of Chester. bait This is the first case in which an endowment h' s t el granted and a parish assigned, and the right of pa t h ies perpetually vested in truatees, under the acts to w hich a rt have alluded. In all other cases where parishes to been divided, the nomination hae either remained wi t , h t bi crown, with the patrons, or with the incumbents 0' orginal or mother parish church. r tho En The church of St. Barnabas has been erecte ne a- be tb south-east corner of the new parish, adjoining the and Rodney-streets. it has been chiefly er ected hj. , " Association for the purpose of erecting ten ehu rl ; which society contributed to the amount of X3OO Ol ,°', 715 rtl purrose. Other friends, however, have also come f oro .B•tt 0 liberally with donations of rn, ney, or maiteria!s; an lest estimated that the church will probably co,t n" t he altogether than about £5OOO. The edifice is t n la tt early Norman style of architecture, and wi;l accomm°' - , r e nearly 1100 persons ; and it is intended that of OW n l ;b1 than one-half will be provided with free sittings ; a n ' ite remainder of the pews will be let at low rentals to the habitant of the Pah. The tro s ,tees have s selected the Rev. Henry Deck Of thy pastorship of the new narkh. CO liRESP ()NUE C.E. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STA.- - n i SIR,—As the " Friend to Shipbuilding," the wri!ett:i a letter in the Standard of the sth instant, htts.,';' ) ;l of suppose, seen my letter which appeared in the ffl a. at the 16th in reply thereto. I request the favour of Y 5, republishing the two letters with this in your nel t 4i,i• lication of the Standard : and if the " Friend to 0 , e j building" does not then retract the imputations cony' in his letter on the professional chmacter of Lice ril i e shipbuilders, shall proceed with a serits of itiq ur ,iod the first part of which will embrace a critical exaa.it t on a small work entitled " Grantham on Iron es a o ' u rial for Shipbuilding." _ I am, sir, your obedient servant, JOHN WILSON GREE, Ship-yard, Clarence Dock, 27th Nov., 1844. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL NAIL' stb noticed in the Liverpool Standard of instant a letter signed a " Friend to Shiphuldio".: w 'f ' ar induced me to send a letter to the Siandard-o ' l e ' rtf insertion in that paper, and I gave the name of a I , :, ch to whom I attributed the letter in question, lir flu e( reason I apprehend my litter did not appear in that PP last Tuesday. be, '1 he " Friend to Shipbuilding," whoever he n"Yeter would fain appear solicitous tor the profes joust el vaa ha of Liverpool shipbuilders, in which he must either - it o f sincere or otherwise, and he must also be cog iiiv, . I the subject on which he writes, or ignorant t herem.• no. sincere, he betrays an ignorance of the subject ; if 4 , rant, then itnhecihty aid selfishness have prompted oi u• in this instance, he having some ulterior object in v , eily• He appears to have been de;ighied, from his expressiod , with the perusal of a letter or letters on Shipbuilding , which also appeared in the Staadacd, signed `• J‘ ha Cock," tor he speaks of toe art bei,g developed by Mr. Cock, and suggests that the Liverp.,l shipbuilders lake a lesson therefrom, and whom lie charges with putrilafr want of experience, ana professional attiiinments. Mr. Cock may be master builder at Pembroke dock' pard. or master's attendant, or foreman, or anythinge lse ; who or what he is being quite immaterial to me. , t i ° , B one, would profit if I could by the suggestion ; but " 1 , only development that I can discover is, that Mr. C° ` ' , has read one or mole of the many writings which 1).1 appeared on the subject, without his having unfolded Gill new clod ine or advanced any new hypothesis. I merely make these observations as. being pertinent b t : the intelligence of the " Friend to Shipbuilding " and authority upon which the charges are founded ; and h r d I might stop, if 1 had only to show the ignorance and iii ; becility of our impugner, but as there is a party w A t to town to whom I attribute the letter signed a " ea Shipbuilding," and whom I know has insidhusly sP°"; of tne professional character of Liverpool shipbud o " ti a and at the same time endeavoured to extol himself; as he prof , saes to be an engineer,.naval architect. at' t o person acquainted with the sciences generally, 0 desi4n, ditect, and be consulted thereon, I desire to c°, inquiry ; for I appreh.