The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

HAYDOCK LODGE,
ASHTON, NEAR WARRINGTON.
THE INSANE.-ADDITIONAL ACCOAIMODA-
TION has been made in this beautiful, salubrious, and
comfortable Residence. There are now VACANCIES for Two
Ladies and One Gentleman, in detached rooms, with separate
service ; for Three Ladies and for Two Gentlemen of the First
Class, and for Five Patients in. the Second and Third Classes.
GRIFFITH JONES, Secretary.

FUND FOR THE TEMPORAL RELIEF OF THE
SUFFERING POOR OF IRELAND,
THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE CLERGY
OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

"Whoso bath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassin from him, how
dwelleth the love of God in him ?"-1 John iioi. 17.
"As we have therefore opportunity, let ns do good unto all
men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith."—
Gal. vi. 10.

The COMMITTEE appointed so manage the above fund, in
this their third Address to the Christians of the United Empire,
beg leave to direct especial attention to the agency which they
have, from the first, been led to adopt, and winch will, they
trust, continue to commend itself, as being at once simple,
inexpensive and efficient—they allude to the Clergy of the
Church of Ireland, upwards of two thousand of whom are
widely scattered over this country, even in its wildest and re-
motest parts.
Calumniated as the religion of Protestants has been to our
Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen, it is surely a matter of the
utmost moment that we should exhibit a practical refutation of
such slanders, and demonstrate to all, now in the period of Ire-
land's dire emergencyi thatours is a "faith which worketh by
love," even to enemies. ,This the Committee feel. persuaded
can be•effectually done by continuing to use the Clergy of the
Established. Church as the dispensers of the bounty entrusted
to their care by their fellow Christians. Thus, also, a gua-
rantee is given that none of their funds will be expended on
improper objects, or for the promotion of improper ends.
The Committee, moreover, feel that sympathy for the suffer-
ing clergy themselves requires this at their hands. Placed in
the midst of a fiery trial of famine -and disease, their houses
are daily surrounded by dying multitudes of all religions per-
snasions, who look up to them as their natural and tried bene-
factors. ,It surely becomes their brethren of the household of
faith to lighten, as far as may lie in their power, the heavy load
of anxiety under which the) labour—anxiety for the spiritual,
as well as temporal, welfare of the perishing multitudes over
whom the providence of God has placed them, and who are
now brought, through his inscrutable wisdom and goodness, to
receive,with deeper attention than ever before, the lessons of
.divine ruth. _

The Committee have received many testimonies, from differ-
ent parts of the country, to the value of their exertions, for
the necessity for the instrumentality they are employing. One
clergyman writes as follows:—
"Will you convey to the Committee my sincere thanks for
their aid, Through the assistance kind friends have given me,
I have been enabled to make myself felt as the rector of the
parish. I have two boilers established, six miles apart, in the
poorest districts of my parish. I have now a bakery at work
in the hart of a mountain district, thus giving the poor on the
mountains bread 3d. under the usual price, tesbles saving them
a walk of fourteen or fifteen miles. A second bakery will be
set up in a few days. I gave free tickets on our poor kitchen
to many—to widows, to the sick, to families, no member of
which was earning wages. Fever rages. The money entrusted
to me has saved menu lives. The whole of the money raised
for the soup kitchen, and for relieving the sick poor, has been
placed at my sole disposal. I have asked a most worthy pa-
rishioner to be my treasurer. He, his wife, and I, manage the
money. Your committee will believe, that administering nearly
individual relief, in a parish of upwards of 25,000 acres, is a
matter of no light labour." •
The Committee deem it unnecessary, in their present appeal,
to adduce further proof of a fact, now by all admitted, that
calamity, on a national scale, and of unparalleled severity, has
befallen the land. Their earnest prayer is, that 'national re-
pentance and humiliaticin may in time ensue, "lest someworse
thing come upon us." In conclusion, they desire.it to be un-
derstood, that the benefits of this fund are not confined to Any
district, or to professors of any particular creed, but are de-
signed to he coextensive with the misery that prevails. CAN
THIS APPEAL BE MADE TO BRITISH CHRISTIANS IN VAIN?
Contributions for Special Districts, or the General Fund (as
also articles of clothing) will be thankfully received and ac-
knowledged by the Rey. WM. APlLwAixis, Incumbent of St.
George's (lurch; or the-Rey. THEOPHILUS CAMPBELL, In-
cumbent of Trinity Church. Honorary Secretaries.
Clerical Rooms, Belfast, Feb. 9, 11447.