The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

fication

The religious question connected with the direction
and management of the schools, is a distinct evidence

that neutrality is a disqualifying circumstance, or
certainly ought to be such, in any man coming for-
ward as a candidate for municipal preferment. It is

not, as we have before intimated, the quesation just now,
how or in what way the educational course of the schools
ought to be conducted; but as there are schools in which
a large portion of the children of the humbler classes
derive their education, and as the Radical party con-
tend for a system of an extremely latitudinarian character
as to religion, it is necessarily a point of great importance
to give a preponderance in the 'council to men of whose
attachment to church principles we have the strongest
Let the burgesses in their several wards

assurance

choose good Conservatives, and then we shall be satis-
fied that the " plan for the management of the schools
to be proposed early in the ensuing year by the rectors
and clergy of the town," as mentioned by the gentle-
man who attended at the Toxteth Wards meeting, on
Friday last, or whatever other plan-may be deemed ad-
visable, Will be fairly considered. A Conservative
council, it must be presumed, will act consistently with
its own principles on this point as well as upon every
other, whatever those principles be. Our Liberal
mayor [locus a non lucendo] may deem it " imperti-
nent" for a councillor to make any inquiry concerning
the religious' profession of the master or mistress of a
school endowed or supported out of the civic funds;
but a Conservative mayor or council will think differ-
ently. What we would expect of a Conservative coun-
cil would be the establishment in the schools of the
religious ascendancy of the national church, but not
in such a way as to beintolerant of religious liberty in '
such as may conscientiously, though erroneously, dis-
sent from it. This is the principle which has been
adopted by the Presbyterians in Ireland, and upon
which they now receive aid from the National Board
of Education in that country. The rule of their
schools is Scriptural education, and the Catechism of
the General Assembly—that is to say, in other words,
Presbyterian Education ; this is their rule, but it is
not a rule to which they make no exception ; it is the
rule, but they relax it in behalf of Roman Catholic
children whose parents come forward and record their
disapprobation. By this means Roman Catholic and
other children are ziot debarred the general education
conveyed in their schools. Less than this we could
not expect from any body of men who were sincere in

their own religious profession, more, we do not know,
that we should require. This is the principle on which

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A.FPOINTNI

~....erstand that the Rev. R. T.
Wheeler, curate of St. Anne's Church, Lancaster, has been
?pointed by the vicar'of Blackburn to the benefice of St
,john's' o.vangelist, in Blackburn, vacant by the resir
Nation of the R Jackson Porter.

John's th

APPOINTMg.ST.—The Bev. Thomas G. XX aim) has open
appointed by the vicar of Blackburn to the benefice of Im-
manuel Church, eniscowles, vacant by the resignation of
the Rev. George Ediunndson, now vicar of Sainttield, in the
diocese of Diiwn and Connor
Our renders will observe

an advertisement in another
column, informing them of the intention of Mrs. Gardner
to prolong her Stay till the 10th November. As this ladv
has been very successful in the cure of deafness, we should
conceive the opportunity will be embraced by all who impor-
tunately require her aid.

THE. HALIFAX STEAMEILS.—According to the terms of
contract the Mail Steam-packet Company of proprietors is
bound to wait the pleasure or orders of government at home,
or British authorities abroad, to the extent of a detention be-
yond the appointed day of sailing of 48, or at the most GO
hours it is believed.

STEALING A WATCH.—Charles Houghton was charged at
the Police-office, on Wednesday, with having stolen a gold

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watch, worth about twelve guineas, the property of William
Thomas, Esq., of London. The prisoner seeing the com-
plainant in a state of intoxication, in the Old Haymarket, on
Sunday evening, went up to him and asked him what time it
was, and seeing the watch, immediately seized it and ran off.
A cry of " stop thief" was raised, and the prisoner secured.
He was committed for trial.

