Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-19 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS, YESTERDAY In consequence of the elevation of Mr. John Ste wart and Mr. John Woodruff to the dig nity of aldermen, vacancies were created in the representation of South Toxteth Ward, and Scotland Ward.. The election of gentlemen to supply these vacancies took place yes terday; and the result was, that the Conservatives again returned a Conservative for South Toxteth, and the Liberals sent in Mr. Clarke Aspinall, who declares himself not a partisan, for Scotland Ward. SOUTH TOXTETH WARD Mr. Joseph Steel, who was unopposed, was elected for this ward, in the place of Mr. John Stewart, now an alderman SCOTLAND WARD. The candidates in this ward were Mr. C. F. Came, a Conservative, and Mr. Clarke Aspinall, who received the support of the Radical party. The excitement in the ward throughout the day was surprising, and at the Polling-place in Ilurlington-street, the road was almost impatisahle. The Radicals re Sorted to a new mode of electioneering tactics, for. at intervals two stalwart gentleman appeared at the window of Mr. Aspinall's com mittee room, near the polling booth, and having hung out a lard Ong, beat it lustily, until the crowd had largely increased, when the state of the poll was declared, and some remarks on the contest made. On one occasion gentleman appeared at the window, due notice having been given by means of the gong, that something .extra ordinary was going to take place, and declared that next year the Liberals would turn out Mr. Cronin whose term of office expired on November r and roars of laughter greeted t speaker, who Tery soon retired, and shut down thy, window At the close of the poll, the numbers were--for Mr. Aspinall, 469; and for Mr. Came, 288. Mr. Aspinall was elected. MEETING OF MR. CARNE'S A monster meeting of Mr. Carne's friends was held shortly after four o'clock, at the Castle Hotel, Scotland road, Mr. James Burroughs in the chair. Mr. Came on entering the room was loudly cheered The CHAIRMAN said, gentlemen, I have gref though defeated to-day —I don't say A plea m to s my opinions, and the result of this contest. Had no undue influence been brought to hear upon the electors of Scotland Ward, I have not any doubt in my mind that Mr. Carrie would have been at the top of the poll. But in Scotland Ward, as you are aware, there arE Roman Catholic chapels or churches, and on Sunda morning last, I have been led to believe—and 1 hay the fact on good authority—(A Voice : It is a fact. that it was announced from the pulpit from the pulpit ; they haven't 'any who voted contrary to Mr: .Asoinfdl would be excommunicated, There w I don't know what they call it in the Catholic Church or what that church does with its subjects—(A Voice "Anathematise them.")—all I can say is I should lac sorry to be under its influence; h who voted against Mr. Aspinall were to h and we have just lost our victory to-day from that cause only. (Hear, hear.) 'Why, I was in the pollir it is a fact that thoSe aathematised to-day, and nineteen out of twenty of tl came up to vote, voted for Aspinall. There was not a Irish Roman Catholic who voted, but did so for Clarke Aspinall. We have never been organised as they have been. (Hear, hear.) We wish every man to give his opinion, and to worship his God in his own way, and in the manner in which he thinks fit and proper. Personally, I never found fault with any man for that, but so long as our enemies will do this kind of thing we should bestir ourselves to secure unity and combination amongst ourselves to resist them. "(Cheers.) We should organise a ward combination. (Hear, hear.) We should take a house for our offices, and secure the services of a paid secretary; and if the ward will do that I will contribute my quota. When that is done, then when a vacancy occurs through death or any other cause in the representation of this ward, we shall have a man who can say to us, " Here is a candidate—l know the feeling of the ward—we are organised, and are prepared for any opposition." Then there will be a chance for our success ; but we never were prepared for this contest to-day. I am very sorry that we have failed in our attempt ; but we have failed because we have not acted unjustly. We have done nothing but what was right and just, but our opponents have done wrong in intimi dating voters. I know a man who would have voted for Mr. Came. I saw the man there, and he is a man in my employ, a Roman Catholic, but he dared not vote against Mr. Aspinall. I shall never think any the worse of the man for that. He does his duty—he does his work—earns his wages, or I would not keep him ; but we have been deceived by reason of the influence brought to bear upon men like him. We never put the screw on; we never shall I hope, and I trust that we will not even attempt to put it on; but let us organise, so as to be prepared, in case of an election shortly; to pick out our man as a candidate, and to go as a united body, and work the ward as it ought to be worked. To-day we have had paid canvassers, and they have done their work well; but, when a man has an interest in the ward, he will work well and want no pay. Let us remedy this. Again, a gentleman, through a long course of years has worked his way up in the world ; he has time and leisure to serve the town of Liverpool—it is his duty, having the chance to come forward to serve the town that has so well served him — but it is wrong in principle that he should be called upon to contest a ward like Scotland ward, with its 100,000 inhabitants, and bear the necessary expenses. There are certain expenses, such as printing and advertising, that he is legally and honestly liable for ; but, I do say that to ask Mr. Came, or to ask any other man, to give you his time and experience and to pay all the ei penses of his election, is asking of him too much. If he gives you his time and attention, he gives you all , that you ought to require; and, therefore, I hope Scot bul,Ward will form a Conservative Association, with a men who subscription of from 2s. 6d. to a guinea, and thus enable a %teat amount of good to