The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-17 00:00:00

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grateful acknowledgments to Mr. Anderson, for his self-denying
zeal, and generous devotedness to the interests of the institution.
They are also indebted to the Rev. Isaac Holmes and the ReV.
Thomas Moore, for their kind aid to the chaplain, by which,
h. has been enabled to afford the inmates thb green benefit of a
second service on the evening of each Sabbath. The public are
awai e that to the Christian zeal and energy of Mr. Hoboes, under
the Divine blessing, the origination of the Church of England
Magd den Institution is to be ascribed. It is apparent, that such
to institution as thii must mainly depend for its permanent support
upon -ninual setbscrptioos. For although t-i.e utmost care is taken
to render the labour of the inmates useful and remunerative. avd
already the gross receipts of the laundry amount to five guineas
per week, yet there must of necessity be a large margin of
deficiency, wlych can only be met by annual subscriptions. They
are sorry to say that their present list of subscribers is very limited,
and the total of income from this source utterly inadequate to meet
the necessary expenses of the institution. The Food work is well
begun, it is going forward hopefully, and the comm:ttee e •rnestly
app .al to tht public to aid them in sustaining, with efficiency, this
blessed work, and in extend rig their means of shelterinz these poor
petitioners to our Christian charity, and of leading them by God's
grace, to Rim "Who came to seek, and to save, tht. lost."

Mr. Martin submitted the statement of accounts, from
which it appeared that the total amount received in sub-
scriptions, donations. &c., since the commencement of the
institution, was 1,3531. Bs. 10d., and that after payment of
all expenses up to the present, there was a. balance to its
credit of 801. Their present subscription list amounted
to 1501. a year, and estimating the receipts from washing
at 51. a week, their annual income would be 400/., but as
he estimated their annual expenditure at 600 z., additional
exertion would be required to bring up the income to that
amount.

Mr.:E. Higgin moved, that the report be adopted, prin-
ted, and circulated amongst the subscribers. He observed
that the want of the institution had been long felt in
Liverpool, as the other institutions had proved inadequate
for the purposes intended, and that, as on its establish-
ment, it seemed most important that there should be
introduced into it, the daily, religious element, under the
guidance of a chaplain, it became necessary that it should
be under the care of one religious body. The idea having
originated with a clergyman of the Churc'l of England,
ltev. W. Mime, it became accordingly a Church of Eng-
land institution, but it was not, on that account, in any
degree sectarian. (Hears hear.) The chaplain never
inquired from those who sought to become members of it,
to what religioUs body they belonged, (hear, hear), it was
sufficient to him to know that they came there regretting
their past life, and anxious to be reformed. There was
ample room for this, and every other institution in the
town, and he had no doubt that the public would accord
to it the support which would render it efficient in accom-
plishing the great and Christian object it has in view.
(Hear, hear.)

