The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

Hall, is indisputably the most eligible, from its
central position, as_ there most of the great
thoroughfares from the densely populated parts of
the town meet. It is easy of access from Dale-
street, from Scotland-road, Islington, London-road,
Lime-street, Parker-street, and, consequently, from
north, west, south, and east. The site alluded to
in the discussion is not, however, the most eligible,
nor should the building be erected on the vacant
ground between London-road and Islington, as that
space should be left free, and any building there
would, from its elevation, injuriously interfere with
the effect of St. George's Hall. It might, however,
be placed with considerable advantage on the open
space below St. John's Church, between Dale-
street and the new street from Dale-street to the
south end of St. George's Hall. Its elevation
would not then injure the larger building ; its
architecture might be in keeping with the houses
to be erected in the immediate neighbourhood ;
and as area is of more consequence than height,
all requirements of space, situation, and appropriate
appearance might be amply satisfied. Placed in
the intersection of the streets we have named, with
its front towards the Town Hall, there would be
full opportunity for architectural ornament ; and
as the slope from-Dale-street to the top of Shaw's-
brow is about to undergo improvement, the erection
of such a building would materially facilitate the
accomplishment of the scheme. We have made
this sugestion in the hope that, as the Report of
the Improvement Committee on this part of the
subject has been referred back to them for re-
consideration, no decision will be arrived at until
it has undergone full deliberation.

THE discussion which took place at the special
meeting of the Town Council, on Wednesday,
affords a satisfactory proof that the important
question of the improvements of the town of
Liverpool has not been lost sight of by the autho-
rities. The chief difficulties which hitherto have
had to be contended with, are that, on the one
hand, a comprehensive scheme which would be
effectual would necessarily involve a far more con-
siderable outlay than circumstances would justify ;
and, on the other hand, the carrying out of mere
details would be unsatisfactory, and might prove
a waste of money. The object to be specially kept
in view, should be the carrying out of those im-
provements most pressingly required, in subordi-
nation to a plan which should embrace the whole,
and if this course be pursued, and the improvements
carried out as the funds of the Corporation will
enable them to do so, the hope may be reasonably
indulged that the whole will be ultimately per-
formed. Among the designs now submitted, is
the proposal of a high-level bridge from the top of
Shaw's-brow to Dale-street, but this portion of
the scheme was not approved by the. Council,
and the report was referred back to the Improve-
ment Committee for further consideration. The
course pursued by the Council in this respect will,
we are satisfied, meet with the concurrence of all
who are familiar with the locality, and are not in-
terested in the furtherance of any particular scheme.
If Dale-street presented an elevation on the one
side of the intermediate hollow equal or nearly so
to that of Shaw's-brow, the erection of a bridge
to connect the two might be entitled to some con-
sideration. The case is, however, far otherwise, ,
as the declivity from Dale-street is very slight ;
and all that is really required is the raising of the
intermediate ground, so as to ease the slope to the
end of Islington. To accomplish this effectually,
the street should be considerably widened, which
would necessitate the demolition of the existing
houses, a measure which is much needed ; and, as
the new houses might be erected in accordance
with the higher level of the street, both objects
might be effected at less cost than the erection of
the proposed bridge without its accessories. The
property around is of a very dilapidated character,
and would therefore be less costly in its renova-
tion ; and if the slope were to commence from the
part of Dale-street where the old shops obtrude
upon the width of the thoroughfare, and were
carried by easy gradation to the highest point at
the north-end of St. George's Hall, the difficulty
which is at present alleged to exist would be over-
come, and every proposed advantage obtained.
The suggestion of Mr. STEWART for a wide street
from a point nearly opposite the old Gas-works to
the south-end of St. George's Hall, is also deserv-
ing of attention ; and has this advantage, that it
might be carried out with very little difficulty,
inasmuch as the street 'is already formed, and
requires but a few alterations to render it fully
available for the purpose. There is also -the
proposed new building for the Free Library,
alluded to in another article, which might occupy
a very appropriate position between the two ;
and, as one of the objects of improvement in
this quarter is to break up some of the vicious
haunts in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, this
part of the design would not be lost sight of. As
the subject has still to undergo the consideration
of the Improvement Committee, we trust that
these suggestions will be taken into account, and
that before any decision is arrived at the whole
will be submitted to the legitimate canvas of pub-
lic opinion. We may then expect to see Liverpool
become what it ought to be—healthy for its in-
habitants, convenient for its traffic, and beautiful
to excite the admiration of strangers.

