The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---MONDAY.

DESPERATE ASSAULT.
Two men, brothers, named Dominic and Edward Cunning-
ham, were charged with having committed a violent assault on
Edward Peat, an Irishman, who appeared with his arm tied
up, and was otherwise hurt. It appeared from the evidence,
that on Saturday night last the prisoner, D. Cunningham,
and the complainant had quarrelled (it did not appear how),
and that they were fighting when the other prisoner, Edward
Cunningham, came up armed with a knife, and attempted to
stab Peat, but, luckily for both, did not succeed, although he
inflicted several severe wounds. Both Peat and the prisoner,
Dominic Cunningham, presented a bruised and bloody ap-
pearance, the result of the sanguinary conflict, in which they
narrowly escaped with their lives. As there was no evidence
that Dominic used any deadly weapon, he was discharged ;
but his brother, who had used the knife, was ordered to pay
a fine of £5, or be committed for two months to the Borough
House of Correction.

ILLICIT DISTILLATION.
A man, named Howard McManus, was brought before
the court at the instance of Mr. Kulshaw, Excise Officer.
Mr. K. stated, that he had gone under the authority of a search
warrant to the prisoner's house in Prince William-street, Tox-
teth-park, and that he there found the prisoner working a pri-
vate still, and also 'seized about nine gallons of spirits. It was
stated that this was the seventh time the prisoner had been
brought up for similar offences, but, as there was no legal evi-
dence of this fact, it was not taken into account in fixing the
fine. He was ordered to pay a fine of £3O, or be committed
for three months to the Borough House of Correction.

STEALING SUGAR.
James Wind, a boy, was charged with having in his pos-
session a quantity of sugar, of which he could give no proper
account. A police-officer stated, that he saw the prisoner in
the street on Saturday night at ten o'clock, with a basket in
his hand; that'he saw him enter his father's cellar, a marine
store, and then deposit the sugar in a dish handed to him by
his mother-in-law. On the officer entering the cellar the
sugar was concealed under a bed, and he found it to be 171 b.
weight. The boy, on being questioned by M. Hall, said,
he had bought it from a man in the street for six shillings.
He was committed for fourteen days to the House of Cor-
rection.

STEALING LEAD.
William Hampon, a carter, was charged with stealing a
quantity of lead, the property of the Railway Company. It
appeared that the prisoner had gone to a person named Jef-
fery, a publican and marine store-dealer in Mason-street,
and sold the lead at three different times—receiving for it,
Id. per lb. The whole amounted to about 21 cwt.
A man named Thomas Morrison, a boatman, was brought
before Mr. Hall, charged with having been found coming
from oue of the docks with a large pocket handkerchief full
of gunpowder. He stated that he had been assisting to warp
a vessel into the dock, and that the powder was given to him
in a present,—no vessel being allowed to have that article on
board while in the dock. It did not appear that his statement
was incorrect, and he was discharged ; Mr. Hall remarking
that the powder would be destroyed.

BEGGING

This practice has recently become more and more annoying,
and though there may be many objects deserving of charity,
the greater portion of the mendicants, particularly of the
males, are " sturdy beggars," who could find work if they
would. Yesterday, two men were brought before Mr. Hall,
charged with importuning the lieges by beseeching alms,—
one of them was named, not inappropriately, Cheetham,
(" Cheat 'em"). He was committed for one month to the
house of correction, and the other for seven days.

