The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-12 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS We have been requested ledge the receipt of an a church was erected e Vicar of Skipton to acknow rmous donation for the proposed ipton. In this distant township 54, and near the old foundation (now marked only by a few tombstones) a site has been given by the gentleman who recently purchased the property, and there is now a curate placed there among a population of 1000 souls. There are six mills, but no church. In aid of this object a X2O Bank of England note has been sent from this neighbourhood, and we trust that this acknowledgment will meet the eye of the unknown giver. _ Pe are sorry to receive so many complaints of the non-delivery of our papers by post ; but we must have a thorough reform of our postal arrangements before the mischief will be thoroughly remedied. We have daily causes of complaint ; . . and, as One instance, we may mention that the Prestwi Chronicle of Saturday week did not reach us until Friday Mr. Edwdrd Roberts, of Rhyl, who for fifteen years commanded the steamer plying between that port and this, has written s of having a life-boat sta about 6 miles S.W. of that ir: correspondent mentions ssels in distress have been been assisted much sooner ere. He also says that he the Point of Ayr life-boat _ arses, to get far enough to en in distress on the west end of mds that such a boat would be trying for Chester river. Our .onsideration. at FOryd, near Rhyl, and .ous bank, West Hoyle. 0 nstances correspondent's hint a , of t an to scatter such indiscriminate red by " Morality." We gave as ieeting to which he refers as our 1 arrangements would admit of; publish the proceedings which are moment when our papers must be London press publishes verbatim tary speeches up to midnight, it those journals are not published clock in the miming, whilst the Liverpool n o'clock, p.m. ; and Le-horse gig, at the ngton, to meet the papers must be printed soon after they are then conveyed in a lumb rate of five or six miles an hour, I train to the North. Is it not insufferable that the valuable letters and other documents of the merchants, bankers, and tradesmen of such a town as this, should every night be liable to many hours' detention, through the loss of a linch pin or a horse shoe ? The lines on " Music" are superior to those last forwarded b it correspondent ; and, if lie cultivates his talents, he will icceed, ere long, in writing something which would be very .ceptable to the public. Ebt Eibtrpool •&tanbarri. lESDAY MORNING, FEB. 12, 1850. WE referred briefly in our last publication to the nt of union, and of a settled policy, apparent in the proceedings of the Protectionist party in both , during the debate upon the address. The amendment moved asserted a mere truism, and uld lead to nothing. A far bolder and more use would better have become so por - evil as that in which this once is at the present moment wowed, and which, we do not hesitate to say, can only in social convulsion and ruin. The n, to which we would have had the attention sovereign and the nation drawn, is not one cultural suffering merely. It is neither a nants' question nor a landlords' question. It is ther the vessel of the state is to be - - ft headlong amongst breakers, steered by an incompetent helmsman, and a crew blinded by their own ignorant and obstinate vanity; whether the landmarks of property are to be removed, and class arrayed against class, to promote the purposes, and to feed the rapacity, of one of the most selfish factions which ever suc ceeded in gaining an influence over the national house energetic co result I happy count estion ivt fitted to dr out a de.. I be denied by few that, divided and with finite purpose, as the Protectionists chewed 'es to be on this occasion, her Majesty's re still more helplessly the slaves of cir cumstances, and utterly incapable of comprehend ing the true position and danger of the country. No set of men, not thus incapable, and unscrupulous besides, would have dared to put into the mouth of the Sovereign that passage of the Royal speech, in she is made to say that "it is a source of gratification to her Majesty to witness the Increased enjoyment of the comforts and necessaries - - 'mid plenty have bestowed F ur, ine great body' of the people;"(!) and this, too, obviously expressed as a consolation for agricultural distress, which she is made to "regret." The property of the landowner and the capital of the farmer are being confiscated; "but," her Majesty is made to assure us, commerce and manufactures are "in an improved condition !" No government, we repeat, save one besotted in its blindness and nicked in its want of truth and principle, could have dared to foist these mendacious statements either upon their Sovereign or her people. Let us examine what is the nature of the " dis tress"—mild word !—which is "regretted" in the speech, and which is obviously to be left by `Ave to cure itself. It is the permanent - enty per cent., and in some in d even fifty per cent., of the rental at the united kingdom, and of an equally large amount of the capital and the income of the farmer. The entire yearly produce of the soil has been ` 250 millions sterling. It is the con , to fifty per cent. of the money price of this mass of property, whilst the local and public burthens borne by it are left un it all, would be bad enough. -, norted, if the loss could 'ies affected could be made to bear their Just proportion—the landowner to receive a less rent, the farmer a less profit, and the labourer less wages. But we know that this cannot be; that, in fact, the result must be, in hundreds of cases, absolute ruin to a class who have done nothing whatever to merit such a visita tion at the hands of the legislature. We will state the case of this class, as put by an excellent land. lord—Lord Drumlanrig—in a letter recently ad dressed by him to his Tinwald tenantry : minist winch annihilation of t thirty and eve estimated al fiscation of fzom twent touched. It might, for 'This, were steel, so time, be s be the nominal possessor only of as come into his possession mortgaged one -3s one-half of its real value. The pro prietOr of an estate of £5,000 a year may have bad, even in the palmy days of protection, only 4'3,000, or perhaps not so much, to spend himself. The capitallst, the manu facturer, may be the person who in reality possesses the irget share of this same property. In the days of corn laws and of high state : i the money in trade was Now free trade is made are insisted upon ; lower If this be necessary, it luestion I would ask, and I Is allowable, by way of an asked .for as a boon to the ‘ the broad principles spite of one class against —,itanls, are the mortgagees who large share of every estate, to be included among those who are to lower their rents ? or is the nominal , •oprietor to pay them in full, and, having done so, then -educe the pittance which remains bun for income, `hus bear the whole burden of the altered state of the Mr. Bright has never explained himself on this It appears to me that those landlords who are wives, and attempting to delude that protection will never again be restored, would be more profitably employed, and would have surer ground to work upon, were they busy in pre paung for the worst, and in arranging whose duty it was which we are told must The or acribee9 right. nswer—is this :e, co oe earned sic only the pet Are the a-nnt thew rhare the reduction of our fati Here, then, is one c ^*nmunity, whose interest in the soil is deliberately consigned to destruction. Here is the first blow—a heavy one it is !—dealt by the Blights and Cobdens against the ai.vitocu r,y of the country proprietor of the fee simple the whole blunt of the free-1 the mortgagee and annuita Assuredly it is not. on would be 1r of the t just that the of the land should hear lde experiment, whilst are bettered in posi- The correct term for )ery," But let us see is placed. He must, arrangement and a emedies suggested-- w n as gross delusions, by their immediate s, as fresh arrange reach of the farmer, ng contracts, such ministers bring affc: this desidera upport such a bill ? °net, in particular, He makes no em until they rience, during• dually to the the open how tha ,ye are told The other decreased rent. high fPvrning, &c.