be accomplished. Let us, I say, form an association, and be determined on honest principles,, and not on factious motives, to carry our own men at the next municipal e l ec ti on . N ow I have very great pleasure, although defeated to-day, in i n t r oducing Mr. Came, and I am sure he will give us credit for having done for himalltlmt could be done. (Loud cheers.) Mr. CARNE was loudly cheered. After Borne prefatory o bservations he said :—I certainly am surprised at the very large majority against me to-day. I did not con_ template it, and why it is so I cannot tell. This Ido know that my best and warmest thanks—l wish I could give it you in language more expressive—are due to yon who have given , yourselves the trouble to support Jne, and to those who have exerted themselves to bring up the electors to the poll. I should be wanting in every feeling of a gentleman if I did not express to you my thanks. From my heart I thank you. You have done everything which could be done ; and I, in coming for ward to contest this ward, only did what I considered to be my duty. (Cheers.) Certainly, if I had not come forward for Everton Ward I don't' know that I should ever - have came forward at all, but having been brought forward there, h thought that I might have a second chance of success here. (A voice : "You will have a third.") No, I think not, for I shill take my leave of yon e altogther. (Loud of No, no.") " You are (A voice "Next time wo ') lam sure the electors are Now, the gentlemen who brought me for- ari organisat NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. ward here said that they were desirous 'nothing should be said which should create feeling between yourselves in this ward. I have alluded to several topics, and have spur of the moment. I did so without notes or anything of the •kind, for I trusted to what might come from my heart—(cheers)- 7 and it has been my wish, and I hope I have succeeded in carrying it into effect, that in anything I might say I should give offence to no party. (Hear, hear.) To my Roman Catholic brethren in particular, although I don't think there is any one more strongly opposed, in principle, than I am to them—(loud cheers,)—l Said nothing unkind. Yoil are aware that I refrained from saying one single word which could by any pos sibility be construed into anything like insult to them or to their. religion ; at the sanie time, also, wishing to conduct everything in a gentlemanly manner, I did not, say one single word against my opponent. Can I say the same of them? (Loud cries of "No, no.") I don't find fault- with Mr. Aspinall, for he took up my speech very fairly ; and I don't see anything in that to complain of, for there is a little more license given on these occasions than is usually granted to public speakers; but I have heard. that the 'remarks of Mr. Alderman Wood ruff, although they were not fully repoited in the news papers, were very strong—much stronger indeed than those of Mr. ASpinall hiniself. Now Ido think that Mr. Woodruff should have been the last man in the world to make, those remarks, and I do say that be ought to have refrained from anything of the sort— (hear, hear, and loud cheers)—not that he could say a single word againit me that would, in any respect, injure me in the eyes of those who knOw me ; but those remarks, although strong itnd not reported in the Uheers 1 papers, might operate done so on tht with those to whom I was per sonally nnkown. (A Voice—" Woodruff is a thorough hhmbug," and roars of laughter.) The remarks were very strong I informed by a gentleman who heard them. (Another Voice—" Woodruff's a turncoat," and groans and laughter.) Now I have been desirous of conducting everything as a gentleman, and I do hope, in leaving you now that I may , have made many friends, and that amongst all the electors I shall not have made a single enemy. (Loud cheers.) I take leave •of "y6u gentlemen, most sincerely appreciating your kindness. (A Voice—=" No, •no ; we want you another year and loud cheers.) I thank you mos heartily; but I think I shall harp ever be persuaded (A Voice—" But to try a, gain for municipal. - honours you must."). Let me again thank you warmly, sin cerely; and from my heart, for what you have done. cheers were giyen for Mr. Came, for the Chair man, for :Mr. Watson, and Mr. Henry Lafone. Mr..LA.FoNE., in obedience to the oftea repeated calls of the meeting came forward to speak.. (A Voice : "Vauxhall : helps Scotland. We'll help Vauxhall in opposition to the •Cartoviners, and Lafone must be the man.") Mr. Lafone, in the course of his .obscrvations,said--As your chairman has just remarked I think there has been undue influence exerted by our opponents; and I think if our 'friends on the opposite side had - showed the same amount of consideration that' coerced people to vote, it would -(cheers)—and if it is true: that y have been buying to an unlimited extent to-day, Gentlemen, - I do feel deep ave done Kaye, bgen much better In very sorry for it 'booth i r t that Mr. Woodruff should have attended the Radical meeting last night at all, and still more so that he made remarks stronger than those which are re ported in the papers, but I certainly do think that those remarks will redound to his own discredit. (Loud cries of hear, hear.) Gentlemen, Mr. Woodruff was returned to the Council by the Conservatives of this ward—(hear, hear)—and now that it suits his own purposes he turns round and tries to catch both parties. I have no doubt Mr. Alderman Woodruff will bo duly appipeiated when ho rnmeq hp fore the public again. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, if you will only give him rope enough he is one of that class of public men that will very soon hang himself. And now let me say I think that Mr. Corbally—whose time of office happily will expire next November—should not have made the remarks he did I Est night. He ad dressed himself to the Roman Catholic electors, and ex pressed a hope that every one would poll for Mr. Aspi nall. That course was one unbecoming Mr. Corbally. Religion should not have anything to do with voting in the Council—(A Voice, " Bravo,")—but on this occasion I have been very much deceived. You cannot always hope to be successful; but your want of success to-day will, I trust, stimulate you to exert yourselves, as your chairman has so admirably recommended. I trust you will organise yourselves, and make " Union" your watch word. I sincerely hope you will not have long to wait before you return none but Conservatives for your ward, and that your sister,. ward (Vauxhall) will never return three Radicals. (Loud cheers.) You have had enough of the Radicals ; let there be an alteration in November ; and if your chairman and the executive will pledge themselves to return Mr. Crellin in November, Vaux hall ward will pledge itself to turn out Mr. Corbally. (Renewed cheering.) Mr. WATSON strongly urged the formation of a ward association, and concluded a very eloquent speech with the expression of a hope that any asperities of feeling created during the contest that day, would now be put in abeyance. Three cheers were given for Mr. Came, who briefly acknowledged the compliment, and the meeting broke up. MEETING OF MR. CLA.RICE ASPINA LL'S FRIENDS. Mr. CLARKE ASPINALL, the successful candidate, addressed the electors from the window of his com mittee-room in Burlington-street. He exhorted the crowd to forget all that had passed, and to think of Mr. Came as at least the representative of an in fluential and respectable party. (Loud cries of " no.") Let them not be illiberal. He (Mr. Aspinall) thought Mr. Came a respectable, but a misguided man, (laughter)—and he entertained for him that respect privately to which he was undoubtedly entitled. He (Mr. Aspinall) was not an extreme politician. He was not a partisan; and he did not espouse extreme opinions. He believed the truth was to be found in the golden mean; and as he did not believe in extremes on one side or the other, he would be the repre sentative of_ all the electors. He would either resign his seat in the Council or he would do all he could to promote the prosperity of his native town, and the social improvement of the condition of his fellow-citizens, and uphold the safety and welfare of her Majesty and her dominions. (Loud cheers.) . After a few congratulatory remarks from Alderman Woodruff, three cheers were given for Mr. Aspinall, and the meeting broke up. Subsequently Mr. Aspinall addressed another crowded meeting at his central cOm mittee-room. __ RAILWAY AMALGAMATION IN SCOTLAND.—Eitri °cFN!;B4*, general meetings of the shareholders of the , c li e Zr ap ,, j ," yinburgh, and Glasgow, and Scottish Scot tish Central at two f trat _"7 t u Z i Y Companies, were held on Monday—the alliCS in Glasgow and the Perth__Scot d u the purpose of considering, and if so resolved, of meat entered into braetting and approving an agree companies with reference tI9I the directors of the three the companies. The tonnweafPgeposed amalgamation of before each meeting and diseuseedi agreement were laid HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.,--Indigestion and e vere agreed to. disorders, liver complaints, nervonsh atulency, bilious debility, are all evils that may be ,en v aud general subdued by these inestimable Pills ; the nTaiicfpeedilx most efficacious medicine ever yet discovered. T e P iev t 'V not merely vanquish the particular disease, but exercise so so powerful, beneficial, and lasting an influence up on -, the whole system, as protects it from every affliction They impart tone, restore the appetite, give strength and flesh, and make the patient feel himself quite a new Man. Being composed of vegetable extracts, unmixed with any mineral substance whateyer, these pills are as safe as they are efficasious. I LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.—YEsTERDiY, (Before J. S. MANSFIELD, Esq.) A VißA.ao.-Elizabeth - Kelly charged Margaret White with having committed a violent assault upon her on the previous night. It appeared that, last week, a robbery of £7O had been perpetrated, and that some friends of Kelly had been arrested on the information of 'White, the prisoner, conseqtently, had an antipathy against White, and committed a violent assault on the complainant. The charge having been ' fully proved, Mr. Mansfield fined the prisoner £5 or to be imprisoned two months. ASSAULT ON A POLICE-OFFICER.—George Sands (a' black man) and a girl named Wade were brought up on the charge of having violently assaulted Police-officer 658 and another. The officer arrested Sands on the pre vious night on suspicion of having committed a robbery. Sands was well-known as a very bad character, and while being brought to bridewell, he kicked the officer and knocked-him down, and the female prisoner aided and assisted Sands. Mr. Mansfield having heard the case fully, fined Sands £5, or three months' imprison ment, and Wade 10s., or one month's imprisonment. AN INDISCREET POLICE-OFFlCER.—Elizabeth Chad wick, who resides in Lambert-street, was brought up by officer 19, charged with having been drunk and disorderly. Mr, Cobb defended, and went to prove that Mrs. Chad wick and her husband were returning from the house of a friend ; where his wife and he had a glass of punch. The officer had very improperly arrested Mrs. Chadwick when she was under the protection of her husband going home, and incarcerated her in the station-house with a lot of idle drunken characters.—Mr. Mansfield considered that the officer had acted most indiscreetly in arresting Mrs. Chadwick. No officer, he said, had a right to in terfere with 'people under such circumstances, and the arrest was a very unnecessary one ;—let Mrs. Chadwick be discharged. BAREFACED BOBBERY.—James Moore was charged by Messrs. Mackay & Co., of Oldhall-street, with steal ing two silk pocket handkerchiefs, on the evening of Wednesday last.—The prisoner, having pleaded guilty, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. FORGERY CASE.—Detective Redman brought up Alphons Fancon, a Frenchman, charged with forging a bill on the Liverpool Bank. It appeared that a person named Snowdon, who lodges with. Mrs. Stephens in Chesterfield-street, had been sent a cheque for £25, drawn in the Lancaster Bank and made payable on the Liverpool Bank. The prisoner lodged in the same house. On the 10th instant two letters more were left with Mrs. Stephens by the letter-carrier of the district, which were addressed to Mr. Snowdon. The prisoner got the two let ters, and said that one of them was directed for him. 