The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

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THE PRESTON STRIKE.
(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.]

PRESTON, MONDAY.
The, operative weavers seem in excellent spirits to-day,
the amount received by their committee yesterday being up-
wards of £2OOO, or about 1300 more than in any previous
week. The quiet and orderly manner of the unemployed is
the subject of general remark. Contrary to custom, not a
drunken man was to be seen in our streets yesterday ; and
this morning there was scarcely any business for the borough

'ench of migistrdtes.
At nine o'clock this morning there was a large assemblage

)f weavcrs in the Orchard—kr. Thomas RoDIs, of Stock-
?ort, presiding. Notwithstanding the fall of a drizzling
rain, the audience listened attentively to the various speakers
for upwards of two hours.

The CHAIRMAN rejoiced to inform them that the subscrip-
ions this week received on their behalf exhibited a very
Large increase. He was proud to state that for those con-
nected with the weaving department they had received

upwards of £2OOO. (Cheers.) The news was encouraging,
and they had nothing to fear, notwithstanding the proposi-
tion issued by the masters of Preston on the 4th instant—a
proposition disgraceful to themselves, and disgraceful to the
class to which they belonged. All that was required on the
part of the operatives was firmness.
Mr. GRIMSHA.W of Great Harwood, after assuring his
hearers that they should be provided for all winter and all
next summer, rather than they should be defeated by the
proud " shopyocracy " of Preston, moved the following
resolution :
" The operatives of Preston, in public meeting assembled,
having read the decision of the employers on the 4th instant,
not to open their works only on condition that the wages of the
operatives be reduced the 10 per cent,, granted to them in
August last, hereby solemnly declare their unalterable resolve
not to accept such terms, but to maintain inviolate their just
demand— namely, an unconditional ten per cent."
That was the answer he wished the operatives to give to
that miserable placard now posted upon the , walls of the
town. (Cheers). They had every confidence in being able
to weather the winter, for sooner than they should be defeated
their fellow operatives in other towns had promised to sect
LUG ontiro preeeedv of one loom each, which would amour
to £4,000 or £5,000 a week. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. GEORGE COWELL seconded the resolution

that as he was coming to the meeting, one of the middy,
class shopocracy accosted him, and stated that they (the
operatives) were robbing the whole of the shopkeepers of
Preston. He (Mr. Cowell) had no doubt the shopkeepers of
Preston were suffering, and suffering -very materially ; but
he scrupled not to say that whatever might be the amount
of suffering, of privation, and of poverty existing in the
town, the operatives' committee were not responsible for it,
but the parties who had closed their mills against an unoffend-
nig people. (Hear, hear). Although the manufacturers' of
Preston were scampering about the country in order to
curtail the subscriptions flowing into this town, he was
happy to say that those subscriptions were weekly increasing.
(Cheers.) He might also inform them that, according to a
statement of a delegate, one of the principal millowners in

Blackburn had given sixpence a looin to every weaver who
came to the help of the factory workers of Preston. (Loud
cheers.) He had no doubt the subscriptions would continue
to rise; and, if it had not been for the manufacturers getting
Bacup, Burnley, Padihare, Newchurch, and the surround-
ing districts to close their mills, the committee would this
week have had £3,000. But, never mind that : they should
still go on increasing until they had £3,000 for the weavers
alone. New channels were daily opening up; every day's
post brought fresh overtures of sympathy and support; as
they might depend upon it, victory would be theirs.
The resolution was then submitted to the meeting, a
carried amid enthusiastic acclamations
Mrs

