The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-11 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE CHURCH PASTORAL AID
SOCIETY.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Three o'Clock.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11.

We have a moderate supply of free wheats but a good
supply of Foreign; our market this morning was well attended
by country dealers, being more firmness evinced by Holders.
There was not much business transacted, the sales of Wheat
were chiefly to our town millers, at rather better prices than
this day week, but not so good as on Friday. Red Foreign
Wheat sold at 9s. to 9s. 6d. per 701bs. A few parcels of
Lew Irish, in rather better condition, sold at Bs. 6d. to 9s.
pet 70lbs.

Prom the low prices taken for Flour last Tuesday, an ad-
vance of 2s. per 2801bs. was obtained with a itmited demand.
The Oat trade was dull, and the price a shade lower for
both new and old.

The best Old Oatmeal sold at 255. and New at 28s. per
2401b5.

The week's imports of Butter are 8,932 firkins; the demand
has been dull, at a decline of

VVRisar, 4f70)155, s d s,l
Irish dried red . 8 6 .. 9 0
Do. dried white, 9 2 (Cr 9 h
New ...,, 8 6 .. 8 9
English 9 0 .. 10 0
Canada
OkT9, V 45 lbs 1
Irish
BARLItY, 4/ 60 )153.
Irish gi jading 5 6 .

AVERAGE PRICE

s. to 2s. per cwt.

BEANS, Imp. mea. s d sd
41 0 48 0
FLOUR, 280 lbs
Eng.& Irish sup 50 0 55 0
Do. +Ones 46 0.. 48 0
Do. seconds
Do. thirds...— lO 0.. 22 0
INIEA.L,24OIbs. new 28 0
Do. old 2s 0 0

12-A-N7 tbs... 1 3.. 6

OF BUTTER, &c.

gDsD, S D 5 D
bacon, 4, cwt
.. 50 0 (d 53 01 Banbridge B5 0 e 90 0
Hams, thy 6O 0 62 01Waterford
..o. Wet irk O'Coleraine.
Firkin Lard 5l 0 54 UiCarlow BB 0..92 0
131addered d 0.... 60 0..60 0I Limerick ...
Grease Butter .. 40 0 .. 42 Otßelfast
Prime Mess Beef, Derry
AP tierce, 98 0 ..110 01C
Nork. 2ds, —
Pnme Mess Pork 0 .. 0
e wry.
4P barrel,, 7B 0.. 80 OlDundalk — 0 .. 0
ISligo — 0 .. 0

From the 4i

ht3CRIPTI ON.

W Qrs
heat
Barley Qrs.
.
Oats
Plour Sacks
Ditto Bris.
Malt
Loads
()stoical
kye
........ Qrs.
Beaus
Qrs.
ease Qrs.
Shelled Barley Qrs.
Indian Corn •• • Qrs
Rapeseed Qrs.

,ItItIVA
;h to the
LAND

56f
35/
1433
1343
/0
12
731

,01IN.
Itember
I FO-
REIGN.

.S OF C
oth Sept
COAST-
WISE.

.nclusive.
EAST
IN DIES. I

TOT PL.

14149
453
195
1409
1739
354:1
743

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11.
ARRlVRD.—Virginian, Harris, (sailed 13th Aug.) and Oxford,
Itaplbone, (sailed 20th Aug.) from New York.
,bAIL ED.—ltachel. Jones, for Constantinople Odessa—Dihdin,
`kttleer. for St. Andrew's—Naraganset, Sampson, for Philadelphia
-tverthorpe. Willis, for St. l'etershnrg—Frederika, Kirkhove,
Tr Oat
and
Widgren, for Revel—Richard, Doodt, for
Mati—and Tartar, Edwards, for Constantinople.

h Woodbury, Cntting; Mantu. Drottv ; John Tayior,Pow-
aP" M'Orum, aad Columbus, De Peyster, henee at New York.
I‘,3.rinth. Smith, hence at Newburyport
„id" Thompson. hence at Portsmonth
. 'heater. -, hence for St. John, N.B. was spoken 20th ult.
1°,1,,t. 49, long. 41
Charlotte, -, hence at Quebec
John Bagshaw
, I,t. 10.10. g. 2.3
Itiehmond, , from London for Calcutta, was spoken 6th
4,Ht, in lat. 15, long. 28
. tiaitts. Harvey. from Winsor, N.S. at the Cove. On 17th Aug.
Alat• 44, long. 57, lost head of mainmast, topmast, Sze. On the
in „,,,Ault. in lat. 45 40. long. 46. spoke the Mars. hence for Quebec
-"'"lrY Attridge, from St. Andrew's. at the Cove. On 25th
414 in lat. 46, long. 48, spoke the Cambrian, hence for Bathurst
,Atreona. Baird, from St. John, N.B. at the Cove
Yorix., Aug 18.2 The Fasque. from StAndrevr for Jamaica,
" totally lost 23r.d July in Grand Turk ; part of the cargo saved
large bright sided ship, disn•asted. then rigging jury masts,
b:s seen 12th instant, steering south 60 miles, Cape Henry, pro-
hl37 dismasted during the gale of the day previous
Luna ---., hence for Havana, was spoken 7th Aug. in lat. 23,
loot;, 74
Bth Mondell, Roberts, from Laguna for Liverpool, was spoken
" Atit. off Tortugas, and short of provisions
Hobart, Seldon, hence at New Orleans
."rge. --, and Lueilla, M'Lellan, hence at Virginia
Blackness, Hardie. hence at Wilmington
New Hampshire, Shackford, lichee at Philadelphia