PURCHASE or WOODSIDE FERRY

—A public meeting of

the inhabitants of Birkenhead was held on Monday evening
last, in the Town-hall, for the purpose of taking into consi-
deration the propriety of the commissioners purchasing the
Woodside Ferry, on behalf of the township, and of autho-
rising the commissioners to take the necessary steps for that
purpose. It was very numerously and respectably attended.
The chair was occupied by John Deane Case, Esq. The
chairman detailed the objects of the meeting, laying before
the assembly the proceedings of the commissioners, touch-
ing the proposition of the railway company to form a tunnel
and to sell the ferry. He then alluded to the offer of Mr.
Jackson to purchase the ferry and the subsequent tender of
the Ferry by Mr. Jackson to the commissioners. On the
15th October it was resolved by the commissioners that it
would be beneficial to accede to the terms of Mr. Jackson's
contract, that an act of parliament should be obtained for
embodying the necessary provisions for insuring the prospe-
rity of the township, that the surplus of the profits of the
ferry should go towards a reduction of the rates on the inha-
bitants ; that a committee should be appointed for settling the
contracts and reporting to a general meeting of the commis-
sioners ; that the commissioners were not to .be made per-
sonally liable ; and that the railway company should have the
power to construct a tunnel. The committee so appointed
had very minutely investigated the books of the Woodside
Ferry, and, in consequence of the report they had made to
the commissioners that very evening; the commissioners were
most warmly prepared to tell the meeting to authorise them
to go on with the purchase of the terry. The resolution to
be proposed was as follows :—The commissioners having ma-
turely considered the advantages which the township would
derive from the purchase of the Woodside Ferry from the
Railway Company and F. R. Price, Esq., recommend such
purchase to this meeting, resolved, that this meeting autho-
rise the commissioners to make the purchase on such terms
as they may think proper, and that authority being given to
apply to parliament for an act for regulating the said ferry,
and for obtaining the funds required for the purchase, and
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that so soon as the draft of the act is prepared, and before it

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is introduced to parliament, the commissioners do lay the
same before a general meeting of the inhabitants." The re-
solution was put and carried unanimously. In reply to a
question, Mr. Mallaby, the clerk to the commissioners, said
they had the power of compelling the Corporation of Liver-
pool to provide suitable landing places for the ferry steamers,
and he had no doubt for cattle and merchandise. They could
by mandamus compel the Dock Trustees to do all that they
wished free from any check or control. The ferry would be
of great advantage in reducing the rates, but Mr. Mallaby
thought it would be injudicious to enter too widely into the
question, for by so doing they would make too apparent the
advantages they possessed.

CAUTION TO DRIVERS OF COACHES AND CARS.-011
Thursday the 14th instant, about 12 o'clock, a very serious
accident occurred at the corner of Leece-street and Berry-
street, in consequence of the very quick driving of a car. An
elderly lady, who had only just stepped of the footpath, was
knocked down, and the wheels of the car went over both her
legs, fracturing one, and most severely lacerating the other.
The driver of the car, after turning his head and seeing the
lady laying in the street, drove rapidly down Bold-street.
On Wednesday last the man was summoned to appear before
Mr. Rushton, who exacted the full penalty of forty shillings
and costs for so driving, connected with the unfeeling con-
duct exhibited after the accident. The decision of the magis-
trate does not prevent the relatives of the lady (who only
arrived in town the last Tuesday evening), obtaining that
redress which the law provides for in such cases. Every day
witnesses the danger to which foot passengers are exposed,
by the improper manner in which both coaches and cars are
driven down Leece-street and Bold-street, but it is hoped
that the present melancholy circumstance, and the decision
of the magistrate, will serve as a timely warning for the future.
The driver of the car is considered by his master as the most
steady man he has in his employ, but this circumstance was
not deemed sufficient to justify any mitigation of the penalty.
Tnz Wnic POLLUTION.—If the end of the world itself
is not drawing near, surely the end of the whig portion of it,
in Liverpool, at least, must be at hand. The kid glove has
shaken fists with the brawny wielder of the three-pronged
fork. The " broad-cloth" of whiggery is shoulder to shoul-
der with the serge and fustian. The new calf-skin is under
the same alehouse bench with the new vamped ; and the
Rat hbones and Earles are "hail fellows, well met" with the
Casey* and the Gallaghers. Tom Brown smokes his black
stump in the same atmosphere with the Havannah of his
aristocrat acquaintance; and the dingy fingers of Mr. Mickey
Dermot are obtruded without hindrance amongst the rappee,
wherewith the scion of an ex-councillor titillates his olfactory
nerve. Omens these, we think, of a fallen state, if not of
the end of all things ; symptoms of running into disreputable
courses, if not also of approaching ruin. " Call you this
backing your friends," Mr. John Rosson ? Sad backing—
cruel kindness—destructive protectorship A few more
weeks of this hobnobbing in back streets, between whiggery
and its sweet-scented allies, and we wouldn't give five shil-
lings each for the coats or the characters of the whole whig
fraternity. We meet already, as we cross " the flags," some
visitations, which resemble the lingering effluvia of tobacco
and beer, from the overnight's conversazione, far more than
the scents of " distilled essences ;" and what then must be
the result of that constant association with rank smelling,
greasy companions, towards which whiggery, under demoral-
izing and dangerous protectorship, is rapidly verging ? a
taint, we fear, which an ocean of lavender water, or hogs-
head of eau de cologne would not be sufficient to wash away ;
and which it may even require some years of rigorous
exposure to the open air to get entirely rid of, at least so far
as to be rendered presentable either in a drawing-room or in
the council. And yet, notwithstanding the gulf which is
before them, it is perfectly lamentable to observe how lightly
some of the infatuated amble almig, hugging the conscious-
ness of their borrowed sweetness, and luxuriating in the
" verdant mud," with which they are bespattered. We never
meet the candidate of Great George's Ward, in particular,
without a sigh for his misguided and pitiable condition. He
has evidently no misgivings with respect either to his com-
pany or the road he is upon ; but is evidently ready to " go
the whole hog," and roll in the " verdant" commodity before
mentioned. He is ready to drink the circean cup to the
dregs, and

