The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

bee. 2, 1846 Moral ant Vrobinrial 13630. On Wednesday, a person named Buxton was fined by Mr. Rushton £25, for removing spirits without a permit. CAUTION TO DOG-STEALERS.—On Thursday, a noted dog -stealer was fined for the offence by Mr. Rushton £5. The man Knowles, who was so badly injured through the ignition of the spirits at the fire in Galton-street, died on Wednesday. A woman named Brooks, living in Watkinson-street, was burnt to death on Tuesday. Her clothes caught fire as she was taking something off the fire. Mr. Vandenhoff has completely recovered from the illness brought on by his performance of Sir Giles Over reach on Monday night. Yesterday week, at the Birkenhead Police-office, John Tabney was committed to the House of Correction for a month, on a charge of assaulting two inspectors. Two boys were killed yesterday week, by falling into a well attached to the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Lever- street, Manchester. A child, sixteen months old, in Richmond-fair, came to its death, last week, through sucking a piece of green Paint which had been given it to play with. The paint, of course, contained oxide of copper. DEATH FROM DRINKING•—WiIIiam Thompson. aged 21, was found, on Thursday at noon, in Roberts'-street. So much intoxicated, that he was sent home in a cart, and died the same evening. INHUMAN CONDUCT.—OD Friday last, a male child, about a year and a half old, which appeared to have been deserted, was found by some boys in the yard of St. Patrick's Chapel, Park-road. It is now under the care of the authorities of the Park. A new iron steamer, 160 feet long in keel, 26 feet beam, with engines of 200-horse power, and to be called the Prince of Wales, is now being built for the City of Dublin Company, to run between this port and the Menai Bridge. EXTRAORDINARY LEAPS.—On Thursday week, a leaping match took place between Charles Shaw and Wm. Jackson, two young men from Liverpool, under Aven ham Walk. At three spring jumps. Shaw leaped 12 yards 1 inch, and Jackson 11 yards 9 inches.—Preston Chron. BIRKENHEAD CHARITY BALL.—A preliminary meet ing of the promoters of this entertainment, in aid of the funds of the Birkenhead Dispensary, was held at the Monks' Hotel, and an official announcement of the time and place will shortly appear. STREET ROBBERIES.—On Saturday night a gentleman was robbed in Albion-street of a gold horizontal repeater, value £3O. On the same night, a man named John Jones was knocked down in Maguire-street, and robbed of his watch, by two men, who escaped. The Rev. Hugh WlNTeile preached a sermon on Tues day morning, at Cheltenham. in behalf of the Church Pastoral Aid Society. The Parish Church was crowded in every part. The Rev. Gentleman selected his text fro m Acts xx. 35 : " It is more blessed to give than to receive." The collection amounted to upwards of £72. The further examination in the case of Capt. Johnson, of the Tory, has been adjourned, in consequence of the illness of the prisoner, to the 2nd of December (this day). Besides the three charges of wilful murder, the prisoner will also be charged with cutting and wounding six of the crew. MEETING OF COAL-MASTERS. — On Friday a meeting of coal-masters took place at Wigan, when it was resolved that the price of coal should, after Monday, be advanced one shilling per ton. This is in consequence of combina tion among the colliers for increase of wages and limita tion of labour. DEATH FROM A FALL.—On Wednesday week, a man named James Brocklebank, a joiner, while carrying a piece of wood up a ladder in a new house in course of erection in the Prince's Park, fell to the bottom of the stair-case, and was se severely injured. his left thigh being broken in two places, that he died on Thursday last. FATAL ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday fortnight, John Middleton, aged 61, was loading a cart with coal from a beau, when a large cob fell down from the top and crushed his hand. He was unable to work the next day, and getting worse, was sent to the infirmary on Wednes day last, when he died of Erysii elas on the same day. ROBBERIES. — On Thursday, Henry Boltis and Michael Mar. were committed for trial, on a charge of having stolen two dozen bottles of calcined magnesia, the pro perty of Mes-rs. Evans and Sons, druggists, Lord-street. On the same day, John Wel-1 was committed for trial, en a charge of having stolen lib. of starch from the shop 'window of Mr. Banastie, tall,w-chandler, London-road. • The Lord Lieutenant has appointed George Johnson, of Eccleston, Esq., Clerk of the Peace for the county of Chester, in the room of the late H. Potts, Esq. The taaiiistrates have nornin ited Mr. Charles W. Potts as solicitor and treasurer to the county pro. tern.; no for- Mal appointment will take place till the next quarter ses- Sion. The office of treasurer to the county has been held by the Potts' family for one hundred and twenty years. Two Irishmen named Logan and Clarke, were corn- Toitted for trial at Birkenhead, on Monday. fora series of brutal and unprovoked assaults, on constable Brown and Other parties, on the night of Ztaturday last. James Clarke, charged with being also a party in the affray, Was discharged on entering into his own recognizances to appear when called upon. The Preston Pilot states that Lord Sandon, accompa tied b y L or d Ebrington, visited the House of Correction in that town on Wednesday last, and expressed them selves in the highest terms of admiration of the practical 'workings of the establishment. The object of the visit is said to have been for the purpose of making recommen dations as to the management of other similar establish ments. A melancholy and fatal accident occurrsd at Eastham w ,, od, on Monday night last. A one-horse car belong ing to the Monks' Ferry, was returning from Chester ; it is supposed the driver missed his road, and dismounting to find the right path. fell into a stone-delph, and was killed on the spot. The horse and car were not Vund till Wednesday in the wood. As no one knew anything of the driver, it was at first supposed he was a stone -133a.0n. THE \ ERCURY'S SNEER AT MR. LITLLEDALE. JUNR. .-Our contemporary attempted the jocular vein on Friday, the subject being the pleasing and creditable expressions of tifft-ction for his respected parent, which fell from the new member for Exchange Ward , at the Ward dinner, a few days ago. Mr. Littledale committed, it appears, the enormity of being proud of that parent " whose name he bore." May we not suggest to our contemporary that there are people in the world who are quite as indebted fo• their position to the " name they b ar," as to any Other resemblance, physical or mental, to those whose sh )e3 they wear He will understand our meaning. WE.T DERBY GUARDIANS —A meeting of this body was held on Tuesday at the Board-room of the Work stooge. The principal matter entered on was an inquiry into a complaint made by Mr. Greatrex, a surgeon of the board, against the Rev. Mr. Gillow, a Homish clergy taw), of having interfered with one of his patients, a wo iin named Bella Lewis, and having, against her will, ad toinistered to her extreme unction, and of having by such liProceeding, in her then state, greatly endangered her te. Mr. Gillow a tt e nded the board and offered an ela borate defence ; at the conclusion of which. the board litrie to the decision that no blame attached to Mr. Gillow. AIR. HADDOCK'S GRAND MISCELLANEOUS CON• tERT,—In our last we took occasion to call the especial attention of our mus i cal frit-nds to this well selected and ‘ 'NIT classical treat; and we have now only the duty of reminding them that very few tickets remain undisposed ". Signor F. and Madame Lablache, with Mr. Welly, the violinist (a genuine disciple of the Paganini school) and a host of other rare talent are announced. Our spi rited townsman, Mr. Haddock, will, we trust and believe, mitt himself fully remunerated on this occasion. He has a cted wis , ly in selecting Mrs. H. Beale for the piano, ihty lady's performances alone ought to attract a crowded _ _ SIR W. M. STANLEY'S BIRTH-DAY —On Tuesday, !tecerding to custom, Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., cele brated the return of his birth-day with the usual joyous f estivities at Hooton-hall. Lori Alfred Paget. and a l arge number of fashionables , were invited guests on the l ebasion. There was a grand dinner in the e v ening. In t he course of the day the tenants and labourers enjoyed suostantial repast in a spacious tent erected on the 'awn in front of the hall, and about 200 children from the a e,hools at Eastham were feasted in a manner becoming t ho-vitality of the donor. About two o'clock the lit>le company repaired to the park, where foot-racing a nd other manly sports were enjoyed until the rhades of e vening s.t in. Sir William distributed purses