A Catholic priest, residing in the county of Limerick, has
published
a severe letter arraigning Mr. O'Connell's conduct
In tolerating the Irish policy of ministers, especially in refer-
ence to the tithe bill.—Aforniny Chronicle.
TRIBUTE OP RESPECT.—The Rev. W. B. Marsden, M.A.,
I,!e curate of St. Thomas's, Pendleton, has been presented
with a piece of plate, by several of the congregation of that
Church, as a mark of esteem and approbation of his conduct
and Ministerial services during the period of his curacy.
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, CHOIILTON-UPON-MEDLOCK.-
911 Sunday morning last, a sermon was preached in the
'Dove church. by the Rev. Edward Birch, 8.A., Incumbent,
on behalf of the Chester Diocesan Church Building Society;
after which a collection was made, amounting to £45 ISs.
NSW Houses of PARLIAMENT.—With what accuracy
can the estimates for the new houses of parliament have been
Made out, if it is not till after they have been delivered in and
agreed to that a commission is appointed to examine the
quality and cost of the granite to be used on the occasion ?
Morning Herald.
, Mr. S. Passey, of 148, Moor-street, has in his possession a
document, open to public inspection, the material of which
was rag, made into paper, (filed, and printed, in the short
space ofive minutes, in the presence of seventy-eight persons,
Whose names are attached, and among whom are some of the
Most scientific men in the kingdom.—Birminyhain Advertiser.
A PAIR DICEIVER.—A few days since, the conductor of
a St,. Sulpice omnibus was victimized after a novel fashion,
which we may designate as the vol d l'dvanottisyement, a
pleasing variety' of the numerous modes of appropriating
private property, which have already had their day. A well-
dressed young lady took her seat in the vehicle at the corner
of the Hale de la Monnais, and, after looking unutterable
things at the fascinated conducteur, complained of the heat,
and in a few minutes appeared ready to faint. The omnibus
was immediately stopped, the gallant servant of the public
assisted the lady to alight, and, on her swooning in his arms,
deposited her in safety in a neighbouring- shop. On arriving
at his bureau, he found himself minus his purse and receipts,
amounting to 62f. The young lady has not since been heard
of.—Paris paper.

