Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-15 00:00:00

and was received with the most marked enthusiasm.
Ile gave a fall detail of the course he intended to pur-
sue; and, said, " You have known me thirty years
in Liverpool: should you return me for Scotland
Ward, I shall endeavour to show you that you have not
misplaced your confidence." The speech of Mr. Carne
was received by the dense assemblage with rapturous
plaudits ; and he concluded by calling upon them to be
early at the poll on Friday morning next.
Mr. H. LAFONE moved a resolution to the effect—
That it is the opinion of this meeting that Mr. Came
is fully qualified to represent Scotland Ward in the
Town Council, and that our best endeavours be exerted
to secure his return.
Mr. BRAKELL, in an able address, seconded the motion.
Mr. DREAPER moved a vote of thanks to the chairman,
which was ably seconded by Mr. J. G. Livingston,
member for North Toxteth Ward.

As the meeting was about to break up,
Mr. H. LAFONE said he had omitted what he had
previously intended to have stated, in respect to the
absence of gentlemen of standing and influence in the
ward, who were expected to have been present. He had
received notes of apology from Mr. G. H. Horsfall, Mr.
S. it. Graves, and other gentlemen, who, either from
unavoidable business, or their presence, by previous en-
gagement, at the meeting in South Toxteth Ward, were
unable to attend here. The tenor of this communication,
however, was such as to justify his (the chairman's)
belief that Mr. Came might depend upon their energetic
support. He had no doubt that several, if not all, of
those gentlemen would be present at the meeting to be
held to-morrow (this) evening.
The meeting, having given three hearty cheers for
Mr. Came, then broke up ; but not before pledging
itself to use its most strenuous endeavours to return
him by a triumphant majority on Friday next.

A, meeting of Mr. Clarke Aspinall's friends was held
yesterday evening, in Mr. Pickup's Hotel, Great Howard-
street. The room in which the meeting was held was
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assembled, which rendered it very uncomfortable. Mr.
John Walker occupied the chair, and briefly introduced
Mr. Aspinall, who proceeded to give a full explanation of
his principles, suck as has already been published when he
was before the electors of St. Anne's Ward. The meeting
w as afterwards addressed by Messrs. Bigham, James, Sheil,
and Murdock ; and Mr. R. Mossman proposed the fol-
lowing resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Levi :
"That this meeting having heard the clear, bold, and
equitable enunciation of the principles of Clarke Aspi-
nall, Esq., hereby pledges itself to use all legitimate
means to secure his return as the representative of this
ward in the Town Council." This resolution was unani-
mously adopted, and the meeting soon after terminated.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SUNDAY-
SCHOOL INSTITUTE.

Last evening the first annual meeting of the members
and friehds of the Church of England Sunday-school
Institute was held in the Concert-hall, the Rev. Dr.
WNeile in the chair. There was a very large attend-
ance, and amongst those on the platform were the
Revs. W. Falloon, Thos. Moore, R. Moore, H. J.
Burfield, of Bradford, the deputation from the Parent
Society ; J. Fawcett, also a deputation ; Gunn, Ffolliott,
Postance, Sampson, Kerr, Ireland, and R. Oates.
The proceedings having been opened by prayer,
The CHAIRMAN said : If the religion professed in this
country were practically efficient amongst the masses of
our population—if parelatal authority were duly exer-
cised—if parental responsibilities were deeply felt, and
parental duties conscientiously discharged—if every man
felt that, when he becomes a husband and a father, he
has no right to ignore the existence of his own offspring
in mind any more than in body, and to turn over the in-
struction of them to strangers—if thereupon every work-
ing man, thankful for the rest of the holy Sabbath,would
devote the hours of that sacred day to making acquaint-
ance even with his own children, to cultivating their
affections, to training their characters, and if he would
take as his companions to the house of God those of his
children who are of age to join in public worship,—if
this were done truly and universally throughout the
kingdom, then all the children would each be in their
-own homes on Sunday -under the guardianship which
nature provides and which the God of nature sanctions
and commands in his Holy Law, and our Sunday-
schools would be ipso facto depopulated. This would
be a grand social improvement. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
But, alas ! we are far, far from this. Sunday- schools
are a painful necessity ; they are a living witness against
the carelessness, not to say more, of the parents in this
kingdom. Tens of thousands of children of Englishmen
are Sabbath.- day orphans. No father's hand is stretched
forth on behalf of their young minds. The superin-
tendent and teachers of our Sunday-schools are so many
foster-fathers, foster-brothers, foster-sisters, stepping in
between the poor forsaken ones and the direct ignoranCe
of heathenism. It is well they do this. It is creditable
to their self-denial that they sacrifice so large a portion
of those hours that are available for their own
personal devotions to endeavour to stay the plague.
As they are engaged in this work, it becomes, of
course, a matter of high importance that they should
perform the work in the best possible manner ; and I
am glad to think that so many of them will have an
opportunity this evening to hear from persons, than
whom none can be better qualified to speak on such im-
portant topics as the following :—" The necessity of
preparation, and simplicity in order to efficient teaching;"
"The trials and rewards of Sunday-school teachers ;"
"The requirements and the duties' of Sunday-school
teachers." I have no doubt that you will hear also
interesting details both concerning the number of
children now in the Sunday-schools, and concerning
the beneficial results derived from their instruction. '
But, however necessary in our present circumstances,
such an institution may be as the Sunday-aehool In-
stitute, and however deeply and gratefully indebted
we are, as we ought to be, to the managers and teachers,
still let us bear in mind, that Sunday-schools are no
part of our direct Christianity.. They are remedies for
the want of Christianity in the kingdom. Where is our
Christianity founded but in the Bible ? And where,
but by very remote inference, is there any passage in
the Bible that can be construed into a command
for our Sunday-schools ? The command to bring
up clittaren to tne nurture and aamomnon of the
Lord, is not 'addressed to SundayTschool teachers,
but it is addressed. to parents. Let us bear this
in mind. My object in saying this is to call the
attention of the Christianliart—the really religious por-
tion of our working people, for I am thankful to say
there is such a portion, and I hope, and trust, and be-
lieve it is a portion becoming larger and larger every
year—(hear, hear)—my object, I say, is to call the
attention of that portion of our working people to the
duty of attending to their own children on the Sunday.
Why should. a Christian man send his children to a
Sunday-school on Sunday morning ? Why should he
divest himself of the only opportunity he has to cultivate
the acquaintance, and to open up the character and
mind, and win the affections of his own children ? He
is, labouring all the week during the hours that his
children are awake; when he "eomestOme it is time for
them to go to bed—he goes away before 'they are out of
bed. He has actually no opportunities of making inti
macy with his- own family, except on that blessed boon
to the working man—the sacred resting.day—the Sab-
bath. (Applause.) Why, then, I ask, should he send
away his children from himself on the Sabbath day ?
Why should the Christian father send his children to
join a multitude of poor wretched children, with no
Christian fathers ? Why should the clergy encourage
them to do so ? Why should we pride ourselves
on the number of our Sunday-schools ? Thoy
are but witnesses of the wisle extent to which
the anti-Christian disease 'is seated in the popula-
tion. I therefore venture to say to any Christian
labouring man,—" My good friend, don't send your
children to Sunday-schools; stop at home with. them,
and keep them at home with you, Talk to them,