of money to the succes.ful competi , ors in the several sports. A WOMAN WITH FOUR HUSBANDR - A rather decent ging female, named Catherine Daley, was placed before r . r. Rushton on Friday, on a charge of big imy. Two of ' t er husbands appeared, one of whom is Mr. Murray, a fin oekeeper in Manchester-street, who said he had been e'rlrlpelled to support her by the parish, and for negl , cling c) do so had suffered a month's imprisonment. Doring imprisonment of Murray she married Daley, and the :ruler then de lined continuing to pay the weekly show n". Daley and the prisoner some time ago quarrelled 411 d separate and on Thursday she met him in the street god • committed an assault on him, for which she was taken in t custody. when the charge of bigamy was preferred. ub offi , er stated that he believed it would turn out that fit' prisoner I - eol no less than four husband.. Mr. aUdl tr, ordered the prisoner to he remanded. On Saturday t he prkoner was again brought up, when witnesses were t t odused to the first end second marriages , but Mr. t "i"nt, said the woman had been made a victim amongst and discharged her. „, Ow n IMPROVE - MENTS. — It must be a matter of gra .e.atio to every inhabitant of our town to observe the Ind building improvements and extensions that have .es i„ - ebtly taken place, and it must be pararnountly interest t"g to observe. that while the growing importance of the 1 0 () nr in population and commercial greatness has called , I, ' 0 existence edifices of every class, private enterprise 0 44 not followed in the wake; in extending in magnitude, o r advancing the accommodation of exist;ng business ) r e ees. The narrow and confined repository of later rg is converted, with monstrous exprd , tion, into a : f "nid and spaci-nis shop ; and even some of those, that w ea ve er. ago ranked splendid, are now being entirely ,r:odelle T d "Iled shas c . he rap t d enuous exert o 6 increase of th ns frome nor thernMr.endßris of 7 te toutnr t4 e. of Old Hall-street, whose premises. hitherto the lar gest on that side of the I xchange, have again been % t r ill! extended. A splendid Carpet-room has been built t the end of the shop, and over it a spacious r 0 me the communication to which is by a handsome en a t 'Y from the shop, through an apartment that will be h i l rely appropriated to the purposes of furnishing. t these rooms are well I.phted, and the style of deco t) I " (as in tbe shop.) is substantial—excellence supply tht the place of gaudy elegance, and a plain neatness si e a tacterizing every feature. Over these rooms are the th„ e p!bg apartments, and adjacent the dining-rooms for tolsnop assistants, all of which are arrayed with a view 4,"ealth and comfort. By this extension of the pretni 4s, the departments for the ordinary business will be h"li.reu more spacious, and as several new branches will te ‘c ricled, it will no doubt increase the already extensive 43 of the sAablishment. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—IN Riz BENN..-011 Friday the hearing on the granting of the bankrupt's certificate was again resumed, and several witnesses were heard as to the profligate expenditure of the bankrupt, who, while his income was under £4OO a-year, lived at the rate of £lOOO ; it was also alleged that he had contracted debts to a large amount without any possible means of payment. The hearing was adjourned until the 10th of December. EMBEZZLEMENT.—In our last we stated that Thomas Leacy was committed on a charge of embezzlement. It appears that after the magistrate had signified his inten tion to commit he ordered the prisoner to be remanded until the following day, when he was again brought up. Mr. Rushton then stated that be had considered the case, and was of opinion that the charge of embezzlement could not be sustained, there not having been any con cealment; the prisoner had merely deducted a sum of money which he alleged to be for salary and expenses. In support of his view, he read an opinion of Mr. Justice Cresswell given in a similar case. The prisoner was ac- cordingly discharged. DREADFUL STREET ACCIDENT.—On Fr ‘ iday evening, as a float was passing along Whitechapel at a slow rate, and the driver at the head of the shaft horse, a man, name unknown, made a spring to get upon the off shaft to ride, and in doing so fell down between the two shafts, and the float passed over him, but not either of the wheels. The axletree was about eight or nine inches from the ground, and the after part of the float was lower than the front. Deceased was immediately picked up, when it was found that the upper part of his skull was taken off, but he was still alive. He was taken to a drug gists shop, and thence in a car to the Northern Hospital. where he expired on arriving. No blame was attributed to the driver. PILOTAGE. — On Wednesday, the following fifteen gentlemen were elected commissioners of pilotage to supply vacancies. William Robertson Sandbach, John Archer, Robert Bibby. James Garnock, John Davis, Richard Tap ley, William Mann, Robert Rankin, Thos. Bold, Joseph Williamson, Kenneth Macauley, Thos. Morris, Joseph Cornish, John Crawford, and Samuel Martin, Es qs. The thirteen following commissioners were elected at the same time as the pilots' Committee, pursuant to the same act :—Jobn Nelson Wood, Robert Benn. Eyre Evans, William Tapley. George Kendal, Richard Hough ton, Alexander Smith, James Aikin, R. W. Houghton, George Atkinson, Francis Shand, Joseph Pinder, and Benjamin Simpson, Esqrs. CHESTER NOVEMBER FAlR.—This fair is not remark able for a large display of stock, nor for the attendance of dealers and tarmers. On Thursday the show and atten dance was about an average. There were some few calv ing cows offered ; hot the prices were high. Barrens were few in number, chiefly animals that had recovered from murrain ; good prices however were asked ; buyers few. Fat cattle were in demand; but prices were high; nothing good less than 6d. per lb. There were no sheep. Fat pigs were in abundance ; and were worth sd. per lb. The horse fair was thinly attended ; and the show was de cidedly inferior. The day was fine, and attracted a good attendance of farmers for the time of the year ; but busi ness was slack. SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Wednesday night last, John Banks, who resided in Hope-court, Cartwright-place, went to bed with his two sons in his usual health; during the night he was taken ill, and died the following morn ing. The cause of death was serious apoplexy.—On Thursday, Jas. Danks, an illegitimate child one month old, died, as appeared from the evidence of the surgeon, from the effects of a foul disease communicated by its mother. On Sunday morning last, Robert Whitty, who resided in Peter-street, died suddenly, from what was ascertained, on a post mortem examination, to be disease of the hear t. He had complained for about a month of pain in the chest. On the same day, a child, ten months old, named Sat ah Thomasson, was found dead in bed. It was ascertained, on a post mortem examination, that death had arisen from convulsions. HIGHWAY BOARD.—THURSDAY.—The newly-elected members who were present took the required oath. Messrs. Aspinall, Holmes, Birkett, Brancker, and Proc tor, were appointed a committee to carry the proposed bills through Parliament, and to watch all bills affecting the Trust ; and for the purposes of a conference commit tee with the Health and Watch Committees, there were added Messrs. Walthew, Morris, Cooper, Ackers, and Copeland. A letter was read from Mr. C. Chadwick, acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the evidence taken by the Highway Board on the supply of water. Mr. Chadwick says. " he regrets that the Board has come to the erroneous conclusion that the locality of Liverpool s ill not admit of a continuous supply of water." Notice was given by Mr. Cooper, that on Thursday week he would move that the resolution of the 10th October, appropriating the sum of £lO,OOO from the paving fund the sewerage account be rescinded. THE LOAN SOCIETIES.—CAUTION f 0 SURETIES. — On Thursday, a number of parties were summoned as de faulters to various loan societies. The defaulters con sisted principally of sureties, who were ordered to pay the amounts owing. Several of them stated their willingness to pay the shares for which they conceived they were lia ble. Mr. Rushton said, he wished them distinctly to un derstand that, in attaching their signatures to the docu ments as sureties, they were, jointly and severally, liable to pay the whole; the law required that each individual should be answerable for the full amount. He consi dered that parties, such as many of the defendants ap peared to be, who were only working people, should not give bail at all, as in cave of non-payment they ran a risk of having their goods seized, and thus involved theteselve,s in misery. Besides. the borrowers only obtained a little temporary aid, which they had afterwards to squeeze out of their week's earnings, and the consequence was the production of more evil than good. SOUTHERN HosvITAL.