"Grace is in all his steps, fire in his eye,".

as he whisks past us, rejoicing in the growth of his bristles
and tusks—those

"Sad marks of his unhappy state"

to those who have not, like him, subMitted to the wiles of
the enchantress. We could weep, John ,Rosson, for the
consequences of your doings !
Tun MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The following is, we be-
lieve, a correct list of the candidates at the approaching mu-
nicipal election :
W argils. Conservatives. .Reformers.
Everton . Thomas Shaw M. Ashcroft
Scotland lsaac Holmes George Quayle
Vauxhall
St. Paul's Joshua Edwards Chris. Rawdon
Exchange — Ridgway Henry Holmes
Castle-street
St. Peter's . Ebenezer Rae J. Woolright
Pitt-street James Aspinall Hugh Hornby
Great George James Lawrence W. Rathborie
Rodney-street H. Lawrence C. Holland
Abereromby R. Gladstone John Cooper
Lime-street
St. Anne's James Parker Thos. Chalmer
West Derby ...... J. Shaw Leigh
South Toxteth .... Simon L. Trotman Wm. H. Tayleur
North Toxteth .... Alexander Smith W. Lockerby.
ROBBERY OF TEN GUINEAS.—Three females, of aban-
doned character, were put forward on Wednesday before Mr.
Rushton, on a charge of having robbed Mr. William Rafferty,
American shipping agent and provision dealer, Waterloo-
road, of a pnrse containing the sum of .£lO in sovereigns and
lOs in silver. The complainant deposed that between the
hours of ten and eleven o'clock, on Saturday night last, he
was passing through Garden-lane, and observed a number of
girls standing outside the door of the house in which the pri-
soners resided, one of whom laid hold of him by the arm,
while another gave him a shove, and a third whipped the
hat off his head and ran with it into the house. He imme-
diately pursued her up stairs, where lie found six women in a
room. One of them threw the hat to the upper end of the
apartment, and then the whole six flocked round him and
made a tremendous uproar in the place. He asked for the
mistress of the house, when a female came up and said she
was the person. He asked her for his hat, whereupon she
told him to give the girls something to drink, and that his
" beaver" would be safely returned. Hearing the noises of
several other women in the kitchen underneath, it struck
him that he had no other remedy but to give them money to
drink, and lie accordingly banded them a shilling, but had
no sooner done so than the three prisoners, assisted by two
others, threw him against the jam of the window, and held
him so fast that lie could only make a couple of kicks at them
with his feet. They succeeded, while holding him in this
position, in lightening him of his purse, containing the ten
guineas. Ile called for a policeman several times. but no
officer appeared to be within hearing; and he was induced
to sit quietly down in the house, and abide the result, in con-
sequence of having been informed by a man that it would be
better for him to make no noise, and that if he kept quiet
the woman who had stolen his money would return and re-
store it to him. Believing this advice to be well meant, he
acted upon it to the letter, and made no further noise what-
ever, and remained in the house until between six and seven
o'clock the followiag morning. About that time a boy en-
tered the place, and said that if the complainant followed him
he would procure the money. He did so. The boy took him
to a place where a person would have to crawl upon his hands
and knees to effect an entrance. As the complainant wa.s,
preparing to enter, a woman came up to him and said that it
he went in his brains would be dashed out by the wretches
inside, and that the boy was absolutely leading him there for
the purpose of having an end put to him for euer. Of course,
after receiving this friendly intimation, he refused to proceed
further. The complainant concluded by stating that he took,
two or three of his companions to the house with a view of
trying whether he could obtain any tidings of his money, but
it was all to no purpose : the purse as well as the money had
vanished. The prisoners were committed for trial on the
charge of having aided and assisted in the commission of the
robbery.
MEETING OF THE DOCK COMNIITTEE.—The weekly
meeting of the Dock Committee was held yesterday, but the
business done was of a mere routine description. The N
fol-
lowing members were present :—Messrs. Benn, (chairman,/
Horsfall, Hornby, Mellor, Holmes, Evans, G. Holt, Aiken'
T. Holt, Smith, Tobin, Chapman, Ripley, and Middleton.
The tender of Messrs. Bibby and Sons, to supply a quantitY,
of pozzolano was accepted. John Probert was appointFil
keeper of the store at the Queen's Graving Dock • and the
sum of £lO was ordered to be given to Benjamin,Bambe.rt
whose furniture was partially destroyed by the late fireni..lo
Watkinson-strect, in consideration of his having been
service of the estate for a period of fifty years. The ‘l`,L
veyor was directed to report upon the propriety of placing -
lamp at the head of Clarence Graving Deck. and also as, toci
the fixing of an additional mooring buoy at the south en"
Queen's Dock. Fifty copies of the chart of the Welsh CnsF'
-.3 Oa°
by Rear-Admiral Carden, were Ordered to be taken. grid
I meeting separated.