FlRE.—Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, the police
officers on duty at St. James's-place perceived a smell of
burning, and soon after, it being dawn, they saw smoke pro-
ceeding from the upper portion of the premises of Mr. Chor-
ley, bread baker, corner of Stanhope-street. They imme-
diately roused the family, rescued them from their perilous
situation, and by arduous exertions, so far subdued the fire
in about three quarters of an hour, that no further danger of
its spreading was to be apprehended. The tire was caused by
a stove-pipe igniting some combustible materials in the upper
story. But for the exertions made, the flames would, un-
doubtedly, have spread, and the consequence would, in all
probability, have been very extensive. As it is, the damage
sustained is not to any serious amount.
THE WEATHER.—After a succession of chilling breezes
from the east and south-east, for a considerable period, the
wind on Saturday morning shifted to the N.N. W., and in
the evening veered to the north-west. On Sunday it blew
pretty fresh from the N.N.E., and was again piercingly cold.
These latter variations have enabled vessels to reach our port
that were knocking about in the channel, or lay wind-bound
in Ireland and elsewhere. The arrivals on Saturday and
Sunday were numerous,—amounting to not fewer than one
hundred and fifty sail, including coasters. A considerable
number also arrived yesterday. The wind is now (Monday
evening) from the north-west.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.—The anniversary of this festival
was yesterday celebrated in the usual manner by the natives
of the Sister Isle." Soon after eight o'clock the several
" Hibernian Societies," ten in number, that were to take
part in the festivities of the day, assembled in Williamson-
square, and proceeded thence to St. Anthony's Chapel, Scot-
land-road, where they witnessed the ceremony of laying the
foundation stone of a school-room to be attached to that
chapel. They thence marched in procession, by a somewhat
circuitous route, (taking in the Exchange and Castle-street,)
to St. Patrick's Chapel, Toxteth-park, where they attended
divine worship. Each society was preceded by a band.
The flags and banners were numerous, and all emblematical
of Ireland, and the Popish religion. The greater number of
the clubs were dressed in their Sunday apparel: they
wore green scarfs, rosettes, &c., and had a very respectable
appearance. The Hibernian Total Abstinence Society, fol-
lowed by a long string of juvenile " Teetotalers" brought
up the rear. On leaving St. Patrick's Chapel, the proces-
sion moved northward, through some of the principal streets,
including Norton-street and St. Ann's-street, and finally, on
reaching Scotland-place, dispersed to their several club-
houses, to devote the remainder of the day to festive enjoy-
ment, the results of which the police reports of this morn-
ing will doubtless afford some interesting specimens. The
weather was fine, and the number of persons who assem-
bled at various points to see the procession, was conse-
quently great.
THE TEETH.—The preservation of the teeth, which serve
to ornament or deface one of the most expressive features of
of the human countenance—the mouth, cannot be otherwise
than of vast importance to the fair sex ! For this purpose,
as well as for purifying and embellishing the teeth and gums,
and freeing them from any foreign substance pernicious to
their health and beauty, Rowland's Odonto has been pre-
sented to the public, and found truly efficacious. It is pa-
tronized by royalty and the nobility, is universally appreciated
as possessing renovating qualities—unequalled by any Denti-
frice of the age, and is accordingly recommended by the
most eminent of the faculty.
Mr. Townson was on Thursday evening elected acting
secretary to the Reform Association, in room of Mr. Atkin-
son, who has resigned.
LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.—The monthly meet-
ing of this society took place on Thursday, at the Medical
Institution, the president, Henry Booth, Esq., in the chair.
The attendance was full, and further accessions of members
were announced. Mr. J. Grantham read a paper on the
means now employed in economising the fuel of steam-en-
gines ; and Mr. Platt described his mode of feeding a steam-
boiler with boiling water, and of reefing chimnies. Much
interesting discussion took place.
CONCERTS AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.—TWO concerts of
sacred music, on a scale of great magnificence, are announced
to take place at the Amphitheatre, during Passion week.
The distinguished professional names who figure in the pro-
gramme—Miss Birch, Miss Maria B. Hawes, Phillips, Ben-
nett, &c., and the selected pieces .embracing the works of
Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, &c., will give to these
concerts an amount of interest and attraction not surpassed
by any similar ones ever delivered in the town.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT FROM FIRE.—We have to record
another fatal catastrophe occasioned by leaving children alone
with a fire in the room. About noon on Wednesday last, the
wife of a labouring man named Jolly, residing in Comber-
mere-street, Toxteth-park, went to take her husband his
dinner, leaving two children, the eldest a girl of about eleven
years of age, the youngest a boy of about two and a half
years old, at home, and locking the door behind her. Some
time afterwards the neighbours hearing frightful screams,
burst open the door, and found the two children enveloped
in flames, the elder so dreadfully burnt that she died almost
immediately, and the younger so much injured that it is not
expected to recover. The mother, on her return, was in a
state of intoxication, and seemed more concerned about the
state of the door, coarsely abusing the neighbours for break-
ing it open, than of the dreadful fate of her children !—Mer-
cury. _ _ _

