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tie etit'l Gp ,- OF LIVERPOOL At th ANNUAL
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AL AL VESTRY,IieId at th.e"-c.Cfbkircheloft St. Nicho-
- etieg, TUESDAY, the 18th da
eV') Qu'e Archdeacon BROOKS,Yone of the RBse4Ctors, in
ape , ,
t he 'Chair,
ie felv
..t.f'volie'e°lltiee convening the Meeting was read ;
flaylool"fe.li Churchwarden
Toyed by
_Mr. Churchwarden CARNE,
4Ve Ilfroot,lcr, ti:th CV4eeting c o
meaouHrnt
eqc rot are , and
iroeas
oeda ,s-e
til!,eieat.e,i,;(tarltl-;ityr,eet, and such adjournment having taken
Batt • is tr
Bret
[lntl, iacaountNs ootjce was again read, as also the Summary of
e fro, )1, rst, „, rno,,_ithe Churchwardens for the past year.
AtiotiO. N,`,',1111.04,,i7ipy Mr. Churchwarden CARNE. seconded by
eviliabl vor, Lit ,•award,..l_u Leon HUTCWISON,-That the Accounts of the
7co,ps ,r,017,2!, a ow read, do pass.
Ere.reitr! no,,,itert by lan amendment, by Mr. THOS. URQUHART,
sopelopi 'l,Bllot6i ; and
the
votes Ibio.wnoie,-That the said accounts do
being taken for. and agamst the origi-
roao kY Was", it vratde2,ared by the Chairman to be carried.
.e sit tlile.-1 Moved
by ur oyj T/dAS DARNLEY ANDERSON, RIR],
JOHN NoELF, and resolved,-That Mr.
jj;tilrr, Ita:„Frederick Carne be re-elected a Churchwarden for
rvereff tvaTtlg Year.
#„0!el i.,,,,noved by Mr. HARMOOD WALCOT BANNER, se-
to rt Mr. TtiostAs.CLAß.R‘ s, and resolved,-That Mr.
f. hen • .litchis
foIE Ot,tt year ori be re-elected a Churchwarden for the
e 0 \lll at moved r, c by Mr. Churehwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
r it inn burchwarden CARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Geo.
e appointed a Select Vestryman for two years.
11 8 Too
4t, moved by Mr. Churchwarden Iturciiisorf, seconded
11•
7/0,, fritl'keercliwarden CARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Jas.
hv ,*,.ue re-appointed a Select, restryman for three years.
riAkstlot 4,411" 31i.',,lnoved by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON. seconded
0„
IPA
CARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. John
70/10fr et Itti; re-appointed a Select. Vestryman for three years.
Lod •,!ii;fiN4i2ered by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, seconded by
• Nl,,,Nell,warden HUTCH 'sow, and resolved,-That Me,
nil er and Mr. Peter Bourne Drinkwater be appointed
04ati the ensu
i'svoi. I ii4,l_lv;,4.Zd by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
ill° tZro PERRY NrKNIVIIT, and resolved,-That Mr.
InAp. by ,N 8 the ~hominated for appointment by the Magistrates
11),qt. eill'orerseers of the Poor for the ensuing year.
yellot are`,,e by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHTSON, seconded
re. ub '.Warden CARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Chas.
he
4f ea he re-appointed a -Select Vestryman for three
rrior
bC
iv A 11114 arch ed by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, seconded by
eitsth ita_warden H UDC:4IIBON, .and resolved,-That Mr.
Litt,,„ ^le be appointed a .Select Vestryman for three
'" 11• °' At" too
ior r. cjed by Mr. Churchwarden•Hurcuisow, seconded
F• It"elkunrchwarden CA RNE That Mr. Thomas Henry
rtlle NI Le appointed a Selecdt Vesryman for three years.
At 4 , gin ved, Ps an al
I•ol',llelt;°,Oded by Mr. JAnstene misnt, by Mr. RICHARD JOHN-
ENTON,-That Mr. Edward
rAc-' he appointed a Select Vestryman for three years,
, to he Of
All o,i .Mr. Satchel!.
Iteit ha al motion having been withdrawn, and the amend-
lt
lot 04,ftq'tiontebeen
.put from the Chair, the amendment was
9; 4 irg' rflovederied.
000 $l, 0i,,•4111,,,,_ Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
ler'e_ted in`o_varden CARNE,-Tbat Mr. Joseph Gardner be
bey .( t4ts.,ers of. :,Ipmntment by the Magistrates as one of the
t t,,,f_4.nave".;
asPoor for the ensuing year.
o• re hp 1 _an amendment by Mr. WILLIAM Bnowx,
ad CHADR,-That Mr. Luff be norni-
iltrai',_rh.an",,' re. Gardner. whipbramehdment having been
St,itair,, it w`,_te original motion having been put by the
oftd ,Irloved'e declared carried.
Bif ya,;l-barch Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
"f 10.34,0 Olt nnWarden CARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Jas.
of,,elnated for appointment ensuingstrates as
,614er0 salmi of the Poor for the g year.
ti.:ctkefrellOwbay Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
fel kittlt be nom, men CA RNE, and. resolved,-That Mr. Thos.
e, roe q,'lts_ the inated for appointment by the Magistrates
iesf ytt g v Vet-seers of the Poor for the ensuing year.
,Io Chit ed bY Mr. Churchwarden H UTCII ieconded
oc Ist a„rehwarden CA RNt and resolved,-That'Mr. Thos.
000‘sfrod 04,4, ,zetkiinted a Vestryman
yfor two ytrzs
bliio,ll,l,3'fioVee y M're eft) Nes
N \‘''l,,tlt, and reSolved -That 117 r 'Jsammens Chesney
• 4ilfNit ,wi_elect Vestryman 'for one year.'
her Iti_ll,4,loved, as an amendment, by Mr. Churchwarden
otoe;0 seconded by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, -That
"fo oerot VIIt , ill, Johnson be appointed a Select Vestryman for
