The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-24 00:00:00

LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL C \NAL AND
DOUGLAS NAVIGATION.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, at the next
GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the COMPANY of PROPRI-
ETORS of the CANAL NAVIGATION from LEEDS to
LIVERPOOL, and DOUGLAS NAVIGATION, which will be
held at the Talbot Inn, in Bradford, in the county of York, at
Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon of. FRIDAY, the 10th day of
April next, and, by reason of that day being Good Friday, the
said Assembly will be ADJOURNED from that day to the 22d
day of May next ensuing, to be held at the same place and
hour • and it will then and there be proposed that an Alteration
shall be made in the several Tolls, Rates, and Duties upon all
Coal, Slack, Cinders, Stones, Timber, Goods, Wares, Merchan-
dise, and Commodities whatsoever, which shall or may be
carried or conveyed upon or along the whole length of the said
Canal or Navigation, or any Branch or Branches, part or parts
thereof, by Reducing the said Tolls, Rates, and Duties upon
.such aforesaid Coal, Slack, Cinders, Stones, Timber, Goods,
Wares, Merchandise, and Commodities, in such manlier and
form, and in such proportion or proportions, and upon such
part or parts of the said Canal and Navigation- as the said
Proprietors, then assembled, shall determine.
Dated this 20th day of January, 184f1.
SAM. HAILSTONE, Law-Clerk.
Bradford, Yorkshire. 1

STRICTURE, STONE, GRAVEL, and all Diseases
of the Kidneys and Bladder, speedily and effectually cured
by DR. YOUNG'S URETHRIC MIXTURE. The efficacy of
this Medicine in the above complaints has been long proved by
its unparalleled success in a practice of many years' standing,
and has induced the present Proprietor to make it more gene-
rally known. Its object is to supersede the necessity of using
the Bougie, which, from frequent use, makes the passage more
susceptible of disease, and frequently brings on a confirmed
case of Diseased Prostrate Gland; it quickly removes all sore-
ness, quiets irritation, and allays theinflammation that invaria-
bly attends those painful diseases, STONE, GRAVEL, &c.
In these cases, (perhaps the most painful that the human
frame is subject to,) the Mixture will be found of the utmost
efficacy ; it gently acts on the Kidneys, producing a greater flow
by. the Urether to the Bladder, and there forming a complete
solution, it not only dissolves, and takes up any Sediment, or
Gravel, but also tends to assist the Glands in dispelling any
small particle of Stone that may remain in the Bladder.
Sold, in bottles at 2s. 9d. each, by J. SANGER, 150, Oxford-
street, London ; and by Mr. Carter, Bold-street ; Messrs.
Johnson, and Rawle, Church-street ; Mr. Priestley, Lord-street ;
Schcilfield, Peter Roberts, M‘Guffie, Troughton, Wagstaff, Li-
verpool ; and all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the
country.
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A man named George Dawson, was committed by Mr.
Rushton on Saturday, for trial, charged with having at-
tempted to steal a watch from a painter named Houstor,
in Manchester-street, the previous evening.
- Trie ALETIMILAMA.—This interesting exhibition is
again open, with several new scenes, one of which, Napo-
leon at St. Helena, is remarkably well depicted, and the
movements performed to the life. We are grad to find
the exhibition continues to be well attended.

Mr. \V. H. Gebb, from the I`,T?.,v York Circuit, and
the. Theatre 11,yal, Dublin, comm nces an engagemect
of eleven nights at the Lived The .tre, on Monday next.
The iheatre will then be under the management of Mr.
M•Kenzie. _ _ _

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AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATEI.-0a Friday, a female
named Mary Llewellyn, forty-seven years of age, who
resided at a public-house in London road, went out into
the yard, for the purpose of cleaning it, and was at the
time apparently in good health. In about an hour after-
wards she was found lying on her back, quite dead. Upon
a post-mortem examination, it appeared that ossification
of the valves of the heart was th iamoediate cause of her
death.
COLLISION.—On Saturday the master of one of the
Seacombe steam-boats was summoned to answer the
complaint of the owners of the schooner Achilles, for
having struck against that vessel and damaged her to the
extent of £l9 15s. It appeared that the collision took
place on the previous Monday, when the river was very
much•erowded, and Mr. Rushton considering that it was
aetributable to the schooner and not to the steamer, dis-
missed the case.

HOUSE ROBBERY.—On Saturday an impudent robbery
was effected on the premises of Mr. John Connor, prin-
ter and stationer, 60, London-road, while Mrs. Connor
was busily engaged in the duties of the shop. It is sup-
prsed some person well acquainted with Abe house com-
mitted the depredation. The missing articles comprise
about £7 in money, besides a quantity of wearing appa-
-1 el. A reward has been offered for the apprehension of
the thief.

