The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-30 00:00:00

by thelipprentices of Derry, for Protestanism, when they
closed :the gates of that town, and trusted the operative'
would ,not be behindhand now that their city was besieged
by Popery. (Loud cheers.) He thought the " liberal"
Protestants who gave a tolerance to the Catholic scheme of
education were traitors to the cause ; and he should like to
see them get a good squeeze from the Inquisition, which
would give them a taste of the qualities of Catholic doctrines.
He concluded by hoping to see the Protestants put forth
their, strength in " a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull
altogether," until Popery was eradicated from the earth.
He moved the second Resolution as follows :
" That the proceedings of the present Session of Parlia-
ment, especially in the introduction of the popish clause in
the New Prisons Bill, and the unscriptural Education scheme,
more than ever proves the absolute necessity of combined,
energetic, and active exertions on the part of all true Pro-
testants ; we therefore pledge ourselves, with God's blessing,
to persevere with renewed vigour in practically carrying out
the objects of the association."
Mr. CRISP briefly, but pointedly, addressed the meeting
on seconding the resolution. He noticed a clause in r.
recent government bill, by which a Catholic clergyman was
to be assigned to a gaol when it contained 50 Catholics; yet
the same was not allowed in proportion to other denomina-
tions ; and on board of vessels of war only one chaplain was
allowed to 300 seamen. Thanks, however, to the House of
Lords the clause was rejected. Cheers.) The resolution
he proposed pledged the members to work, and he hoped
they would pass it and abide by it. (Loud cheering. )
After stating that the signatures to petitions in this town
against the grant to Maynooth College did not yet equal
those obtained in Manchester, he stated that the objects ci
the association were—to petition parliament in favour of
Protestantism—to send out tracts--and to visit parties in
the different districts of the town. _

The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN stated that subscriptions would that
evening be taken at the doors. (Cheers.)
Mr. CRISP announced, amidst much cheering, that a pe-
tition was in course of signature for the ejection of Catholics
from Parliament ; and trusted they would need no other
stimulus to induce them to sign it, than the memorable ex-
pression of Daniel O'Connell, when he said in the House
of Commons, in reference to this question—" I am here a
member of parliament ; and put me out if you can." (Cheers.)
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman by acclamation,
and a numbei of persons enrolled their names as members.
Subscriptions to a considerable amount were received at the
door, and the meeting quietly dispersed.

COUNTY SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE DUE

OBSERVANCE OF THE LORD'S DAY.

(From the Derby Mercury)

The annual meeting of this society was held at the Lan-
castrian School-room, in Derby, on Monday evening last,
and, although great numbers of the influential friends of the
society are absent from the neighbourhood at this season of
the year, the room was crowded with a most respectable and
attentive audience. The Rev. J. G. Howard, Vicar of St.
Michael's, was in the chair. After prayer for the divine
blessing on the proceedings of the meeting, the secretary,
the Rev. Win. Leeke, stated what had been the society's
operations during the past year. Sir George Crewe, Bart.,
Sir Matthew Blakiston, Bart., and E. S. Chandos-Pole,
Esq., had consented to become vice-presidents of the society.
A memorial had been promoted from 140 of the Shardlow
boatmen, and another from the influential inhabitants of the
surrounding parishes praying the Trent and Mersy Naviga-
tion Company to set the boatmen free from their Sabbath
labour. Memorials had been forwarded to the Lords of the
Treasury and to the Postmaster General, from the committee
and from several of the large towns in the county, and up-
wards'of one hundred petitions had been forwarded to Par-
liament from various parishes in the county, urginc, the dis-
continuance of the running of the mail and the delivery of
letters on the Lord's day. An equal number of petitions
had been forwarded, praying that the present laws relating to
the Sabbath might be enforced, as far as they were effective,
and where they were not so that they might be amended, so
that all classes of persons throughout the kingdom might
have the Lord's day secured to them as a day of rest. The
letter to the postmaster of Derby requesting him not to for-
ward their letters to them on the Lord's day, had been signed
by about 1500 householders residing within the limit of the
Derby penny post, amongst whom, were three members of
Parliament, the four banking companies, the editors and
proprietors of the two newspapers, and the immense majority
of the leading country gentlemen of the neighbourhood, and
of the merchants and tradesmen of Derby. Upwards of
thirty of the solicitors and medical men, including the mayor,
thinking that the interest of others required them to receive
their letters, so long as the mail brought them to Derby on
the Lord's day, had nevertheless joined in a statement, that
they should gladly see the running of the mail and the deli-
very of letters altogether discontinued on that day. Not one
third of the letters were now delivered on the Lord's day,
and the number would yet be diminished.
The various Sabbath societies of England and Scotland
were getting into regular correspondence with each other, a
plan together with the exchange of newspapers containing
articles relative to the Sabbath, calculated to have a very
important effect in advancing the cause in which they were
engaged. The effort now making by the Leicester and
Derbyshire societies to stop the running of the trains on the
Lord's day, on the Midland Counties Railway, wasmentioned.
Numerous memorials were on foot. The clergy and dissent-
ing ministers had been invited to call the attention of their
congregations to the subject. Several had done so on the
previous day, and others intended doing so on the next Sab-
bath day. The secretary read many interesting extracts from
the London Society's report, containiAg details of the en-
couraging efforts which were making inLondon and in several
parts of the country, to stem the torrent of Sabbath desecra-
tion which has set in upon our land. The several resolutions
were moved and seconded by the Reverends A. T. Carr, R.
Macklin, H. Stowell, W. Fisher, W. Fowler, and W. Leeke.
The Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, delivered a lung
and interesting address, of which we are sorry to say, we can
scarcely attempt to give an outline. He depicted in glowing
language the increasing and systematic profanations of the
Sabbath, and the counter efforts in every direction, of the
friends of the Sabbath. In referring to railroads, Mr.
Stowell mentioned the encouraging facts that, not only the