They are not beholden to the Sunday-school for their
teaching ; they go to school every day in the week, and
are supplied with teaching. They get enough of it.
You should read to them the Bible. Show them an
example. Take your boy on your knees, or between
your knees, and talk to him affectionately, and win
his heart on Sunday morning." You would do ten
times as much good as you would get in a lesson in
a class from the best Sunday-school teacher in Liver-
pool ;—(hear, hear, and cheers)—and I don't believe
there are better Sunday-school teachers in the world
than some we have in Liverpool. (Applause.) But
let everything be in its proper place. I do feel these
Sunday-schools are, h I have said, witnesses against the
irreligious condition of a multitude of the parents ; and
while parents are, as too many parents are we have to deal
with, idle, slovenly, lazy, on Sunday morning—while
they are setting a bad example instead of a good one to
their children—while, instead of getting up on Sunday
morning and making themselves and their habitations
clean, and doing something for comfort and enjoyment
on the holy day, they loiter in their beds, and then
hang about half-dressed, squalid and dirty to the middle
of the day on that sacred day—as long as parents of that
kind exist, open Sunday-schools as refuges for the des-
titute ; lead the poor destitute children there that have
no Christian homes. But I say in the name of our
Great Master, to Christian parents,—" For God's sake,
keep your children at home and teach them yourselves,
and take them to church with yourselves, instead of
sending them into a gallery with a schoolmaster to look
look after them." (Applause.)
The Rev. R. OATES, secretary, read a report, which
urged all the Church Sunday-school teachers in Liver-
pool to join in an attempt for the improvement of the
a branch of
the Church of England Sunday-school Institute.

The Rev. J. K. BURFIELD moved the following reso-
lution :—" That the machinery brought into operation
by the Church of England Sunday-school Institute is
well calculated to promote the efficiency of Sunday-
schools, and, therefore, deserves the support of all who
are interested in the spiritual welfare of the young; and
that it is expedient that a branch thereof should be esta-
blished in Liverpool as recommended in the report now
read." The rev. gentleman stated that the society was
established 15 years ago by a few layman in London,
acting under the counsel and advice of the present
Bishop of Bombay. It originated in a want then deeply
felt—a want which had not since been diminished—.
that there was no direct agency in connection with the
Church of England to help in Sunday-school work. It
did not seek in any way to interfere with any society
established to help national schools, but it proposed to
help Sunday-school teachers who were in direct connec-
tion with the Church of England, and it had laboured
effectually, under God's blessing, to carry out that
design. In London there were 76 Sunday-schools, and
in the provinces 547 schools ; making a total of 623
Sunday-schools in connection with this society. But
when they remembered that the Church of England had
between nine and ten thousand national schools scat-
tered over the kingdom, under the immediate control and
direction of the clergy, and when most of those schools
were used as Sunday-schools, they must see that there
was great room for an increase. The rev. gentleman
then proceeded to advocate the claims of the society
upon the public ; and in the course of his remarks said
he could desire that we could do without Sunday-
schools, but he knew that not only children were
benefitted by them ; but even parents had been led by
those children to the house of God.