THE season is one of rest from the strife of party,
as far at least as outward action is concerned, but
it is also one of preparation for the future, of con-
cocting Ministerial measures for the next Session
of Parliament, and arranging for the conflicts of
another year. The financial part of the scheme of
the •Coalition Government has already been set-
tled by the renewal of the Income-tax, and the
imposition of the Tax on Successions to reed pro-
perty. Mr. GLADSTONE'S part in political warfare
has been played ; and if promises are to be at all
relied upon, the next shifting of the scene will be
Lord JOHN RUSSELL reading his recantation of
the finality of the Reform Act, by announcing
another series of changes in the system of repre-
sentation. The lull in the political world is not to
be devoted to a calm consideration of such minor
reforms as may prove the most really beneficial,
because they do not afford sufficient excitement to
conceal the manifold Ministerial defects which
English intelligence will only be too quick to dis-
cover. The Coalition is founded on no solid basis ;
it has no principle upon which to appeal to popular
sympathy, and must therefore descend to the
vilest species of agitation, in order to hide its de-
formities by the turmoil. The lower orders of
society are to be once more roused into the action
of political controversy, their passions excited, and
hopes inspired which can never be realised : and
all for the paltry object of retaining in office a
combination of the dregs of faction, and the advo-
cates of every wild and impossible theory of legis-
lation. The Reform Act of 1832 was a step in the
downward direction, by throwing all political
power into the hands of ten-pound householders in
the towns of England, and the dupes of Romanist
intolerance in Ireland ; but the Reform Bill of
1854, if it is to do anything, must go still lower,
and virtually surrender the Sovereignty of Great
Britain into the hands of the classes least fitted by
intelligence, by experience, by education, by pro-
perty, and by amount of stake in the country, to
exercise it with advantage either to themselves or
to the community. It can be no simple question
of the temporary ascendancy of party, which seems
to have been the object of political warfare for the

last twenty years, but the far more important one,

of the future government of the country, upon
which will depend the maintenance of its national
greatness or its rapid decay.
The legitimate influence of the higher classes
is to be superseded by the mere strength of
numbers, and intelligence is to succumb to pre-
judice ; and this hazard is to be incurred, not
because the many demand the concession of
political privileges, but because it is necessary
to the existence of the Ministry that they should
have a grievance upon which to trade as poli-
tical capital. Even if they be unsuccessful, there
will still be the mischief of the worst kind of
agitation, without one compensating advantage ;
and though we do not anticipate that they will be
able to revive the mania by which the Reform Act
of 1832 was carried, the discussion of the question
will be fraught with evil of no trifling magnitude.
And what has been done, or is doing, to avert the
consequences of the threatened infliction ? or, by
what means is the sense of the country to be taken
on a question which so materially affects its most
important interests P The exertions of the last
election have been virtually thrown away ; for,
though the House ofCommonspresents what is called
an Opposition, there appears to be neither an effi-
cient leader nor unity of action. The defeat of the
Earl of DERBY, or rather of his CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER, seems to have paralysed those
who were his supporters, and a new combination is
required, if we would not .tamely submit to our
present rulers. It is for this reason that we
counsel the establishment of a CONSERVATIVE
LEAGUE, and we call upon the Conservatives of
Liverpool to take the initiative in opposing a bar-
rier against this threatened inroad upon the Con-
stitution. The danger is becoming imminent ;
those who can oppose the movement require a ral-
lying point for concentration and combination, and
this can only be effected by forming a Union,
which shall not only bring its whole *eight to bear
in defence of the best interests of the country, but
which shall recal the wavering, encourage the
timid, instruct the ignorant, and strengthen the
weak. As a party, the Conservatives are the
strongest in numbers, wealth, and influence ; and
if but the same means were employed which have
been successfully exerted in a less worthy cause ;
if the intelligence and patriotism of Englishmen
were fairly appealed to, and the aphorism, that
union is strength,were practically applied,we do not
entertain the slightest doubt of a triumphant issue •
There is now before the country a tangible ques-
tion upon which the fiat of public opinion will have
to be taken, and it therefore behoves all those who
are imbued with better feelings and higher princi-
ples than the unmitigated selfishness of Radicalism,
not to allow judgment to go by default through
their own neglect. There is no lack of Conservative
feeling in the country, but it has been drowned
in the bluster of Radical popularity-hunters; and
it is this which has rendered necessary a form of
action which shall unite the scattered elements of
political strength, and make the true voice of the
people heard in the councils of the nation. The
Conservative gentlemen must come out from the
retirement in which they have shielded themselves;
they must throw off that apathy which they have
almost made a habit; and be content to give up
that dignified ease which is ill suited to times for
action, or they will find, when too late for re-
medy, that their unscrupulous opponents .have
sapped the foundations of society, and step by step
superseded the functions of the legitimate leaders
of the people. The position of the Conservative
party, though by no means satisfactory, as far as
present arrangements are concerned, offers no
ground for despair, if proper use be made of the
\elements of strength. But; in order that the end
should be achieved, a commencement must be
made, and the requisite machinery be put into
action. If the standard of the constitution •were
raised by hands and hearts determined to battle
for the good cause, thousands and tens of thou-
sands, would flock to its support. The question at
I issue is intelligible, for it strikes at the integrity
of the existing Representative system;
the danger
is imminent, for the Ministers are pledged to com-
mence their next Parliamentary campaign with
the movement ; and Englishmen, if they allow the
recess to pass over without taldng some means to
stem the onward progress of democracy, Will al-
most deserve the fate which will then be rendered
inevitable.

We have already remarked on the comparative
ease with which the true spirit of the country may
be aroused, and to the propriety of Liverpool, as
the head of -the commercial world, and the chief
constituency in the empire, taking the lead in this
most important question. A few only of our lead-
ing Conservative gentlemen would be sufficient for
the nucleus of •agitation ; and if the movement
were once begun, it would gather within its folds
a mighty host, which would be irresistible. All
might contribute either their wealth, their talents,
or their energy, and with such aid success must
be certain. This .aid must, however, be called for,
and in order that the call- for action may spring
from the town which possesses the largest number
of Conservative electors, we exhort our fellow-
townsmen to make the commencement.

