The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-04 00:00:00

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ST. PAUL'S CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
Yesterday evening, the third annual meeting of the teach- t . • _
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era and friends of the St. Paul's Church Sunday Schools was V,•`;• \ • ,
held in the girls' school-room, Hackin's-hey. The business
of the evening was preceded by a tea-party (admission by
ticket), at which upwards of 300 ladies and gentlemen sat
down. The room presented a very pleasing appearance, P.,ll.3entiSAV.4
being decorated with festoons of evergreens and flowers, and
ornamented with tosettee, flags, banners, mottoes, &c. There
was a great number of elegantly dressed ladies present.
After the excellent and abundant supply of tea and accom-
paniments had been done justice to, the business part of the
meeting commenced. William Worrell. Esq., was called
to the chair, and opened the proceedings in a speech of con-
siderable length, which we regret the lateness of the hour
and the want of space prevents us giving our readers. He
was followed by the Rev. Mr. Kelly, the Rev. Mr. Peile,
John Branch, Esq., Mr. Webster, Mr. Owen, Mr. Fergy, &c.,
each advocating the necessity of a scriptural education for
the well-being of the rising generation, and condemning the
spirit which has introduced into our Corporation schools a
system so repugnant to the really Christian portion of the
community.
The report was read by the indefatigable and talented secre-
tary, Mr. J. C. Jones. After pointing out the great blessings
which result from a moral cultureof the minds of the Sunday
scholars, it proceeds, " And can it be a question at to what
ought to constitute the basis of the instruction given in such
schools. Oh, no, the Christian teacher points to the Bible.
and feels it as emphatically the poor man's friend. He,
therefore, tenders to his children the greatest boon that
Heaven has vouchsafed to fallen man, even the revelation
of the mind, and the will of God towards an ungodly world.
The youthful mind is taught to reverence its author, and to
delight in obeying its precepts; to avoid those who would
cast a doubt upon the authenticity of any part of the wend
volume, and to contend for the affording light to the path
of those who make it their counsel, whilst Egyptian
darkness rests on the dwellings of those who would.
exclude it." The number of children educated amounted to
255. The report, after stating that the attendance during
the year bad been good and the progress most encouraging,
proceeded to impress upon the minds of the teachers, and al
lovers of a scriptural church, the importance of extending
Sabbath schools throughout the length and breadth of their
native land.—Resolutions were then passed, adopting the
report as read; expressive of the necessity of the establish-
ment of Sunday schools, as one of the most effectual means
of promoting the temporal and spiritual interests of every
community ; and that the meeting deemed it their duty to
forward, with increased energy, the establishment of Sunday
schools. The meeting broke up about half-past nine, highly
gratified with the entertainments of the evening.

KNOWSLEY PARK.—The Earl of Derby is improving in
health very slowly. His lordship is at length able to use his
right hand, and on Monday franked some letters. On Wed-
nesday week a ball and supper were given by his lordship
to the numerous domestics of the establishment and their
friends, and preparations are making for two grand dinners
to the tenantry, 300 in number. Lady Stanley and family
hare left, to meet Lord Stanley at Birmingham, on his re.
turn from visiting Sir Robert and Lady Pee!, et their seat,

Drayton Manor.
On Friday night the house of George Gould Morgan,
Esq., at Brickendonbury, near Hertford, was entered by
some burglars, who succeeded in stealing a large quantity of
plate, consisting of 240 silver spoons, forks, and knives of
different kinds, besides various other articles of valne.
The poor law commissioners have sanctioned a resolution
of the Ipswich board of guardians, granting a weekly supply
of snuff and tobacco to the aged poor in the workhouse out of
the union funds, and have also permitted their children to
supply them with small quantities of groceries, fruit, or con-
fectionary.—S uffolk Chronicle.
In allusion to the wonderful exploits of stearn•vessels is
has been remarked that "Time and tide once waited for no
man now no man waits for them."

POLITICAL CRAVATS.—At a shop window in Oxford-
street, several cravats of a new fashion are exhibited, upon
which is placed a paper with the following inscriptton:—
" These splendid fashionable Durham Canadian silk cravats,
just arrived, is. 6d. each !