,(I?etfitead of lt.fr. Chesney ; and this amendment
rovita Aefr; ;41111' W42II4,I;Ithd!IWII in consequence of Mr. Johnson hay-
,. )1t.70 act if elected,
to,4_t q. t xi, as a further amendment, by Mr. Churchwar-
tocr'e,v,", tawcyi, seconded by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE,-
'Aeri,i herd Brancker he appointed a Select Vestryman
!,foi'eit 1/4 p4liNinaln_!tead of Mr.
heelsChsney.
Pt)
I, v",e e4l tfiGtion, with st amendment, having been
'O%Ol INT_ eft 41'7 the Chair, the original motion was declared
C}l4ved bhe appointment of Mr. Chesney. _ -
Afti ,I,C shits
fume
turnip.. Y Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
, •it ietirden CARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Thos.
iPase appointed a Select Vestryman for three
jes;„• ,
l'itt, rno
it -yCloarve hw
edhY Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHIsoN, seconded
„Or of arden CA RNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Jol'n
, I.4ll.rriny:RO,Pointed a Select Vestrymanfor three years.
5' till'? oY Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
,„ 1,14 ill "A warden CARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Jas.
5` ',,!44 pain'Al- John Williams he appointed Churchwar-
rtf;
tgelklt.rtibovefib;§ Church for the ensuin year.
•Fl I, 14 In, ehw Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
„At ft„l,teh_ot,d ,rarden.CARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Geo.
',50 ,t,'N'larden7 • Theophilus Palmer Gwatkin be appointed
*1)0,40 klo: tilnt,,,,*John's Church for the ensuing year
t'llatitav • "`-` by Mr. JOHN BIgHAAI. seconded by Mr .J.
otbttti,',oll h!„and resolved unanimously,-That it be a recOm-
ero°Boo ca,„,'TO this meeting to the select vestry, to appoint
elleool „itf,
trolatett triewlroit!te. of their body, for the purpose of super-
Paeitep ntld that and revising the assessments to the
int P oe eepd• eat such committee be requested to report
ress,rfeofeoree 4)i-I.4,tatneefiinnggsa. to the select vestry, at each of their fort-
' e M Churchwarden CAREE, and seconded
i 5 Se oP tht t 4qh•rehward r.
to 30 (tap Ink& in
_,en HUTCHISON,-Tl,at a Church-rate of
ire ,7,,,ipp„erehw__llie pound he laid for the ensuing year.
•, eget, Nllt'awar den CARNE here explained the intention of
co' ' pry (c^r dens to lay. a rate of twopence in the pound, to
Of' cl-1,4 ttstit 'lit Ole Par
iptc,
_jet 4 • cuar.in !cilial and Cemetery Rate," for the pur-
(li; ane, ,g_t_be. obligations imposed upon them by
l'fee Genri_.‘nl ham 111., cap. 36 ; 2nd George 111.,
140 or Ali n. 7111., er esp. 80 ; 26th George 111., cap. 15
00, tiyattr•°vect 4111.72; and Ist and 2nd Victoia, cap. 98.
tbe e thol
(I,d_ air. Churchwarden CARNE,. seconded by
tt tp trif4 Seers HUTCHISON, and resolved,-Thet the
p?cs, _ rate, _ e, and they are hereby appointed, collectors
tfttncte s:,atbei I.a accordance with the provisions of the said
Crept 'hrey, 147-Messrs. Charles Fry, William Williams,
ti,°!tiasrhos. J. Blackie, Edward Airie, John MOly.
yor •
o'ol ' 011! 44'4% son, wir,r,oe, John K. Thompson, John Rogers,
,f, , Ptit aus'am Christian, Matthew Cottam.
t4Mtt 4,l.4le,__Ttri am.endment, by Mr. J. R. JEFFERY,
Itltt this dayat
,this subject be adjourned for consi-
PloPst4ff ceo?l' be re _ week, and that in the meantime the
orpc
ye ottktilerlee ected .quested
tt ascertainstreetheoaarms amounts which
,c 0 Ate Kyrt,4%. of each defaulter, and they amount onr names
Aity 114
et Vell kel. el, as a f
pq soy
4,c0 epo and
_0 urther amendment, by Mr. THOMAS
4,011, titipohy(; be nded by Mr. J. R. JEFFERY,-That no
% th; avin_ ipreethe present year. .
etio tte,;arne ntaken for and against the original
/Pit; lr)42.l(ied 7‘,,declared to be negatived, whereupon a
aso
OtireV by Churchwarden
Churchwarden ( ARNE.
(11 t HUTCH rsoe, seconded
tro,, abr, 9artno'n UARNE, and resolved,-That Mr. Geo.
~/!! 4,t ebbeinted od Walcot Banner. and Mr. John Branc-
-0 AO° Ittikiett srehes, ti?,conMissioners of Saint Psul's and Saint
. Itrtf?red fi'DPIY existing vacancies.
0,111, of the
fr. Churchwarden CARNE, seconded by
5.40t,t0e., ni`ne_e voivuo_,HUTCH sox, and resolved,-That the
oyeilor, ke4ril fived, asilatarY Rate Committee be read.
le of coo tiecondednhamendment, by Mr. KINDER LIVER-
-4' lel, 11001440 d ats,., u_37_ Mr. CHARLES WILLMER,-That the
tiliittp'e;,oef tiilese be r'-'e(Oeri the Account of the said Voluntary.
yed for consideration at an adjourned
joCfe, Chlock Vestr
ere at no try, to be held on this day fortnight, at
aVa glini'nwartt„ •c
4;4 beartl... was having withdrawn his motion,
; by the Chairman, and declared by
0 aeia Ndispet ttoett t.rfitO,ow announced that the resent Meeting
foetriee/ its e p0re,..12 Thursday next, the 20th instant, at Ten
roelPfi- tnkr,, at the Sessions-house aforesaid for
0,4 b the Poll demanded by Mr. Chu'rch-
ad 04 t rtn_eri hay. JONATHAN BROOKS. Chairman.
L:art, ;nes en,3ll,tea vacated the Chair, it was moved by
1,4,0 ingiven otve4
un, eeconded by Mr. Churchwarden
_animously,-That the thanks of the
lr C%tirbe chairman for his able and impartial
leth . c _
HARLIE HART Vestry Clerk
" APril, 1854. 5