THE alarming appearance of the Cholera at New-
castle-upon-Tyne, and other places, has led to a
show ,of doing something on the part of the
Government, and the Central Board of Health has
issued a lengthy document, purporting to be
general instructions to local authorities. Such a
manifesto of official wisdom appears on the face of
it to be of great importance, and it may have the
effect in some degree of removing any unnecessary
alarm, and inducing a confidence in the care and
foresight of the Executive. But, in reality, it
amounts to very little, as it requires no great
amount of official sagacity to proclaim the acknow-
ledged truth that draining, ventilation, cleanliness,
pure air, and pure water are`-all indispensable to
the preservation of health. All will admit the
obvious necessity of such, sanitary regulations as
are too often neglected, without the assistance of
a Central Board. They have been advised and
insisted upon through the ordinary channels over
and over again, and to their partial adoption in
many large towns, of which Liverpool is a fa-
vourable example, may be attributed the present
comparative freedom of disease, with the few ex-
ceptions, such as Newcastle, where thousands of
houses are destitute of the most ordinary and
necessary accommodation% This fearful scourge
has, however, reached our shores, after ravaging
many parts of the Continent, and should be met in
the best way which the wisdom of experience may
dictate ; but, in order to accomplish this desirable
object, it is not necessary to rely upon a Board
sitting in London to issue documents of general
advice, nor even upon local authorities, for due
precautions may be taken without reference to
either. We alluded last week to what had been
done in the City of Exeter in 1849, and which was
attended with such success that not oue death
occurred during the prevalence of the epidemic,
although the deaths in 1832 amounted to 379.
There the authorities had nothing whatever to do
with the means adopted, The Exeter Dispensary, a
local institution, gave medicine freely to every one
who applied for it, and recommended an instant
resort to it in every case of painless diarrhoa,
which is the usual precursor of Cholera. The
whole expense was more than defrayed by volun-
tary contributions, and the management, which
proved eo efficacious, was coguneneed and

carried through to a successful termination by in-
dividual efforts and the public appreciation of their
exertions. We again allude to this circumstance,
in the hope that it may induce the Committee of
the Liverpool Dispensaries to adopt a similar course;
and we feel certain that, whatever may be the ex-
pense, it will be more than met by the liberality-of
our fellow-townsmen. Allwill admit that prevention
is better than cure ; and, when the means are so
easy of attainment, any neglect is inexcusable.
We subjoin the recipe for the medicine which
was used on the occasion to which we refer :
Aromatic Confection ............. 2 drachms.
Camphor mixture
Tincture of Opium (Laudanum) 40 drops.
Sal Volatile 2 drachms.
Tincture of Ginger ounce.
Make a mixture. - -

Three tablespoonful to be taken immediately after an
attack of diarrhoea, and repeated every quarter of an hour,
if necessary.

WE gave last week a succinct account of the
circumstances which had led to the quarrel between
Russia and Turkey, and the altered aspect of affairs
owing to the refusal of Turkey to accept the note
proposed by the Conference at Vienna. But little
has since occurred to enable a more definite opinion
to be formed as to the issue of the affair, but the
opinion is gaining ground that the prospect of peace
is more distant than ever. Austria has withdrawn
from the union with England and France. Louis
NAPOLEON, if he has not yet followed the example,
is believed to be quite ready to do so ; and Eng-
land, with divided councils at home and more
complicated difficulties abroad, will not be able
to do much ; while Russia, emboldened by the
dispersion of the alliance against her, will be
more firm in her demands upon Turkey. The
latter power is evidently bent upon trying the
strength of her Mohammedan forces; and it is re-
ported that the SuLTANhas had the choice submitted
to him of declaring war or abdicating his throne.
The latest despaches, however, state that the reli-
gious festival of the Beiram had passed over quietly,
so that we have yet to learn whether the struggle
between the Crescent and the Cross is to be re-
newed through the fanaticism of the Turkish popu-
lation. It was reported on Saturday that the fleets
in Besika Bay had been ordered to Constantinople,
so that a virtual declaration of war had been made;
but it appears that only two steam-ships from each
fleet had been called by the respective Ambassadors
for the protection of English and French residents
in Constantinople, against the possible contingency
of outrages by the Turkish population.
The question, it will be seen, is in no better posi-
tion, not even as to the removal of uncertainty, and
the probabilities of war seem now to depend upon
the exercise of that religious fury against Chris-
tianity which has been called into action by the
SULTAN of Turkey against Russian aggression, and
which he now finds it difficult, if not impossible, to
controul.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION
OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN
PARTS.

THE annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to this
Society was held last evening, at the Collegiate Institu-
tion. The attendance was small, but the proceedings
were more than usually interesting.
On the platform we observed the Ven. Archdeacon
Brooks ; the Rev. Rector Campbell ; the Rev. J. W.
Colenso, D.D., Bishop Designate of Natal, Africa ; Revds.
D. Moore, Incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell,
London ; P. Percival, missionary from India ; R. Jones
Waterloo ; R. H. Jones, St. Augustine's ; T. Payne ; J. g.
Howson ; Dr. Hume ; C. Wray ; C. H. Burton ; C. P.
Hobbs ; J. North ; G. W. Warr ' • T. Leicester ; T. Moore ;
T. Bowman ; W. R. Duncan ; T. C. Cowan ; T. Robinson ;
Heathers ; Alderman Swainson, &c.
On the proposition of the Rev. G. W. WARR, seconded ,
by the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL, the Ven. Archdeacon
was unanimously called to the chair.