MARRIAGE IN 111G11 LIFE.—On Thursday the Earl o
sandwich led to the altar, in St. James's Church, Piccadilly,
t etacly Mary Paget, one of the youngest daughters of the
Marsr and ?Marchioness of Auglesey. The ceremony was
Chei:,,:"l by the Rev. Mr. Kingsley, Rector of St. Luke's,
the Earl in the presence of the Nfarquis and MarchionesF,
P U idge Viscount Teinetown, Lady Harriet
eget, and Xlf
test or Other branches of the family excepting the Coon-
Liehtio ivabridge, who is residing at Maple Hayes, near
Inediat I'', and Lady Augusta Paget, who is at Dover. Im-
after the ceremony the pasty returned to Uxbridge
Housee-Y
tow, e and shortly afterwards the newly-married couple left
i or
retrain Hinchinbrook, near Huntingdon, where they will
dressed during the honeymoon. The bride was most superbly
in a robe of Valenciennes lace.
Levi
zuu.. AND ATTEMPTED SI'ICIDE.—On Tuesday after-
Th, about four o'clock, a young man, the son of Mr.
"„
Waite,, a respectable salesman of Covent-garden market,
ru.:oe himself from the centre arch of that modern Tarpeian
Witerloo-hridge. After disappearing for a few minutes,
yevyweada taken out of the' water by some boatmen, and con-
after to the Spotted Dog public-house, Strand-lane, where,
..ounrenaitting application of the means recommended by
recoveredfZit e Society for nearly three hours, he was so
iro.. as to be capable of being sent to his own home,
th 17. Crovia-court, Little Russell-street. It appears, that
veneY:bunK Irian conceived himself slighted by a young
bent to whom he was paying his addresses, and repaired
bridge, where so many desponding luvt rs have termi-
t:ti!d their Fancied woes, for the purpose of putting an end
~`”, existence. The fair one came to the Spotted Dog, in
wmistitteted state, while the process of recovering her swain
tear:Oing on, and went home with him. tier presence ma-
Stand contributed towards his restoration, and we under-
d she pledged her troth to take him for better or for worse
an ear •t
Oppor y.
i,-/ r
, ly
or A MISERtuni
.—Died, on Wednesday evening, in
wa
Rotherithe, Joseph Bowman, better known in
that ueiehhourhood by the appellation of "Old Bags" from
4 litttober of these appendages he usually carried. was
iuwaY3 miserably clad, and obtained a livelihood by colect-
i it Pieces of old rope, rags and bones. The latter articles
Treadhas been known to stew 'down with onions and pieces of
"44. fur his meals. Ashortt. e previous to his dissolu-
tio, r time
funtwhen he felt conscious his end was approaching, he sent
e; 1' nephew, (wbe always, considering his uncle in bad
iureninstanees, allowed him a shilling a-week out of his earn-
itlti,na a labourer in the West India Docks,) and on his ar-
u-t!, told him where his money was; some of which was sewed
orblanket, coverlid, and bed-sacking, and a,quantity
Culltilftleace and farthings under one of the boards of the
etnß, halt the greater part was sewed up in the patches of
stltq be I ng, Clothl.andconsisted chiefly of half sovereigns. The
bad accumulated exceeded En), all of which he gave
tfe
with the exception of £5. That he presented to an
wuman, who was very attentive to him during his last ill-
:1,1 The reut of his apartment he punctually paid every
hi:4, in,
halfpence. He was an unusually clean person for
sjett4Y of life, and had the greatest aversion to receive any
ch.. Nance from the parish. Two or three days before his
aus4t,th, on being advised to obtain an order from the parochial
t'sterities, he worked himself into a great passion, and ac-
die-71 sent for and paid a surgeon for his attendance and me-
aud spared himself no nourishment he could obtain.
then he was aware he could not recover, his last request
8, that the cost of his burial should not exceed and
that he should tbe interred in the ground appropriate'd for
paupers.nos
iQ AT H A RIMINGson of the Emerald
Cue. who appears to be the •‘ precursor" of O'Connell's two
whtlidrea deputy agitators, lately arrived at Harrowgate, at
si Le,h fashionable resort a distinguished heiress has been
I:i,"ng for the benefit of the waters. The gentleman in-
%ed himself in the same hotel with the young lady, and
6:,111, enced a course oi agitation, %vitt) a view to future
h7,:elinents. Unfortunately for the agitators;allanthis fair neighbour
Ilse firer
hereditary dislike to Irish a principal in
I:: nun of a well-known banking house informed the gentle-
ccti that his drafts on the young lady.'s affections were not
cot-eine& In spite of this rebut} the inamorato declares that
s)fle qui co:4le he will continue to agitate; but the question
tt thie union with the lady apears as unlikely to be carried
-e re • Ithe betweenCr eat Britain and Ireland.
pea of union s
ernzny Port.—An Irish gentleman, now visiting 11 arrow.
itatc.
-. attended at the petty sessions, tinaresbro', on Wednes-
tlarY week, to prefer a complaint against a professional gen-
tof that place for a libel on his respectability, answer
a a view, as he stated, of having him hound over t
(.I.4ninal indictment in the Court of Queen's Bench. After
itlet4rinit the ease ro and con, the magistrates ,lecided not to
eyfere, and the} Irish gentleman, in consequence, with true
411 ye went and accent, replied, " Sure enough, then, I'll
trlY for a criminal information against you all." One of
/4",s_tnagistrates observed in answer, that hist hreat should not
si(ievent them following the line of conduct which they con-
NV,rrl to be their duty. The parties then left the.roon.i.
all°rbear giving the full particulars of the transaction, as
tittle Pr"bability it will come before the public at a flame
th, 4nd in another manner. A certain young lady, one of
Ili [idlest iii the kingdom, who has lately been staying at
• Proe":weate, will probably be introduced into subsequent
),,..n• dings, should any take place.—Fork Chrunicle.-I.The
tuuu._ IC lady alluded to is Miss Cnutts Burdett. The Irish-
's-4; we understand, placed a letter in Miss Burdett's bed-
itstru:,and not content with introducing the letter, he also
airinced himself. The result was, that the lady imrne-
to,l7l Ordered her carriage, and left the Queen's Hotel,
,7re the transaction took place, from which the Irishman
3a also expelled. The affair created quite a sanaation at
wgate,,,Ed, D. Ch,Ton.l

Mit itiberpool ,i..tantiarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 11, 1838.