TE 00 LIFE, EDUCATION!,
'4Bl-7A.LTY, AND SELF-RELIEF ASSURANCE
CO ‘I PANY.
h 4" Aerated under Statute 7 awl 8 Vic., Om.
" A
OFFlCESubscribed Capital, .e 400,000.
, 355, STRAND, LONDON.

LIVERPOOL LOCAL BOARD:
41r
DIRECTORS.
nlan 11.—Hilton Halhead, Esq., Merchant.
bert Bickesteth,
MF.R.C.S.
Ines Bland, rEsq.,erchant.
Za,tthew Uregson, Esq., Merchant.
Fidiam Joseph Horsfall, Esq., Merchant.
4,,aM,es Lord, Esq., Merchant.
-.MAL REFEREE.—AIfred Stephens, Esq., 4,
Upper Parliament-street.
‘GER--M. Chat .Batten, Cuthbert's-buildings,
Clayton-square.

FEATURES OF THIS COMPANY.
tibitrlti4ropriation of profits, a Fund win be created for
114ttrii),;'°,,l of Chrildren of qualified Assurers upon Volun-
'ttlitZolti',D'es, alsa for the relief of qualified Assurers and
At i°,448, their Widows an I Orphans, by providing An-
reed Homes or Asylums.
Aheiltg .es granted agtinst paralysis, blindnesa, insanity,
4t;tlltitie'lld other afflictions.
iheh.llll.4.granted. Family endowments. No charge to
hr„ l'ep4'Or policy stamps. Medical men always paid for
Cee. 10. Louis granted in connexion with Life As-
tqttlnmVes of premium moderate.
ailed 11,ttlY liberal commi.sion allowed to Agents.
rosPeetuses may be had on application to
T. G. WILLIAMS, JUN., Eso.,
em
MANAGER AND SECRETARY.
Lo
ice, 3552 Strand,

WANTED, an Experienced NURSE. None
need apply who cannot give respectable references.
Roman Catholics need not apply.—Apply to Miss SPENCER,
St. George's-hill, Everton.