The Rev. G. W. WARR having opened the meeting
with prayer,
The Ven. CHAIRMAN said :—Ladies and gentlemen,
though I much regret the absence of our valued and
estimable diocesan, who would gladly have attended at
this meeting, had he not been particularly engaged by
official duties in other parts of his diocese ; at the same
time I have much pleasure in having again to meet you
upon so interesting an occasion as the one upon which we
aro now assembled. I could ha,o ari.hod that there had
been more who had taken the same interest in it as I do,.
and that we might have seen this room better filled
than I observe it is to-night. At the same time I
feel much indebted to those who have been kind
enough, during the severity of the late weather, to
come out to meet our appeal on this occasion, in aid
of the object which we have to bring before you,
in the claims of the oldest missionary society in the land.
(Hear, hear.) Most of you will remember that last year
there was a celebration of the completion of the third
half century of this society in Liverpool. During that
long period of 150 years it has done much, and laudably
exerted its endeavours to spread the everlasting Gospel of
Christ throughout the different parts of the world. You
are aware, I believe, that the object of this society is
of a two-fold character. The first business in which
this society felt an interest was in the providing for
the Church ministration of those of our own country-
men, who had left their native land to settle in our
colonies. They had been accustomed to all the minis-
trations of the Church in this country and to the bless-
ings of a true Christian establishment; but, when they
went to the distant land in which they were about to
locate themselves, they found no vestige of Christianity in
it. Some few zealous and earnest members of the Church
could not but feel sympathy for those persons cast
upon the wide world, wishing them to have the same
spiritual advantages which they had in the old world ; and
in a true Christian spirit they determined to supply the
deficiency which they found existing. (Hear, hear) The
first thing they did was to send to them ministers who
would carry on the different ministrations of the Church to
which they were now unfortunately strangers,—for they
had no means of doing that among themselves. Public
worship was unknown amongst them —they bad no
one to administer the sacrament—no one to baptize
their children—no one to solemnize the holy bonds of
marriage,—no one to sympathise with them on the bed
of sickness. These wants were supplied by this society :
missionaries were sent out to furnish these unfortunate
people in that which they most required. The second ob-
ject of this society naturally rises from the fast; for when
these missionaries arrived at the place where their
countrymen lived abroad, they found the destitute state
of the neighbouring people amongst whom the objects of
their first solicitude were setttled—the deep ignorance of
and total want of all those blessings which true religion
is the means of furnishing. It was natural enough, there-
fore, that their Christian sympathy should be aroused,
and that they should endeavour to supply what they had
no other means to obtain, but through their agency. That
was the complete object which they had in view : first, to
supply our own countrymen abroad with those spiritual
wants which they so much needed ; and then to spread a
knowledge of the Gospel amidstthe darkness and ignorance
of the surrounding nations. (Cheers.) In the first view,
naturally and gradually, considering it as the little cloud
in the horizon, not larger than a man's hand; and then,
like that cloud, as it spread over the heavens, so this
society spread its influence around it, until it is now
settled in every part of the civilized world. (Hear, hear.)
Whether we look at 'America, where it was first estab-
lished, or go to the Eastern part of the world, and
look at the immense territories of our Indian empire, we
shall trace the footsteps of this society wherever we go.
And it still extends beyond that : Africa has received the
benefits of its labours, while the increasing territories of
Australia have also been blessed with the assistance we
have been able to afford. (Hear, hear.) There are other
fields still eontimung to be opened ; and though much
has been done in increasing the funds of the society, and a
great effort made last year,—and not made without effect
—yet still more and more is required, because new fields
are constantly opening to its exertions. (Hear, hear.)
We first see the sending out of a few missionaries for pur-
poses which the society had in view ; but now we see, in
the space of a century and a half, churches established, with
all the orders of ministration, in every quarter of the globe ;
and instead of a few isolated missionaries, we have thirty
dioceses established, with thirty bishops at their head.
(Cheers.) This is a very important matter indeed. I
know of nothing more calculated to carry out the objects
of the society than the establishment of churches like these
in all the quarters of the globe. (Hear, hear.) It does
not fall to my duty, as chairman of this meeting, to enter
into details shelving the progress of the society. That
will be done by those gentlemen who have kindly under-
taken N explain to you the progress and present state of
the society. I shall, therefore, content myself by calling
upon them, and first I shall request one to address you
who needs no introduction of mine. He is known to you
I all as living amongst us. I allude to my colleague, the
Rector of Liverpool. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Rector CtotpnELL moved the following reso-
lution :—" That the continued advancement of emigration
constitutes increasingly strong_ claims upon the Church
at home for a largely-augmented band of faithful servants
of Christ, to meet the spiritual necessities of those
thou-
sands of our fellow-countrymen and fellow-Christians in
the Colonies, who must otherwise be left to perish for the
lack of knowledge." In endeavouring to
mnihnel notend this
proposition to the adoption of the meeting,
think it necessary (he said) to trouble them with very
many words, because he was of opinion it would ne-
cessarily recommend itself to the favourable acceptance
of every christian mind. In advocating the claims of
this society, he did not think it incumbent upon
them to obviate the objection which rose on some minds,
and which, he must say, in some degree forced itself upon
his own mind, that money collected for this society was
intended for foreign objects. We had, it was said, quite
enough to do at home, and that here our charity ought to
begin, as there was plenty of work for them among the
heathens of our own native 10.n4. It should, however, be
borne in mind, that the objects of this society were not
foreign objects, although theyl4 in fore/6711=U (Hear.)