—we put c s)iready abandoned as unteri: authors. But before such my men Ls, are regarded as u itbn will have to get rid of existi. lea'3l3, &e. W;11 her Majest a bill t• - 1 cr , rtble the finaler to a 2 WOLiiti Sir Robert Peel si Not th,* . honorable holds bis tenants to their Perm net feesh arranzerne, 1 workhouse or the Ll labourer— s to ire his conditio , 4 now, we are to assume— ainongst tl.at great body of the people whose com foi ',a are increased by cheapness and plenty. His nine or ten shillings a week buys him more bread than it has done in dearer times'. But is it possible tbrtf this can continue ? Oh\ ic , ..7sly not; fur there can be no increased demand for bis labour, result ing policy which is rendering farming opera tions less profitable, and all soils, except the best, incapable of being cultivated with advantage to the fanner. Ths labourer must come down to the level of the foreign serf, with whom he has to compete. Maebineiy, besides, is clamouring at his heels, ready to push hica aside, as the cheapest agency. Emigration, or the union workhouse, is his last resort. The great body of the agricultural population then is immersed in distress, and hurrying towards ruin, as the result of the free-trade policy of the present and the preceding administrations. Let us endeavour then to discover where is that "improved condition of trade and commerce," and "the in creased enjoyment of the comforts and necessaries of life which cheapness and plenty have bestowed upon the great body of the people ?" We can find some evidence of the former, it is true, in the form of statistical tables ; in the increase of exports over imports, and in increased tonnage entering our ports. But even these evidences are far from satisfying us that commerce and manufacture, generally, are in the improved condition asserted; and still less so that such result is attributable to our free-trade policy. After a year of continental disturbances, and stoppage of continental industry, an increase of exports was to be looked for. But it is very questionable whether its profitable result has not been hindered by causes beyond the reach of the manufacturing classes to remove. The spinners of Lancashire are at this moment com plaining that the raw material—cotton—advances in price more rapidly than the market price of the manufactured commodity ; and there is every pros pect of a dearth of that raw material, sufficient to prohibit any expansion of operations which will enable the present machinery to be materially in creased. The home consumption of the country is undeniably declining; and our tradesmen and shop keepers in a suffering and very precarious position. A jury, or a commission, composed of these classes, or of their collectors and bookkeepers, would tell her Majesty's ministers a very different story from that which they have attempted to palm upon the nation ; of Christmas and midsummer accounts unsettled long after due, and of profits beat down year by year, until they barely suffice to cover reasonable expenditure of housekeeping and taxes. With 20,000 sempstresses, in the metropolis alone, about to be sent abroad by the hand of charity, because unable to subsist without the aid of prosti tution, can a country's commerce or industry be said to be in a flourishing condition ? With vice and want abounding throughout our large towns, can it be said that our working classes are enjoying the benefits of cheapness and plenty ? Of course it cannot. Boards of trade and statists may tell us of abounding prosperity and increased comforts ; but men who walk through the world with their eyes open, and look a little below the surface of society, know better. To this extent it is a fact, that the working classes are benefitted by the cheapness of food resulting from foreign importations. Manufacturing and other operatives, who are employed at former wages, are able to procure more of the necessaries and comforts of life. But how long will they be permitted to do so ? But a few days ago these classes were reminded by that consistent journal, the London Times, that "food is the raw material of labour;" and the same oracle asked how they could expect to compete with the foreign manufac turer with wheat at 60s. per bushel. The obvious conclusion is, that the raw material of labour being reduced to 405., or below, wages are to come down in the like proportion. Mr. John Bright, the quaker member for Manchester, has just affixed his seal to the conclusion in question, by reducing the wages of his operatives ten per cent.—a reduction of wages with flourishing prospects for the manu facturing interest ! The two facts are incompatible; but more, in the way of reduction of wages, is to follow. Friend John has only been indiscreet, and thrown off the mask of consideration for the poor man a little too soon. We must approach, however, the end of all this; and here again the Times, in its blundering indis cretion, assists us. The farmer, he says, has at his command, to enable him to grow wheat at 40s. a quarter—he had better have said 30s.—the follow ing aids :—He can reduce the wages of his labourers, his rent, and other outgoings, in proportion to the reduced price of his leading product —wheat. Granted. He can do all this, with what results we need not say. Pauperism, he continues, will be reduced in proportion with the food upon which paupers are fed. We doubt it. Pauper mouths, we fear, will increase, in agricultural districts at all events, more rapidly than the price of their food decreases. But there is a burthen which the Times admits will not decrease—the debt. Rent, wages, poor rates, &c., may accommodate themselves to the altered circumstances of society; but the debt is a stubborn fact, and the Times points to it as such. We leave to his readers to determine whether or not he points at the same time to the sponge. That potent remedy, however, of the difficulties into which the industry of the country is being plunged is not far in the distance. - PUBLIC companies and public bodies are pro verbially devoid of consciences. An instance of this is before us,—a glaring instance,—in the treatment of the property once known as the Wallasey Pool. It is almost heart-rending to look at the unfinished works attempted to be formed in this locality, and to know, at the same time, that they are thus unfinished because a government board—the Woods and Forests—has been endea vouring to outwit a public company, whilst that public company—the Birkenhead Dock Commis sioners—have been deluding themselves and those who placed confidence in their foresight and inte grity. Nearly four millions of money have been expended in the prosecution of these works, or upon the faith of their completion. Yet it is evi dent that all this money has been thrown away,— that impediments have been systematically, and from first to last, placed before the Dock Commis sioners in pursuing their works,—and that the end will be that the property of all, bondholders, share holders, and others, who have embarked their money in the undertaking, will, in all human pro bability, revert to the Woods and Forests, whose sanction to it was the security upon which credu lous people mainly relied. The following startling fact has been made public by a party who signs himself "A Mortgagee and a Bondholder," in a pamphlet recently published : " The present position, then, of the Birkenhead Docks is this :—On the 22nd of July next all vessels above the burthen of 200 tons will be excludc.l from the Morpeth Dock ; and on the 19th of July, 1854, the whole of the works will revert to the Crown absolutely,—the object which the Board of Works seam to have had in view for several years past." Such is the case of the Birkenhead Dock Corn missioners,—a public body juggled by a govern ment board. We cannot but pity them in the cruel dilemma in which they have been involved by the chicanery or the grasping selfishness of the Woods and Forests, end regret that the expecta tions once indulged in as to the success of docks in this locality have not been realised. More espe cially we deplore the position of the unfortunate