The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL CHURCH OF ENGLAND SUNDAY

SCHOOL INSTITUTE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR' —I was in hopes that on this day you would have
had to inform my fellow-teachers that this institute was
established on a plan similar to the one that has worked
so usefully in London. I believe there are hundreds of
teachers in Liverpool who are anxiously looking for the
opportunity of meeting, as members of the Church of
England, to consider how best to carry on their work in
accordance with their beloved church. To our clergymen
we look for aid, not for ourselves only, but for others
whom we long to see trained to follow in our steps ; and
to you we appeal to make our wishes known through that
press which has ever been ready to help us. One way
suggests itself. Will you be so kind as to print the
following extracts from the introductory lecture delivered
in the metropolis by the Rev. J. Harding, M.A., and
thus oblige many others, as well as
A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER.
January 4, 1847. _ .

" Association and combination constitute the chief fea-
tures of our day. For good and for ill they are equally re-
sorted to. Men feel more and more the value of that power
which they gain in union one with another ; and our. In-
stitute is an attempt to bring that power into operation
for the benefit of our Sunday schools, in connection with
the Church. of England. We want the opportunity of
co-operation as members of the Church of England.
There are many topics which, as Churchmen, we feel to
be of importance, and information concerning which we
desire to collect and to communicate.

" There are many plans which, as Churchmen, we
should feel anxious to try, many books for the use of our
Schools which we should be glad to procure, many aids to
the carrying out of such systems of instruction as we con-
sider congenial with, or indispensable to, the design of
Church of England Schools.
"So again as to the Church—her history, her princi-
ples, and her practices—we hope that our library and our
lectures will be the means of affording much valuable in-
struction, of answering many questions, defending cer-
tain positions, and clearing up some obscurities, which
our formularies and our Church-system necessarily in-
volve. And whatever, by books or otherwise, we can
procure, of useful direction on all points touching the
Sunday School Teacher's personal labours,. we shall con-
sider as of primary importance to communicate."
" Moreover it will be especially endeavoured to obtain
such practical suggestions in reference to the working of
Sunday schools, as the experience of those who have had
the fullest opportunity to make their observations, and to
'form sound opinions, qualifies them to communicate.
We shall hope to establish correspondence with our bro-
ther churchmen labouring in distant parts of the same
field with ourselves. And so far as any of them shall
be disposed to communicate with us, by furnishing to us
information, and by aiding us in the operations on which
we feel able at once to enter, we shall heartily thank them
for the token of their good ill, and trust in due time to
be brought into closer and more intimate association with
them.
" Set forward in a determination to make this Institute
to tell on your qualifications and on your efficiency as
Sunday School teachers. Let there be a body of practical,
intelligent persons, using and improving the few advan-
tages we are able at present to provide ; and their own
sense of the value of those advantages, as well as others'
perception of its beneficial tendencies, will strengthen our
hands, increase our numbers, confirm our claim to the
confidence and co-operation of our brethren, enlarge our
means of doing good, and make our Institute an addi-
tional instrument for the honour of God, the service of
the church we love, and the welfare of immortal souls."

THE POOR.—The parish offices in Fenwick-street have
for several weeks presented an extraordinary scene.of con-
fusion, owing to the immense number of applicants for
relief, but yesterday the appeals were more numerous
than ever. The street was quite impassable. No fewer
than 1500 families, representing, on an average, three per-
sons, were yesterday relieved, of whom probably. three-
fourths were Irish. The relief dispensed during the day,
up to six o'clock last night, (and the distribution had then
by no means ceased,) was 2300 rations of bread, and 2700
soup tickets, in addition to a large snm in money. The
burdens on the ratepayers will be immensely increased by
this large outlay, but we see no means at present of light-
ening the pressure.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL-
'WAY.—On Friday evening, about half-past six o'clock,
the afternoon down express train ran down one of the
company's signal men at the Cheshunt station on the
above line, causing his immediate death. The man,
whose name is George Riggett, appears to have been in
the act of crossing the line with a signal lamp at the time
the train was passing the station.
MELANCHOLY CASE OF MURDER.—A most lamentable
occurrence has taken place at Caldbeck, the particulars of
which have not yet reached us. There is no doubt, how-
ever, that a highly respectable woman, of the name of
Sarah Stalker, has been murdered by her husband, Wm.
Stalker, a small farmer and shopkeeper in the above vil-
lage. An inquest was held yesterday (Thursday) after-
noon, by Mr. Carrick, coroner, which, we understand,
terminated the same evening, when a verdict of " wilful
murder by strangulation" was returned by the jury. The
husband had been confined in Dunstan Lodge Lunatic
Asylum from February to August last, when, at the
urgent solicitation of his unfortunate wife, he was dis-
charged.—Carlisle paper.
SUGAR.—The monthly circular-of Messrs. Wilkinson
and Jewsbury thus alludes to the operations in the pro-
duce markets at the close of the year :—" The business
transactions of the past month have been extensive, both
for colonial and foreign productions ; at the commence-
ment of the month the market was quiet and prices gave
way a little, but as the trade came forward to make their
accustomed purchases for this season of the year a large
business was done, and prices were fully sustained. The
article sugar, which may always be considered the pulse of
our working population, shows an increase for the nine
months ending in October of 6,627 tons over that of the cor-
responding period for the previous year, notwithstanding the
high price at which it has been ruling. In reviewing the
trade with which we are more intimately connected for the
past year we find that there has been a large and steady
business, but an almost entire absence of speculation, and
now that such increased facilities of communication are
open to parties at a distance to supply. themselves with
stock, it in some measure does away with speculation.
We look forward to a large and steady demand for the
present year, and a rise in prices in some of our principal
articles."