'Mrs Stephens took no further notice of the matter, but Mr. Snowdon not receiving the cheque of £25, which he had expected, wrote again back to the party in Lancaster. In the meantime a letter arrived, stating that the £25 had been forwarded on the 18th, and that it could not but have reached Mr. Snowdon. Inquiry was imme diately set on foot, and the efficient detective officer took immediate steps to recover the missing cheque. Hav ing procured the letter from Mr. Snowdon, he at once proceeded to the Liverpool Bank, and found that the cheque had passed through the hands of Mr. John Rogers, of Great George-street. Steps were at once taken to discover the thief and forger ; and Redman having received the description of the prisoner; who, had purchased goods in Mr. Rogers's shop, he succeeded in arresting him, and found £8 and some silver on his person. The prisoner adMitted that he had opened the letter which was addressed to Mr. Snowdon, and extracted the cheque. The - prisoner stated to Mrs. Stephen's, his landlady, that he had ex pected a letter to come to him from Cardiff,' and told her that one of the two letters given to her for Mr. Snowdon was it. Mr. Snowdon having been examined as to the facts of the cheque, stated that the cheque was 'from the Lancaster Banking Company, and was to be cashed by the Liverpool Bank. The money was sent from. Lancaster Bank, as he, had a small account there. The prisoner told Mr. Snowdon that the letter came from Cardiff, and related to a situation there.— John Dearling, a young man in the employ of Mr. Rogers, deposed to the prisoner getting the cheque changed there, and purchasing a scarf shawl. The bill was cashed in Mr. Rogers' shop, and after keeping the price of the goods out of it, the person was handed the change. The name of Snowden was written on the back of the cheque. A gentleman from the Bank of Liverpool stated that the cheque came from Mr. Rogers' shop, and was credited to his (Mr. Rogers') account, who did his business with the Liverpool Bank.—Mr. Mansfield : There can be no doubt at all but the prisoner has been guilty of a forgery, ,and, after robbing the letter of the cheque, he forged thoname of Mr. Snowdon upon it to carry out his base purposes. He must be committed for trial at the next assizes, on the charge' of forgery. Several unimportant cases were next disposed of, after which the Court adjourned. (Before Messrs. CASTELLAINE and CROSTHWAITE.) PUBLICANS' CASES.—Thomas Taylor, Milk-street, was summoned for permitting drunkenness on his premises on the night of the 22nd October last. Mr. C. Aspinall appeared for the defence, and stated that the parties in the house were cattle-dealers, and had just come from Dublin. They called in the public house to settle a bargain ; and though they made some noise, they were not drunk. A fine of 6s and costs was imposed. Mary Lumb, Vauxhall-road, was summoned for a similar offence. Tke officer who laid the information stated that he saw two men going along the street, one of whom was so drunk that the other was obliged to support him. They went into the house of the defendant, where they were served with a glass of ale each. Mr. Snowball contended that when the parties entered the house, the barman did not observe that either of the parties were drunk, and so soon as the officer told him that the men should not be servedhe took the ale away: A fine of 40s. and costs was inflicted. —John Wilkinson, Great Howard-street, was summoned for allowing drunken men to fight in his house. Mr. Cobb contended for the defence that the men had began a row before they got into the house, and even when they were there they were not 'served with any drink. He produced witnesses who swore that the men were not more than three or four minutes in the house. The case was dismissed.—Richard Ford, 73, Oldhall-street, was "summoned for trading at illegal hours. The de fendant was fined 20s. and costs.--Edward Eaves, Vaux hall-road, for permitting drunkenness, was fined 20s. and costi.—Mary Davis, Richmond-street, for selling at illegal hours, 40s. and costs.—Thomas Mills, Vauxhall road, was fined 20s. and costs for a similar offence. Bmtitama.s.a' CASES. - -William Berkley, Ford-street, for selling at illegal hours. Fined ss. and costs. — Elizabeth Allerton, Brown-street, for a like offence. Dismissed.—Thomas Lewis, Highfield-street, for selling after hotirs. Dismissed.—William Johnson, Fairclough street, for a!imilar offence. Dismissed.—joseph Beazley, Cable-street, for selling at illegal. hours. Dismissed.— William Hughes, Stanhope-street, for refusing to admit the police. Fined ss. and costs.—James Cotrell, Lord street, Edge-hill, for permitting drunkenness. Fined 40s. and dostg. LIME-STREET SUPPER ROOMS. - William Baxter, Ireepar of a supper room, was summoned for wilfully And knowingly permitting prostitutes to meet together and remain on his premises, contrary to the Local Act. Mr. Cobb appeared for the defence. Inspector O'Brian said he Visited the house on Saturday morning the 12th instant, at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock, and he found a great number of man and , women there. He knew thirty of the women to be prosti tutes, by having' "seen them on the street re peatedly. He again visited the house- at ten minutes past one, and found about forty prostitutes inside. He was in the neighbohthood durin the interval and saw a regular stream or people going in and out. This was corroborated by Inspector Hough. Mr. Cobb, after cross examining- the witnesses at great length, argued that it was the night after the Liverpool cup had been run for at the races, and as a great many people had come from all parts of the country, there were a great many more in the house than was usual. This, he considered, was proved by the fact that since July last, when the house was opened, there had never been a single com plaint against Mr. Baxter. On this night, he contended, the people had net assembled and remained, but so soon as they had partaken of the refreshments supplied, they took their departure. Mr. Castellaine said, in con sequence of no previous information having been laid against the defendant, he was inclined to make the penalty as light as possible. A fine of 60s. and costs was inflicted. COUNTY COURT, --YESTERDAY. (Before W. A. MILTON, Esq., Judge.) HOWELL V. DUFF.