Presbytery of Edingburgh forced the proprietors of the
Edinburgh and Dalketh railroad to give up the running of
their trains on the Lord's day, but that the directors of the
recently. opened railway from Manchester to Leeds, one of
the'rnost important in the kingdom, had come to a resolution
not to allow any traffic on it ou that holy day, at least for
the first six months; until the subject should be finally deter-
mined at the genera meeting of the shareholders. The rev.
gentleman trusted that 'success would crown the effort now
making to stop the desecration on th Nottingham and Derby
line of the Midland Counties Railway ; and that the share-

holders' at -their 'approaching meeting "would help to set a
noble example, in this respect, to all the railroad companies.
He intreated there might be no half measures ! No
" sectionizing" of the day of God! In reference to a partial
observance of the Lord's day, he heated the expression,
" during church hours !" • Mr. Stowell stated the gratifying
fact, that, when at Cheltenham some time ago, the great
Hero of present age, the Duke of Wellington, set a most
pleasing example of Sabbath observance by regularly attend-
ing the house of God twice on the Sabbath day, and that it
was known that he was diligently searching the Scriptures.
He called upon the assembly, remembering the debt of gra-
titude which the nation owed to that great man, to remember
him in their prayers, and to ask God " to make him wise
unto salvation." The eloquent and electrifying speech of
the reverend gentleman was throughout most rapturously
responded to by the meeting.
The following resolution was passed unanimously :
" That this meeting views with deep regret the sad dese-
cration of the Lord's day on most of the railways which are
already open, and more particularly on the Derby and Not-
tingham line of railway, (connected as it is with the town
and neighbourhood,) and would express its most anxious
hope that the shareholders in the Midland Counties Railway,
and in the other railways connected with the town of Derby,
will come to a resolution not to run their trains on the Lord's
day ; and thus give to the numerous servants employed by
them the opportunity of keeping it " holy to the Lord,"
and no lodger hold out to the careless and thoughtless an
additignal temptation to spend that day in pleasure and dissi-
patioekhich a merciful God has set apart not only as a day
of rest from bodily labour, but also as a day of instruction,
edification, and comfort for their immortal souls."
The expenditure of this society during the last year has
amounted to £126 Lis. 61d., and its receipts to £ll5 19s. 2d.
The Sum of £l2 3s. 34d. was collected at the meeting.