The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 o'clock.

THE WEST INDIES.—By the Reindeer packet ad-
vices have been received from Barbadoes to the 22d,
and from Demerara to the 14th of July. This packet
has only brought intelligence from Guiana and the
Leeward islands, the Jamaica letters having been left
behind in consequence of the failure of the steamer to
reach St. Thomas' in time. As we have not received
any papers by this packet we are indebted to our Lon-
don contemporaries for the little information which we
can give respecting the prospects of these colonies.
The private letters received represent the new state of
things, under the abolition act, in a favourable light.
A few cases of insubordination had taken place, espe-
cially in the island of Barbadoes, but in general the
conduct of the negro population is represented ashav-
ing been exemplary. The prospects of the crops are
described as being very good, which is a very fortu-
nate circumstance at this critical conjuncture. The
Barbadoes papers contain some complaints any state-
ments respecting the prejudice sustained by the colo-
nial interests, in the admission, at too small a rate of
duty, of foreign sugars for consumption into the ports
of British North America. The duty being only ss.
per cwt. more than on British colonial sugar, it was
urged that competition with them could not be sup-
ported by the planters. The foreign planters were
able to make sugar much cheaper, as being exempt
from various heavy imposts on articles of first neces-
sity to which those in the British islands were subject.

It is noticed that United States products, whether in
British or American bottoms, were freely admitted at
small rates of duty, whilst heavy protecting duties in
favour of British North America were laid on the
same articles, and the import of some prohibited, such
as fish dry and salted, of which there was a great con-
sumption. Thus, lumber paid 21s. per 1,000 feet;
beef and pork, 12s. per cwt.; flour, ss. per barrel ;
staves and shingles, 14s. per 1,000. The consumption
of foreign sugars in the provinces noted appears from
the returns to be considerably on the increase, and
likely before long to supersede the use of British West
Indian altogether. The imports into St. John's, New
Brunswick, alone, being as asserted not one•tithe of
those for the province, are thus stated:—

British Plantation Sugar.
1836 10,003 cwt.
1837 4,435
1838 up to May 31st 1,598
Foreign.

1836 none.
1837 6,762
1838 1,909

The heaviest imports of British plantation take
place in the spring, and of foreign in the autumn of
the year. It is observed that vessels load at Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick for the West Indies, where
the cargoes are disposed of for specie, with which they
proceed to the foreign islands and take in sugars.
This is alleged as one cause of the constant drain of
specie from the islands, where it occasions much in-
convenience to the circulation ; and it is urged, that
to a considerable extent the specie thus obtained is
expended in Cuba and Puerto Rico, in the purchase of
fresh slaves, and thus affords encouragement to the
perpetuation of the slave trade.
The final termination of the apprenticeship system
had been decreed by the legislature of Demerara on
the 12th of July for the Ist ult., after which Governor
Light delivered a most feeling and temperate ad-
dress of congratulation-, to the Assembly. Some par-
tial disturbances had occurred on some plantations in
the interior, but they were not viewed as of any lin-
portance.

THE WAREHOUSE QuEsTioN.—On the first of Oc-
tober the farce of Dock Warehouses is again to be
brought on the tapis, in the Town Council—(the last
time that event happened, we recollect, somewhere
about the first. of April, vulgarly called all foels'•dayl

—not to be carried, but to be kicked out, that august
body having the fear of the firsCof November before
their eyes, together with the division that that measure
is creating amongst themselves. Now, we call upon

the warehouse owners to leave them to their own
deliberations, and not to lower themselves by running
after that very radical body again, imploring them for

their votes on the occasion. That they did so before,
and that it was right to do so, we perfectly agree ; but
they have done enough. They did not then succeed;

the Town Council carried that measure, and they are
now smarting from the consequences. Let the ware-

house owners leave them to their fate, and let them
get out of the scrape as they best may.
_ _

Why,. we may be asked, do we give that advice?
Is it not better, if they can, to defeat the measure
here, without going to the expense of opposing the
council in parliament ? Yes, we answer, if they had
any guarantee that the measure would then be finally
shelved; but we know that it would not. This step,
on the part of the council, is only to enable them to
get over the forthcoming municipal election : that
quietly over, they will be at their dirty work again.
Let the warehouse owners throw themselves on the
conservative cause at once, for that is their only ark
of safety, and to that they must come at last. Let the
council pass the measure, if they dare, on the first of
October, they will be beaten in parliament; for there
is some conservative feeling—there property is re-
spected, because it is represented—and there, we re-
peat, and we speak advisedly, they will be beaten.