—This was an action raised on a promissory note for the recovery of £4. .The plaintiff keeps a public-house at Bootle, and the defendant is a young lady, who, along with her sister, keeps a boarding school at the same plaoe. The circumstances under which the action was brought are as follows :—About three years agog an 'elder brothei of Ifiss'Duff fell ill at-the house of Mr. Howell; and after lying .for some time, he died. The amount claimed was for the ex penses incurred by attendance on him during his illness, and for which his mother signed the promissory note. Mrs. Duff, however, died shortly afterwards, in a state of extreme poverty; so much so, that there were not the means of giving her a decent interment. The Rev. ThOmas Spencer, a Catholic priest, kno*ing the painful circumstances of the case, interested him- self on behalf of the two young ladies, who, he was aware had received a superior education. He went over to the Isle of Man, for the purpose of communicating with the guardians of a younger brother, who is yet a minor, and in-the receipt of a considerable annuity from an uncle. Having stated the unfortunate position in which the piing ladies were placed, he received autho rity to draw upon them for as much money as would pay the funeral expenses and debts. They at the same time - made over all their deceased mother's furniture to the Misses Duff. In conformity, therefore, with the au thority with which he was invested, Mr. Spencer paid • debts to the amount of £6O, and would have paid the ,promissory note also, if lie had known, soon enough of its existence. • The plaintiff was non-suited. --.0.---..-- MORA.V,IAN MISSIONS A meeting on behalf of the abote 'society rotas held yesterday evening, at half; past six o'clock, in Hope-hall. Mr. R. A-Macfie, in the chair. There were also present— the Rev. T. L. Badham and Thos. Leach, Esq., as a depu tation from the London society; and also the Rev. W. Ffolliott, Thomas Clarke, Esq., and J. Cropper, Esq. The meeting being constituted by prayer, offered up by the Rev. Wm; Ffolliott, The CHAIRMAN said it was the daily prayer of un numbered thousands that the kingdom of God might come, and yet it coald not come until those were found who were willing to become the subjects of that king dom. (Hear, hear.) It was natural and right that 4k. ol~ould a..:— so throughout the earth. In order that this might be brought about, it was necessary that men should have respect to the mission entrusted to them—" Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel." In this men should co-operate. Angels were not called upon to do the work. The ministers of the Gospel went forth and were regarded as messengers of the Church. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge had estab lished missions; but still Liverpool was behind, there being no mission to the heathen from Liverpool. They should have told them, • by gentlemen present, much that ought to encourage them to join the service and enter upon the work. The success of that work so far would be put before them, and he trusted that the money which they should give in aid of the great cause would he but like the first droppings of .a great shower. The Moravian Church had become as a house hold word among them all, and was a Christian name endeared to every Christian. Even before the time of the Reformation it still maintained the pure gospel truth, and had three translations of the Bible in the vernacular tongue. It was the first missionary church, for it was not till about thirty years ago that the Church of Scotland adopted a missionary scheme, and even up to the present day the Church of England carries on her missionary operations through societies. Mr. LEACH then addressed the meeting, and stated that it was his duty, as the representative of the London Association, to bring the matter generally before them briefly. With regard to the Moravian Church itself, it was a very ancient one, formed more than four centuries ago ; and in 1857, the brethren celebrated the fourth centenary of its establishment, which took place at Bohemia in 1457. When the church was first consti tuted, it was called the Church of the United. Brethren, and changed its name after they were driven into Moravia, where they took shelter in the forests for many years. Letters were still extant from Martin Luther and other Reformers, in which their thankfulness was stated for the Church having still maintained the truth during its persecution. Ile then went on to enumerate the various places where the Church had first established mission stations, and traced their history up to the present time ; and concluded amid applause. The Rev. W. Fyora.forr addressed the meeting, after reading a letter of apology from the Bishop of Chester, Who "had been requested to take the chair. The letter of his lordship expressed the higheit respect for thuMoravians, and the greatest syinpathy with the cause of their missions. The rev. gentleman then . enumerated several of- the reasons on 'account of which he 'supported the Moravian Missions. All honour, he said, .was due to those : men who, denying themselves all the comforts, and sacrificing all the amenities of life in the cause of duty, went f or th to the inhospitable shores of Greenland, and spent a.life time without the hope of reward or earthly applause, in teaching the barbarian Esquimaux the truths of the Gospel. The missions of this church extended to almost every coUttry under the sun, yet were carried on on principles the most economical. The whole of the money collected, both at horn. and abroad, in their support amounted only to £14,563, out of which 305 missionaries were sus . - tained, whose congregations amounted to 74,538 personi.' He would therefore recommend this church to the kind sympathies of the meeting, as it rose superior to all narrow and sectarian spirit. The Rev. THOMAS BADHAM delivered the next ad dress, in the course of which he laid before the meeting several interesting statistics of the Moravian mission in several parts of the world, and explained, at some length, the leading principles of the church. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business of the meeting. -4---- f Mu] In the obituary of t the "hangs of seven clc amounted to the high number of 601 years, giving .an average of more than 86:- years as the term of each tiff. NOVEMBER 19, 18 9. THE LATE ARCTIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION. A meeting, convened by the Lord Mayor, was held on Saturday last, for the purpose of adopting an address to Captain M'Clintock, and organising a committee to carry out the desire so generally expressed of presenting him with some testimonial, in recognition of his daring and successful Arctic expedition, in the Oak Room at the Mansion•house. The chairman's seat was placed midway on the south side of the apartment, and on the panel above was hung a large map, representing those portions of the Polar regions explored in the expeditions of successive Arctic travellers, including M'Clintock.. It was by reference to this map that the Rev. Professor Haughton illustrated his comprehensive and lucid narrative. Amongst these present were :—The Right Hon. Lord Talbot de Malahide; Right Hon. Joseph Napier; Right Hon. James Whiteside, M.P. ; Sir Edward' Grogan, Bart., M.P.; Patrick O'Brien, Esq., M.P.; Sir Thomas Staples, Bart., Q.C. ; Sir John K. James, Bart, D.L.; Sir" Robert Hagan, R.N. ; 'Alderman Reynolds; Alder man Kinahan ; Alderman Hudson,; Alderman At kinson; James Robinson, Esq., Q.C. ; Rev. Profes sor Haughton, F.T.C.D. ; Rev. Professor Galbraith, F.T.C.D. ; Dr. Stokes ; Alexander M'Clintock, Esq. ; D. J. Corrigan, Esq., M.D. ; A. Carew O'Dwyer, Esq., J.P. ; Wm. Donnelly, Esq., C.B. ; Colonel Co lumb, C.B. ; L. E. Foot, Esq. ; Capt. Loftus, R.N. ; Rev. Charles Fleury, D.D. ; Rev. A. Campbell; W. R. Wilde, Esq. ; J. Fortescue, Esq. ; X. La Touche, Esq. ; Thos. Hutton, Esq., D.L. ; Rev. W. Greene ; Rev. Professor Jellett, F.T.C.D.; Dr. Barker; Dr. Carte; Dr. Neligan ; G. W. Maunsell, Esq. ; J. J. Butler, Esq. ; Sir Joshua Cogkill, Bart. ; G: F. Shaw, F.T.C.D. ; W. Hone, Esq. ;. Thomas H. Thompson, Esq. ; Professor Jukes ; Hon. G. 'Handcock ; A. L. Norman, Esq., Q.C. ; J. Chambers; Esq., T.C. ; J. Norwood, Esq. Brief addresses, introducing resolutions, were given by several of the distinguished parties present, and among others, an address from the Rev. Professor Haughton, F.T.C.D, one of the greatest tidal authorities of the day, and ' with whose remarks we have been privileged to ,enrich our columns on several occasions. The Rev. Professor Haughton, on rising to second the resolution, was warmly received. He said :—I have obtained an intimate knowledge of all that Captain M'Clintock has done in the service of science from the year 1818 to the year 1859. I shall therefore proceed to lay before you some of his principal achievements, and then call your attention to his bravery and gallantry in Volunteering to command the Fox, in the last and suc cessful expedition in search of the missing Sir John Franklin. The early Arctic voyages were not undertaken for the advancement of science ; they were all, without exception, the result of a desire to make money; and were the result of a desire to reach India by a westempas sage, as the Portuguese had reached it by an,eastern one. Amongst the officers who undertook this arduous task none are ,more entitled to our admiration than those who accompanied Sir John Franklin, whOse fate has at last been ascertained by Captain M'Clintock. Captain Riehatdson, in his travels, describes the horrors of a fearful journey in the northern land to the territory of the ,Hudson's Bay Pompany, when Sir John Frantlin's bravery and intrepidity marked him and the men who then accompanied him for the fatal expedition in which he and Crozier and their two crews have perished. The services rendered to science by Captain M'Clintock I shall not enter on in detail, as on another occasion I hope to do so more profitably. I shall only advert to one Circumstance, that, during his last voyage in the Fox, with such limited resources, with so many more pressing claims on his attention, he found time, notwithstand ing the perils of his sledge journey, to conduct the most laborious and important series of magnetic observations ever made in the Arctic circle. (Hear, law - ii;nfaek. in his iourne'r to Bellot's fitrait, passed that place to the south. I believe I may point out the services M'Clintock has rendered to geographical science, which will prove more interesting at a meeting of this kind. Captain M'Clintock was not, in the sense of Parry and the older voyagers, an Arctic sailor; he did not make any of those remarkable voyages achieved by others. It is as an Arctic sledge traveller that he is dis tinguished. There were many great men before Agamem non, and a great many surpassed M'Clintock as a sailor, but not as an Arctic traveller. I believe that every one, .including Dr. Kane, the great American sledge traveller ; and the great captain, who made longer journeys in sledges than M'Clintock—l believe they would all, if they were present, join with me in proclaiming that McClintock was, in this character of an Arctic traveller, facile prin.