mortgagees and bondholders, many of whom must be ruined unless Lord Morpeth and his colleagues are driven by the voice of public indignation from the prey which they are seeking to clutch. There is another class of the community, however, com posed neither of shareholders nor bondholders, who have much reason to regret that either the docks of Birkenhead or their projectors ever had being. We refer to the proprietors of land and property on the northern side of the proposed works. A few months ago, we had to animadvert upon the loss of a steam-packet belonging to the proprietors of Seacombe Ferry, attributable entirely to the effect upon the foreshore there of the walling in of the Pool. This, however, was not the first of the inflictions upon this locality of the abortive attempts to render the docks in the Pool rivals to those on the Liverpool side of the Mersey: A row of excellent houses facing the river had been pre viously deprived of more than half their value. They looked once upon a healthy strand, and now they have before them only a collection of pesti lential mud, deposited at every tide to swelter in the sun and taint the atmosphere. The bathing facilities, for the enjoyment of which Seacombe was once a favourite summer resort, had been destroyed, and a first rate hotel, and other property dependent upon the marine character of the locality, incal culably depreciated in value. The slip of the ferry itself had been nearly silted up, and, indeed, had for the past two or three years been only kept open by lavish expenditure on the part of the lessees in labour, dredging, &c., not one farthing of the cost of which has as yet been recovered from the Bir kenhead Dock Commissioners. Last week the climax was put to this series of injuries by the destruction of the moveable stage, which alone enabled passengers to embark and land with any degree of security and comfort. That this serious loss to the lessees of the ferry, Messrs. Parry, is directly attributable to the opera tion of the dock mite upon the navigation, io MMWMW4 undeniable. The tide was flowing at the time, and, had the storm solely been the cause, the stage would, in the natural course of things, have been thrown over to the southern side of the stone slip; it was thrown, however, on the northern side, by a back-set from the adjoining dock wall. And the same injurious operation must occur on all similar occasions, doubling the ordinary casualties and expense of working the ferry. Were such an injury as this inflicted by any private individual upon his neighbour, the law would give redress; but a great company and a government board may sin with impunity, unless the voice of an indignant public be exerted to shame them into an award of com pensation. We trust that such voice will make itself heard ; for the fact is an indisputable one, that without some prompt remedy is provided, this once favourite ferry must fall into disuse, and the property of the entire neighbourhood be further and ruinously depreciated. THE complaints of the Manchester Guardian, and other papers of the district, against the mer chants and brokers of Liverpool for the alleged offence of forcing up the price of the raw material, cotton, by speculative means, appear to us to be based upon most fallacious grounds, and, in fact, are glaringly puerile and absurd. The probable yield of the cotton crop, like that of grain and other crops, has always been a point upon which im porters and consumers have entertained conflicting opinions, and supported them in the usual modes. If consumption by the spinner has shewn a ten dency to outstrip the available supply, the article has advanced in price ; if the contrary has been the case, a corresponding result has followed. When the grower and the importer cease to avail them selves of their power to command higher rates with decreased crops and increased consumption, it will be when human nature has changed, and the love of gain has ceased to be the mainspring of all commercial dealings. _ We do not propOse here to enter into a discussion of the vexed question of short crop or abundant crop. At present all the evidence, according to the latest advices, is in favour of the opinions of those who insist upon a short supply. We shall not even dwell upon the fact—an undoubted one—that the capitalists of Manchester itself are, and have been, as deep in cotton speculations as the merchants and brokers of Liverpool. But we must take the liberty of asking the Manchester Guardian how, under the present circumstances of this country and America, speculation in such an article as cotton was not to be naturally expected ? We have at this momen in Great Britain a plethora of money seeking profi table investment, and naturally tempting to specu lation. The only question with us has been towards what article such investment should be directed. In the United States money is also abundant. The recent discoveries in California have given to those states an abundant supply of the precious metals, wherewith to liquidate the adverse balances of ex change with other countries. America can afford to hold back her supplies of cotton and other com modities. The market which we have given her for her grain and provisions has increased her abi lity to hold back her cotton, even supposing her to possess abundance, which is doubtful. The obvious result is what our manufacturing classes are now feeling. She can insist upon her price. She can demand her pound of flesh with the tena city of a usurer ; and she will increase her power to do this more and more, as her yield of the pre cious metals becomes more and more developed. If the Guardian would have the manufacturing interest of this country afforded for the future a fair chance of protecting itself from the operations of speculators in America and at home, he must allow us to return to a more common sense system of currency. California now threatens to inundate us with its golden deposits. A single day's digging affords to each member of its population the value of a month's hard toil of the British artizan. In a short time operations of a different description promise a still more abundant and permanent yield. If the last advices from this quarter be confirmed, the inhabitants of the American Continent may afford to buy up the products of the spindles and looms of Great Britain without growing a pound of cotton, or a quarter of corn, more than is sufficient for their own consumption ; and, without the ex istence of the speculation alleged to be going on amongst us, Manchester, Stockport, Bolton, and other localities, may be converted into howling deserts. The remedy is an easy one, and will ulti mately have to be acknowledged by the Manchester economists. They have the evidence clearly before them that their boasted measure of value has failed them ; and that their best and proper resort is, to adopt another, and the only true one—a measure upon which a system of currency can be founded such as will afford to producers and consumers, by means of an unfiuctuating rate of in terest, a just protection against undue speculation, caused by redundant money, on the one hand, and panic, caused by its contraction, on the other. IN the London Times of Wednesday week, under the head of " City Intelligence," we observe a paragraph very similar in character to that respect ing the unfortunate ship Caleb Grimshaw, upon which we recently commented ; and showing the unscrupulous eagerness with which that Journal adopts any anonymous slander calculated to wound the feelings, or injure the property, of parties against whom its conductors entertain a pique. We give the paragraph in question, together with the statements of the real facts of the case.