To this we know it will come, and the sooner the
better; in the meantime, let the warehouse owners
not run to the rescue of the culprits, many of whom
are now quailing, who will have to stand the test—to
take their trial—on the first of November; and signal
punishment, in the shape of rejection, then awaits them.
We have, again and again, foretold the consequences
of reform, falsely so called. We have said that the
stability of property would be shaken, and we appeal,
not only to the warehouse owners, but to the publicans,
many of whom paid a high price for their licenses,
which of necessity assumed the character of property,
and what are they now worth ? Have they not been
pandered for votes for radical candidates both for par-
liamentary and municipal honours—sold by the men
who are constantly inveighing against the freemen
(falsely, we affirm, in the majority of cases) for their
venality ? And we appeal to the cottage owners,
whose property has been more than once attacked by
them, in attempting to tax them, in order to swamp
the constituency by creating a horde of Irish Papist
voters ;—we say, we appeal to all these, whether we
did not foretel that their property would be insecure ;
and were we not right ? Scarcely have three years
elapsed since these radical gentry came into power,
and has not every species of property been shaken to
its centre ?

These victims of the blessings of reform—amongst
whom are some of the oldest and most respectable
families in the town—tremblingly ask us, perhaps,
what must we do ? We answer, Turn them out ;

for if they, in three short years, have done so much
mischief, what will they do in thirty ?—" if they have
done these things in the green tree, what shall be
clone in the dry.?"—we speak it with reverence.
In conclusion, to return to the subject from which
we set out, we say to the warehouse owners, spend
neither time nor money more with the Town Council,
as at present constituted ;—you have shewn them,
unanswerably, that our present system is the cheapest
and the best, leaving immeasurably behind every other
port in the kingdom—that if there are some grounds
of complaint. they can be removed without their nos-
trum ;—you have shewn them that there are already
warehouses enough and to spare, for every purpose,
n the port; waste not any more of your time with
Convince them you never will ;—their real
object, dark and concealed, is patronage. They are
writhing from the smart of having their late radical
member kicked out of the representation of the town
in parliament ;—they have now no one connected with
the place that will do their dirty work there ; and to
get the representation of the place into their own
hands, and to provide for the hungry preyers who are
not vet satisfied, are at once the source and secret of
this measure. They may for a time attempt to cushion
it, but it will only be for a time. Draw the sword
against them, and cast away the scabbard, and shew
them, on the first of November, that " von have
giants' strength, and that as giants you will use it."
We recollect that in the debate on this subject the
last time in the council, there were one or two con-
servatives who voted, under a misunderstanding, for
We mention this to put these gentlemen upon

teir guard.

right long before the householders were allowed to '
participate in the franchise ? Does he imagine for a
moment that his mere dictum can set aside the provi-
sions of the reform bill which secure the right of voting
to the freemen ? How can the freemen be "an elec-
toral body at variance with the other institutions of
the country, and with the spirit of the reform bill,"
when they are actually constituted by that very bill
as an electoral body, deriving their tight from servi-
tude or inheritance? As to the palaver of the Alder-
man about the trifling amount requited to be remitted
in favour of the freemen, and the heavy burden im-
posed upon the householders, we think it unworthy of
serious notice. The freemen are of course liable to
taxes the same as the householders, and we very much
question whether they do not contribute in the aggre-
gate, a much larger sum to the revenue of the country
than an equal number of the householders indiscrimi-
nately selected. But all this is beside the question.
The right of the freemen to vote, whether they pay
any taxes or not, has been distinctly recognised and
solemnly ratified by the legislature, and if the prag-
matical alderman fancies that any thing which he may
say can interfere with that right we must pronounce
him an " idle dreamer" for indulging in such a freak
of the imagination. The abuse which Alderman Evans
so liberally bestowed upon the freemen in the course
of his speech we have already accounted for. Before
the last general election the freemen were courted in
a far different strain. They were then waited upon,
cap in hand, by sanctimonious councillors, and
grey-headed Aldermen. They were then besought,
in the most soothing and affectionate terms, to
vote for Ewart and Elphinstone. Every blandishment
was lavished upon them that the fertile imaginations
of liberal politicians could discover. However, the
freemen would not listen to the charmers—they knew
their baseness and treachery—they knew that they
wished to send two ultra-radicals into the House of
Commons for the express purpose of robbing them of
their birthrights, for it is no secret that the faction se-
riously contemplated carrying through the House of
Commons, had the radical majority been strong
enough, a bill for the disfranchisement of the freemen.
Knowing this, the freemen shunned them. They are
now loaded with unmeasured abuse. Who wonders at

it ? But let us whisper a word or two in the ears of
Alderman Evans before we part with him. Let this
purse-proud liberal, who affects such contempt for the
humble freemen, remember that many of this despised
class have the privilege of voting for the members of
the municipal body. They may yet have it in their
power to contribute their aid to deprive him of his al-
dermanic dignity. Nor is this all. Let him remem-
ber that the contumelious language which he applies
to the mechanics among the freemen will be, and is,
considered an insult to the artisans of the town in ge-
neral, many hundreds of whom are in possession of the
household franchise. Will they not resent the insult ?
It is a truth which we have often asserted that your
liberals are, after all their boasting, the most proud,
arrogant, overbearing, and tyrannical people on the
face of the earth, when " dressed in a little brief au-

thority." This is just the character of the vulgar de-
magogues who have superseded the members of the
old corporations in various parts of the country. Is it
so in truth in Liverpool ?

