The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

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Add England, (population 11,500,000)
Balance of production 725,000,000

Total divisible prodnetion

Here, then, we have the annually divisible
production of the United Kingdom, equal to

747,500,000 of hands, and if we take the ratio in
which it is divided, among these countries we shall
be able to arrive at the comparative amount of comfort
and wealth of each. And if we take the value of our
production as equal to per hand, the annual
wealth produced will be equal to 3,737,500,0001.
Deduct from this, 800,000,0001. of National Debt,
and the annual surplus divisible -by the United

Kingdom is 2,937,500,000/

This prodigious sum becomes absorbed, and is
again represented for the most part by our Bank-
ing Capital, Government Stocks, Railway and other
Shares, Ships, Houses, Stock-in-trade, Foreign Pro-
duce, and the Securities of Foreign States. Now
in the face of this amazing wealth, always pro-
gressing and progressive—to say that "more wealth
is the desideratum," is perfectly nonsensical. The
almost endless wealth we derive from production
is not however distributed with sufficient rapidity;
nor in the proportions it would be if we had a
more expanded medium of distribution.

Until within the last fdur or five years, our power
of production was limited to a fixed amount of
trading capital or money, This money was
composed of metals, which were selected for mo-
ney because they were the most scarce, and con-
sequently, difficult to obtain. The propriety of
its selection we will not question now, as with
its increased production nearly all the objections
raised against our metallic currency disappear and
really go for nothing,—and we are now left to cal-
culate both as the prosperity of production and
profits of trade, by the probable increased produc-
tion of gold. On the discovery of the gold fields
of America being made known, the commerce of
Europe received an immense impetus, and when
the Diggings of Australia were added to those of
California, England's entire productive energies
were called into full play, and here commenced a
race, as it were, between the monetary arrange-
ments of trade and fiscal systems, of the several
States of Europe. And the result is at this moment
both startling and instructive.

In all those countries, in fact, where gold
is required as an auxiliary to production merely,
while every other element of existence is made to
bend and shape itself to sustain their powers of pro-
duction, we find a higher price ruling for gold than in
England; and thus our productions are curtailed,
and our prices depressed in order to make a less
amount of gold meet the enlarged hopes and re-
quirements of our people. Fortunately. gold has
now become such a plentiful commodity that it
must soon take its place in- the catalogue of ex-
changeable productions simply, and then it will
soon be. seen how long this country or France can
afford to exchange their products with America and
Australia at the ratio of 10 to 1. When this ques-
tion shall have been solved, then will the wants of
labour be satisfied to the manifest advantage -of
both employer and employed, and each will be
heard to exclaim, Prend moi tel que je suis.

PASCAL somewhere observes: " In truth, there is
a wide difference between laughing at Religion,
and laughing at the follies of those who profess
it." Now, we trust, that whilst we rightly venture
upon a just reproof of the one, we shall not
wrongly be accused of hostility to the other.

No country can be properly organized, without
possessing a judicial code. No society :attain to
any refinement, without having laws of its own to
which every one must be amenable, provided any
pretensions be entertained to what is termed " re-
spectability." To be a " gentleman," something
more is required than simply to wear broad-cloth,
an opera-tie, patent-leather boots, dress in the
highest style of ton, and dance exquisitely to the
tune of " Pop goes:the Weasel ;" and fortunately for
the community that it is so. Now, the least de-
parture from those conventional rules, which So
ciety has thought it incumbent to lay down, brands
a person immediately as " ungentlemanl3
persistency in such a course, either owing to
wilful negligence or positive ignorance, unfits him
for " polite company," and the result is, that
he is

ent to " Coventry "in no time. Offences
against these rules admit of considerable exaggera-
tion. Time; (place, circumstances, and individual
position, materially .effect them: For what would
be a trivial offence at one time and place, and by
one person, would be seriously heightened at an-
other time and place, and by another person.
Having premised so far, we now proceed to ap-
ply our remarks. We only regret that they will be
found both personal and local. But with this fact
we have nothing to do. Did not the occasion
loudly call for it, none would less willingly assume
the office ofpublic censor than ourselves.
ST: MICHAEL'S CHURCH, LiverpOol, was, on Sun
day last, thetheatre upon which was enacted scenes
disgraceful alike to religion, and to the marked
actors in the drama, whose duty it was toincul-
cat() her peaceful lessons ,of forbearance and
moderation. Although the circumstances to which
we refer have been detailed in the last impression
of the NORTHERN DAILY TimEs„ we, yet consider

it necessary to give a resume of them on the pre-

sent occasion

It appears that there are two clergymen attached to St. Michael's Church, viz., the Reverend

