The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

Loral ant, Vrobtartal flelus. Mr. W. Jackson has been appointed Consul at]Liver pool for the republic of Chili. William Gale, Esq ,of Lightborn House, near Ulvers ton, is High Sheriff for this county for the ensuing year. A ralged school has been instituted in the boy's school of St. Barth domew's Church, Naylor-street. An " E onornic Conveyance Company," similar to the lane in this town, his been started in Birmingham. An Irishman, the other day, pledged 'a sovereign with a pawnbroker in this town for 13s. ! WELSH Cnuncn.—We understand that the Welsh •' Plygain" is to be celebrated at St. David's Church a couide of hours before sunrise. on Christmas morning. Several s imples of East India rice were exhibited for sale on Tuesday last at the Corn Exchange, thus intro ducing quite a new feature in the market. The extraordinary machine at Aigburth will be thrown open fur the inspection of the public the second week in January. Last week, Mr. Thomas Bottle got his release from Lancaster Castle, after having been confined there, as a debtor, fifteen years and two months. • John Whittaker, Esq., of Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Robert Platt, Esq., of Stalybridge, have qualified as magistrates for this county. The Birkenhead Dock Commissioners are, it is said, going to admit reporters to their meetings. The same body are making application to government for the sreetion of a custom-house at Birkenhead. On Tuesday morning, the body of a full-grown still born male child was found in the hedge of a garden at the Prince's-park. It had no covering, and was merely laid upon a piece of cloth. On Tuesday. Thomas Donelly, a labourer, employed at the north docks, was engaged, with others, in removing some earth. when a large mass gave way, and covered him. He was got out shortly afterwards quite dead. MUNIFICENCE.—The late Mr. Dillon, of Mulberry street, has left £5BO to the Liverpool Charities, and Messrs. John and Henry Holmes have presented to the Northern Hospital the liberal sum of £lOOO. A few days since two men were killed at the Station coalpit, Charley, in consequence of the breaking of the -chain attached to the bucket, as they were descending the pit. Mr. Cobden, it is said, will be opposed in his seat for Stockport at the next general election. The Conservative Trade,men's and Operatives' Society having resolved on starting a candidate 2oncurring with their views. On Monday, John Henry Grit.,dy was committed to take bi.. trial on a charge of fraudulently obtaining £5 from Mrs. Farnworth, publican. Cleveland-square. The prisoner had written a note in the name of a gentleman named Walker, and so obtained the money. The drapers of Birmingham have announced their in tention of closing their establishments on Saturday the 26th inst. At Manchester we perceive a similar course is to be adopted. We should be glad to see it followed in Liverpool. . CHARITABLE SOCIETY.—A fancy bazaar will be held next w , ek, in aid of this excellent society, for alleviating the distress of the poor at this inclement season. An advertisement elsewhere gives all necessary particulars. The stealing of hollies, laurels, and other evergreens from suburban tesidences, for the decoration of churches, is usually every prevalent at this time of the year. Par ties cannot be too cautious as to the persons from whom they purchase such articles. A commercial letter gives the following as the exports to Great Britain and Ireland from New York, from the Ist to the 28th November, inclusive t-77,800 barrels flour, and 276,400 hu.hels of wheat, mostly to Liverpool ; 312,600 bushels Indian corn, and 6,032 bushels Indian meal, to Ireland. THE WEATHER AT PRESTON.—During last week we have had a continued severe frost, the river and the canal being both frozen over, to the the great detriment of shipping, &c. It is now nine years since the river Ribble was frozen before. All the time of the frost it was crowded with hundreds of skaters. . NA' AVERTREE.—At a meeting of the ratepayers of this township, on the 7th instant, it was resolved that the pro ♦isions of the 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 90, for lighting and watching parishes, should be adopted by the township, and Mr. Samuel Holme, Mr. W. Coward, and Mr. H. Davies were elected inspectors under the act. CRUELTY TO ANIXIALS.-011 Thursday Paul Dailey was fined ten shillwgs and costs for abusing his ass. Mr. Rushton said the only way of reaching the humanity of donkey drivers was through the pocket. If the defendant were again brought up, he would fine hint the price of his ass. THE HONORARY AIAGISTRATES.—OH Friday, the business at the Police-court was delayed upwards of an hour for want of a second magistrate. One of the officers of the court was despatched in search of a stray justice of the peace, and at length found one. It would be well if the gentlemen who are so fond of railing at the old magis tracy would themselves attend better to their duties. On Monday night a very numerous meeting of the mill hands of the districts about Oldham, was held at the Town-hall at the latter place, for the purpose of consider ing the present crisis in the cotton trade. The meeting was called for the purpose of hearing Mr. Charles Hind ley, the free-trade member for Ashton-under-Lyme, on the subject of the present state of manufactures. THE SHORTEST DAY.—Yesterday, the 21st, (St. Tho mas's day,) was not this year the shortest day, but the 22nd. Upon the 21st the sun rose at 6 minutes past 8, and set at 51 minutes past 3—to-day at seven minutes past 8, and sets at 51 minutes past 3 ; consequently the 22nd is one minute shorter than the 21st. The winter quarter also commences this year to-day. ROYAL ADELPHI THEATRE.—The attraction at this Theatre during the past week has been the performance of a drama called " Hop o'my Thumb," from the pen of Albert Smith, in which the leading character is supported by the General Tom 'Thumb himself. The piece is full of humourous sallies ; and the little general's acting is lively and clever. We observe that he has been engaged for another week. SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS. — The bill of fare provided by the committee during the past week has been a plenteous one. On Monday night Mr. J. L. Hatton gave a very superior vocal entertainment; Braham and his family occupied the Hall on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,—the veteran singer for the last time; and on Saturday evening NI r.William Rowlanson gave the national melodies of Scotland in very excellent style. An investigation has taken place at Wrexham relative to the death of a widow named Somerville. The medical gentlemen stated their opinion that the cause of death was "Disease of the heart accelerated by exposure to extreme cold." The jury considered there was much blame at tached to Jonathan Owens, the relieving officer, in not at tending to the necessary wants of the deceased on Sunday night when called in. DOBSON'S PATENT ILLUMINATED NUMBERS FOR STREET DOORS.—We regard this as a most useful inven tion, and, at the same time cheering and ornamental. Were it generally adopted, it would save much time, at present spent in groping your way at night to a friend's house , and much trouble to other people at whose door you knock to ask where your friend's house is. The light also serves to illuminate the lobby. The influx of Irish paupers here continues. It is really alarming, the many applications that are made at the parish offices every day. O❑ Tuesday last, out of 40 applications for relief on that morning, 37 were from Irish people. About £25 daily has been distributed to Irish strangers arriving. Their appearance on the streets is frightful ; undoubtedly they must be in the most wretched and abject poverty. STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—This society has an unusually large number of applicants for relief at the pre sent inclement season, and, in order to render its means in some measure equal to the demands made upon them, a few ladies and gentlemen have sent in donations. But the number of contributions ought to be larger if the society is to be rendered as efficient as it ought to be in such trying times as the present. GENERAL Tom THUMII.—Our readers will perceive that the little General is now holding his morning levees, and that he is accompanied by the Infant Cecilia, or Ma libran in miniature, four years old, who has wonderful vocal powers and great musical genius. In the course of each levee the infant will sing a variety of popular songs, and the general will appear in all his perf , rmanees and costumes. No doubt as the Christmas holidays are now arrived most of our juveniles will patronize the levees. THE DRAMA IN MANCHESTER.