The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-24 00:00:00

ILLEGAL PAWNING.

Bridget Waters, and Jane Anderson, the latter with a
very young infant in her arms, were brought up charged with
illegally pawning several shirts, chemises, and other pro-
perty, belonging to the complainant, Mrs. Cowley, who
stated that she had given the former prisoner several shirts
to make, which she had pledged, without her consent ; and
to the latter prisoner divers articles to wash, which she had
also pledged without her authority.

The officer who took the prisoners into custody, produced
four tickets, by which, and the evidence of the pawnbrokers,
it appeared that two shirts, value is., had been pledged with
Mr. Limon ; one shirt, value 3s. 6d., and one chemise, value
Is., with Mr. Philip Cann ; one shirt, value 2s. 6d., with
Mr. Hughes ; and two shirts, with Mr. Astbury, which the
complainant could not identify ;—all by the prisoner Waters.
It also appeared that one shirt, value 2s. 6d., one chemise,
value Bd. ; a pocket handkerchief; and a piece of striped Lin-
sey, value 2s. Bd. ; had been pledged with Mr. Kitchen :
two sheets., value 35., with Mr. Astbury ; and one chemise,
value Is. with Mr. Catni;---;all by the prisoner Anderson.
The prisoners stated that they were distressed, and that the
complainant assisted them in their distress, and allowed them
to pawn the property. They also stated that the complainant
owed them money.

Both these statements were denied by the complainant,
and the prisoners were ordered to refund the value of the
goods, and pay a penalty of £2 each, or, in default of pay-
ment, to be imprisoned for two months.

AN IRISH ROW.
James Waldron, and Michael Butler, were brought up
charged with having assaulted Catherine Dolan and
Nicholson. It appeared, from the evidence, that there had
been a disgraceful disturbance ; that the prisoners, although
the aggressors, were not the only persons culpable ; and that
murderous weapons had been used in the melee, by which
Nicholson had had his arm broken, and the wife of one of
the p irties so injured that she had been sent to the In-
firmary.

Mr. Rushton said it was their duty to put a stop to such
conduct as this in the streets of Liverpool, and ordered the
prisoners to pay a fine of 40s. each, with costs, or be impri-
soned for one month.

CAUTION TO LODGING-HOUSE-KEEPERS.

Henry Tweed was brought up under the following circum•
stances :

Elizabeth Townson stated that she had lodged with the
defendant a considerable time, and only owed him a fort-
might's rent. On Monday last, although she had been re-
cently put to bed with three children, the defendant, taking
advantage of her temporary absence, had locked her out ;
and, on her return shortly afterwards, for some necessaries
which she much wanted, he assaulted her, turned her into
the street, and threw,her. on the ground. He had also kept
her husband's clothes, and,other property, in his possession.
The defendant said he found the lodgers troublesome, and
acknowledged that his wife had fastened the door upon com-
plainant; he denied having touched the woman on her re-
turn, until she bade defiance to any one to turn her out.
Mr. Rushton, addressing the defendant, said that the
woman and her husband were his tenants, and, therefore,
he had no business to lock her out; he was also highly cul-
pable in taking hold of a woman, who had just been brought
to bed, and throwing her on the ground. He had no right
to take the law in his own hands. Mr. Rushton then or-
dered him to pay a fine of 55., and costs, 2s.
The complainant then asked the magistrate what course
she should pursue, in order to regain possession of her hus-
band's clothes, &c.
Mr. Rushton advised her to consult some respectable at-
torney, who would soon enable her to recover her prOperty.

IMPORTANT TO SEAMEN.
'John Horsfall, steward on board the ship Alice, trading to
the Mauritius, applied to the court for arrears of wages,
stated by him to be due from the captain, Mr. J. Anwyl. It
appeared, however, on the cross-examination of the com-
plainant by Mr. Wardle, solicitor for the defendant, that he
had not only repeatedly got drunk while on board the vessel,
but had also refused to perform his duty.
Mr. Rushton told complainant that by such behaviour he
had forfeited all claims upon, the defendant, and ordered him
to leave the court.
Another sailor, a Creole, summoned the captain of a ves-
sel trading in the Mediterranean,"for arrears of wages. It
appeared that the complainant was shipped at Marseilles, on
the 18th of November last, and arrived. here on the 23d of
December. He. stated that be had been engaged at 54 francs
per month, and had only received 34 francs 6 sous, from
M. Friedrich, ship chandler, at Marseilles.—The captain
stated that he had given complainant an advance note for a
month's wages, and had got it discounted by M. Friedrich,
to whom he (the captain) had paid the full amount.—Mr.
Rushton said that if complainant had imprudently got his
note cashed at discount, he must put up with the loss ; the
'only thing which remained to be decided, was the arrears
for the five .days over the month.—The.captain seemed in-
dined to object to paying this, on the score of the incom-
petency of the complainant ; but rather than have any fur-
ther dispute, he paid the money (eight shillings.)