MARGARET FLuToanit was the succeeding speaker.
She said that this was a question of importance, not only t
the factory operatives, but to the middle class ; because
when labor was not properly remunerated, shop-keepers
felt the consequence in diminished receipts. It was also a
question deeply interesting to females ; because at present
the natural order of things were reversed, and women had to
go out to work whilst men remained at home, made beds,
washed clothes, &c. (Laughter and cheers).. Under these
circumstances, it behoved her sex to bestir themselves. If
capital had its right, labor had its right. If capital claimed
the right to keep its wife at home, and to have half-a-dozen
servants to wait upon her, surely, the working man had a
fight to keep his wife at home too. (Cheers.) She regarded
the ten per cent as only a stepping stone to justice. They
must have a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. What •
did she mean by that ? why, that which would afford a man
the means of maintaining himself and family iu comfort; of
keeping his wife at home to attend to household duties, and
of educating his children so as to make them an ornament
to society instead of a nuisance. (Cheers.) That was What
they wanted, and if they let the ten per cent question drop
before they achieved that desideratum,they would not dotheir
duty. It was a disgrace to an Englishman to allow his wife to
go out to work. Let the women look after their rights. It
was high time they looked to themselves. We have let the
men manage our affairs long enough (said she), and a pretty
To the young women present I would say, whenever a young
man pays his addresses to you, and wishes to make you his wife,
ask if he is able to maintain you. If he says he is not, tell
him to go about his business, for you never intend, when
married, to go out to work. (Cheers.) The Amazon con-
cluded by moving the subjoined resolution :
"Agreed at this meeting that the married portion of the
females of this town do not intend to go to work any more,
until their husbands are fully and fairly remunerated for
their labour."
Mrs. ANN FLETCHER seconded the resolution. I She
thought it was high time the women stayed at home. They
had been slaves long enough. It was time that men should
earn sufficient by their labour to enable them to keep their
wives and families at home. How many infants had been
brought to an untimely death by the present system of fac-
tory labour ? (Hear, hear.) She hoped and trusted ;that
every woman then present would follow the example of her-
self and sister (the preceding speaker). The day is come
(she added) when we are determined to do nothing until
every man is employed ; and then, if there is anything left
for the women, we'll do a little, but we'll not do much.
(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN stated that when the 10 per cent. question
was settled, there would be such an agitation raised on be-
half of the married women now working in factories, as
would astonish the millocracy of this country. (Cheers.)
The females' resolution having been cordially adopted,
addresses were delivered by Mr. Watson and Mr. Brown,
after which the meeting separated.

DEATH OF MR. CECIL LAWLESS, M. P.—We re-
gret to have to announce the death, after a very brief attack,
brought on, we understand,. by extreme nervous excitement,
of this gentleman, who, as our readers know, was second
son of the late Lord Cloncurry, and member for the Borough
of Clonmel. Ile had but just returned from the funeral ob-
sequies of his excellent and patriotic father, and a sadden
shock experienced on the journey, it is said, was the proki-
mate cause of his illness. The parliamentary career of Mr.
Lawless was consistent and useful.-- Cork Southern Repor-
ter.

RELIGIOUS SECTS IN RUSSIA.—The Russian
Church affects toleration. Of the vast population of fully
60,000,000, only about 45,000,000 are members of the re-
gular Church; 350,000 are dissenters or heretics to that
Church itself; 3,500,000 Roman Catholics are found through-
out the wide domains of the Czar ; and fully 250,000 Ar-
menians. The Protestants of the Augsburg Confession of
Faith amount to 2,000,000 ; those of the Reformed Church
to 54,000. There are 10,000, Moravians, while no less than
2,500,00.0 belong to the Mahometan creed. The Jews are
600,000 in number, and the followers of that mysterious po-
tentate, the Grand Lama of Thibet, amount to no less than
half that amount. But there are creeds still more extraordi-
nary throughout the enormous tract of 'territory which
constitutes the Russian Empire; 170,000 are open idola-
ters, and no less than 600,000 are addicted to the disgust-
ing practice of:Fetichism, worshipping bats, cows, and every
uncouth specimen of brute, as representative of the divinity
of Heaven.—Parker's National Miscellany•