PORTICO CONCERTS.—The fourth concert will take place
this evening at the Portico Rooms. A most excellent pro-
gramme has been arranged. The last concert went off ex-
tremely well, and was attended numerously.
SMUGGLING.—A seaman, named James Hogan, was
yesterday, fitted £lOO, on an information laid by Mr. Young,
of the Customs, for conveying on shore 10Ih. of tobacco from
the ship Eagle, that had not paid duty. The captain of the
ship gave him a very good character, and Mr. Rushton said
his case should be favourably represented to the Board, in
London.

Sir Robert Peel, since his accession to power, emulates the
early rising and personal devotion to the duties of his high
office of his great colleage the Duke of Wellington. The
express train from Liverpool, conveying the papers and
despatches brought by the South American packet-ship, and
the Caledonia mail steam-ship, reached town on Wednesday
morning before six o'clock. Files of the papers were in-
stantly

forwarded to Sir Robert Peel's residence, where, at
that early hour, they found the right hon. baronet already
engaged, with his two private secretaries, on public business.

We understand the bazaar held by the Ladies Society con-
nected with the two Scottish Churches in this town—Dr•

!.i alph's and M

Park's, through the 1

IROBBERY EXTRAORDINARY.
ENGAGING A TRAVELLING COMPANION TO GO TO AMERICA!

At the Police-court yesterday, a man with bushy light hair,
wearing a crab-coloured macfntosh coat, buttoned up, was
placed at the bar, charged with robbing a genteel-looking
young man, who had just arrived from America, of a con-
siderable sum of money, under circumstances of so novel a
nature and showing so much cunning effrontory on his part,
and so much simplicity on that of his dupe, that we furnish
the evidence of the principal witness nearly as it was given :
The complainant, Philip WEvoy said,—l am a joiner, and
came to Liverpool yesterday, by the steamer Caledonia, from
America. We landed at the Coburg Dock about ten o'clock
yesterday ; I was on the quay, when a young man came and
asked me if. I would accommodate him with an American
newspaper. I went on board the vessel, and procured one.
I went on shore with it and found the man. I said I had not
the pleasure of knowing his name. He said it was " Smith."
I then gave him the newspaper. Smith then invited me to
the Coburg hotel (which is close to the dock), and called for
a glass of ale and a glass of wine. I drank the ale, and
Smith the wine. As we were drinking our glasses, the prisoner,
Michaelponnelly, and another man, came into the same
room

