The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-02 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARa

and the places of worship of Jews, Unitarians, &d. &c. In ibis'
statement we do not include the churches now building, which_
will accomodate at least 4000 additional persons. Again, it is
known that in 1833 the Statistical Society in this town made a
careful investigation, through their intelligent agent, of the state
of education in Manchester. They found that the Church Sun-
day-schools contained 10,284 scholars; the Wesleyan Metho-
dist, 9066; the dissenting, (inclusive of the Scotch kirk school,
&c.) 13,846. This number be it remembered, includes all sorts
and conditions of religionists—Roman Catholics, Independents,
Unitarians, Jews, Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians. It is also,
we believe, a notorious fact that some time prior to this inves-
tigatkinan agent of the Statistical society bad investigated the
condition of the population in. a district of the town inhabited
by the poor class almost exclusively : what did he find there
He visited 4102 families, of whom he found that in religion 2021
were members of the Established Church, 1473 Roman Catholics
(are they dissenters?), 591 dissenters
,(including Wesleyan
Methodists) and 17 professing no- religion."

Apply a similar test in other places--in Liverpool, for
instance—and the boasted numbers of these extremely,
forward and disgusting people will vanish into thin air.
We say to this " Standing Committee," " take heed
lest ye fall."

It is to please such worthies as these that Lord John
Russell consents to throw aside two out of three of the
Bills recommended by his own Church Commission,
after he'himself had declared that Ministers were bound,
in hanour to pass them or resign!

It affords us the utmost gratification and delight to
find that the amount already subscribed for,the erection
of the new Protestant Schools exceeds the sum- of Ten
Thousand,P6unds. We never for one moment supposed
that the Protestants would willingly turn a deaf 'Or to
any Call that might be made on them in the cause and in,
the defence of their religion. But when we .bring, to
mind that'this contribution has been effected. within the
limit of .a few weeks—When we recollect that, crowded
to suffocation 'almost as the Amphitheatre was, at the
period of the late meeting, it still could not contain more
than a mere fraction of the Protestants of this town, who.
then.. had the opPOrtunity afforded thein'orliCaringi
impressive' statements that were put .forth.:i:..Witaii,4e:
call these circumstances to rerneinbranee,46'reelih4`bite
expectations have been even more than abundantlyrealip-.,
ed, and that we in common with the major part of this-
great community, or, rather, shall wefnot, sap with t e
Protestants of every town and village in the kingdom.
where the glad tidings may have reachedtheir,eitrs',',feel
deeply grateful to those reverend gentlemen who called
that meeting together, and who themselves fearlessly
stood forward as the champions of the Church to- defend
her from the attacks of her foes, and, with a still further
view, to provide for the future instruction of the sons
and daughters of the poor and needy, that instruction
being based on the pure and unadulterated Word of God.
In whatsoever light we vievrthe intrinsic importance
of that meeting, whether local or national, we cannot,
at the first glance, form a proper estimate of the results
that are likely to accrue from it. The circumstances
under which it was called whilst they pointed out very
clearly the course the Clergy have since pursued were,
at the same time, somewhat novel in their character.
The expulsion of the Bible from the Corporation
Schools, by the band of Reforming unbelievers who now
rule our local concerns, had not been contemplated by
the Protestant Body. They were aware that their in-
terests were in the bands of those who, for the most part,
were not Christians ; but they did not suppose that an
act so disgracefully insulting to a Protestant community
bythe new Town Council. We
would ever be attempted'
pause, .too, when vice :consider the fact that the expulsion
of the Bible from the. Corporation Schools met with the
approbation of the Mayor of Liverpool, himself professing
Protestantism. , This we would rather have passed over
in silence, but justice requires that we should notice
it; collectively, however, we do not now regret the
course that has -been adopted. It matters not to us.
whether,the projector of their deeds be 'a papist or an
unitarian—both are the avowed enemies of the church;
but of this fact we are morally confident, that no human
power can ever raise the new town council from the
depths into which they have fallen by their conduct in
excluding the Bible from the corporation schoOls. They
have, it is to be, hoped,,. learned, cellectiVelyAnd indivi
dually, that the real protestant is not the mere.professor
of religion; that his Bible is to him the way, the truth,
and the life ; that with it he lives, without it he languish-
es and dies; and that, deprived of the light of its pre-
cepts, the world presents before him a thick, impenetra-
ble cloud of darkness and misery. For this the protes-
tant is prepared to offer up more than all his worldly
gains can ever give, and to hold that breath which to-
day is and to morrow is cut doWn ready to fall in defence
of his religion. But, apart from the high importance of
the example Liverpool has thus held out to other towns
to follow her footsteps, there are still advantages to enu-
merate, of which we have not yet spoken. We yield to
none in feeling and appreciating the value of a pure and
religious education to the poor, whence the Bible is
to be made the corner stone; but in no way could the
town council have so completely raised a monument to
perpetuate .the remembrance of their unholy proceedings
as by denying to the children of the poor the perfect
word of God, and thus urging on the protestants to their
protection, and to the proceedings they have taken. We
are delighted to hear that 1,200 children are now daily
drinking from the fountain of the pure water of life—a
number not less than were formerly in the old corpora-
tion schools. We learn that three schools, one at
each end and one in the centre of the town, are to be
erected immediately. We would suggest that over the
frontal of each building should be a written record of
those circumstances which caused the schools to be
built, in-which the act of the town council would form a
prominent feature—an act which, had it succeeded in its
object would have robbed us of our stronghold and left
us poor indeed ; an act, of which one cannot speak more
appropriately than by holding it forth as a fit object for
the finger of scorn to point at. Nor does the exposure
end here. We see by the list of contributors to the fund
who the real friends to religion are, and who they are not
—the faithful and the faithless, the wheat and the chaff
securely separated—and above all we discover him whom
we have long 'suspected, but valued at little cost, the
Whig-pretending Protestant.