AN ACTION AGAINST UNDERWRITERS.—In' the
Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, Mr. Watson,,
Q.C. moved for a new trial in the case of Chriitie v.
Stroth, which was tried at the last London sittings
before the Lord Chief Justice, when a verdict was found
for the plaintiff—damages £1,186. Mr. Watson moved,
on the ground that it was a perverse verdict. The action
was brought by the plaintiffs against the undervriters
of a vessel called the Harriet, the owners of which had
contracted to convey a cargo of haricot beans for; them
from ,Liverpool to London. The vessel . was loaded in
the dock at Liverpool, and, after being loaded there; a
gale of wind blew on the night of the 4th June, !1847,
while the vessel was in the dock, and she sank in the
dock with her cargo. Before loading she was a perfectly
tight, good vessel, but the gale had forced other vessels
in the dock against her, and had so bumped and
squeezed her, that a plank under her counter gave way,
and she sank. The action was brought for the damaeg
done to the cargo by the water, and for the delay Which
ensued in drying the cargo, whereby the market was
lost. The defendant pleaded that the damage was done
by the perils of the sea, and not because of utistawor-
thiness, which was traversed. The plank which had
given way was found perfectly sound, but had been
squeezed out of its place; ss. repaired the damage, and
the vessel had been perfectly sound ever since; The
learned counsel contended that the ship was quite sea-
worthy, and had sunk because of the violence,of the
gale.—The COURT thought that the jury had come to a
sight conclusion; .that a vessel which started a! plank
in dock was not a seaworthy vessel, as she ought to be
equal to all the strain to which, with other ships, she
might be subjected to there.— The learned counsel then
contended that the cargo and freight were only worth
together 6001., and under the 53rd George 111., chap.
159, sec. 1, the plaintiff could not recover more than
the value of the cargo and freight ; that the damages
were made up by the loss of the market by reason of
the detention of the cargo.—The CoURT said, the rule
might go to reduce damages. On the other point there
was no evidence on both sides, and it was for the jury
to determine it.—Rule nisi accordingly.

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

THE REV. DR. MWEILE, AND THE REV.
IV. J, CONEYBEA RE.