GUARDIAN SOCIETY.—We lately mentioned that the
Liverpool Guardian Society for the protection of trade
against swindlers, had resolved to do away with the bonus of
one guinea, heretofore required to be paid, by new members
on their admission. The effect of this liberal measure has
been to produce a great accession of members. At the last
monthly meeting of the committee no less than 155 new
members were admitted, and there are already about 100
more applications awaiting the consideration of the next
meeting. The benefits of the society will thus be greatly ex-
tended, and a more effectual check be given to the fraudulent
designs of those who are emphatically said to " live by their
wits." We understand also that a more intimate system of
co-operation has been formed with the societies established
in Manchester and other large towns, for the purpose of de-
feating the insidious schemes and devices of the fraudulent.
We congratulate the society on the increased impetus thus
given to its operations.—Chronicle.
LIVERPOOL HUMANE SOCIETY. —We understand' that
the report of the provisional committee will be laid before
the subscribers in a few days. The treasurer received £5O
last week from Robert Turner, Esq. of Manchester.

WOOD V. IRON.—By the following statement it appears
the Commodore. left Greenock on Saturday, two hours and
five minutes before the Royal Sovereign, and arrived here
five hours and six minutes before her :

Hour. Min.
Commodore left Greenock at 2 20
Arrived at Liverpool 9 10
Royal Sovereign left Greenock at 4 25
Arrived at Live' pool at
Difference in favour of the Commodore full three hours.—
Correspondent of the Albion.
Passengers by the packet-ship United States, N. H. Hold-
redge, from New York :—S. H. Fay, of Savannah ; Mr.
Philip Gordon, Mr. S. Mills, of Germany ; Mr. James
Greenshields, Mr. Richard Ward, Mr. H. W. Gibsone,
Captain Blukwood, Miss Mary Boone, Mr. Thomas Kaye,
Mr. John Dougal, Mr. E. Macpherson, Mr. L. Hay, Mr.
J. A. Perkins, Mr. F. Goring, Miss Ross, Mr. Felix Mer-
cure, Mr. H. Lionais, Mr. Jonas Levy, all of Canada.
VIRGINIA SILK AND SUGAR COMPANY.-Our readers
will perceive an advertisement announcing the formation of
this Company. We understand that the undertaking is
warmly espoused by the American Minister in this country,
the Hon. Mr. Stevenson, and in a national point of view it
holds out prospects very advantageous to the mercantile
world, and particularly to Liverpool, the port so much in
connection with America.

STEAM v. WIND.—AII the ships which sailed from this port
after the middle of January for New York had very fine runs.
The Hibernia, which sailed on the 17th, arrived out on the
15th of February, having performed the passage in twenty-
eight days : most of the other ships with which she sailed in
company had remarkably good passages also. The packet-ship
Independence, which sailed from this port on the 25th of
January had not reached New York on the 25th of February ;
whereas the Great Western, steam-ship, which sailed from
Bristol on the 28th of January, arrived at New York on the
16th February, and the Liverpool, steam-ship, which sailed
hence on the 6th of that month, reached the city on the 25th.
So much for the contest between steam and wind in passages
to the westward. The long prevalence of easterly winds,
which have extended far beyond the Channel, has given a de-
cided advantage to steamers over 'sailing vessels to the east-
ward. Thus, the packet-ships United States and South
America, two of the finest vessels in their respective lines,
.the fonner having last voyage, run from port to port in fifteen
days, and the latter, last voyage also, having performed
the passage in less than two days more than the Royal
William, steamer, were both distanced by the Great
Western, the one (allowing for the longer run to Liverpool
than to Bristol) by eight and the other by five days. The
United States was nearly a week in the Channel; and the
South America had been entangled for thirty hours in a field
of ice. The first brought eighteen and the second twelve
cabin passengers. The Great Western, it will he recollected
brought only thirty-seven. The Garrick, which sailed in
company with the Great Western, was, owing to a shift of
wind, more fortunate than the two preceding packets. She
arrived on Saturday night; thus reducing the advantage of
steam over wind to, in her case, a little above four days. The
Garrick brought only six cabin passengeis.

PROMOTION OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE
JEWS.-INSTITUTION FOR THE RECEPTION
OF CONVERTED JEWS.

A public meeting of the friends of the Jews took place on
Friday evening, in the Music-hall, Bold-street. Notwith-
standing the unfavourable state of the weather, the room
was filled with a very respectable audience. On the platform
there were several of the clergy of Liverpool. Shortly after
seven o'clock, the Rev. Dr. TArrERsuALL was called to the
chair.