CYRITS MORRALL, and the Reverend H. CARPENTER.
Although having but one " cure of souls" between
them, they seem to possess very conflicting ideas as
to the right manlier in which they should fulfil
their duty to their charge. " Doctors differ," we

are told. And that " two of a trade never agree,'
is a proverb we all remember from our childhood.
But the mere fact of differing and disagreeing. is

—clergymen the mean•
The
) dis-

ing of absolute canons and intricate texts.
world roots riot a pin. But should those sage

ciples of JESCULAPIUS suffer their patients to die—
the limbs of the law lose their clients' causes—and

their spiritual vineyards to run
into weeds, whilst they indulge in the luxury of
disputation, then, indeed, the aspect of the case

becomes seriously endangered. People then shati(

off their somnolency, and very naturally enquire

. _
" What is all this fuss about ?" So that that which
was nobody's business before, becomes everybody's

business afterwards

Considerable misunderstanding (to use the
mildest phrase we can employ) has for some time
existed between Mr. MOBRALL, and one portion of
his congregation. Some of those thought it no
wrong to indulge in a little harmless merriment at
his expense. In fact they went so far as to placard
their pastor—announcing the loss of a promising
young preacher ; and offering the reward of an

" empty pew" to whoever should return him. W(
have heard, certainly, of the shepherd going it
quest of the sheep—never before, of the shed'
going in quest of the shepherd ! In consequent(
of this disruption between pastor and flock, it wtv
arranged that the Rev. Mr. BARDSLEY should assist

it the services on Sunday. This plan was, how
ever, frustrated by Mr. MORRALL, owing to sonti
ments which the former gentleman suffered to fal]
from The pulpit, of a personal nature, when he lasi
747,500;000 officiated at St. MICHAEL'S. The Curate of St

MARTIN'S, supposed to favour Mr. MoRnALL's theolo-
gical views, was then appointed to undertake the
duty. To this the churchwardens were strongly
opposed; and the issue was that, when that gen-
tleman made his appearance, they, with several of
the -congregation, rose and quitted the church;
others not aware of what was going on, raised the
cry of " fire ;" and a scene took place of a most
indecorous and unedifying description, which was
again repeated in the afternoon of the same day.
Now, really, such " goings-on " are quite dis-
graceful, as well as fearfully out of place. Their
legitimate tendency is to degrade religion, bring
her professors into disrepute, and render her
ministers the targets at which public scorn might

hurl its shafts. Scenes, it appears, which dare not
be acted in a private dwelling and in presence of
genteel society, can with impunity be indulged
in openly at church, and before a large congrega-
tion. When such facts transpire, we cannot re-

frain from thinking that " something is rotten in
the state of Denmark." These are very dangerous
precedents to establish. This game of "hostilities"
between pastor and people, never ends well. There
is an easy remedy for both parties if they feel
themselves mutually aggrieved. And it is better to
have resource to that gentle but effectual means,
than to run the risk of making churches odious,
and religious worship contemptible. Goldsmith,
alluding to the Church of the " Deserted Village,"
says :

" Here those who came to stare remained to pray."
We much fear, judging from recent occurrences;
that the reverse will be found to apply to the
congregation of the church of Air MICHAEL.

