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

THE STATE IN DANGER.

(From the Morning Herald.)
We have just read a letter addressed to the Premier by
the Rev. Canon WlsTeile, of Liverpool. The letter itself
is introductory to the republication of a series of letters,
written in 1778, but as applicable to present circumstances
as if prepared in 1846.

With4Ut committing ourselves to all the sentiments
which have been thus resuscitated, we very much agree
with the eloquent and single-hearted minister of St.
Jude's that the substance of these letters not only embo-
dies THE QUESTION OF QUESTIONS, but involves the im-
mediate peace and prosperity of the empire. "In vain,"
says Canon M`Neile, shall the fiscal arrangements of
the country show a balance in favour of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer ; in vain shall the interests of agriculture
and manufacture be harmonised ; in vain, with all due de-
ference to Mr. Macaulay, shall literature be encouraged
and flourish—there is ' a worm in the gourd' so long as
this questicin is neglected or dealt with in opposition to
the unchangeable principles of revealed truth and right
reason. Why is Ireland the ' burdensome stone' under
the weight of which one British minister after another
sinks and retires ? Because this question has been so far
answered wrong."

The letter of Mr. M`Neile merits the immediate and
earnest consideration of Lord John Russell. Its state-
ments are of vital, paramount, and pressing value. Let
it at least be read. If they be true, (and history with a
thousand tongues, and the Bible with one, but that one
emphatic and imperishable, declare they are true,) let us
act accordingly.

Indifference is as absurd as it is unreasonable in thi
matter.

The closing appeal to Lord John is extremely effective.
" Contrast," says Mr. M`Neile, " the miserable, crest-
fallen Whig of 1846—0 f course I mean in his public cha-
racter—with the high, the noble, the patriotic, the Chris-
tian, and Protestant Whig of 1688 ; and after your wan-
derings among the fogs and mists a Liberalism, w
Scriptural Church."
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Whatever opinion the present ministry may form of the
yhoauvre
ltohredshhaipppoinuesths,earnodayoaurmicinoutihiterydatyhilgshatfeotfyE, oufgesiumesleigs
principles of the Church of Rome, there is no doubt that
the progress and growing power of the great apostacy will
soon force the whole subject on their notice. A crisis—a
religious, and, therefore, the more awakening—is rapidly
approaching. No man—above all, no cabinet minister—
should allow it to overtake him untaught and unprepared.
m money e?finis- worshipper isphpoeur
A Popish emissary may misrepresent, a sceptic may sneer,
a
s letter, but a
Prime ldniraeyadscito.rn,

IRELAND.
able-bodied
EL ND..
men
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(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The :.„ .
,T.o;lll:7DaneEndStTtohlfeTrncUouTnl gieOtquNudeensltNof

commo ot
Ireland ; but with regard to these facts, it is importann t to
keep in mind that the strong representations which reach
us refer to less than a third of the area of the country.
We are not at•present in possession of the numbers em-
ployed in the various counties, but we may meal attention
to the conclusions furnished by a return which we pub-
lished on the 20th of November last, and which had refe-
rence to the middle of that month, when there were
150,000 men on the public works. From that return, it
appeared that more than sir-sevenths' of the whole num-
ber were employed in ten counties of the south and south-
west. They were thus distributed :
Men employed.
23,899, or about one in three of the able-
bodied male population.
one in three.

1. Clare

2. Roscommon.. 20,106
3. Limerick ....18,283

one in four

13,149
6,823
8,918
3,548

one in seven

one in seven

7. Kerry ..
8. Leitrim
9. Tipperary
10. Cork .

one in ten

9,718
10,565

one in twelve

one in twenty

Total 129,723
In ten of the northern and eastern counties, the nun
bers stood thus :

Antrim
Armagh
Carlow
Dublin

Men employed
• 520
• .. 107
... 182

Fermanagh

Kildare

Kilkenny

Monaghan
Queen's County

Wicklov

or less than one in two hundred of the abl
population. _

Since the making up of this return, the gross numbs
of those employed has more than doubled ; but We ma
f.,.1 :1- a

e up to the pre-
n enormous inequality in the

urn ME

sent time, would still show
number employed upon public works in different d

Jan. 5, 1847.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE DISTRESSED IRISH PROTESTE.NIFS