The Rev. CHAIRMAN called upon the Rev. Mr. JOSEPH
to open the proceedings with prayer, which having been
done, he then proceeded briefly to state the objects of the
meeting, which, he said, would be more minutely detailed
by the rev. gentleman who was about to address the meeting.
The Rev. JOSEPH SAMUEL C. F. FREY then stood up,
and spoke as follows :—Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentle-
men,—Agreeably to the notice given of the design of this
meeting, I commence by stating, that, in 1801, whilst a stu-
dent in the Missionary Seminary at Berlin, in Prussia, a
letter was received from the London Missionary Society,
requesting that three of the students might be sent to this
country, and they would then forward them to Africa, to
Drs. Van der Karugs and Kitcherer, who were then labour-
ing among the Hottentots. I was one of the three who were
sent. When the directors of the society found that I was
a descendant of Abraham, they proposed that I should stay
and preach to my Jewish brethren. But as I could not
speak any English, they sent me to Goyrost, into their mis-
sionary seminary, under the late venerable Dr. Bogue, where
I studied four years. In 1805 I returned to London, and
commenced preaching to my Jewish brethren, and the Lord
blessed those efforts. But the mission to the Jews and that
to the heathen having often clashed with each other, it was
thought best to have a distinct society for the Jewish cause.
Accordingly, I formed the London Society for Promoting
Christianity amongst the Jews, and continued to preach
under its patronage for nearly six years longer. But in 1815,
a heavy debt having been contracted, threatening the ruin of
the institution, thd Rev. Lewis Way, of Hanstead Park, said,
" It is a great pity that this cause should sink : if the dis-
senters will give up the cause to the established church, I
will pay the whole debt." Having mentioned this to some
of the leading brethren among the dissenters, two public
meetings were held, and by a unanimous vote the cause was
given up to the episcopalians, on condition that the debts be
honourably paid. Mr. Way was as good as his word. He
paid the whole debt, which was no less than £lB,OOO. But
the society has since repaid him the greater part of it. A
resolution was now adopted, that in future all things were to
be done according to the rules of the established church ;
and as, by the rule of that church, no one is to be patronised
as a preacher of the gospel until he be regularly ordained by
a bishop, and as I never belonged to the established church,
the very next Sabbath the place where I had preached was
shut up, and soon after my connexion was dissolved; but I
hope our friendship has continued hitherto ; and an annuity
was made me of £lOO for the first year, and £5O for the next
ten years, which has been regularly paid to me. It will now
be necessary to speak distinctly and separately of the pro-
ceedings of the society and of my own labours. As respects
the society, I have great pleasure in stating that they have
gone on with Christian zeal, with British liberality, and with
success far beyond my expectations. The preaching of the
gospel at the Jews' Chapel, Cambridge Heath, Hackney,
and the schools for Jewish boys and girls, have been conti-
nued, with much success. They have translated the New
Testament into Hebrew, and published several editions of
the Old Testament in Hebrew, and a variety of religious
tracts in different languages, and employed many missiona-
ries and agents travelling in Russia, Poland, Prussia, Ger-
many, and Palestine, to circulate their publications amongst
the Jews, and converse with them from house to house ; '
and the Lord has blessed their efforts in such a manner that
not less than 3,000 of my dear Jewish brethren have been
publicly baptised. and not less than forty-two of them are
now preaching the everlasting gospel. The efforts of the
society have also produced a wonderful change in the Jewish
nation, with respect to their attachment to the Talmud and
the traditions. Whilst some, convinced of their delusions and
falsehoods, have become disgusted with all religions, and are
little better than open infidels, the great body of the Jews in
Europe have been led to inquire after truth. Hence a very
respectable Jew in London has recently published a pamph-
let, bitterly complaining of this reformation, and calling upon
the congregations to adopt some speedy and energetic mea-
sure to stop its rapid progress. Surely the Lord has done
wonders ; and yet these things are not known, especially
among the dissenting churches, the society's agents being
confined to the established church. I was therefore requested,
about a year ago, to publish a history of the origin, proceed-
ings, and success of Christian efforts to promote the conver-
sion of the Jews, which I have done in a book called " Judah
and Israel," a copy of the second edition of which I now
hold in my hands. In this edition I have also inserted all
the prophecies in the Old Testament referring to the resto-
ration and conversion of the Jews and the ten tribes, and
shown that these will be as literally fulfilled as those have
been which relate to their present dispersion. This book
also contains a history of my conversion to God, and his
gracious dealings with me for the last sixty-six years. It
contains 300 pages, very closely printed, with a portrait pre-
fixed, and sells at four shillings. I will now proceed to give
a brief statement of my proceedings since the change of the
society, and the object and success of my present agency.
My connexion with the society being dissolved by the advice
of my dear tutor, the Rev. Dr. Bogue, and other ministers
in London, I removed with my family, in 1816, to America,
and arrived at New York, where I have been the settled pas=
for for twenty-one years. During this period I had but little
opportunity of preaching to my Jewish brethren. I resolved
to write letters to them. I composed those lectures which I
preached in London to my brethren during my ten years' mi-
nistry, in the ,style of letters, and addressed them to one of
my own brothers, whose name is Benjamin, and, as my first
name is Joseph, I have entitled the work "Joseph and Ben-
jamin." When those two volumes were published, the re-
viewers not only said " that it is the best work ever pub-
lished in the English language on the controversy between
Jews and Christians, but they also strongly recommended
that they ought to be circulated amongst the Jews in the
English language, and also to be translated into the German
language." Finding no one attempting to carry this resolu-
tion into effect, I proposed to the American Society for Me-
liorating the Condition of the Jews, that I was willing to
give up my pastoral charge, and engage as agent, without any
remuneration, to accomplish ,the object. Accordingly the
society appointed me as their agent, and I received recom-
mendations from no less than thirty-five ministers of diffe-
rent denominations. On 4ny arrival in this country, two
years ago, I presented my documents to the ministers in
London, and obtained the signatures of no less than sixty
ministers of different denominations. In addition to this a
public meeting took place, when the object of my agency was
unanimously approved of ; but the question was asked whe-
ther there had been any truth in the report circulated soon
ofter I had left this country—viz., " that I had absconded
with £3OOO of the society's money." Accordingly, the fol-
lowing letter was read from Sir Thomas Baring, who was the
president of the society when my connexion was dissolved,
and the president still, addressed to John Allen, Esq., of
Hackney :