On Saturday night, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Wilson.
of Flordon, was returning home from Norwich in his chaise,
the horse was stopped by a rope tied across the road, sear
Newton-common. Mr. W. pulled in his horse, when some
villains seized him from behind, pulling him back over the
rails, and another of the gang robbed him of all the money
be possessed and his gold watch, with which they got clear
off. Such is the extreme poverty and distress of the labour-
ing classes of Norwich and its vicinity, that highway robbe-
ries are of nightly occurrence.
"REFORMED" TOWN COUNCIL-Our high and mighty
local legislative body, like a parish pauper, was summoned to
the Castle on Friday, for the sum of £9 odd, due to St. Tho-
mas's parish for poor-rates ! The funds of the city are in
such a melancholy state of bankruptcy that the council were
unable to pay this trifling sum. The collector of the rate
attended on Friday to support his demand. The town-clerk
on the part of council, said the money ought to be paid, and
the hearing would have taken place, but for his undertaking
to pay it. So much for the " reformed" town council.—
Western Luminary.

A CtvlL LAD.—The Hertfordshire peasants are notori-
ous for their want of urbanity. A lady, while on a visit
to a friend residing in the country, had during ber ride,
on horseback in the neighbourhood, became perfectly
aware of the boorishness of the peasantry. One day,
when riding unattended, she came to a by-gate of her
host's park, which had no lodge. A chubby boy way
swinging to and fro upon it, She ventnred to beg that
he would hold it open while she passed. To her utter amats-
ment he did so ! Delighted with his complacency, she gave
him a shilling, observing, "It is quite clear, my lad, from
your civility, that you are not a native of Hertfordshire."
file reply was this—" Thou'rt a liar-1 be !"
Butt' A L OF BLACK 11.tvvK.—A few days ago we announced
the death of this celebrated chief. The lowa Gazette gives
the following account of his burial :—" His body, we under-
stand, was not interred, but was placed on the earth in a sit•
ting posture, with his cane clenched in his bands, inclosed
with stabs or rails." This is the manner in which the chiefs