The assistance they rendered was bestowed upon our
fellow-countrymen, w who ere driven from their native
shores to seek that subsistence which they were unable to
find in their own eountry. (Hear, hear.) It was for
our own fellow-countrymen—our own fellow-subjects--
our own fellow-Christians, that they appeared before them
that night ; and he was sure it was a cause which would
be considered of the first importance by Christian minds.
It was chieflyfor this object the Society for the Propaga-
tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was established.
(Hear, hear.) His venerable friend the Archdeacon had
given them a brief account of what had been done by the
society; but perhaps he might be permitted to go a
little more into details. This society was established
150 years ago, by Royal charter, in the reign of King
William the Third, to carry the principles of the Church
amongst our countrymen abroad. In North America, as
his venerable friend had told them, its operations first
began, extendinc, gradually to South America, India,
Ceylon, Australia, and New Zealand. When the society
was first founded, there were not, in those countries,
twelve members of the Church of England ; there were
now congregations wider the pastoral care of about 2,750
clergymen, of whom 389 were stationed generally in those
nations most destitute of spiritual assistance, and were
aided entirely by the funds of the society.— (Hear, hear.)
Besides this, there were seventeen colleges in which
clergymen were educated ; while the operations of the
society extended over a surface of nearly three million
square miles; and, indeed, as they were aware, there
were thirty bishops throughout this great extent of land, •
over which it was the object of the society to spread the
pure religion of the Church of England. This, then, was
the object of their meeting : to furnish funds for affording
all the ministrations of the Church to our countrymen
abroad. There ought to be no apology, therefore, requi-
site in calling upon them to support the object of the
society, of which the chief bishops of our Church were in
succession guardians, so that it was essentially a Church
society. It was not a society for any party in the Church,
but it was a Church society, having for its object the ex-
tension of the principles of the pure and reformed doctrines
of the Church of England. (Cheers.) He did not hesitate to
express his conviction very strongly upon this point,
namely:—that there was no just ground of complaint,
or suspicion upon the point. (" Hear, hear.") It was
a Church society, its object being, as he had said, to pro-
vide religious instruction for those who were totally
unable to provide it for themselves. He begged of them
to consider who were the persons who generally emi-
grated. They were persons—most of them—who were
compelled to seek their fortune abroad, because they could
not find it at home. At the present time they unhappily
witnessed a certain thirst for gold which could not be
satisfied, and which tempted many of their countrymen to
their own ruin and their own destruction. But those were
a class of men who would not seek the consolations of
religion for themselves ; and it was, therefore, absolutely
necessary to provide it for them, and to induce them to
serve God, while their own object was to serve mam-
mon. (Hear.) It was not for such as these, however,
that their exertions were employed, but for those who
wished to serve God, but had not the means of doing so.
There were multitudes of young men who went from this
country well instructed, perhaps, in the principles of their
Church, and anxious to serve their God if they knew how.
It was a work of the purest Christian charity to furnish
these persons with the means of grace. (Hear, hear.)
He was tempted, upon that point of the subject, to read
to them what had been stated by an American bishop in
the course of a visitation in his diocese. He said :
" I remember, with the distinctness of an impression made
upon my mind as though it had been yesterday, that some
years ago, while in the discharge of my episcopal duties,
having stopped at a small town on the banks of the Mis-
sissippi to await the arrival of a steamboat, I was sum-
moned to the bedside of a sick stranger, in the little ,
inn where I had found lodgings. I was ushered
into a small room, where lay upon a pallet of straw
a young man, sinking rapidly under the ravages of
disease. I can never forget the feelings with which
the condition of that young man inspired me. He
had no friend to watch by his bed of pain, and smooth his
passage to the tomb by the soothing attentions which af-
fection loves to bestow. I will not detain you by a detail
of all that passed between us during the intervals of com-
posure and ease from pain through the hours of that long
and comfortless night. Suffice it to say, that I spoke to
him, as was my duty, of Jesus Christ, of His power and
willingness to save ; and then came the struggle of weak
faith and feeble hope, with the terrors of an accusing con-
science, as memory called up in review opportunities neg-
lected, warnings despised, mercies abused ; while dread
of the future • spread its dark mantle over the vast and
cheerless field of an unprovided-for eternity. Yet he could
not forget the home of his childhood ; and the big tear ga-
thered in his restless eye when he told how his parents
used to take him to church, and how they sought to imbue
his tender mind with lessons of piety, and to possess his
young and budding affections with the love of God. He
died, so far as I know, without 'the confidence of a certain
faith without the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and
holy hope.' Who would not feel sick at heart at the thought
that his child should thus descend to the narrow house of
silence ? And is there a parent here, who feels perfectly
secure that such a story may not some day be told of his
offspring in some distant part of the British domi-
nions ?" (Hear, hear.) After reaping this, he would en-
deavour to impress upon the minds of his friends the
absolute necessity of sowing, in tender years, the seeds of
.religion. This young man had not forgotten the time
when he was taken to church ; he had not forgotten the
lessons of his youth ; they remained in him, and he trusted
they gave him some hope, and more than hope, to prepare
for eternity. I appeal to you, and ask whether you will
allow such men as he to die in a distant land without a
friend to soothe the bed of death, and lighten the dark
passage to eternity, while pointing towards the stars of
Bethlehem, by giving them that hope which they can
only obtain through the merits of our Saviour. (Hear,
hear.) He beseeched them, for the sake of thetaselves,
their wives and children, and fellow-countrymen, to do
, their beet for tho oociety on behelf of which he stood
before them. (Hear.) In times like these, the claims
upon them were numerous, and it was difficult to know
where to make their choice ; brit they could not go astray
in a cause so holy as this. (Hear, hear.) He trusted they
would bestow their aid with liberality, and show that they
were laying up treasures for eternity, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, nor thief break through, nor steal.