—We feel great pleasure in di recting the atte,tiork of vut icadrib 1.11 till advertisement in our paper to-day, announcing the preaching of the an nual sermon in aid of that noble institution, the Southern and Toxteth Hospital, at St. Barnabas Church, Parlia ment-street, on Sunday morning next. We feel it is not necessary to make any lengthened remark as to the claims this institution i as upon the public generally ; they are too well known, and have hitherto been laudably appre ciated ; at the same time we cannot but allude to the ex ertions of those to whom the management is confided—it is beyond all praise, and we are sure the public will on this occasion come forward to the support of an institution the growing demands upon which renders it necessary an ef fort should be made to maintain it in undiminished effi ciency. A number of gentlemen, we understand, have already promised to attend : and as the respected and in defatigable chaplain makes the appeal, we predict, if elo quence and earnestness combined have any weight, there will be an overflowing congregation and a collection wor thy of so good a cause. FAT CATTLE.—We have been politely favoured, by Mr. E. Speed, Woolfall-Eall, Huyton, with an inspec tion of the cattle intended to be exhibited on the 9th of next month, a sight which has afforded us the greatest gratification. The size, symmetry. and condition of the animals, are really admirable. We had no conception that the breeding and feeding of cattle had obtained so high a state of perfection. When the whole of the stock is so truly worthy of attention, it may appear almost in vidious to single out particular instances ; but we were much struck with the appearance of one of the heifers and three of the oxen fed by the Duke of Buccleuch. The two oxen fed by Stair H. Stuart, Esq., are surprising instances of size, symmetry, and feeling. But no words of ours can convey an idea of the stupendous, almost ele phantine, bulk of one of the six year old oxen fed by Colonel 'Douall ;it is, without exception, the largest we ever beheld. The pleasure we have experienced will, we have no doubt, be participated by the dealers in, and the breeders and feeders of, cattle; and indeed by all to whom the contemplation of animals in a high state of perfection is a matter of interest. Doers COMMITTEE.—A letter having been received from the ('u-tom-house authorities, relative to come ad ditional officers at the Albeit Dock Warehouses, instruc tions were given that such officers should be provided. Tee receipts at the port of Runcorn fur the month ending the 25th of October. were-188 vessels. 10,260 tons, £53 15a 9d ; corresponding month of 1844-185 vessels, 111,453 toes, £52 14s 6d, being an incr ase in the receipts of 1.3 Is 3d. Mr. Rankin was appointed to fill up the vacancies in the fitnince and warehouse management committees, occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Evans. The Chairman (Mr. Nicol) stated, in allusion to the motion of which he had given notice, es to doing away with the sub-committees, that he wished the matter to be deferred for a week until the Chairman of the Trust should be present. He read over his motion, the effect of which, it appeared, would be to do away with the existing sub-committees, and, in their place, substitute a committee, consisting of the chairman, or deputy-chair man and two members of the Trust, in rotation, who are to meet daily, and to transact all the business of the exist ing committees—their proceedings to be submitted to the general weekly meeting ; they would a'so be required to visit the dock writ ehouses and report as to their condition, at the weekly meeting. SELECT VESTRY.—At the usual fortnightly meeting on Tuesday there were present : Messrs. Ryding, Houghton, Ferguson, Groom, Urquhart, Thornely. Wheelhouse, Avison, Swainson, Molitieux, Bremner. Bright, Bennett, Stitt, Hand, and Mayer. 'the Workhouse Committee reported that a female, 99 years of age, had died in the house, and that, although it was said she had not been proserlv attended to during three days of her illness, yet, upon investigation, it turned out that there was no blame attachable to any of the male or female officers of the institution. The poor-law commissioners consented by letter to the payment of Messrs. Hugnenin's bill, fur fitting up a gymnasium at the Industrial Schools, and offered queries to be replied to by the master and mistress of the Infant School, Kirkdale.—Mr. Richard Earle, agent to the Earl of Derby, was requested to give his opinion as to the land offered to be sold to the board, in proximity to the Industrial Schools.—The discussion of Mr. Bremner's motion, regarding the manlier of ad ministering out-door relief, was resumed. After some conversation, an amendment that the present system be adhered tit, was carried by a majority of eleven to two. Mr. Urquhart gave notice of motion for the next day, that the superintendent be instructed to put in force the system approved of by the poor-law commissioners and the Select Vestry. THE WALTON OMNIBUSES To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,-1 was very glad to see the remarks of " a villager" in your last respo.Ling the Sunday omnibuses—they cer tainly are a great nuisance. Still the additional omnibus is an advantage in some respects—we have long wanted the old one weeding, and it has had this effect—we have now an omnibus for the aristocrats and one for the plebeians— the Sunday travelling is one of the evils of the division; but the mob will encourage the omnibus all the week if it only indulge them in their fivourite Sunday ride. The love of this is the origin of all Sunday omnibuses. There is no fear of the g'ntry supporting them. I am Sir, Yours respect fully, A REGULAR PASSENGER. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CORRhSPONDENCE. " THE POTATO PANIC." TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, - - - Slll.,—A great quantity of unmatured opinion, and de signed terrorem, has been put into circulation collate, re specting what may be called " the potato panic ;" and I cannot help sending you a few reflections and opinions of my own, respectiog the causes of the decline of our potato stamina for some years past : these opinions are from ob servation, and conversation, during some years residence in a potato district, and from reflection upon the whole subject, vegetatively. In the first place, farmers of the olden time generally managed to have their potatoes planted by old May day ; and never dreamt of getting them out of the ground than the first week of November, at least those for winter stocks ; and when so got, the wizles, or tops, were com pletely witbered away, and almost imperceptible on the butt or ridge. Now-a-days, from the eagerness to turn them into cash, they are dug out three or four weeks ear lier, whilst the tops are even green. This I consider to be very bad farming, and one main cause of the present de terioration of the plant ; for, after bein, so early got, the potato is, for seven or eight weeks sometimes, a vegetat ing plant, as witness an onion for a much longer period. Formerly, potatoes meant for seed were left in the ground as long as possible, than tear of frost came ; they were then gathered and left spread on a room or barn floor for weeks longer, that their vital and best principle might set, inside. Now-a-days, they are not only dug earlier, but hogged or holed at once; and, when cut for seed, you may witness the folly of such sweating heaps, by the long sprits, that are broken off when cutting; and those sprits are a very material power in the potato pro. duct, thus foolishly thrown aside, and lost for ever! I think setting whole potatoes a little deeper than usual a good plan, if persevered in, as the product is more nu merous and sound, and the nature of the potato does not evaporate. If you think these brief thoughts of mine worthy of in sertion, they are much at your service. With respect to any failure in the present crop of pota toes, I think much is attributable to the very wet weather we experienced in August, when the sun is usually hot and powerful, and the potatoes, as the farmers around Ormskirk have it, are " broording," that is, spreading and setting. I am, sir, your constant reader, JOHN SUMNER. Liverpool, Nov. 25. 