The Rev. Dr. M'Neile has addressed a letter (through
the Times) to the ReV. W. J. Coneybeare, formerly the
Principal of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution. Mr.
Coneybeare is said to be the author of the article on
" Church Parties," which appears in the current number of
the Edinburgh Review, and- it is certain statements in the
article in question which have- called forth the Rev. Dr.
M'Neile's letter, which is as follows :
Albury-house, Liverpool, Nov. 4.
Dear Sir,—Since the appearance of the last number of
;he Edinbur;h Review, rumour has ascribed to your pen the
article on " Church Parties" which it contains. I was un-
willing to believe it possible that you could have written
?arts of it; and I now charitably hope that, before you
wrote pp. 292-393, with their foot note, you had forgotten
what is written at p. 284.
Our mutual friend Mr. Howson -has informed me, and
without, as he says, any breach of confidence, that you are
the author of the article.
May I, then, request you to have the kindness to let me
know on what evidence you charge me—for, in your hands,
it is a charge, and a grave one—with being a member, a
leader, the ablest leader, of what you are pleased to call the
Recordite party in the church ?
On the good taste of designating your brethren, not by
my theological or; ecclesiastical peculiarities, real or sup-
?osed, but by a nickname derived from a newspaper, I make
no comment; De gustibus, &c. With the justice or injus-
tice of the description you give of the party I have no per-
sonal concern—that is your affair ; but since you have in-
troduced me, my name, as the leader of a party of which you
have given such a description, I think I may most reason-
ably expect that as a gentleman you will not refuse to give
your proofs.
Of the party in question you say (page 284), " Its dis-
tinctive doctrines are derived from those of the Evangelical
school, by pushing each of those to extravagant cense-
quen,ces. Thus, from justification by faith, the Recordite
infers the worthlessness of morality."
Here I pause. I might, indeed, select any of the follow-
ing clauses for comment, but this one shall suffice. When
you say " the Recordite infers," I presume you mean that
he gives expression to his inference, otherwise you could riot
become cognizant of it ; he speaks, or prints, or both, i. e.,
he teaches, as au inference, the,worthlessness of morality.
It is not that his accuser draws such an inference from some
of his statements. This would be intelligible. The great
Apostle felt this (see Rom. iii. 8). But your charge is that
the Recordite himself draws the inference. You say "the
Recordite infers," and thus you open your description of a
party in the church, with the deliberate statement that they
teach the worthlessness of morality. An attempt to screen
yourself from this, by pleading that to infer does not mean
to teach, would be too obviously a special pleading. If your
words do not mean this they mean nothing.
There may be some persons who so teach. There have
unhappily been Antinomians in all ages. Some persons
whom you tall Recordites may be guilty of this evil, though
I imagme you could find nothing of the kind in the Record
itself. Indeed, it seems pretty plain that, if you could
have cited evidence to sustain this clause in your indibt-
meat you would have done so. But, as I have said, this is
not my concern. On some very important subjects I entirely
differ from the Record, while, on others, I think it has done
good and faithful service. But my inquiry is, on what evi-
dence you have felt yourself at liberty to drag me before the
public as the leader of a party, who, as you allege, teach,' or
infer, the worthlessness of morality? If you can cite any
passage from any of my books, or sermons, or speeches,
justly exposing me to such an accusation, I shall feel obliged
y your doing so, and I shall take care to have the mischief
expunged from the next edition, with a penitent ackndw-
ledgement of the past evil, however undesigned. But if you
can find no such passage, and if my publications abound; as
they do, with passages directly the reverse, then, I think,
I have a right to expect that you will acknowledge your fault
in bringing against a brother clergyman—an acquaintance
of many years' standing, for whom you have always pro-
fessed to entertain sentiments of Christian kindness and who
has always entertained the same towards you—an accusation
which you are utterly unable to sustain. I have a right to
expect, further, that in all fairness and uprightness, and
equity, you will make your confession as public ar your fanit;
i. e., that _ you will have it inserted in the pages of the

• Edinburgh Review.
I cannot doubt your willingness to do this act of justice,
because I cannot as yet hold you guilty- of more than, an
inadvertence, though of a very grave characte'r.
The temptation was too great to be resisted. Your asso-
ciations lingered around Liverpool, and the great influence
which you say (page 293, note) I have acquired by my elo-
quence over the second town, in the kingdom, made me an
object too prominent to escape, when shafts were hurled at
random against " the Evangelicals."
But when, by way of compensation for the assault you
made upon me, you acknowledge (ibid.) that you "believe
me to be a thoroughly sincere and honest man, and to have
done much good," you should surely have borne in mind,
that as I am an able leader (in your opinion) of a party who
i/V Jut,. Clay 111ln. G
oiu-
core I am, and the more eloquent I am, and the more influ-
ence I have thereby acquired, instead of doing much good,
the more intolerably mischievous I must be. Inconsistency
with himself is the proverbial characteristic of a witness
from whom the accused has nothing to fear, and of whom
an intelligent jury soon learn to make a suitable estimate.
I am yours faithfully,
UGH IifNEI LE.

COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY

The November sittings of this Court opened at ten o'clock
on yesterday, before JOSEPH POLLoCK, Esq.
HAGAN v RICHARDSON.—His Honor delivered judgment
In this case which stood over from the last sittings. lie said—
In this case I think the plaintiff should be non.suited. The
facts of the-case are, that the plaintiff was certainly injured
by the negligence of a party.driving a cart. The defendant in
the action is a contractor, and not being able herself to perform
the contract, she sub-let to another person, a cartowncr, who
supplied the horses, only borrowing the cart from her. Both
parties agree as to the borrowing and lending. I think the
person who borrowed the cart, and supplied the horses and the
driver, is the party liable. The master of the driver is clearly
liable for the consequences. The plaintiff must therefiire be
non-suited.-

Several commitment summonses of no public importance
were then disposed of, after which his Honor took up insolvent

RICHARD MADDOCK.—A final order was granted.
JOHN HALL WORTH.—Final order granted.
JOHN PUFHE.—FinaI order granted.
ISABELLA WALLACE.-1n this case the insolvent passed
the first examination.

