The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-27 00:00:00

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of the Manchester and Salford Auxil-
iary to the Church Pastoral Aid Society, was held on Friday
evening, in the great room of the Cord Exchange.; Mr.
Atkinson, the treasurer of the society, in the chair, instead of
the worshipful and reverend Chancellor Raikes, who was
unavoidably absen! owing to severe indisposition. The Se-
cretary read the annual report of the society. It commenced
by stating the objects for which it was established, and the
means adopted for carrying those objects into effect. The
main impose for which it was instituted was to supply the
poor with church accommodation, and with spiritual instruc-

lion,, by means of voluntary donations subscribed by the af-
fluent and religious. The deficiency of chu eh accommoda-
tion was so great, that no less than one thousand churches
were now required, and, in Manchester alone. they wanted one
hundred new churches; whereas they had only thirty-six to
accommodate their vast population. The necessity of em-
ploying lay agency was very forcibly argued, and the objec-
tions which are raised to the principle of lay agency were
eloquently refuted. The society during the last year had
made 174 grants-148 for the support of curates, and 26 for
lay agents, amounting in the whole to the sum of £12,000,
all of which was devoted to an aggregate population of one
million two hundred thousand souls. On Lancashire alone
thirty of these grants were conferred. It was not for the as-
sistance of the clergy exclusively, as was alleged, that sup-
port was required by the Pastrol Aid Society; for the man-
lier in which the grants were distributed, sheaved that no such
purpose was contemplated. Grants were refuted to clergy-
men who were resident inctunbents, and to pastors having
schools in their charge: and the consequence was, that ap-
plications were not for aid,—nor, irifact, was the aid of the
society required but by places where religious instruction or
accommodation was insufficiently supplied. The funds were
chiefly applied to the erection of churches in parishes where
the number of religious edifices was not proportioned to the
amount of the population. The report stated that the secre-
tary of the society had sent in his resignation, in conse-
quence of his removal frem Manchester to Runcorn, and re-
commended the appointment of a gentleman to the office of
assistant-secretary. It concluded by enforcing the necessity
of supperting an institution having such laudable objects in
view, but at such length as to prevent us from giving more
than this brief summary of the principal points. The Rev.
Mr. Huntington, in Alining that the report be received,
adopted, and printed for circulation, under the direction of
the society, said that he fully concurred in that part of it
which stated the disproportion of churches to the population
of the country, and he referred in illustration of the truth of
this, to the religious buildings of the metropolis. The same
remarkable disproportion was observable, he said, in all our
principal towns. In Birmingham, Leeds, and other manu-
facturing places, the sad truth of his statement was too a ppar-
ent. lie proceeded, at ranch length, to detail the various
benefits that the society was the means of conferring. The

Rev. Mr. Frost seconded the resolution, and vindicated the
society from the charges made against it. Ile especially di-
rected himself to the refutation of a statement recently pub-
lished by some author, as to the tendency that the employ-
ment of lay agents had to produce dissent. That author
stated, that he heard in a bishop's presence, and in a Bis-
hop's palace, that two lay agents had attached to them, in a
certain parish, a large number of churchmen , and that they
and their followers had all become disseLters. lie (Mr. F.)
denied that in the parish mentioned, lay agents hail ever
been engaged, and he declared, that there was not a shadow
of truth in the entire statement. lie advocated very warmly
the objects of the society, and besought all present to aid in
this benevolent undertaking. Several other reverend gen-
tlemen addressed the meeting, but we regret that owing to
the lateness of the hour at which the meeting separated, an d
its being the eve of publication, our report oPthe proceedings
is necessarily curtailed.

A Handicap Race for a Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each will
come off over Aintree in the course of a few days. Anvil,
Bolivar, Waverley, and Vernal have already accepted.
MANCHESTER RAILWAIS.—We perceive that the parlia
mentat y notices have been given by the Liverpool and Alan
Chester, Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, and Manchester and
Leeds Railway Companies, to construct a short line of about
two miles in length, through the town of Manchester, with
the view of uniting the three important lines already men-
tioned, and, in fact, of connecting all the great railways in
the north of England, and by which means, as one uniform
guage of rails has been observed, the passengers and traffic
will be able to pass from one hue to another with great con-
venience. When this spirited project shall have been com-
pleted, it will afford to the mercantile and manufacturing in-
terests of Lancashire and Yorkshire facilities of intercourse
which have hitherto been deemed unattainable. 'l'he inti-
mate commercial relations now existing between, Liverpool •
and the West Riding of Yorkshire, will render this Railway
one of vast importance. The raw produce sent from Liver-
pool to Y orkshire, and the return of the manufactured woollens,
alike require expedition and certainty in the conveyance.
Passengers may also be conveyed from one side of the king-
dom to the other, viz., between the ports of Liverpool and
Hull, in the same carriages; as well as along the other rail-
ways with which this line will communicate; goods may also
be forwarded in the same manner in one waggon throughout.
'l'he great cotton spinning district of Oldham and its neigh-
bourhood has hitherto been unapproached by any water navi-
gation whatever, its great altitude having rendered it inac-
cessible. The Oldham branch from the Manchester and
Leeds railway wit:, however, do all that is desired. Raw cot-
ton may be brought from the ducks at Liverpool to the nu-
merous cotton manufactories there, in the short space of
about three hours ; which circumstances cannot fail to have
a most beneficial influence on the trade in that district. We
understand that the two passenger stations, one for the Liver-
pool and Manchester, and the other for the Manchester and
Leeds Railways, will be within a few hundred yards, and
within siqht of the Manchester Exchange, which must be a
great desideratum to the merchants. We conceive the town of
Manchester will also derive a material advantage from this
railway, as it will undoubtedly abstract from the streets
a great quantity of heavy traffic, which at present has to be
carried through the town, to the inconvenience' as well as
danger of the inhabitants.