IS POPERY CHANGED ?—A letter from the Pope was
read last week, in the Irish Roman Catholic Chapels. It
announced " to the Catholic universe an indulgence in.
the form of a jubilee." The Pope says that he has " re-
solved to imitate the example which our predecessors
have given us in the announcement of their Pontificates,
by opening with apostolic liberality to the faithful of
Jesus Christ, the celestial treasures of indulgencies ;
and therefore gives a plenary indulgence with regard to
all their sins, to all who in Rome visit certain churches,
and shall pray there (within a time given) with devotion,
during some space of time ; and shall fast on the Wednes-
day? Friday, and Saturday of one of these weeks, and
during the period shall confess their sins, and reverently
receive the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist ; and
shall give alms to the poor, each one according to his
devotion; and to all others dwelling wheresoever it may
be, out of the aforesaid city of Rome, who shall twice
visit the churches appointed by the ordinaries of the se-
veral places or their vicars, or by those who have in these
parts the care of souls, or any one of them during a like
period of three weeks, which will be determined by the
above-named authorities, and shall perform with devotion
the other works above e,humerated."
M. Du PUGET.--This truly talented foreigner, who,
as announced elsewhere, will re-open his select boarding
and day school for young gentlemen, on the 20th instant,
has testimonials of the highest character, with the perusal
of which we have been extremely gratified ; and his suc-
cess hitherto in developing the respective abilities of his
scholars, justifies the high opinion with which his attain-
ments, and aptitude in conveying them to others,
have impressed themselves upon the minds of his friends.
M. Puget wasborn in the Canton de Vaud (in Switzerland)
of noble parents; but the recent political and religious
commotions in that country induced him to visit England,
and, until more peaceable times, to make it his home. He
was, for eight years, a student with the celebrated
Pestalozzi, and for four years' professor and pre-
ceptor of mathematics under him. Baron Lefroy
thus expresses his high opinion of M. Du Puget's

talents :—" He has a vigourous and energetic mind,
and from the circumstance of his having contrived to
make all the boys under his tuition more or less mathe-
maticians, and to know what they do know with great
precision, I consider him a peculiarly good teacher."
The Rev. A. Newcombe bears testimony to his religious
character ; and Lord de Vesei, states that he is well versed
in the Italian, German, and French languages, as well as

verer branches of-s-cieitce. These are extracts from but a
few of his numerous testimonials. His zeal is, we believe,
equal to his talents ; and, with a view to do full justice to
his pupils, he has limited the number to thirty. The cer-
tificates of his birth, and municipal privileges are very in-
teresting.

PORTRAIT OF THOMAS REVELL, ESQ.—On Wednesday
last, a dinner was given at the Low-hill Coffee-house, to
Thomas Revell, Esq., by the jurymen of the Halmote
Court, commonly called the West Derby Copyhold Court.
Nearly the whole of the jurymen were present, and several
other guests. George Whitley, Esq., deputy steward of
the manor, presided on the occasion. After dinner,
R. M. Beckwith, Esq., on behalf of the jurymen, presented
Thomas Revell, Esq., with a splendidly-executed portrait,
accompanied with the following appendix, in penman-
ship :—" Portrait of Thomas Revell, Esq. Presented
by the officers and members of the Jury of the Halmote
Court of West Derby, in the county of Lanca4ter, to
Thomas Revell, Esq., on the 30th day of December,
1816, as a mark of their esteem for the exemplary ability,
faithfulness, and urbanity, with which, for a period of
thirty years, he discharged the duties of foreman to
them. Lord of the Manor, the Most Noble the Marquis
of Salisbury ; Steward, John Shaw Leikh, Esq. ; Deputy-
steward, George Whitley, Esq. • I3aihff, Robert West-
more. Jury : John M`George, Thomas Roberts, Richard
Sanders, Peter Youd, William Walthew, William H.
Syers, Richard M. Beckwith, Samuel Lunt, Thomas
Crosbie, Jolm Hughes, James Knight, Thomas Hewitt,
James Wensley, Thomas Stananought, George Atkinson,
Robert Barlow, and John Kilshaw." The portrait, which
was painted in the first style, was by Mr. Cornelius
Henderson, of this town, and the appendage, which was
engrossed on vellum and placed in a gilt frame, was exe-
cuted with great taste and ingenuity, and contained fifteen
different characters. Mr. Revell appeared greatly affected
and replied in
.a brief but appropriate speech. 2.
drinking the health of the sub-committee, consisting of

William Walthew, Esq., and Peter Youd, Esq., appointed
to make the necessary arrangements for the presentatim!,
the company separated highly ,gratified with the evening's