The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-30 00:00:00

GEYERAL INTELLIGENCE.

A CARTER was thrashing a poor jaded horse at Sun-
derland the other day, when a Newfoundland dog seized
him and threw him to the ground.
EXTRAORDINARY TAKE OF SALMON.—On one of 'the
days of last week no fewer than five hundred salmon were
taken between Slny and the mouth of the Findhorn by
the drag nets. On Monday last about two hundred were
caught. These takes are quite unparalleled on the river
Findhorn:—Forres Gazette.
THE PALM TREES for the Sydenham palace are from
the neighbourhood of Grand Cairo, and have been obtained
for the- palace by Mr. Anderson, one of the directors of
the Peninsular and Oriental Company, who is now in
Egypt, and who has taken great intrest in the success-of
the Sydenham palace.
WELL-PAID PILOTS.—A letter from the Baltic fleet
says :—"No expense has been spared in obtaining the
assistance of pilots. Not less than £lOOO has been paid
in an instance or two, for the services of this class of men
during the whole season, till the navigation closes :. and
the same sum has been given to a Norwegian linguist,
who speaks Russian and Finnish, on board the Wel-
lington."
THE CZAR AND HIS WIPE.—A couple of years after
her marriage, the present Empress of Russia paid a visit
to her father M Berlin. - Nicholas, two days after her de-
parture, took post, travelling incog., and arrived at the
palace at Berlin one hour before his consort, who was not
a little snprised to be welcomed by her husband. It
is the only time, it is said, that he indulged in a hearty
laugh.
THE GROUSE is early and plentiful this season. There
is a large quantity of nests, and some of them are already
hatched. The Duke of Rutland's gamekeeper has
gathered 300 grouse eggs in Lord Panmure's forest, and
taken them to England to be hatched with bantams.
How they may turn out time will only prove.—Montrose
Standard.
3loxsTEn STEAMERS.—There lately appeared in the
Southampton docks four, mail steam-packets (three of
them Clyde-built), viz. the Simla, Colombo, Atrato, and
Himalaya ; three of them screws, and one a paddle-wheel,
the aggregate burden of which is nearly 12,000 tons, the
united length one-fourth of a mile, and their value above
half a million sterling; such a sight was never before
seen in any port in the world. The four steamers occu.
pied nearly two-thirds of the sides of the docks.
EXPENDITURE OP PUBLIC MONET ON OFFICIAL
RESIDENCES.—On Friday, a Parliamentary return was
published, from which it appears, that from 1831 to 1853,
there was 1:34,791 Ils. expended on official residences in
the neighbourhood of Downing-street, On the First Lord
of the Treasury's official residence, £4103 3s. Ad. and on
the Chancellor of the : 'xchequer's official residence,-
£7230 7s. 10c1.; on the ' nisi Office, £4640 Os. 1(1. ; and
on the Foreign Office, £ 2 10s. 4d.
LITERATURE AT SEA..-The passengers on board the
steam-packet Crcnsus, which left England a few months
since for Australia, published a newspaper on board called
the Southern Cross oe Antarctic Gazette. Several
copies of this journal were printed and published at the
Cape of Good Hope, and have reached England. In one
of the numbers was a report of a very admirable lecture
on the resources and prospects of Australia, delivered on
board the Crcesus. while she was proceeding on her voyage,
by Sir Thomas Mitchell, the Australian explorer, and in-
ventor of the Boomerang-screw propeller.
THE SCOTS GREYS.—It is one of the disadvantages of
our co-operation with the French troops in the East, that
a sense of delicacy compels the British to veil the regi-
mental devices which they earned iu the great war in the
Peninsula and the Netherlands ; lest they should outrage
the feelings of their gallant collaboratPurs. The Scots
Greys are greater sufferers by their Waterloo distinction
than any other corps, fur it has caused them to be kept
.. . .