THE EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS,

POST-OFFICE-PLACE,

Our multitudinous avocations have prevented us giving
that regular detailed notice of the paintings which we com-
menced, and bad intended to complete: and the time when
the exhibitor will close, tepidly drawing near, compels us
hurriedly to glance at the paintings, and bring our remarks
to a conclusion. Few seasons have been so well attended,
and few or the exhibitions so attractive.

No. 16G.—" A scene in the Interpreter's House."—" The
interpreter takes them apart, and has them into a room,
where was a man that would look no way but downwards,
with a muck rake in his hand; there stood also one over his
head, with a celestial crown in his hand, and proffered him
that crown for his muck rake; but the man did neither look
up nor regard, but raked to himself the straw, the small
sticks, and dust of the floor. ''fen,' said Christiana, 1
persuade tn)self that I know somewhat the meaning of this;
for this is a figura of a man of this world; is it not, rood
sir?"—Pilgrim's Progress This forms the text front which
the picture is drawn. It is a fine painting, but its excellence
consists not so much in its being a clever work of art, as that
it points a moral," to which many may attend with benefit.
No. 169.—" Merchant Brig running in harbour—strong
breeze."—This is an excellent sea painting by Seaforth.
No. 181.—" The confidant."—This is a clever little paint-
ing by Clater. It represents an old woman picking a goose,
and a young girl busy uubosoming all her secrets to her.
No. 193.—" The Prophet Ezekiel."—As a painting this is
a good picture. It represents the Prophet Ezekiel receiving
his inspiration from above, and writing the word. There is a
want of poetry in the conception, and a slavishness of look
in the prophet, as though writing after dictation; there is no
look of inspired intelligence—the image of the Deity is not
apparent in Into.
No. 201.—" The Gamblers."—This picture contains a re-
presentation of as sly a piece of cheating as we ever saw.
Two fishermen are gambling at cards in their cottage; and
while one is showing his cards to a girl behind him, the other
is conveying a low card within the reach of a lad under his
chair, who thus smuggles off with his bad deal. The atti-
tudes and expressions are in good keeping, and the painting
is a well finished work of art.

No. 204.—" Portrait of her most gracious Majesty, Queen
Victoria."—This is a most vile picture, whether considered
as a portrait or a painting. The Queen is unlike most wo-
men, in having been called to fill so high a station; and the
artist seems determined that she shall he unlike most women
in more respects than this. We don't know exactly what
may be the particular shade of complexion of the. squaws of
the lied Indians: but this we know, such a complexion as is
given to our fair Queen in this picture is not often met with
amongst Englishwomen. We imagine the artist must
have been reading Nicholas Nicklrby when he painted it,
and has been imitating Miss La Creevy's " bright salmon
flesh tint," which her chief friends and patrons considered to
be "quite a novelty in art."
No. 211.—" View of Stockport."—This is a finely finished
landscape, by Pennington. The scene is rather a peculiar
sine: a placid stream of water, confined between banks of
rock. The light is finely thrown on the water.
No. 218.—" King Charles the First, after his last Interview
with his Children." . The artist of this beautiful painting is
not named. It is a chaste and exquisitely finished picture,
and will repay the study of it.
No. 222.—" The Thamei, near Twickenham"—is a small
and beautiful painting, by Ilavell, with a gorgeous flood of
light cast over it.
No. 225.—" Interior of Tintern Abbey."—This painting
represents the interior of a ruined abbey, and is a most beau-
tiful specimen of art. The sombre hue of the ruin is enli-
vened by the bright foliage of the parasitical plants which
are creeping up the pillars, and the whole ruin has a light-
some appearance. The light and shade are most correctly
thrown.

Highlanders returning from a Forage"—is a
well drawn large painting, in the south route. The subject
is taken front the following verse of Wordsworth:-
-'° The good old rule
Sufficeth them; the simple plan, •
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can."
It represents a number of Highlanders driving off cattle, and
carrying off the daughter of some laird. It is rattler a hard,
dry style of painting.
No. 219.—" The Emigrant's Departure." is a painting
about which much has been said. It owes, however, more to
the poetry of its painting, than to its art As a mere specimen
of painting it possesses no great merit ; but the scene is full
of sentiment and feeling, and the characters are judiciously
drawn. It represent sthe interior of a husbandtuan's cottage,
and the stalwart husbandman, with his wife and children,
taking leave of his aged parents.
—" What sorrows gloomed that parting day
That call'd them front their native land away."
The wife, with melancholy sadness of countenance, is bidding
adieu to her aged mother, who is overwhelmed with grief;
the children are embracing each other before they part—.
perhaps for ever ; the aged grandfather is slowly and feebly
rising from his chair with his hands on the. bead of one of
the young children, solemnly giving him his blessing;_ and
the husbandman is lingering, leaning against the door:
anxious to depart, yet lingering to bid adieu and take a fare-
well look, of thoughtful sadness, of parents, house, and all
his household goods. The subject is painfully interesting.
No. 270.—" The Aristocracy."—This is a clever painting
of two large springer dogs, by Ansdell, a rising young artist.
There is great boldnes, and freedom of drawing; and the
attitudes are graceful and natural. The etceteras' which fill
up the picture—fruit and ett on—are also cleverly drawn.
No. 313.—" Christ Meditating in the Wilderness."—is a
bold, tine painting ; the drapery exhibits some beautiful
chaste colouring. The back ground, however, is wore like
a chaos than a wilderness.

