The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

MAYOR or SIMEWSDURT.—On Tuesday Int, Thomc

ff rcys Badger, Esq., was unanimously elected Mayor of
Shrewsbury for the ensuing year. We believe Mr. Badger is
nephew of Dr. Jeffreys, of this town.
AMPIIITHEATRE.—MR. CARMAN'S BENEFIT.—Mr .Car-
man, the polite and ever obliging box bookkeeper of this
theatre, takes his benefit on Tuesday, He puts forth a bill
of more than ordinary attraction. A new piece, written by
Mrs. Carman, will be performed : report speaks highly of it.

THEATRE-ROYAL.-To-night Miss Ellen Tree—the prima
donna of the English stage, talented as fair, and good as
gold—will take her benefit. " The Gamester" is to be
played, Charles Kean and herself filling the parts of Mr.
and Mrs. Beverley. " The Belles Stratagem" concludes the
evening's entertainments. Such an intellectual beat has
not been afforded the play-goers for a long time. Miss Ellen
Tree's Juliet, on Tuesday last, was an exquisite performance.

MRS. GARDNER THE AURIST.—Those who are suffering
from deafness should by all means apply to Mrs. Gardner,
previous to her quitting Liverpool. Her mode of treatment
has been highly commended.

LECTURE ON THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND LABOURS OF
DR. FRANKLIN.-Our estimable townsman, the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, has consented to deliever a lecture on this
at the Royal Amphitheatre, on Wednesday, in behalf of the
funds of the Printers' Pension Society. The novelty of the
subject, the fame of the reverend lecturer, and the philan-
throphy of the object, can scarcely fail in securing a crowded
auditory. Mr. M'Neile, we understand, was requested to
deliever this lecture by a numerous body of gentlemen, many
of whom are connected with the United States, who wished
to hear his views before the Franklin's press, now exhibit-
ing iu the Medical Hall, leaves this country.

SUBSCRIPTION CONCBRTS.—It will be• perceived, by the
advertisement which appears elsewhere, that. the subscription
concerts are to take place this year as usual. The spirit and
enterprize of the projector—for hazardous and troublesome
are they in the getting up—deserve cordial support from
those wno profess to love music. There is no other man in
town, we• verily believe, who would undertake the manage.
!tient of these concerts at his own risk but `Zr. Ashton ; and
if, on one or two occasions, some trifling disappointment
should have occurred, the public ought to look at the average
quantity of delight and entertainment afforded them, and
they will find an immense balance of pleasure in their favour.
We believe the engagements this season will be upon a very
liberal scale. We recommend those who wish to give their
patronage to the concerts, to send in their names as early as
possible, so that the manager may have an idea what he has
reason to expect.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, between nine
and ten o'clock, as a youth aged fifteen years, named Daniel
M`Vicar, was engaged in guiding some bales of cotton that
were being lowered from a top room of a warehouse in Or-
ford-street, east side of the Salthouse Dock, to the cellar
below, one of the bales which had not been attached to the
rope fell from the fifth story upon his head, and so dreadfully
injured him that he died in about two minutes. It appeared
that one of the men employed in the room in sending out
the cotton, put the bale on a truck, and wheeled it to what
he considered a proper distance from the door, preparatory
to itsbeing slung, and that being of an unequal form at the
end, it overbalanced when he set it down and fell over, strik-
inz the deceased, who was on the footwalk, close to the
cellar-hole. The head of the deceased was dreadfully
smashed, the skull being fractured, and the face frightfully
mutilated. His body was immediately conveyed to the
dead-house. Deceased was the son of a ship-carpenter.
An inquest was held on view of the body before Mr. Currie,
in the afternoon, when a verdict was returned of " Acciden-
tal death," with a deodand of ;63 on the bale, which was the
property of Messrs. Isaac Lowe and Co.

CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND

We learn with pleasure that this important Institution for
affording Christian Education to the Irish poor, is carrying
on its labour of love in-our sister land with much success.
Called into existence by the sudden and total withdrawal
of the public funds from any system of education which the
members of the church could conscientiously concur in, it
has been zealously advanced to a considerable maturity, in a
very short period, (two years, we believe,) -by the happy co-
operation of his Grace the Lord Primate, the bishops and
clergy of Ireland, together with many of the laity of the
church. The originating and maintaining, in firm opposition
to a government system of education, OIL; institution was a
bold and decided step, such as we are aware the Primate of
Ireland would not have taken without adequate and all-
constraining reasons; nor wold his Grace the Primate of
England have given his sanction to the proceeding, as we
learn he has, unless he also had seen its necessity, and been
fully satisfied of the adaptation of the means employed for
effecting the great and blessed ends proposed by the society.
It is not our purpose to specify at this moment the various
cogent reasons
.that doubtless actuated the Irish church in
refusing to. receive aid for their schools through the National
Board ; nor can we now-enlarge upon the many evils perpe-
trated by this grievously misnomered thing ' • happily in Li-
verpool it is not necessary for us to do so. There is, how-
ever, one glaring evil which we cannot pass by, but for the
exposure of which a few words will suffice. The National
Board was established for the express purpose of giving

" united" education, and the money of the country was
voted for this express purpose by the English liberals.
Moreover, to gain this so desirable object—desirable if gained
honestly—men who professed the truth were called upon to
make great sacrifices. All " initiating" doctrines were to
be laid aside ; all " distinctive" opinions discarded ; and the
creeds of the various " sects" being lowered to the standard
of those who believed the least ; they were told there was to
be simplicity and lovely harmony in the Irish system of
education. Such was the picture drawn—such the promises
made to deceive the nation. Now have these promises been
fulfilled? What is the reality? Has the high price paid,
even the sacrifice of truth, secured the object of " union ?"
Far from it. The church stood aloof from the board; the
high popish party stood aloof; the presbyterians stood
aloof. The Board of " United" Education was a failure ; it
wao. evidently on its last legs. What was to be done?—
honestly confess the failure and give up. No ; it became
squeezable. We are indebted to Dr. Cooke, of Belfast, for
the application of this term, and the evidence of the fact we
state, in the Doctor's words ; they occur in a letter in which
be seeks to justify the conduct of the presbyterians of Ire-
land, while they condemn the system receive aid from
the Board; he says, " still (as a system) it is not better, its
managers have only, like their employer, become more
squeezable ;' and presbyterians, without accepting one par-
ticle of the system, have extracted from it a public institu-
tion, an endowment for AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF
THEIR OWN.

The Board is equally squeezable in the case of Popery, it
being stated, in answer to an enquiry on the subject, that no
peculiar favour was shewn to the Presbyterians; and that
the like.arrangement was open to all other parties.
We have it therefore proved, that the Board of " United "
Education has become an instrument of education—for any-
thing that appears to the country—infinitely split, divided,
and parcelled out, affording to all who may choose to apply,
be they Presbyterians, Papists, and Socinians, endowments
for an educational system of eir own. This is the chief
point with which, as journalists, we have to do. This is the
chief point which ought to be brought before parliament.
The sophism of " united education" is exploded. The na-
tional sin of devoting the public money to the direct propa-
gation of error is avowedly perpetrated. Parliament must
either endorse this iniquity, or the Irish National Board must
be treated as having betrayed its trust, and be forthwith re-
modelled or extinguished altogether.

The Irish Chur-ch, very properly not satisfying itself with
an idle protest, has established a system large and catholic
in its plan, and thoroughly scriptural in its principle, which
seems admirably suited to promote the best interests of Ire-
land ; the Church Education Society seeks to enable the pa-
rochial clergy to offer to all a good and suitable religious
education, taking the unmutilated Word of God as the basis ;
and while securing for the children of the church instruction
in the catechism and other formularies, forcing them upon
none who object to their use.
We are glad to learn that the Rectors of Liverpool have
expressed themselves ready to give their valuable support to
this society, and to encourage the formation of an auxiliary
in this town, one of them taking the chair at a meeting to be
held shortly for the purpose, of which due notice will be given
when the arrangements are fully made.
We desire to press upon our readers the duty of supporting
with liberal contributions this society ; and though the claims
that are daily made upon their liberality and Christian zeal
are heavy and numerous, yet we feel assured there will be a
cheerful response given to the appeal about to be made in
behalf of the Church of Ireland and Scriptural Education,
recommended as it is by the patronage and approval of our
excellent Rectors. _ _ _

Thousands in Ireland are looking to the effect of this ap-
peal to English liberality, and thousands may be benefited in
time and eternity if only liberality be exercised; for the
Church Education Society has immediate and large oppor-
tunities for extending the blessings of Christian education
through the length and breadth of the land, Romanists and
Protestants gladly availing themselves of the proffered boon—
the limit being want of funds for maintaining a sufficient
number of schools under properly qualified teachers.