-nd that so comprehensive a a n ii even with its own exertion, may not he so exte.is ice ,', known and appreciated as it shou:d be, and, theref',' l o - f by the invest:gation, we the shipbuilders may s'atio,,, o tall, and this remarkable person, whom I nlay " bring nut," will rise to that high professional entitle ch iracter which he will deserve, or, at least, e' bably, save sonic persons from being deceived by his P r tensions. I am, sir, your obedient servant, JOHN WILSON GILSII4. Norember 14th, 1844. DREADFUL CASE OF STABBING AT SEA.—CORs ider ft ble sensation was created in this town on WednesdaY i by a rumour (which proved to be true) that Ca;M I , Launcelot Reed, of the ship Sir Charles Napier (71 4 t alr o l f had been maliciously and. dangerously stabbed by one his crew, on the high seas. The ship left St. Stepheo for Liverpool on the 2 5 th of last month with timber , Cf . signed to Messrs David Cannon and Co., of South CPP',. s treet. on the morning of the 16th instant she *as " ce. : taken by a squall in lon. 26 W. The capt a i n ordere 3 t ou w t he to n b ß e r a ow sh n men to t-k.- in sail, bu perceiving that one of the c' ki t; Samuel Brown, was tardy in his movements, he gav e a tu p r u n s e ti d , eantlai:kietiaifeP. lu T o ghee captainat hi m gavetrit-pf, blow in re urn, which threw him against the long-I'Z i l e and then seized him to put him in confinement. a removing him he made several att , nipts to stann CaPtlaieo Bro'wn with the knife, though without effect.; but, "T h e near the mainmast, gave a stab in the abdomen. captain only now bera.ne conscious f the deadly ins b ,be went will which he was assailed, and called out to;. 0 , mate that he was murdered. The mate and others t i r, cludii.g Mr. Porter, the supercargo, and son of the ow" e e , Mr. W. Porter, of St. St , phen's) ran to his assistat'c, and he was removed into the cabin. It was then e t b - e vered that a portion of his bov , els protruded frio, wound, which was sewed up. He had also receiv e :' ke t other stabs, and no tower than eleven cuts in the e i c o he sore. From that tine the captain was incella u ' e ,,io , removal from the cabin floor, and suff, red extrene'ne. Blown was put in irons. The vessel arrived on W eur; r it day, and the captain was taken on shore, and the C s 'ri e r lodged in Biidewell. 'the case was beard on Tbu r ,!:: o l, and Friday before Mr. Ru s hton and Mr. S. perct•ha when these facts transpired. The captain admitted t so ij he first struck the prison e r, a n d o n e of the m ate= t O % that the prisoner, w h en pu t i n i rons , s t a t e d, on b ,. bet questioned, that he was in such a passion at the tirae.„ao be did not know what he was doing. The ',mover, 701 made no defence, was committed for trial at the ston for attempting to kill. The captain is a married 701' twenty-nine yews if age, and belongs to Live n St. Brown is twenty-four years of age, shipped too, John's, New Brunswick, and is a British tutjeet-. CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—At this fair on Weave: , le , only a small quantity, about 140 tons, was piled ..roe and it was principally of a common quality. Tee Di: a t t ire tor fair is that at which the buyers from the Y"'" g bssa and Lancashire manufacturing districts come to ptiv b . e id their " Christmas or winter stock." The quaniitY small. and the buyers from those districts notaeriot caused the sale.to be brisk at fully 3s. to ss. above they/ere, fair. . Prices ruled generally 465. to 58s. Theie as• however, some few exceptions above or below there ,150. tations ; and we have heard of one dairy that teal'se"erli Several dairies were tab- n away unsold, as the lei.'" woul not takh offers:for them. Th d e DECA Y Ot t e the ILETH ar,ses ( . 1011 caeOtlS -- 0 . but, principally, it may be attributed to ear ly negi ec 'ral health, or the use of Tooth Powders containing rt af 1• and other deleterious acids, which give a !Dome t whiteness to the teeth, while they corrode the l'ET, n r - of ar The extreme prevalence of this last cause is too well.tiy to to need comment. To this fact, indeed, is prinei;,,,,ill be attiinuted the long botanical research, which " 1 '; to terminated by- the unlit felicitous discovery ever gi ve 00 (1 the world for the Preservation of the TEETH, Gu,,l4,j'Attl.A BREATH. viz. — ROW LAND'S ODONTO. r s tity DENTIFRICE : this Powder now occupies a dt the guished place at the Toilets of the Sovereigns snot Nobility throughout Europe, .while time genera l for it at once announces the avour which it is oniveroP' held.—See advt. ..( Aar Mal Plan, Enk, from ed Nova. 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