ALtExs.—ln this country there have been 1,886 natura-
lised since 1841.
TEE LEPROSY is spreading so rapidly in Norway, that
fears are entertained of its becoming a general sickness,
as in the middle ages.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS are in the. north of England
land midland counties inspecting-the-prisons and barracks,
with a view to finding accommodation in the interior of
the country for prisoners of war.
TEECONSERVATIVE PARTY inCambridge,it is rumoured,
intend to invite Mr. Warren, Q.C., to, stand on the conser-
vative interest, at the ensuing election. There are already
three liberals in the field, and a fourth has just with-
drawn.
ROYAL PATRONAGE OP ROTAIN7.—Mr. Croup, teacher
Montrose, has received orders to prepare a collection of
the plants of Forfarshire, as well as those indigenous to
Balmoral, for the especial use of Her Majesty the Queen.
—Montrose Review.
DITULLEEP SINGE, the young. Maharajah who was
brought by Ghoolab Singh into-Lord Hardinge's camp in
1846, and under our protection was soverign prince in the
Punjab until 1849, has arrived at Calcutta on his way to
Europe, where he is proceeding to improve himself. He is
now 17 years of age, and has embraced the Christian
religion.
A 31onERE JOAN OF Aac.—The wife of one of the offi-
cers of the 11th Hussars, and sister to the great African
lion hunter, accompanies her husband to the East. Her
habiliments are prepared for active service. She is to have
a black belt, in which two of Deane and Adams's revolvers
are placed. She has been practising daily at the shooting
gallery in Dublin, and promises to avenge her husband's
death should he fall by leading on his troop against our
common enemy.— United Service Gazette.
CONSEQUENCES OF CRIME.—About a year since a man
named Tennant. in Barnwell, laid himself down on the
railway at Paper-mills, and allowed the train to pass over
him. After his death, his wife, whose supposed infidelity
had been the cause of his suicide, went to live with her
paramour, and eventually they agreed to emigrate together.
The woman took with her on board the vessel £22, all the
money they had, sewed in her stays. As they were at the
very point of sailing, the man said he had left something
on shore, and told his victim he would go and fetch it, and
return within an hour. Instead of returning, he kept
ashore • the deluded woman sailed, and the wretch, it is
said, has returned to Cambridge, and boasted that before
leaving the ship he had taken the money from the unhappy
woman's stays. '
Loans.-2 The lambing season may now be considered
over in the south of Scotland, and it has been a very
favourable one. The report from that large district of the
upper portion of Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbright, lying
between the Nith and the Ken, represents this, with very
trifling exceptions, as the best season known for many
years. There were no severe snow-storms during the
winter, and plenty of grass, which circumstances brought
the ewes to the lambing season in much better condition
than last year, and as they leave plenty of milk, the lambs
are much stronger. There are fewer twins than usual,
but, on the other hand, there has been a smaller am am t
of deaths and fewer barren ewes ; so that, on the whole,
the crop may be considered an average one in quantity,
and beyond that in quality. Some accounts from Scaur
Water are not quite so good.—Dumfries Courier.
THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION.—The treaty for the
free navigation of the rivers Parana and Uruguay, signed
on the 10th of July by Sir C. Hotham and the provisional
director of the Argentine Confederation, has been laid
before Parliament. The confederation concedes the free
navigation of the rivers, wherever they may belong to her,
to the merchant vessels of all nations, and agrees to main-
tain beacons and marks pointing out the channels, such
navigation to remain free to the merchant flag of all nations
in case of war between any of the States of the river Plate
or its confluents, excepting in what may relate to muni-
tions of war, such as arms, gunpowder, lead, and cannon