Persons are daily and hourly applying to me for em-
ployment, many of whom I know to be on the verge of
starvation, but I am compelled to dismiss them with a
single meal, as I dare not add to my number. The
greatest and most extended good I am able to effect is by
the sale of meal for money at a reduced price. As my
funds fail, I am turning my mind most to this • and when
I can collect what will enable me to make a 'larger pur-
chase than hitherto of Indian meal, I hope to continue my
wanting. anticipate.
Indeed relief for some time, though I fear scarcely so long as you
No
e exertions s
my
yr
entire care
otinmme,yapsavrytellsha
allsthatbe
of every member of my household, is occupied in this work.
I am most truly grateful for your exertions in our behalf ;
.you have done for us truly great things. I sincerely wish
some of the Liverpool and Birkenhead brethren could be
persuaded to advocate our cause from their pulpits. In
the latter place, I presume to think I am not quite forgot-
ten, and that many would wish to aid their former minis-
ter. I rest the strength of my case on the fact that my
application is made for Protestants, members of our
National Church ; and although I refuse not aid to
Romanists whom I find to be in destitution, yet my ex-
ertions are made not for them, but for my own poor Pro-
testant people.
With grateful thanks for your past kind exertions, and
asking your prayers for a blessing on our work,
I remain, faithfully yours,

[Mr. Groves, we are told, will be happy to receive any
contribution.]

SUPPRESSION OF STREET NUISANCES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sin,—Notwithstanding the frequent applications to
Parliament for the enactment of bye-laws, Liverpool may,
I think, be considered the worst regulated town in the,
kingdom. A casual observer may notice the daily infrac-
tions of our local acts, in many instances, such as wheeling
loaded barrows of coal, &c., whipping tops, and trundling
hoops over the parapets.—During the late frost I observed
a dozen, or more, boys sliding on the footwalk near St.
Jude's hurch.

Another important matter to which no attention is paid
is the want of system in pedestrians having no regard
whatever to the security of their neighbours, but walking
as it seemeth good in their own eyes. *

In passing along our crowded streets you are continually
in danger of being hustled off the flags, or receiving a
severe concussion, and probably at the same time a con-
tusion, from coming in contact with other parties.
Stringent rules and regulations are laid down for the
government of cabs and coaches in the drive or centre of
the road ; why not, then, enforce on the causeways a
similar law to keep our erratic footsteps in the right path.
Ist January, 1847. ARGUS.

LOCAL MEETINGS

EVERTON.—At a meeting of the ratepayers, on Wed-
nesday, prior to the transference of the highways to the
Corporation, the accounts of the surveyor were passed,
and that gentleman, who has held the appointment for
upwards of twenty-six years, was cordially recommended
to the Corporation. The case of the collectors, workmen,
&c., was also recommended to the Council. A subscrip-
tion has been set on foot in Everton, for the purpose of
raising a sum of money to be applied to the purchase of a
suitable testimonial to be presented to Mr. Shaw, on his
retiring from office, after twenty-seven years' faithful
services.

WEE'' the Meeting on Tues-
day a letter from the Poor-law COmmissioners was re-
ceived, expressive of their concurrence in'the resolution
of the board, to change the day of its ordinary meeting.
from Tuesday to Wednesday. The next sitting of the
board will be held on Wednesday, ,(to-morrow.) The
medical officer of the fever-house reported that to the fif-
teen patients in the house, as stated in his former report,
one only had been added.; that four had been discharged
theea r
ed numbernow in
greatlythe hoonu se was
thede
decline,
eleven.
The
hcurad v
e,dfet'haeenrredafporpe, deemed it proper to take steps for re-
ducing the number of nurses.
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—At a special meeting
of this board on Wednesday, the clauses of the Improve-
ment and Building Acts were considered. The only
clause materially altered was No. 211, which provided
that no burying should be allowed in any burying ground
than the proposed cemetery at Flaybrick Hill three months
after its opening, and authorising the infliction of a pe-
nalty of £2O on any person burying or causing a corpse to
be buried. Mr. Mallaby said this clause was calculated
to excite a strenuous opposition, if not from the bishop of
the diocese, from the incumbent of St. Mary's, the Rev.
A. Knox ; and that if the House of Commons passed
such a clause, it was sure to be thrown out in the Lords.
Mr. Mallaby recommended that the church-yard of_ St.
Mary's should be excepted from the operation of the
clause. It was eventually agreed to make the clause
prospective, and to relate only to such burying-grounds
as may be made after the passing of the act.

SELECT VESTRY.-At the meeting on Tuesday, a state-
ment was made as to the relief afforded during the previ-
ous fortnight, similar to what we gave in our last. Mr.
Dowling wrote to say that he had observed Mr. Rowlands
giving relief on Christmas morning to a woman and her
child. The child was crying with the cold, and shoes
procuredfwiitstreele
(Infdr. stockings ,
immediately ychildin
Fenck
later on the same day, and it was
aowling) weresai v
then crying again, and
without any shoes or stockings. An application was read
from Mr. Gray for assistance in his department, in con-
sequence of being overworked ; and the Finance Com-
mittee were authorised to afford him temporary assistanm,
Certain alterations were then agreed to in the staff of the
Industrial Schools, with a view of rendering its efficiency
greater ; and the annual examination was announced for
Monday. There are 906 children in the Industrial
sortsSclio fools,daisnedase.of these 212 are labouring under divers