LIVISI?.POOL

Ur•onmaTtoNs.—On Friday last, at the Police-office; John
Bolds was fined 2s. 6d. awl costs for placing a quantity of bricks
.and mortar across Juvenal-street without having any railing, so
as almost to prevent persons from getting to their houses, as the
street was very narrow.—John Thomas appeared on the in-
formation of Gibson, a police-officer, charging him with having
contracted for the removal of a quantity'rifarubbish in Mersey-
street, and alloWing it to remain without being enclosed. He
was fined 2s. Gd. and costs.—Mr. Peter Bradshaw, who keeps
a flout-shop in Straw's-brow, was fined 2s. 6d. and costs for hav-
ing suffered sixteen sacks of flour to remain on the footwalk on
Monday last, and causing an obstruction.—Patrick Maher, who
keeps .an egg and fish shop in Vauxhail-road, appeared to an-
swer an information charging him with having on Monday last
suffered twenty-four casks and boxes to remain in the middle of
street during the whole of the afternoon. longer than was
necessary for housing theni. It was stated that it was his con-
stant habit. He was fined 10s. and costs.—Leigh Humphreys,
a manufacturer of ginger-beer, appeared to answer to an in-
formation charging him with allowing his cart and horse to
remain in Grosvenor-street without any one attending it from
two, to six o'clock on Monday last. Fined 2s. 6d and costs.—
John Edwards, the driver of Mr. George Barker's cart, appeared
-to answer to au information charging him with having on Tues-
day evening last, in St. Ann-street, ridden in his cart with his
back to the horses. There were two horses in the cart at the
time, and there were no reins. He was fined ls. 6d. and costs.
—Thomas Hesketh appeared to answer to an information
charging hint with having on Tuesday, last taken away a quan-
tity of cow manure front Mansfield-street Soho during the- day
time. The. manure was in a very wet state, and ran down both
sides of the channel. The stencil arising from it was very bad,
and the neighbours were complaining. He was fined 2s. 6d.
and costs.—The driver of William Gregson's car was summoned
to appear before the magistrates for an overcharge. A gentle-
man named Henderson said be bad been so frequently annoyed
by.pvercharges and the insolence of car-drivers, that he was,
determined to make an example of every case in future. On
Tuesday he took a car from Castle-street stand to the pierhead,
and was charged 25., a shilling more than the fare. The driver •
was fined ss. and costs.