Stucrnu.—On Saturday night, the wife of one of the
narties employed at the Wapping Railway StAion, resid-
i in Kitchen-street, destroyed herself in, it is supposed,
a tit if insanity. Her husband on his return home from
the market with some provisions,"not seeing her when he
entered, procured a candle at a neighbour's. and on look-
ig round found her lying behind the door with her throat
cut. A r:zor WOR found near her on the floor. The in-
quest will be held this day.
STABBING.—On Saturday, a female named Mary Anne
Henry, was committed fur trial, charged with having
stabbed another female named Elizabeth Evans, with a
knife, in the right arm and breast. The complainant was
going along Northampton-street on Thursday evening,
when the prisoner, without any previous provocaion,
rushed on her in 'almcst a state of nudity, and inflicted
the wounds. The wound in the arm was more than two
inches long and half an inch deep. The wound on the
breast was also severe. _ . .

On Thursday, John Owen, who carries on business as
an auctioneer, appeared before Mr. Rushton in answer
to two informations, the one charging him with selling
champagne, and the other with selling sweets, without a
license to do so. Mr. Davenport, on behalf of the de-
fendant, said he would plead guilty, but the offence bad
been committed in ignorance, as he conceived he had a
right to sell under his licence as an auctioneer. Mr.
Rusht'n said he was liable to a penalty of ;£lOO for selling
the champagne, and for the other offence £5O, but he
should order him to pay the two sums of £25 and £l2
10s., and the case would be considered.
THE NORTHERN MECHANICS' INSTITUTION CON-
CERT was on Saturday evening crowded to excess, the
consequent effect of being able to hear such a concentra-
tion of giant talent at so trivial an amount of admission.
The "stars" of Miss Kettle's concert of the previous
evening. Mr. John Parry anal Mrs. Sunderland, with
Miss Penketh, a pleasing vocalist, and Mr.G. Lunt, were
announced. The programme, though musically not dif-
ficult, was of the highest order, and of a character calcu-
lated to please and advance the musical taste of the
audience. Amongstthose on the platfor m were the Earl
and Countess of Sefton. The Earl, on being thanked for
his attendance, expressed, in a short address, the gratifi-
cation he felt. Mr. Pearsall is etrgaged to give his musical
entertainment next Saturday.
OUR LOCAL TALENTS IN THE FINE ARTS.—We re-
marked favourably, a short time ago, upon a series of
sketches made during a tour in Egypt and Italy,
.by a
young townsman, Mr. George Keet, who, we perceive,
Las established ',himself at 81, Mount-pleasant. We
have since been permitted to inspect a painting from
one of the sketches in question, for which the artist has
received an order from Richard V. Yates, Esq. The
subject is one of the tombs of the caliphs in Grand'Cairo ;
and although, as yet, in an incomplete state, it betrays a
full mastery over the difficulty of placing upon canvas
scenes which, in ordinary bands, would not have imparted
theM the still magnificence in which they meet the eye
of the, traveller. The elaborately ornamental character
of the buildings are finely traced ; and with the groups
.of camels and figures in the foreground, convey us, in
imagination, to the scene itself. The picture, we predict,
will be not only most creditable to the artist but an orna-
ment to the gallery in which it is to be placed.
COMMITMENTS.—At the police-coutt, yesterday, a man,
named Ward, was committed for trial on a charge of
stealing a coat, in Scotland-road.—Sarah Hueion, a
young, married woman, was charged with having stolen
elevenfsovereigns, on Saturday afternoon, from the house
of Mr. Mathias. She had been employed in the house
(where she was known) to measure a window for a blind,
and went up stairs to the bedroom, where the money was,
to make the bed, though not requested .to do so: The
money' was under the bed, and was missed on Sunday
afternoon. She had before-becn convicted, and was sent
for trial.—A man. named Thomas Johnson, charged with
stealing £9, from the house of Johanna Smith, Burlington.
street, in which he lodged. lie left the house without giving'
notice, and when apprehended in the house where his wife
lodgecl(from whom he had previously parted), a small box
belanging to Mrs. Smith's son was found in his chest.
He had also been seen in the room where the money was,
with ai candle, on Friday. Ile was sent fOr trial.—
Willieth Evans and Thomas Catbrall were committed for
two mdnths, for stripping some lead from a shop-window
in Summer-seat, with•intent to carry it off-. Bothaariso.
b 1 Hers bad efore been committed for a similar offence.

CORRASPONDENCE.

PREACHING MATCH.