It was the first time I bad seen them. Smith and I
were talking about the newspaper. The prisoner said " I
ihould like to travel in America. I have lately had a property
of £9OOO left me in Liverpool, and I will give you £lOO if
you will travel with me as a companion for twelve months."
I consented. Smith said, I will go bail with him for £5O,
though I have not seen him before. The prisoner then said
" Have you any money, to show that you are respectable ?"
I then produced six sovereigns and a half sovereign, and
laid them on the table. The prisoner said, "Is that all
you can show ?" I said, "No; if you will remain at the
door of the hotel, I will go on board and get more money, if
that will make a person respectable." The prisoner agreed,
and I went on board the vessel, and got twenty sovereigns.
four guineas, and four half-sovereigns. I went on shore and
found Smith and the prisoner at the door. They agreed to
take a lunch. They whispered together, but I did not know
what they said. They then said, "Let us take a walk and
have lunch." I said, " Very well, as I have not taken
breakfast." Smith said, " Have you got it?" I said, " I
have, but lam not going to show it in the street." He said,
" Let us walk on," and we went to the Union Hotel. in
Clayton-square. Smith ordered beef steaks for three. The
prisoner ordered some gin and bitters to increase the appe-
tite, which was brought and drunk. Smith called for pen,
ink, and paper, and said, " I will prepare a bond between
you for the due payment of £lOO, as your salary from Don-
nelly." It was afterwards agreed to put it off till afterlunch.
We' took lunch. Smith then proposed that we should go
with him to a friend of his, an attorney, to draw out the
md. I saw the prisoner pay for the lunch. He said, " I
shall be greatly offended if any one else.offers to pay for it."
Smith and I were about to put our hats on. Donnelly said,
" You are not going that way." Smith then produced his
purse and said, Have you any doubts ?" and counted out
what he called thirty-five or thirty-six sovereigns, and placed
them on the table. When I saw that I took out my purse,
and counted my sovereigns, guineas, and half-sovereigns,
and laid them on the table. Donnelly took them and
put them into my purse, and placed it near him, and
said, " Now lam satisfied that you will come back." Smith
and I then left the house to go to the attorney's. When
we got about 100 yards from the hotel, Smith said, " Stop
here, until I see whether the attorney is in ; I think he will
be at dinner." I remained there about ten minutes. Smith
did not return. 1 went to the hotel. The prisoner was
gone. I made inquiry, and learned that he had left in two
or three minutes after us. I afterwards saw the landlord,
who informed me that I had been duped, and advised me to
go to the police, and I was taken to High-street. I was di-
rected to the railway. I went, and there saw constable
M`Whan, (No. 70) who stationed me in the yard, when I
would have a view of the offices. I waited about an hour,
and then saw the prisoner coming out of the Manchester
booking-office. I went up to him and said, " Is that you?"
He said " holloa! come this way, I want to speak to you."
I held him by the collar, and McWhan came and took him
into an office. McWhan searched him, and found on him
my purse, four guineas, 15 sovereigns, two half-sovereigns,
twelve shillings, 9id. in copper money, and a silver watch. I
went to Bridewell. The prisoner there said in a whisper—
" I have your money--don't condemn me." I left the six
sovereigns and the half sovereign on the table at the Coburg
Hotel, while I went on board for my other money. It was
all taken.

Constable McWhan stated, that about half-past four on
Wednesday afternoon, Mr. McEvoy informed him ct the
robbery ; that he placed him as stated in the yard of the
railway station ; and that on seeing McEvoy collar the pri-
soner, he went up, pushed him into an office, and found the
money and purse. He also found in the purse a 45 flash
note, four dice, and a ticket of his as having paid his fare to
Manchester. The property was produced, and Mr. McEvoy
identified the purse, and said he believed the sovereigns it
contained, &c., including the four guineas, were his.
The prisoner put some questions to the complainant, who
said the guineas and the purse were•his. The prisoner said
he bad had the purse a long time, and requested the magis-
trate to look at the coin called guineas in the purse, and it
would be found that they were merely silver shillings which
he had got gilt for counters in playing a game at whist, by a
man named Corless, a publican and watch-gilder, in Church-
alley, near St. Peter's Church. . .

The coin. (representing guineas) was accordingly looked at,
and were found to be in reality only silver shillings gilt. The
complainant said, that if they were not guineas, he had taken
them for such. He had changed some American money be-
fore he embarked. He referred to respectable parties who
could give him a good character. These facts were not taken
in evidnce, and, as it appeared clear that the gilt shillings
had been substituted for the guineas in the purse, the pri-
soner was ordered for trial at the sessions. On being finally
asked what he bad to say, he said " Nothing," and refused
to sign the depositions.
The patties were then bound over, and the prisoner re-
moved from the bar.