LIVERPOOL OCTOBER SESSIONS

THE October Sessions for this Borough commenced yester-
day morning before GILBERT HENDERSON, Esq., Recorder.
There are 70 prisoners for trial, 63 of whom are charged
with felony, and 7 with misdemeanor. Of the prisoners, none
have received a superior education, three can read and write
well, 31 can read and write imperfectly, 11 can read but do
not write, and 35 can neither read nor write. The follow-
ing gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury—Walter
Fergus Macgregor, Iron Founder, Vauxhall-road, foreman ;
Wm. Bowman, merchant, Fenwick-street ; Adam Fairie,
sugar refiner, North John-street; John Golding, the younger,
sharebroker, Exchange-street East ; John Thomas Leyland,
merchant, Exchange-street East; Charles Moore, merchant,
Rumford-street; Wm. John Marrow, merchant, Brunswick-
street ; Jagnes Meyers, broker, Exchange-street West; Wm.
Mac Fie, sugar refiner, Temple-street ; Samuel M'Gill, mer-
chant, Brunswick-street, Robert Procter. broker, Brunswick-
treet ; Alfred Wm. Fowles, merchant, Water-street, Jabez
Rayner, broker, Exchange-alley, North ; Alexander Shand,
merchant, Old Church-yard; Archibald Sinclair, merchant,
Chapel-street; George Scholfield, merchant, Exchange-alley.
North; John Worrall, merchant, Salthouse Dock. The
usual formalities having been gone through,
The RECORDER then proceeded to deliver his charge. He
said gentlemen of the Grand Jury, as from day to day we
look at the weather glass, so from session to session one is
apt to look at the calendar as some index of the state of
crime. Without asserting that it is on all occasions an in-
fallible criterion, I think that the present calendar presents
room for congratulation rather than alarm. After the lapse
Of more than eight weeks, the number of 70 prisoners is not
very great, and the general character of the offences I think
hou will find not very serious. The number would clearly
ave been less if some parties had not contributed by their
negligence, and others by their own loose and disorderly
conduct to the effects and mischief of which they complain.
Nothing is more satisfactory in the administration of justice
now-a-days, than the change that has taken place in respect
to thieving, which lies at the root of the great mass, being
much more seldom accompanied with violence than it used
to be, and I think it justifies, and indeed requires, a more
lenient view of the case at present than used to be formerly
taken. I think it right to mark with corresponding severity
any case in which violence is used. In the present calendar
there is a case in which at the dead of the night a person who
had secured the windows and dcor of his bedroom, was
alarmed by his wife telling him there was some person in
the room, and on proceeding to search he did find on the
floor a man who'had been concealed when he went to bed.
The man was taken without any very serious resistance.
Now, if he had in his possession any deadly weapon, or if
he had used any great violence on his apprehension, I should
consider it called for much more severe castigation than the
circumstance, if it should be proved, will probably reqUire.
I mention this for one reason. The man when taken said
he had stolen nothing, and it is true nothing was found
upon him, but the gentleman had left his purse in his
pocket, his dress was removed from the chair, and the purse
Was found on the floor a few yards from the prisoner. If
you should be satisfied that the purse was taken by this man
with the intent to steal, and although it was so recovered, i
and in fact he did not get away with it, I need hardly tell
you it is an offence in point of law, as if the robbery had
been completed. At the same time, gentlemen, when I Ob-
served that in general theft is not so frequently accompanied
with violence as used to be the case. There is class of offences
rising up of late in which persons have been frequently
almost strangled in the street, and treated with great vio-
lence. On the same principle that I would deal leniently
with the case I have referred to, in those cases I think
great severity is called for. This offence should be put
down, and those in authority arc bound to put the law
in force with that object. In cases that have come
before me I have endeavoured to deal with them. lam
not aware the present calendar presents any case of that
nature. I do, however, regret to see there are no less than
five misdemenours, cases of stabbing—cases in which the
knife has been resorted to. lam not aware that this court
has been wanting in any one severity; but I do certainly
find that this offence is increasing, and I feel, myself called
upon to act accordingly. It is nothing in extenuation to say
that in three of those cases the men were under the in-
fluence of drink—perhaps the other two may be so likewise
—but there is direct evidence it was so in three of those
cases. But, though, this may account for it, it does not at
all excuse it, or make it less necessary to put down, if
possible, by severe punishment, such offences. I have
punished severely in those more barbarous cfass of offences.
In one instanceaman was convicted of the barbarous offence of
having torn another man's eye from the socket. He was
punished both by fine and imprisonment, and I am happy to
say I have no reccurence of this particular offence ; several
cases have have occurred within the last year or two, of per-
sons who have actually broken off a part of a fellow-being's
nose. Here again is an abominable, barbarous, and inhu-
man proceeding which must be effectually discouraged, and
I have endeavoured to do so in the cases that have come
before me. There is no such case in the calendar, but there
is a case in which a man is stated on the depositions to have
bitten off the part of another man's ear. It is cases of
this class which I say require to be effectually discouraged.
Gentlemen, you are aware of the difficulties which have
arisen with regard to transportation. You are aware for, a
long time the administration of the law on that subject
has been in a transition state. The mode in which persons
have been dealt with under those circumstances, • has been a
subject of considerable delicacy. Many things have been
tried, and at last a very decided step has been taken ; it
limits the number of sentences of transportation, and in fact
it is probable they may fall altogether into disuse, It so