- ceps. In approaching this subject, I cannot but advert to the melancholy facts that he has brought before our notice respecting Franklin and his sledge travelling. On the fatal day when Crozier and Fitz James loft their ships, the plan of their proceeding shows how lamenta bly deficient scientific information respecting those re gions was at that time, compared with the present. I have heard Collinson; and Maguire, and M'Clintock, state that, with the knowledge and appliances we now possess, it is possible to travel along the radius of a circle of 1,000 miles, while we find that the voyagers of the Erebus and Terror travelled only 220 miles. They travelled with too heavy burdens, which required forty men at least to draw them. We owe the dis coveries which have been made since Franklin's expe dition to M'Clintock. I have no desire to claim for him what belongs to another, but I appeal with confidence to the testimony of his brother officers, who have rivalled his sledging expeditions, whether the question was not in Belcher's squadron, as they returned to their ships, "Have you beaten M'Clintock ?" and, as each crew re turned, they said, "No ; we have not yet completed 1,400 miles." They- all acknowledged that he was the chief. (Applause.) In this remarkable expedition two great and illustrioui Irishmen served; these are men who will be famous for ever—M'Clure and M'Clintock— one the discoverer of the North-West Passage and the other the discoverer of the fate of Franklin. In this expedition they' Only completed 500 miles—that is 250 out and 250 home. He has informed me that although he subsequently travelled 1,400 milesi never in his life did he experience such terrible hardships. The allow ance of food was 11b. of -beef and 11b. •of 1 ounce of chocolate and 1 ounce of rum. Was this food 'fit for men performing such duties as Sir James Ross and M'Clintock ? The hardships of this journey M'Clintock says will never leave- his mind. When they got back to their ships they flew upon the mess, and seized the pieces of fat placed before their coinraies; for they . were starved, as they said, with cold. SOme years since, when 'Belcher's squadron went out, Bella and M'Clintock visited the island, and M'Clintock performed the greatest sledge journey on record. It was on this occasion that he performed the astonishing feat of 1,400 miles sledge travelling. It may be an interesting , circumstance tomany here that, as M'Clintock stood on the Cape that now bears his name; he saw a little islaiid.to the north beyond a point reached by any of the previous' expeditions, and, in memory of his native land, he called this little island " Ireland's Eye." (Great applause.) I think, when an officer has been mindful of his countty, it is our duty to be mindful of him. (Hear, hear.) It is not because .41‘Clintock is an Irishman that we. should praise Naito the injury or detriment of those who , served with Mn. I may mention that for two years and three months Captain M'Clintock, with his officers and men, were shut 'up in-a-smell box called the Fox, livings like those happy families which we see in the streets: (Laughter.) In fact, this is no fancy picture; and it appears unfortunately. to have been a chronic disease amongst Arctic expedit,ors, that they always returned w i t h their , erq ender arrest, and on their arrival in , England t iiee4 of all — ro ( courts-martial the first testimonial he received was the testimonial of a chronometer, and box to contain . it,, presented t : him by every officer and every man on board the Ye' --- (hear, hear)—arid I- mention this in testimoi a his social qualities. I believe he has not an enemy I believe, there is not a single man that can 54 1 11 spoke a harsh word to any man, or that he aPP'y th priated to 'himself what belonged t o ano ther. It is rig e in this matter to do justice to all, an d t o mention 5 ` names of the .two officers who, with him, did such serltl those two officers were Captain Allen Young, a officer from from the north of England, who volunteered, 111; his life and his purse, to serve Lady Franklin. Ile, h i, a wealthy man, and he risked both his money so e t life. He belongs to that sturdy race which sends. f° our ice ships and our whalers ; and on this ocso° 11 0 „t is, I believe, not too much to say that this man e lm e i excelled his chief. 'When it came to be deterte ul d what share each was to take,—of course the P °st t y honour ..belonged to the man who travelled to missing ships,— Lieutenant H o bson, a brave i `tft gallant officer, who accompanied th e ex pedition, 111 : e 4 delicate health in the spring, and to him was a ssig ,f o o the post of honour of going to the ships'. Th el- o le his name has come before the public as having /11 .„0 the first discovery. M'Clintock chose himself tlie:iog laborious and perhapsiess honourable part — of ove t P r ro with his own the researches of Dr. Ray a n d Dr. Capt. A. Young performed a feat of 900 miles sledg e I * - 4 , : re ling ; and it is right'to add thatthese 900 rai les t ,ol performed under circumstances that would llaj it jiii, the endurance even, of M'Clintock himself. j ",. - I.lic from-a calculation of the distance of ground el' er sp ossl he would have to travel, that the food atllis tlt was too small for - the Men who were With hirap" -- ;es, would only supply himself,' one of the men, and t ft° 0 0 —he sent back three men-and so me don, and, 7, 6 - 1 , man and two dogs, _lke performed this awful Pr ii having no shelter for himself or his c o Mpanio o u j r i the night, except holes which they dug in the sn e " t o is only right, and it is expected by Af‘Cliat 4ck ' A goo Captain Young should get justice. We are al e '," in this resolution to do three things : —First, to " se r the high sense entertained by his countrymen of ! le t i vices rendered to science by Capt.' APOlintock. I have said- enough on this point. So long as P o o of endurance under severe trials—so long as eo°lll- tba the hour of danger and. unflinching fortitude ,11100 discharge of duty shall be admired bylrishmen, joa shall Captain M'Clintock be admired and handed down. But next, we all congratulate lii'fof his return to his native land. On this it is needi e° , , i me to say anything—the meeting I see a round '' 1 1 , 1 ; sufficient testimony to that. I now come to_t..b!,lo,i and most difficult part of my duty, in which I f eev i t i ' inability to express as' I ought my own personal aT i of tion, and I hope the admiration of this niee tl a il M'Clintock's gallantry in undertaking the con1 13 P: c ol Lady Franklin's expedition, by the result of whichP tor been enabled to render justice to the memory ef ilef poi tinguished husband and his crew. After the 0 '1)1 Sir E. Belcher's last expedition, as it is called' or