VE Patronage and
Liverpool are respect()
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION
FAMIIAES of SOLDIERS ord
the l'atronage of Her Majest
Highness Prince Albert.

Support of the Public ‘of
'ally invited on behalf of the
in aid of the WIVES and
lered to the East, which is under
;y the Queen, and His Royal

'O7,IHITTEE.
J. C. Colquhoun, Esq.,
Col. Dunne, M.P.,
Capt. James D mglas,
John Letsom Elliot, Esq.,
Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P.,
Lieut.-Col. B. Knox, M.P.,
Hon. Capt. Knox, M.P.,
Capt. Laffan, M.P.,
Lawrenson,
LL-Col.Hon.J.Lindsay,M.P.,
Gen. Sir P. Maitland, G.C.8.,
Right Hon. J. Napier, M.P.,
Col. North, ALP.,
Capt. Owen, R.E.,
J. W. Patten, Esq., M.P..
Melville Portal, Esq., M.P.,
Major. the Hon. H. L. Powys,
A. Sp:ittiswoode, Esq.,
A. Stafford, Esq., M.P.,
Lieut.-Col. Taylor, ALP.,
Capt. W. F. Vernon,
'Sir William Verner, M.P.,
Shirley Wookner, Esq.,
General Wyndham, M.P.,
Sir Robert Gerard.
TREASURER. HONORARY SECRETARY.
Sir John Kirkland. Major the Hon. H. L. Powys.
The Wives of. Soldiers now embarking for the East may be
divided into three classes:— _

GENERAL CI
H.R.H. the Duke of Cam- I

bridge, 'K.-G.,
TheArchbishopofCanterbury,
The Bishop of London,
The Duke of Manchester.
The Marquis of Blandford,

M.P.,
The Earl of Annesley, M.P.,
The Earl of Cavan,
The Earl of Effingham,
The Earl of Feversham,
The Earl of Shaftesbury,
Viscount Hill,
Viscount Ingestre,
Viscount Mandeville, M.P.,
Viscount Sondes,
Lord Lilford,
Lord E. Howard, 111.. P.,
Lord H. Cholmondeley, M.
Lord C. Clinton,
Capt. Archdall, M.P.,
Col. Baker,
Col. Boldero, M.P.,
Lt.-Col. Hunter Blair,
Lt.-Col. Caulfield, M.P.,

Ist—Those women who are married with military sanction,
and have been allowed to embark with their hus-
bands, at the rate of four women (without families) to
every hundred men.
2d—Those women who, though married with military sanc-
tion, have not been allowed to embark (though pre-
pared to do so), in consequence of the number being
reduced froth six per cent. to four, and in consequence
of their having families.
3d—Those women who are married without military sanc-
tion, and have no claim whatever to military favour
or indulgence of any kind.
Of these three classes, the second is most especially the
object of the care and protection of the Association ; though
from the third class relief and assistance will not be withheld
in certified cases of urgent distress and respectability of cha-
racter.
The Government pays the passage of all soldiers' wives to
their parishes, and then in most cases the workhouse is the
only alternative. AN here the Government leaves them this
Association propoSes to take them up, FOR IT IS EVIDENT
THAT THE PUBLIC WILL NOT ALLOW THATTHE ONLY HOME
FOR THE SOLDIER'S WIFE AND CHILDREN SHOULD BE THE
WORKHOUSE.
The plan already carried out by the Association is as fol-
lows :

Ist—To furnish the Commanding Officers of Regiments
previous to embarkation, with small printed cards,
to be distributed amongst those Wives of Soldiers
who remain behind and are sent to their parishes;
these cards being signed by the Commandingofficers,
prove the identity of the person who holds them.
2d—On receipt of nominal rolls of all the Women and Chil-
dren left behind, to administer temporary relief to
the most urgent cases, through the Officer command-
ing the depot or regiment, or through some clergy.
man of the parish, or through the Paymaster of pen-
sioners of the district, or any other trustworthy
channel. Nominal rolls have already been received
from fifteen regiments, and to eighteen regiments some
relief has been granted, both through the Command.
ing Officers and the Army Chaplains.
3d—To provide Asylums for Motherless Children, and for
Children whose mothers consent to part from them
in consequence of the largeness of their family.
4th—To provide Employment for Mothers, and assist them
in the Education of their Children. The Association
has already been instrumental in purchasing hand-
looms and mangles for Women anxious to work.