back altogether. _hey ease literally covered with sou- --- -- -e., s—__ ss
venirs of Waterloo, and must have altered their uniform I balls. A uniform system is U. be established by the con-
entirely if they had Leen sent to the East. We cannot federation for the collection of Custom-house, harbour, and
help commending the good taste which would spare a sin- other dues. No favour is to be granted to the flag of any
gle mortification to our gallant French allies.—United other nation which shall not equally extend to the British.
Serrice Gazette. The high contracting parties, considering that the island
INVENTOR OF LUCIFER 3IATCHES.—Don Quixotte's of Martin Garcia may impede free navigation of the con-
friend, Sancho, blessed the man who invented sleep : but if fluents of the Plate, agree to use their influence to prevent
you knew the trouble attending flint and steel operations, that island being held by any state which shall not adhere
you would doubly bless the man who produced the lucifer to the principle of free navigation. The treaty was
match. That man was Mr. John Walker, of Stockton- ratified on the 11th of March.
upon-Tees, who still carries on business there as a chemist INSANITY ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN PRODUCED 111
and druggist. Chemical matches threatened the empire MESMERISM.—At the Northampton petty sessions, last
of flint and steed thirty or forty years ago, and in 1827 week, the father and mother of a lad named George Walker
Mr. Walker was preparing some lighting mixture. He attended before the magistrates to implore their help
had dipped in a match, intending to make experiment in under the following circumstances :—Two years 'ago, when
the then common mode, when accidentally he scrubbed it the electro-biology mania raged in the town, the lad was
on the hearth, and it ignited, A new light was thus unfortunately one of the subjects who was operated upon
thrown upon matchmaking, of which Mr. Walker was not by Mr. Reynolds, the lecturer, and by the Rev. I'. Milling-
slow to avail himself. In April 1827 he commenced the ton. For six weeks his parents were ignorant of what had
sale of friction matches. For a box of 50 lucifers, with a occurred, but were conscious of a melancholy change in
piece of sand-paper for friction, the charge was a shilling. the boy's demeanour. The fact at last transpired. The
A whole gross of boxes, gorged with matches, may now be boy became so violent that it was necessary to subject
had for about eighteenpence.—Gateshead Observer. him to temporary restraint. He was visited by both the
COLLECTION OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—For biologists, and Mr. Millington attended him with great
agricultural statistics, to be collected in the three king- diligence and anxiety. The case was submitted by the
doms, the sum of £13,000 is required in the miscellaneous rev. gentleman to Dr. Elhotson, who directed that the
estimates for the present year. There is to be a " complete demesmerising process should be continued, with an as-
system " in Scotland, carried out through the medium of surance that it would in the end be successful. A com-
the Highland Society; a "complete system "in Ireland, plaint was made at the time before the magistrates, and
under the management of the Board of Public Works; and 211. r. Millington and Mr. Reynolds both attended to meet
in England there are to be " further experiments," under it. Nothing came of it, some of the magistrates being dill-
the superintendence of the local officers of the Poor-law. posed to think that the violence was feigned. For a time
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.—Mr. It. Phillimore's bill to the demesmerising process seemed to be partly successful,
improve the mode of taking evidence in the ecclesiastical though the lad never became what he had been previously.
courts of England and Ireland has been printed. It con- With his growth, however, the insanity also grew, and the
sists of one clause, which provides that in any suit in an unfortunate lad has now become, to all appearance, a con-
ecclesiastical court, the Court (if it shall think fit) may firmed lunatic. His insanity was too obvious to be
summon and examine witnesses by word of mouth, and . doubted, and the magistrates made the proper order for
either before or after examination by deposition or ' his admission to the asylum as a pauper lunatic.—North-
affidavit, and that notes of such evidence shall be taken ampton Mercury .
down in writinF by the judge or registrar, or by such other 1 , D
.. ROTESSORSIIIPS FOR THE NEW UNIVERSITY Or
person as the judge shall direct. i MELBOURNE.—A university is to be founded at Melbourne.
A " MYSTERIOUS STRANGER" entered the church of St. ' The appointment rests with Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart ;
Peter Mancroft, Norwich, a few days ago, and requested G. B. Airy Esq. Astronomer Royal ; Professor Malden,
permission to view the building. The sexton immediately
of University College, London ; Robert Lowe, Esq., M.P. •
nlieforpsmeedtsidmet7
sotbhiejiitiligtaar,;(
ilngfrl'oainntinogf and Sir William a Beckett, Chief Justice of Victoria. The
salaries of the professors are fixed at £l,OOO per annum,
whichacim ittlei (el ikneltknelt; (alonidv
violently the while. Then he got up, and giving the sexton besides a residence in connexion with the university. A
a shilling and his gold watch and pencil-case, disappeared.
total abstraction from political or sectcariisinidehriedfluedne.ceiramublset
As no tidings have been since received respecting him, be rigidly enjoined ; and it will be o
fears are entertained that he has committed suicide. that the professors should be men under the middle age ;
SINGULAR CATASTROPJIE.—A train from Birmingham of approved diligence in literary pursuits; graduates of
to Coventry, on Monday, brought into the latter station an one of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, '
