The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-21 00:00:00

THE SHIP ARTHUR.

The ship Arthur, Capt. Butement, belonging to Messrs.
Pollock and Gilmour, of Glasgow, sailed from Savannah on
29r,h December, bound for Port Glasgow, with a cargo
of pitch pine. After being at sea a few days, she encoun-
tered tremendous weather, and being cumbered with a
deck cargo, in a continuation of heavy cross seas, she got
water logged. After fearful sufferings on the part of the
captain and crew, she was ultimately abandoned on
the 15th of February. The owners chartered the
screw propeller Don Pedro, to go in search
of the derelict, under the sailing orders of
Captain Francis Scott of the Ronochan—one of the o,sners'
vessels which has been berthed here during the winter.
After an unsuccessful search, owing to unfavourable
weather, and other minor untoward circumstmces, the
Dorn Pedro returned after art absence of three weeks. Mt.
Allan Gilmour, one of the owners, having, io the mean-
time, received further intelligence respecting the where-
abouts of the Arthur, and under the firm conviction that
there was a possibility, if not a probability of reclaiming
the vessel, with praiseworthy prempitude, decided
on continuing the search, and again despatched
the Dom Pedro, under the same sailing orders of
Captain F. Scott, whose great nautical experience and
decision of character eminently qualified him fer the
enterprise. We particularise this, because the name of
the gentleman who commands the Dorn Pedro is also
Scutt, and this has led to error in other papers.
Captain F. Scott accordingly shipped a select crew of
like spirit with himself, belonging to this port and
,Greenock, and sailed on his second voyage on the 24th
March. Before quitting the British coast, however, he
prudently called at Cork, to ascertain if any additional
information could be obtained of the abandoned ship,
and there be learned that a Dutch ves=el bad seen
her in latitude 49 12, longitude 11 50. He
eccordingly directed his course towards that
bearing ; and having, on Friday 27th, reached lat. 50,
lon. 11, he commenced a zig-zag course of sailing,
enlarging the area of his ground as he proceeded. The
weather, for the first two days, was very unfavourable,
but on Sunday the 29th, in the afternoon it cleared up.
Early on Monday morning a sail was discovered to
windward ; every eye was now strained, and every glass
brought into requisition—it was next observed that the
ship's masts were bare, which encouraged the fancy that
they were in sight of their search ; hope and excitement
now rose higher and higher as they neared, until at last
there stood the truant ship full
,in their view—lat. 49 47,
lon, 11 12—having drifted only 46 miles N.E.O. since
seen by the Dutchman. What of her sails were left, were
fluttering in shred,—her yards bumping agains her masts
as if in very wantonness—the beau ideal of a marine tatter-
demalion. The sea at the time was running high, making
a complete breach over her wrecked bulwarks ; but the
gale moderating in the afternoon, the sea fell, so that
they succeeded in making fast a hawser to the
wreck. The weather was still so bad, and the
ship, of necessity, so much out of order, that no
one was put on board that night; but next morning, as
daylight appeared, the life boat was launched, and a crew
of twenty jolly tars, all able and willing, under Captains
"Watson and M'Arthur, were sent on board, With pro-
visions, spare sails, and other appliances. The weather
still continuing boisterous, communication was cut off
between the Dom Pedro and the Arthur ; but, as if to
redeem her foreited good character, crippled as she was,
and the very picture of an ocean Ishmaelite, she cheerily
scudded before the gale, keeping up with her convoy until
she anchored at Queenstown on Friday 3rd April, at 4 a.m.
The hardy tars, however, had sore work of it ; for such
was the dilapidated state of the ship, that the only means
of cemmunication between the poop and the forecastle
was by ascending the rigging and descending by
the.main stays. The Arthur lay six days at Queenstown,
where she was partially examined and pumped out. Six
of her main beams were fund to be broken, the whole
weight of the ship having prised against them. After some,
temporary repairs she started for the Clyde, in tow of the
Dora Pedro, where she arrived on Sunday afternoon, and
on Monday was towed tip to Port Glasgow by two tugs. A
goodly number of the inhabitants turned out to see her
arrival, and congratulate those who had so gallantly con-
'ducted the undertaking—an achievement, we believe,
without a parallel in the history of mercantile navigation,
and a capital lesson taught by an enterprising private firm
to all the underwriters in Christendom.—Port Glasgow
Advertiser.