— " In the Philadelphia papers received by the last packet details are given of a series of calamities in an English emigrant ship cllled the Robert Burton, from Liverpool to that port, which taken in connexion with the recent statements regarding the Caleb Grimshaw, will tend to excite the greatest distrust on the part of the poor who desire to reach America. The vessel contained 150 pas sengers, and the names are given of 25 who era alleged to have died of sheer want of ventilation. On the facts becomine known at Philadelphia the case had been put into the hands of the district attorney." We may remark that a more len . g' thened statement had already appeared in that most moral and truth ful paper, the Weekly Dispatch, from which most probably the writer of the city article culled his venom. What is the true history of the alleged " series of calamities," which are, in the opinion of the writer, so calculated "to excite the greatest dis trust on the part of the poor who desire to reach America ?" The ship Robert Burton is a fine American vessel—and not English, as stated by the Times-800 tons burthen, forming one of Mr. James M'Henry's line of packets, sailing on the first of every month between this port and Phila delphia. On the very day on which this unfounded slander reached us she was lying in one of the docks of Liverpool, preparing to go to sea in her usual csiir6,;, on the Ist orFebruary. We took the opportunity of inspecting her; and can state from our own observation that a more eligible ship for the trade, better found, or better officered, there cannot be. In her last voyage out, consider able sickness prevailed amongst her emigrant pas sengers, attended by a mortality to about the amount stated, chiefly however amongst the child ren, who were attacked with dysentery of a severe character, arising possibly from change of diet, combined with the filthy habits of their parents. It is a well-known fact to every one acquainted with emigration that the utmost difficulty is experienced in inducing the lower classes of the Irish to attend to personal cleanliness on shipboard. In the case of the Robert Burton every effort was made by' officers and crew to preserve health, the steerage being regularly cleaned by them daily, and proper ventilation insisted upon. The mortality was solely attributable to the epidemic which prevailed amongst the passengers. 'This statement, made by the captain, the mate, and the. consignee in Liverpool, is confirmed by a lei,l;:r lecei - red by a gentleman here from his sor; senger to Philaaelphia, and who speaks in the highest terms of praise of the conduct both of The captain, officers, and crew, under these trying cir cumstances. Let us see, however, when, how, and by whom, the statements which have found their way to En gland, were put forth. In almost every collection of human beings there is one liNck sheep to he found ; and such existed on board the Robert Bur ton, in the shape of a litigious and quarrelsome passenger in the second cabin. This person, dur ing the voyage, charged the chief mate with hav ing robbed a fellow-passenger of £lOOO. On the arrival of the ship at Philadelphia this charge was examined before the authorities, and dismissed, an opinion being expressed that no robbery, ae at. leged, had taken place, or that if it had, some other party on board had committed the offence. On enquiry in Liverpool, as to the probability of the passenger having £lOOO in his possession, it is not believed that he was likely to have anything like it. It would have been expected that, if any ground had existed for the More serious charges contained in the statements, referred to by the Times, and given at length in the Dispatch, they would forthwith have been preferred. Not a word, however, was heard of them until three weeks after the Robert Burton had sailed from Philadelphia; and then they appeared for the first time in an obscure print, published in New York, under the title of the Emigrants' Advocate, and whose claim to the title consists in its pandering to the bad passions of the most worthless and grumbling of the emigrant classes, by acting as the defamer-general of ships, consignees, captains, mates, and all parties con nected with the emigration trade. There is every reason to believe that the source of the slander has been the second cabin passenger above referred to, who was of course not in very good humour, after the summary dismissal of his trumped-up charge against the chief mate. A further ground of offence was a refusal, on the part of the captain, to give him a homeward passage, gratis, or on credit, and another, on the part of the consignee in Philadelphia to lend him 50 dollars. We may add that, beyond the enquiry into the alleged robbery by the mate, no case is known, up to the latest date from America, to have been " put into the hands of the district attorney." As a proof of the little confidence placed in the word, or oath, of the author of the slanders adopted by the Times, the mate,—a most respectable and in telligent officer—is still on board the ship, and enjoys the fullest confidence of the captain and owners. SCHOOLS FOR ST. JOHN'S CHURCH AND DISTRICT. Amongst the most densely-populated districts in this town, and one requiring all the aid, which Christian benevolence can afford, for the moral and religious im provement of its poor, is the district of St. John's. Happily for the public, and for its inhabitants, the minis trations of the church here under the incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Falloon, have of late been singularly efficient. It would be difficult to find a congregation more regular in the attention of its members to the Church's ordinan ces, and containing a larger proportion of sincere uphold ers of the Church's doctrines and precepts, than the tradesmen, shopkeepers, and artizans who sit under the ministration of the beloved incumbent of St. John's. We observe with pleasure that this congregation has recently shown their disposition to extend their Christian duties a little beyond the care for their own spiritual wel fare merely. Looking around them into the streets and courts, in which their poorer neighbours are located, they have been startled by the amount of ignorance and vice in which another generation of human beings are being cast upon the world; and have set themselves to work in earnest to stay the plague thus threatened to be let loose upon the district. A proposal was a short time ago set on foot for the establishment of Scriptural Schools in the district, capable of providing an education for 500 of its poor children; and we are happy to learn that the pro posal to which we lent our humble advocacy has been seconded by the congregation of St. John's, and by the merchants and others in the town, with a spirit which ensures its successful accomplishment. A sum of £953 4s. 51d. has been raised amongst the congregation them selves, and no less a sum than £521 15s. 91d. has been principally collected by occupants of free seats, in small sums, by means of collecting cards. The total amount subscribed up to the Ist of February instant is £l7ll 6s. sid., of which £1662 10s. Bd. has been received and paid into the hands of the treasurers. A site for the proposed schools has been secured in Great Crosshall street, at a cost of £1365, which has been conveyed to the minister and churchwardens of St. John's in perpe tuity. The cost of a plain and substantial building, as estimated by the talented architect consulted on the subject, Mr. Hay, will not exceed £l5OO, which, however, will demand a further contribution of £l2OO ; and the treasurers have very properly determined not to build until this sum, for which they appeal to the benevolence of the public, is secured. Most fervently do we trust that no difficulty will be experienced in raising this comparatively small additional amount. Surely the example set by the working classes occupying free seats in the church, by whose exertions a sum nearly half the amount was raised, in shillings, in sixpences, in pennies, saved from the hard earnings of, toil, will stimulate our merchant princes and our trades men to an effort worthy of the more exalted worldly position in which Providence has placed them. Let those who ever and anon remind us of oppressive poor rates and the increasing cost of crime,—whose talk is of emi gration as the means of purging the country of its pau perism and vice,—reflect whether, other considerations apart, it is not a cheaper mode of decreasing the burdens thus caused. to educate the children of their poor in the fear of God, in the love of virtue, and the practice of industry. WHEAT AT FORTY SHILLINGS-THE LAND LORD MUST FOREGO HIS RENT. I beg your readers' ertention