The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

R RUCH HALL SCHOOL, near WARRINGTON, will
1/ be. REOPENED on the 20tb...1-Al4l7waY, 1847.
Cards of Terms will be forwarded on application to Mr.
SKELTON, the PrincipsUrf-the Establishment.

LIVERPOOL FOREIGNERS' MISSION.

GERMAN SERVICE

ON SUNDAY next, the 27th instant, the Chapel
in Rathbone-street, hitherto known the SEAMEN'S
ittlexads_
CHURCH,wiII be OPENED for DIVI RVICE, according
to the Rites of the Church of En 1 as
Ter
ejl.
THE LIVERPOOL FO GISIERS' CHURCH.
The rvices in
THE GE AN LANGUAGE
will be held (D.V.) eve SUNDAY, at half-past Ten o'clock in
the Morning, and,st alf-past Six in the Evening; and on
THURSDAY EVENINGS, at Seven o'clock.
___

There will be
AN ENGLISH SERVICE

every SUNDAY AFTERNOON, and every
TUESDAY EVENING, at Seven.

THE SCHOOLS

in connection with the Church will be open on the EVENINGS
of MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, from Seven to
Nine o'clock. in
THE ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES.

BATHS AND WASH HOUSES FOR THE POOR

On SUNDAY next, the 27th, the Morning Sermon will be
preached by the Rev. J. BAYLEE, and that in the Evening by
the Rev. D. I. HIRSCH ; and the Afternoon English Sermon
by the Rev. W. POLLOCK, Incumbent of St. Mark's.

IT is proposed to raise, by Public Subscription, a sum
of Money, to be invested for the benefit of Mrs.
WILKIN~ON, to whose benevolence and industry the Public

are mainly indebted for the estaiiiaeiiiolliaZTll
WASH-HOUSES for the POOR.
The following account of the labours of this excellent person
may be relied upon :
ORIGIN OF THE LIVERPOOL BA.Tffg AND WASH
" In the spring of the year 183.;41Ce apprehension of cholera
impressed the importance of cleanliness upon all classes with
the vividness of a newly-dis9overed truth. The visitors of the
poor, while they exhorted,them to the immediate practice of
this virtue, looked hopelessly round the dark cellar, or small
garret, containing aivliole family, often lodgers also, for the
facilities of washing, or the possibility of drying, the clothes of
the inmates. Freln, the blackened blankets and bed, they
turned as from evils for which they could devise no remedy.
" But the poor, when their energies are aroused, can often
find resources where their friends can see none ; and their
mutual benevolence is their surest reliance. A poor woman,
(Mrs. Wilkinson,) living in one of the crowded streets of Liver-
pool, had a back kitchen in which three people could just
stand, containing a small boiler. On the Monday she washed
her own clothes ; the rest of the week her kitchen was filled by
her still poorer neighbours, as was the covered passage into
which her house opened, and in fair weather her yard also. To
dry all these clothes was the next difficulty. This was over-
come by passing cords from her own back window to that of a
kind neighbour opposite, onwhich they could hang and freshen
in the air, out of reach of theft, or giving annoyance to any one.
"The cholera soon appeared, and that street was one of the
earliest and most severely visited. The bedding and clothes of
the dead were ordered to be burnt. How were the survivors to
supply the change of linen and the warmth demanded, in an
unnrecedented degree, by this dreadful disease?
" We meet among the poor with a courageous, self-denying,
persevering benevolence, such as privation often develops,
which makes us feel the high purposes for which the severe
'-';ne of life is (1..' TF kine-

APPEAL OF THE LIVERPOOL CHARITABLE

SOCIETY,

FOR VISITING .THE SICK AND DISTRESSED AT
THEIR OWN DWELLINGS.
CONDUCTED BY MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHED
CHURCH.

v.•
RELIEF GIVEN TO THE POOR OF RELIGIOUS
PERSUASION
HIS SOCIETY has beensAfaged for Twenty-four
T
years in ministering to thenecessities of the sick and
destitute, and, in common with other Charitable Institutions,
has found abundantt,riortunities for usefulness amidst the
large and increasing nber of poor in this populous town.
The average annua number of cases relieved by. the Society
of late has been 2176, comprising upwards of 8000 individuals.
In addition to Food, articles of Bedding. and Clothing are given
where most needed. Its visitors endeavour, whi'e relieving
bodily want, to promote the spiritual welfare of the poor, and
many opportunities of Christian usefulness are open to them in
their visits.