—An unsuccessful sea son at the Manchester Theatre Royal was brought to a somewhat abrupt close on Monday evening. The Guar dian of 'Wednesday says " It is quite clear that unless a larger measure of support be accorded to the manager than he has latterly experienced, Manchester must incur the reproach of having failed duly to encourage the most liberal and skilful attempts to maintain the dramatic art that have ever been made here ; and must endure the pri vation of having the most elegant and commodious theatre in England a tenantless and deserted edifice." DEATH FROM LOCK JAW.—A few days since, a❑ in quest was bell at the Hare and Hounds public-house, West Derby, on the body of Thomas Williams, a labourer, who resided in Back-lane. On Saturday night, the 28th alt., the deceased quarrelled with a man mined Blundell, and while aiming a blow at him (being in liquor) he fell to the ground, and was immediately afterwards taken home. It was found he had a cut on the thumb, which he stated had been occasioned by falling on some mugs. The Round became worse, and deceased died on Tuesday from lock jaw. A verdict was returned to the effect that the deceased died of te'anus, occasioned by the accident. THE PACKET•SHIP' SARAH SANDS.—The splendid new packet-ship Sarah Sands, built of iron, and with auxiliary screw power, has been tried twice in the dock, and will, in a few days, go into the river; after which, if the ma chinery is all right, she will be sent to sea for two or three days' cruise. She is fitted up with unusual splendour, even for a packet-ship, and has room for about one thou sand tons of goods, besides her coals. She will be at once placed on the station, and expected to sail about the 15th of next month. The Sarah Sands was built by Messrs. James Hodgson, engines by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, on Mr. Grantham's direct action principle, who also de signed and superintended the ship, with the assistance of her experienced commander, Captain W. C. Thompson. On Monday, Terrence M'Ginnes, Ann Bryan, and John Bryan, were brought up, charged on suspicion with having stolen two timepieces, a quantity of tea, raisins, cheese, and other articles. The properly was found in a depot for thieves, in a cellar in Addison-street, and on the removal of the goods to the Central Police-office, many parties were enabled to identify their own property. The house where this wholesale system of plunder had been carried on was kept by a person named Catherine Board man, but it did not appear that she was at all aware of what was going on, although she bad observed the female prisoners going in and out of the cellar several times with things apparently concealed under their clothes. She stated that they rented a cellar and a room from her, and had occupied the premises for several months. The pri soners, who said nothing in their defence, were all com mitted for trial at the sessions, DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY.—The distress caused by the high price of potatoes, and the destitution conse quent upon the sickness that prevailed during the autumn, have compelled the committee u - f this society to appeal to the public for immediate assistance. Several, as it will be perceived by the advertisement elsewhere, have properly and liberally responded to the appeal; but more, very much more, ought to be done to place the society in a position to render efficient relief at this inclement and almost unparalleled season, and we trust the public will not be unmindful of its claims. BIRKENHEAD Docxs.—One of the gates to the new Bridge-end Dock was, the other day, put up at the south end of the dock. The new bridge to connect Birkenhead and Seacombe has also been commenced, and will be completed very shortly. The gates for the bridge are the largest i❑ the world, being upwards of seventy feet wide. There are already erected fourteen or fiiteen sluices in the Bridge-end Dock wall, adjoining the great float to the river side, which will give a scouring power, when in operation by the agency of steam, equal to 9,000 men. The completion of this bridge is required by the commis sioners of woods and forests, previous to the docks being opened, which will necessarily delay its opening until March or April nest. The building of the bridge is, we understand, part of the payment given to government for the grant of land for graving docks.—Journal. DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK.—The barque Hope of Li verpool, 559 tons. Jones, master, from Camarine's Bay for Liverpool, laden with guano, struck on a bank off Morris-castle, between Wexford and Wicklow, when the crew, 26 in number, left the barque and landed. They remained ashore two nights, but boarded her again on the 9th of December. Finding, however, that site was not seaworthy, they took to their boats; 16 seamen in the long-boat, and the remainder, including the captain and officers, in the gig. The latter party were soon after seen alongside of a schooner ; but the crew in the long-boat, not being so fortunate, continued drifting before a very strong northerly wind, with heavy snow squalls, without either provisions or water, until Sunday last, when the boat came ashore about four miles east of Newquay, on the north coast of Cornwall, It was then found that ten of her crew had died of cold and hunger. The six sur vivors were taken to the coast guard station. FOREIGNERS' MlSSlON.—Through the instrumentality of the Rev. Joseph Baylee, of Birkenhead, a " Liverpool Foreigners' Mission" has been tatablished, the object of which is to provide religious instruction for all foreigners visiting this port. The Seamen's Church, where divi:,e service will be conducted in the German and English language, has been rented for the mission, and will be opened on the 27th ult. The Rev. D. J. Hirsch is the minister. A second German missionary has been ap pointed to visit the ships and the dwellings of the poor, and a reformed Italian priest has been engaged for the poor Italians residing here. An Italian and German school will be opened in a few weeks. Towards this ob ject the Christian Knowledge Society has given £35 worth of Prayer Books and Testaments, in German. Italian. arid foreign languages ; the British and Foreign Bible Society has given £lO worth of Bibles and Testaments ; and the Religious Tract Society £lO worth of tracts. SMUGGLING Ex ritAORDIN A RY.—On Thursday night, Syreen, a custom house officer, apprehended a woman named Eliza Smith, a passenger on board an American vessel, on suspicion of having smuggled tobacco in her possession. Upon examining her dress, 17 lbs. of tobacco were found concealed under it ; but the most remarkable of the expedients which had been resorted to for the pur pose of deceiving the lynx-eyed deputies of the customs, was chat of giving to the contraband weed the semblance of a loaf. A quantity of cut tobacco had been pressed into a tin, over which a thin layer of dough was spread, which, being baked, had the appearance to the eye of a veritable loaf. The quantity of tobacco which the woman had contrived to secrete in this and other modes, amounted to no less than 70 lbs. She was brought before Mr. Rushton on Friday, and remanded to Tuesday, in order to allow of a communication with the Commissioners of Excise. DESTITUTION IN THE HIGHLANDS.—We notice that a cotrtsnondent has a letter in the Liverpool Standard, in which he ren.arlis—" It would be highly important to call a public meeting, to lay the case of the poor High landers, before the public." We could wish this were done in such towns as Liverpool, where numerous Scots men congregate, and where Providence has given to many of this class the privilege of wealth. We entreat, by all holy sanctions, the generous attention of our countrymen in England, to the distress of their afflicted brethren on the sea-girt islands of the country they love as patriots, and by whose venerable name they rejoice to distinguish themselves. In the present inclement season there is a voice pleading for hu , ran misery, which the Christian cannot disregard—which mere humanity cannot be deaf to. The situation of the poor Highlanders may be ima gined under such circumstances ;—it belongs to those who have the means, to ameliorate their sufferings.—Edin bnrgh Post. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—Letters from the Poor law Commissioners were read ; the first transmitting the requisite papers for the completion of the appointment of Dr. Christie to the rural division of West Derby ; and the second on the case of a poor woman who was removed from Toxteth-park to the Fever-house, and who, as stated in a former report, died almost immediately after her re moval. It appears that the removal of the poor woman, owing to the want of a suitable conveyance or some such difficulty, was deferred eighteen or twenty hours after the medical officer had issued his order. The Commissioners object to the plea of difficulty, and add, that the delay having been suffered to occur, the precaution ought to have been taken of consulting a medical man as to whether she were then in a condition to be removed. They con clude with requesting the observations of the guardians on these points. The report book of the master of the Workhouse showed a considerable increase of the inmates of the house since the middle of October. The increase during the two months since elapsed had been about 110, averaging eleven per week. The number in the house on Saturday was 424. The day for the weekly meeting of the guardians was changed from Tuesday to Wednesday, subject to the sanction of the Commissioners. ROBBERY AT PRESTON.