to the following data, and to the argument I build upon them. I readily admit that if the data ere wrong, the argument falls to the ground : Average rent of land per acre, 24 shillings. Average produce of land per acre, 3 quarters. If this is correct, and I challenge inquiry, then the rent on a quarter of corn is 8 shillings. But corn has fallen from 50s. to 40s. How is the farmer then to pay his rent ? Answer :—Out of his capital. But this cannot last long, and the landlord must forego his rent. But is Lord John Russell or Sir Robert Peel prepared for this ? We shall have either paper money :or protection in less than three years. THE BURGLARY AT TRANMERE AND OTHER ROBBERIES. An application having been made to her Majesty's Secretary of State on the subject of the robbery at Captain Prowse's, an answer has been received offering a sum of £5O, in addition to £lOO raised by private subscription, principally in Oxton, Tranmere, and Claughton, as a reward, on the conviction of the offenders, and also her Majesty's pardon to any accomplice (not the principal aggressor) who shall give the necessary information. This, it is hoped, may lead to the apprehension of the offenders. We may add that additional constables have been put on in Birkenhead, Tranmere, and Oxton; and in the Clifton-park and Holt-hill districts five special consta bles have also been sworn. Some of the papers have conveyed an impression abroad, that Brook-lane, in which Mr. Prowse's house is situate, is not watched or lighted. This is erroneous, so far as Tranmere is concerned, in which most of it is situate. There is a lamp at Mr. Prowse's front door, one right and left at about sixty yards distance, and ono at the back. The part of Brook lane which is in Birkenhead is unlighted ; there are two lamp-posts, but no lamps. This ought to be looked to, as it affords a good lurking place for thieves. Among the gentlemen who took a leading part in subscribing were Mr. Walter Scott, architect, and Mr. Carr, the barrister, who, by soliciting their friends for the requisite pecuniary aid obtained, almost casually, no less a sum than about £so.—Mr. P. F. Curry, coroner of this borough, who resides at Oxton, was amongst others solicited, and sug gested as another feasible means of obtaining further funds, the calling of a public meeting. This was ap proved of, but it was left to himself to move in this matter. He accordingly called a meeting, which was held at the Shrewsbury Arms, in Oxton, on Saturday, he himself presiding. The meeting, on the motion of Mr. Warden, pledged itself to co-operate with the townships in the neighbourhood of Oxton, in consequence of the daring robberies that had taken place, and agreed that a subscription be set on foot, to be added to the sums collected in the other townships, with a view to prevent the repetition of such outrages. It was also resolved that P. F. Curry, Wm. Moon, H. Denson, and John Crow ther, Esqrs., should be appointed to manage the funds contributed by the meeting,—it being understood that the subscriptions should not be called for, unless a conviction of the offenders took place ; and should a certain amount only be required, the funds to be raised according to the amount of each individual subscription. The sum of £5O was immediately subscribed in the room. The names included many of the most distinguished residents in Oxton and the neighbouring districts. The Rev. Dr. M`Neiie is announced to speak at Oxford cn Tuesday, at a meeting in behalf of the Society for Church Missions to the Roman Catholics of Ireland. The Rev. George Aspinall has been licensed to the assistant-stipendiary curacy of St. lVfatthiss's Church, Liverpool. MARINERS' CHURCH READING Room AND SCHOOLS. —At St. Saviour's Church on Sunday morning, after a sermon by the Rev. W. Maynard, the sum of £l7 was collected in aid of these very useful institutions. . A few weeks ego th' Rey: Dr. Hume, honorary curator "Monvic. S r ‘eipt v of T.aTwashire and aleShin', was elected an F.S.A. at - Somerset House, London. A few days ago, a similar honour was conferred on the trea surer, 'o homas Avison, Esq. of ibis town. St. JULL s CHURCH.—We understand that the Rev. appo'e^ti to the incirrilsen , y of a new church at Greenheys, Manchester. We believe that the trustees of the church have now only one more presentation to the living ; after which, we are informed, the right of presentation will revert to the Marquis of Salisbury. A meeting of the pewholderg of the church was held yesterday morning, at which a memorial to the trusty cq was pgroed to, suggesting the names of two clergymen, the selection of either of whom would be ex tremely acceptable to the congregation. No doubt the suggestion will meet with every consideration front the trustees, who have a very responsible duty to perform. SALVAGE OF AN ABANDONED VESSEL BY THE MAGA ZINE BOATMEN.—A statement has been forwarded to us der-iili”ing the particulars of the salvage of a sloop—the Liberty, of Wexford—on Sunday last, aground on the Burho Bank, which is extremely creditable to the Maga. zines Life-boatmen engaged.. The schooner, in question, it ispetaZhiz wci; rolling heavily at anchor c:n t'i bank, Liz.::.rt:l by her crew, and would most likely bare gone to pieces unless promptly rescued. She was boarded, how ever, about 11 o'clock on Sunday night by Captain Evans and a picked crew of sivteen, and safely brought into port. The Hoylake boatmen are reported to have previo u sly abandoned her. The Magazine men manifested unusual comp and tact through the whole of the dangerous taplat. ?HI IAYERPOOt AN ilfl OUR AMERICAN EMIGRANT SHIPS. In connexion with a subject to which we have ad dressed a few remarks in our leading columns, viz.,—the shameless attacks which have of late been made by the London Times upon the emigrant ships frequenting our Port, we beg to direct attention to the description given below of two splendid vessels, intended for this trade, which have just reached the Mersey from the United States. The architectural proportions of these ships, it will be seen, are scarcely capable of being surpassed. They are in tonnage equal to frigates of the first class, and in their construction the great aim of their builders and ;owners appears to have been to afford the greatest amount of comfort possible for those poor emigrants whom the Times has represented as so grievously abused and neglected during their transit from our shores to the home of their adoption. We believe most firmly, and all who know the vessels engaged in the emgiration trade from this port to the United States know also, that they are as far superior to the hulks which her Majesty em ploys in her transport service, or for the conveyance of emigrants —as superior to some even of our vessels of war in the accommodation provided —as her Majesty's yacht to the forecastle of a coaster : THE NEW SHIP TICONDEROGA. There is, we believe, no city in the world that can boast of a fleet of ships combining so much exterior beauty in naval architecture, so much interior accommodation, or so much chastity, elegance and taste in fitting, as the vessels sailing from this port to New York. Take the American liners generally, and they are unequalled for the particular trades in which they are employed. But Brother Jonathan is going ahead: almost every week we have a new ship, and the "star-spangled banner" is prominently displayed amid the groves of towering masts that crowd our northern docks. Captain Farran (who, it will be remembered, so creditably rescued the crew of the Eliza Saunders, when on fire) arrived here, a few days since, with a new ship called the Ticonderoga. She is 1262 tons, carpenter's measurement, and 1089 by America n register ; her length between perpendiculars is 172 feet, and her rake will make her over all 178 feet ; she has a beam of 38 feet 6 inches, and a depth of hold of 23 feet. In point of model she is what will be technically termed "a beauty.' Though there are no gingerbread decorations, she has a neat and noble appearance in hull and rigging that at once makes her attractive. She has an entrance sharp as a knife, and is so clean aft, that even when under a heavy press of canvass we learn she scarcely leaves a ripple in her wake. The deck