The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-15 00:00:00

CHURCH NIANAGE?sTENT.

TO THE EDTTOR OP THE NORTHERN TIMES
Sir,—To-day all churchwardens, sidesinen, &c.,
Were required to present their accounts for the past
Year, for certain districts, at St. Peter's Church,
befoye the Venerable Archdeacon Jones. Accord.
ing.ly, for a church five miles from Liverpool the
atithorities summoned attended. The following is
a Copy of the receipt delivered for money paid for
fees (COPY
bistrict Church,

1857.
Received then, of the Incumbent there for
theL'4ll°clale, dae to the Lord Bishop of Chester,
*luta of
2s 01
Acqutittance
OA 43
••• , .

4d.
No.v, C. T. W. PARR?, Receiver.
sir, T complain of three things in this case :-
1.. The sum, demanded and paid is 13s 4d, but
-there has been no value received.
2, The receipt given is only for 2s 41., and not
13s 44.
3. That the law having fixed ld for a receipt
stainp, where the. amount. is above £2, and
nothing where it is under that amount, the
Church seems to 'be grossly exacting in
demanding 4d as the acquittance.
Empty churches and steamless preachers cafe have
to claims, in equity, to such rewards —Yours
respectfully,
STIR-UP.
Wednesday, 13th May, 1857.

A LARM aro ACCIDENT AT A Tenteenu.--00 Monday n7gh•
dining the performance of the last act of Othello, a
woman narnedeMargaret Patterson, fell over the gallery
rail into the lobby of the pit. Fortunately the house was
not overcrowded, and there was no one standing in the
lobby at the time, but what is still more remarkable, the
woman, when taken up, did not appear to be materially
Injared. She was immediately conveyed to the Royal
Infirmary. Considerable excitement and confusion
naturally prevailed among the audience for a while, and
the performances were of course suspended, but in a short
time the manager was able to intimate that the event was
not likely to be productive of the serious results at first
apprehended.—Edinburgh Courant.
THE PROPERTY QUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS.—Mr. Locke
'Xing, nothing daunted by his narrow escape from a victory
over the Palmerston government, on the county franchise
qeestion, on Tuesday night moved for leave to bring in a
bill to abolish the property qualification for members of the
Louse of Commons. He had an easy task in exposing the
worthle3sness of these tests of legislative respectability.
The county member requires a qualification to she amount
of £6OO a year, and the borough member one of £3OO. This
strict exaction of a money qualification in England is upheld
by the same legislature which exacts no such qualification
tom the eldest sons of peers, or from the m mbers for
Scotland, inferring in the latter case either the want of
money as the normal condition of things, or that it is not a
test, of character and position. As might hare been anti-
cipated, Lord Palmerston was enabled to vi tually shelve
`the question by allowing the bill to be formally brought
in, on the understanding that a decision on its principle
'should be deferred till the intr.( duction of the promised
warm measure of 1858. Lord Palmerston, it cannot be
denied, is an adept in the issue of promissory notes on
government credit, though we do not see why an honest
debeir shonid objet to pay by instalments.
TILE AIMING SrEAIVLER TEMPEST.—S 3 lone t petiod
has elapsed since anything. was heard, on either aide of
the Atlantic, of the screw steamer Tempest, that it may
savour of credulity to entertain even a remote idea of new
hearing anything regarding her. Such a notion may be
regarded as hoping against hope. But, even in the case
of vessels long unheard of, we think ourselves justified in
adopting the motto— nil desperandum. But recently the
Oneida turned up after king long supposed irretrievably
lest. Patience and perseverance were awarded by the
recovery of the abandoned Arthur. Toe Mora Castle,
after beetting the billows for months, was fallen in with
aad secured; and even H.M.S.. the Resolute, was -ulti-
' Irlately recovered. Months, and even years, have (sec t-
sionelly elapsed before the crews of wrecked vessels, long
given up, have been ascertained to be in existence. The
drifting of icebergs is regulated by circumstances which
have not yet been reduced to laws, and therefore, as
" drowning men catch at straws," we do indulge the,
drowning
from the following brief notice in the Shipping
...2tte that we may yet hear something of the Tempest.
notice is dated April 14, and is as follows
"
with the
Bayonaise arrived at t. Pierre, ewfoundland,
crew of an EngliSsh vessel, N
said to be a
Packet ; about 54 men saved." Brief though the an-
nouncement is, it bas within it the germ of hope. It
announces that 54 men have been saved," that they are
the eiekv of an English vessel," and that the vessel
referred to is said to be " a packet." Ihe vessel by
Which the party has been rescued is• French ; she has
arrived at a Fieach fishing settlement, which, at any time.
would be seldom touched at by a British ship, and under
recent circumstances. the communication must have been
less frequent. The submarine telegraph between New—
fon:44nd and the States is out of order, we are informed
by the latest arrivals, and thus we may account for the
absence of more minute details. But if we believe the
statemeet, meagre as it is, 54 men have been saved from
,
Itemr e F_aig!ish vessel. No ordinary ship would have so
large a crew_the Tempest, we find on enquiry, had about
r 62, we believe, all counted; and it is known that she
Y °Tle on board when she sailed. 171 e
I'd "I passenger
also learn that St. Pierre is about the very latitude where
the parties most interested have been looking for intelli-
gence of the Tempest first casting np. Whatever the
result may be, there is room, we expect, for hope that she
may be yet heard of., Greenock Advertiser.