" Devonshire-place' April 24, 1837.
" Sir,—l am sorry that you should have supposed that
your inquiry into the integrity of Mr. Frey required any apo-
logy ; as it gives me pleasure to contradict the reports pre-
judicial to his character, and to bear my testimony to his en-
tire honesty in every transaction connected with pecuniary
affairs of the Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the
Jews. Had Mr. Frey been guilty of embezzling or of im-
properly appropriating to himself any part of the funds of
the society, I must have been cognisant of the fact ; and you
are perfectly at liberty to make use of my name in answer to
any charge of dishonesty that may be preferred against Mr.
Frey, to give to it the most decided contradiction.

This letter gave perfect satisfaction to the meeting, and they
appointed a committee to superintend my agency, and pro-
posed that Sir Thomas should be requested to be the trea-
surer. He accepted of the office, and commenced the sub-
scription with a donation of £2O. I have since travelled in
England and Scotland not less than 6000 miles, visited 400
churches, and preached more than 500 times, and have col-
lected nearly the whole amount wanted to accomplish the
object of my agency. Having sent the work to Hamburgh
for translation, I went last summer to Germany, took the
translation to Berlin, and presented it to the Society for the
Jews to print 5000 copies, the expense to be paid out of the
money collected by me. The work has since been printed
and published, and copies sent to this country. More than
600 , copies in the English language have been circulated
amongst the Jews in this country. I will now proceed to the
second part of my agency, which respects the American set-
tlement for Jewish proselytes. Soon after my arrival in
America, I received several letters from Germany, calling
upon me, in the strongest language possible, to establish a
settlement where inquiring as well as converted Jews may
obtain employment as well as Christian instruction. After
hard and persevering labour, I succeeded in the formation of
the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the
Jews ; I have travelled many thousand miles, 'and collected
considerable money, but as there are but few Jews in America,
and those in Europe willing to go, but could not pay the
expenses, no settlement has yet been formed, and the people
have concluded none was necessary, because Christians have
not sent any Jews. To decide the question, it was made a-
part of my agency to ascertain the sentiment ofthe people in
this country, and in Europe ; and if a settlement be necessary,
then to secure their co-operation.