Franklin proposed to her friends in the House Of tiog , mons and the Admiralty to send out another exP eat „, She ventured to name three officers willing to tin as ' t o the service, and I believe it is the highest honour,,Aed any man could have to record of himself, or have r e Iv o by his friends, that he was one of those so naniet . .o l three gentlemen were—Captain S. se ° t M'Guire, an Irishman, and Captain 3PClintock, 4 0 Irishman. We should claim some pride for having t' .. , s tlf of these three men belonging to our country. subsetrj Osborne, 'foot 1 ofr , disposal out tli these officers placed their services at the Franklin, when the Government refused to sen a , oo selc expedition, and the painful task devolved upon he r e A soie l o the officer she wished to take command, o ld s a rig 1 hg" lo o9t , capt. M'Clintock. (Applause.) Therefore', .his ~,i to claim the testimony of Lady Yraneon Ae.. sh . betwe who felt it to be a painful duty to disting ill 1, has P er such men, and the se rv i ces C ap t a i n lll'Clint°c ~. 191 formed so gallantly he undertook .without p; at ici, Franklin had too high a spirit to permit t uLs o l i sclr s know it to be a fact that before he - left Enii i or, executed the necessary- legal deeds for trap cep him the ownership of the Fox. (Applause.) el f return aceept h it e . has ( H e i ar nfo , rm he e a d r. ) her T l h a e dy creditable to the feelings of both. Captain g (1 ,. fif, undertook this last voyage at the expense 1: 80 Or Franklin. This noble and devoted woman, frd it ascertained that the Government would /l ot e i cep s a r sold out the last remnant of her property, e:( , l er annuity Which she could not Alispose of, 31. d 0 f her friends were greatly pleased, to provide the w ; i e # s tr h a iP nsa t e b t a io t n lie , ) ;)i i ii send 'out this ship, the Pox. Beyond the assista n i l eild she received from Captain Young, she r, -, s w of aid whatever, therefore Captain M'Clintockpe, and great aim was to bring home news of theli; this lady's husband. He has . succeeded n°‘ bet r e bringing home news of the fate of her husbaatio r Ol brought home the knowledge of th e fact that 0 5, te est and most brilliant Arctic voyage ever perfo I se re performed by Franklin and Crozier. In the Y b ips co d the last known of Sir John Franklin, - his s t iott b s or, sighted by a whaler in Baffin's Bay , he vas old' s fer of at Beechy Island, but it appears straq e Oen° 5 oe, "countable that he left no r ecor d there. strains 0 11 to King William's Land, where, no doubt,';ul c on but sal th° records, as empty ti n cases , suc h as fic' , beilo" documents, were found along the she a r e 0 ' s ou Esquimaux frequently visit this place. ....,1 5 1 1 that Franklin, in 1845, sailed north;nu - egf," touched 77 deg. north latitude ; Belcher'sbso r, 4 11' went fifty miles to the south of this point,; t ri iel. fr ts l 4 lin sailed down between Bathurst and ,/,° un til e tee; land. He next sailed down Peel Soun d ' for ei S e were blocked up in the i ce a t this poin o t ro gliV i months, and during that time Sir John f dy f,,t 1 :4 Captain M'Clintock has brought home to I v s elL i the somewhat gratifying, though inclaneh ° 6 l l o 4 ", he died in his ship, surrounded by his c o t ii'i o r r friends, perhaps regretting that he did n ig .; Af t.; ) enough tb discover the North-West ps s a , i , t it?„, must not forget that he quite well knew '''';, o ern e l'i r e quirea 100 miles of sailing to reach an °P, iiief oe i # would bring them out into the Pacifie• Iti O r four great- oyages made in the Arctic Se ° r„,, - , st 6 ' l many voyages very striking and very s 'eley' st i l et7 d : in them, but it does not always folloWtha t . t 4 of „41', cessful voyage proves the courage or the abal t i oo s ,:: ga i t, mender. Those seas are proverbially dang e et ' 0 certain, and a'shid can sail as much in it , 4 %., i .mer as it : could. during the whole of , P 7 r VI, first of these four great voyages was C i 3 ,gP: o r 4 1 ;0 firat 'sailed into Lancaater Soimd, went tw" ffi t - o 4 al Straits, , wintered .at ,Winter' liarhou r ,„"iied 1 ?e/r col having lost one man, and having tra v Lpit.' ha te 0 6 through those regions -front east 'to - ;i pu tli a . i . '" 110 0 9 0 .Franklin was 500 miles from north 0, at d i iOr i rtlO Arctic sailor knows that 500 miles in lobe Jo ° At . e ' ti 6 - equivalent to 1,500 from east to west , 0 10 0 _,„ 5 4 P - osl 6l -Franklin,' Crozier, FittJamee .and,the. s d gliieco , officers and crew performed ' the, secfsariefir"4ll6 voyage ; and I say tliat if.M'Clintockfter °7l , s l o ot than that . of having rescued- the , eh, o o 71,, ' s ot i from any stain which might by allY 4 7 - ', A s 01.8 1e deserves teirwa.rmestiluniks. Wein; e P1e 0 ,a.,,,,. la 1 12;, eif, e , of time the third great -voyage, , an i ss" C l i o ; '"'"f o rw A but the greatest explorer of them au, 20 ,0' ibre / re' 'owe this' justice to the memory of .L . iiii poet l ; cu e. t oet it also to M'Clure;. but it would be' v iea 7 n tea at mice to do justice to all the bratajo,: iit Af t ; to in those seas. At • the time `the "rT7 s t et '' ) , 1 0 11 . ,; ii went out, the-whole-of the-northern: re ri_,0 1( „ ; tbPot region was a blank, and parts which . d. P ° 01 0 4 ,,, e1 1e be sea;' - were then supposed to hf lllll ot (I°, to W A al l not a .cape or bluff on the Arctic Sea t : a heike ,,i w o tr io ci l i the name of some brave men wh°, `` . .often '"1101 )f er eelves'and to their country, and ‘ 43() .010 01 o isli e l s olo withoutt o e ther, , also s o thinkingtha t it place with their whitened bolo' 4 .i„' of, 11L e ct 1- 9al names of Arctic voyagers are .11 - i it a„oi rdi „ M'Clintock, who will hold a hiff'olawf fr'el" place ; those names have become ink, o - h i a lc Q_ .41 4 4 ,ciintox• it 4 . feet • • It'elli ll r 0 0 .' ote all concur with me that Captain . hi s re . or t a d that in ic of our highest admiration, "and motto,motto, ... 0 he hag well upheld his family od n iero jacle ior 0 , Lahore."„ (Applause.) , a kers, 1, )., Several other distinguished q. „ j1 00 :s, l el :tight Hon. J. 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