DAILY TIMES.

hat this court for the first time, is called upon to
r the altered law, and perhaps therefore, it may not
be out of place to make a few remarks explanatory of it.
For the future no sentences of 7 or 10 years transportation
will pass. And indeed, sentences of 14 years or for life
may be passed, but even.in those cases the judge may have a
discretion, and even iii cases of transportation for life, the
judge may, instead of transportihg for life, sentence the
person to be kept in penal servitude for life; so that with
regard to shorter sentences of transportation, sentences of
penal servitude for a term of years may be substituted as a
matter of course, and, probably, eventually the sentences
will always be for some term of penal servitude. Now the
length of that of course varies in proportion to the sentences
of transportation, to which the party would now be liable.
In lieu of transportation for seven years, the term of the
penal servitude is seven years; instead of transportation for
ten years, the term of penal servitude may be from four to

•
31.7 C years; instead of transportation for fifteen years, the
penal servitude may be from six to eight years; instead of
a tqrm of transportation exceeding fifteen years, the penal
servitude may be awarded for from six to ten years ; instead
of transportation for life, a penal servitude for life. Now,
gentlemen, it would be dangerous for a person to flatter
themselves that under these sentences punishment would be
light. It would be a great mistake to suppose that tran-
sportation is abolished. It is not abolished. Transporta-
tion under any of those sentences may take place to any of
her Majesty's colonies. You may recollect there are colonies
where no complaint is made. and where there is no objection
to convicts, as, for instance, the inhabitants of Gibralter,
Bermuda, or even the Western part of Australia. It is
probable, and likely, that transportation will still go on to
some considerable, if not, to a great extent; and, therefore,
under any of those sentences of penal servitude, a person
may find himself in one of those colonies. It seems to ine,
to a person who rightly considers it, this is a very alarming
thing, from the uncertainty of how a man may be dealt with
under those regulations. Ile does-not know where he is
going, nor the judge who passes the sentence cannot tell
him. The man sentenced to penal. servitude may find him-
self in the seclusion of separate 'confinement at Pentonville ;
he may find himself labouring at the dock yard Woolich, or
Portsmouth, drawing and carrying burthens day by day ; or he
may find himself working at the fortifications atPortsea, or he
may find himself quarrying in the quarries in the island of
Portland, or assisting in making the breakwater there; or he
may find himself in some way employed about the fortifi-
cations at Gibralter, or he may find himself in that unwhole-
some climate—l regret to very much it is so—Bermuda.
There is great latitude taken in the act of parliament as to
how the Government will deal with parties sentenced to
those terms of penal servitude, and, therefore, they have a
great deal to fear as to what they may have to undergo on
such sentence; but without saying how practically they
may be carried out, this is certain : in general they will
have to labour under those severe restrictions, deprived of
course of the society of their fniends, removed from the
places that are dear to them, and kept for a long term in
some useful, it may. be hoped, labour, but subject to all
the restraints of imprisonment. Now,
.gentlemen when I
describe this as the consequence of crime, ;and the conse-
quence of such sentences, at the same time it is not intended
that the party should be dealt with without hope, nor will
they be left without hope, if by their good conduct they
Agence. Although they are sentenced to a
or it may be for a shorter period, it does not
it will insist on their being kept in
,nprisonment during the whole of the term, because it is
provided, expressly provided, that if her Majesty should
please to grant to them a license and permission to return
to society they may do so, even before the end of the term
to which they were sentenced. Then of course it is to be
expected that her Majesty in her wisdom, and with the
advice she will receive, will not restore them peremptorily
unless from their conduct there should be reason to think
they had sincerely repented of their crime, and that they
are likely to return without doing further mischeif to society,
No doubt it is a very serious experiment to return persom
under those circumstances to society at all, becaus,
you seo whilst under those sentences they are --