Ii.OBBERY.—On Saturday, a sailor named Charles Smith,
was brought before the magistrates, charged with having stolen
17 sovereigns, a quantity of silver, and a watch, from a person
named Birkett, at whose house he had lodged. Margaret Bir-
kett, the wife oftlie complainant stated, that her husband kept
a lodging-house atl7, Hurst-street. On Sunday evening, the
24th instant; the prisoner came. to lodge at her house and re-
mained till breakfast time on Friday and then went out. Be-
ttteen nine and ten,cealock 'that morning she went into the
11.61ft:sitting room where- heulinen. and money were kept in
some ,drawere, there were four watches,. 17 sovereigns and a
half, apd about six pounds in silver. The money and the
Vetches were safe there the day before. On going into the
room• else found.one orthe,drawers open and the things Mitch
disturbed. She in consequencet,examitied the other drawers,
aUtl Nand the one coutaiaing.themaoney had been broken open
Sothis knife, and all ,theivratiney.,.end one,-.o(,:the watches bad
'lleenttaken oUt;viStwloittid4lie, knife with ,which the ;drawer
beetrWerted therei.,-:,Shetsustrected the -prisoner and sent
't*O then after him. He had gone down to the Brunswick
'Doclt in the 'morning. with her .husband. The prisoner was
loin; to Arnericajutthe ship Salors. Jolsa Frederick Birkett,
flidirsband of the last witness, deposed to going down to the
Bruilsivick Dock the morning before, along with the prisoner.
rn 4out an hour two men came down to him to give him some
infolination 'respecting the. robbery; the prisoner was then
,',standing near him. He went up to hint and told him that his
drawers had been broken open, and that he suspected him. The
prisoner said he knew nothing about it. He, however, gave
him rote the charge of a policeman, and he was taken to the
Station-house and searched, but nothing but ls. W. was found
on -him. They then went down to the prisoner's vessel, and
demanded the prisoner's chest and bed. They searched the
bed hut found nothing in it.. On looking under the bed they
found an old shoe, and in it was the watch which he had lost,
and a handkerchief of his which contained three sovereigns and
£4 Bd. in silver. The bed and chest were then taken to the
Station-house.. In the chest was found a piece of hard soap,
which on being cut open was found to contain four sovereigns
and-a-half. The prisoner had seen him take money out of his
drawer. Tegeson, the Dock policeman, who took the prisoner
into custody, corroborated this statement. The prisoner, in de-
fence, said that he came ashore on Sunday, and on Monday he
received nine sovereigns and some silver, which the mistress
saw him put into his chest. The informations for the trial of
the prisoner were ordered to be taken.
FEMALE QUARRELS.—PULLING CA PS.—On Saturday, at the
Police-office, a female named Mary Davis, appeared before the
magistrates, to prefer a charge of assault against Elizabeth
Halcome, a female whose sharp features betokened a very
vixen. This was one of those disgraceful quarrels which to the
number of five or six occupy the time of the magistrates nearly
two hours daily in adjusting. A casual observer would almost
imagine, from the number of these cases, that the women of
Liverpool did nothing butfight, pull caps,,and tear one another's
hair all day long, instead of exercising that gentleness of which
the sex take 'the credit of possessing the peculiar attribute.
The complainant 'deposed that on Wednesday night last the
defendant had licked her child, threatened her, run after her in
the street, torn. her cap off her head, and a great part of her.
hair, and swore she would have her life. The- defendant, who
appeared scarcely.able to contain herself whilst the complain-
ant, was giving her eVidence',- said that there was not h Word of
truth in this statement. ".Not a woid. She has got a four-
wheeled carriage, please your honours, and she 'run it before
my door, and I have a child that is very ill and he could not
bear the noise, and I told the boy that was -dragging the car-
riage to give over, which he did, when Mrs., Davis came and
run the carriage up and doWn herself, and said "I defy you,
you old So I went out and pushed the carriage away,
when she threw the carriage 'at me and bruised my leg, and
tore my cap off of the value of 65., and I tore her cap off of the
pv ae lruoer
.aof e t i
ni gwh
with'
defendant
snap finished
of h
er fingers.
her
The oratorical
magi-
strate
(Mr. Rathbone) said it was a most disgraceful thing for
them both to conduct themselves in such a manner. He had
not sat long on the bench and they had both been before him
several times. If they would take half the trouble to make
noes. another corafortable_that missy did to make one another
miserable, they. would both be happy. It was disgraceful for
two women, bytheir own confession, pulling caps in that way.
Witnesses were called, who corroborated- the statement of the
assault on both sides. The magistrates said they should bind
thetn,both.over to keep the peace to one another.

CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION FOR SERVICES RENDERED AT
SEA.—On Saturday last, before William Rathbone and Adam
Hodgson, Esqrs., John Allanby and others, the captain and
crew of the steam-packet, Windermere, appeared against Mr.
P. Pybes and another, the captain and agent of the ship Jona-
than Gertrude, of Rotterdam. The information set forth that
the plaintiffs did. on the 26th of July, render assistance to the
above ship, she being in great distress and danger. The plain.
tiffs brought the case before the magistrates that the latter might
award the amount of compensation pursuant to the statute 11
Geo. 4, chap. 14, entitled an act for extending and amending
the several acts relating to the docks and harbour of Liverpool.
The defendants requested the magistrates to adjourn the case to
a future day, as they had been unable to procure the attendance
of the Pilot. who would be a material witness in their behalf.
The plaintiffs did not wish to agree to this, on the ground that
Captain Pybes might leave the town before the case could be
heard, and that it would put them to serious inconvenience to
detain the Captain of the steam-packet, as the Windermere was
a regular packet between this port and Ulverstone. The de-
fendants, said that the Jonathan Gertrude was then on the
Crosby Bank, and the captain could not leave Liverpool for
some weeks. They were willing to appear on any day that
might be most convenient for the plaintiffs. It was ultimately
agreed, that the case should be adjourned to Wednesday (to-
morrow.) It will be heard at one o'clock.