of the Sac nation are usually buried, and was done at his own

special request. A considerable number of whites, we ua-
derstand, were present at this disposition of his remains.—
Buffalo Whig,
The ladies of Boston, in the United States, have sub-
scribed to present Mr:Buckingham with a splendid silver
vase, in order to testify their esteem for his benevolent en-
neavow & to ameliorate ilso couslittua-s of Lha
and for his general advocacy of hurhanity in all parts of the
world.—Sheffield Iris.
Extract of a letter from an officer of the Queen's bays
dated Liverpool, Dec. 21 :—"The night we sailed from Dull-
lin it came to blow very hard, and owing to the insecure way
the vessels were prepared, we had 14 horses killed in the Wil-
tam Iluskisson, two of them very valuable, Seim and Duke,
which were kicked to death, and two of Major Griffith's
horses, and ten troopers'. Another horse, worth £6O, is not.
dead, but terribly kicked, and has one eye injured. Some.
others will scarcely ever get over the injuries they re-
ceived. Such a sight I shall never forget—at least twenty
troopers' horses all loose, struggling and rolling over the
deck. One of the officers (Lieift. Robertson) gota bed kiek,
and a blow on the bead which threw hint overboard."--...
Limerick Chronicle.
A South American member of congress thus once addressed
the president and assembly—" Gentlemen,_ I beg you to ob-
serve that, if we thus prolong our debates beyond our regu-
lar dinner hour, these political discussions will at last land Is
in our graves.
BISHOP WATSON'S OPINION OF POPERY.—Doctor Wat-
son, the celebrated Bishop of Llandaff, was less distinguished
for his extensive learning than for his knowledge ot man-
kind; and as he was an ultra-Whig in politics, his opinion
ought to have some weight with O'Connell's cabinet minie-
sters. "No one (says his lordship), will suspect me of a
want of toleration in religious matters ; vet I own I have
looked upon concessions which have been made to the Catho-
lics, both here and in Ireland, with a jealous eye, and I shall
ever continue to think that Protestant government is unwise
which trusts power to the Catholics, till it shall be clearly
proved that if they had the opportunity they would not use st
to the oppression of the Protestants. There are some enlight-
ened gentlemen among the Catholics, but the persecuting
spirit of the Roraish Church remains in the heart of the gene-
rality of its members, and whilst it does remain, Popery
must be watched. intimidated, and restrained.—Anecdotes of
the Life of Ltandaff.
THE BETTER PART OF VAI oun.—At Quatre Bras, where
he commanded, we are told :—Sir Thomas Picton was much
inconvenienced during this day for want of a horse: that
which had carried him on the 16th was injured; and as his
staff servants, who were fresh front England, could not be
found during the night, he was under the necessity of taking
a trooper's horse; and we are assured that the general was
riding about on the 17th upon a horse withont a saddle ;
while Captain Tyler, who was constantly with him during the
whole of the day, was mounted on a pony with a halter.
Towards night, however, the servants came back; when the
account which they gave of themselves caused the general
and his staff no little amusement. Picton commenced repri-
manding them in rather severe terms for presuming to leave
the field; but one of the men, who undertook to be spokes-
man on the occasion, explained their absence by eaying,
" About the middle of the battle of the day previous, the
shot bad flown about them so thick, although a good way is
the rear, that they all agreed it was better to go further off,
for some of the horses should he hurt." This quite disarmed
the general of his anger, and he laughed heartily at the sim-
plicity of the careful guardian of his property.
ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES TO THE AMOUNT OF °VAG
FOUR THOUSAND FoUNDS.—The most extensive house rob-
bery that perhaps ever took place in this city was reported
at an early hour yesterday morning to have been committed
in the shop of Metiers T. and F. Clarke, flour factors, Bruns-
wick-street. it appears that, at about four o'clock in the
morning, the family acre roused from sleep by loud knocking
at the front door by persons who discovered Slats the shop
window had been broken open. Upon entering the ehop,
Messrs. Clarke immediately ran to a small desk, which they
found had beets rifled of the very Istge sum of close upon
£4,500, which sum, they state, was deposited in it on the
night of Christmas eve, upon which evening one of the firm
drew over £9OO, from one of the banks, which he handed to
his brother, and desired him, in the presence of several per-
sons engaged inpurchasing flour, to add it to what was already
in the desk. Upon discovering the robbery, they gave the
alarm ; and a party of the city police were engaged during
the day in searching for the burglars, but without success.
The watchman of the street was found in bedatlall-past
four o'clock, at his own house, and bassinet been committed ;
but, with the exception of this single act, nothingbad been
done, nor had any clue been discovered, up to a late hour
last night; and a sum of money of the magnitude stated—
according to the representation of Messrs. Clarke themselves
—has falleninto the hands of burglars. Nothing has trans-
pired since what precedes was written to remove the mystery
its which this extraordinary affair is involved. Messrs. Clarke
state, that of the £9OO drawn out of the bank on Monday
evening, two or three of the notes were fin £lOO each. and
that of the main sum £6OO were in sovereigns.—Cork paper.
—[lt appears, from subsequent proceedings, that the creditors
of Messrs. Clarke do not place implicit credit in their state-
ments. The case was under investigation by the magistrates
on Saturday last, but we have not learned the result.)
APT REFLECTIONS AT THE CLOSE OF A YEA R.—Accord-
ing to the most accurate calculation, an astronomical year
contains 365 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes, and 48 seconds,
Suppose one individual to die every second then we have 60
every minute, 300 every five minutes, 3,600 every hour,
86,400 every day, and 31,556,928 every year; and in 30 years,
946,707,840. As this last number is equal to the present
population of the earth, and as thirty years are calculated to
be the period of one generation, it seems probable that one
death every second is as accurate a calculation of human
mortality as can he made. It seems probable also, that,
taking the world at large, there is a general uniformity its the
doings of death. In particular places, at different times, the
movements of this destroyer are like the rivulet, now rushing
down the mountain's side', then moving sluegishlv along the
plain below; but, taking all the world together, he resembles
the deep and broad river, constantly pursuing his resistless
way to the bosom of the ocean. Looking over any definite
period of time—say the intervening years between the death
of Christ and the present moment—we should not find an
hour, nor probably a minute, in which some have not died.
The hour since we commenced these calculationhas witnessed,
probably, the departure to the world of spirits of not less than
3,600 human beings; and even the single minute since the
reader commenced this article has carried off 60; and if,
perchance, he has been two minutes reading thus far, 120
deathless spirits have gone to their account; and should we
pause three minutes more to wonder or to weep over the deso.
Leticia of the grim tyrant, List number will have swelled. to
300.=--British Telepronee Aftnanack.

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