The Rev. DANIEL MOOSE, Incumbent of Camden
Church, Camberwell, seconded the resolution. He said '
great and effectual doors were being now opened by the
providence of God, into which they might enter with
every prospect of a blessed result. One part of the ope-
rations of this society was among their own countrymen,
who, from some reason or other, left the United Kingdom
to find a new home. With regard to this sphere of the
society's operations, the several grounds of speculative
objections which were sometimes made against Heathen
missions could not be made to this. When the latter
were mentioned, they were sometimes told to look after
their own Heathen, and, although that objection always
involved bad logic, yet in this case it could not be
urged. (Hear, hear.) As to those who had gone from
amongst themselves, he felt that the question of their
spiritual instruction was not one of national fitness or
policy, but he had simply to take the grounds of a com-
mon debt to those who wentfrom themselves as well as to
the nations among whom they dwelt. Upwards of
1,000,000 yearly were permitted to leave these shores and
settle in various parts of their great colonies. They read
in the newspapers the difficulties which those emigrants
had to encounter, more especially in that great field of
enterprise, the continent of Australia. Would they permit
those of their countrymen, who settled in these colonies, to
remain without any of those influences being brought to
bear upon them, whereby their best impressions would be
strengthened and continued to them ? This was one of
the considerations that had led him to take an active part
in the operations of this society. He had long been con-
nected with the Church Missionary Society, a society which
he loved and revered, because he believed it was doing God's
work, and he was led to identify himself with this society by
the thought that if the emigrants to the British colonies
were not provided for by this society, they would be
neglected altogether. He had had letters from families
' whom he had known in this country, and they deplored
' the lack of spiritual instruction which they experienced
in their adopted home. But, in some parts, and espe-
cially in Melbourne, a great work was going on, which
was greatly assisted by this society and others connected
with it. He rejoiced to be able to bear testimony to the
life and vigour of the spiritual ministrations carried on
in that vast country. He had been informed by those
who had returned to England, that an intense desire
existed among the people to avail themselves of the spi-
ritual ordihances provided for them. In some churches,
before the bell had ceased to toll, every part of the
building was thronged by a crowd of eager listeners.
He ought also refer to Canada, where in some parts so
great was the eagerness of the people to enjoy the
wholehless-
ings of religious ordinances, that they spend the
night in passing rivers and travelling across the country
for the express purpose of being present at church ser-
vice, when that service has been held at a distance of six,
seven, or eight miles from their residences. If their eager-
ness, then, was so great, was it not a duty incumbent
upon the people of England to provide for them spiritual
instruction ? He was not speaking of those who left this
country longing for gold, but of those who were compelled
to leave this land, and who would have remained here if
they could have obtained a bare subsistence. When
these people left this country, they were still ex-
pected to obey the laws, and minister to the luxuries
of the inhabitants of this land; and surely, if almost
every comfort in life was obtained from their colo-
nial possessions, they could not deny to them spiritual
blessings. But this only regarded one portion of their
national debt; there was another feature. T without
not forget that if they sent out their population
the means of keeping alive in them those sacred impres-
sions which had been implanted in their minds here, they
would become mixed with the native tribes, and serious
moral stied to sett e. Many
theß rd
smha geem wouldigatbse dwoenreetopetnhioisenations amlong Ivhom
nations and individuals had regretted that they had ever
aThloonsge wtilmnaehwaditghoonuet
nhtieldo:'sithhaEdubroeepielanfosr.
fbromomteheacluit
the ministrations of the Church, had become a disgrace to
the British name, had been guilty of every kind of barbarity
and crime, and a curse to those countries which they had
troubled with their presence. This led them to anotherview
of the subject. They had noright totranspla4tootherparts
of the globe their vice and irreligion. The reverend gen-
tleman then drew a fearful picture of the state of crime in
Australia, which Judge Burton bad narrated, bow Eng-
lishmen had been known to butcher numbers of the poor
natives—men, women, and children—in cold blood, and
had then pleaded ignorance and want of education when
charged with their horrible crimes, and brought up for
judgment. This, therefore, was not a question of policy,
but of national interest, and a duty which one nation
owed to another. He entreated them to consider why
God has given so much power to this country, and warned
his hearers against becoming so forgetful of their high
destiny as to imagine that they might receive all their
luxuries from distant lands, and yet not send the Gospel
to any of them. (Cheers.) He concluded by pointing out
the wide doors which are now open for missionary enter-
prise, and entreating his audience to extend the blessings
of the Gosepel by giving of their abundance liberally, then
they would shine as lights in the firmament, and be as the
stars for ever and ever. (Cheers.)
A hymn was then sung, and a collection made.
The Venerable CHAIRMAN then introduced the Rev.
Dr. Colenso to the meeting.