VANKOITGEINET has introduced into the Canadian
council a bill to prevent accidents upon railways, by
means of public inspection. .The whole machinery to be
employed for this purpose is to be under the c3ntrol of
the Board of Railway Commissioners, which consists of
the Receiver General, Inspector General. Postmaster
General, and the two -Commissioners of Public Works,
and they are to be permitted to appoint a secretary, whose
duties have hitherto been performed by the Secretary of
the Board of Works. - The board is to have power to
inspect all lines of railway before they are opened, and
afterwards.

ALLRGED POISONING BY. AN ARTILLERYMAN.-On
Saturday evening last an inquest was held at the Powerful
Tavern, Woolwich, before C. J. Carttar, Esq , coroner for
West Kent, on the body of a woman named Ellen Smith,
who died on the previous night, as alleged, from the
effects of poison administered to her by a gunner of the
Royal Artillery, named George Hatherly, The medical
evidence adduced was not conclusive as to the cause of
death, and the inquest was therefore adjourned, in order to
ascertain if the presence of poison could be detected in the
body of deceased.

COLONIAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of this society was held in the
Hope Hall, Hope street, at half past six o'clock last
night. The chair was taken by Edward Heath, Esq., and
among. those present were the following :—Rev-. S.
Langton, R. Birks, W. H. Wright, J. Bardsley, J. Ban-
nerman, G. Burton, R. Gent, W. Leveson, D. Fowell.
J. Nunn, S Sampson, R. C. King, T. Cowan, C. H.
Burton, H. Woodward, Dr. Hume, S. Minton, and S.
Moore ; W. Jones, D. Hodgson, W. H. Moore, and T.
Grainger, Esq rs.
The Rev. Mr. Cowan opened the proceedings with
prayer.
The Chairman said, the society for which a claim was
to be made upon the kind liberality and attention of the
meeting that evening was the Co'onial Church and School
Society. It was a society which be believed had not been
hitherto much known in Liverpool, and it was perhaps
to that cause they might ascribe the compara-
tively thin attendance. He trusted, however, that
as its claims upon Christian liberality became
known they should soon exchange such meetings as the
present for meetings which would over throng larger
places than the building in which they were assembled.
He conscientiously believed that there were few societies
which had suck strong claims upon their sympathy and
liberality than that society. (Bear, hear.) lc had a
sphere quite distinct in itself. It differed from the Church
Missionary Society in this, that whereas the latter society's
labours extended among the heathen, those of the former
were undertaken for the purpose of spreading religious
instruction among their own fellow-countrymen, the
colonists of Great Britain, who were already Chris-
tians in profession, but among whom it was
quite evident the religious principle must languis'l
unless they were supplied with the mini-tr ttions and th
ordinances of religion. (Hear, hear.) It had been in
existence for almost twenty years, and it had amalgamated
with a society, well known in Newfoundland as the School
Society, and, having amalgamated, had taken the name of
the Colonial Church and School Society. But the meeting
was not to understand that its sphere was confined to
Newfoundland ; because it was extending, or hoped to
extend, over the whole colonial empire of Great Britain
an empire which, as they all knew, spread from hemisphere
to hemisphere, and of which it had been beautifully said
that the sun never sat upon the British fi tg.
(Hear, hear.) A feature which struck his eye in the
society's programme was one which he was always
delighted to see in every society coming before the public
for support—that of helping itself. When he said
helping itself, they were to understand that nearly one
half of the income of the society was raised in the
colonies themselves, and, therefore, be might call the
society to a certain extent self supporting, because the
parties for whom it was labouring' were themselves
contributing largely to the object. Another feature upon
which he should remark was this. ' In Canada there
was a very peculiar race of men growing up—a popula-
tion consisting of fugitive slaves from the United States,
with their children. Where some years ago there was
not a single negro, there were now close upon
40,000 or 50,000 of the coloured race and their
children in Canada. Looking at this fact with the eye of
faith, they might believe that this population was trans-
ferred to these colonies under the protection of the British
crown for some great and special purpose. They were
aware from the writings of men who had deeply studied
the character of the black, that he was remarkable for
earnestness, for deep affection, for docility, for piety, and
other qualities, which were, or ought to be, characteristic
of the Christian. What might be the great purpose in t' -
mind of God with this interesting population they could
not precisely see, but it was undoubtedly their duty to
welcome those strangers, and provide that for
them which they had not hitherto enjoyed—
the knowledge of God and of our Saviour Jesus
Christ. (Hear, hear.) Another great movement was
going on in Australia, namely, the influx of Chinese. It
must be believed that there was some great moral purpose
in sending so many messengers from that mighty empire,
provided they who could more clearly see the purpose of
God than the poor blind heathen only undertook their
share. Here again the society had instrumentality and
machinery for making known the knowledge of the true
God, through the Gospel, in Jesus Christ. These Chinese
emigrants did not go to the Australian colonies to settle,
but to get rich, and go bask to their native land, and if,
through the agency of the society, the seeds of Christian
knowledge could be sown in their hearts, what
might not be the result upon the immense empire of
Chi❑a. (Cheers.) Having dwelt at some, length upon the
general objects and efforts of the society, the chairman
called upon the secretary to read the report, and resumed
his seat amid loud applause.
The Secretary, Rev. Mr. King, read the following
REPORT.