1845 PROPOSED GRAND NEW THOROUGHFARE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,-1 some time ago suggested, through your co lumns, that the Corporation should, if possible, repur chase the intended site of the new Branch Bank of Eng land, in Castle. street, and corner of Cook-street, and, by other purchases. obtain from George's Pier a direct line of street through George's Dock, by a quay or road way WITHOUT BRIDGES, up to the top of Brunswick street, and thence to the Railway station. Tt.e dock, as I then stated, would thus form two docks, each of which might be enlarged by taking in so much of the vacant land between it and the Baths, at present almost wholly waste, as could be spared, (the Baths, nearly useless and in the way, being removed,) consistently with leaving sufficient space for such improved landing-places, and a basin for river steamers, as might be decided upon. I have since found the opinion I had then formed daily confirmed, un til it appears to me, that such a main thoroughfare has become not only advisable but necessary. The only and main arteries of the town leading to the " bridge of boats" that cross the Mersey are Dale-street and Lord-street, and their adjuncts, and such is the crowded and fre quently dangerous state of both, from the increase of the population, and of vehicles of all kinds, that it appears to me to be high time that something should be done for the safety and convenience of the public. It is more than probable that a good wide street between them, such as that proposed would, without injury to existing interests in either of these thoroughfares, prove to be a wise and paying speculation—if speculation it can be called. The new line of street would redeem much property of secon dary value in Temple court, and about Williatnson square, as the whole might be thrown across Whitechapel, so that from the top of Brunswick-street to the railway station the line would form a gentle inclined plane—ap proaching, indeed, to a level. It would moreover ventilate one of the lowest and most densely peopled parts of the town ; and it would afford at all times, (wtt hunt delay from bridges thrown back) a ready passage between the pier and the heart of the town. My object in again ad verting to the subject is to induce the authorities to give it their calm and prompt attention, but (as in other cases of town improvements in which a want of foresight has been evinced,) the alteration may hereafter be forced upon them, when the cost of purchasing the requisite land and buildings will have greatly increased. I am, Sir, &c., W. THE CORN QUESTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, - - - SlR.—The banner of clamour hag been again raised by the whig-radical clique. The excitement that could be brought into action for party purposes by the " potato disease", has been considered too good a handle to be left unmoved; ant; we see the whole party, from Lord John down to John Crook, in full activi'y for the nation's good. There are, however, some points in his lordship's letter, which, although sounding beautifully to the ear, are rather incomprehensible to the sense ; for how is it that his lord ship cutteithab coult.etue Lu be " blighted'', when all practical men know full well that at this. and at every other port in the kingdom, commerce has advanced with gigantic strides, and deserves the very reverse of the re presentation his lordship has been pleased to give to it. The corn-law also has been the " bane "of agriculture itself, in his lordship's opinion; although, strange to say, the agriculturists, who ought to be good judges of their own interests, cling to the idea that they could not live without the present amount of pro►ection, and that, in fact, they are entitled, from the share they sustain of the national burthens, to something more. His lordship also holds that they are the cause of penury amongst the peo ple—quite forgetting that he is only thinking of a class, and that the cultivators of the poorer soils of this king dom will be indeed driven to penury if they are left with out the slightest protection from the foreigner, who sus tains no portion whatever of the weight of our public debt, costly maintenance of poor, &c. Surely, Englishmen should have some sympathy for their agricultural brethren, and not sacrifice them entirely because it is the manufacturers interest to have returns in the shape of corn and flour ; and the little reliance that can be placed in the representations of the party, is• very transparent now that it is known, that, notwithstanding their loud assertions, scarcely any corn has gone out of the kingdom, whilst immense quantities are pouring into it—and will so the more whilst the ports are partially shut, for the opening them will be a signal to the foreign holders immediately to raise their prices. 1 cannot conclude these brief remarks without advert ing to the allegation that Mr. Blackburn thought fit to make at the late meeting at the amphitheatre. that a mere handful of oligarchs are interested in the maintenance of the corn-law—tor if that worthy will take the trouble of referring to lir Culloch he will see that the greatest suf ferers by the repeal will be the numerous class of small proprietors, and those dependent on them. ANTI-QUACK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR, —Having observed several mis-statements in the Mercury of the 28th ult., relating to the pretended con version of the late Bella Lewis, of Jubilee-street, in West Derby township, I have to request. as a favour, and in justice to the survivors of the family, that you will insert this short statement of truth, signed by the father and mother of the deceased, after reading it over to them, in the presence of witnesses. I forwarded a letter to the Board of Guardians, at their request, on the 25th ult., having made a verbal report to them on the 18th, and was desired by one of the guar dians (Mr. Smith) to procure the name of the ptiest, which I could not in time for the report. On the day last named I saw two ladies (Sisters of Charity) belonging to a convent in the neighbourhood, who had come to visit my patient by request of the priest. I tour eously re quested them to see her in my presence (and not, as the Mercury states, " they said it would be well to bear it from herself"). I asked Bella Lewis, "Do you acknow ledge }ourself a Catholic or a Protestant?" Answer— " I was baptized and brought up a Protestant; I am one now, and will continue so as long as I live." "Do you wish these ladies from the Convent to see you again, or to instruct ,ou ?" Answer—" No ; I am satisfied with (the Rev.) Mr. Anderson, and wish to see him again." The ladies appeared satisfied, and, I believe, did not see her again. Bella Lewis informed me, without my asking ber about it, that she bad suffered much ill treatment from her husband because she would not attend the Roman Ca tholic chapel, and, to preserve peace as much as she was able. did not for a long time attend any place of worship at all ; and that she had only remained quiet during the ceremony of extreme unction on the 23d, because she was in fear of her husband (her mother having been sent out of the: room); that she neither consented to it nor responded. She was perfectly sensible, and said she had suffered very much from excitement, and bad no one to appeal to for protection against it. Her father denies ever going for the priest, or attend ing to give any evidence with him, or for him, at the Workhouse. Her mother denies ever fetching the priest, and her father denies saying " John, you had better fetch the priest." This contains all I know, or can collect, of the matter ; and my applying to the Board of Guardians OH the sub ject at all, was to solicit their advice and protection for the Protestant public in c ses of illness. I never in any instance interfere with the creeds or sects under my medical charge, or make any difference in ordering requisite necessaries, or in the distribution of lood or fuel, which have been entrusted to me for some years as one of the Low-hill Charitable Fund Committee. I am, Mr. Editor, yours very respectfully, CHARLES BUTLER GREATREX, 22, Moss-street, West Derby, Dec. Ist, 1845. N. B.