TO THE. EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Agreeing generally with your contemporary in
his observations on Saturday last, under the above head,
as to the unseemliness of making a trial sermon the test
of a minister's suitableness for the pastoral care of a va-
cant fold, I cannot but think be has been somewhat infe.
licitous, as well as inaccurate, in the example of the vicar
of Leeds, selected for illustration. Upon inquiry, I think
it will bo found, not only that Dr. Hook preached before,
but also canvassed amongst, the multitudinous and mul-
tiform lay electors, in whom rests the nomination to the
vicarage of Leeds. This is the more remarkable, as it
strongly contrasts with the course pursued with reference
to the same vicarage, and upon the same occasion, by ih.
Revs. Hugh M`Neile and Hugh Stowell. It may be as-
certained also, that both of these latter-named clergymen
were severally solicited, and, one of them at least, stre-
nuously urged by some of the electors to submit to an or-
deal which the majority had made indispensible, of
preaching before them at Leeds, and that neither of them
would consent to such a lowering of their high office. It
is too much, then, that Dr. Hook should enjoy at once
the reward of doing, together with the credit of not doing,
what your contemporary condemns, and what Mr.
M'Neile and Mr. Stowell, from- conscientious motives,
refused to do—l say from conscientious motives, for it
will hardly be alleged that either of them had ouaht to
apprehend from comparison, in any way, with Dr. Hook.
—I am, sir, &c., X. Y. Z.
THE ANNIVERSARY OF LUTHER.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Strt,—l have no doubt but you are aware of the edict
issued forth in Germany, to the effect that the 300th an-
niversary of the Death of Luther should be commemorated
last week through all Germany. In Hanover it is cheer-
ing to know that the subject was to be improved by older
of Ernest, King of Hanover, and the son of a genuine
Protestant monarch of England ; and it is with proud
Protestant exultation that I notice the subject was not lost
sight of in this Protestant town.
Yesterday, the Rev. C.:Marshall, of St. Thomas's, Tox-
teth-park, preached an admirable sermon in St. Simon's
Church, in this town, upon the occasion, from the Ch
chapter of Romans and Bth verse. The reverend gentle-
man said that he could not commemorate the event better
than by preaching upon that subject which was the
ground of Luther's hopes, the theme of all his minis-
trations. and which would have been the topic of Luther's
discourse had he occupied his (Mr. Marshall's) place ;
viz., salvation by the righteousnese of Christ—of which
glorious doctrine the great Reformer says, " We are
taught out of the word of God that there is nothing tinder
the sun which availeth unto righteousness before God
but Christ on!y," and concerning which this is his
additional testimony, viz., "If they had with a com-
mon consent diligently urged the article of justification
that is to say, that we are justified neither by the righteous..
ness of the law, nor by our own righteousness, but by
faith only in Jesus Christ, doubtless-ibis one article, by
Little and little, as it began, had overthrown the whole
Papacy."
Such language is as forcible as it is scriptural, and it is
well we have still a goodly number of clergymen able and
willing to reiterate am sir, &e.,
AN ADMIRER OF LUT UR.
February 23rd, 1846.

CHURCH ACCOMMODATION IN THE SCOT-
LAND-ROAD DISTRICT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—I observed, some time since, a letter in your co-
lumns drawing attention to the want of church accom-
modation in the district near Scotland-road, and sugge,t-
ing that this might be in part remedied by our church
obtaining the building situate in Scotland-road, called St.
Peter's Scotch Church, and.which is unoccupied. Your
correspondent stated, that if the way of getting it were
pointed nut, the necessary measures would be adopted by
the friends of our church. Having inquired, I find the
facts regarding this building to be, that the site was pro-
cured from the Earl_ of Derby expressly for the erection
of a place of worship to be identified or in full connexion
with the Established Church of Scotland ; and service was
for a considerable time performed in it in such connexion,
but a schism having arisen in the Church of Scotland, in-
to which schism certain trustees of this building have
fallen, they wish to, alienate the place from its origi-
nal purpose, which attempt has led to the place being
shut up. This chapel cannot, therefore, be brought into
use for our church. It having been erected undeP the
condition that it was to belong to the Establishment of
Scotland, it cannot be appropriated to any other body.
The land having been acquired, and the contribution for
the building having been made for a specific purpose, no
safe title could be made to it for any other commnion ;
but it is unnecessary to put this view, as certainly the
Earl of Derby, who sold the land, would not permit its
destination to be altered, nor would the friends of our
church lend themselves in any way towards the working
out of an act of dishonesty. Better situations may be
found for a church than the one in question, being tzo far
out, and there will be no lack of support as soon as a
proper place is selected.--I am, &c.,
JUSTUS.