With a view of encouraging efforts to find employment by
these Women themselves, the standing rule of the Assoc►at►on
is not to give permanent pecuniary rel►ef in any, case where
employment has not been obtained after a certa►n time.
So
that the greatest claim a woman shall have upon the Associa-
tion will be her having obtained some employment, however
small, or her being able to prove satisfactorily that she has
made every effort in her power to find employment.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE FOR LIVERPOOL.
J. B. Lloyd, Esq., Mayor.
Geo. C. Arbuthnot, Esq., I Wm. Jones, Esq.,
C. Balleny, Esq., [T. W. Keightley, Esq ,
Chris. Bushell, Esq., i Joseph Langton, Esq.,
Chas. Cotesworth, Esq.,R.N., I Rev. C. W. Lawrence,
Col. Derinzy, t Geo. H. Lawrence, Esq.,
John Eden. Esq., Thos. Littledale, Esq.,
Rev. W. M. Falloon, M.A., Chas. M'lver, Esq.,
Adam Gladstone, Esq., Rev. H. M`Neile, D.D.,
Capt. Greig, Jas. Middleton, Esq.,
T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P., Thos. Edwardes Moss, Esq.,
Geo. H. Horsfall,.Esq., Hugh Neill, Esq ,
Sir T. G. Hesketh, Bart., Rev. F. Ould, M.A.,
Rev. John Jones, John Tory, Esq.
TREASURER.
Major Bourne, Heathfreld-house, Wavertree.
SECRETARIES.

Capt. Westmacott,fa., 3, North view, Edge-bill.
Rev. John R. Conor, M.A., 16, Canterbury4treet.
Contributions will be thankfully received by tbe Tceasurer
And tbv Secretaries, and alto At Messrs. Moss's Bank,

SIR, At a Meeting held in this town on Mon-
day evening last, it was my singular good fortune to be
the subject of attack by three reverend gentlemen, and in no
fewer thau five speeches to be lectured in unmeasured terms.
The cause of offence was a speech delivered by me three
months ago, in connexion with the Working Men's Sunday
Services. Two reports of Monday night's meeting have
appeared, and as each supplies deficiencies in the other, it
will be necessary to quote from both. I have frequent I
been w.u•ned since my speech was published to prepare for
the impending blow, and am at last enabled to judge of the
force of the home thrust by its rebound. I am not indis-
posed to receive in good fe?ling any advice to act charitably
towards my fellow men •, yet such advice hardly comes with
good grace from men who seldom appear in public without
betraying the absence of true Christian meekness and charity;
and it is rather inconsistent in them, when their misconduct
is exposed, to turn round and lecture any individual who has
the temerity to draw aside the veil and exhibit their proceed-
ings in their true colours.