No. 319.—" Christmas in the Reign of Elizabeth." This
is a magnificent painting, erowded with incident. The de-
scription given with it is as follows:—"Oinner is supposed to'
be over, the tables removed, and the guests in the midst of
their gambols. The centre group represents the struggling
for kisses under the tnisletoe. To the right is the cushion-
dance. Round the fire-place, in which blazes the yule leg,
is a party listening to an old crone relating a ghost story ;
at the most interesting point of which a mummer, in a
" subtl disgysment," bursts from his concealment, and adds
to the fright of the party." This however, is but a meagre
description. In one corner, a stout old man is sat on a bench
asleep, and some young utchins have put him a punch-bowl,
wrong side up, on his head, and are painting him a pair of
mustachios from the bottom of a grimy pan. In another
part two young ladies, under pretence of stealing kisses from
an elderly gentleman, are adroitly picking his pockets. In
another part all the excitement of snap-dragon" is going
on ; and in another place some "gallant gentlemen" are on
their knees, assisting a "ladye fayr" to same choice confec-
tionary in the wassail bowl. But it would be a task to de-
scribe all the incidents. As a painting, it is very highly
finished.
No. 328.—" Miriam rejoicing after the Passage of the Red
Sea."—'This is a large painting in the form of a lozenge, and
is painted in a peculiar style ; something after the manner of
Raphael. There are his bright style of colouring and strong
contrasts ; and a good deal of his qUaintness of attitude.
Miriam is represented with the titnbrel in her baud, followed
by the women with timbrels. The figures are very beautifully
drawn, but there is a great degree of stillness about them. it
is, however, a tine painting. Some of the colouring is very
beautiful.
No. 344.—" Deathbed of Lady Macbeth."—This is a hor-
rible conception of a horrible scene.
No. 363.—" Valley of Aosta"—by W. Linton.—This is a
glorious burst of landscape scenery.
No. 398.—Homer Reciting his Iliad."—This is a beautiful
imaginative pictute, representing a brilliant Italian landscape
view—a -soft of wild Paradise, as Homer's poetry has been
well described to be. This is the chief painting in the Octa-
gon-room.
There are many other paintings of merit which we have
not time especially to notice. Many of the prints in the
print-room also possess considerable merit.
The exhibition, it is expected, will close for the season in
about three weeks, when the raffle of the unsold paintings
will take place.

LECTURES ON POPULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND
THE LAWS OF HEALTH.

Dr. Thorburn's second lecture was delivered on Friday
evening last and gave general 'satisfaction. The audience
was numerous and consisted of many of the most distinguished
families in Liverpool. In addition to the ladies of the party,
we noticed several medical men, and many of the most popu-
lar of our resident clergy occupying 'the benches of the
theatre.

The business of the subject of the lecture was to establish
the nature and philosophy of the science of lite. The neces-
sity of recognising the existence of a vital principle was de-
monstrated. The appeals to the eye with the aid of plates
were judicious, and highly successful. The doctrines of
vitalism and materialism, on which depended the farce and
delusion of modern infidelity, were lucidly explained, inter-
spersed with popular illustrations, to which the audience re-
sponded with attention and laughter. The description Of
the " Philosopher," as a wanderer in Wales, elicited loud
laughter: the allusion was in connexion with the eccentric
opinions broached in Liverpool, by a well-known character,
enjoying the tight of " hale fellow, well met" with the self-
styled British Association for the advancement of science!
The ideal sketch of the fate that awaited him, if as a wan-
derer in Wales, and unable to sustain his incognito, told well;
the philosopher among savans could not avoid his fate, if
detected, among the old women of Wales, who idolized the
land of their ancestry.
Dr. Thorhurn possesses the art of exciting and sustaining
the attention of a mixed audience. His illustrations and
anecdotes of the wisdom of the rats of Bath, and the ratting
of statesmen in times of ..panic, told with irresistible effect.
These were anecdotes to prove that_animals have minds, and
think, and reason. He alluded to these manifestations of
brute mind while contrasting them with those of the God-like
mind of man, in which there was a soul at work. It was the
soul which distinguished man above the brutes, which urged
on the mind to supremacy over them, and so apparent was
this superiority that the most savage brutes were known to
quail before the gaze of man. This expression of the soul in
the eye of man he beautifully illustrated. This characteristic
of man was expressed by Moses in his account of the creation
of man. " God created man from the dust of the earth"-=
gave him a corporeal frame—"and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life"—gave him that life—that vitality which
all brute animals possess (and which materialists and infidels
are so anxious to he thought only to possess)—"and map
became x living soul." This was the addition; in this con-
sisted man's superiority over the brutes—it was in the addi-
tion of the "living soul"—the attribute of God conferred
upon him. Dr. Thorburn on this point also eloquently
illustrated his views. The lecture was spoken from notes,
and occupied an hour and a half in delivery.

We understand that the nominations for the Waterloo
Cup and the Waterloo Purse are nearly filled. The Marquis
of Douglas and several other celebrated owners of dogs have
nomination s.

Lord Frances Egerton, M.P. continues at Bath still labour,
log under a stubborn attack of gout.

