The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

YESTERDAY

There was an unusual number of the ordinary Fort of
disorderly cases, and of petty thefts, heard yesterday
morning at the Police-court : but none of them, with one
exception, possesed any interest.

. .
CHARGE OF STEALING BUTCHER'S MEAT.—In the
case in question, the servant girl of a butcher in New-
ington was charged with stealing 4i lbs. of meat, the
property of her master, and a respectable young woman
with receiving the same, on Sunday morning lest.
The latter prisoner was defended by Mr. Owen, who
endeavoured to show, first, that she had purchased the
meat from her fellow prisoner, and, secondly, that she
might have had it given to her as payment for altering and
repairing her dress, which she had brought home that
morning. The evidence, however, of the first prisoner's
mistress showed that the mode in which the meat had
been cut from various joints in the shop precluded the
idea of there having been an honest intention, and both
were committed for trial.

A gentleman, whom we understood to be Mr. Arnold,
one of the stipendiary magistrates of London, was upon
the bench with Mr. Mansfield, during part of the sitting.

THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,—" TEE EDUCATION QUESTION," cogently alluded
to in your leading article of last Tuesday, was well worthy
a perusal. My attention was especially directed to our
own locality, by " Men subscribe for the support of the
schools near their residences, and thus there is always most
money where it is least required ; but in the neighbour-
hood of their offices, the poor are left in ignorance and
heathenism, each one trying to shift the burthen to some
one else ;" because I am hereby reminded that St. Paul's
Church is in the neighbourhood of offices, and is at
present without its corresponding national school ; that
St. Nicholas's Church, fronting the river, is otherwise
surrounded by offices, and is without its own national
school edifice (for, surely, the school kept in that dismally
dingy-looking place in Moorfields is not a suitable sub-
stitute for a national school); that St. George's is in the
centre of offices, and has no national school ; that St.
Thomas's Church is in the neighbourhood of offices, and
stands very much in need of a new, suitably large national
school ; that even St. Peter's, in Church-street, has
never had its own necessary national school (for the
Blue-coat Hospital is an institution as much distinct in
itself as either the Industrial School, at Kirkdale, or the
Orphan Boys' Asylum) ; and that other churches, cer-
tainly not far from offices, are, some without, and some
with only a nominal national school. Wherefore it is
obviously and painfully true, as you infer, that " the
poor are kept in ignorance and heathenism." The ques-
tion, however, to which you have so forcibly referred, is,
indeed, deserving a practical solution, more particularly
so when it is considered that there are churches in
densely-peopled districts without schools, near to which
there are neither " offices" nor " residences" such as
those to which, of course, you point. What, then, is to
be done ? For many years there was a large edifice in
Paradise-street occupied as a placeof worship by Unitarians,
who also kept a sort of school in that wretched place
called Manesty-lane ; but these people, so far humane,
have taken to higher ground, to worship and teach, and
left their old chapel to be converted into a gin palace,
smoking nuisance, or place of free admission for evening
entertainments ! It should, however, be remembered
that this is in the district of St. Peter's Church, being
almost close by; and instead of giving the enemy of the
souls and bodies of men the free occupation of such
ground, the congregation of St. Peter's ought at once to
plant their own national school in or about this demo-
ralised district, for the reclamation of the ignorant and
heathen so sunk in wickedness and vice. If I cast my
eye to Eldon-street, I see a substantial stone edifice just
erected by Romanists, for the accommodation or recep-
tion of, I should suppose, five or six hundred children ;
and if I turn my attention again over by Edge-hill, I
behold a good stone edifice nearly completed, for the
instruction, perhaps, of seven or eight hundred children,
under the immediate superintendence of the Pope's sub-
ordinates; and it is deserving of notice, that, in order to
the completion of this school at Edge-hill (where, I am
sorry to think, the respectable congregation of St. Mary's
District Church have not secured as good a suite of
school-rooms for the education of their increasing popu-
lous neighbourhood), a grant of £7OO has been obtained
from the Committee of Privy Council on Education.
When this is considered, it is not too much to suppose
that some co-operation would be given if similar efforts
were made in each of the districts above referred to. In
regard to those churches which belong to the Corporation,
something should at once be done by the municipal
authorities. The Health Committee might do something
in regard to those schools which are held underneath
church edifices. A sanatory bill might be drawn up, and
laid before Parliament, for the shutting of such places,
as well as burying grounds within the borough, and
providing that three halfpence be granted, by way of
compensation, for every cubic foot of space contained in
such submural school-rooms, which would aid each dis-
trict to take steps for the procuring of suitable school
premises. The education question is one of local and
national importance, and it deserves the best considera-
tion of the magistrates and influential inhabitants of the
borough, as well as of her Majesty's Government.
Trusting to your courtesy for the insertion of these
remarks, I remain, yours, truly, J. G.
Liverpool, Ist May, 1852.