The Rev. Dr. COLENSO, Bishop-designate of Natal, • in
Africa, on rising, said he had been requested to more the

adoption of the second resolution, which was to the fol-
lowing effect —" That the provision for upwards of one
hundred and fifty millions of heathen subjects involves a
most serious responsibility on the part of this Church and
nation ; and that additional efforts arc loudly called for, so
as to bring to these native tribes the glad tidings of salva-
tion." In this resolution their attention was expressly
called to the condition of the heathen in the vast colonies
of the British empire. Before he proceeded to the subject
allotted to him, he would say a few words upon the man-
ner in which their society sent forth its
missionaries-
When a clergyman applied for some employment under
their society, he was examin by the two Archhishops
and the Bishop of Londoned, those prelates being con-
sidered to represent the Church, and they were r-
mitted to hold any opinions, provided they were P:n-
tained in those permitted by the Church
of Englacnd.
A gentleman had told him that sometimes he had
heard
aspersions cast upon the societbyee;aubsuet,twhehyenhadeversisinowehr: was
the case, he invariably replied that he had known several
young men whom he thought fitted to becomesionaries, mis.
had
them
excellent sapubdit selected, because
; he had sent them to the
' - and not one of them had ever been rejected. If any
society,
person present had any objections to the society, he would
advise them. to send some suitable young men to the
would be rweleiceteh dr.est(eCdhueeprsoi?
as a Christian Church. and nation, to provide a course of
seeupo ifn themthey
instruction for their fellow-creatures in the Gospel of
isioacdi ettoy, ,p
la.ensds
their blessed Lord and Saviour. They all desired, he
knew, that the glad tidings which they had received
should be proclaimed to all within their reach, and that
they might be the instruments of spreading their Saviour's,
gospel, and telling the nations throughout the world to
look upward and believe. As God had given them such
a mighty empire, surely it was that they might teach the
knowledge of the God who gave it to all nations. (Cheers.)
He then proceeded to direct the attention.of his hearers
to that country which was to be the scene of
his future labours. When he spoke of Natal, he
wished he could say more about what had been done
by this society in that Land, but though little had been
done, no other society had cared for the people there.
(Cheers.) The colony of Natal is situated in the south-
east of the great continent of Africa. It is in extent
about one-third the size of England, and its population
consists of about 8,000 British and Dutch- colonists, and
from one to two hundred thousand Zulu Kaffirs. Liver-
pool was- particularly interested in that -country, because
it produced free-labour cotton and sugar, and was very
productive. The Zulu country lies to the north of Natal.
The Zulus had been governed by three brothers, great
tyrants, each one of whom had murdered his predecessor and
mitted cruelties abominable ei a l upon his poor snbjecti. He
"some of the cruelties of the monsters, how they had
cern
detailed
butchered hundreds of both sexes, and many children, for
a mere whim ; and had entered into an agreement with
the_English and Dutch colonists, by virtue of Which .all
the refugees who fled from their tyrant king to an appa-
rently more hospitable people, were given up by the Eng-
lish and starved to death by their inhuman sovereign.
This was not, however, an agreement with our :govern-
ment, and no longer existed with the colonists. Now the
Zulu king was content to let his people go, provided they
left their property behind them, and these people were now populating the province of Natal. About four Years
ago the Bishop of Cape Town visited them, and found
them very docile, and willing to learn ' • but since then
they had been deteriorating for want of instruction,
and because •of the evil examples around them.
They were taxed 7s. 6d. per hut, which annually produced
£9,600 ; and when this large sum was taken from them
should not the British people give them some
return., Another thing favourable to Natal was its climate, which
was so salubrious that Englishmen could work and labour
in it without experiencing any inconvenience. The lan-
guage spoken by the Zulus was that of all the Kaffirs. It-
had been proposed, and he sincerely hoped they would
succeed in establishing, a college for the education of native
youth. He prayed God that the missionaries of the
Gospel Propagation Society might join hands with those
of the Church Missionary Society, and the Kaffir youths
with the Negroes of the north, in holding one common law,
and walking together in the faith of one common Redeemer.
(Hear, and cheers.)
• The Rev. P. PERCIVAL, M.A., missionary from India, in
rising to second the resolution, expressed his regret that
any time should be lost, as he was fully assured it was no
intention of those who had the management of the
meeting to encroach unnecessarily on the time of those
who had attended, but he begged their attention for a
short while, as he considered it necessary to show the
relations which the exertions of this society made in re-
lation to India, as compared with the exertions of another
and a kindred society also engaged in the propagation of
the gospel in that country. Fully to understand the
nature of this subject, it might be necessary to trace the
history of Christianity in India. The first intimation of
any effort for the spread of Christianity in India dated
so far back as the second century, when a request was
sent by some, who were in all probability disciples of the
Apostles themselves, to the Bishop of Alexandria
to be supplied with Christian teachers. Subsequent
to this we hear no more of the matter till the ar-
rival of Vasco da Gama, who found vestiges of a
Christian Church, which he designated the Church of
Syria, and for the Romanising of which strenuous efforts
were made, but the exact influence of those- efforts, and
the real importance of the Church were not well under-
stood; so that it might not be unreasonable to •pasi over
that period, and this would bring us to the -period at
which the Dutch settled on the Indian continent, and in
the Island of Ceylon,—in the latter of which places it was
well known they made considerable exertions for convert-
ing the natives to Christianity. The efficiency of those
efforts, however, were rendered in a great measure
nugatory, by an attempt on their part to render
the conversion compulsory, by making it indispensable, in
obtaining any place of trust or credit under the govern-
ment. So far from aiding in the dissemination of Christi-
anity, these efforts had adirectly contrary tendency- ; and
fuel that lu iauo there was in Ceylon scarcely a vestige
of eve the, nominal Christianity, so promulgated, existing.