We understand that Mr. Lewis, the spiiited proprietor of
the Liverpool Theatre presented young Henry Betty with a
munificent gift in money upon his 'benefit night, independent
of the very liberal terms of his engagement.
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—We under-
stand that, since the opening of this railway, little more than
eight leers, five millions of passengers have passed along the
line, and that out of this immense number, only two passen..
gers have lost their lives by accident on the railway, arising
from the sudden collision of some of the carriages.
SERMON AT ST. JUDE'S CHURCH.—On Sunday morning
last an excellent sermon was preached in St. Jude's Church,
by the Rev. Wm. Dalton, in aid of. the funds of the Blue
Coat Hospital. The reverend gentleman, after eulogising the
system of education used in the Blue Coat Hospital, as being
based upon the Bible and the Formularies of the Church of
England, denounced the liberal, new.fangled, anti-Bible
system, and strongly protested against what he very justly
called putting bits and scraps of the Bible into the hands of
the children, instead of the entire unmutilated Word of God.
The collection amounted to the handsome sum of £54 4s. Bd.

GREAT EXPORT OF MANUFACTURED GOODS TO AMERICA.
—Under this head we noticed last week the export of manu-
factured goods to the United States. The George Washing-
ton, which sailed on Sunday, had to shut out goods so early
as Thursday and the United States, which will sail on
Saturday next, will be full early in the week. The South
America, the packet of the 7th of December, will also be
quite full. It is likely, indeed, if the easterly winds should
continue much longer, that there will be a scarcity of Ameri-
can vessels to convey the goods which, it is understood, are
preparing for export. In that case, it would not surprise us
to see first-rate British vessels laid on the berth for New Yot
The United Slates, having recovered from the depression
caused by the commercial convulsion of 1836-7, are evidently
" going a-bead."—,4l.lbion.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CAUTION To OWNERS AND DRIVERS
,OF.OIIINIBUSE3.7

The driver of Mr. Lawrence's omnibus, No. 5967, appeared
on Saturday to answer a charge preferred against him by
Mr. Francis Jordan, for carrying more passengers than he
was licensed for. Mr. Jordan proved, that the defendant
was licensed to carry only ten persons inside, and that, on
the 14th instant, he had carried twelve. It appeared that
this had been his common practice. Mr. Hall animadverted
on the inconvenience to which the public were subjected,
and on the cruelty of overburdening the horses. He had the
power of inflicting a penalty of £5. He would not go to that
extent, but would tine the defendant £2 10s. and costs.
Every time he appeared there for a similar offence, the
penalty should be increased, and, if the practice were not
abated, he would exact the full tine in all cases.
BunGILA RY.—James Fitzgerald, an old offender, was, on
Saturday. placed at the bar of the Police-court, charged with
having broken into the premises of Patrick M`Cullen, on
Saturday morniug, at one o'clock. At that hour Police-
officer No. 4, Michael Garvey, was passing along Marybone.
Ile turned into Stockdale-street, when he saw the prisoner
half way through the window of Mr. M`Cullen's shop. lie
pulled him back by the legs, and alarmed the inmates. Mrs.
M`Cullen came down stairs, and the prisoner was taken into
the shop. It was found that he had forced down the shutter,
and had broken a pane of glass; after which be had endea-
voured to force himself through the aperture, in which, as
the hole was sufficiently large, he would have succeeded had
not the officer caught him. There were two men and a wo-
man standing not far off when the officer found him. 'When
in the shop he called for these to come and force the door
and rescue him. He was committed fur trial.

CHARGE OF MURDER.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an
Irishman, named James Lackey, and his wife, with an infant
in her arms, were placed at the bar, charged with having
been concerned in a brutal murder at Preston. Mr. Dow-

ling said the prisoners had been taken into custody on a
charge of being concerned in a murder at Preston, from the
description given of them in the Hue and Cry. They did not
deny that they were the parties. Constable Lloyd said, that
on Sunday he went to the house of a person named O'Neil,
where he heard the prisoners were. He asked for the pri-
soner Lackey by name, and told him that there was a charge
of murder against him, committed on the Monday night be-
fore, in Preston, on a man called Donnaghue. The prisoner
said he was the man who kept the house where the murder
was committed, hut he was as innocent of the murder as the
child in his wife's arms. He admitted that his name was
James Lackey. Mr. Dowling said the facts of the murder
were,—Donnaghue, the man murdered, was a sort of over-
looker on the railway, and had money in his possession each
week, to pay the men with. On his passing the prisoner's
house, the prisoner and several others dragged Donnaghue
into the prisoner's house, where they beat out his brains in a
most brutal manner, robbed him of his money, and decamped.
Mr. Hall ordered him to be detained in custody till sent for.
InISH BEGGARS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, one of
the wretched set of Irish, who continually immigrate into Li-
verpool, to subsist on charity, and who dry tip the sources of
charity to our own poor by their profligacy and lying deceit,
named Ellen Clan, was charged with begging in the streets
on Sunday. The prisoner had an exceedingly fine looking
infant in her arms, and two other wretched squalid looking
children along with her. She was charged by a policeman
with begging in the streets, for which she had been taken
into custody. The prisoner then commenced a tale of woe
and destitution, which had almost imposed upon the judgment
of the magistrate, and excitild his compassion, stating that
she was a widow, and had no home, and no means of getting
bread for herself and family but by begging, and, in short,
proved herself an adept in that peculiar characteristic of her
countrymen,—blarney ;—when the thread of her tecited mi-
series was cut short by policeman Maguire, who wished to
say something respecting the case. On the Sunday before,
he saw her leave her children in a public thotoughfare to
beg, and the poor children were nearly frozen by the cold.
He was determined to watch her; and in about an hour she
returned, and took front the children what money their
wretched appearance had extracted from the charity of the
passers by, and then went straight to a dram-shop and spent
it. He then took both her and the children into custody.