unfortunate gentleman named Barnett, a Birmingham Dublin, Edinburgh, or Glasgow; and designated by some
merchant, with both his legs cut off at the thighs, on the particular excellence in their collegiate career ; accus-
point of breathing his last. The guard stated that, in tomed, if possible, to the inculcation of knowledge (with
passing through the Beechwood tunnel he felt the break- dearness and readiness) in the department to which they
carriage suddenly lifted up, upon which lie had stopped the propose to apply themselves ; and more especially of such
train and walked back. Ile found the unfortunate man habits and manners as to stamp on their future pupils the
lying across the rails, the train had passed over him, and character of the loyal, well-bred English gentleman.
his legs were severed from his body. The door of a first- HEMP IN FRANce.—The French Government have pro-
class carriage in which he had been was open, and the
hibited the exportation from France of all hemp the growth
cushioned inside board torn down. Further the accident of France or on which the French import duty has been
is inexplicable. „ paid. Many British merchants and manufacturers had
THE CLYDE SCREW-STEALER.—We were much grati- made purchases of hemp at Havre and Nantes, and have
fled this week by an inspection of the interior of this fine been much annoyed to find the removal of their property
new steamer, which is now on the eve of its departure. to this country prohibited, especially as it was so much
The decorations are indeed of the most gorgeous descrip- needed here for manufacturing purposes. The applica-
tion, In the main saloon, which is of the most spacious tion of our Ambassador at Paris to the Government has
proportions, the side panneLs are of plate glass, beautifully
been fruitless, and our merchants have been obliged to sell
ornamented with gold and colour, having in the centres a • • .
again in France, and at a loss. So far as we understand
series of exquisitely painted views of the chief cities in this there is no prohibition on the exportation from France of
country and the United States, including London, New foreign hemp lying there in bonded warehouses, being
York, Edinburgh, Washington, Glasgow, &c., the colour- considered as only in transit's. It is well for traders to
ins of which forms an agreeable contrast to the rich crim- know that by the provision of a Customs' act of 1814 the
son drapery. The cupola roof is formed of stained glass, French Government may prohibit the exportation of
adorned with medallion portraits of the most celebrated goods of French origin, growth, or manufacture, and those
statesmen, warriors, and literati of Britain and America,
considered such by payment of import duty, whether they
while the side compartments exhibit similarly executed have become the property of British merchants or not,
figures of War, Peace, Industry, &c. The ladies' cabin is and that purchases are made in France subject to the
decorated at the same time with figurative representatiOns riskof
such
a prohibition, which has been actually applied
of Poetry,'Music, and Painting. The general effect of the . .
to nemp.
aqratui:oitninwtereThpersoe.
ornaments and colour is light, mellow, and pleasing. The
passage cupola is also extremely attractive, being adorned A NEW SAINT.—The beatification of Germaine Cousin,
a French peasant girl, of the hamlet of Pibrac, near
Toulouse, has been celebrated with great splendour at
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coifinleimnsds:af
diced, we understand, under the immediate superinten- Rome, and has created no small sensation in the religious
deuce of Messrs. Hugh Bogle and Co., the well-known world of this country, especially in that of her own neigh.
decorators to the Queen in this city, and they certainly bourhood, from whence both clergy and laity in consider-
reflect the greatest credit upon the professional resources able numbers proceeded to witness the ceremony. The
and skill of the firm.—'Glass Citizen.—[Prom what we Univers makes the event the subject of a leading article
know of the high respectability of the firm, and the good of great length, beginning with, " France counts one.
taste and sound judgment of Mr. Bennett, managing advocate and one protector more in heaven." The new
partner in its operative department, we experience much saint was born in 1579, and is described as deformed in
pleasure in giving additional currency to the preceding her right hand, a victim to scrofula, and to a cruel 'step-
commendation, feeling assured that it is deserved.— mother. In a state of half starvation she kept the flocks
ED. L. S.] of her father until she died, at the age of twesand-twenty.
THE FRENCH Emeßitox.—The Paris correspondent of Her claims to beatification are set forth as follows :—She
The Guardian gives the following graphic description of became the queen of the plains when she kept her flock,
Louis Napoleon and his lady :—" There are various reports and nature suspended its laws to honour her. Impetuous
as to the movements of the Empress, but unfortunately torrents stayed their course to give her free passage ; the
only one opinion as to her delicate state of health. Those wolves respected her sheep, which latter never strayed
who knew the Empress Eugene souse years ago describe beyond her crook ; the commonest trees of her father were
her as a person with a great deal of colour, and inclining always loaded with the finest fruit, and his crops were
to embonpoint. The change to a deadly paleness and exempted from the uncertainties of the seasons. In the
daily increasing thinness is very alarming, and seems to middle of winter her morsel of dry bread changed into
portend that the effect of her extraordinary elevation has flowers before the upbraidings of her harsh stepmother;
proved too much for her naturally feverish and excitable at her death the Queen of Heaven, with a choir of angels,