—Annexed is a confirmation of the foregoing facts, signed by the father and mother of deceased, as also by witnesses who have heard it read to them. We, the undersigned, have heard the above letter read, and, in the presence of witnesses, certify that it is a state ment of facts, and that she died in the Protestant faith. THOS. HUGHES, father of Bella Lewis, JANE HUGHES, mother of Do., St. Jude's-place, Jubilee-street. WitnessJ HENRY HULME, Surgeon. JANE WARING. December Ist, 1815. MANCHESTER PROTESTANT OPERATIVE Church of Rome. The rev. gentleman then proceeded to read the articles from Pope Pius Creed, and showed their opposition to the ancient creed of the church, which was propounded in 325, and had never been altered as the creed of the church up to February 4th, 1546. They had the evidence of the Council of Trent, and in this instance he bowed to its infallibility, that up to that time no other creed was ever known or heard of in the Christian church. The four first general councils proved this creed to the year 451 ; and the last general council, 109.) years after, the Council of Trent proved it up to the 4th February, 1546. Was this, then, the true and ancient creed of the church until the middle of the sixteenth century, or not? If not, the Council of Trent had told a falsehood; if it was, it must be so at this day. If it was the true Chris tian faith then, it was so now ; and the church that held it then, and the church that held it now, must be the church that held the ancient Christian faith. But if toe Council of Trent was true in asserting that the reacting of this creed had been the shield against heresies, that it had even converted heretics and confirmed the faithful—how was it possible, on the authority of the Council of Trent, that the men who held that creed at this day could be he retics ? If the whole Christian church held it then, (and the Council of Trent said so,) surely they must admit that those who held it now were the Christian church? How, then, could they denounce Protestants as heretics, when, on their own showing, Protestants held the faith which they declared to be the firm and only foundation against which the gates of hell should never prevail ? The rev. gentleman concluded amids' great applause. At the suggestion of the Chairman, a great number of shares were taken for the erection of a Protestant Hall, and it was determined to purchase the Hall of Science, (lately belonging to the Socialists.) for that purpose. ASSOCIATION. The seventh annual meeting of this association was held on Thursday last, and was attended by a crowded and respectable assembly. Between fifty and sixty clergymen were present. The Rev. Hugh Stowell, the president of the association, took the chair, and delivered a very animated address, after which the report was read, from which it appeared that the society was accomplishing wide-spread good. Many thousands of tracts had been distributed during the year, and a library had been in operation for some months, containing upwards of 130 volumes. _ The speakers were the Revs. W. W. M`Grath, J. H. MacGui'e, W. K. Tatam, W. Huntingdon, T. T. Eager, and R. J. 111`Ghee. We can only find room for a por tion of the address of the latter gentleman. _ . The Rev. R. J. M'GHEE, after alluding to the degraded and immoral condition of the Papacy during and before the sixteenth century (as admitted by Romish writers themselves), and the consequent general clamour through out Europe for reform, went on to speak of the Reforma tion as follows ;—England first began to carry it into ef fect; it was begun in 1537, eight years before the assem bling of the council of Trent, but not by Luther. Before the reformation, all the services were in Latin, of which the people did not understand a single word. They con• sisted of prayers taken from ancient liturgies, and various others that had been superadded, as the corruptions arose in the church, to saints and to the Virgin Mary ; and these constituted the public worship of the church, pretty much as they were at present in the missals and the bre viary. The first act of reformation in the time of Henry VIII., was to have the prayers and public service in a lan guage that the people understood ; but this was not the act of Henry VIII., nor of Luther, but of the Bishops of the Church of England in convocation assembled, who appointed a committee to draw up a book in the language the people understood ; and that book was called " The godly and pious institution of a Christian man." It contained the Lord's Prayer, the ten commandments, " Ave Maria," and the seven sacraments. This was published in 1540; three years after it was corrected and amended, and was then called—" A necessary doctrine and erudition for any Christian man." The convocation, however, petitioned for a reform of the rituals and offices of this book ; the word of God was having free course and being glorified among them ; and as they read their Bible they became more and more discontented with the services that had been introduced into the Church of Rome, for they could not find the seven sacraments or " Ave Maria" in the Bible. A committee of divines was again appointed, and in 1545 they published a book called "The King's Primer," containing the Lord's Prayer and the ten com mandments,—the seven sacraments and the " Ave Maria" were gone.—and the morning and evening player in Eng lish, pretty much as we had them at this day. This was in 1845, so that England had been carrying on her reform ation for eight years. Now commenced a new era in the reformation ; for on the 13th of December, 1545, the Council of Trent was assembled for the purpose of re forming the Church of Rome ; and from that time the Church of England and the Council of Trent proceeded step by step together in their mutual reformation till the year 1563. In England, on the 2nd of December, 1547, the first year of Edward VI., the convocation unani mously resolved that the communion in both kinds should be given to the laity. This was ratified by an act of parliament, and a committee of bishops was ap pointed to compose a communion service, according to the rules of Scripture and the usages of the primitive church, and afterwards a whole liturgy. This book was set forth by the common agreement of the provincial con vocations of Canterbury and York, and was then ratified by act of parliament; it proceeded, as it ought to proceed from the bishops and the clergy, they were the persons who made the reformation, and then it was ratified as it ought to be, by the law of the land. This was in the 2d and 3d of Edward VI., 1548. The Council of Trent as sembled on the 13th of December, .1545 ; in 1546, she held four sessions ; in 1547, she held her sixth session on justification, and one on reformation ; the seventh session was on the sacraments in general, and baptism and con firmation; the eighth was on the Eucharist; and the ninth and tenth were prorogations; and then her assem blies were suspended for three years—]s4B, 1549, and 1550. Our liturgy, which had been composed by one archbishop, seven bishops, four deans, and one archdea con, was again revised and amended in 1551, and so con tinued till the end of the reign of Edward VI., in 1553. When Mary ascended the throne, this liturgy was abo lished, and the mass was restored as the service of Eng land. The history of Mary's reign from 1553 to 1558, was a history written in tears and in blood ; the Bible, liberty of conscience, and the free worship of God were proscribed ; and those who had established that church, now so basely betrayed by some and deserted by others, sealed its establishment with their blood. Winn Eliza beth ascended the throne in 1558, the liturgy of Edward VI. was restored, with some slight alterations, one of which he deeply regretted—the omission from the litany of the prayer, " From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities, good Lord de liver us." The Council of Trent, which had suspended its sessions during Mary's reign, held its 17th session in 1562 ; and the 25th session was the last. During these sessions there were 1U decrees and 134 chapters on reform ation,—a pretty clear evidence that Rome acknowledged that reformation was wanted in her church. It was worthy of remark that this council closed its sittings by pronouncing an anathema on all heretics,—which, nccord jug to their own interpretation, meant devoting them to eternal destruction. Was this the language of the minis ters of Him who came to seek and to save that which woe loot ? Was it the language of the heart of any Roman Catholic present? Would they not rather say, salvation andlmercy to all heretics; for such was the language and the prayer of Protestants on their behalf ? Now the two reformations had proceeded together, step by step, in England and in Europe : which of the two churches had purified the profession of the Christian faith from the errors from which it confessedly needed to be The annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary Branch reformed, and brought it back again to the primitive of this Society, was held on Thursday evening, in the standard of ancient Christianity ? To determine this Music Hall, atict was numerously and most respectably question we must ascertain what was the standard of the attended. Amongst the clergymen and laymen on the ancient Christian church.— [Here the rev, gentleman platform were Dr. Byrth, Dr Raffles, Dr Edwards, the exhibited, upon a pole provided for the purpose on the Rev. Messrs. W. W. Ewbank, F. Parry, W. Appleford, platform, a copy, printed in large letters, of the " Nicene Cordeaux, Hampton, Davies, and G. °shone—Messrs. creed."]