The prisoner at that time was drunk; but, in consideration
of the children, he let her go that time. 'the prisoner imme-
diately began asserting her innocence, and calling God to
witness the truth of what she said, and that the policeman
was stating what was false. Mr. Hall said she was a most
worthless woman. He should send her for three weeks to
the Borough House of Correction, and take care of the chil-
dren meanwhile.

'I'HROw►Nn VITRIOL.—On Friday evaning, between seven
add eight o'clock, two men, named Fairell and Donnelly,
had a quantity of vitriol thrown upon them, in Pleasant-
street. As the liquid was thrown over their faces, eyes, and
breast, of course the miscreants who committed the act
easily effected their escape. The poor men were led home
in a state of extreme suffering. They are both sawyers. On
Saturday morning two men, also sawyers, were placed be-
fore Mr. Hall, having been taken into custody, in conse-
quence of information given by the sufferers. Mr. Hector,
surgeon, attended, and stated, that a very large quantity of
strong acid must have been thrown, as their clothes were
covered with the marks of it. One of the patients, he
thought, would lose his eyes, and both were severely injured.
Mr. Hall asked if they could attend to give evidence. Mr.
Hector thought, if they were well covered up, and brought in
a close coach, there would be no danger in bringing them to
the court. Officers were accordingly despatched fur them.
In about an hour they made their appearance, and the pri-
soners, John Walmsley and William Welsby, were placed
at the bar. The complainants seemed to be suffering severe-
ly from the effects of the acid. Their faces and eyes were
swollen and discoloured, and their apparel, &c. changed to a
red tint, many portions of the cloth appeared ready to drop
to pieces. Fairell at once identified the prisoners, and, on
oath, declared he had no doubt whatever, that it was they
who threw the vitriol. It appeared, that he had had some
dispute with one of them about working in a certain yard in
this town. He stated, that one of them accosted his com-
panion in Pleasant-street on the preceding evening, between
seven and eight o'clock, and asked hint where a certain
street was. The other came up shortly afterwards, and, im-
mediately a quantity of liquid was thrown into each of their
faces. The prisoners, who looked very confident, and much
unlike guilty persons, assured the magistrate of their inno-
cence, which, they said, they could prove to his satisfaction.
They gave the names and addresses of two or three parties
who had seen them about the time mentioned by the wit-
nesses. Their hands were examined by Mr, Hector and
Mr. Parkinson, but no marks were discovered, nor anything
to indicate that they had handled vitriol. They were re-
manded till Monday.

Yesterday, the two prisoners were again placed at the bar
of the Police-office, and further evidence was brought for-
ward against them.
John llogherty, tailor, 12, Shannon-street, deposed that
on Friday night, between seven and eight o'clock, he saw a
man standing against his house at the gable end, with his
arms crossed. There was an entry beside the gable end of
his house; and in consequence of nuisances being committed
there, he was determined to punish the next person he
caught, and for that purpose went out to the man. The man
said he was waiting tor a friend. Witness said it was a curi-
ous place to wait in—he had better go into the street; he
should keep an eye upon him. Witness then went into his
house, and had not taken off his hat before he heard the two
injured men crying out. He immediately ran into the entry,
hut there was no one there, and he saw no one else about but
the two injured men, who were crying out.—On being cross-
examined by Mr. Crewe on the part of the prisoners, witness
would not undertake to swear that either prisoner was the
man, but the prisoner Welsby was like him, and was dressed

in a similar way.
Alice Waring deposed, that she lived in an entry right
opposite to the one spoken of. On Friday night, between
seven and eight o'clock, she had to go out, anti saw a man
standing in the entry; the man then crossed the road, and
went into the opposite entry, and leaned his back against
the wall. About twenty minutes after she heard the men
crying out in the street.
A respectable-looking young man named Worslev, a roper,
stated that on Friday niod, between seven and o'clock,
he was in the entry first spoken of, and saw the prisoner
Welsby there. Welsby seized hold of him, and said,
"Where is the two?" Witness said, " What two?" He
then walked about a dozen yards down the entry into the
street, the prisoner still keeping hold of hint; witness took a
fair look at him, and was certain the prisoner Welsby was
the man. It was nearly half past seven o'clock. The man
had a cup or a jug iu one hand, covered over with a black
cloth, and.which he kept extended from him at arm's length.
—On being cross-examined by Mr. Crewe, witness said he
had seen the prisoner in Bridewell on Saturday night, and
identified him. He was dressed in rather lighter-coloured
clothes on Friday night. He was not pointed out to him as
the man, but he (witness) pointed the prisoner out amongst
four other individuals.
Mr. CREWE suggested that it was improper to take the
witness into Bridewell and show him the prisoner.
Mr. H ALs could see no impropriety in it. It would have
been idle to have wasted the witness's day in giving evidence
if he could have given none; and there could be no impro-
priety iu placing four men before him, and asking if any of
these were the man. if the prisoner had been pointed out to
him, that would have been improper.
Mr. Morris, Jun., was examined and stated that the two
prisoners worked for his father. He left the rood-yard at
Live o'clock on Friday afternoon, leaving the men sawing,
and it was the duty of the carter, who was a trustworthy mare
to lock the yard up at 8 o'clock. The prisoners were honest
sober, hard-working men. Mr. Lewis, about a fortnight be-
fore, had wanted some timber sawing at his father's yard,
and had sent two strangers to saw it; these were the two in-
jured men. He (witness) objected to leaving the yard to
strangers, and told Mr. Lewis he could get the timber sawn
for hint, and Mr. Lewis, in consequence, took part of it away,
and bad it sawn elsewhere by the two injured men.
Fairell and Donnelly, the injured men, were here brought
in. Their heads were quite muffled up, and such portions of
their faces as were visible, were dreadfully swollen; and one
eye of each was poulticed up.—Fairell swore distinctly to
both the men as the men who threw the vitriol, and that it
was Welsby who threw the vitriol at him at the corner of