The. Rev. THOMAS Moons seconded the resolution,
and also spoke on the subject of the requirements and
duties of Sunday-school teachers. He observed that
the state of things here below being imperfect, they
could not expect to see perfection in our day, and
therefore they had Sunday-schools ; and no wonder at
it, when they found that in Liverpool it was believed
there were 20,000 children who never attended any
school at all.
The resolution was agreed to, and a collection made
to defray the expenses of the meeting and to swell •the
funds of the institution.
The CILAIEMAN said they would see that they all agreed
as to the necessity of having Sunday-schools, but the
point he made was this,—that the really Christian peo-
yle among the working classes, instead of being en-
couraged to send away their children from home to
Sunday-schools, should be encouraged to keep their
children at home. (Applause.)
The Rev. W. M. FALLoorr, who was received with
loud cheers, addressed the meeting upon " the necessity
for preparation and simplicity, in order to efficiency, in
Sunday-school teaching." He pointed out that effici-
ency meant active, competent power ; and in Sunday-
school teaching they were to aim at producing an effect
upon the children's minds and hearts, by imparting to
them such instruction, arid in such a way, as was most
likely .to gain the end in view. In order to this end,
of course, at the very threshold, there must be right
motive ; for if the heart were not right towards
God nothing could be done right amongst men.
The teacher was solemnly bound to ask, in
undertaking the office, and to be continually repeating
it afterwards, "Why am I thus engaged ? What am I '
teaching for ?" Without this constant regard to high
principles, the work must degenerate either into duty
or habit, or task, and the teacher dwindle down into a
piece of mere carnal machinery. The teachers must
have a decided and distinct object in view in order to
efficiency, for a teacher without point would be a point-
less teacher. Having inculcated the necessity of an
earnest zeal, the rev. gentleman enforced, in order to
an efficient working, a due preparation. If the teachers did
not prepare what they said, the probability was that the
scholars would hardly remember what they had been
taught. He would urge teachers to take three things into
account, in their preparation of the lesson, explanation,
illustration, and application. The necessity of simplicity of
teaching was dwelt upon at some length, and the rev.
gentleman concluded by an earnest appeal to his hearers
to water their work abundantly with prayer.
The meeting was subsequently addressed by the Rev.
Joshua Fawcett, on " The trials and rewards of the
Sunday-school teacher," and by the Rev. J. It. Conor,
after which the Doxology was sung, and the proceed-
ings terminated.

TIIB GaBAT EASTERN.:--The Great Eastern appears
now to be laid up for the winter, during which period,
it is said, considerable alterations will be made in the
machinery. The deck will have to be relaid. The
total expense yet to be incurred will probably be
460,000 tot .000,000.

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Scurvy and all
all diseases of the skin. The fever, sleepless nights, dis-
ordered stomach, tainted breath, langour and depression
of 'spirits, always attendant on the worst classes of
diseases of the skin, are safely and speedily removed by
the use of Holloway's Ointment and Pills. Their effi-
cacy in correcting the corrupt humours of the body, by
stimulating the sluggish liver, and promoting perfect
digestion, is unrivalled. The Ointment well rubbed
into the parts affected, and the Pills taken as a power-
ful auxiliary to it, purify the blood, give tone to the
stomach, and invigorate the whole system.
EXCURSION TharNs.—The railway parliamentary
returns, recently published, of the traffic for the year
1858, afford' gratifying results to shareholders, no less
than to the public, of the successful results of a regular
and continuous series of cheap trains. The year's returns
, or eoabsto ofut working and
sixty-five English companies exhibit eight lines
traffic, ffi
15c, millions,
a atn s a worked by eight companie, at a deficiency or loss, eleven
companies make no, return, and the remaining forty-six
earned
fi d millions
preferenceof
seventy-
three per cent. of the gross takings. The returns from
expenses 20
twenty-three Scotch companies exhibit one company
worked at a loss, three companies make. no return, and
nineteen companies earning 2 1-3rd millions. at a cost of
11 millions, being nearly 70 per cent. The. returns
from 21 Irish companies exhibit 5 lines, including. the
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin, worked at
a lose ; 4 companies make no return.; and 12 lines
earned 1 1-6th millions at a cost of ta of a mi.lion, or
about 83 per cent. of the receipts. The details show
that while the Chester and Holyhead expenses and
charges consumed 96 per cent. of the gross receipts, the
Great Northern 75 per cent., the Great Western 96 per
cent., the London and North-western 72 per cent., and
the Manchester and Sheffield, with its intermittent
competition trains to Liverpool, 95 per cent., the South-
, western only consumed 66 pc: lt cu., .the
Brighton 71
per cent,, the' South-eastern nearly 67 per cent., in
earning their traffic.—Arash's Railway Statisti4s,