arrangements of this vessel are novel and excellent. She has a quarter deck, or poop, which is carried pretty well forward ; it is divided so as to form two cabins—the main cabin and the forward poop cabin. The main cabin, which is the after one, is entered by a companion way on the larboard side, and also through the poop cabin. This arrangement saves much room, and gives the advantage to the cabin of the stern as well as the deck lights. The cabin is beautifully finished in cabinet work. The poop-deck beams are represented as supported beneath a rich architrave of burnished white, by columns of rosewood, enriched with gilding and sur mounted by Doric capitals of white and gold, the pedestals being of richly-veined marble. The pannelling between the pilaster is in satin wood, with skirtings of zebra wood, which produces a beautiful effect as well as a lively con trast. The wizen mast, which passes through the cabin, is beautifully veined, to represent a pedestal, with a plinth of marble. The floor or deck is covered with a splendid tapestry carpet. The state rooms are large, and well supplied with air, and there are baths and every other convenience requisite. The poop cabin, which is calcu lated to accommodate about 120 persons, is neatly fitted in oak; and from its position it cannot fail to meet unbounded approval. Amidships there are erected,, as permanent, galleys to cook for nearly 1000 people, though the ship is not estimated to carry more than 500. A deck cabin end separate apartments are provided for the officers of the ship. A roomy topgallant forecastle pre sents good accommodation for the hands. The Ticon deroga is well put together; there is no lack of wood or iron in her construction ; she is well fastened ; her timber is choice, and of large dimensions. Her height between decks (being built to stow three bales) is close on eight feet, which is a great desideratum to emigrants. All the modern improvements have been adopted in her; she has powerful ventilators, fire-engines, and, in fact, she is found in a manner that reflects credit on her builders, Messrs. Perine, Patterson, and Stark, of New York. We learn she is classed as one of Mr. J. T. Crook's " Black Star" line. THE WASHINGTON. The Washington is a magnificent three decker, and is the largest merchant ship afloat. She was built at New York, by Messrs. Williams and Co., the constructors of the Princetown, Wisconsin, and other favourite vessels. Her dimensions are as follows : Length over all ...... " of keel Beam (extreme)... Dewth of hold . ... Tonnage (register) 1655 43-94ths tons ~ (carpenter's) .. This monster ship is ten feet longer than the Carolina 74-gun ship, and is some six feet longer than the Constel lation, and registers about 89 tons more. In general ap pearance she is not unlike that noble vessel, for while of the "man-of-war cut," with painted ports, &c., she sits so lightly and gracefully on the water, that " we guess " it would take a clipper to keep a place in her wake. In fact, she was built for the New York trade, and in these days of steam-sailing vessels, to attain passeng ers or traffic, must be constructed to "go a-head." It might be supposed that a vessel of such ponderous dimensions, and floating so high out of the water, would present an unseemly appearance, but such is not the case. Her great length, and proportionate sparring and rigging, give her more the look of a monster privateer. She has a very handsome steam-ship-looking bow at the water line, but of course rather fuller aloft, and her stem—which forms Hogarth's " line of beauty and grace "—is topped with a billet head, ornamented with neat and light, but not ela borate, carvings of twining foliage, and trail boards, bear ing the name of Washington. The midship deck is car ried well aft, but below she is fine, and her run is clean. THE FRAME -WORK, &c.—The Washington is most beautifully built, and reffects no ordinary credit on her constructors as well as commander, in whose personal superintendence every bolt has been driven ; for while maintaining a due regard to the strength required for a ship of such giant-like proportions, there is not a knee, a timber, or a plank that is not most beautifully finished and fitted. Words cannot adequately convey an idea of the magnitude, or strength, or beauty of this floating castle; but some idea may be formed from the gigantic dimen sions of her timbers, &c. Her keel and kelsons, which are bolted through perpendicularly and diagonally, form ing a complete back bone, are 8 feet in thickness by 161 inches. She has also sister kelsons, 21 by 12 inches. Her stem and stern posts and aprons are huge blocks of live oak. The flooring timbers form one mass of immense thickness. She has twelve breast hooks forward and eleven aft. The lower deck stauncheons of locust are a foot square, and each is kneed off fore and aft with white oak. The upper deck stauncheons are turned as pillars, and are well secured through the decks. The deck beams of yellow pine, from 17 to 20 inches, and the hanging and lodging knees are of white oak, the former from 22 to 24 inches in the throat, and the latter equally proportionate in strength. Between each of the knees there is a diagonal trussing, which must add greatly to the general strength of the ship. Her outer planking, except the white steaks which are yellow pine, is of white oak, varying from 8 inches at the guard-board streak, to 61 inches at the bends. The water ways are 18 inches through up and down. The ceiling, commencing at the kelson at 41 inches, increases to the thick steaks, which are 22 inches running fore and aft. The lower deck ceiling is 8 inches thick, and she is not only well but scientifically fastened. The thickness of her sides measures THE CABIN.—The cabin, which is on deck, is princely in design and execution. The ceiling is formed into pannels by the deck beams, which are enrich with gold, eight pillasters of rosewood, with veined marble plynths and white capitals, support a rich cornice that runs round the cabin, and the intervening spaces are divided into empannelled compartments of polished satin wood and zebra wood, thus forming a partition that separates the state rooms from the cabin. The furniture is of corresponding elegance. The state-rooms are excellently fitted. Midships on the upper decks is a large house, which is divided into several roomy apartments, forming a labora tory, a sick bay or hospital, a deck cabin, the captain's cuisine, passengers galieys, an ice-house, rooms for the officers of the ship, and, indeed, all that can be possibly required in crossing the Atlantic. A. roomy top-gallant forecastle is devoted to the crew. THE 'TwEEN DECKS•—The internal errancetnents are most efficacious. By the excellence of accommodation it is evident that the predominating object hes been the health and comfort of passengers. The main deck, which is 7f. 10in, in height, and is lighted from the sides, as well as deck, and as she has in all eight hatchways, every facility is gi ven t o p reserve the sanitary purity of atmosphere. The after portion is cut off to form (by a lattice work bulk-head) an intermediate cabin, in which state-rooms, to accommodate about ICO passengers, are erected. Each room is separately lighted, and neatly grained in imitation oak. and excels in accom modation the captain's cabin in a majority of ships. They are spacious, clean, and comfortable. The lower deck, which is entirely devoted t o s t eerage passengers, is the same height between as the main and spar deck, and being open from stem to stern presents a magnificent apartment of 230 feet long, by 40 f eet w id e ; but there is an additional nobility, if not a beauty, arising from the ' ponderous hangers and knees which each so fer beneath the main deck as to give the roof in appearance a circular form. Large %hid cools are fixed fore and aft, so that a continual current of pure air is thus carried through the ship. As the Washington, though sharp, is built with a !air width of flooring, her hearing is great, and abe carries no ordinary press of eanra4. Her mainmast is 92 feet in length and 35 inches in diameter; her fore.ny.t 89 fret long, by 36 inches, amid the mizon-trast 86 t , ct lone, and 28 inches