term for lif
follow the Governmc

removed

from all those temptations.—from ally bad
and the risk of course will be great when they re-
turn to them. Still, however, it is only fair to persons so
sentenced, that they should, by their good conduct, have a
fair chance given them of amending their condition. And
this experiment to restore them to society, it seems to me,
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may be made with much more safety than t could have been
a number of years ago. I have great confidence in the
police establishment, and the control which they'may haie,
and the watchfulness that may be exercised, with regard to
those parties. And here again, if they
.should be restored to
society, there is a power kept if they misconduct themselves.
Her Majesty has the power of revoking the license, and they
will be sent back without more to ao, to undergo the re-
mainder of the punishment, and that without trial, because
power is given to the Secretary of State, and it seems to me
rightly lodged there. Under the great responsibility which
that high office imposes, he will have to satisfy his con-
science by any means he thinks proper, the parties -are
dangerous, and not following a course that is safe for the
protection of society. At her Majesty's pleasure the license
may be revoked, and they will be liable to be re-apprehen-
ded, and removed to undergo the remainder of their punish-
ment. Gentlemen, as I stated, probably in this court the
first sentence of this nature will be passed. I said this in
explanation. It is a very great experiment, and I hope it
will be a successful one. At all events, we must do all we
can to ensure its success, by properly awarding the sentences
in cases which Come before us. And here I feel some de-

gree of relief from this change of the law. There is a better
graduation now of the scale of punishment. There is a
wide gap between a sentence of two years' imprisonment,
and one of seven years' transportation. Now it has often
been a very difficult thing for me, to say whether I should pass
a sentence of seven years' transportation, or of two years'
prisonment ; and two years is a term so long, that I rarely
pass it; two years in a prison such as ours, is enough to
produce a serious change in a man's constitution ; it is a
very trying thing, confinement within the walls of a prison
like ours : and I sometimes pause before inflicting it. I have
frequently very great difficulty in saying whether two
years imprisonment, or whether I ought to go as far as
seven years' transportation. Now, however, the term of
penal servitude is four years ; so that you see the scale is
better graduated, and it will relieve me from the difficulty.
I have frequently sentenced persons to imprisonment to be
on the safe side, though I might have transported them :
and probably it would have been better that I had ; but,
as it is now, the term of two years imprisonment, or four
years ; and I mention it now to alarm those who are
disposed to commit the offences, and because I do not
hesitate to say I shall be more willing to pass a sentence of
four years penal servitude, than I would a sentence of seven
years transportation ; therefore, I. mention this rather that
it may have its due weight on those disposed to commit
offences, and to cause them to think, although they may
have escaped transportation, they will very likely fall under
the four years penal servitude' as the limit of punishment
now begins. Having made these observations, gentlemen,
I shall not detain you longer. The grand jury then
retired. Shortly after the criminal:business commenced.

MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE CONVER-
SION OF THE JEWS.

The Annual Meeting of this Society was held last night,
at the Collegiate Institute.
The LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER in the Chair.

The attendance was very numerous, and among the gen-
tlemen on the platform were —Rev. Dr. Aeyrst, Rev. J. Kelling,
Rev. J. Scott, Rev. Dr. McNeile, Rev. H. Carpenter, Rev.
W. Rawson, Rev. F. Parry, Rev. Dr. Vierns, Rev. S.
Minton, Rev. W. Pollock, Rev. G. London, Rev. Dr.
Barry, Rev. J. Matthias, Rev. G. Reade, Rev. A. Knox,
Rev. J Harrison, Rev. W. Fallon, Rev. D. Anderson, Rev.
H. W. Taylor, Rev. A. J. Jones, Rev. Mr. Newhan, W.
Jones, Esq., Ed. Jones, Esq., H. J. Webster, Esq., W.
Wall, Esq., &c., &c. •
After the prayer, with which the meeting was opened,
was concluded.