—A SI➢IPLETON.—A robbery took place on Wednesday evening last, at Preston, under the following circumstances, from which it will be seen that the victim must be one of the veriest simpletons. About seven o'clock, a person from Leyland was proceed ing to the railway station, on his return home, when he was accosted in Fishergate by a female, who claimed his protection from " that man behind," who had for some time followed and " insulted " her. After walking a short distance with her intended dupe, they got into a friendly conversation, the insulting party following quietly behind them. The latter now saw a quarrel commencing be tween the other two, when he went up to them, observing " Oh, you are sweethearting a little," to which the un fortunate protector replied, " No, but this woman has robbed me of seven sovereigns;" immediately on which the woman made off, followed by the man who she said had been insulting her. It turned nut that the parties were well-known bad characters in the town. The silly, and too confiding victim, immediately gave information to the police, and from the description given of the parties, the authorities had no difficulty in apprehending them. The house was searched, when £l9 was found secreted, and several articles of wearing apparel, quite unsuited for the use of the prisoners. * They were brought before the magistrates on Thursday, and committed for trial. THE SHORT TIME QUESTION.—For some time past much jealousy has existed amongst the mill-owners about Ashton-under-Line, as to who should be the first to com mence the adoption of the short-time principle, as being advocated by Chailes Hindley, Esq., M. P., and other gentlemen, in consequence of the high price of cotton and the depression of the cotton trade. At length, however, the matter has been taken up by the master spinners of the Mossley district, who held a meeting at the Bull's Head Inn, Mossley, on Thursday. The chair was taken by George Braman, Esq., of Grove House, and the following resolution was unanimously adopted : " That the mills in the Mossley district commence on Thursday, December 17, to work at the rate of eight hours per day, or forty-six hours per week, and that they be entirely closed from Dec. 24 to January 4, 1847, and that they then commence again at the rate of forty-six hours per week." In consequence of the above resolu tion, all the mills in Mossley and the neighbourhood com menced on Thursday to work on short time—viz., eight hours per day. It may be remembered that the Mosslev district is one of considerable importance, as it now numbers at least sixteen firms, all of which, excepting a portion of one, are engaged in spinning only. What is more important is the fact that most of the large firms in Ashton and Staleybridge are intending to stop eight or nine days at Christmas, with an intention to work short time afterwards. ST. BARN ABAS' SCHOOLS.—On Thursday evening last, the half-yearly examination of the infants attending these schools, took place in the presence of the Bey. T. Nolan, many members of St. Barnabas' congregation, and a large number of the parents of the children. The room, which was very tastefully decorated with ever greens, and several beautiful flags, bearing appropriate scriptural mottoes, was densely crowded. Miss Colgan, the clever and active mistress, conducted the examina tion, and certainly proved to all present, by eliciting ready and correct answers from her young pupils, that she had spared neither time nor pains in instructing their youth ful minds in the various branches of their education. Some pleasing and instructive pieces also were recited in excellent style, which called forth the approval of those assembled. At the conclusion of the examination, the Bev. T. Nolan addressed the meeting, and remarked how much he had been gratified with what he had witnessed that evening, there being a manifest improvement over the previous half yeariy examination. He highly and de servedly complimented Miss Colgan and her two assis tants, for their exertions, and thanked them on behalf of himself and his co-trustees. He also took the oppor tunity of soliciting the cooperation of the parents in the good work by urging upon them the necessity of regularity in attendance and cleanliness, and he was glad to compli ment them upon the latter point that evening, the children having a remarkably clean appearance. The children then concluded by singing " God Save the Queen ;" after which, they had each a bun given to them. The meeting then separated, hi g hl y grat ifi e d w i t h t h e even i ng ' s pro ceedings. The number of infants in daily attendance is about 240. The examination of the boys and girls was conducted by Mr. Nolan, during the four previous suc cessive days, and was very satisfactory. THE BROTHERS TEVENDECS GRAND CONCERTS. — We shall be pardoned for re-directing the attention of the admirers of classical music to the announcement of the first concert of our young townsmen in this country, and soliciting for them the liberal patronage of the public. We have seen the programme, which is marked by exqui site taste; and we are convinced that the performances will be of a very superior character. Indeed, we are satis fied that the talents and acquirements of these young men would justify a vastly higher pretension than they have vet put forward ; and we hope the utmost will be done to induce them to settle in Liverpool. The concert, we have much satisfaction in believing , will be attended by the Mk' of Liverpool and the vicinity. THE LIVERPOOL HEBREW PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. —On Wednesday evening last, the anniversary of this society was celebrated by a public dinner at the Royal AFsembly-rooms ' Great George -street. Mr. Ed war d S . Samuel occupied the chair, and Mr. Frederick Jackson the vice-chair. About sixty-three gentlemen sat down. To the right and left of the chairman we noticed the Rev. Dr. Raphael, of Birmingham, Thomas Thornely, E sq , M.P., James Aikin, Eyre Evans, Thomas Bolton, Tindal Atkinson, John Hamilton Parr, Esqrs., and several of the Jewish persuasion. There was a numerous attendance of handsome and fashionably-attired ladies, as spectators, in the gallery. Most of the gentlemen named delivered address es , but the speech of the evening was th a t o f t h e Rev. Dr. Raphael, who spoke long and eloquently in reply to the toast of " The land we live in," The continued prosperity of the society was drunk amid great enthusiasm. EXTREME DESTITUTION AT DUCKENFIELD —On Fri day, a coroner's inquest was held at Duckenfield on the body of a poor man's child named Pagett. The Rev John Leeson said :—I art; minister of the New St. George's District, Stalvbi idge. I visited the house of Pa gett or Friday last, in consequence of an application from Pagett himself the day previously. He represented him self as being in great distress, and that he had a child dying. When I went into the house, I found Pagett sit sing on a stone before the fire with the child in his arms. I enquired if that was the only room they had, and if the shavings were the only bed they were possessed of. All the covering they had was a piece of old woollen carpet, which lay on the top of the shavings. There was not any article of furniture in the place. He told me he had no food for his child excepting a little bread in a cup with water. I asked if he had applied for relief since the day before, or sent for a surgeon. He replied that his wife had gone off to find some relief. I have seen hundreds of cases, but I never saw one of greater destitution."— The relieving officer was severely censured for neglect of duty. The verdict was—" Died from bowel complaint, aggravated by cold." HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—There were twelve members present. Mr. Higgins handed in a bill from Mr. Deane, the law-clerk, all of which was regular except a charge of 2s. per folio for drawing out parliamentary no tices,—the usual charge being, he said, Is. He complained of the great expense unnecessarily gone to by the Board on the Water Bill, amounting in all to £2,693. The Chairman said the parishioners ordered them to go to parliament : he thought the money was well laid out. Mr. Deane said the real charge for drawing up the papers was 2s. a folio, and he had no objection to refer it to Mr. Lloyd. Finally the bill was ordered to be paid. It was stated that the tower at the Green-lane Waterworks had now attained its full height, and that the boilers were nearly fixed, &c. Out of doors, the work had been sus pended by the frost. A committee was appointed to in spect the works. A letter from Mr. Johnson was read, claiming £3OO for the use of land in Hardman -street. This it was agreed to resist. Mr. Deane said he had received notice from the North-Western Railway of their intention to apply for powers to take certain streets in their line, to enlarge their Lime-street station. It was agreed that the Board should remain neutral on the sub ject. BRUTALIIY AND AVARICE.