MUZZLE YOUR DOGS!

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—I hope the authorities will cause the destruction
of every dog found in the streets unmuzzled. The time
of the year demands the precaution. _

On Saturday last a Clog bit a boy belonging to Mr
Smith, Netherfield-road, and also tore the cheek of ano-
ther child at the bottom of Roscommon-street. The feel-
ings of the parents may be imagined ; but others will have
to bewail the fate of their children unless the authorities
act without further delay.—l am, Sir, &c., CIVIS.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The anniversary
meeting of this society will be held in the Collegiate In-
stitution on Monday next, at 11 a.m., the worshipful and
Rev. Chancellor Raikes in the chair; and by adjournment
on the same evening at 7, the Bishop of Chester in the
chair The sermons will be preached in the various
churches on the previous day, and on the Tuesday morn-
ing the annual public breakfast will take place at the
Adelphi. The deputation this year consists of the Rev.
Daniel Wilson, of Islington, London, the Rev. J. 13.
Marsden, of Birmingham, and the Rev. Canon Stowell, of
Manchester.

OPENING OF A NEW ORGAN AT RUNCORN.—On
Sunday last, a new organ, built by Mr. Wm. Rushworth,
of Pudsey-street, in this town, was opened in the
Brunswick Wesleyan Chapel, Runcorn. The occasion
drew together a more than usually numerous congregation,
the edifice being densely thronged. The organ, which,
apart from any consideration of it as a musical instrument,
is a chaste and fitting adornment to the chapel, was ge-
nerously presented by T. Hazlehurst, Esq., of Runcorn,
who defrayed from his own private purse every farthing of
expense incurred. Mr. Wilkinson, the talented organist
of Stockport, admirably developed the capabilities of the
instrument in a most masterly style, to the universal
satisfaction of all who heard it. The organ is of great
power for its size, combining all the latest improvements
which science has suggested, and which skilful workman-
ship could carry into effect. The rev. gentleman who
conducted the religions services of the day, in the course
of his discourse, passed some appropriately complimentary
observations upon Mr. llazlehurst for his handsome a
donation. A few weeks ago a local contemporary, in
notice of the instrument. whilst still in process of
building, inserted the following paragraph :—`o
branchi\'nGA
in Liverpool has advancement
of late been more conspicuous than in that of organ-
building. A few weeks ago a high compliment was paid
of the mechanical arts
BUILDING IN LIVERPOOL.—Perhaps in no other
by the Manx Sun to our townsman, Mr. Jackson, of
s with pleasure
oSrpgrainngffioerldth-setreeheutr,cfhorahtisiLkuilgllaisn; theald i itconstructioni of an
we now bear testimony to the ability of another Liverpool
builder, Mr. William Rushworth, of Pudsey-street, who
Wesleyanof
viewing C htahpeeil, Runcorn.nstrument, and of hearing
had
has now in an advanced state of completion
the Brunswick
it tested by Mr. Wray, organist of the Church for the
Blind, whose skilful playing admirably developed its fine
capabilities. It is of two manuels, from CC to Fin alt.,
th e
pleasure
pedals, two octaves, and a fourth. The great organ con-
tains six stcps ; open diapason, 8 feet ; stop diapason, 8
feet; principal, 4 feet; twelfth, 3 feet ; fifteenth, 2 feet;
octave-fifteenth, 1 foot. The swell organ : keraulophon,
8 feet ; open diapason, 8 feet ; stop diapason, 8 feet;
priacipal, 4 feet ; trumpet, 8 feet. Coupler and compo-
sition pedals. The instrument is 14 feet high, 9 feet in
front, and 7 at the back : the width across the front is 9
feet ; there are 12 stops and 536 pipes."