The Cukmainx said that most of their friends were
already aware that the Annual Meeting for the transaction
of the ordinary business connected with the • Society had
been held in the spring of the year, when the usual accounts
were examined and audited, and the report printed, and
circulated amongst the friends of the Society. There
would therefore be no report drawn that afternoon, at that
meeting, and so far it wouldbe attended with this advantage,
that it would leave ample time for the gentlemen, who had
kindly undertaken to address them to do,:so. And although
in Liverpool, they never. failed in having the choice of good
speakers to present to them, yet it seldom happened that
they had so ample a choice as they had on that evening.
They were favoured with a very numerous deputation from
the Parent Society ; Rev. Mr." Aeyrst, Rev. Mr. Keeling,
Rev. Mr; Scott, and Rev. Mr. Kerns, gentlemen whose
names were well-known to the meeting, they having at-
tended in Liverpool on former occasions to advocate the
cause of the society. They had kindly undertaken to address
the meeting on that occasion, and with them they would
hear with pleasure, the Rev. Dr. Mc Neile— (applause)—who
also kindly consented to speak. Whether other gentlemen
might do so in the course of the evening, depended entirely
on the mere fact whether the limits of time within which
their meeting should conclude, would or would not admit of
any addititional speakers; but he was sure that very pleasing
and very interesting information would be laid before them
by the gentlemen whom he had named. He would notstand
any longer between those gentlemen and the meeting, but
would 'merely call on the Rev. Mr. Aeyrst, than whom no
person could be better entitled to take the lead in advocat-
ing the cause of that society; for he had been for many years
its steady friend and zealous and successful advocate, and he
(the chairman) hoped that he would be spared for many years'
to come to pursue the same course of usefulness, and with
increasing success. (Hear, hear,) He (the chairman).
would however, before concluding' make- one observation.
They had to look at, not so much the measure of their suc-
cess, for that depended on the will and pleasure of Almighty
God ; but what they had to look to was the measure of their
duty, and that was to spare no xertion that was in their
power, to act in the spirit of God when He commanded that
His,dospel should be preached to all the world, to Jew and
Gentile,. and to pray that they might be His instruments,
however humble in His hands, for bringing back His once
favoured people of Israel, and converting them to the name
and faith of Jesus Christ. (4pplause.)
The Rev. Mr. AZYRST then came forward and was loudly

meeting separated

applauded. He said that before he proceeded to give them
a brief review of the great work carrying on amongst the
children of Israel, he would make a few observations to re-
mind them of the wonderful position which that people now
occupied in the world. They found that people, already-lo-
cated, in the wideness of their dispersion in pl ,- aces where
they'as Englishmen;with all their energy and enterprise,
could not follow them. They were to be found in Timbuctoo,
in Central Africa, where the foot of no EngliSh traveller
had been yet able to penetrate ; and they were to be found
again scattered throughout the vast territories of China' but
preserving wherever they were that peculiar identity which
bore such wonderful testimony to_the truth of revelation.
That identity was most remarkable—so remarkable that the
books of their worship which were brought from China were
remarkable solely, if he might term it, from the "want of
remarkability;" for one might enter with them into the