—This was the creed of the ancient Christian W. Cook, Edwd. Cropper. C. H. Jones, W. Maples, church ;it was composed at the Council of Nice, in 325. John Priestley, W. J. Tomlinson, Wm. Ray, Jost ph Y. The "Apostles' Creed" was so ancient that no ecclesias- Ashton, John Crosfield, R. A. Payne, Thos. Crook, J. tical historian could assert when it was composed ; if not 0. Jones, and others. by the apostles themselves, it was composed at or near to Dr. BYRTH, Rector of Wallasey, was called to the the apostolic age. It might be asked why a new creed chair, and toter some remarks in favour of the society, was composed in 325 ? It was not a new creed ;it contained which, from what it had already and was yet destined to no new articles; bat the Council of Nice having assem- do, he hesitated not to say, was the grandest for the pro bled to oppose the Arian heresy, which bad then pogation of the Holy Scriptures, stated that the Rev. sprung up, they enlarged the points of the Apostles' S. C. Dudley, Secretary to the Parent Society, would Creed that involved the divinity of Christ. Such, then, furnish some most interesting statements, showing such was the profession of the whole Christian church at the a revival of true religion in various parts, as called for Council of Nice in 325. The Council of Constantinople, the deepest gratitude to God, through whom alone it in 381, recapitulated the creed of the Council of Nice, as could have arisen. He hoped these statements would did the Council of Ephesus in 431. At that council it was create a new impulse. mentioned that two elders had proposed a different creed The Rev. W. FWBANK introduced the first resolution, to some persons who were to be received into the church, to the effect, that while the meeting desired the blessing and the council decreed that it should be lawful for no of God on the labours of the Parent Soc;ety, and re one to profess, write, or compose any other form of faith joiced in the increasing evidences of that blessing, both except the Nicene Creed, and that any one doing so, if a at home and abroad, it recognised an imperative cltuim on bishop, should be deprived of h's episcopacy ;if a clergy- all Protestant Christians to give still wider diffusion to man, of his clerical office, and if a layman, he was to be the Holy Scriptures. In the course of his address he excommunic ited. It was clear, then, that was the stand- remarked that the Clergy of the Church of England were and of Christian faith up to 431. The Council of Calce- not bound by the canons to keep aloof from such societies, don assembled in 451, and ag a in recited this creed and as- unless str ctly forbidden by the Bishop, and in this in serted these principles. Thus, four successive councils, stance their course was easy, as their excellent diocesan up to the middle of the fifth century, declared that this was himself favourable to the object in view. Although was the only creed of the Christian church. There was parties differed in their interpretation of portions of the one more evidence, which was the most important poist Bible, if all studied it, they would arrive, with the in the whole Romish controversy, for it supplied a weapon teaching of the Holy Spirit, at a knowledge of those with which the Protestants might beat down all the power essential truths which could alone lead to salvation. of Popish priestcraft. On the 4th February, 1546, (the Dr. BYRTH introduced Mt. Dudley to the meeting, date was important,) the Council of Trent assembled in as the Indefatigable friend of the cause, who had nearly its third session, which was convened for one single ob- 30 years ago been the means of his attaching himself to jrct,—the exposition of the faith of the Christian church the Society. from the counnencement of Christianity to that day; and The Rev. Mr. DUDLEY then came forward, and was they decreed—" Tnat this creed, which the holy Roman enthusiastically received. He stated the object of the church uses as that summary io which all who profess the society, which was the diffusion of the word of God, faith must necessarily agree, acid that firm and only without note or comment throughout every part of the foundation against which the gates of bell shall never pre- world to which it could obtain access, and showed be nu vail, shall be read in those words in which it is read in all nierous details, the great progress it had made since its the churches." And then they recited the creed of the formation forty-one years ago. When it was established, Council of Nice; so that the creed which had been set —on the 17th of March, 1804, there was not a single forth by the tour first general councils, and held by all the society that had for its sole object the circulation of the intervening councils, was acknowledged by the Council of Scriptures, though the re were several societies who corn- Trent to be the only creed of Christendom in the year bined this to some extent with other objects. Now, 1546. Then the question arose, in the reformation of the i then- were in England and Wales no fewer than 3,008 so two churches at Trent and in England, which church had cieties having that sole purpose in view; In Ireland, there abandoned all the corruptions that had crept into and rte- were 553 ;in Scotland, about 60. Iti the various Pro filed the church, and caused all Europe to cry out for re- testant states of Europe: there were 1740 similar socie formation,—and set up for the people the ancient creed of ties; and it was gratifying to say, that at this moment the holy, catholic, Christian church, anti thrown open the j every Protestant sovereign was friendly, including our Bible for all her subjects to read and understand ?—(Loud gracious Queen, who was a subscriber. In Asia, there applause, and " The Church of England ") What church were 91 Bible societies ; in Africa, rude as it wee, 21; in had altered, corrupted, and added to the ancient creed 12 North America, including Canada, &c., 2,800; in the new articles unknown in the former one ?—(Here the rev. Wes , Indies, 400, of which 212 weie conducted by eman gentleman exhibited a copy of the creed known as Pope cipated slaves; in Australia, New South Wales, and Van Pius's creed.)—This was the novel creed of the Church Dieman's Land, 17. Thus there were in all upwards of of Rome, never heard of in the Christie , . church till 8.000 of such societies, and wherever they had been esta- December 9th, 1564, when the pope printed it in a bull, blished, there was a co-operation of all for the benefit of and commanded it to be read by the whole Christian all, every one having for its object the universal circula world. Which, then, was the ancient, and which the tion of the word of God. At the time of the society's novel church ? How could they determine the anti- formation,there werebutabout4 000,000 copies oftheßible quity of a church ? What was meant by a church ? circulated, and about halt' of these in England. In Not a certain body of men, who were continually forty-one years, that is, up to March last, there had been changing, but a succession of men united together for the circulated by the Parent Society 17,000 000. in whole or same profession of Christian faith. AA that body of men in part, and in America 11,000,1 , 00, waking a total of who were proved to be united together by the same faith 28,000.000, or seven-fold the number at the time the so whicn the apostles held, which the primitive church held, ciety was formed ; and so far from the demand decreasing, and which never was changed, on the evidence of the it continues rapidly to advance. Another evidence of the Council of Trent. till the y e ar 1546, which at that day favour of God was to be found in the multiplicstion of minuted the creed of all Chi istendom—that church must translations required. Before, it had been translated into be the true and the ancient church ; while the church only 41 languages; it was now printed and circulated in which had added to that creed a set of novel articles, not 138 different languages. Before, it was accessible to only ktio an iu that creed—never heard of by a general council 200.000,000 of people; now it was eastribiated in the lan. —never kn swn in Christendoeu—never acknowledged in a guages spoken by 600,000,000. He related an interesting Christian church—that church was the novel church and statement of the pious labours of the late Hannah More, the apostate churco. He would now ask the Roman Ca- in a village in England, where she at first found only one tholics where was their church before Luther ? Luther Bible, and that supporting a flower pot, but soon after died in 1546; and we had the evidence of the Council of could not find a family without one, and such was the that date this was toe creed of all the effect upon the morals and character of the people, that Trent, church. This was the creed of the English he had seen two gaols tenantless, and on asking the turn cChrhieirnriCtti'li that li a ia tt t hueP t time of Luther ' s death ; it was the creed of key to what he attributed the change, he replied," To all Christendom before ; and it was the creed of the Eng- I the Sunday schools, and the circulation of the Bible.' lisp church at this