The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-20 00:00:00

TOWN'S MEETING IN LIVERPOOL.

A town's meeting, convenPd by the May -r, Alr. J.
Stewart, was held yesterday, in the 0!
Chapel-street, Liverpool, for the purpose of nxpressing
sympathy with the sufferers by the recent inundations
in France, and organising a suoscription in the town in
aid of the fund for their relief.

The MAYOR, in stein; the object of the meeting, cx-
preseed a hope that the alliance between the two nations',
which had been cummenced in war, woull be perpetuated
in peace.

The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL moved the first resolution

"That the inhabitants of Liverpool deeply sympathise
with those of our friends and allies in France who have
lately been subjected, under Pr .vidence, to severe afflic-
tion by the inundation which ha' destroyed so large a
portion of their property, arid reduced many thousands
to extreme distress."

As a minister of that great peace society, the Church
England, he rej ,iced to have the privilege of co-ope-
rating in this work of peace.
Mr. ASPINALL, barrister (and a Roman Catholic), se-
conded the resolution, which wes unanimously adopted.
Mr. W. RATHBONE moved the second resolution :

" That this meeting desires to express sincere sympa-
thy with the sufferings of the French people, and will
most cordially assist in the efforts now being made fur
the alleviation of their distress."

tie advocated immediate and substantial aid in eloquent
terms, describing the calamity in powerful colours, and
expressing his admiration of the kind and fatherly con-
duct of the Emperor, who by his presence and personal
condolence, and still more by the tears of pity he bad
shed, had-done much to endear himself to his suffering
subjects. He hoped Liverpool would manifest those sym-
pathies which were the strong bonds that bound brother
to brother, and nation to nation.

Mr. Alderman S.lloLmx, in seconding the resolution,
combated the selfish argument of some that France was
in a position to attend to its own sufferings. Benevo-
lence was not geographical—was not restricted by
mountains and rivers, or the conventional boundaries of
the ocean. , True benevolence taught them that wher-
ever calamity existed in the world it was a duty and
a privilege to fly to its alleviation.
The proposition was unanimously adopted.
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The kev;. HUGH STOWELL Bttow- isz moved the third
resolution :

• • "That the clergy and ministers of religion of all de-
nominations in this town be requested to give their
valuable aid and assistance in carrying out the object of
this meeting."
He argued the question on the broad principle of Chris-
tian oharity, which, in the definition of its founder,
" nevt-r faileth," and not on that of human charity,
which, according to an old' proverb he hoped would now
explode, that "Charity begins at home." Charity had
been beginning at home so long that she had become so
weak that she had better go abroad. That charity be-
ginning at home was a piece of hollow, hypocritical cant.
Ask ifs professors for aid for Ireland, and they would
say "Chlrity begins at home ;" for England, and
"Charity begins at home ;" for their own town, and
"Charity begins at home ;" for their own ward, and
still "Charity begins at home ;" and they might go on
further un-il they found the wretches had no charity at
all. (Cheers.)
Mr. HENRY DANSON, as representing the trading
classes, said they would not be found behind hand with
the commercial pert of the community in their desire to
assist the suffering people of France.

The resolution was adopted unanimously, as also an-
other, moved by Mr. HAMILTON (a magistrate), of the
firm of Brown, Shipley, and Co., and sec ended by Mr.
ELIAS ARNAUD, appointing a committee for organising
the subscription.
Among the subscriptions announced to have been al-
ready raised at Liverpool was a contribution of 2001.,
by Messrs. D. and C. M'iver, which bad been tram-
witted through their agent at Havre.
A vote of thanks to the mayor terminated the pro-
ceedings.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-- ONE SHILLING DAY. Thursday
June 19.—AcImis,siens on payment, 4,441; ditto by
season tickets, 325 • tctal visitors, 4,766.
MURDERS NEAR 'MELTON MOWBRAY.—EarIy yester-
day morning (Thursday) the keeper of the Thorpe toll-
gate (a mile out of Mclton' on the Grantham road),
named Edward Woodcock, 70 years old, and his grand-
son, James Woodcock, aged 10, were discovered bar-
barously murdered in their dwelling. The poor old man
lay weltering in his blood on the house floor, with his
throat cut, a bullet wound through his body, and at
least a dozen stabs ; and the little boy lay dead in bed,
with his head half-severed, and bis body also frightfully
gashed. At the inquest immediately held before INIr.
W. Latham, deputy coroner, and a highly respectable
jury, sufficient evidence waq given to cast strong sus-
picions upon a retu-ned convict, named Brown, of the
neighbouring village of Stialford, who was inquiring the
habits of Woodc'ick on the previous evening, aid is now
missing. This man is now being carefully marched for,
4.4_ the iuqueot ioAourned.