The high prices of provisions and severity of the weather,
combined with the many cases of weakness and destitution
arising from 1.1.1 11:_ -'

toe ►ate prevailing sickness, cause the applications
for relief at present to be numerous and urgent ; and the funds
of the society being exhausted, the Committee have no resource
but in an urgent appeal to those whom God has blessed with
abundance to supply them with he necessary means. This
appeal, they trust, will be responded to, so that at this season
of Christian joy and thankfulness they may be enabled to cheer
the abodes of misery and to cause the hearts of the destitute to
rejoice through the timely relief they are enabled to supply.
Subscriptions will be received by the Treasurer, J. RIGBY
Upper Duke-sr- st C-

Esq., minnon-terrat, Juke-street ,ne Uommercia,
Bank, High-street; by the Collector, at the Courier-office,
Castle-street; by Mr. ROSE, Bible Depository, Slater-street;
and by any member of the Committee.

ne same active .mess which
opened her house to her neighbours, led the woman above-
mentioned, reg•ardless of all danger to herself, to visit the sick,
to lend them all her sheets, her blankets, her clothes. But she
could not allow them to be burnt. A medical man assured her
that some chloride of lime put into the water in which she

has received the followi

....::,.. A ~, A ..s.'7 P ....a
sq.
w tion of her own little stock being quite inadequate to supply the
. J. Tomlinson, E
pressing wants of her neighbours, she applied to the visitors of
the District Provident Society for more sheets and clothes to
_EI.A T a MEETING of the CLERGY of the TOWN lend, for soap to wash them with, and women to assist her.
and NEIGHBOURHOOD of LIVERPOOL, and CHA- For her own services, or for the use of the kitchen, she re-
PELRY of BIRKENHEAD, held in the BLUE COAT HOSPITAL, ceived, during the first visitation of the cholera, no remnnera-
on MONDAY, the 14th of December 1846, tion.
The Rev. AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL, Rector of Liverpool, " The value of this mode of assisting the poor, when thus
In the Chair, brought under their notice, was at once felt by the visitors.
The following proposal for the formation of a Parochial The cellar under this house was hired, and fitted up with a se-
Assistant Association for Liverpool, Walton, West Derby,
cord-hand boiler, a wine cask for a cistern, and some troughs
Birkenhead, and the neighbourhood, having been submitted to
the meeting:— divided into compartments for tubs. It was low and dark,
crowded, and filled with steam ; yet, with only this accommo-
PAROCHIAL ASSISTANT ASSOCIATION x AVERPOOL, dation, an average of eighty-five families a-week were for se-
WALTON, BIRKENHEAD, AND THE ' HBOURtIOOD. veral years preserved from all the evils of washing in their own
vlseron.
The Lord Bisho Chester.
PRE NTS.
„re
j.kied,...)Eeri
confined and crowded rooms, and of putting on their clothes
half dried.
"All infected clothes were received and washed in the kitchen.
A note from any medical man was all that was required. The
The Re sof Liverpool.
expenses of this part of the establishment were met partly by
T ector of Walton.
assistance from the Provident District Society, partly by p-
The Rector of West Derby. n
The Incumbent of Birkenhead.
vate subscriptions."—Historical Register.
COMMITTEE. No danger or fatigue has deterred her from sitting up with
All the Incumbents of Churches in Liverpool, Walton, Birken- the sick ; and she and her husband have worked hard, and
head, and the neighbourhood, who unite in the Association. lived hard, to support orphans whose only claim upon them
SUB-COMMITTEE. was the remembrance of the kindness they had received wb-
. _
- M,- 4 the C, ---,it• _ -