We must defer until Friday the remainder of our
observations on the speeches of the radical orators of

the Town Council. In the meantime we would appeal
to our operative friends— the class so deeply maligned
by the " liberal patriots"—whether they can repose
any further confidence in men who have so systemati-
cally belied all their professions. Artizans of Liver-
pool! you have seen the terms in which these liberals
have ventured to indulge respecting you—will you
consent that they should continue in office, that they
may have further opportunities of insulting you ? If
you are not as rich as these prating councillors and
bombastic aldermen, skew them that you are their
equals, if not their superiors in independence of cha-
racter, and in your respect lot the rights and privileges
of your fellow-subjects.

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—Once wore we would
earnestly urge upon the attention of our conservative
friends the necessity of unceasing activity in preparing
for the approaching struggle, which we have reason to
believe will be more severe than at any preceding
election Let the canvassers be put as early as pos-
sible in possession of the lists, and let them proceed
with their work with their accustomed energy and
persevering zeal. Every thing looks favourable at
present. The last meeting of the Town Council has
done much to sicken the electors with the self-styled

Last evening, a meeting of this society was held at the
Musie-Hall, Bold-street, the Reverend Rector Campbell in
the chair. On the platform we observed the Rev. Messrs.
Barker, Buddicom, Lawrence, Jones, Hugh Stowell, of
Manchester, Robert Davies, &c. and the Rev. Hugh 114`.1N eile,
who entered the room after the commencement of the meet-
ing, and was loudly cheered. In the first instance, about
200 to 300 persons were assembled, chiefly ladies, but as the
meeting proceeded the room rapidly filled, a great proportion
of the late corners being artizans. Altogether, we should
think not less than 800 persons were assembled. The meet-
ing was opened by the•iev. Mr. Lawrence offering up an
appropriate prayer.
The CHAIRMAN then rose. He said, although it would ill
become him, as chairman, to trespass on their attention at
any very great length. Still, perhaps, they would have the
kindness to bear with him for a very short time, while he en-
deavoured to lay before them some reasons which ought to
encourage and constrain them to give their best support to
the Church Pastoral Aid Society. And for that purpose he
need not do much more than read to the meeting one or two
sentences out of the circular which had been put into his
hands, in which it was said—" The principles of the Society
are few and simple: they are briefly these, that in aChristian
land a church establishment should adequately provide for
the spiritual instruction of all the people; and that it is part
of the duty of a christiau legislature to furnish the church
with means to this end." This, he hoped, was a truth to
which most of their hearts would respond ; and he thought
they had great reason to lament that they lived in a time
when this great truth should fail to be acknowledged by a
legislature professing to call itself "Christian." (Hear.)
He thought they had great reason to lament that any differ.
ence of opinion whatsoever upon the subject of church dis-
cipline, or unessential church doctrines should lead men's
minds astray from the great truth that it was the incumbent,
the solemn, the religious duty of a christian legislature to
provide its subjects with the means of a religious education,
and the means of worshipping God in the beauty of holiness.
It was deeply to be lamented that because, in former times,
men fell into the monstrous error of attempting to compel
their fellow men to conform to an Established Church, men
should now fall into the equally monstrous error, he thought
of saying, there should be no Established Church at all.
(Hear, and applause.) God forbid that any minister of the
gospel should, and he was sure no Protestant minister of the
gospel would, ever be found to forget the religious principle
of christian toleration if it was honourable, but allow every
man to worship God according to the dictates of his con-
science; (Hear, hear.) But .he meant to say, that this
principle of religious toleration was perfectly consistent
with the great and solemn duty of providing for the religious
education of the people, and tor the public worship of Al-
mighty God. But then they must not forget an import-
ant point adverted to in,the subjects of the circular, "that if
the legislature fail in its duty, then, rather than that souls
should perish, Christian men should joist together to supply
the deficiency and wake the church as effective as it is io th..
power of men to du." Let them never target this ; never
let them forget their own responsibilities it the legislature
should forget its responsibilities. It' the legislature should
fail in its duty that was no reason whatever they should fail