—aTldieW recommend
Sub-
committee
a list.
of offim ce for the warehouse No. 4, at
DOCK COMMITTEE,
wereau
Albert Dock, re-
cently finished.. The chairmansaid they had 1300 appli-
cations for the different situations now in hand. It was
thcrTsendußtosp select-r n
.
ordered that a general bond should be given to the Customs
for duties on all goods warehoused in the Albert Dock
warehouses, and for the due exportation of the said unnds

portion of the letter of the Ainerican Chamber of Com-
merce, of the sth November, recommending that vessels
discharging in the Albert Dock should have a preference
of berths in the Salthouse and Canning Docks was re-
ferred,th-
co maftmeirttseoeT thecoe other portionsnversatidh,
of the letter having
to the Harbour-masters.
Sub-committee,

Albertthe minit
toecec.o p iftdwt
ahse
raetpi eonr
ttei odnt
hoaft Mt a Tha rl
ee ho of ur
as itne
fSour bt-heeo
Dock received the signature of the Mayor, the Chairman
of the Dock Committee, and the senior magistrate, on the
29th ultimo. The Chairman called the attention of the
committee to Prince Albert's coat of arms, handsomely
executed for the banquet-loom, on the occasion of the
visit of his Royal Highness to Liverpool, which had been
placed on the eastern wall of the committee-room, and
was intended, with the approbation of the committee, to
be permanently fixed there. On one side of the shield
floats the union jack, and on the other the ensign of St.
George. It adds very much to the appearance of the
already elegant room, in which the Dock Committee hold
their meetings.

FINAL MEETING OF THE HIGHWAY BOARD.—OnWednesday, the final meeting of the Commissioners of
a.
-Wpieacelthew presented a report on the
rjatos
htehledtraanstfheerepnacriesohf their
office. powersTh The
was ordered to be paid to
state of the Green-lane Water Works, from which it t oAssiueTfriemtgvshhiscerwoesfsa.C°YiDfinsvr'aPeivii.esgraiui4pat.arainndeniurat'Csounningham, the surveyors, for extra
ap-
peared that the well was 185 feet in depth, that water
could be obtained to the amount of 800 gallons per minute,
and that the total cost of the works was £70,000, £50,000
of which had been borrowed. In a few days, the report
stated, the engine would be at work, and the water would
be conducted to the reservoir, and the board were con-
gratulated on the fact that the water from Green-lane
might be very much increased hereafter, and that it
ruiht be made to supply fountains for the use of the poor,
4-nughs for the use of cattle. A report from analysing
go read, stating that the water at Green-
-- —ntained less magnesia than.

the ilarrington wa
ided by Mr. P

On the motion of lcfr:
ter, the board recorded ti

Aspinall

displayed by Mr,

Duncan, assistant to Mr. Simpson, and they recommended
him to the authorities in order that his services might not
be lost to the town. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr.
John Holmes, who had for so many years been chairman
to the board, and on the motion of Mr. Procter, a subscrip-
tion was agreed to be opened for the purpose of having a
portrait of Mr. Holmes, with liberty for him to nresent it

Count Tyrone, , 1846.
Mr DEAR MR. GROVES,—y The pressure of2Bth my various
duties during the past fortnight prevented my doing more
than hastily acknowledging your kind note of the 17th,
and remittance of £l2 in further aid of our suffering
poor. I have now to report to you how we progress.
The intensely cold weather led us to make inquiry into,
the wants of the people as to clothing, and the result
exhibited a state of wretchedness beyond what I should
have thought possible. Large families sleeping in one-
room, on different bundles of straw, without anything to
cover them except the tattered garments worn by day .
They had been usually able at this season to buy som-.
clothing for their persons, and perhaps to add a blanket
in place of the remains of what was once deserving that
name ; but now they want food to sustain life, and have
no means of obtaining clothing of any kind. The ex-
treme suffering and privation thus caused we deemed it
well to alleviate promptly, and expended about £8 in
clothing this month. Our funds, however, are scarce
half expended as yet, though did I entertain a tenth part
of the applications for relief, it would not last one fort-
night. We are at present entirely supporting about 23
or 25 families, giving employment to the men, and selling
them meal considerably under market price ; and we aid
in the support of others who have large families, and
whose pay on the public words cannot feed them all, by
giving them also the meal at a low price. The value of
soup for the poor is so highly commended, that in addi-
tion to giving it daily to the persons we employ, we are
arranging this day to afford it also to families at home.
You see our operations are extending, and may think we
are too lavish when spring will add so much to the num-
ber of the destitute ; but if we struck off one, we would
be entailing on such certain and immediate want. lam
convinced, but for the assistance received from Liverpool,
several of those whom we have been enabled to clothe
and feed would before this have died from cold and hun-
ger and nakedness.