Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-14 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

THE IRISH REVIVALS

Yes .In. evening, Mr. David Kin.% editor of the
Birmingham Bi-1 Advocate, delivered the first of two
lectures in Hope Hal, on the subject of " The Irish
Revivals and Penticost, points of similarity and con-
trast." Mr. G. Y. Tickle occupied the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. King" had agreed, in
order to give the fullest information possible, to answer
any pertinent questions that the audience might think
fit to ask ; but with the ußderstanding that the ques-
tions were to be answered on the following evening.
He then introduced Mr. King to the meeting., which
was well attended.

Mr. KING said he felt that he was not present in the
character of a preacher—that he was not there for the
purpose of delivering, in the usual acceptation of the
word, an oration. He desired rather to testify as to
what he had seen and heard. On the next evening he
intended to occupy the attention of his audience by tracing
back to the facts he had witnessed—the cause of these
effects. He felt that he ought to tell them what he had
seen; and as Pentecost had been associated with the
advertisement that had brought them together, he would
refer also to some of the facts connected with that great
day. He would endeavour to confine himself to a
statement of the transactions of one day, or nearly so.
When he arrived in Belfast, 'he thought he should go to
a place more remote, and he went to Lisburn, where he
met with a linen manufacturer named Mr. Stewart, who
had taken an interest in the movement from its com-
mencement. With this gentleman he visited a number
of the meetings in the neighbourhood of Lisburn, where
he found the people much improved, and singing with
their whole hearts songs, very frequently beginning with
such words as—" I love Jesus." From that town and
its neighbourhood he went to Antrim, and he there found
matters much in the same state as at Lisburn. One
thing surprised him much, and that was, that in one
particular district the movement was altogether sec-
tarian. He found a number of Presbyterians assembled
in a large barn, but their song was very different from
what he had heard at Lisburn. The words of the first
four lines of the song were, as near as he could

remember,—

About two hundred years ago, from Scotland's goodly land,
There came to Carrick's famous town, a Presbyterian band ;
They nailed upon its famous walls their glorious flags of blue,
And worshipped God in glorious terms, as Presbyterians do.
But in other places he found the people much attached
to each other; and, as in the days of the apostles, they
seemed to have things in common very generally. In
Belfast, though the sin Of drunkenness was not banished,
still it was considerably diminished; and no person who
had been brought under the conviction of sin by revival

stricken cases, some of them were most discouraging.
Not only did some of the people' continue in a state of
helplessness for days, but for weeks ; and he feared
whether these persons should ever be practically what
I they were. In this he saw effects which he did not

consider were in accordance with the will of God.
With reference to the day of Pentecost, he believed it to
be the birth of the Christian dispensation. It was a
great wakening day, and he trusted the converts in

Ireland would, like those on that day, go on their course

rejoicing.
The Rev. Mr. DAWSON thanked the lecturer, and
added his testimony to the truth of his statements.

THE MERCANTILE MARINE
SHIP.

TRAINING

Our-attention has been called to a letter nddressed_to
the Mayor of Bristol on the subject of tue Conway
frigate, now stationed in the Mersey as a Iltercantile
Marine Training Ship. " There has 'been felt amongst
us of the mercantile community," observed the writer,
" who may not be so well favoured to our pursuits as
many others, a great want of the means whereby our
children, expressing a desire for the sea, or, as it is
termed; having a ' sea mania' may be trained to nautical
matters, and not lose the advantage of a sound English
and religious education. That want in Liverpool has, I
consider, been supplied by the Mercantile Marine Asso-
ciation of that port, and I for one take leave thus to
express my deep obligation to them for being the pioneers
in the laudable endeavour to make gentlemene, sons
first-rate seamen, without the loss of that general in-
struction so vitally necessary for the fulfilment of all
religious and moral duties—so necessary also, I will add,
to the well-being of our mercantile marine, and, indeed,
of our navy." He then proceeds with a statement of
the whole case of this provision for the mercantile ma-
rine, which we give at length, as likely to be most
acceptable to a large proportion of our readers :
The Liverpool Association has established a Marine
School for the sons of such gentlemen as, with moderate
means, have not the power to place them in the navy,
or to pay high premiums to those ship-owners who make
it a part of their system to receive youths in their ships
to' be trained for the service. The government has
placed at their disposal the Conway, a frigate of 26 guns,
which is moored in the Mersey, and on board which the
boys are received at the moderate charge of thirty pounds
per annum. • For this they are regularly and carefully
instructed and trained in all the duties of a first-class
ship, and in the practical use of nautical instruments.
The ordinary branches of a sound English education are
likewise kept up, and, when suitable, and the lads are
prepared for them, French, the mathematical instruc-
tion necessary for the proper knowledge of the prin-
ciples of navigation, nautical astronomy, and the theory
and practice of marine surveying, are properly taught.
I believe that fourteen is the age beyond which a boy
cannot enter the navy—an age at which many boys
(who will not, or perhaps cannot, apply to the attainment
of such knowledge, seek for emancipation from school
discipline by " wishing to go to sea." Now, the diffi-
culty with gentlemen of moderate means has hitherto
been, how to accompltsh this . without degrading the
child. I will speak of my own case, of which I have no
cause to be ashamed, while I have a hearty desire to benefit
my fellow-citizens and others who maybe similarly placed.
My child wishes to go to sea, I cannot afford the expense