Liverpool has been long afflicted with a party of Protestant
Priests, who, reared in Ireland. arid reeking from its Orange
hot-bed, have planted themselves here as in a soil more
congenial to their peculiar talents; yet is it not marvellous
that it has never struck them (in their zeal for Protestantism)
that Papist Ireland is a much better field for their zealous
and disinterested labour than the Protestant community of
Liverpool? Would it he uncharitable to suppose that there
are sterling reasons why the Roman Catholics of Ireland are
left by these gentlemen to the teaching of their priests,
while the English Protestants are diverted with polemics, to
the neglect of the more important duties of religion ?
The Rev. V. M. White charges me with "misrepresenta-
tion," with "condemning Scripture Readers' Societies,
Town Missions, and Foreign Missions." How can one deal
with a minister who construes a censure upon the bitterness
of controversy, and inflammatory appeals to ignorant and
violent men, into a condemnation of objects and institutions.
which I not only hold in high estimation, but whose excel-
lence was expressly admitted in the speech which Mr.
White held in his hand, and from which he affected to be
reading?
Even Mr. White, in reference to the Protestant Reformation
Society, " confessed that he felt something like an opinion
that the name • Working Men's Reformation Society' was not
exactly the name which the purposes of the society would
lead him to choose." Why, then, in the name of common
sense, is a title chosen opposed to the practice of Mr. White
and his friends ; and why is such fault found with me for
detecting and exposing the inconsistency? If the name under
which they are acting does not express the "purposes of the
society," why don't they adopt one that does? If they had
called it "A No-Popery Association," or "A Presbyter,an
and Prelatic Anti-Papist Society," there would have been no
mistake, and the real object would have been honestly stated.
Why borrow a name that does not express the purposes of
their action ? A jackdaw in borrowed plumes is still a jack-
daw, and if gentlemen will wear feathers that do not belong
oi t them. they must expe.:t, some time or other, to be plucked.'
Mr. White has flocked much of late with the polemic rookery.
This is little to his credit as a dissenter, and it hurts his gene-
ral usefulness; but in the end he will most likely be served as
others have been served before; he may chatter and caw with
the brood so long as it is fancied his services may " promote
the end they all have in view ;" but the moment he has
answered their purpose, be will receive the gentle hint that in
their estimation he is no rook, but only a jackdaw; he may
flirt with them and flutter about their steeples for a season,
hut at last he will he told that the sooner he wings his
flight to his own little conventicle in Islington, the better;
and, let me tell him, he can there serve his Master better
than by peppering poor Papists from the platform.
The charge of "misrepresentation" is made because of my
pointing out the danger of addressing inflammatory language
to Orange operatives, convinced that the denunciation of
Popery to such men can only lead to consequences that would
fall upon 'the heads of Papists. Mr. White says (and in this
he is supported by Mr. Taylor) that " every -sieaker carefully
inculcated the necessity of distinguishing between the sin
reprOhated and the man who commits it." If this be an ex
post facto discovery of what ought to have been done, I can-
not help thinking it is rather too had to blame me for
not seeing what is not in the report of the meeting from
which I-quoted. Mr. White must allow that there are those
who are likely to know working-men as well as he or his
' quondam friends can be expected to do. Blind zeal prevents
men from looking at the facts of a case.; and blind, indeed,
must be the zeal of that man who has not made the discovery
that such inflammatory appeals to ignorant and violent men
can :only have the effect I described, "excite envy, hatred,
malice, and all uncharitableness—promote rancour among
neighbours—provoke party feuds and street fights.*
Nay, further, there is nothing which so thoroughly disgusts
reflecting working men with the professors of religion, and
so directly tends to bring it into contempt, as such unseemly
exhibitions by its ministers.
It is easy to discriminate between the preacher of the cross
and the polemic, between the Christian minister and the
political parson ; and whilst I revere-the one, I will raise my
voice against the other, as a social evil and a political pest.
Mr. S,Vhite also took up the cudgels for Cis friend. Dr.
Baylee, and charged me with "ascribing false motives" to
that gentleman in referring to his twopenny collection for
providing additional curates for Liverpool. I simply quoted
facts from Dr. Baylee's report, which stated that a great
many twopences had been collected, " some from families so
poor that they could not afford a second room ; that a poor
widow (a lone widow) contributed her penny ; and another
poor widow, having a family, a halfpenny; that even the help
of a poor washerwoman, with tears in her eyes, was not re-
fused." I did the receiver ;justice, by adding that he did
"confess to feeling in. some cases ashamed to take the
money." I cordially agreed with the worthy doctor, and
quoted his own words, and merely added that the promoters
of that movement were in my opinion greviously mistaken.
The Rev. W. F. Taylor next charges me with being guilty
of the "most flagrant inconsistency," &c., •cinoting
many texts for my edification, and talking loudly and largely
of charity, while he, a minister of the Church of England,
quotes Scripture for the purpose of making a miserable pun
upon my name. Of the taste of its introduction, and the
charity of the sentiment, .I lease others to judge.
The Rev. S. B. -utton had the good sense to draw a prac-
tical inference ; he said, " lie was glad that reference had
been made to my observations, for it would teach clergymen
to look more narrowly to their duties. Many working men
looked upon clergymen as mere schemers, and religion as a
matter of pounds, shillings, and pence." That fact long per-
sonal experience enables me to-verify ; and my object in mak-
ing the observation was to bring out this view of the matter,
irtifibe hope that it might have tke effect of provoking to good
and I greatly rejoice in believing that such will be the
result.

Now, before concluding, will:Mr. Suttortand his friends
allow a plain, practical nun —one more accustomed to'figures
than figures of speech—to ask them one plain questiot3,—" If
working men look upon clergymen as mire schemers, and
religion as a matter of pounds, shillings, end pence," are
their prejudices likely to be uprooted by a movement-whose
most prominent feature is the employment of men in course
of education for clergymen as collectors of twopences?t Is
the taxing of the bard earnings of their toil likely to recom-
mend to working men the Gospel of Jesus, which invites all
to " Buy without money and without price?" Oh,.but Mr.
White tells us that our Lord commended the poor widow for
Casting her mite into the treasury: Will Mr. White point out
the passage wherejin sending his disciples to the common
people, Jesus bade item first go round the town and.collect
two-pences from workmen, pennies, or half-pennies, from
widows—lone widows and weeping washerwomen? If the
disciples had done this, I trow the, common people would
hardly have heard them quite so gladly. No, they did not
beg on, year after year, waiting for a church and a parson-
age, telling up their twopences. It was no part of their mis-
sion to beg from lone widows and washerwomen. Amongst
all sects I have heard of begging parsons, but never such
begging as•this—beggars begging from beggars. A beggarly
business, truly, for gentlemen and clergymen -to follow.
Yours truly,
NATHANIEL CAINE.