synagogue either of LiverpOol or London, and with them
in hand follow, word for word, the prayers and ceremonies
therein performed. Such identity was most remarkakle, but it
should impel them to struggle the more, and availing of the
mighty movement now going on in China, endeavour, with
God's blessing, to bring back into the aith the widely-
scattered people of the Jewish race. (Applause.) It was
painful to see how christianity was corrupted where most of
the Jews lived. The rev. gentleman then proceeded to
show how tabular statements, which he might call the arith-
metic of missions, of conversions among the Jewish people
could not be presented to such meetings, as in the case of
other missions: •It would be easy, no doubt, to present such
statements, but it was much better to state the "truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth;"—(applause)—but
when the cause of that inability was known, the matter
would no longer appear strange. In other missions, congre-
gationi could be :gathered and churches established, and
the missionary could, from time to time, give regular and
authentic returns of the extent and success of his labours.
But in the Jewish mission that could not be done ; for the
people being scattered the labours of the missionary should
be of a like character. (Hear, hear.) The rev. gentleman
then detailed many particulars shelving the success of
the Jewish mission in Upper Silesia, and particularised
the exertions of Moritz, an Israelite by birth, and other
missionaries, in forwarding there the good work. He
then described what they were doing in this respect
in the sphere of his own labours, Berlin. The kings of
Prussia, though they did not treat the Jews with
any particular favour, yet allowed them to trade and
traffic unrestrictedly, and enjoy the privilege of ordinary
citizenship ; and on that account the intercourse between
them and the Missionaries was full and perfect. And as a
proof that that intercourse was not without fruit, he would
merely mention that in Berlin alone their were 2000 of the
Jewish race united with them, and 2000 more in London.
(Applause.) He himself had 200 candidates for baptism,
43 of whom he baptised ; while throughout all Germany
they had schools established for the education of youth,
6000 children receiving education in the Duchy of Posen
alone. (Applause.) This to be sure was much, and though
he was thankful that they had made a beginning, however
small, yet they should recollect that vastly more remained to
be done, and under divine providence, he hoped they would
never cease in their exertions until that was completed.
(Applause.) _ _ _

The Rev.. Mr KEELY, Secretary of the Irish Church. Edu-
cation Society, then rose to address the meeting, and was
warmly received. After a few brief introductory remarks,
he observed, that in coming forward to plead for sympathy,
and ask assistance in the support of the society, which he
advocated, it might naturally be asked, what claim had