The friends of the Colonial Church and School Society will
not have forgotten that a meeting in connee'ion with that society
was held in the Collegiate Institution in November last. April
is the more usual time for the annual meeting, but it is hoped
that circumstances will not again occur, as they did last year,
to throw it out of its proper course. The report now to be
presented has been almost necessarily anticipated in some not
unimportant details by tligirad at the meeting just referred
to ; and it is gratifying, aver, to be able to state that the
hopes expressed in that report, as to the success of our good
cause, have, by the blessing of God,teen more than realised.
These are days which no society which does not fit in with
some newly discovered and universally acknowledged want, can
hope for a very rapid and obvious success—if that success is to
be measured by the mere advance in its funds. the calls
upon Christian benevolence are now so many that it is difficult
to find a hearing for all, and not seldom, too, for those which
would be sure to call forth a warm response if adequately repre-
sented and understood. To be able to say, then, that the income
this society has, in the year just ended, that is, on the 31st of
March, increased as to its home receipts by £l,OOO, is t) say
touch, and must be a source of great thankfulness to all who
love the spread of Evangelical truth ; and the increase spoken
of is but one turn in a series. Constantly, since the year 1851,
when by the amalgamation, as it is called, of two societies
whose basis and objects were practically the same, the Colonial
Church and School Society assumed its present form, there
has been an average increase of more than £1,600 a year, and
this, be it remembered, not produced 'by any fitful impulse
given at any one time, but by that steady and uniform process
which is the best guarantee of its continuance, and of the solid
claims the society has on the christian public for support. It
should be also mentioned that among the many testimonies
the society has received of the truly Christian character, and,
therefore, usefulness, of its labours, since our last meeting in
Liverpool, the newly appointed and excellent Bishops of
London and Ripon have readily consented to have their names
placed among its vice presidents ; and such an implied com-
mendation is the more valuable because it is altogether
irrespective of any accident of their exalted positions. If these
worthy " Masters in Israel" thus publicly signify their approval
of our cause, it is not that they are constrained to do so
"ex officio." but that they desire to do so "ex animo."
It is not enough to say that a society has such and such great
names on its list of patrons, it must he shown what principles
those names represent. Now, it is a distinguishing feature in
the Colonial Church and School Society, that she is very
jealous of those evangelical and protestant principles, she was
founded to disseminate and maintain, and while thankful for
the approval of all who love those principles, she does not
swerve to the right hand nor to the left to catch at the support
of any one else. Established on the model of the Church
Missionary Society, and her proceedings being in part
regulated by the same earnest minded men, she seeks to do the
work it, from its very construction, leaves undone, and by the
same or corresponding means. Occupying, as it were, a middle
place between that society whose great work is to evangelise the
virtual " heathen" at " home" and that older one, just referred
to, which seeks to proclaim " the gospel of the peace of God"
throughout the entire Pagan world, she does her part to supply
what was lacking in the other two, to the full
recognition of the Lord's command—." go yo into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
Without her instrumentality, or one of a kindred kind, Eng-
lied—whatever else she might be doing by her other
missionary operations,
,would most certainly be supplying a
witness-against herself for her omission of this, and in neglect.
ing to care for her own, and especially " for those of her own
house," as most assuredly are the nominal Christian of her
colonies—would be laying herself open to one of the heaviest
charges in God's Word. But are we sure that we are not
obnoxious to-this charge, even now ? Are our exertions :for
the spiritual well being of our colonists at all in the ratio of
our responsibility ? Do they answer to the nearness of our
relation, or the extent of our means? Nay, do they answer
to the crying necessities of the case ? Oh, surely not ! Surely
this cannot be, when there are thousands among us, of whom
it is only the truth to say that they never spend a shilling, or
say a prayer, for their colonial brethren. Surely this cannot
be, when there are multitudes of our poor emigrant fellow
. countrymen who, if they hear the gospel at all in their newly
found homes, only hear it, at the most, once or twice a year.
Surely this cannot be, when there are hundreds of children
still clamouring for entrance into our schools in Western
Canada,
when along the north shore of the St. Lawrence, there
is, or was till lately, only one school in connection with the
Church of England for a distance of ninety miles, and this
where there aro children to he taught ; when in the compara-
tively proseerous diocese of Quebec there is at this moment a
spot where there is a teeming English population without either
church or minister, and which population is almost entirely
semi-infidel or worse ; when, in one place, and that otherwise
highly favoured, there are, or were just now, nine school
houses without masters, in another five churches without
services, and in many others neither school house, nor church,
nor master, nor service at all ! Surely, if these thinrgs be so,
and there is ready proof of their truthfulness, we have abundant
cause for humiliation that, with all our boasted wealth, and !
civilization, and missionary enterprise, and such like, so little