JOHN M`GAFFAN.—Mr. Aspinall appeared for the insolvent,
who, it appeared had entered into partnership in the corn
business with a person named Jones, and being ignorant of the
business left the entire management of it to his partner, not
even inquiring how his affairs stood. Becoming insolvent, an
assignment was made of the business to, a person named.
Griffith, a creditor, represented by Mr. Evans, but no notice of
the dissolution of partnership or the assignment was pubiished.
Mr. Hime appeared for the first creditor, Mr. Johnson. Court :
This insolvent did not take the trouble of inquiring, in the
first instance, what his debts were, and in the next place,
he executed an assignment to one particniar creditor.
I do not think the argument produced, that he is an illiterate
person, has anything to do with the matter. He entered into
the business with his eyes open, and after three years elapses,
and he pays off, I suppose; the several creditors named in the
list, which I have before me, several small creditors; he then
enters into an assignment in 1850, of the result of which he
knows nothing about, which he mover even asked Mr .Griffith,
nor did he ask whether Mr. Johnson had ever received a
penny, or know in what state things were under the assign-
ment. I think all the creditors should have. had. before he
came into this Uourt, full information into the state of the
affairs, because he had previously chosen another remedy. I
agree that it is not necessarily incumbent upon him to go about
and ask the creditors to come in and execute an assignment,
but he was bound to enquire what was the result of the remedy,
which he had selected for himself. He has not taken that
trouble, he has neglected his other creditors, and I am bound
to say, 1 think it would be contrary to public policy and law,
to allow-this man to hand over the property of all his creditors,

give and receive no information, make no enquiry how things
had turned out, and then come ,and:ask the protection of this
Court. .He must.take the consequences of selecting his own
remedy. I shall not grant him the protection he seeks.
JoRN TURNER.—ML Himo appeared for insolvent ;
Simon and Mr. Anderson for creditors. , Adjourned to next
Court.

MARTHA BINGHAM.-31r. Blackhurst appeared for the
insolvent, and. Mr. Aspinall for creditors, Petition dis Missed.
DANIEL WILLIAMS.—Mr. Evans appeared for insolvent
who passed examination, and the day was fixed for the final
order.

HERMAN CfIRISTIAN MEYERS.--A dividend of 2s 6d in
the pound ordered. • -
DENIS O'SULLIVIAN.—Audit adjourned.
This closed the Insolvencies. The Court then adjourned to
this day. •
There are 622 cases for trial at this sitting.

SHIPWRECK.—Letters from Sandwich Island an-
nounce the total wreck of the ship Susan. They also state
that the ship Liverpool had struck near Bhering's Straits,
but was afterwards got off.
THE KING OF THE BELGIANS--The Belgian
packet Ruby, Captain Lahure, arrived on Friday afternoon
from Ostend to await His Majesty King Leopold. - The
King, Duke and Duchess of Brabant, Count of Flanders,
Princess Charlotte, Count and Countess de Lannoy, Colo-
nel de Moerkerko, his Excellency M. \an de Weyer, Hon.
Colonel 'Gordon, Lord Camoya, Sir Edward Cust, and a
numerous suite anivcd at Birmingham's Royal Ship Hotel.
at 6p. m. where apartments were previously ordered. The
weather being rough and foggy His Majesty determined on
sleeping at the Ship Hotel; Mr. James Macgregor; Mr.
Samuel Latham, Belgian Consul, and Captain Smithett
had the houour of dining with the Royal party on Sunday
morning at 11.30. His Majesty embarked on board the
Ruby for Ostend, with every prospect of having a fine pas-