it either to their -sympathy or' support. (Hear, hear.) To
prove that claim he would not take them to the court or
parliament of Prussia, but he would ask them to go with
him to an humble chamber of sickness in one of the suburbs
of London, not as connected with the Jewish Society, but
as a clergyman resident in the neighbourhood. A friend
had asked him to visit that poor sick chamber, and on going
there he found a Jewess, who had learned through some
means with which he was not acquainted, the Word of
Life. She had left the paternal roof and given up the com-
forts which she had there enjoyed ; for she preferred to yield
every earthly luxury, and every human tie rather than give
up her Saviour. She therefore went forth an outcast from
her father's home, and where did she find it refuge ? In
the Institution belonging to the Jewish Society. (Applause.)
• There she was received with the arms of Christian love.
Her faith as her knowledge grew became the more and more
confirmed, but death soon laid his hand upon her. Con-
sumption developed itself in her youthful frame ; she was
removed to the hospital at Brompton, but despite of every
medical care and attention, she speedily sank beneath the
disease, and passed into the world of love and joy
with that peace and trust which a belief in the
merits of our Saviour is sure to impart. But what had the
Jewish Society done for its own members? Had it not
realised for them an increase of knowledge, and with that
knowledge, an increase of hope and happiness. (Applause).
The Rev. gentleman then concluded by observing that the
more they studied this subject, the more would they be
anxious to impart Christianity to the Jews, in making
known to them the Gospel of Christ.
The Rev. Dr. 31'NEILL on coming fortard was loudly
applauded. He said they were highly indebted, and he
thought he might add with truth, that they were sincerely
gratified/at the deeply interesting details which the Rev.
Mr. Aeyrst had laid before the meeting of the operation of
the Jews' Society. (Hear, hear). Some of these details
deserved to be recollected, and particularly those in which
he instanced the ready witnesses which the Jews in Africa
and China afforded as to the wonderful identity existing
amongtt their race. He (Dr. M‘Neill) might perhaps be
permitted, for a few minntes to advert to some of those more
general principles which were involved in the fact, and as
Missionary
as other Society,
societies and
he thought, in the Christian duty of having a separate effort
on behalf of the Jewish people. (Hear, hear). Their So-
ciety
was
a a
su
s e such,d— ib te
used—bibles, s,
epdr a suchyer -
books, Scripture-readers,and Schools. It was a Protestant
Missionary Society (applause), and, as such, it repudiated
instrumentalitiest
the traditions and superstitions of the Talmud, and bore wit-
ness against the image-worship, and he might add the heresy
of the Greek Church: he said so with emphasis because they
found in their own church some who were now apologising
for that same Greek church, and finding fault with their ex•
cellent Bishop Gobart for making proselytes out of it. But
the more proselytes he could make out of it the better.
(Applause.) It was strange that advocates, par excellence,
of orthodoxy should be taking part with the Greek church,
separated as it was from the reformed church upon special
questions of theology, and pronounced practically by the
continuance of their system in perpetuo a heretical church.
But as he said the society was a church and Protestant
missionary society, and upon those grounds they might ap-
peal for attention and for support. But this, although the
truth, was not the whole truth. Viewed thus as a mission-
ary society, and only such, they should candidly confess car-
ried with it comparatively but a trifling support,—a trifling
interest. The society had for its object to promote christi-
anity amongst the Jews scattered amongst the nations of
the earth. But when their numbers were compared with the
vast numbers of heathens and idolaters to be converted, it,
was asked why have a separate society—why a distinct com-
mittee, with its officers, and its deputations, and all this in-
creased expense? Why not have one branch of the great
missionary society appointed to do this little Jewish work ?
But the clergy who thought thus did not generally preach
for the society, and the laity who thought thus did
not generally subscribe to the society. There was
another feature connected with the society calculated
to diminish the amount of interest that men took in it, and
the amount of support consequently given to it. It had
been already alluded to—he meant the results, which, in
point of fact, were considerable, though they were such that
at no one-time, or at no one place, could they make a con-
siderable show. But what was there belonging to the Jews
which entitled the mission to them to the special attention,
interest, and support of the christian church ? To answer
this they should hav3 recourse. not to the speculations and
reasonings of men but to the Word of God. In the scrip-
tures they found tie Jews spoken of as no other people were
spoken of. That they had been a distinct people - was un-
deniable to all that believed in histOry. That they were a
distinct people, was undeniable to all who believed their
senses ; and that they should continue a distinct people, was
equally undeniable to all who really believed in prophecy.
(Applause.) The rev. gentleman then proceeded to show
how an apostolical precedence was granted to Jews, and on
this elociently founded their claims to every exertion on the
part of the christian church to convert them to the true
faith. •

The Rev. W. Scorr, secretary to the London Society,
then addressed the meeting. He followed up the arguments
of the Rev. Dr. M'Neill, and observed that the christian
church neglected its duty, if it omitted to preach the gospel
to the Jewish people. He showed how remarkable it was,
that during 1806 years this duty should have been neglected,
and said that they argued wrong in supposing that the
Jews had- a knowledge of the scriptures until the
present times. 'He laid it down as a principle, that where
man's tradition was taken as rule of faith, in that proportiOn
the word of God was departed from, and commented' on a
lecture of Cardinal Wiseman's, in which he told the Jews
that they had as much right to believe their traditions as
much inspired as the word of God. He then contrasted the
state of Jerusalem in 1836 with its present state, and, con-
cluded by calling on the meeting to persevere in its support
of the society.

The REV. MR. KERNS then addressed the meeting, and
briefly but forcibly pointed out those circumstances which
were favourable to the spread of Christianity amongst the Jews
at the present time. He described how their prejudices
were gradually declining, and how the spirit of innovation
creeping amongst them, they were departing from their old
customs and traditions. And after shewing that the
tendency of the Jews, both at .liome and abiaad, was to the
English Church, be concluded by detailing some facts con-
nected with the success of the Jewish mission on the
Continent.

After the usual vote of thanks had been given by accla-
mation, on the motion of Dr. M'Neile, to the chairman, tho

CORN.—From a Parliamentary paper it appears
that in the year ended the 6th January, the public income
from corn amounted to £404,386. _ _

- The aide-de-camp in chief of the Generalissimo
of the Ottoman forces (Schadrov Bey) .is daily expected to
arrive in London on a special message from Omer Pacha to
the British Government.