death her body was discovered in a state o complete pre-
temperament. The incessant restlessness of her manner came to bear her from her couch. Forty /ears after her
certainly denotes the feeling of one labouring under some
prods, or ecclesiastical suit for
imp servation. Her
beatifica-
presents the most striking contrast to the cold unfathom-
• pre-
impulse too great for concealment. In this respect she
tion, was first instituted towards the end of the seventeenth
visage not even those who have been his longest and suit,. renewed in 1843, has, after ten years, been finally
that oman' Court of Chancery, the Con-
able aspect of the figure who sits:beside her, and in whose century.' Miracles increased round her tomb, and the
solemnity took place on Sunday,
indication of what is passifig within. Neither remem- gregation of Rites. t e
Con-
closest Loon companions can pretend to read any certain carried. through
Th
the 7th inst., at S , Peter's, before the portico of which
brances of the past, nor anxieties for the future, seem to
interfere with Louis Napoleon's enjoyment of the present,told, the well-known bronze
who gets fatter as the Empress gets thinner, and follows her miracles. Inside, arewleothed in ds cloak of cloth of gold,
out his unswerving will, whether it be in matters of plea- statue of St. Peter was c
immense standards. depicted the life of the new saint and
diamond,nto the kingdom of which he held
characteristic of the man who for three years calmly pre. with jewels, to receivet.
The tribune was hung with four
sure or business, with an iinpassibilitY and steadiness fastened by a large and wore a triple-crown set
pared the blow which made him what he now is. The the key the new saint.
completion of the maison imperiale on'the most sump- representing.e tion of Rites in support of the claim
tuous footing, the indulgence of that love of military pomp before the Congrti.,i
These were a miraculous multiplication
and finery which he owes to his French extraction, and of , of beatification.
..
large paintings,in the four miracles proved
the love of substantial comfort, and fine horses and car- of sick children,
doges, and sport which he imbibed in England—the em- saint's intercessi ,
'on • and the healing of the
paste and meal in a consent of Bourges, obtained by the
me
idpwhich the mother of the child is represented
war with the Czar—are all pursued at once with the same the body, .0
id
hands of
bellishment of his capital, and, though last, not least, his one b tl ap Bastion of a linen cloth which had touched
equanimity and composure, and unswerving* perseverance.
in to her infant. These paintings are executed by French
receiving froni the the curb of Pibrac, and apply-
The pages of the Moniteur exhibit once more the true g. the above, the postulant of the
Napoleonic pretension to universality, and present us one :
, beatification, in this case Mgr. Estrade, canon of Toulouse,
day with a decree for the formation of companies of: bun- artists at Rome. Besides
mighty war, and the next with an imperial
' mandate for four presents—a painting, a life, an engraving:, and a relic
dreds of thousands of soldiers for the prosecution .of a and honorary chamherlain of the Pope, offers. to the latte..r
of the saint. The painting represented the miracle of the
the scraping and cleaning of half the houses in Paris. The . ilf• ois, aso a nc ais ; ei e was
Fre h ft' t th l'f
capital
haniansdeoefdtiistea
Esomrtpeorfoirr,
andie
obnijeoul,viallieghir
liiikteicatocly, in flo7em,
byby M.
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in receiving which his Holiness expressed " all his paternal
child, as he undoubtedly is, lie is perpetually bent upon
pulling to pieces. Sundays and all days be must be in- benevolence for the author." On receiving the relic, the
to his forehead, and again kissed it with the tenderest
subsects nor the exhausted funds of his aldermen of the _ . place after the cere-
Thes presentations took
dulFed with his plaything ;and neither the holidays of his Pope uncovered his head, kissed it affectionately, pressed it
Hotel de Ville are allowed to interefere with the imperial devotion..
amusement. A few days ago, the municipal council had Sony
lvmhich aatbout St. Peeter'sin the Pope's private cabinet, to
thirty 'of tlei clergy and inhabitants of
Toulouse, who had- come to Rome for the occasion, were
Boulevard de Malesherbes, a pet an of Napoleon 1., and
to take into consideration the completion of the new
At the fete of the beatification, the French
comparatively of easy execution n his time; but which admitted.ii sdor was present, as well as the eneral of the
now must be cut through a vast line of valuable property.
French aft
forces in Rome, with his officers in full dress, n on-
Made desperate, I presume, by the conviction of empty. .
ed
it
coffers, the city council absolutely had the audacity to coriss. d ltli th 40tI '
ion of cers, an so ers, o 1 regiment of
h dal duty on the occasion. The officiating bishopincensed
~ prayer
one ! Vain effort to check a will which bas always shown
ofpublic worship official] addressed to her.
itself more obstinate about such trifles as these even than
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41 t tine `
hope, . says the Univers, la leChurch, Prance, and
more weight matters. Louis Napoleon was not the man
the world, will reap the fruits of this first
invocation
to
to hear his 'constitutional" authority over public works me
he shepherdess of l'ibrac, become now one of the powers
interfered with. The Moniteur of the very next day con-
t , d' " In the eveni i the Po 1 - (sceutled from
tained a decree for tho immediate expropriation of all the of. 1 arat t
inec.nts to rcs' trate himself befopiee
necessary property, and the vigorous carrying on of the ins al', •,I,l.l____• _ . I)
eagerly ' ' the np, shrine,
work. Let the. city authorities find their share of the and a".'"fluy is describedas joining him in the
Wilda how 4nd when they eau," invocation.