* If any proof be necessary, it is supplied by the following
extract from the annual report of the Rev. C. F. Bishop.:
—" Polemical excitement has lost none of its virulence
during the past year. It is astonishing, as well as grievous,
to witness to what ara•extent religious (so-called) and political
bitterness is found to prevail amongst some of the labouring
classes; and, in most cases, the violence of the feeling is in
proportion to the wickedness of the life. Men, who neglect
their duties as husbands and fathers, who spend their -earn-
ings in the public house, and allow their children to -wander
is: the streets, are readr, on the slightest provocation, to
fight in the name ofreligion, and to treat with the -greatest
ferocity all who are of the opposite party. This will apply
almost equally to certain sections of both Protestants and
Catholics. The sight of a green ribbon on the one side, ar
an orange ribbon on the other, is sufficient to angel these
foolish people into a state of frenzy. The orange procession
of the 12th July rekindled all the dying embers of strife; and
the flames still continue to rage. On the night after that
procession I went both into Orange and Catholic districts
where I was known, with the view of doing what I could to
allay the evil spirit that had been raised, and I was thus en-
gaged till after midnight. Besides the collisions in the
principal streets, many savage ,fights took place in more
retired neighbourhoods, and in several courts I saw case-
ments with nothing in them but shattered glass. From one
house of disreputable character one of the wretched inmates
was carried to the hospital with a broken arm, which she had
got in one of these religious frays; for even that miserable
class shared in -the agitation, and ranged themselves on their
respective sides. The feeling, as I have said, has not died
away. Just at the close of the year I was requested to call
and see a man who was one of the flaghearers in the above
procession. He Had been drinking at a public house, and
was there reproached by some of the other party because of
his share in the proceedings of the carpenter lads,' on Prince
William's day, and, after the usual taunts about the Pope
and the confessional on the one side, and the character of
Henry VIII., and his connexion with the reformed religion,
on the other, the flagbearer was waylaid by several men as
he left the house, who threw him down and kicked him with
such brutality that he had to be assisted, bruised and bleed-
ing, by the police to his home, where he lay for a fortnight
in a disabled state.

Such are the results in the courts an I homes of the poor of
the unholy polemical agitations which are too often promoted
by those who have every means of knowing better, and for
whom the same excuse cannot be alleged as we ought, perhaps,
to make for the ignorant people, whose worst passions they
stimulate into such ferocious activity.
Even the very children catch in some degree the same evil
spirit, and it is no unusual thing to hear little urchins propose
" three groans for the Pope," or " three groans for the jump-
ers," under which cognomen all protestants are included. It
is worthy of note that, soon after the 12th July, I saw a party of
boys, varying in age from eight to fourteen years, armed with
long sticks, with which they were getting up a mimic row,
with all its movements and noises. One of the little fellows
pretended to be felled by a blow on the head received from
one of his companions. There he lay apparently stunned.
They came about him and pretended to raise him. He
dropped his hands, and arms, and legs, exactly as if he had
been senseless, and they laid him out as if they would carry
him to the hospital. In what a school, thought I, are these
children being educated? And what can be expected of them
when they feel the passions which they thus horribly mimic.
Oh, when will this spirit of foul antipathy be laid, and man
differ from man as brother from brother? Not till a more
lowly and charitable demeanour, and a less proud and arro-
gate spirit, are manifested by the leaders of sects and parties.
The feeling that prompts the educated man to the use of in-
jurious words will urge the ignorant man to resort to wound-
ing blows.
t Every one who is a collector is a student of St. Aidan's."
—The Rev. Dr. Baylee's speech at the Collegiate Institution,
11th Jan., 1853.

CHOLERA.—A notification from the Board of
Health, endorsed, we regret to say, by alarming intelli-
gence from Ireland, warns us that the cholera has not yet
departed from our shores, but that, on the contrary,' a
fresh and more virulent outbreak of it is to be expected.
This expectation is founded on the fact that in 1831, and
again in 1848, the epidemic declined, and all but disap•
peared, in a similar manner, only to break forth with
increased virulence in the following spring and summer.
These facts serve as a text, on which the Board of Health
enlarges for the purpose of precautionary measures. We
cannot help saying that the Board of Health is greatly
to blame for having delayed this notification until the
return of the warm weather when, according to their own
statement, some of the most important operations in the
way of cleansing can no longer be performed with safety.
But above all we cannot suppress our astonishment,—to
use no stronger term,—that when such an official intima-
tion is sent forth, advantage should not be taken of the
approaching day of humiliation and prayer to make the
impending visitation the subject of an address to the
Throne of Grace.—John Bull.
THE EMIGRATION Commissioners have advertised for
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and New South Wales. They are to be respectively ready
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THE NOLLOWING VESSELS were taken up on Saturday
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NATIONAL EDUCATION.