Twelve ...oerS 01 ommittee annually elected from that left orphans themselves.* Many of the children had claims o
. _
body by the said Committee, including the Rectors of Liver- the parish, but these were never urged, and 2s. a-week, whi
pool, the Rector of Walton. and the inriliinh.nt • •

was receiv

• •., 4.114/C "Icy "f•J. •-•••...,, •11 11 ~,,,
and ss..which five others were receiving, was at once returned;
THEOLOGICAL PROFESSOR—(Appointed by the Biehop). and a remission of her payment of poor-rates is all she ever re-
Rev. Joseph Baylee. ceived for her care. The South Corporation Infant School
arose from a number of nn`l.rt..l

OBJECT.
To provide additional parochial aid to meet the pastoral wants
of Liverpool, Walton, Birkenhead, and the neighbourhood, by
the services of Gentlemen who shall receive at the same-time
an efficient Theological and practical training as Candidates
for orders.

room, w

hose parents were ill of cholera

* some of the orphans referred to were—
Four Joneses, taken in 1824. Father died of typhus ; the
other. six ma. the

Ann,' aged 11. Went to service; now married to Thomas
SELECTION OF CANDIDATES. Barker, dock-gate keeper.
Either such Gentlemen as shall be reobmmended to the care of , John, aged 8. Got into Blue-coat School at 9; now in the
the Professor by the Bishop, or such KS shall be recommended navy;
by the Sub-Committee, subject to the examination and approval Eleven, aged 4. Went to service at Mr. Rathbone's at 17;
en
eomarried.
of the Theological Pro
PAROCHIAL WORK. rge. aged 2. Went into the Blue-coat School at 9. Now
,
To assist the respective Incumbents in visiting in their districts a tailor, Affleck-court, Frederick-street.
ill such a manner as each Incumbent may desire, such Incum- Joht! and William Wild, 1827, Ornho--
bent to arrange with the The"- '
time which he is to spend in t.
Should any difference of Of
bent and the Sub-Committee,
the Theological Professor, suc
by the Bishop of the Diocese

!ological Piofessor the amount of
he district.

about 14. Found sleeping in a hayloft by her son. Put into
Seaton's paper manufactory for six months; then sent to sea
under Captain Finley of the Halifax. William was lost in the
Grecian; John is a servant in America.
Three Duns, in 1839. The father worked at Fawcett's, and
lodged with Mr. Wilkinson.

:Anion arise between any hewn-
. or between any Incumbent and
:11 difference to be decided 'upon

to Theological Professor, and ap-

Thomas. aged 15, apprenticed to Mr. C. Hayes, block-maker
now married ; lives at 68, Upper Frederick-street.
Betsy, aged 13; went to service in a year; married Mrs
W.'s son, and lives with her, No. 70, Upper Frederick-street.
William, aged 10, got into Blue-coat School in six months
‘c-- Valparaiso.
Mother died of cholera. Father onto:

IPLINE.
udents to reside in an Institution
,

,ns as may

3f the Diocese

Five_Harrisons, 1832.

Canon MWEILR, Incumbent of
the Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS,
adopted.

work tOr Long after. Mrs. W. received something at titnes from
the father, but seldom, and very insufficient. The aunt,who
had them priviously, had ss. a-week from the parish, which
Mrs. N. immediately stopped on taking the children.
Mary, aged 11, remained two years.
Catharine 9, apprenticed at 11 to Mr.,Greg's.cotton-Innli
still there.
Sarah, 7, Ann, 5, apprenticed to Mr. Greg's, in 1838; still

r, and the following Clergy (being
reed to become members of the

Elizabeth, 18 months, died at five years.
Five Coventrys, 1832. The mother died of consumption; the
father deserted them, and has not since been heard of.
Mary. 8, was put in Blue-coat School at 9.
Ralph, 7, Margaret, 5, and William, 3, were kept two years,
and then sent to some relations.
Jane, 3 months, died at 10 months.
Two Hughes, 1835. On the death of the mother, Mrs.
kinson took in the father, dying of the same complaint, and his
children. He lived ten months.
David, 3 years; got into the Blue-coat School at 9; is now in
Fawcett's foundry.
John is still with her, going to school.
Three Christians. 1835.
Thomas, 21. Dying of consumption. Lived three months.
William, 12. Bound to Mr. Dutchman. In eighteen months
went to sea.
Betsy, 10. Got into the Blue-coat School in about eighteen
months, where she died.
1843.—T0m Quin, 10. Had 2s. from the parish when Mrs.
Wilkinson took him, which she stopped. He is still with her.
To these cases may be added many others.