SABBATH DESECRATION AT THE
NEW DOCKS.

TO TIM EDITOR, OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlB,—Can you tell. me who is to blame, that the
labourers work all day on Sunday at the new docks on the
North Shore ? It is a great disgrace to Liverpool that
such a thing should • be-permitted—that the first sight
foreign sailors should witness, in entering our river, is
numbers of men following their week-day Labours on the
Sabbath-day. This was the case all Yesterday. Surely
the excellent chairman of the• Dock Committee cannot
know this. Will you. say a word on the subject, and
oblige
A RESIDE ST AT BOOTLE.
May 29, 1854.

THE RET'. W. .31:. FALLOON AND THE
NEW EDUCATION SOCIETY.

TO TRH EDITOR OF, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Under the signature of " Consistency," a note
appears in the Mail of Saturday last, the gist of which
is to charge the Rev. W. M. Falloon with a want of what
the writer is so full of; his very name being "Consistency."
I feel sure few men desire more to walk before all men
consistently than does- Mr. Falloon; and though one of
the Committee of the. New Education Society, he only
joined it in the belief and conviction that it was not to
act as an opponent of the National Society, but as a fellow-
helper with the same,. taking somewhat different views
to arrive at the same objects which constitute the aim and ,
desire of that venemble.and most useful society. This he
most distinctly and repeatedly assured his congregation
was his conviction, when, on the 21st, he invited their
attendance at the meeting.
Now, with respect to the grant made to St. Bride's '
School, the Committee are very thankful for the same.
Mr. Falloon, as president, made the application at the
request of the Committee, and expressed his intention of
having a collection for the National Society ; and more
than once regretted. he could not have it so soon as he
wished, owing to various circumstances, and particularly
as a large sum had been so lately contributed by the
congregation towards their own schools, for the extensive
alterations.

Again, would it not have been more consistent with
that charity that thinketh no evil, had the writer first
ascertained that Mr. Falloon would not have the collection
in accordance with• the Queen's letter, and, secondly, to
have ascertained his views and reasons for joining the
New Society ?
Had Mr. Falloon made a speech at the meeting, and
confessed that be joined the Committee, believing it to be
in opposition to the National Society, and that he, and not
the Committee- of St. Bride's School, was the applicant
for the grant from the society ; then, might the writer.
with more justice, have thundered against the want of
consistency7-but eren then he would have done wisely to
have preserved his incognito, and assume, as his name,
that virtue, of which even the most advanced follower of
Christ deplores he has not more.---Your obedient servant,
Tiros. H. HOLDERNESS.
• Treasurer of St. Bride's National Schools.
Liverpool, 29th May, 1851.