in theirs. They were to work out their own salvation. with
fear and trembling, with the help of Him who has promised
to work in us both to and to do. They must therefore
consider their own responsibilities, and while they piessel
on the legislature of the country by every means in their
power, by the expression of their sentiments and of the judg-
ments they had come to, that it was their duty to provide the

people with the means of a religious education and of religi-
ous worship; it was their (the people's) solemn duty if the
legislature failed in its duty to endeavour to supply the defi-
ciency themselves. For if it did so happen that any one
branch of the legislature should refuse to acknowledge this
truth; if it should so happen that the majority of the repre-
sentatives of the people of England should be indifferent to
to this great, this solemn, this Christian education, whose
fault was it ? Why, it was the fault of the people of England
who failed to return such representatives as would acknow-
ledge this Christian duty. And how was this fault to be re-
medied? Why, it was to be remedied by giving the people
of England better instruction by teaching them their duty.
And how were they to be taught their duty but by an increase
of spiritual pastors who should be able to du this? How
should Use people hear a sufficiency of truth if there were not
a sufficiency of teachers to teach it to them;? And here was
the point in which they were called on to exert themselves;
for surely they need not look very far from home to be aware
that the supply of spiritual pastors was miserably short of the
demand. The harvest was immense; the labourers, they
knew, were few. Let them take this parish, containing pos
sibly 180,000 souls; let them take the town and neighbour-
hood of Liverpool, containing possibly 230,000 souls; and
who must not confess that a vast number of those must be
like sheep without a shepherd? And if the legislature did not
supply their deficiency, surely it was their duty to do this;
and as such they could not do better than support the
Church Pastoral Aid Society, which did this. The reverend
speaker then read an extract from the society's circular,
showing that the persons appointed to carry into execution
its designs were to beu uder the direction and control of the
pastors of the parishes to which they were sent. Now, when
this was said, he, as a minister of the Church of England, had
heard enough to give his co-operation to this society. They did
not obtrude ministers into a parish where there were appointed
pastors without the leave and concurrence of the local clergy ;
their wish was, that the ministers they contributed to should
act under the direction of the appointed pastor of the flock,
and that was of great importance, in order to keep up the
unity of church discipline. But then, in addition to spit itual
pastors, it was true that this society employed lay assistants.
To that there were some persons who had some objections:
now, for his own part he could wish that the spiritual wants of
the country were fully and adequately supplied by spiritual
pastors—by men holding the milers of the church, and in
every respect accountable to the discipline of the church; he
thought the primitive order would be better preserved if such
were the case; but how was it possible that such could be the
case in a parish like Liverpool ? How was it possible to have
spiritual pastors properly supported for 180,000 souls? and
therefore he said, it was necessary that lay assistants should
be appointed to co-operate with the clergy, more especiallly
as these lay assistants were not required to expound the word
of God, or adminster the sacraments of the church, but sim-
ply to assist the clergyman in visiting families, and by no
means taking on themselves the office of public instructors or
preachers. t had been said that lay assistants so employed
might be tempted to try to become preachers with ass irregu-
lar zeal, but which was Most likely that these preachers-
should fall-into these irre-Olitrities; bi- that-the persons not sw
acting should fall into irregularities of a different kind? It
was far preferible to have these persons even so acting in
connexion with them, than to have them acting towards them
as enemies, and doing them and the cause of gospel truth
they supported, 'touch harm. He, therefore, could not see
any valid objection to this society; but, on the contrary, he
thought with the blessing of God, it might he productive of
unspeakable' benefits to the community, and he, therefore,
felt himself called on, oppressed and burdened as he must be
with the great and heavy responsibilities resting upon him, to
render assistance to this society, and to bid it " God speed."
(Applause.)
The Rev. Mr. JONES moved the first resolution—" that
this meeting while it rejoices in the persuasion that there is
a growing desire for spiritual instruction and religious ordi-
nances in the country at large, deploi es the lamentable de-
ficiency which in many parishes still exists, and would im-
plore the meeting to unite their earnest efforts for the exer-
cise of grace throughout the land."
The Rev. Holum° Mout.n, the Secretary of the Society,
explained its object and its utility its affording relief to in-
digent pastors, and providing spiritual instruction. Though
the society had only been commenced two years and a half,
it had spread its branches throughout the land. He 'con-
cluded with seconding the resolution.
The Rev. H. STOW ELL, of Manchester, proposed the next
resolution —" that this meeting havini, heard the report of
the Secretary, desires to return thanksb to Almighty God for
the success of the society."—The Rev. Gentleman, in a
strain of energetic eloquence, pleaded on behalf of the so-
ciety at some length. The lower classes of society were con-
gregated in masses in large towns, to contribute to the wealth
of the wealthy, and were left destitute of spiritual teaching.
They had a clear claim on the provision and care of the
wealth they produced. They were a class which could not
provide instruction for themselves. The church had com-
mitted a beneficial act. Dissenters could build a chapel
where they pleased and how they pleased; but if a number
of pious Protestants determined on building a church,
the legal difficulties which opposed them were so great
as to be quite disheartenin!,; and this had led to the
want of churches and the great increase of chapels.
He hoped, however, that the church would extend its basis,
and win back those who had left the fold. He strongly urged
the propriety, and beautifully elucidated the happy results of
visiting pastors, comforting. drawing,
_leading, exhorting,
teaching his parishioners individually, and endearing them
to the church. A minister in the pulpit was but half a minis-
ter ; for he was comnianded not only to " save sinners," but
to " seek" them. The minister ought not, to do his duty, to
be sent for, but ought to be the first to visit in affliction; lie
ought to carry out the principles of our church in its beauti-
ful pastoral propriety, and bind all hearts to its venerable
temple. This was the chief end of the Church Pastoral Aid
Society. It was to provide additional means of visiting the
poor from hamlet to hamlet, till there should not be a house
which had not heard of the kindness of the ministers of the
gospel. It was also to aid men inadequately paid. There
was many a man with all the refinement, and education, and
birth of a gentleman, who was ground down by his heavy
duties, and by the miserable pittance he received, less than
a merchant of Liverpool would think enough to give to his
lowest clerk. Let. them not wait for the legislature, but
make the legislature follow them; let them infuse into the
people a Christian feeling, and no legislature would be able
to thwart them. The rev. gentleman sat down amidst loud
applause.
The Rev. JAMES FuntsrvAr. seconded the resolution, and
the meeting was afterwards addressed by the Rev. 1-lugh
Al'Neile, and other clergymen, but the late hour at which
we write prevents us extending our report.