---
At a meeting of ministers, at Devonport, the following re-
solution has been unanimously adopted, and which has been
signed since by nearly 200 ministers in this country and in
Scotland :

" We, the undersigned, convinced that some plan to fur-
nish employment, in connexion with Christian instruction, to
such Jews as are professedly inquiring after truth, is neces-
sary to give effect to the efforts made for their conversion to
the faith of the gospel, and approving on the whole the de-
sign of the American Society for Meliorating the Condition
of the Jews, as detailed to us by the Rev. C. F. Frey, beg to
recommend the formation of a society in London and in other
parts of Europe, to aid inquiring Jews in their emigration to
the United States-"

Having communicated these documents to Sir Thomas
Baring, president of the London Society for Promoting Chris-
tianity amongst the Jews, and solicited his opinion on the
necessity and expediency of the American settlement, and
the formation of a society in London to aid the Jewish prose-
lytes in their emigration to America, I received from him
a most encouraging letter of two sheets, dated Stratton Park,
Feb. 15, 1839, from which are the following extracts :
" Dear Sir,—l wish it was in my power to assign a suffici-
ent excuse for having left your letter so long unanswered ;
my conscience would then be at ease, and not accuse me, as
it does, for unpardonable neglect. One advantage, however,
has resulted from the delay, and that is, that I have had time
and opportunity of reading your two valuable books, 'Joseph
and Benjamin, and ' Judah and Israel.' I cannot express
how much I have been delighted with both, and especially
with the former. I request you will send me here six copies
of both works, and when I go to London, I will ask for the
same number to be sent to Devonshire-place, for I wish my
friends to have the pleasure and advantage of reading them
as well as myself. ' Joseph and Benjamin,' which has been
upon the table in my drawing-room for some time, has been
taken up and read with expressions of delight by several of
my visitors and, whether Jew or Gentile, no person can read
the book ( I should hope at least) without profit."
Sir Thomas then states at great length the many difficul-
ties he has witnessed to get employmeot for Jews during the
25 years he has been the president of the society, and closes
thus :—" I have not time nor space in this letter to enumerate
the many efforts that have been made and all in vain, but I
will at once proceed to give you my opinion of your plan of a
society for facilitating the emigration of Jews to America,
and I will also at once say that, after giving to it the best con-
sideration in my power, it has my unqualified favourable
opinion. The desideratum which has long perplexed the
friends for affording temporal relief to the Jews, will, I think,
find in it a solution of all other difficulties. As you have my
good opinion, you shall also have an unequivocal proof of my
sincerity. When I hear that your plan is in a forward state,
I will send you a donation of one hundred guineas, with my
best wishes for its success. I need not add anything to what
you have so judiciously advanced (in Judah and Israel,) both
as to the benefit and working of the plan, but I desire to ex-
press my unreserved concurrence."

The Rev. H. S. JOSEPH said, that it was with peculiar
feelings he stood before them that night, he could but call to
his mind that ten years ago that night, he was permitted to
make an open confession of his faith, and was admitted a
member of the Christian church by the sacred rite of bap-
tism. Before he moved the resolution which had just been
put into his hands, he wished to observe, that it was with
much pleasure and joy that he heard of the arrival of his
dear brother into this country from America, and who had
just addressed them. He had suffered much persecution for
Christ's sake, and he blessed God that he had heard him say
in the language of the apostle—" Yea, and I count all things
but dross for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus
my Lord." The resolution he held in his hand was one to