—A disgusting occurrence has transpired in the village of Horwich, between Bolton and Chorley. It appears that for some years past a farmer, named John Heaton, had resided at a lonely farm near the village. He is known as being extremely avari cious. His wife had had a paralytic stroke, and had been in bed helpless for upwards of two years. The husband was so penurious that he provided no person to attend her, and he left her without food for days, in a condition too shocking to be described. A woman who called upon her on Friday found her dead and cold. The husband bad gone to bed the previous night, without knowing or caring whether she was dead or alive. No assistance was called in after her death, and portions of her body were eaten away by a half-starved cat ! The villagers talked the matter over, and the circumstance reached the ears of the coroner. The inquiry concluded on Friday, when the following verdict was returned :—`' We believe that the death of the deceased has been accelerated through want of proper medical aid, and care and attention on the part of her husband, John Heaton." This was a verdict of manslaughter, and Heaton was taken into custody. The inhuman husband has been twice convicted of cruelty to animals. SELECT VESTRY.—Several members made bitter com plaints of the rapidily increasing charge to this parish oc casioned by the immigration of poor Irish in a state of destitution. The relief paid last week was £l6 more than in the corresponding week of last year ; this week it was £l2B 18s. 2d., in excess of the same week in 1845. The increase was attributed to the numbers of poor Irish, many of whom, one member said, were sent over to Li verpool for no other purpose than to be relieved. The proportions of this week's relief were, to resident Irish poor, £75 ' • to casual Irish poor, £25; to resident English paupers, £ lB, and that very morning (Tuesday) out of 40 applicants for relief, no less than 39 were Irish. If this state of things continued the rates must be doubled. Mr. Ferguson suggested that these facts should be represented to the Government, who would probably do something. The rev. chairman replied that the Government would, no doubt, feel much obliged to the vestry for the infor mation, but their answer would be, they had enough, and too much, on their hands of Ireland, to pay attention to the Irish grievances of that ward. A voluminous report was read from Mr. Weightman, upon the extensive alter ations and additions to the workhouse. The patients in the fever hospital were reported to be 102. Mr. Steins was elected a vestryman in the place of Mr. W. P. Bushby resigned. INQUESTS HELD BEFORE MR. CURRY, ON SATURDAY. —On view of the body of Hugh Henry Waggett, a boy, aged 11 years. lie complained of a pain in his head, and said a policeman ,had struck him with his hand, a week before, while he was w heeling a barrow on the footpath. A surgeon was called to him on Thursday, but lie died next day. A post mortem examination showed that he had died from an abscess in the brain, the result of natural causes. Verdict accordingly.—On the body of Alexander Smith, aged 13. Deceased fell from a cart in Little How ard-street, on Saturday week, and one of the bales of cot ton, with which it was loaded, fell upon his head. He was taken to the hospital, where he died on Friday last. Verdict, " concussion of the brain."— On the body of Elizabeth King, aged nine months. Verdict, died from suffocation by the bed clothes.—On the body of Susan Quin, aged 56. Deceased left Ireland by the steamer Rover, on Wednesday, and while on the passage to this port, became suddenly ill, and died in a few minutes. On post mortem examination, lit appeared she had died from congestion of the lungs, the result of natural causes. Verdict accordingly.--On the body of Thomas Lee, aged 76. Deceased, who lived in Rirnmer street, was found, on Friday night, by a police-officer, lying groaning in Lancelot's-hey. He was taken to the main bridewell for safety, and attended to. A surgeon was also called, but the deceased did not rally, and died on the following morning. From the evidence, the jury re turned a verdict, that death was caused by exposure to cold.—On the body of Patrick Moffat, Oriel-street, ten months old, who was taken out of bed in a dying state, on Tuesday, and expired soon after, from a disease of the bowels. Verdict, " Natural death".—On the body of William Wheeler, Pellew-street, aged 70. Deceased, it appeared, died from apoplexy.—On the body of Margaret Unwin, a child eleven months old, living in Lambert street. Deceased was left, three weeks ago, with her bro ther, two and a-half years old, in a kitchen, when her clothes took fire, and she was so much burnt, that she died on Thursday last. Verdict, death from fire ; but how her clothes became ignited, no evidence. THE CHAPLAIN'S REPORT ON THE PRESTON HOUSE or CORRECTION.—The report of the Rev, John Clay on this important subject has ju s t been published. It is a document of great length, the 23rd handed in by the writer, and exhibits great research and attention on his part on the question of prison discipline. Ile announces a still further decrease of crime, arising chiefly from the system of discipline adopted in the House of Correction there. The general decrease of commitments in the last year was more than seven per cent. as compared with those of the previous year, though the last had been less favourable than the former with regard to employ and wages. Time was when prisoners came out of gaol worse than they went in. Now, happily, undtr the improved discipline of the gaol, many of them were redemed from the error of their ways, and rendered useful members of 1 , society. Mr. Clay supplies a variety of statistics, show ing the gradual amendment produced, but we have not room for details, and must therefore, refer thoSe inter- ested to the report itself, which will no doubt be pub- ' lished in a separate form. The means adopted comprise the separation of prisoners as a means of their reforma• lion, religious instrnetion, and kindness, so far as it can be consistently exercised, and also a strict enforcement as regards the principal culprits, of the " silent system." Many of these have, after leaving the gaol, voluntarily acknowledged with gratitude the blessings they have de rived from the moral and physical training to which they have been subjected; and we think the system should be well weighed by , ' our own authorities and the govern ment before a definite plan for our new gaol be decided upon, as much, no doubt, depends upon the internal adap tation of the building for separation, or classification. Mr. Clay strongly recommends the moi:eso successfully adopted by Mr. Wright, of Manchester, a benevolent gentleman, who by comparatively small private means, has done incal culable good, by finding employment for discharged pri soners who have determined to lead amended lives. On this point, Mr. Clay remarks :—" A prisoner, before li beration, gives satisfactory evidence of his wish to lead an honest life. Ile is recommended to the favourable notice of Mr. Wright, or of the Prisoners' Relief Society. Sa tisfied of his sincerity, efforts are made to interest some benevolent employer in his behalf, and a small sum of money is assignee! for his support until some employ m a y be found. The two things chiefly required in the recovery ofia culprit to respectability, are, I trust, both attainable ; the reformatory discipline of the prison, and the confi dence of employers in the effects of that discipline The latter will not be wanting when the former is established." It appears that a society, having a similar ohject, has been established in Preston, and has been highly successful. Mr. Clay dwells at some length on " public education" of the right kind, as a strong preventative of crime, and he thus concludes :—" The legislature may without much difficulty provide for the improvement of prison discipline nod for the reformation of offenders. May they b e ena bled to frame, with the cordial concurrence of all parties. wise and compreherkive measures for promoting sound religious education. In proportion as that moves vigor ously forward, disorder and crime must recede. The po verty caused by ignorance and low sensuality will be di minished. The religious and well-informed workman will shun, from inclination as well as from principle, the gro velling pleasures of the beer-shop ; and the appetite of the younger operative for reading and amusement will revolt from the literary garbage on which thousands are now feeding." Mr. Clay deserves well of his country for his exertions, and the pains he has taken to introduce a re formation in the treatment of prisoners, which is found to be highly conducive to their redemption from evil ways, and with it, to the security and advantage of society at large. Dec. 22, 1846. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CUttliilSl- 1 01VDEAL . E. " PROTESTANTISM. PUSEYISM, & POPERY." TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—The assize intelligence interposing, I could not expect the most indulgent editorial courtesy to open the columns of the STANDARD for the reprehension of a lea der with the above prefix, which appeared in the supple ment of the Liverpool Mercury of the 4th inst.—a leader that demands the condemnation of every honest Protestant in the empire. That the Old Lady of Lord-street should turn religious monitress is, if not instructive, at least amusing; but when she undertakes the protection of abstract Protes tantism, this is more than can be endured, and cabs for the repudiation of the kindness, and the suppression of the impertinence. Her hugs become so much akin to those of the " blessed Virgin" in the Inquisition, which tore off the flesh and ripped up all who courted her " holy embrace," that all who eschew hatred and malice and mischief to the Church of England, will also eschew the Mercury's proffered kindness towards Protestant interests and true religion. A mars of more contradictory inferences, from real or supposed facts and data, could not well be compressed into the same space as his leader. If he would confine him self to salt-box logic, sp uning tops, swimming feats, and kindred trifles, he might be permitted to pass at least un censured, it not unread. But when he ventures on theo logy, writes lectures on Christianity, and strictures on Protestantism, we may indeed open our eyes in astonish ment at a pundit so learned in the Scriptures, which he quotes with all the facility of a Cambridge professor or an Oxford D.D. This, doubtless, is to prove his familiarity with that musty old volume, the Bible, and to establish his qualifications and pretensions to instruct. A facility in quotation, however—apposite though it be—is but a sorry and equivocal proof of general, and none of saving, knowledge. The devil himself could quote, and most ap positely too, if not c rrectly ; but who, except your Mer curys, your Carliles, and your Tom Paines, will receive him as an expositor of Holy Wilt. That Ido the writer of that article no wrong, I appeal to his censure of the law's suppression of Tom Paine's infidel works. My readings of the Mercury, short and occasional though they be, are yet sufficient to bring to my recollection his stric tures and condemation of the law (when reporting an un fortunate inquest) for not prohibiting the dispensation of physical poisons from the druggist's shops. But that is quite azothei thing. Poison the soul as much as you like, but touch not the body. The effect of the one is only su ture, though eternal ; that of the other is proximate, though temporal only, therefore protect it at all hazards, and at any sacrifice of either liberty or profit : the happi ness and pleasures of life certain are not to be superseded by those of merely lite possible. So faintly does the Mercury's divinity stir within him. He says—" it is in this land of religious freedom that death was declared to be the punishment of denying the doctrine of the Trinity." Instead of being thankful that this is no longer the case, instead of etnogising " this land of religious freedom" for its abandonment of such perse cution and excess, be endeavours to lead the minds of his readers into the in, pression that the crime is still ob noxious to the penalty, stating in aggravation, " that a poor young college student was actually hanged at the Grassmarket of Edinburgh by the particular requisition of the Clergy." For the sake of the argument, admitting the imputed fact, who, 1 would ask, originated such bloody persecutions and tragedies as that here denounced? Who openly shed oceans of blood, and secretly perpetrated the most refined cruelties and the most atrocious tortures in the vaults of that Pandemonium, the internal Inquisition? Why that very Papacy with which he so deeply sympa thises. Yet not one word has he to utter in it. condem nation, while the phials of his unmitigated wrath are filled to the brim against Protestantism, for what took place, if at all, ages ago. Any reader of that article, unacquainted with the fact, would suppose him to be an uncompromis ing and rabid Papist ; but is he such ? on the contrary, he is, credal Judeus ! a professing member of the Reformed Church of England. and bas affection for Rom .hism . only as it is so formidable and stabbing an antagonist of our National Church, furnishing a weapon for its discomfiture and a wedge for its overthrow. Again he says—" Here, too, (that is, in England,) the Jews for their religion alone have been the objects of con stant persecution ; and whilst not even yet admitted to the ordinary right of peaceable citizens and loyal subjects, are compelled to observe the Sabbath of the Christian, while the Christian refuses to pay the slightest respect to theirs." Any foreigner reading which would arrive at no other conclusion than that the Jews are now persecuted for their religion. This is the same ignoratii elenchi appeal to our partially-educated young Radical readers of the Mercury containing,that runs throughout the entire leader, as' it does, base (and, to perpetrate a jeu de mot, 1 may add baseless) charges against both the religion and the laws of this happy land. None knows better than himself, that in no country is the Jew less persecuted, nor more libe rally treated and respected, than in this. In proof, look at the list of high sheriffs for the current year ; is the ele vation of a Jew to the high honour of the shrievalty a proof of persecution ? Is conferring the aldermanic gown of the mightiest and most intelligent city in the world a proof ? Away, then, with the dishonest arid unprincipled imputa tion, and away with the childish objection, that no respect is paid to the Jews' Sabbath, an objection too puerile for a rebuke, too contemptible for the dignity of a rejoinder. He lauds and holds up to imitation the present Pope. for relaxing some of the rigid laws against this wonderful race of God's sons, censuring by implication and contrast the severity of our own. Now a more damning charge against Popery could not have been introduced, nor one more damaging his own general knowledge and historical read ing. Is he so ignorant, then, of the Jews having been ex cluded from all rights of citizenship in the Holy City— that at a certain hour each night they have been driven, like dogs to a kennel, into a certain quarter, and that, too, the most obnoxious, of the town, and there locked up for the night, without the power of either ingress for others or egress for themselves, except in the urgent case of fire ? Transfer this system and state of things to liberal Eng land—town, Liverpool—time, ten o'clock at night—loca lity, the poorest, the filthiest, the most immoral, and in every sense the worst part of, say Vauxhall-road; inclose this pestilent district with high walls—drive the noble race of Abraham within its confines, and lock them therein each night,—do all or any portion of this, and into what an ebullition of fury would the Mercury lash himself, bristling with weekly leaders of fiery indignation. What requiems would he not perform over the dead bodies of each pestilentially-slain Israelite! what anathemas would he not evoke against the " bigotry" of Protestantism! To find a Radical half advocating the observance of the Jews' Sabbath, by way of reciprocating religious civility, is a no velty worthy the refined politeness of a Beau Nash. No, no ; one day in the week is enough for any liberal, and too much for some. Whatever others may have forgotten, he must remember well the time when his intimate friend and co-labourer in the same Radical vineyard was habi tually accustomed to spend the Christian's Sabbath in playing billiards. Those who can claim such liberty as this, without incurring the visits of an inquisitor-general and the punishment of the thumbscrew, have little reason to complain of the restraint of the seventh day. The liberty sought for is, the liberty to level all distinctions of days— to open shops, offices, and theatres, as in France and other Roman Catholic countries—to make the Sabbath a day of pleasure, drunkenness, and licentiousness—to break down the barriers that now interpose between monarchy and democracy, between religion and infidelity. This is the liberty dearer to the clan Mercury than any and all reli gion. The profession of the latter is desirable only so far as it will contribute towards the accomplishment of this ultimo thule of Whigs and Radicals ; for this it is that they