ST. JIAITHETV'S, SCOTLAND-ROAD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Sta,—l have read in your paper of the 23d a letter,
signed " James Gillespie," in which the writer connects
the rioting of two Popish mobs, their ignorance, supersti-
tion, and brutality, with the Church and Schools of St.
Mat t hew's.

Now, I do not quarrel with, or arraign, that peculiar
constitution of mind which could so readily trace a con-
nexion between the various facts stated by your corre-
spondent and the Church and Schools of St. Matthew's ;
but, undertaking, as I did, under rery peculiar circum-
stances, the sole charge of St. Matthew's district, and
uncheered and unsupported as I am, and have been, by
one word of sympathy or counsel from those to whom I
might naturally look for such, I may surely at least claim
the privilege of being "let alone,'' and allowed to go on
quietly by myself in the great work in which I am engaged.
I deny that the schools are held in the " cellar" of the
Church. Regretting, as I do very strongly, that there are
not such buildings as I would desire, I must still affirm
that the School-rooms, although under the Church, are
superior to many in various parts of England which I
have examined. An inspection will satisfy you fully on
that point.
But now, as respects " the religious and intellectual
training of the juvenile population," I fearlessly assert
that it is fully equal to that afforded by any school in
Lancashire.
I have good cause to admit the fearful state of thou-
sands around St. Matthew's, and good cause also to
deplore that so important a district should be entirely neg-
lected, as it is, by those so active for the spiritual welfare
of the rest of Liverpool. Still I have reason to believe
that, amidst so many and peculiar difficulties, and not-
withstanding the violent opposition of those who receive
not the truth, that the work of the Lord is prospering, not
by the might or wisdom of sinful man, but through the
divine operation of the spirit of truth.
I cannot conclude without stating some facts, from
which I fancy the logical conclusion is clear and forcible.
I am an Irishman, not one ashamed of the country, but
very much the reverse. The mobs whose grosi ignorance
and superstition, as well as brutal violence, led to this un-
pleasant correspondence, are my countrymen. Now, Sir,
remember this, and ponder it well: these men were
trained in Popish falsehood at the expense of the British
nation ; the glorious light of the Gospel of Christ was
never allowed to shine into their school-rooms, (worse, I
should say, than their being even in cellars ;) and then,
when thus trained and fully educated, they are instructed
by priests who have been provided and educated for this
very purpose by the Protestant people of England.—Your
obedient servant, HENRY COOPS,
Minister of St. Matthew 's.
1, Christian-street, North, Everton,
Liverpool, May 29th, 1854.

THE PROPOSED "FREE" CHURCIL

TO TUE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sri,—The correspondence, published in your last num-
ber, between our Diocesan and the Rev. C. Wray, and
others, has attracted my attention, as it doubtless will
that of the public generally.
Mr. Wray and his friends, in fixing upon the close prox-
imity to my church and district for the erection of a new
church, must have acted on the assumption that the insuf-
ficiency of church accommodation in Toxteth-park was a
matter unthought-of and uncared-for by me, my colleagues,
and neighbours ; and that the multitude of immortal
beings (20,000 referred to) were left to the sympathies and
compassion of one of the remotest clergymen in the town ;
who, to assume no unmeaning circumstance, having re-
medied all such deficiencies in his own locality, was anxious
to supply the necessities of mine.
Now, Sir, I am unwilling to be supposed so indifferent
to my responsibilities, or so regardless of the religious
destitution of those around me, as to await the voluntary
interposition of the chance sympathy of distant friends.
The movement, on their part, cannot have arisen from
the single and sincere motive to promote the religions wel-
fare of the inhabitants of Toxteth-park, or they could not
have failed to invite the clergy of the immediate vicinity
to join them in so pious and praiseworthy a purpose. In
this, Mr. Wray has lost sight of that courtesy for which I
have heard him highly praised.
I do not wish querulously to complain of this project,
which primd facie bears the aspect of benevolence and
charity ; but it does not seem ingenuous and frank, nei-
ther is it English or Christian, to have ripened a plan of
this kind, whereby many thousands of my people are
included, without my being made privy to one step in the
proceeding. This very naturally awakens suspicion which
otherwise might not have existed, and which it is very
painful to me to entertain towards an active and zealous
brother clergyman.
In answer to any implied indifference or neglect on my
part, which I think this whole proceeding goes upon, I am
compelled to refer to some of the efforts which I have
made, and with God's blessing and the assistance of many
friends to the cause of Christ and his Gospel, successfully
made in the twelve years that I have resided in Toxteth-
park.
I found, in 1842, a deserted and dilapidated church,
and its grave-yard in a state of inconceivable desecration,
no resident clergyman, no free seats for the poor, and a
school with only 120 children.
The church is now in good repair, the churchyard sub-
' stantially railed in, 400 free sittings are constantly occu-
pied by the poor of the district—we are fire resident cler-
gymen in !till orders, all working pastors, and three
efficient paid scripture readers, and in lieu of two church
services weekly we have now eight, besides cottage lectures
—the school accommodation is raised from 120 to 1130.