Pleasant-street.
Mr. Mortis, carter, was here examined, and swore that
both prisoners were working on Friday night front the time
when young Morris left the yard till they gave over at eight
o'clock. lie did not see them the whole of the time, but he
heard the saw going till be heard them cry stop at eight
o'clock, and saw them put their jackets on, when they ap-
peared to have been working hard as they were very warm.
It was stated that an old woman met them at the gate as
they were going out, and spoke'to them, wanting them to
mend a lock of her house door. This was at eight o'clock.

Mr. Hall recalled the witness 117.orsely,..ana asked hint

he was quite confident it was the prisoner Welshy whom he
had seen up the entry ? The witness repeated that he had
not the least doubt of it ; he was quite certain about it.
Mr. Hall said the case was so diabolical—it was such a
fiend-like act that no punishment short of death ought to be
awarded. Fairell spoke so point blank to them, and was so
satisfied they were the men who threw the vitriol, and had a
distinct opportunity of seeing them one after the other ; and
then the young man Worseley declared he saw We'shy coin-
ing out of the entry in the manner described, asking " where
are the two ?" that he thought the case so strong that he
should send them to a jury.
Mr. Crewe enquired if Mr. Hall would send them to the
borough jury ?
Mr. Hall replied that he should.
The prisoners were then committed to take their trial.

CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.--On Friday, an inquest. was
held on the body of John Rothwell, a child aged three years.
who was burnt to death on the preceding day. The deceased
lived with his parents in Preston-street, and during the ab-
sence of his mother, his clothes caught fire. His cries alarmed
some lodgers who lived in the same house; they proceeded
to his assistance. but the flames had burnt his neck, face, and
other parts of his body, in a dreadful manner. Ile was car-
ried to the infirmary, and died almost immediately.—On the
preceding day, on inquest was held on the body of Sarah
Herbert, aged six years, the daughter of a private watchman
in Bold, whose death was caused by the same agency—lire.

TUE COTTON MARKET.—It will be seen on referring to
our Commercial Intelligence, that, active as the operations
in this market had been during the week ending on the 16th
instant, they have been more active in that which ended on
Friday. Nearly 50,0(X) bags have changed hands since our
last, not more than one-fifth of which was take❑ on specula-
tion, the other four-fifths going to the dealers and consumers.
The arrivals, owing, i❑ part, to the prevalence of easterly
winds, have been trifling: so that the stock, which exceeded
the stock at the same period last year only 170(1(X) bales, as
we stated last week, has, since that statement was made, been
reduced to within 139,000 of its amount this time last year.
If the demand should butcontinue but moderately active for
the next three weeks, and there is every probability that it.
will, the stock, even with average arrivals, will be very
sensibly diminished. ---Vbion•

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

The Rev. Alexander Power, M.A., has been appointed
Chaplain of the Wandsworth, Clapham, Putney, Battersea,
Tooting, and Streatham Union.
The Rev. Peter Blomfield Jeckell, to the Vicarage of
Wotton, in Norfolk, on the presentation of the Rev. Arthur
Roberts and Elizabeth his wife, as guardians of William
Hicks, a minor.
The Rev. Martin Baylie Darby, to the Rectory of Hack-
ford, Norfolk, on the presentation of T. Thuruhaugh Gurdon,

The Rev. John Dupton, M.A., Vicar of Killington, and
Domestic Chaplain to the Marquis of Normandy, to the
Rectory of Wareborne, Kent. Patron, the Lord Chancellor.
The Rev. T. Geldart, to the Vicarage of Wolf hampcote,
Warwickshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Homer.
The Rev. F. R. Nixon, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ash,
next Wingham, Kent.
The Rev. Morgan Rice Morgan, late of St. David's Col-
lege, Lampeter, to the Curacy of Llausamlet, near Swansea.
The Rev. Abraham Delamere, Curate of Wennington,
Essex, to be the Chaplain of Barking Workhouse.
'the Rev. J. Davis, of Cerne, and the Rev. R. Broadlen,
Rector of Brinport, have been re-appointed Surrogates for
granting marriage licences in the diocese of Bristol.
The Rev. David Aitcheson, M.A., of Queen's College,
Oxford, has been inducted by the Right Rev. Michael Rus-
sell, D.C.L., Bishop of Glasgow, into the Pastoral Charge
of the Episcopal Congregation of Christ Church, Mile-end,
Glasgow.
The Rev. Robert Montgomery, M.A., of Lincoln College,
Oxford, has been inducted into the Pastoral Charge of the
Congregation assembling in Buchanan-street, and for whose
accommodation the new Episcopal Church of St. Jude is
erecting, near Blythswood-square, Glasgow.
'the Rev. Mr. Jacob, late Curate of Rostrevor, has been
elected Chaplain to the Asylum Episcopal Chapel, Limerick
The Rev. Alfred Thos. Armstrong, to the Benefice of Cul-
len, Ireland. Patron, the Archbishop of Cashel.
The Rev. Thomas Sikes, M.A., for ten years Curate of
Luton, Beds, to be Chaplain to the Luton Union.
The Rev. W. Vesey, to the Curacy of St. John's, Dublin.
The Rev. A. AUWatt, to the church and parish of Rotbes,
Scotland.
The Rev. Dr. M`Nab, to be minister of the second charge
of Cambleton, Scotland.
OBITUARY.