The nave indeed, from the attempted coercion, looked
on
otherturn of reanity
ligio
with mo
a re unfavourable eye than on any
ore
unfavourable those of the Dutch, passing
to the efforts which, it might be said, our own govern-
ment did not make, for the propagation of Christianity,
it might with truth be said that our Government desisted
from any effort to disseminate religion of any kind in
India. Such a course of policy had been found a means
of maintaining our political power in that country, which
was by the natives believed to be based on the English
power to protect the natives. against abagression of every
sort. The native tribes are impressed with an idea Of our
justice and independence, and believe that, our officials
being inaccessible to bribery, our sway is founded on
right, and that we exercise a tolerating rule. He (Mr.
Percival) was convinced, by experience, that it is better
to let the missionaries of the cross make their own way
in the estimation of the people than by any aids they can
derive from Government countenance. Some men, no
doubt, whose names were in all the Churches, had done
much to propagate the gospel in India, and they had
had successors who had laboured skilfully in forwarding
missionary work, and had been enabled to publish a
translation of the Scriptures into several of the Indian
languages. Still it must be admitted that the first exer-
tions of real missionary enterprise in India had not origi-
nated with us, but with the Danes. In 1706, Frederick
IV. of Denmark sent two missionaries to India. On
landing they learned the Portuguese language• as a means
of communicating with the natives ; and, having acquired
this knowledge, they proceeded in their truly missionary
spirit, which was recognised by Bishop Middleton, who
aided them in forwarding the missionary work, and that
work had been making good and effective I?l'igresm s since
1822, when a college was established, at which fro 40 to 50 men were trained annually. From these, others hai,e ema-
nated, and there are now four institutions in that cduntry
affording instruction to 400 students, not only in they
own tongue, but also in the rudiments-of Greek and Latin.
Those institutions are thus doing the good work by missile
" Do you think, that what resisted the iron foot
up a native ministry. In reference to this mode of proc; dure, a sagacious Hindoo had remarked to him (Mr, p
erf-
cival),
the Dutch will fall before your incanseasoato /3ir(o
he) it is possible you may succeed. You teach o `said
and, teaching them, you may uproot the t ur sons,
otherwise you could not reach nor cut do r'e, (Which
hear.) This was a shrewd remark upon the effi -Hear'
this mode of proceeding. At the four i
t't • ccY
of
are not fewer than 130,000 natives
utions there
receiving Christian
instruction. In prosecuting this good Nv rk
o , the Church
of England now has by far the most extensive share, and
by means of the two societies which d
un er her banner
are engaged in propagating the
amount of good is, no doubt, go.spel, immense
Yet
what, it might be asked, are all these) effortss;
Pared with what is necessary for the Ch • t" ris ean in-
struction of 150,000,000 of p eal •
shed sp wig and raider-
many elegant and pol languages. To meet
the exigencies of such demands, the Church must be
much more liberal, much more efficient, in extending her
aid for the promulgation of the great cause. India is a
country difficult of treatment for such a purpose, the diffi-
culty arising not alone from its Zulus p and its
territorial extent. Unlike the Zulus, spoken of by Dr.
Colenso, the population of British India is possessed of a
subtle philosoplev, and many other arts of polished life.
The Church,to effect conversion among such a population
said, must be more liberal in. its efforts. India,
as f its wealth and from the extent o commerce, Presents great
attractions to the politician and to the merchant, and a
country like that, he surely need not say, could scarcely
have been given to us merely for national aggrandisement,
but had been bestowed on us that we might give it wealth more precious than its rubies. Can we fail to see that it
is our duty, as well as our interest, to secure the spiritual welfare of British India ? The more deeply we feel our inte-
rest affected by such a consideration, we should also feel our
responsibility the greater. The same spirit which brought
our blessed Lord into the world should inspire us with a de-
sire to disseminate the spirit of Gospel love. He could
have desired to enter more minutely into the importance of the work we have in hand, but time did not permit.
He might say, however, look at the success which has
attended the missionary cause within the last fifty-eight
years. Within that time the Scriptures have been trans-
lated into nine of the eighteen languages of India.
Children to the number of 127,000 are taught in
the missionary schools. SeYenteen thousand female
teachers are receiving education at our schools, and.
We
they
have will speedily
to be
take able auxiliaries in our cause.
reason courage from the past,
and to form large expectations for the future,
in
that great country, and among that wide-spread pee.
ple, Christ shall doubly reign ; only let us have your
sympathies, your prayers, and your aid, and success win
not be doubtful. He concluded by seconding the adoption of the resolution, which, having been put from the chair,
was unanimously carried.
The Rev. HERBERT JONES, after stating his conviction
that he only expressed the general feeling when he e
gnitulated the venerable chairman on the restora on
his health, and uttered their thankfuhiess fort he blessing,
* ;
concluded by moving the thanks of the meeting to
deacon Brocks, for his kindness in presiding. Arch.
CHARLES CRONES, Esq., seconded the motion
was carried by 'acclamation. •, Which
The Venerable Archdeacon Ihtoons Relinowl
~iged the
kindness, but said his attendance was so much
duty and pleasure, that the could not
consider hi a matter
of
self
entitled to such a vote. The meeting, he
much more indebted to the gentlemen who was sure' was
to a distance inform them on the subjects come from
just heard discussed with such ability, Which they had
The meeting then broke up,