patronise that great " conspiracy against property, liberty, and life." Popery—for this they offer the right hand of fellowship to those" incomprehensible vagabonds" the Jesuits, who hunt in couples, compassing the destruc tion of your domestic happiness; sowing the seeds of ha tred between husband and wife, brother and sister ; la bouring to topple down our sacred institutions, and involve in one common ruin both liberty of conscit nce and perso nal liberty. History is prolific of such fell intentions and resut's as these, but then we are forbidden to appeal to such an old almanack as history. Well, but let us turn to the Morning Herald of the Bth of the present month, and we 11311 find that " a journeyman blacksmith, from Wirtemberg, employed at Lucerne, has been tried and condemned to banishment from the canton for ten years, and to pay the costs of his prosecution, for having, while drinking at a public-house cast reflections upon the Je suits." Is this fact of October, 1846, to be classed in the category of the old almanack. Suppose that to have taken place here, what then? But I need not describe the in sulted Roman dignity of your contemporary. But why lend himself to that party end those principles which aim at nothing less than the accomplishment of such a luxated state of society as shall result in the destruction of civil and religious liberty, and leave us nothing in exchange but the caput mortuum of the body-burning, soul-destroy ing Romanism. He cannot be ignorant that the Society of Jesuits are so dangerous, desperate, and intriguing, as to have been kicked out of the very countries which not only gave them birth, but which professes their religion also ; nor ought he to be ignorant that Popery and igno rance, Popery and slavery, Popery and idleness, Popery and filth, and Popery and crime, are synonymous; in proof, let him take those Italian states the most proximate to the " Holy City." No right-minded Englishman can have any sympathy with the Mercury in his malignant at tacks on the citadel and bulwark of our liberty, and the happiness of our homes—Protestantism. None can jus tify his patronage of the great apostacy. There is some thing to wonder at, Mr. Editor, when we find a professed member of our own Church maligning the brightest and the best of that Church's ministers, and yet throwing a mantle of protection over Tom Paine. Such is the fact in the article lam criticising. The opportunity of dragging that minister before the public, again presented itself, and we find Mr. M'Neile recommended to imitate the present Pope ! Let that reverend gentleman imitate an angel, still, like the flogging drummer, he will never please the Mercury. There is not a paragraph in that leader, Mr. Editor, that does not call for analysis and demand rebuke. I have no right, however, to trespass further on your columns with an article already too long . to find grace in the eyes of One pressed, if not oppressed ;:ith the difficulty of finding space for matter craving insertion ; but I cannot conclude without observing, that it is to the countenance and sup port given to Romanism and Jesuitism by the writers of such articles as that on " Protestantism, Puseyism, and Popery," that we are indebted for the present state of Ireland, where murder is the hourly crime of each day, perpetrated, too, under circumstanCes more _recoltit;k than . are to be traced in the most barbarians of the S avage tribes.—l am, sir, &c. VINDEX. THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD GENTLRMEN,—WouId it not be an improvement to the 1 Collegiate Institution if there were more lectures on music delivered during the season. In an age when music is so I popular as in the present, 1 am sure it would be an ar rangement much approved of. If there were fewer lec tures on dry and uninteresting subjects, and more on this thrilling and pleasing subject, I am confident the atten •dance would be both more numerous (if possible) and more respectable. Now that the working classes have their intellectual musical recreations, why should not the higher classes have the same. Now gentlemen, 'what theatre could be so appropriate as that of the Collegiate, and what subject more popular or so important as music ? In this way we might often be favoured with the services of some of our distinguished vocal performers on the stage ; and in this way there would be a greater taste cul tivated for this most ennobling and delightful subject. What subject is so important as that of singing , or what subject so much tends to refinement of feelings and taste; or what subject tends so much to the progress of civiliza Lion ; or what subject tends half so much to cheer and render happy the domestic hearth, as music. I hope therefore, the spirited directors of this noble institution will set an example to England at large, in the extending of the knowledge of, and taste for this delightful subject. The present theatre would not near accommodate the members, if the lectures were of a more musical caste. I am, Gentlemen, &c., A LIFE MEMBER OF THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. Liverpool, Dec. 19, 1846. ing power or volatile influence, shared in the calamity, and began to acquire, in a few hours, a very respect able coating of rust; whilst wood-work was not in active in absorbing the disgusting fluid. The tenant had to get a poor ragged urchin out of the street, having his feet only naturally furnished, to wade ankle-deep over the invaded territory, in order to make some expedient arrangements about rescuing the dinner out of the oven! A specimen of the fluid was sent to Dr. Brett, who states that it was highly charged with sulphuretted hydrogen (blackening salts of lead copiously). If no other case had ever been known to 'occur, it were amply sufficient to danan one of the celebrated clauses in the existing Sewerage Act. learnt, further, that this awful state of things was no novelty—it was an historically periodical fact. I leave this, with my respects, at the door of the old Corporation : it bath a tongue, and may aecuse, to the extent of its own " list," the fol.y o f o ld legislation without medical advice. I turn now to a few words about cellars.—The late Im provement Act drove crowds out of cellars which were not of the required parliamentary height above the door sill, or window, or area, or street flagging ; but senatorial wisdom forgot to stipulate that the depth for the fl mring should be required to possess a limit, as well as the height of the ceiling. The data for reckoning the height of the ceiling were easily assumed to be at a natural, or at least reasonable zero. This would have been all right if they had enforced the zero of flooring, then there had been an unalterable datum preserved in all cases for gauging the height of the cellar. Many cellar owners, who found that their cella s were not in compliance with the require ments of the act, through being too low, on ingeniously reflecting upon a plan for driving their coach-and-six through an Act so obnoxious to their pockets, found that they could not gain the required height for the - ceili ng witl.out lifting the whole house above it the 2 or 3 feet requisite: but this was not practicable of course, whilst th second alternative was rather more feasible, and, withal, easy of execution. And why not lower the cellar floor jut to the depth requisite to give the 13 feet in height ? Tois bright thought, which would have made the fortune of many a lawyer, was perhaps hit upon by some inventive wit, feed for the happy remedy. Away the landlords went to eager work, and floces of cellars of Liverpool Proper were lowered quickly, and again h- ld out their blandishments to their tallow-townsmen, whose instinctive habits approached them to the well known burrowing classes of animals. I have no pretended knowledge as to the extent to which this refinement upon cellar levels has been carried, but I may as well give what slender evidence I hapaen to have. I obtained the statements from the poor people themselves, who have been eye witnesses of the interesting burrow-system. They were patients com ing for advice as out-door patients to the Dispensary of the Lying-in Hospital. If on any point they 'should have misled me as to the spot or fact, I should be_ sorry, for it would, if so, do an injustice to the working of the act. Leeds-street contains at least two of this new de vice. I saw these myself in the act of lowering, and on inquiring what they were sinking for in one corner parti cularlv, was told by the workmen that a dry well required to be formed there, as the floor was deepened, " in order to comply with the act !" Other; similar are said to grace Lydia Anne-street, and rheumatism occured in a case occupying one of them, which was roundly attributed by the poor woman to so adequate a cause. I am, Sir, yours truly. G. C. WATSON PAROCHIAL ASSISTANT ASSISTANT ASSOCIATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The proposed formation of a Parochial Assistant Association, or Ecclesiastical Town Mission, noticed in your paper of Tuesday last, is a matter of considerable importance to Liverpool and its neighbourhood. It is desirable, therefore, that the intended plan should be laid before the public, in order that a just opinion may be formed both as to the soundness of its principle and the prosoect of its ultimate success. The following remarks are offered chiefly for the purpose of drawing from the parties concerned an official statement of their views. The general plan is understood to be this :—That college should be established at Birkenhead, for gentle men intending to enter the church; the Vme of study, the amount of fees, and the class of students, to be the same as at the present College of St. Bees; but that, instead of confining their education to theological studies, they should also be exercised in the pastoral work of the ministry, by acting as visitors or Scripture-readers in the various districts of the neighbourhood. It is obvious that the main part of this scheme is the supply of candidates for orders, and that the inducement held out of local assistance in the pastoral work is only additional and supplementary. Now before establishing an institution of this sort, we ask.