SUDDEN DEATH.—A truly-affecting instance of the un-
certainty of human life occurred on Sunday morning last.
While John Whiteside, a ropetnaker, was on a visit at his
father's house, in Gore-street, and when engaged in conver-
sation with his parents, lie dropt his head, and instantly ex-
pired, without any seeming struggle. His remains were
shortly, after conveyed to his own house, in Upper Mann-
street, Toxteth-park, where he has left a disconsolate widow
and four helpless children to bewail his loss. We have since
learnt that the deceased, who was a sober and industrious
man, has been in a delicate state of health fur some time
past.

BRITISH REFORMATION SPCIETY.—On Tuesday and Wed-
nesday evenings last, public meetings of this society were
held in the Assembly-room, Wigan. The admission was by
ticket, and such was the desire to be present on the occasion,
that 850 tickets were distributed nearly as soon as it was
known they were ready,—indeed, more were disappointed
than the number who procured tickets; and, had there been
a building sufficiently commodious, we have no hesitation in
stating that upwards of 3000 individuals would have assem-
bled, as more than that number of applications were made
for tickets. About half-past six o'clock on Thursday, the
deputation, attended by the neighbouring clergy, and several
gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, took their station
on the platform. Amongst those present on the occasion we
observed—John Holt, Esq., Bispham Hall ; John Lord, Esq.,
Ince Hall; R. Anderton, Esq. ; E. L. Dutton, Esq., Grup-
penhall ,• the Revs. B. Powell, J. Bromilow, C. Snape, W.
GibbS, J. Price, W. Wright, J. Paley, J. Mckenzie, &c.
&c.; and the deputation from the Parent Society, consisting
of the Rev. W. Keary, of Hull, and the Rev. .1. Cumming,
of London. John Holt, Esq., moved that the Rev. Benj.
Powell be requested to take the chair on that important oc-
casion. The motion was seconded by J. Latham, Esq. he
Rev. Chairman observed, that as they were assembled to
uphold the religious principles of our glorious reformation,
and for the purpose of setting forward the salvation of their
fellow-creatures and the promoting of God's honour, it was
most fitting that the divine blessing should be sought for their
proceedings. The Rev. Walter Gibbs then offered up prayers
to Almighty God. The Rev. Chairman then said, before he
addressed the meeting he begged leave to read a letter from
Sir Robert Hoh Leigh, Bart., Which the committee of this
society had received, in answer to their application to him to
take the chair that evening. The letter expressed Sir Rohe.
Holt Leigh's regret that he was prevented attending through
indisposition. The Rev. Chairman, the Rev. C. Snape, of
Blackburn, the Rev. W. Kearv, and others, addressed the
meeting with much eloquence. The meeting concluded by
singing the doxology. The second meeting was even more
animating than that which took place on Tuesday; not only
was the room crowded to overflowing, but the area below was
filled with respectable persons anxious to obtain admission,
and such was the excitement to hear the learned and eloquent
orators, that as much as 2s. 6d. was offered for a ticket of