On the 21st inst. at the rectory, Blechingly, Surrey, aged
6.3, the Bev. Jarvis Kenrick.
The Rev. George Todd, aged 38, minister of St. David's
church, Dundee, Scotland.

The Manchester Municipal list of voters contains about
2000 fewer names than the burgess or parliamentary register.
It was supposed that the former wound have been the most
numerous, every householder being eligible who has resided
three years within the borough.
THF. THEATRE BOY A I..—Last evening the play of " Vir-
ginius" was brought out, Mr. Stuart playing the part of
Virginias, Mr. Howard Icilius. Mr. Bali Dentatus, and Miss
Faucit Virginia. In many of the scenes, Mr. Stuart, as
Virginias, was most effective, especially in the scene before
Appaus Claudius (Mr. Gray), The house was a poor one;
to which we attribute the careless fault of Mr. Stuart throw-
ing more of the power of lungs than of mind into some of
the earlier scenes. Miss Faucit played with unexceptionable
chasteness and beauty of style and manner. The tragedy
was succeeded by a concert by the Distiu Family, the cele-
brated horn players, atded in the vocal departments Miss
Fanny Russell and Miss Grant. This evening, in addition.
eve are to have the attraction of Mr. Rice, the original and
celebrated " Jim Crow," who is engaged for three nights.
MR. BAKER'S BENEFIT.—It will be seen by the adver-
tisement of Mr. Baker, of the Theatre Royal, that that
gentleman takes his benefit on Monday evening next
when no doubt his friends will rally round him. Of all
the corps drconatique rho deserve encouragement, we know
of none who deserve it more than the working and effi-
cient members of our Theatre Royal. Amongst these,
as a comedian, Mr. Baker ranks as Al. It was a say-
ing of one . who knew what luau's nature was, that " a
prophet bath no honour in his own country;" we really
think that the members of the Theatre Royal may each re-
peat this with great truth ; for while we of the press, from
habit, are accustomed to turn our attention to the stars and
novelties that appear on the stage, we are too apt to forget
the working and deserving members of the stock company,
however worthy of praise they may be, because, and merely
because we have them ever amongst us. However, we will
endeavour to make the antende honorable by urging their uu-
puffed merits, when they severally make their especial appeal
to the public for support. We wish Mr. Baker every success,
for no one more truly deserves it.

WESLEYAN METHODIST HOME AND FOREIGN MISSION-
ARY ASSOCIATION.--Yesterday, a meeting of the above
association was held at the Music Hall, 80ld-street, at half-
past six o'clock, Mr. Alderman Thomas Bulley in the chair.
The large room of the Music-hall was nearly filled with a
respectable auditory. The meeting was addressed with con-
siderable power and eloquence by several ministers of the
Wesleyan persuasion, on behalf of the objects of the society,
—the diffusion of a knowledge of the gospel at home and
abroad. The meeting broke up soon after ten o'clock, when
a collection was made on behalf of the objects of the society.
THE TELEGRAPH.—We are informed that there was a mis-
statement of fact in the reported proceedings of the town
council in our last, in reference to the Telegraph establish-
ment. The mistake, (which is explained by Lieut. Watson's
advertisement in another column,) was not attributable to
any of the reporters present, but to some misapprehension
on the part of the council.
Cor.usioN ON THE RAILWAY.—We regret to state, that a
dreadful collision took place, this morning, on the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway. t appears, as far as we have been
able to ascertain the particulars of the accident, that the
seven o'clock train front Manchester had, in consequence of
something being wrong in the machineryof the engine,stopped
at Huyton quarry, to repair the damage. As the Birmingham
mail train was about due and as it would come down on the
same incline, precautions were taken, we have been informed,
to warn the engineers of the stoppage of the Manchester train
on the road. These precautions seem not to have been effec-