comparatively has been done, and so much remains undone.
Surely there is abundant reason that we should bestir ourselves
to roll off from us and from our country so terrible a reproach,
• and at once rise up to the dignity and the duty of our privileged
position. It is right to mention that a special effort is
now being made by the London committee to give develop
ment to the society's long cherished plan for supplying the
means of grace to English residents and travellers on the
continent. The report of this branch of their labours has been
published separately, and will be found specially interesting to
all who value this great work. A word or two on matters of
a purely local character must close this report. The Liverpool
contributions to our society, which was £3lB in '55-'56, rose
last year to £371. This is gratifying as far it goes, still when
the vast wealth and prosperity of this important town are
considered—when it is remembered how intimately they are
bound up with—it is not too much to say, are dependent upon,
the well being and extent of our colonies, £371 is a pitiable
substitute, after all, for what we ought to expect, if the self
denying example of Christ is to be the pattern of our liberality.
It is not pretended, however, that this sum represents all that
Liverpool does for the nominal Christian in our colonies, yet
even when the most is reckoned to this account that can be,
the result will be found one not calculated to swell our
complacency, or to prove any great incentive to spiritual pride.
One point alone, and it is of much interest to our auxiliary.
The Rev. S. Minton, who has so kindly and efficiently acted as
local secretary for several years, and to whom this society is so
largely indebted for its present position in Liverpool, was
compelled a month or two since by the partill failure of his
health, instrumentally produced by the weight and multiplicity
of his ministerial duties, to ,resign that office. That,
gentleman, is, as many of us know and lament, about to leave
this town. He will carry away with him the respect and
admiration of all who know him, and the lasting esteem of an
attached and a beloved flock, but not least will he carry away
with him the f:rvent gratitude of every friend of the Colonial
C'aurch and School Society, for the active furtherance which he
has hero given to their cause. These sentiments are fully
shared in by the present committee, and are those which they
have taken more than one opportunity to express. It will
eratify every wall-wisher of our cause to know that the Rev.
J. B. Lowe, the able Incumbent of St. Judos, has kindly
allowed his name to bo asseriated with that of our excellent
and kind friend the Rev. W. H. Wright, in the office of local
Secretary. May God give us grace not only to do, but to
"abound" in doing "the work of the Lord, knowing that our
labour shall not be in vain in the Lord."

The Rev. Mr. Binks of Kelso, in a lengthened and
e!oqaent address, proposed the first resolution, which was,
" That this meeting, fully recognising the claims of the
British colonist upon Christian Benevolence in the mother
country, and having every confidence in the princip'es and
working of the Colonial Church and School Society,
desires to express hearty thanks to Almighty God, for
having raised up such an instrumentality to meat the still
pressing wants of our emigrant brethren."
The Rev. S. H. Langston seconded the resolution. This
gentleman with the preceding speaker attended, it should
he stated, as a deputation from the parent society.
The resolution was carried by acclamation.
The Rev. Mr. Minton and other gentlemen also addressed
the meeting, and the following resolution was adopted :
" That the varied operations of this society, the character
of its agency, and the general usefulness of its work, entitle
it to the warm support of every lover of evangelical truth."
The meeting closed with thanks to the chairman.