CAUTION TO SHIP-APPRENTICES.
Joseph Clark was brought up by James Stephens, a ship
captain, to whom he was apprenticed, charged with having
absconded from the ship on Saturday night last.
The prisoner stated that he had left the ship on account of
ill-usage by the mate.
The captain said he had investigated the matter, and was
convinced that the mate was nut hurting the boy. It was
sometimes found necessary to chastise him.
Mr. Rushton said lie did not approve of chastisement ; it
would be much better to do without it. He then repeatedly
asked the boy if he would return to his master, to which he
uniformly answered that he would go back if he got better
usage.
The captain said he was not ill-used, but that be was very
abusive to the mate.
Mr. Rushton said, that the boy appeared very dogged,
and ordered him to be sent, for the present, to gaol.

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dation of every class-book on moral philosophy. It is
utterly impossible to teach youth their duties to God
and man without having recourse to the revealed will
of God. We grant that it is possible to carry into
operation a system of national education of an ex-
clusively secular character, in which the Bible may
be entirely dispensed with. But that is not the
question. What we maintain is, that it is impractica-
ble to separate ethical from religious instruction. In
our opinion the terms are convertible ; and so they are
in practice. The editor of the British Farmer's Ma-
gazine has, indeed, tacitly acknowledged the correctness
of the preceding remarks. We infer this from the fol-
lowing passage in his last article on the subject under
discussion: The precept of the Saviour, `Do unto
others as ye would they should do unto you,' is the
very essence of Christianity ; it is universally acknow-
ledged ; all men are agreed in it, the Christian and- the
Infidel alike; and is it not the sum and substance of
ethics ? Wherefore, then, would religion suffer by
teaching Christ's precept, and that only, as far as mo-
rals are concerned, in public schools ?" Here we have
an unqualified admission that the only ethical or moral
instruction necessary is a precept of Christianity. How
does such a system " exclude religious instruction ?"
We now come to the practical illustration of our
The editor of the British Farmer's Magazine
imagines a difficulty which has no existence, when he
states that there can he no system of national educa-
tion devised by man, including religious teaching, that
shall meet universal approbation, or even the approba-
tion of the majority." To meet this supposed diffi-
culty our opponent suggests a system of ethical in-
struction which, by his own showing, is actually de-
rived from the Bible ! But we have said that the dif-
ficulty which he wishes to overcome is imaginary. We
believe that it is quite practicable to devise a system of
national education which would meet, in the first in-
stance, with the approbation of the majority, and, ulti-
mately, secure universal approbation. A system in ac-
cordance with the Church England would effectually
answer this end: The doctrines of tile church, as set
forth in her catechism, her liturgy, her creeds, her ar-
ticles, and her homilies, are almost identical with those
field by the great mass of Dissenters in this country.
In those doctrines the great majority of the youth of
Great Britain, that receive any instruction at all, are,
at the present moment, educated. Those doctrines are
taught to . hundreds of thousands of children in
the schools connected with the Church of Eng-
land. They are also taught to hundreds of thou-
sands in Sabbath and other schools which are
not connected with the Church. What objection,
therefore, can there exist to the adoption of a sys-
tem of national education which shall include re-
ligious instruction in the doctrines of the Church of
England, leaving out minor points of discipline in the
case of Dissenters? We have found no practical ob-
stacle, in our own experience, to such a system. We
have ourselves superintended schools in connection
with the Church in which a very large proportion of
the scholars in attendance were the children of Dis-
senters. We never heard from the parents of these
any complaints respecting the course of religious in-
struction adopted. We do not believe that such com-
plaints would be preferred by any but Roman Catho-
lics, Socinians, or infidels. Does our opponent mean
to insinuate that the three classes just mentioned con-
stitute a numerical majority of the population of this

iews.