of the navy. The 'next thing is a cadetship on board a
Merchant ship : a high premium is asked, and, in addi-
tion, a sum for the voyage for •a- mess' with the other
cadets (equal I
;know, from
,experience, to £25.) This

uu-wi iuree years, ana then no berth—the nth&
ber is full, &c: The time spent and the money paid
have produced a sailor equal, it may be, to all the work
of a first-class ship ; but has the mind been improved
'. time ? Have the rudiments of education received
years of the boy's I;f^ r it up or

,Ted ? What is your ellild'at the end of phis ap-
prentleeship, after the payment of large sums of inonev

of the trade brought to our city by ships.
though last not least, I address myself to that
community who would wish to see the, sea-service one
where in the Christian religion should be the first
second, -and third requisite. I call upon all, throuP
you, Mr.. Mayor, to think most seriously of this niattql,
and let us take a leaf out of the Liverpool book, D.,
establishing such a Mercantile Marine Association
shall be second to none in the furtherance of these grist
objects, the training of our youth to the sea-serve':
England's most noble profession, and to which she led:
her greatness, so that lads may start cared for, nurtari
and taught to act their part upon the sea. insteau
entering on the rough course of a sea life with°
knowledge and understanding. but
I fear.l' have well tired your Worship's patience,," is
Anredligitiloetisil
I trust the object will plead my excuse ; and as thf
intended for publication, I may not close it witu°l,
congratulating the Liverpool Association on the e:cte"eit
lent selection they have made in the commander of too
school frigate—a gentleman eminent in the West 1110
Royal Mail service, and more recently in that best kilo of
as Allan's line, and whose devotion to the eau', e to
training- youths for the service has induced 11„,1
undertake a most responsible and arduous task. -este„-.
kind courtesy I am deeply indebted, and would eltiLif
to him my grateful thanks ; as also to the association 17111,
for the means afforded me of procuring for one of inY,coico
dren an opportunity of obtaining the profession of his e,Lire
without losing his material education. I also 're.
to tender my grateful acknowledgments to their see
to
tart' for his' prompt and obliging manner in rePlYiligaud
their
itroublesome communications.toHim
to
whom
hearts all commend
are t them lie
fl
and remain, Mr. Mayor, your worship's most obe
and most humble servant

Wm. CLOTI°: of
P.S.—I should state that the Conway is caPu'they
receiving 150 boys ; that on the Ist of August four,started with five ; that they now • number thirtY-eog,
and the daily inquiries by clergymen, barristers, surf coo
and other professional men, is so great, they exPet(lsY
to fill up. The boys have half-holidays on Weur, at
and Saturday, when they go on shOre and Pi
cricket, &c., and they are also tauzht to swim.

•
INTERNATIONAL TRADE

(From the United States' Economist) .
In the laSt twenty years the most remarkable In
situ
has been in the international exports of the the
States and Great Britain, as well as with most lot
countries ; bUt the resources and wealth of Fran° to:
apparently been developed in a more rapid ration
most other countries under the empire. The esVatif
Great Britain and the United states. as the most "
commercial countries, exhibit a
mercial intercourse. Enzland to

iany years

born of the

system whi

t..y It c