day. (Appl a use, and "Ihe 39 anti- I He next noticed France as furnishing of late years further cles.") Of the 39 articles of the Church o f E ng l an d no t evidence of a revival of true religion. The Bible was then one was proposed to any man as an anicle of faith. The distributed by the agents of the society, the col-porteur, Counc lof Ephesus denounced any one who should dare or hawkers, who carried them over the country on their to add to that creed anything to be proposed to those who backs , and sold them for a ver y small price. Their ex were to he admitted into the Christian church. The 39 cellent agent in Paris had last ye it disposed of 150,000 of articles were never proposed to a layman; they were the the sacred volume in that city alone, and these, together standard of doctrine, according to which the clergy ought with the labours of many excellent Protestant pastors who to teach ; but they contained not a single new article of bad sprung up, had wrought a wonderful change amongst faith. But the Church of Rome proposed the new creed large communities, where during the blood-stained days to any one wino sought admission into that church ; and of the revolution, the Bible was not only scoffed at, but they could not be admi ted unless they subscribed it. committed to the flames amidst the most horrible impre- Thoee who subscribed the old creed joined the Church cations. Holland, though a Protestant country had been of England ; those who aubtcr,bcd the new joined the found deplorably destitute of Bibles; and the Society had NECESSITY OF CHURCH EXTENSION IN TOXTETH-PARK. Political economists may talk of the extension of our trade, and statesmen refer to the favourable budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in proof of our national prosperity and resources—the result of the enterprise and industry of our general population ; but however flatter ing may be their asseverations, they furnish no decisive proof of the true well-being and prosperity of the coun try. Commerce may flourish, and the finances of the country may be sufficient to meet all honourable engage ments ; but these do not constitute the true happiness and security of a people. Tnere may be, and there generally is, in the background, much of that reckless improvidence that frustrates all genuine enjoyment ; much of that im morality and crime, with all their deplorable consequen ces, which meet not their observation ; and no community can, collectively or individually, be truly happy or secure unless they he imbued with religious feelings, in the wake of which follows just and kindly feeling between man arid man. The gratification of mere animal and luxurious propensities never yet permanently elevated the character of a nation. Where religious instruction and impressions are wanting, prosperity cannot be borne with meekness, nor adversity with patience. The Word of God, which points at the future destiny of man, according t.) his de serts, and which cannot be evaded, can alone effectually restrain those rampant propensities to evil which are in herent in his nature ; and its dissemination is far more potent than whole armies of police, or the uplifted sword of the human law. Thus it is that the clrristian is a bet ter subject, a better far her, a firmer friend, than the scoffer or the unbeliever ; and it therefore becomes a duty of all who acknowledge the blessings of religion in them selves, when they find a multitude of their fellow-creatures around them thirsting for the waters of life, to step for ward and lead them to the sacred fount of which they have themselves gratefully partaken. We are led to these remarks by finding the respected clergy of St. James's, St. Bride's. and St. Thomas's. in Toxteth-park, have recently repeatedly met " to delibe rate on the lamentable state of religious destitution in their respective cures, and to advise upon the best plan tor effecting an increase of church accommodation. At one of the meetings a detailed statement of the condition arid requirements of these districts (which are rapidly in creasing in population) was submitted, and as a remedy, in the first instance, it was suggested that three new chu ches should be erected and endowed. A subscription was entered into, and £1055 was immediately raised. Several donations have since been received, amounting in all to about £2BOO, and a committee and officers has been appointed to conduct the good work, ar.d, we trust, pro secute it to a successful issue. The appeal which they make in behalf of these churches is based upon facts which claim the most serious consideration and ge-eroiss aid of our whole christian population. In St. James's district there are 20,000 inhabitants, with accommodation for 1000 only in St. James's Church, and for 4300 by Dis senters and in Welsh chapel ,, , leaving 14,700 without ac cess to the House of God. In St. Thomas's district the population is 17,149, and but 3313 are accommodated, leaving 13,831; unprovided for. The free sittings in both districts are very few ; and it is proposed to allot at least one thousand in each of the three new churches, by which it is proposed " to multiply the instrimentality of the Church of England, whose peculiar excellence it is to unite with divine worship and preaching, a system of pastoral superintendence over a specified district, thus teaching from' house to house,' and carrying counsel and insitition to the homes of the poor." Ir is also intended to attach a school to each church. Amongst the donors and amounts already subscribed we find :—Nlatthew Gregson, Esq., £200; Edward Cropper, Esq.. £2OO ; John Swift, Esq., £200; " A Friend to Church Exten sion," £3OO ; Richard H a rbord , Esq., £lOO ; with several others of £5O, £4O, &c. The cause is a holy one, and to each and every of our wealthy townsmen we would say , "Go thou and do li .ewise." It will be seen by ah an nouncement in another column that a public meeting on the subject will be held on Friday next, when the Lord Bishop of the Diocese will take the chair. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY there circulated 67,000. In that country many working men had come forward as travelling vendors, and had been highly successful. The speaker then instanced a most gratifying revival near our own locality. In August last, a good man, who had visited Blackpool, during the bathing season, found that the village, which contained about 500 inhabitants, was very scantily supplied with Bibles. He joined five other individuals in an attempt to supply the want. They procured a supply from the Society's agent, at Manchester, and each sallied forth with a number of them to sell, though with little hope of being able to succeed to their wishes. Great, therefore, was their surprise and delight on again meeting at the door of the house they had left, to find that all of them were sold. A further supply was procured, and in less than a fortnight more than 1400 more were disposed of ! This was the beginning of a remarkable revival in another and much more populous place. It occurred to them and others friendly to their views, that as so much was done at Blackpool, something might be done in Manchester. Several children of wealthy families came forward, and in one week one girl sold 300 copies ; another 600, and the teachers and children connected with one place of wore ship soon sold, within their own sphere. 4000 copies. The Manchester and Salford Auxiliary Society, which in thirty-four years (up to 1844), had sold 194,152 copies, or about 5712 annually, had this year sold 15,000 copies. In October alone the sale had been 9430; in the first eight days of November, 11,300, and after that time the sale had been over 1000 a day ! Orders had also been received at the office for 2000 in one day, and 4000 on the next! The extent of the recent orders exceeded 38,000. One lad of 16 years of age went selling Bibles into the street, and getting amongst fourteen or fifteen carters, none of whom had one, he sold a copy to each—the Old Testament at 10d., and the New at 4d., at which prices the society provide them neatly bound. The whole of the canonical books they now furnished for 9d., and the Testament at 31.1. A policeman, who saw the boy selling them, took him up on suspicion that he had stolen them ; but when the matter was explained, he was released, and the officer himself became a purchaser. He concluded by seconding the resolution, and urging upon the meeting further exertions in the blessed work in which they had engaged, seeing the bright promises of still greater success th a were before them. The resolution was unanimously passed. The meeting was afterwards ably and feelingly ad dressed by Mr. CORDAUX and Dr. RAFFLES, who moved and seconded a resolution, which was, " That the meeting was highly gratified to hear that the Scriptures. in various editions, could now be obtained from the society at