tual, or they escaped the notice of the Grand Junction people;
for the engine of this train dashed into the carriages of the
Manchester train. The crash was dreadful. The car-
riages, particularly those next to the down engine, were
broken in pieces, the seats being broken into fragments.
Fortunately, many of the passengers, owing to the stoppage
of the train, had got out on the road, and escaped the effects
of the collision. Of those who remained on their seats, sev-
eral were slightly hurt by the shock, while three were, we
have heard, dreadfully maimed. One gentleman was so
much injured that apprehensions are entertained for his life:
he was conveyed back to Manchester.—Second Edition of
the Albion of yesterday. [We have not been able to learn
any material particulars further, than those stated by our
contemporary. About 14 persons have been injured, bruised
in various ways, and two of them have had their legs dread-
fully crushed.
GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WOOL.—On the night of Tues-
day last, the inhabitants of South Chester-street were sud-
denly roused from their slumbers by the springing of rattles
and the cries of " Police, police !" " Thieves, thieves!" &c.,
which issued from one of the houses. The neighbours sprung
from their beds, the inmates of the house in which the villains
were said to be, hurried on their clothes, and the Police
rushed to the spot to secure the depredators. The wall at the
rear of the house was soon scaled by the faithful guardians
of the night, who found the kitchen shutters open, and, after
having obtained ingress, they found a lad in the act of light-
ing the fire. He was immediately pounced upon by the
courageous blue-coats, and secured without any resistance
on the part of the prisoner, who somewhat resembled the
wretched Smike, in Nicholas Nickleby. The inmates now
made their appearance, shivering with cold and terror, who,
on seeing the supposed delinquent, soon explained the cause
of the outcry and alarm. It would appear, that the occupier
of the house keeps a shop, or coal-yard, and the lad who at-
tends it sleeps at his master's house, under orders to light the
kitchen fire previous to his leaving in the morning. Un-
fortunately the poor boy, whose mind, perhaps, had been
disturbed by some frightful dream, mistook the hour, and,
instead of six o'cluck, got up at three, and was busy with his
morning's work when he was suddenly seized by the Police,
which so frightened him as to render him, for a short time,
speechless. The fact of the house having been robbed a short
time before, and the noise the boy made, roused the neigh
boors to give the alarm, which ended in—a bottle of smoke ;

SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—A few days since a most unex-
pected discovery took place, viz: that of a charter granted
by King Stephen, to the Borough of Salford, and which has
been missing for about 120 years. A letter written by the
late John Byrom, Esq. of the short hand system, about
eighty years ago has fortunately been preserved, and which
has no doubt led to this result. The letter was addressed to
Dr. Whittaker (author of the history of Manchester,) to
whom it was supposed it had been lent for the purpose of
copying it in his celebrated work. The law clerk of the bor-
ough at that period was a Mr. Cooke, grandfather to the pre-
sent Mr. Cooke, law clerk, to the former of which it was sug-
gested, that probably Dr. Whittaker might have returned it.
On this hint being thrown out, search was made, and the
finding of the orignal charter, the fortunate result. It is a
very brief document.
By the result of the experiments made by order of the Bri-
tish Association, it has been found that the tides in the Bris-
tol Channel, comprised in the space of the East Steep
Holmes, constantly keep suspended in their waters at least
700,000 tons of mud !—Hereprd Journal.

The late Right Hon. Cutlar Fergusson was, when a young
man, about the year 1791, incarcerated in the Tower, along
with the then Lord Thanet, for riotous proceedings at the
trial of Arthur O'Connor, at Maidstone, for high treason.

RoYAL SocikTv.—At the meetint of the Royal Society,
on 'Thursday, the chairman, Mr. F. Bailey, put in nomi-
nation the Marquis of Northampton as president. As, in
conformity to the by-laws, no other fellow was proposed for
that office, the election of his lordship will take place at the
ensuing anniversary on St. Andrew's day.
The new assize courts of the county of Wilts, just erected
at Devizes, have cost upwards of £7,01X), £6,000 of which
has been defrayed by the private subscription of the inhabi-
tants.— Wiltshire Herald.

We understand that Sir James Carnac has been appointed
to the vacant governorship of Madras, on the contingency
that a whiff successor can be found for him in the represen-
tation of Sandwich.—Morning Herald.
It is to be hoped that a detailed account of the total cost
of Lord Durham's temporary banishment to Canada will be
called for, in common with other information consequent
upon his return.—lbid.
A correspondent asks whether the premier is allowed board
wages for the few days in the week, on which he is occasionally
compelled to withdraw his feet from under his royal mistress's
mahogany.—lbid.

Sir Henry Compton, the Chief justice of Bombay, is stated
in the last accounts from that settlement as about to retire
from the judicial bench.—lbid.
It is currently reported that orders have been received to
make a survey of the Martello towers on the eastern coasts,
in order to convert them into barracks, and putting them into
an immediate state of defence.—Bury Herald. [lt was but
the other day that one of the best on the coast, the large one
at Walton-le-soken, was sold with the field in which it stood
for a few hundred pounds, and is now wholly demolished.—
[Ed. Essex Standard.]
Mr. Serjeant A robin will be appointed to perform the
duties of Judge Advocate till a successor to the late Right
lion. R. Cutlar Fergusson shall be nominated.—Morning
Chronicle.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—An exceedingly numerous depu-
tation, consisting of merchants of the city of London and
others interested in the subject of joint stock banks, bad an
interview on Saturday morning with Lord Mclbourne and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street.

PRESENTATION OF A HARI' TO CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.
—Just as we are going to press we understand that a meeting
is to be held at the Commercial Hotel, for the purpose of
presenting an Irish harp to Charlotte Elizabeth, whose deaf-
ness, it appears, does not prevent her enjoying the vibrations
of Erin's favourite instrument.—Ulster Times.
A NEW CHIMNEY-SWEEPER.—On Wednesday evening
when Mr. Townley, hatter, Lancaster, was sitting by the
fire side, be was surprised and rather alarmed by a large
quantity of soot and smoke corning down the chimney, ac-
companied at the same time by a loud rumbling noise. Ile
retired from the room to fetch a candle, (the fire having been
put out by the soot,) and when he returned, he beheld a bird
of dubious species sitting upon the table, having very black
plumage, and excepting for the tail, which was rather long,
he took for a raven; however, after a little examination, it
proved to lie a fine hen pheasant, which he speedily trans-
ferred from his parlour to the larder, to appear again in a
few days in a more ediblo shape.