The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-27 00:00:00

TO THEIR HONOURS THE COMMITTEE OF THE
NORTH. CORPORATION SCHOOL,

MAY IT PLEASR YOUR noNoutts,—l -Brady, of Kal-
megraviny, schoolnyiSter, seeing that Mrs. Fiatinagan contiintes
to bother me, and that tin told to pieces between the priest
and the parson; withoul to please either of theta,
humbly beg your honours to give ate the' place of master to
your girls school, where I'm told you turned the parsons out,
after the ydays. so that I'll be gait of them any haw, if I
come : and as 1 see you're very particular about qualifications,
just hez lease to acquaint you with initie. And first as to po-
litics; titaltuchinx reformer, and for universal suffridge,
and vote by ballot, and peerage reform, and the. voluutarY sys-
tem. and all moat; and as soon as I get a vote, I'll give. it, of
course, as my employers
'l.--As to ieligiou I'm of tae otild bhorch, and " adtr.it the
Holy Scriptures accooliog to that sense wouM ourholy mother
• church Wis held and dues hold; neither will I ever take ot interpret
them otherwise than according to the uuaniumus consent of the
fathers, and I ackuowledge the holy Catho it: Apostolic Roman
Church for the inother and mistress of churches, and pionulte
true obedience to the Bishop of Home." But, nevertheless, I
have no objection ii, tea' i what's ctitunionty catleti '' Toe
Church Catechism," because. in the first 0,16.. one of your
honourable committee says, " it's foil of piper) from begirning
to end ; " and next if it is'ut, one of your lionoulab e cominittee
teaches it, although he thinks it"tall t.t. idolatry;" because as
he justly argues though it's idolatry to him it isn't so to them;
and if they will be damned their own way it ;stet my fault. any
how; so that not particular, and will teach any thing you
wish me to teach in school hours or out of school hours when
or how you please—and if that it is not liberty of corscience
don't know what is. Next as to morals, 1 understand yon are
not so particular as to what a malt was so that he is rehorised.
was a little given to liquor but now am a tee-totalier. And
then ap to my site, I hone yon'll take it for granted that I am
married, without requiring site to tiling marriage lines, because.
I've lost mine (it I ever had any) and because know some of
you are not over strict in that way, and think Iliam if folks live
comfortable as man and aif together, it isn't liberal to ask
whether or no they had a tew words mumbled over them by a
priest or a parson. In short. please your honours, I'ut sure
you'll find me au enlightened man in every way and I'll do any
thing, and say any thing. and teach any thing your honoues
please, and if that wont please von, I don't know What will; and
so hoping for a libetat answer...l reinaib, your honours' humble
servant, at command.
Kilmegrannu County Clare.

TEIADY BRADY.

TO THE 1391T0R OF 7'llE LIVE:W.1001, .ITAND4RD.

At.—Your contemporary the Cowie), contained last week a
pirtigraph relating to the depressed state but forcible claims on
public benevolence of the Ladies' Charity. It is. indeed. a
remarkable circumstance that an institution of such. a natuie,
providing, as it does for the exigencies of poor married women at
a time when they most need, and are most sensible of sympathy
and support, should be allowed to I aguish for want of Inuits.
Other charities whose objects are not more exe,llent. and which
do not appeal in near so intimate a manner to the feelings. es-
pecially 01 those of the female heart,:•are liberally upheld by
public contritartiOn, and have been ettabled to extend their
beneficial influences as the liiwn has increased in populousness
and misery, but the Lailies''Charity, a/ as it us also caller thee
institution for the relief of poor married women in child-bed. has
not only not augmented in pecuniary resources, as the wealth
and importance of the community have augmented, but has
absolutely during this time been receding and sustaining a stead
diminution of its means to do good.- The following sable, com-
piled from the information afforded ar page 13 of the last annual
report, exhibits the proofof this painful fact. It wit be obseived
that the sources of income are annual subseriptions., legacies,
and donw ions. and the annual bails; the Separate and combined
amounts of which are given for several periods of five years, and
by annual averages, commencing with the year 1801:—
Annual subscriptions.
Total. Anima: average.
Five years ending with 1895.. £2419 70 I £483 17 5
1815.. 2973 0 0 59112 0
1825.. 2543 11 0 508 14 2
1835.. 2178 17 6 435 15 6

Legacies and &illations.
Total I Annual average
years ending with 1815....£61 310 l £123 12 9
1815.... 1299 , 6 9 259 17 4,
1825. 1139 9 11 226 2 0
1835.... 738- 0 3 147 12 0
ice of halls.
Annual average.
£lB3 7 3
319 14 1 •
323 18 8
2u7 14 9

Produ
Total.
Five years ending with 1805....£916 14 W
18 1553 10 8
1825.... 1619 13 3
1835.... 1:138 13 9

Total income.
Aggrerat. amount. Annual average
Five years ending with 181:5..1:395-1 4 10 £791 17 0
58.51815.. l7 5 1165 3 0
1825.. 5293 .11 3 1058 14 10
•• 1835.. 4255 11 6 . 851 1 3

The chief support of the charity hence appears to be derived
limn the minted/ subscriptitrus. anti these are How actually less
in amount than they Were thirty years ago, though 'Liverpool is
now two and a half times as populous, and in a still greater
proportion wealthier than it was then. lam sure that those
liberal and influential Arsons who interest themselves in the
welfare of the public charities cannot have noticed this surpris
lug fact. Here is an institution ptissessing undeniable claims
on every reflecting and benevolent mind', the necessity for
which has never been ettntstetl, and yet it has been giatlually
decining iu prosperityftr the last twenty-five years.' Had the
ratio of the ennui! sidiscriptions kept pace will; that of-toe nu-
merical int Tease of the population inert ly, instead of being only
£43.5, they would anenint to upwards of t:lbkl.
The other departments of the table are deserving of the sante
attention an.! show the same unhappy decrease in the charity's
111,0,111.. especially shire the term et' yeaks ending with :815.
It woultt lie difficult to assign an adeqmi,e cause for the strange
phenotnenim this Adnitrabie ehare y presents in the midst of our
flourishing town. it is rite only charity of the kind, neither
interfering with, nor ever having b'-en interfeied wi:11 by any
similar or rival institution it affords no reli4 to undeserving
objects. and holds out 'no tiducements to thiughtlessness and
•improvidence, bit? succours only the truly needy and chaste ;
it
has received the sanction and eneouragement of all parties
religious, political, and philettophical, and. hAIS iilW4l a been
under excel ent superintendent.* and high patronage. It ap-
pears. therefore, it..t to be deficient in any of the elements of
success, ant: vet it is notoriously inadequate to the wants and
necessities of the pont'. extremely limited in its capability of
conttibuinig to the improvement of:medical science. and utterly
ilisproportioned in ievenue—it disproportion which is the sole
, cause of the ieher evils—to the opulence and extent tit* the town.
It is fervently to be 'Joliet! that some decided means may he
taken of attracting public attention to this, one only obsteric
charity, and of bringing it in p-trlictilar, with all its latidab;e
objeets and stirring claims, under the tintice of the residents in
Liverpool generally. many 01 whom are either not event e of its
existence. or are only very partially acquainted with its inten-
tions and present state.—Yours, A. B.
December 24th, 1836.