THERE is, perhaps, no subject.which has occupied
more of public attention, undergone more discus-
sion, and yet with less satisfactory result, than
that of the education of that immense majority of
the rising population who have no other means of
beneficial instruction than what is afforded by the
State, or by the aid of private beneficence. The
great difficulty appears to be in arriving at any
fixed opinion as to the necessity to be provided
for ; and, in the mean time, while something
should be done—if the generation which will suc-
ceed us is to be in fact, as well as in name, a
Christian population—the race is growing up in a
great measure uninstructed. This is not for want
of schools, for they abound in most populous
localities ; but there is an evident deficiency in
the results sought to be obtained, and conflicting
ideas as to the best meang'of accomplishing them.
Much of the evil arises from the erroneous esti-
mates as to education, confounding causes with
effects, and attributing good -to means which may
produce either good or evil. At the last quarter
sessions for the county of Somerset, the chairman,
in addressing the grand jury, lamented the want
of education, which, he said, was evident in the
number of prisoners to be triek the greater num-
ber of whom could neither read nor write. This
is a key to the fallacy which generally prevails on
the subject. Ignorance is at once concluded to be
the want of being able to read or write, and the
remedy is, therefore, the instruction in these ele-
mentary branches of knowledge, without any ap-
parent thought that both may be acquired without
any other than evil results, and that a man may
be a good subject and a good Christian, and yet
ignorant of either. In the 'much maligned times
when a reverence for Church and State was
esteemed a positive duty enjoined by Holy Scrip-
ture, before Whiggery substituted registration of
marriages, births, and deaths for the offices of the
Church, the children of the poor were brought to
be baptised, and their parents enjoined that they
should be instructed in the catechism, and having
been examined as to their knowledge of its truths
by the parish clergyman, should be brought to
the bishop to be confirmed. Here was a simple
machinery for imparting to all a knowledge of
their responsibilities as immortal beings ; and so
long as obedience to such regulations was esteemed
a privilege, there might be less of the refinements
of education, but there was also infinitely less of
practical infidelity. Now, however, 'the functions
of the Church have been in a great measure super-
seded by Whig concessions to popular clamour for
religious liberty, and the melancholy result is
practical heathenism ; and, with a multiplication
of schools, an actual increase of ignorance,. and
thousands of our population growing up without
any apparent knowledge of the God which made
therm, except to profane His name.

On such a subject it may appear strange to look
for example to the people of China, and yet the
system pursued in that empire affords many points
worthy of deep and attentive consideration. In
Blackwood's _Magazine for January last is an
article on " The Past and Future of China," which
affords some highly interesting information on this
subject. There the education of the people has
been from the earliest times under the especial care
of the State; and a work written before the Chris-
tian era {says Mr. DAVIS, who has long been
familiar with China) speaks of "the ancient system
of instruction," which required that every town
•and village, down to only a few families, should
have a common school. On, this all-important
matter of education, the Chinese have followed a
system different from all other nations. The great
aim both in Europe and America has been to
enlarge the intellect of man, to impart to him a
knowledge of the physical world and the marvels
of science, and to exalt the human intellect by
developing its varied powers. No such educa-
tional system found favour with the practical mind
of China. The system which has there existed has
been eminently utilitarian ; but it is utilitarianism
in its best form. It is not of that sort which
exhibits itself in those schools among ourselves
which are styled " commercial," whose object is to
'impart merely those branches of knowledge which
are calculated to advance one's material interests,
and which may be used' against one's fellows as
much as for them. On the contrary, Chinese
education contemplates man even less as an indivi-
dual than as a member of society, and enjoins upon
him, by line upon line and precept upon precept,
the manifold: duties of humanity and court( sy
which he owes to his fellow-men. The object of
all European systems is to
enlarge man's intellect ;
but that of the Chinese is to mould his habits and
affections. The teaching of their great philoso-
pher CONFUCIUS was, to use the words of one of
his disciples, "to possess rectitude of heart, and
to love one's neighbour as one's self." With us
the great object of education is knowledge—with
the Chinese it is morality. The moral and social
lessons which with us are left to be taught in
private, or to lie acquired by experience of actual
life, are anade the first step and fundamental prin-
ciple of training in China. They prepare tlfe
youth for being a good man and a good member of
society, and place science only in a secondary rank.
It is much to be lamented that, in a nation like
ours, enjoying the pure light of Revelation, and
having advantages such as the Chinese never pos-
sessed, we should be so far behind them in appre-
ciating the real object of education. The first and
prominent duty should be the inculcation of those
religious truths which far surpass all secular know-
ledge, while the latter should be merely subsidiary,
and used simply as a means to an end. But so
long as national schools are made the vehicles for
intellectual advancement, irrespective or secondary
only to moral teaching, we can expect no other
results than those which are evident around us—
one part of the population acquiring ideas far
beyond their worldly circumstances, and the other
With no instruction at all, filling our gaols and
swellituf the ca4Aciars at assize courts and quarter
sessions,