which all in that meeting would heartily respond, particu-
larly after the interesting account they had just heard from
the Rev. Mr. Frey. Their excellent and rev. chairman ob.
served in his address to them, that an institution was esta-
blished in this town, the object of which was to receive poor
enquiring and converted Jews, to enable them to receive
spiritual instruction. Now the great and principal diffi-
culty with which they had to contend was, that after they
had been directed to the Lamb of God, which taketh away
the sins of the world—after they had been received into the
Christian church—and at that critical period, when indeed they
ought to be built up and strengthened in their high and holy
calling, they were sent away, and left open to many tempta-
tions, by wandering about from place to place ; and to get a
living in a way which was not consistent with their Christian
character. If then this colony be established, they then
would have an opportunity of sending them to America,
to be taught a trade ; and thus by divine grace, they
would be able to get their own living in that state of life
to which it shall have pleased God to call them. He
would most affectionately ask their dissenting friends
who were now in that assembly, " Why have ye not long
taken an interest in the spiritual welfare of our Jewish bre-
thren ? How comes it that the Jewish subject appears a sort
of novelty to you ?" He would tell them, and in love did
he say it, and in the same feeling he trusted they would
receive it. " You read the New Testament, and you find
in that blessed book sufficient for your salvation ; and
because the apostle said, in his epistle to the Hebrew church,
God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake
in times past to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these
last days spoken to us by his Son.' You therefore come to
the conclusion, that you have nothing to do with the Old
Testament, and, consequently, nothing to du with the Jews.
Permit me to say, that without a knowledge of the Old Tes-
tament we can never well or rightly understand the New ;
for, when our blessed Lord said, " Search the scriptures,
for in them ye think ye have everlasting life, and they are
they which testify of me," He of course meant the Old
Testament ; and when St. Paul, in his Epistle to Timothy,
said " All scripture is given by inspiration, and is profitable
for reproof, &c." ; he did not mean the New Testament—
no, but the Old. Let me therefore recommend to you the
reading of the Old Testament, and behold in it the blessed
promises made by Jehovah, as it regards his people Israel ;
and while all these promises may be taken literally, we would
not deprive you of your privilege as God's children, but
would have you apply them spiritually to your own comfort."
And to his Jewish brethren he would say, " Ye cannot un-
derstand the scriptures, because ye will not read the New
Testament." For all the promises relative to the Messiah,
which are recorded in the Old Testament, are literally ful-
filled in the New. We therefore desire that you should read
both." The reverend gentleman concluded, Oh, let us,
dear friends, give them that word of truth which is able to
make them wise unto salvation through faith in Jesus ; we
would not give them a part ; we would not give them ex-
tracts, but we would give the whole word of God—the
Bible—the whole Bible, and nothing less than the Bible.
Oh that your hearts may respond to the prayers of the great
Apostle, in his Epistle to the Romans, " Brethren, my
heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they
might be saved."
The Rev. Mr. RICHARDS briefly seconded the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.

" Praise God from whom all blessings flow" was then sung.
A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meet-
ing broke up at half-past nine.

LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.

GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING

On Wednesday evening the annual meeting of the friends
and members of this flourishiug establishment was held in
the spacious theatre of their institution, in Mount-street.
The theatre presented a dense mass of spectators, of whom
the ladies, as usual, formed no inconsiderable share. Around
the front of the gallery, and at the back of the lecturer's
platform, were hung a number of clever drawings and paint-
ings, the works of the pupils, whilst on the table was a beau-
tiful model of a locomotive engine, constructed by a talented
youth receiving instruction at the institution, but which had
been sent too late to contend for this year's prize.—The
meeting went off with the utmost eclat, the only feeling of
regret felt being occasioned by the loss which the institution
is about to sustain in their secretary, Mr. Radcliff, who has
rendered important assistance, in raising the institution to
that proud position which it now maintains.
The directors having entered the room, and occupied the
lecturer's platform,—JAMES MULLENEUX, Esq., the pre-
sident, took the chair and called upon Mr. Radcliff to read
the report of the directors.—[The Mayor arrived during the
reading of the report, and on his entrance was greeted with
loud applause.]
The report which was very long spoke in the language of
congratulation, the success of the establishment for the past
year having been unparalleled in the history of Mechanics'
Institutions. The following is an extract :
During the last year, 1760 new members have been ad-
mitted, whilst 606 have ceased to pay their subscriptions,
leaving an increase of 1154 members. The number of mem-
bers belonging to the institution is as follows :-500 life mem-
bers ; 1526 annual ditto ; 100 quarterly ditto ; 636 sons of
ditto ; 343 apprentices to ditto ; 473 ladies. Total, 3478.
The following abstract of the accounts of the institution
will show its receipts and expenditure ; the detailed ac-
counts will be published as usual with the annual report :
Amount in Treasurer's hands in March, 1838 £469 511
Amount received in subscriptions 2994 10 5
Donation from W. Lowndes, Esq. 2l 0 0
Donation from James Muspratt, Esq

£3684 16 4
Expended in Teachers' salaries
in the Lower Day and Even-
ing Schools, and the general
expenses of the Institution £2383 2 5
Debts outstanding 393 15 1
£2776 17 6