thick. The fore and maim yards ere 78 feet l 'e o e n t, and long. the royal The t ''i saa; i ‘I.o less than 45 ,o 62feet,ti f ie eet t ! p-gall•int yarl 46 t The Washington is one of the packets, Fa;ling a', the Black star line, under the agency of Mr. John Jay ton Crook. She is owned jointly by Messrs. Frost and Hicks, and her commander, Capt. Page, whose experience is known to all in the trade. _ , V% cannot close this notice wit houi coaxplituen:;n 4 the American builders generally, on the number of excellent vessels they have lately turned off the stocks, which for ,strength and sailing qualities, establish the fact that, they are remarkaaly " well found, well constructed, and welt commanded." As the Victory, steamer, was sailing down the Bristql Channel, during the gale on Wednesday, a heavy sea swept over her and dashed a horse-box against Serjeant Hodgkins, who was killed, Two other Poldtera had bona broken. Feb. 11, n SPIRITUAL DESTITUTION OF THE POUF ai R, 3Z A LIVERPOOL Yb p of been exciting much attention on all hands. tte"TIIS the 8 EVE S and moral degradation has been forced upon f ; stbY , Or late years the condition o f the p °Ora t e : :: : eir , s tbe c' : cu ' h t no t a ii i l i e l e:: l l fo s of the statesman, and has awakened the synni ,;; 13 ENE philanthropist. Efforts have been made for tfl':, o , ittr H provement, but we are compelled to ate ... a v.) ~ ...le en -- something has been done, much more r e nal. _dill/ kat], i i n ng t s h o e f r the complished. When we consider the privations afi y p ; oo t h r e ; the coldness are treated by the wealthier classes ; when w e r iv e e ore 1 , ~ uley surprised to hear that they become careless anaaw's;,,,4, t el mi a lsi S o e 4 e?Rhi n poverty is now-a-days looked upon as a ain't u.,03 7erBtt° open When their hereditary degradation has . done an, so le , iq, 11, - ' has sunk them to the lowest place in the socis e t og a , e h oz w e we astonished to discover that ignorancei Wel l v i c e w Heathen lands, prevails among them ; aft" i ~ would put Paganism to the blush. yentedmnpetgaiteioent s vi to ith do; icect i, La T ao , trrioi 'r z.. l! us to state that our own town is no exception., `„ l i„ , C I, However unwelcome the announcement , trut h :1r" tRR 1-1, whose social, moral, and religious condition 15 i.„ ".t.5.5,,,. ll] f urP , , 'iiisL lation has grown up among us with wonderful .7:10,4t l' " A I , 3 appalling. The subject has often forced ltse l go e,. notice, and the receipt of a pamphlet, by Dr. , o f If - t e , To con, criptive of the condition of the poor of a Pan . t i s eV ti4 , vl i . ) ,l:G rav pool again draws attention to. it. The paroPw e coas t , t ,, , "p, o d ;,Tri( tied " Missions at home ; or a Clergyman's ac sere tend ' Tb e iolc portion of the Town of Liver col." Our r , e3 8 1 til(11-^ata li } i (i ii„ recollect that, two years ago, we directed thelr,„ II tl i , ", deli' to the state of the Vauxhall district, of which . 11 _ 1 6 , `,lW„tott , zu is the incumbent. At that time a s tatisticAoo3,,th, .. to meet of its moral and religious condition was P r u e bf.: pe n %;.' ir • e. i r' n which contained startling revelations. We Ireichieri tianc!fttli,itivilel means prepared for the dreadful state of things h ay ho r tolo,° l le „ Id figures and calculations brought to light. 0 , 4 c il 4 j:tke t ,,_ said, and we fully concur in the opinion, that ' ' be o 1 't• '°Le L k _ le d possible to calculate the amount of evil cottee' IA ep these statistics." The present pamphlet gives a c pig q11 . . t 1 concise statement of the condition of Vauxha ll A 0 0 0 8',4 7 : derived from the statistical table referred to, a n " t ire 0 N TH ti uo, ) subsequent systematic clerical visitation of the de, RA tit 4 trict, in addition to the ordinary calls upon L t ` l ! 01444 'QV ) li, man's services. The pamphlet contains the st: statistical table, which called forth our remark s ci 7,, u übw• - ciss . " 1 ". lii,'llltY ' i time o i f t st publication,the el the former. This latter contains, besides, a A-14 Ail account of St. Stephen's district. /'. v 6,kr.ti At No remarks of ours can convey an adequate idea $ l , "‘re f teol2 erical vi a s n it d at a i l o s n o asinsececotnhdewphichAl TA E 1 3 , , , 115i cA , vire s ii the •,o il NG case made out by the writer of the pamphlet. ~T , 46 ' or ti ,Drp ti T.,,„p the following facts to speak for themselves. u'lit t 4 "q tr n alC a ' u ''t head " Attendance at Church" we find the foli o °. the l,(4 z eri, ca e 1 "In six streets and their courts in the Vallo l ,lo 44 4 where there is a population of 5,939, only 29 famleol ..d " the,4 ht church. In six streets and their courts in St. Stec, Ip eo tli erin trict, where there is a population of 5,188, only fou rt ; - , t ig ' c! ';` 4 4141 enr -13 0c1, lies attend church. In a population of 5, 8 50, embilt'i 0 1 ,/ . Ev, - e at Ei streets and the courts of other streets (Vauxhall) , g!'„, If' ,1 'AN L , tends church. In a population of 2,308, erabract3ls), 110, ( I Kite., GR A: streets, and all the courts of other streets (St. StePpf l' tei.y r)4 Y i l q Mr. one attends church. (N.8.-This was the condition o f, to iit St op eat, th hall and St. Stephen's districts twelve months 901, - t'N ee t at -1 tv4 facts are shown in some detail on th'e statistical talnej, reolli.to seven - that time, however, an improvement has been eil e g e of ~ Yt ° ea t4 l," at ' these very streets and courts contain some cases to :, t f 1 t e, ,,, ,, 14, : - C llass, interest.)" With such facts before us we are fully prepel'eu..4 prt, ? : 'tsn cide with Dr. Hume's statement, " that the '" le 04 ci rb -4,11 1c1 Pe ° b Nh l ''' l 'e t knowledge and religious feeling among such -, 0 h . tech ! at, low indeed." Under the head of " Spirituality. r ,, ~,c , , s, attend in ht toe S nn t . a3aoo Stephen's coh,u) rnotch service2o4 n 0 e ofi w4hBo2m( otheri n w a o l ln familiesl deven that in the Vauxhall district there were 467 fain' . 1 (14 4 - k t • Hale s at a populatio n . 0 t oe 4 , ‘ ea ch , the ' e ll • hall district, and 343 in St. Stephen's, (in all ae t 3 ; ki k ' . ;ki tn e i ,eal of nearly 4000,) promised to come occasionallY , ", °1 „' " It h N - e'' ta evident they never intended to fulfil their prora,teir - I these are not Roman Catholics, or Protestant n i ' it they are all the lost sheep of our national church' em' f or tit „WIRT Here is a population of 7000, who have Iv° tir 4 N - gro e with tb ' 4 ti OW NtA us neglected, whose ignorance is on a level Til li 'th of degraded of the heathen, while their responsibiliti ' h e J l tto,',2l, i t i ly hundred fold greater. When the attendance at i c- tioo' ItN e ,k \ A • e „Kso a such as we have stated, and the spiritual degra" s , 's'P 'AO' e rti , I); , e . , great, we are fully prepared for what Dr. 1 -11, 0 0 , , cii Y no, Altl,t under the head of " Morality." We think it' lT t iiir A „ Ti„ l lO .l , L , 5 enter into the details, as the results stated necessTge . I)4 q ‘ l oq.ets, 3 ;'.2„ lowf e rr e from d . , iri i t t ual is d o e n g l r y ad n a e t eninP.r-B'°, khte,l'otedrill:;:i In th d ets eed P wishes, by personal observation, to confirm the - 0 N, V ce ion ssa t rv o wfohirchans;;e°llreig;', klar47lllrr'7i4tintlt, ter,,, these statements, to direct his steps any Sandal °f l ow. t'' . l to:the localities described, and- a single half hour ale '''Eit;; -- ----„ tisfy him fully. It is a painful task, but truth ca',,,,' i t, ..oz, to state-that the amount of Sabbath desecration ;41, qt: 4,, p ( two districts is inconceivable. We have, 6 , 1 , i ,E\ Loa n ! C . witnessed shocking scenes on the Sbb th-cor fo ' ,l, lA'f' u • S a a de 0t) le iliii,.., v whole population of certain localities seem whol l y.„4.ico COn i r th e 1.• 'S el to mischief, and the active interference of tiler r 4 . „tk.' 4, Nir ( 4teet, constantly required. Our own observation quills, Oayill buse(lnt the writer's statement that " the criminality 04.,:, '4 kti e o 6 4 4 , 4 uT; ti ' is ten times as great as that of any other our 1 `4lCatcl S' a , ' A t ter, ...Ate, week." hitt .t e ad Dr, Hume has done good service by thus as''' e i -.tree, . ti's ir -, ion, with accuracy, and making known, the state of .