such low prices, and regarded the circumstance as a powerful motive to increased effects in able distribution." Mr. DUDLEY, in a second appeal to his attentive auditors (he having omitted some points), alluded to the new field open for their exertions in China, which, ac cording to the best accounts, had a population of 230,000,000, or about one-third the population of the whole globe. Although no fewer than thirty-five to forty lat.guages were spoken in so many provinces, all could read from one book, as the characters were like those in music. He showed a volume beautifully printed in the Chinese characters—a translation of the Gospel of St. Luke, and the Acts of the Apostles ; and announced that a special fund had been opened for the benefit of the Chinese, called " The China Fund." To this fund, several ladies contributed in the room. A collection for the general purposes of the society was made, and, after an appropriate address from the Chair man, a vote of thanks was passed to him, and the meeting separated. A FRESH GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY Our geological philosophers have recently been making strange discoveries. This world, according to them, is not the world, of whose formation out of chaos Moses wrote, but a much older world, out of the macadamised fragments or " vestiges" of which that of the inspired writer must have been formed. The latest discovery, as to its age, has just been made by a Mr. James Heywood, of Man chester, who fixes the printmark noticed upon a certain stone recently found at Tintwistle in Cheshire, as having been impressed 500,000 years ago. or nearly 491,000 years before our own generally•received date of the year of creation. It appears that at a quarry now wot king at Tintwisle, in Cheshire, about a quarter of a mile from the Hatfield station of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, a block of stone has been found, about eight feet in length, containing three foot prints; but whether of a bird, an animal, or a man, an assembly of :mans, recently held on the spot, do not appear to have been able precisely to de termine. A Dr. Black, who read a paper on the subject, conjectures that the marks must have been made when the stone was " soft and pulpy;" but how it got so deep into the quarry from which it was taken be does not specify. The feet could not have been those of a bird he thinks ; and were not those of human feet, not being oblique enough to each other, though it was " well known that savage tribes generally walked with their feet pretty straight torward." He " could not assign the impressions, it human, to any antediluvian age within the record of Sacred History !" and he concluded by expressing a hope that " the talented members of the society present would be able to throw greater light on these phe nomena than he had been able to do." A num ber of other conflicting opinions were hazarded, in the course of which Mr. Rhodes, the discoverer, remarked that the marks had been greatly altered since the stone was first seen, upwards of 3000 persons having put their feet in them, by which admission, Mr. R. will be pretty generally thought to have " put his foot" in his discovery; and, ultimately, a want of ability to solve the riddle was acknowledged, and the wonderful piece of stone ordered by the meeting to be sent up to London, to he referred to the Metropolitan Committee of Geologists. Can the wholeaffair be anything like A ilie Ailsie's lang ladle, which so puzzled Sir Walter Scott's Antiquary, and was but a common horn spoon after all ? " NO OATS IN ALL GLO'STER." (From the Gloucester Chronicle.) The last numbrr of the League contains the following : —" A correspondent sends us the following letter, which he received from Messrs. Sturge of Gloucester, arid to which he adds the judicious comments contained in his own letter : ' Gloucester 11 am., 12, Mr. —, Cheltenham,—ln reply to thy favour we should have been glad to have complied with thy request, but regret to say we have no oats of any description by us at present for any of our customers.—We are, very respectfully, J. and C. STURGE. per T. M. STURGX.' To the Editor of the League. Cheltenham, Nov. 17, 1q45. I send you a letter I have received from Messrs. Sturge, cornfactors, of Glo'ster ; siuce which I have sent over my ser vant to Gl,,'ster, and the report is, there are no oats in all Glo'ster.'" A lone tirade against " the monopolists," of the most approved " famine" class, follows. At the very time that these letters appeared in the League, no less than thirty corn-laden vessels (nearly all of which had cargoes of oats) were lying in Gloucester docks. So much for this clap-trap of these free-traders! Ten of the forego•ng vessels, as may be seen from our shipping returns, were consigned to the firm of J. and C. Sturge. Mr. T. M. Sturges letter to his friend at Chel tenham is dated the 12th. The vessels, if we mistake not, did not make very speedy voyages in consequence of boisterous weather, and we cannot help thinking it some what odd, that Mr. Sturge should have had no advices by post about these cargoes—that he should have written so laconically. The letter might really have been got up for the columns of the League. We subjoin a paragraph from the Dublin Warder of Nov. 22, from which it will be seen that an enormous quarvity of corn (chiefly oats we believe.) was exported from Ireland the week before last:— "The laigest export of corn from the Irish ports to the Eng lish ma. kkt ever recorded took place last week, having exceeded 100,0 0 barrels of grain, of which 70,000 were from Limerick, and other southern ports." We may remind the reader that " oats are admitted at this moment at a duty of only sixpence per bushel; and if there were any scarcity of this important article, they would soon b: admitted under the present law at a penny or two-pence per bushel." HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, CHELSEA, LONDON. A meeting of governors and directors of this charity took place at the Board-room, in the Chelsea Hospital, Colonel Le Blanc in the chair. It was stated that the new hospital fur consumption, now in the course of erec tion at Brotnpton, would be ready for the reception of patients and the transmission of those from the present establishment at Chelsea, about Midsummer next, when it was the intention of the committee of management to hold a second fancy fair and bazaar, similar to that held last year, in honor of his itoyal Highness Prince Albert laying the foundation stone of the new hospital. The interior arrangements having, after mature deliberation, been adopted by the menical officers, and approved of by gentlemen of experience in such matters; it is expected that the new hospital will offer facilities for treating con sumption, which no other institution possesses. The warning am! ventilation will be on the most approved principles, with arrangements for the application of tem perature of various degrees, so as to approximate that of different climates, and with means for the impregnation of the atmosphere of particular apartments with various gases; vapours, &C. The following statement will show the magnitude of the evil which this institution was formed to remedy. Of the 60,0(X) deaths which occur every year in Eugland and Wales from slow - and lingering dis e ases, about 36909 are probably due to Pulmonary Consump tion. One-ninth, thetelore, of the total mortality at all ag es, and m ore tha n and as the duration of the disease , takin g one ra z e with one-tilth of the miltality of adults is due to this cause; another, is about two years, it follows that about ;Two persons are constantly suffering from consumption, being at the rate of four persons in every thousand of all ages, and eight in every thousand adults. Again, of the.4s • ,000 deaths occurring every year in the metropolis, about 5,600, or one-eighth of the to!al mortality of the metropolis at all ages, and little less than one-fifth of the mortality of adults, arises from thi s f a t a l disease: and upwards of 11,000 persons, b e i ng a b out One in 170 of the entire populotion ol: the metropolis, and more than one per cent, of the adults, are const a ntly wasting away under the attacks of this ling er i ng ma l a d y , Of these 10,000 cases, about three-fourths o ccur in males, of whom a large proportion are working men, un able to provide fur themselves and f a milies,sptematically excluded from our general hospitals, and uniting in their own persons every conceivable claim to sympathy arid assistance. . _ the following liberal donations were announced : from the Misses Champion, £5O, the Misses Carbonell, 60 gui neas, Edward Nuirne, Esq £ 3l 10s., an anonyrni,us con tributor signing himself" A Pharisee," forwarded £lOO , The Hon. Colonel G. Upton , the stun of 100 guineas, as reported in the London daily press of the 18th and 19t1; instant,