In 1815 a elan was put forward by myself and others
for the erection of three new churches to supply the ad-
mitted deficiency in the districts of St. James and St.
Thomas, which was impeded by the terrible commercial
disasters of 1848-47, and the result was the erection of one
church, St. Matthew's, in Hill-street, containing 1250 sit-
tings, one-half free for the poor. But I was not unmind-
ful of the original plan, although compelled for a time to
yield to adverse circumstances. In July, 1853, I obtained
the bishop's license for the performance of divine service
in St. Bride's school, Gray-street, which had been kindly
placed at my disposal by the Rev. W. M. Falloon and the
trustees, the stipend for which is supplied by the Liver-
pool Working Men's Church Association. Here the Rev.
Edward Gabriel, late of Corpus Christi College, Cam-
bridge, has most successfully gathered around him as
large a congregation as the place will hold, and which is
to form the nucleus of the second church in the scheme
of 184.5, for which the site was then purchased, and
towards its erection I am now earnestly seeking subscrip-
tions. I point to this portion of the district of St. James
(now called Christ Church, Toxteth-park) which must be
the most proximate to the spot chosen by Mr. Wray, as
singularly well provided with pastoral superintendence.
The site for this church is on the unoccupied corner of
land where Windsor-street intersects Hill-street.

Mr. Wray states that one of his motives for erecting a
new church near this place is " to afford the privileges of
daily prayer and weekly communion to a large number of
churchmen who would thankfully accept them." I have
resided in my district, in the midst of my people, for
twelve years, and believe tliat I know their views and
tastes better than Mr. Wray, and I confidently state that
no such desire exists in any considerable number of church-
men in the 20,000 embraced in his scheme—l will not say
that he might not find a dozen such, though I know not
of them—and that it is altogether a groundless assumption.
If there be " a large number of churchmen" in this neigh-
bourhood pining after a daily servine and weekly commu-
nion, I wonder they have not made known their wishes to
some resident clergyman, for until they do so they cannot
say they have been rejected.
But for the Bishop s firmness, an awkward clashing of
purposes would have come to pass, as I could not have
yielded to Mr. Wray the right to come in and quietly
possession of a part of my flock, and oust from
the
office of making provision,
le or at least
according to the best of
in)
ability, for the neglected of my own Pe°l)
sharing that duty with others.
It would not be right for me to
ienntcsroe:micilivascoedfairnori.l
your space as to go into all ther
po I
will, with your per-
Radford's long letter; but one point

mission, notice:. The services of Ash Wednesday, Lent,
Passion Week. &e., have ever been carefully observed in.
St. James's Church, and the Book of Common Prayer weft
in its integrity.

My chief object in this communication is to defend.
myself from an implied charge of neglect and inattention,
and to show that the inhabitants of Toxteth-park are cared
for by their legitimate pastors.
I hope that I have-guarded myself successfully from any
expression which can give offence to Mr. Wray or his
friends; for, in vindicating myself and colleagues, 1 should
be very sorry to occasion pain to others.
I am, Sir, yours very faithfully,
HEN. Hex roar.
St. James's, Toxteth-park, 19th May, 1854.

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