We understand that sixty-four subpoenas have been served
on witnesses to appear and give evidence on the trial 'of
Archibald Bolam, for the murder of Joseph Millie, which
takes place to-day at Newcastle.
Miss Ellen Tree, accompanied by her mother and sister,
arrived at this port yesterday, in the packet-ship Shakespeare,
from New York. This favourite actress has won " golden
opinions" from the playgoers in the United States,
.where,
for the last three years, she has been campaigning.
A private letter received by the Shakespeare states that
the dissensions which had broken not among the Wesleyan
Methodists in Upper Canada; have been amicably settled.
NEW WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL.—The handsome
chapel, in Great Homer-street, was opened, on Friday last,
by the Rev. Robert Newton preaching in the morning and
the Rev. Theophilus Lessey in the evening. On Sunday,
the Rev- Dr. Bunting and other ministers preached in the
new chapel.
THE LIVERPOOL STEAM SHlP.—This splendid vessel
will again take her departure for New York on Thursday
week. All her berths have been engaged for several weeks.
Many parties who were anxious to go out in her have been
disappointed. As much as seventy guineas have been offered
for a berth. She is expected to reach New York about the
Middle of August.
FASHIONABLE DANCING.—We perceive that Mr. and
Mrs. Ridgway, of the Theatre Royal, purpose devoting a por-
tion of their time to giving instructions in the elegant art of
dancing.—See Advt.
Great preparations are making at Waterloo for the Licensed
Victuallers' Dinner, which takes place on to-mortinv. Mr.
Towers, of the Angel Hotel, Dale-street, who provides the
dinner, has erected a spacious booth, .170 feet by 60, which
is capable of dining 600 persons comfortably. The booth is
covered in with a boarded roof, and the interior ii.tastefully
decorated with criensom cloth. We feel confident that the
worthy host of the Angel will use his best to seCtfie the com-
fort of his guests. The great number of tickets :already issued
for the dinner gives promise of an unusually large attendance
A vessel of 300 tons burthen, intended for the West India
trade, is now being built at the shipwright's yard of Mr. J.
P. Nicholson, at Glasson Dock, for Messrs. Bowker, of
Liverpool. She will be launched, it is expected, in about 3
months. The brig Alert, which was wrecked of this coast
during. the dreadful hurricane in January last, has recently
been raised by means of diving apparatus, and having been
purchased by T. J. Knowlys, Esq. of Heysham, is now in
Glasson Dock, undergoing a thorough repair.—Lancaster
Guardian.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday, an inquest was held on
the body of a seaman, John White, belonging to the ship
Thomas P. Cope. It appeared from the evidence, that when
the vessel was leaving the Prince's Dock in order to put to
sea, the deceased was standing on the forecastle, helping to
shove the anchor over. The anchor was hoisted by means of
a rope. When they were in the act of pushing it over the
bow, the stopper was let go, the anchor flew aft, and crushed
the deceased on the deck. The stopper was let go by mis-
take, otherwise the deceased might have got out of the way.
He was taken to the Northern Hospital, where he lingered
until Wednesday. Verdict, accidental death.—On Tuesday.
an inquest was held on the body of Jane Smith, who lived
with her son, Mr. Alexander Smith, at No. 4, Bell-street,
Toxteth-park. About four weeks ago, the deceased and her
son went up stairs to bed. She came into her son's room in
order to take his candle to light her to her own room. Soon
after, Mr. Smith was awoke by a dense smoke, which filled
the house. He jumped out of bed, and proceeding to his
mother's room, found her on the floor with the greater part
of her clothes burnt. She was carried down stairs, and had
medical assistance procured, but she died on Sunday last.
Verdict, accidental death.—On Thursday, an inquest was
held on the body of John White, a police officer, aged 27.
The deceased, it appeared, had gone to the privy of the
Sessions-house, on the afternoon of Tuesday, although not
on duty there. He was subject to fits. Hazlehurst, a porter
at the Session-house, having occasion to visit the same place,
found the door fastened inside ; after waiting some time,
without any reply being given, the door was burst open, when
the deceased was found quite dead. A surgeon was im-
mediately in attendance, who gave it as his opinion that he
had died of apoplexy.--Verdict accordingly-.
The Rev. R. Montgomery's preaching, for various chari-
table and religious purposes in Cheltenham, has in six week*
produced the slim of X 405 7s. 2d.—Gloucester Chronicle.