—first, Is it necessary 7 To this question, the bare fact that the Bishop of Chester has taken the office of patron does not of itself afford a satisfas-tory reply. For it is ru moured that the Bishop and Lord Lonsdale do not agree in the management of St. Bees, and that the tone of feeling prevalent there is not altogether approved ; and these and similar motives may naturally render our dvs cesan favourable to an institution more immediately under his control, without in any way affording a proof of its actual necessity. But if not absolutely necessary: is it advantageous 7 To the students there would be no saving of time or ex pense, not even to those residing in Liverpool, unless specially exempted from living in the institution. And as to the knowledge they would obtain of the pastoral work, it would indeed be a great benefit as an addition to mental acquirements, but may be a doubtful advantage TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. when considered as a d duction from a short two-years course of instructio n . T o the incu m be n ts of poo r and Sts,—lt is with pleasure I ob-erve that th e R ev. M r. populous districts the assistance of twenty or thirty Barker made a collection last Sunday in aid of this So young men acting as gratuitous Scr'nture readers for two ciety. I trust his example will be followed by oth er cler or three hours a d ay , wou ld , no d ou b t , b e hi g hl y va l ua bl e; gymen in this town and neighbourhood. and yet it may be questioned whether the funds required " Unity) is strength ." I believe two di s ti nc t soc i et i es for the present sc h eme m i g h t not h e app li e d so as t o are now in existence, one having in view the erection of furnish more effectual local aid. Supposing that three three or four churches in Toxteth-park; the other, the hundred pounds ' a year is sufficient to support the same number in the north-eastern district of Liverpool. the institution, for that sum twelve persons would I should by all means recommend a coa liti on, or amalga give half th e i r ti me as permanent S cr i pture rea d ers (nation, which would cause them to work together with always on the spot; and the services of such men may rca- more energy, and the object of both would b e more epee sonably be c ons id ere d as f ar more va l ua bl e th an t h e cru d e dily accomplished. efforts of twice the number of mere college students, limi- A better method for effecting the purpose contemplated ted to three hours a-day, and ending their labours just at by these societies than continual agitation of the subject the time when they really were b: coming effective. cannot be adopted ; and causing collections to be made There are oth er po i nts i n t h e p l an w hi c h requ i re exp l a- ei th er year l y or half-yearly in the different chu r ch es o f nation, brit these may form the subject of another letter, the establishment. A considerable addition would thus in case no satisfactory statement should appear. In the be made to the fund, and I may add almost imperceptibly mean time, or without inconvenience to the contributors. I am, sir, &c. JUNIUS. Liverpool, Dec. 21st, 1846. Nor. 28, 1846, - -.....- LIVERPOOL CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETIES. 18th Dec. 1846 I remain, Sir, very truly yiurs, C. M. [We do not agree with our correspondent ; but as his letter is written in a becoming style, we have not felt our selves justified in withholding it. An advertisement in our columns to-day will probably give C. M. much of the information which he seeks for.] INFALLIBLE CURE FOR THE POTATO DISORDER. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—Au agriculturist with whom I am acquainted tried last season, with great success, the following experi ment on his potato fields .—The scouring of ditches, mixed with a considerable portion of lime, soapwaste, and soot, the component parts of which dressing contained a large proportion of the latter ingredients, the detersive quality of which is well known, as being most likely to counter act the putrescent tendency of this useful vegetable, and restore it to its pristine state. CHARON. 191 h Dec. 1846. ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LETTER XXII " Property has its duties as well as its rights." THE DAMP, FOUL STATE OF DWELLINGS, SOURCES OF DANGER The remaining cases of disease and distress which I have to bring forward are perhaps only illustrations of what is already well known as the general results of foul, mal-sanitary tenements : but I advance them as so many particular proofs of the effects of this cause, reaped by my own personal observation for the most part, or accurately verified by myself on testimony upon which 1 have every reason to rely. A fact may be so general as to lose its sharpness of character, it may be so widely accepted, as to require the re-engraving of its outline in general, or here and there touches in particular ; in order that the mind may be adequately impressed with the truth of it. Truth itself seems to lose its effect—principle fails to energise motive—and the latter thereby slackened, all the activity that is based upon it, is indifferently carried out. Unless this truth or this principle from time to time be renewed in its aspect, or exhibited in some freshened form, it becomes like a metal obscured by the incrustation of time—the rust of exposure, which requires a little ap plication to restore its native lustre and purity. For this reason, if I may take the reflections of my own mind for an example of the common mind, a great advantage re sults from the endeavour to set down a well• known truth in the light of fresh incident or novel illustration. REMOVAL OF THE CHURCH FOR THE BLIND TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, is, I presume, a matter of certainty, that be fore long the North Western Railway Company will require this Church, together with the School, for an ex tension of the Lime-street Station. This will be matter of reiret7tOmany admirers of the fine arts, as this building is, without exception, the, finest and most perfect specimen of classic architecture in Liver pool. Might not the materials be reconstructed elsewhere, if cautiously taken down, without visible detriment to any portion ? - I have been told that in America these things are cle verly managed, houses, &c. being transferred to another locality, without the necessity for demolition, but as we are unable to compete with Brother Jonathan in this respect, probably the only feasible plan is what I have suggested, to preserve intact the noble structure in ques tion. CLIO. Liverpool, 181 h December, 1846. A patient I attended lately, whose residence, like some cases I have already given, was located on nearly the highest topographical region of Parliamentary Liverpool, and was of a comfortable size for health and convenience. His wife lay on the weary couch of lingering consumption's latter stages. Her personal habits—and not merely habits, but the springs rf those semi•instinctive domestic apti tudes—were based on the most exalted Christian virtue, as rightly poised motives ever tending in well regulated minds to order, cleanliness, decency, and the ruling well of the lesser affairs of household economy. One day, on my visit, I perceived the lobby of the house, and in fact every room in the house, from cellar to attic, in a most horrid condition frosa stench which was all but insupport able. Necessity may tie us down to anything—and so it was with the poor invalid. Though we could seek relief from the nuisance by remaining at open door or window, yet could not the bed-stricken. Her fate was to endure what I (accustomed as some of my readers may naturally suppose me to be) could not reconcile myself to