- 1 „ s o) ral charge. The task of reclaiming a populati°' 0 1 0 1- ,; Tii do in the social scale is one calculated to make the i „, .. i •,, ~,',, qt,,, L heart quail. It is, in our opinion, almost a hoPei'," V o 'li t ips i `;.Rll, for any minister to work with satisfaction or s tl 4 1 011`,ti . ~."'R,, 3 a such a field of labour without cordial assistance 0 . ;ii30 , i . ,.. 1 4 I ,Pp t ;', ll be port on the part of our wealthy laity. The difflea'A ° , 4l'''tic °n , k., r ,„_ vi l l-Ln) tendant on such a district are clearly and forcibly / 14, 1 1 , ic " rated by Dr. Hume; but what we have IrenoW (lf if , u A7 11 . 3*,• 4 from his pamphlet is quite enough to give 4 O lj '. Ni, ' e rtera sc idea Of them-su ffi cient at least to satisfy ourselve s ' al 4ll ll rather proceed to notice the remedies for such ev""of ' qh, l ' ' B5 O. When we state that for the 13,000 inhabitant s ! /51 4011) 0 , Vauxhall district there is at present only a sell ° ,, ° tO 0 th, 11 A.Xiv'L L. with sittings for 100 persons, we have said enoug; t ioa t i i i `4, ,( - ;,40„ ‘ ,17A.1 the necessity of providing church accommaul IQ' 11 1:NL'rti - ' O Na speedily as possible. The providing of a church t 4 4 411 and" , at f 1 1 $ th 1 first and all-important step ; and since the want ° A . , ~ntirl , „e A much felt, we trust soon to see this reproach wi s p li p 11 A . g.i6 from our town. The next is the erection o:. b . , lip, schools. For such a state of society especially, tPit i e , ' A'' ) ,9L bi who are not yet hardened in the ways of vice ar e it 'At'ri s'ilitj ' nister's chief hope. If they be brought under th e y. i,; tt tl t dll o f ,AL ence of his teaching, then we may hope that tha t fl '4l, h e e ds, I h n i s B of their youth will influence for good their matur e . r , ( , 0 1(1-stre4' and prepare them to derive the full benefit of the, la ~,1 41,,,,, tion which the church has provided for her peoP' e :es o ,o , '1"-? For Bishop Taylor hath well said, in a sermon P a pi t vo ttv, 1 44'1 ! 4 before the King, " Let us preach never so msaY s- sf 4 1 41 t eu. ' unto the people, our labour is but lost, so leug is e 'OO A L pr, foundation is unlaid, and the first principles , 11 , 12- k 1 U. •NN/, -- -- , upon which all other doctrine must be biiilded." - .4,01i ,t t ,"e h l , lv t . ,, Al, The appendix to the pamphlet we have read 1 : 1 ,,,"1,0) 2 e„ky e kl, 01'0( interest. It contains a succinct statement or A r t , Ifed t 04 1 ,Crlif Ie h ' been accomplished during the last two years, late o 9) NtiZ,qineri-, " objects yet to be accomplished." Among t he * - 11 0 ,) C, -`, Aid b ] many , useful suggestions ; and we agree with 1 1 1 ;1 0 l 'bit t , ---•" 9 " that ' there is not one about the attainment i , t, ' e el.° there should be any difficulty." ,0, +f t P ons Asti 0 t e bric a ? In carrying on the ministerial labours in the -4130 1 d Liv, " 1 Vauxhall, including the expenses of fitting uP a., 12 0 0 , g 0 \ 1 I, l4 it'n Ipr, tsir,ing temporary schools, we perceive that ',,, 1 1ii 0 1 £255 has been expended during the last two yearldfr t sd t k 1 1 ' 1 14 Poe, small indeed, when set against the account of 014 '43,,,i ' l l(At i IS If have been accomplished, but which, we regret,t° 4 ' 4 7 ,4 S i Ntm„,, ol B evei ceeds the amount contributed for the purpose 0 Y - 11 - ,1 L ll li l teri' ll are'• ° f-t2 more than £7O. These pecuniary embarrasnL e . c herj yitt 4 Nikti i !ll r ags added to all the other difficulties. In districts W W , 09 _ I N 4 3 ltt Vile( sist wholly of poor, the minister can hope for loll) lo;1 44, 1"ad at ante from his own people in carrying out birs„.v; Fi l o"ttlime", o , designs. 'We trust, however, that the Chrisu"„ to? 4, t tiop.,‘Yater-. will not suffer the good work that has been begl i lloto' 4 14 sW° ll 4e, guish for want of support. Shall it be said of ns 04 ° /,p v lNT(i 50 (0. eb destitute of other lands enlist our sympathies "e t y r e ar, pletely that we cannot afford to attend to the we„ t1 ,;01P i ll , h PART brethren who are perishing at our doors ? Sher :for 10 N E ~,iii Ch,, ~ rality be wholly directed to supply missionari es reef ' 4l'. o' Pi' tilt i r,V; Heathen, and shall such paltry efforts be made Well i t i Ni . thi: l llW' 4 l our own ignorant and depraved population. 4,1, t oi,:111 11 ,4 11 ,N A L al plied as Liverpool is with churches, and howe ve r esc,9 I I tjt P i kt:: °f F IT may be that the Gospel is faithfully and earnestly Pf 3, 0 1 0 4, ( „L, o r t th o t r „ 4 et "r still it bas been practically denied to the inaP ti oll j° ii Vic 4 qa t s,' ,l 4; l ty n l Coor till within the last few years. The Puu r ,,„ 4 ' riF i t 4 k,P l ' i q h , hrist's heritage, have not bad the Gospel Pi - 'O l- ' (I ' . ": them. t to "erti , Voluntary efforts have of late done oraer; bl3 l3 o 6 to t,i J prove this state of things, by supplying clergy c tor h. districts of the town. The report of the ra",,515 1 Society, of last year, shows that £l4OO has beV i t `bs f in Liverpool; an amount greatly exceeding wu a We tl r i l t) contributed to its funds by local collections* f ,icet confess that we were not prepared to find that L ice; , " whose merchants are princes, and whose try' ..51 ,1r of the honourable of the earth," should meet tke g ollj wants of her poor with so scanty a provision thel o t ' have had to step in to perform the all-itol 3 ° P. , t 4 which she had hers e lf neg l ec t e d. te s t P fa 9 We have confidence, however, in our ciao/1100; le ~ 10; J will not shrink from their duty when they see, 610,1) put before them. We hope that the accura te to Ri rious investigation of Dr. Hume, in the distr ic t he has been assigned, will not prove f ,lo ' e mu V comparison with other similar districts, he has is o lal: 4 0 the fact that greater spiritual destitution et her s , t i i the Vauxhall district than in any of the ° t ,ecil v f attempt to meet there difficulties, and to runoth , evils, will be met, we trust, with hearty sr''` t t cordial support. . to P C 4 C 14'4' N C) 1+ „ et e itt tt):4))!Z.'11 tee?al ort ' 4 4 •I the li o 1 4 n ii( t > he 131,15 k P t, 4l ( hk4. ,- r 0 , el e At kINZI)i) Alit4ln titeTT Liverpooluhß e Ee v R .L e T V IA ..: ru F ENxR . iaip P li : l i arao r y r t. y t 1 0 1 a t s h b e e j e cc 3, a : .., appointed ctv , s i c n c r t c b tf :3 o°l ;l 131 41, j u n s g u , a a l t m t o h n e t c h Clarendon-rooms, r en e d e o t h i 1 1 exhibitedbeautiful m tm bi ,., 4. / 4' i e llt,Lj A ..r, ooof ra,this HORTICULTURAL society tj,,l : dh up fi: S sjhts :c : o l : 3 ; ;: ; r a t , 4 irt t o to! . r , e r ;t :14 t) : c ...": 21 Nii t the " Microscopic A ero n sf a:t i o w m pr i i: o il f n ; mu la a' l l lt 'd s e ' ' ' ile : cd U n iec At• A i . b . \' 't• l( r, tt o l;" h i , N Tti s LIVERPOOL INTP:MPERANCE AV . I) 04 0 : 1 '0 r .., "kb 11F, Thera are 76 public-houses and cin'..shop 4 on,`;eo7 :14,th e o llt A %4 bons in the district of Vauvball, or one such i t ',„ . o,lir lai' ll it t bqi l / 1 4, families. In Bevington district t h e re ore "„; P' l l l , I,Da„,,34;: 4 Dn — ltc houses and 34 bcer-sho s or on for everY " coi d n e, I t 'lec i t t - 'llei t o, s ve It St. Simon's parish there are 51 p'Ll'c-houfl3s;iirr I,', Il til t tl'Aik,,' veri shops, or one for every 25 Csmiliei. Thes9ollo4los:, , tro l to eh t tesco s e e l Is much, or nearly as much, by females 0 4 b3‘ 00 ,,,,i5, t_rh t .1. ) , ( - 0 ,,t x i Beviugton district there are 24 houses of ill'itaidl . '1 1 4 )11 0 .. "II 't o S n t e . Simon's h P e a re ri w sh er B e 9 : a court ,f l e n w o y n c e art, o, 0 0 , 1 . 3 : 0 8 ::" - c t iO tc. .4 o7 ' ii: _ ~.. I..er t g :i - iltt ilio l iii containing seven houses, there are five of trl ott oaoli TOlvj to ',tl . eof the marriage tie is so frequent t t he i 41, 6 1 ti0 • • 4 )1 4 ence would seem to be the exception, and " 1 Pt' Dr. flume's Missions at Homo. a h b o s u e s n e c s, in one unbroken line. In particutlhatat it 5A ‘41, 4 4 11 4, 4 t i u...4otnilthlik A •• T 4114 LIVERPOOL : 4 A o r ,„ TUESDAY, FE B. 12, 185°. $ O/ ilj i tt tlet lAlit °ll PRINTED AND PUBLISHED Dr l l f 11 4 Op b EVERY TUESDAY MO l ' etb DRi str ett 011 . By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, , f 53 , Gro.- str eet, A LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford:10 0 Do r i At No , 4: ST, elipzez's CILE/GSNT, LOD