The- Rev. D. Anderson seconded the motion. He said :
The brief period that we have been in operation,
and the limited extent of our operations for a
great part of that period will reasonably account for the
paucity of particulars; still there are some very striking
circumstances connected with the Magdalen Institution that'
I should like to bring before the attention of the meeting,
and the meeting may be assured that in anything I state I
will state the naked truth. The colouring of matters in
reference to this particular class, and the exaggeration of
circumstances, are very natural as what a man may fall
into without any malice prepense from the devotedness that
he feels to the work, but I think it is a matter to be depre-
cated, and one that I think it ought to be a sacred duty to
avoid. It has been generally supposed that the work of
reclaiming fallen women is almost an impossibility, and by
many our efforts in this direction are almost derided. It is
true that a woman's fall produces a great moral deterioration
—that when she perseveres in a life of infamy her nature
becomes fearfully debased—but Ido not think there is any
scriptural ground for the assumption of any difficulty in the
case, and I think our Lord's statement, and dealing, in
regard to itovould bear a very different aspect. Then there
is this on the other side that there is created by the life itself,
generally speaking; a feeling of unutterable misery. When
a woman awakes from the delusion under which she has gone
astray, and when the retributive providence of God begins
to act in her, and she awakes to some perception of the
tremendous precipice into which she has fallen, and the
state of degradation and guilt in which she then lives, the
agony is something more lacerating and dreadful than we
can form any conception of. So that here there is nothing
of that self-complacency, and self-righteousness, which
form a great impediment to the effects of the gospel, and
the salvation of the soul. No darkness of the heart can
hide from them the conviction that they are lost and
undone sinners, and that is a great point gained. I would
further observe, in regard to the necessity of this work,
that it has been described in a way I had little expectation
of myself. We all know there is a vast number of this
class in large towns like this, and we are also familiar with
the endless ramification of ruin and misery connected with
them. I think it was Baron Parke, at the last Summer
assizes, feeling the enormous influence of this class upon
the crime of the town, urged, in his charge to the grand
jury, upon the public of Liverpool the necessity of female
reformatories, as one of the most needful and useful means
for the abatement of crime, and the improvement of the
state of society in this town. No person can be ignorant
of the vast numbers who follow this wretched life, and the
evils connected with that life; but whether they would
be willing, in any numbers, to enter a
Magdalen Institution, and quit a life of infamy, was a ques-
tion long debated. Our experience on this point is decisive.
We have not sought out the lost. We have not gone into
lanes and streets to compel them to come in; we have had
no need. The lost have sought us out. All that we had to
do was to open the door, and the fact was that we could
within the last eleven months have filled our house three
times over with women voluntarily applying, and entreating,
to be admitted to a place of repentance. (Hear, hear.) Nor
is this surprising, when the miseries of their life of infamy
is such as to drive many of them to attempt to force
the gates of life itself. There is now one woman in the
institution, who attempted suicide three times, and there is
not a single woman there who has not assured me that she
would gladly have laid down her head and died if she had
not been afraid of death. That shows ns how very necessary
a work it is, and, still more, how large the amount of
work is that remains to bedone. (Hear, hear.) The
rev. gentleman mentioned some instances of women who
are now in the institution, and who, according to their
own statement, had been induced to seek admission into
it by the exhortations of members of the Working Men's
Society in connection with St. John's church. He also
enumerated several instances illustrative of the misery
attending the life of fallen women, and con-
cluded by expressing a hope that the pub-
lic of Liverpool will not allow the work for
which this institution has been established, to go down for
want of support, but that rather they would give the means
of extending it, (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
The Rev. Mr. Holme moved, and Mr. Duncan seconded,
the second resolution, which was unanimously adopted, and
was to the effect, that the meeting desired to express its
grateful sense of the goodness of Almighty God, in the
measure of success vouchsafed to the commencement of this
important work, and earnestly appealed to the Christian
public of Liverpool, to contribute the means of sustaining
and extending the operations of the Magdalen Institution,
The Rev. Mr. Moore moved the thanks of the meeting to
the chairman, and in doing so said, that the Rev. Mr.
Pollock would have been present, but that he had suddenly
been called away to Chester.
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seconded the resolution. He stated, that if there were five
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The resolution was unanimously adopted ; after which the
meeting separated.

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN TURICEY.--Sstrns,, Dec. 31.
The tv.o Greeks who were condemned to death for the
murder from political fanaticism, on Sep. 16, of a gunner
named Dalidec, of the French brig the Olivier, were
informed yesterday morning that they must prepare for
their death, and they accordingly received the consolations
of their religion. They were then taken under a strong
escort to the place called the Chaan Hane, in this town,
and there having knelt down, and extended their necks,
their heads were swept off, each by a single blow of a
sword. The bodies were afterwards left for some hours
on the ground, and were then buried in the cemetery of
the Greek hospital. The execution caused a great sensa-
tion, the public having thought that the sentence, from
the delay which took place in carrying it into effect, had
been commuted. This morning three other Greeks, who
formed part of a band of brigands who last summer com-
mitted several assassinations in the environs of Dour-
nabat, were also exeouted.—lmpartial.