remain longer in than to superintend the ventilation needed, and the immediate wants of the patient. I es caped as soon as my duty was done, arid rejoiced in the comparatively pure air of the street, though not unpractised in the professional toleration of sulphuretted hydrogen gas., whether found in the laboratory, or, as a frequent accident in Liverpool Improper ; yet to the keener sense of the delicate invalid, whose intolerance of dirt and stag nation, oftner called forth my gentle censure than any thing els 2 ; what must have been the amount of distressing annoyan to her for hours during which it had lasted ! this, added to the demand fur the purest and most oxy genised air in consumption, when so much of the lung is often incapacitated for respirati on , was an ev il added to the hour of languishing, preventible in itself, and there fore vexatious in the extreme. " A stone given for bread " is the forcible figure which may be correctly applied here. The wisdom of a former Parliament and the ryes( nt pos ture of the landlord of the row of houses, required that he should drain the foundations, and, as I suspect must have been the case too, the super-abundant fluid of the cess ! pools of his own houses, into some lower depth sill, since , lie was not permitted to make use of the main sewer for this purpose, even if there was one. I belive though there may be one now almost so far up in the street, a con siderable thoroughfare too, yet it is of no more ancient date than 1846 ; and the houses have stood ever since I can date back for Liverpool. The landlord had to bury his dead water some where then, as the public receptacle was not commissioned yet to carry it off for him to the river side. It is, 1 admit, a puzzle to know what else the houseowner could do, lie did as well as he could ; he sunk what is called by builders a dry-well, about twenty-firs feet deep, so I am told by the tenant is the fact. Its capacity would, of course, for some time yield sufficient reservoir for drainages, so as to carry them out of sight, and, but for occasional gusts of stench, out of mind that such agricultural treasures lay buried so far, ton low down to be useful, yet not to prove innoxious. The natural filtration of the fluid contents through the sand-work would be tending always to a diminution of the bulk of the fluid, and a concentration consequently of its chemi cal ingredients; except where a long s: inking rainy season would charge the superficial and substrata of the soil and rock, to saturation, when another feature would be added to this interesting dry-well—this Liverpool gem; the drain age of waters from the foundations, &c., would be greatly increased by the downfall of rain, and the rocky sides of the now incapable of leaking out, would return old compli ments, and so leak in. This " unexpected return"—this double-duty doing well—there, in the plenitude of its gratitude, would proceed into actual overflow, and thus relieve itself of its natural burthen, presenting landlord and tenant with a handsome overflow over kitchen-cellar floors—not of mere rain-water, but of water black as ink —being only the diluted mud of the long concentrated cesspool drainage at the bottom of the well. Here was ample return of capital, with compound interest!—usury of domestic economy ! Over such a rich storehouse, what a pity that the slad cover of the well had not had a classic motto cut upon it, just as well entitled as the \Vavertree fount—since they are both springs —to appro priate the well-known Latin motto—" Qui non dat (plod dremoninferaridet." I have narrated this oppro brium of Liverpool sewerage work with a natural smile over my reflections whilst writing, which I hope will be excused ; at the time I felt its evils in all this grave form. Whilst witnessing its last naturally endowed irruption, and in investigating the nature of the cause, I found that for a short time previous to my call the cellar-kitchen floor had been flooded ankle-deep with the stinking contents of this overflowing dry well. The iron fender and fire-irons, and every thing within its bath- THE REPEAL SPLIT.-O'BRIEN V. O'CONNELL The young agitator and the old one—the man of physi cal force and the man of moral force—continue dis-united in their labours for Repeal, notwithstanding every effort has been made to bring about a reconciliation, and the confident prediction of the elder mountebank that he should succeed in blarneying the cellar martyr and his friends. The interview between the parties, to arrange the terms of a peace, has, indeed, only widened the breach previously existing between them. At the same time, however, it has naturally enlightened the public; and may, some of these days, be instrumental in opening the eyes of the Irish people to the character of the parties by whom they are sought to be either befooled or betrayed into rebellion. The Young Ireland party proposed as the basis of settlement that, in the first instance, the legality of an association, amongst whose members are to be found men who advocate resort to physical force, if necessary to carry out their projects, should be discussed ; and re quiting a pledge that, this point being settled, a new set of regulations for the conduct of the association should be determined upon. By one of these it is provided that atter the first of January the expenditure of all mer.i,s col lected in the shape of Repeal rent, shall be audited, and the hems published. There was to be no enquiry into the past. Yet, apparently, this charitable concession was not sufficient for Daniel. Auditing accounts in his hands is not a pleasant process in his estimation. All I monies received and no questions asked, with respect to their application, is more congenial to his tastes. It would hive been more especially auk ward if those ques tions had been extended to past exactions from an abused people ; and the Young Irelanders in forbearing to press their demands thus far shewed much amiability. Another demand of the earnest repealers was that no member of the association should creep up the sleeves of whig ministers, or accept of government patronage or office. But even this reasonable proposition would not go down. The veteran agitator sees too clearly that his career of imposture is nearly run ; that he cannot much longer fleece his. starving fellow countrymen ; and that snug births for the young O'Connels, the Ffrenches, and Fitzsimonses would be infinitely more agreeable than a dependance upon the profits of habitual mendicancy. A further requirement is that the agitation for repeal ; , hould not partake of a religious character, inasmuch a the members of the association are of all religious ; arties. Daniel, however, declares that he must "throw the shield of protection t,ver the Catholic Church of Ireland ;" that an agitation which is not for the advancement of his own church is " a creedless thing !" Mr. O'Connell will only enter into a discussion with respect to the legal portion of the question ; and every hope of a restoration of the Young Ireland party to Con ciliation Hall is now at an end. In the meantime, whilst these patriots (I) are parading their differences, and en deavouring to arrange their joint claims to despoil the Irish people, that people are starving—dying in their miserable hovels., or resorting to murder and robbery to find a meal. Verily, Irish patriotism is a strange con trariety ! PROBABLE IMPORTANT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY. Towards the conclusion of a very interesting seance of the Royal Irish Academy, on Monday evening, Sir William Hamilton stated the probability—in his own mind, it almost amounted to a certainty—that, by a certain ma thematical process, which he stated, but which would be unintelligible to the general reader—of his having ap. proached, if he did not actually hit the central sun, the star round which the luminary of our own system and his satellites revolve. Should this be ascertained demon stratively, the discovery will be, certainly, the greatest achieved in the present century ; although, during the period which has elapsed, six new planets have been de tected, one of them attended by moons, and the last, pro bably, also, as well as Saturn, encircled by a ring.—Dub lin Emning Post. WHI..EZINGS ON THE CHEST, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, ASTHMAS, COUGHS AND COLDS, HOWEVER HAD, ARR EFFECTUALLY CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—There is no longer any doubt but that these wonderful pills are an effectual cure for any of these complaints, even though they may he of several years ' stand i ng, more relief may be obtained in a few days! Such is the extraordinary powers of these pills, that many people who appeared almost to be at death's door, gasping for breath, have been so relieved in their breathing, and so completely freed from their coughs, their cold, their wheezin g' , an d their spitting, as to astonish all their friemle.—See Advt. t.e mot. L if4.tvasyam \l\ \C