IMPROVEMENT OF THE TOWN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—lf we may form an idea of the future prospects
of Liverpool from present appearances, it seems destined
at no distant period to become the most important com-
mercial havim in Europe, or probably in the known world.
This circumstance may be accounted for from the favour-
able position of the port, together with a combination of
other advantages possessed by no other place, not even
excepting the metropolis itself. The Dock Trustees seem
quite alive to the importance of providing adequate ac-
commodation for shipping frequenting this port, if we
are to judge by the new docks now in progress, and also
from the magnitude of the plans now before parliament
for others since decided upon. The grand scale upon
whirh extra room for the trade will be afforded, as laid
down in the aforesaid documents, would, it might be in-
ferred, stimulate our Common Council to keep pace in
some degree with the conservators of the port and har-
bour, by causing very extensive and important improve-
ments to be effected in the town, which, we must admit,
is far behind in this respect. It cannot be too strongly
impressed on the minds of our Ccuncillors, that, by a
judicious outlay in opening and widening the close, con-
fined districts of the town, a ereat advantage is thereby
ultimately gained by the Corporation Estate in a pecu-
niary shape ; it is by no means to be viewed in the light of
so much capital abstracted or. sunk, as in a short time it
may be considerably augmented from the residue of the
land being disposed of at an advanced price.
I do not coincide with the,scheme of levying a borough
rate on the inhabitants for the purpose of carrying out
improvements, if it can possibly be avoided : they are
sufficiently taxed already. An opulent Corporation
should be able to effect the needful amendments, without
having recourse to this unpopular method of raising the
ways and means. By-the-bye, a thought has just occurred
to me—would it not be more advisable to form a joint-
stock company, under the sanction and authority of the
Mayor and Corporation, to purchase •the old dilapidated
cottages and other tenements within the borough, and
rebuild them according to the best and latest regulations?
This would not only confer a great benefit upon the la-
bouring class, by providing a comfortable home, and
thereby in some degree prevent disease and premature
death, but it would, no doubt, if well managed, be profita-
ble as an investment to the several shareholders embarked
in so philanthropic an undertaking.
CIVIS.
Liverpool, 911 s February, 1846.

DR. PlisEY'S SERMON.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,-1 think that no faithful member of the Church
of England can regard the appearance of 1)r. Pusey's re-
cently published discourse without grief and indignation.
The circumstances under which this production was de-
livered, invest it with more than ordinary importance.
The most prominent leader of an aggressive party in the
university was authoritatively suspended from the public
exercise of his functions, on the ground of his having mis-
represented the doctrine of the Church concerning the
sacrament of the Lord's Supper. His first act, when
permitted to resume his duties in the pulpit, instead of an
apology or retractati, n, is a deliberate repeiition of the
previous offence, heightened, moreover, by the proposition
orthe doctrine of the auricular confession—one of the
most distinguishing features of the Romish apostacy. The
publication of the sermon just delivered is accompanied
by a reprint of that on the Eucharist, stitched under the
same cover. The mutual connection and harmony of these
is presupposed by the author, and will he denied by no one
who has read them. _ _ .

The questions thus suggested are as follow :—ls the re-
publication of a reprehensible discourse without a solitary
expurgation, and with the addition of further Romanizing
developments, to be regarded as a smaller offence against
the discipline of the church and the laws of the univer-
sity ? Is it a fit conclusion to the suspension enforced on
Dr. Posey, is it a grateful and becoming use of the liberty.
once more afforded to him, after ample opportunity for
consideration and reflection, thus to reiterate and to ag-
gravate his previous offence? Is the official Atanding of
the doctor in the cathedral of Chmt Church to be main-
tained by the university as a position of defiance to its
own censures, of anomalous exemption from episcopal
rule ?
The position of the gifted but erring individual ie.one
of great influence and high responsibility. He is a teacher
of youth ; the guardian of some who, probably in this
very town of Liverpool, may find a field for the develop-
ment of the principles in which they are now trained.
Our church is not a mere confederation of clergymen
and congregations, feebly connected in their mutual in-
fluence, but a body; and the disgrace of one member may
exert a perilous influence throughout the vital organization
of the whole. The admirable training of our Collegiate
Institution, as well as more private efforts, are preparing
many pious
and hopeful youths for Oxford. What is the
tuition preparing there for them ? Must we pause in
giving such a direction to our educational efforts lest they
should conduct those who are deaf to us into deadly error
instead of saving truth? There are many Christian men
—mistaken, in this respect, as I deem them—who, while
upholding the same doctrines with ourselves, speak lightly
of our articles and of our government as cumbrous and
inefficient protections to the truths of the gospel ybich
they are designed to conserve. Will such a course. be
adopted in high places as to justify this imputation ?-
When the recent Bishop of Oxford exerted his au-
thority in suspending the publication of the "Tracts for
the Times," hisintetference was gratefully acknowledged
in a memorial from the clergy of Liverpool. The dis-