A Lady in this neighbourhood, feeling deeply the important
nature of the services of Mrs. Wilkinson, and anxious to pro-
cure for them a just appreciation and reward, has issued the
prospectus:— _

It is htimbfy proposed that a fund should be raised for the
purpose of rewarding Mrs. Wilkinson, in whose unwearied
efforts to assist her poor neighbours at thel time of the cholera,
the first attempts originated to establish a public wash-house or
laundry, which have since been carried into such noble effect
in Liverpool, holding out an example, in many instances fol-
lowed, to the admiration and imitation of England.
A memorial has lately appeared in favour of Mrs. Wilkinson,
as a candidate for the office of superintendent of the newly-
completed establishment. It has described the unwearied en-
ergy with which she toiled to assist her poor neighbours, in
destitute old age and helpless infancy; lending all her scanty,
means and humble appliances to resist or to remedy the evils
of sickness and contagion : the scene of her labour—the dark
cellar, with its damp and dingy chambers, its troughs and
water-barrels, its frugal expedients and primitive contrivances
—has been surpeseded by an institution that exhibits in its
simplicity the perfection of scientific usefulness, which the
highest and most enlightened of all ranks in England have been
delighted to contemplate.

NUrtured by the (Yews of Heaven, the seed sown by this wo-
man's humble hand has been bleatin its increase; its growth
was fostered by one single personification of that spirit of
Christian charity which delights to do good in secret—to her
remains the unclaimed but heartfelt reward of silently seeing
the lowly but noble work (which might have perished without
such timely aid) carried out to-its completion, and established,
a srlendid and permanent benefit to society.
Put to return to its originator. It remains with our conntry
.„ , .
to retina-'

It, in its fearlessnessof danger and con.

tagion, emulates the courage, and, in its lovilly bearing, the lofty
and heroic simplicity of Grace Darling;—in its zeal for doing
good to the poor and distressed, the untiring energy and acti-
vity of Mrs. Fry; and this, too, in an instance where all the
motives that minister to ambition and vanity were unknown or
withdrawn—unseen and unheard, save by the poor creatures
who surrounded her—instead of praise, and congratulation and
fame, she had only •'the blessings of those who were ready to
Fer!sh.". _

. -
Nor should we hesitate to recognise and to appreciate, in this
humble instance, the spirit of charity, by the blessing of
Heaven, so widely diffused throughout the families of the
cart!), but more especially amidst the poorest of the poor.
There, woman exercises her gentle but most important mi-
nistry, by the subdivision of her scanty and precarious meal,
by daily visitings and nightly tendance, in the time of sickness,
of destitution, or of death—before the ear of public charity has
been awakened, or while its organized relief has been delayed
or suspended. Where else on earth shall we find so near a ful-
filment of that divine injunction which has commanded ns "to
love our neighbour as ourself?" Where else a stronger enforce-
ment of that holy lesson which enjoins the rich to " consider
the poor?"
4th Nor., 1846. R. L.

The efforts thus made have succeeded in obtaining most illus-
trious sanction and support.
The time, however, has arrived, when this business reqinres
the active labour of gentlemen connected with the town of Li-
verpool. To them the lady with whom this proposal origi-
nated is desirous to give up the turner and more active prose-
cution of the matter. Several gentlemen have expressed their
anxiety to support the benevolent intentions of the writer of the
prospectus. A. Committee has been formed, with power to add
to their numbers ; and, in the meanwhile, Subscriptions will be
received by ROBERTSON GLADSTONEI Esq., JOHN Crow, Esq.,
THOMAS TODD, Esq., Wsi. EARLE, Esq., and the SECRETARY.
Communications may be addressed to the Committee, at the
Sessions-house, Chapel-street, Liverpool, or to the undetsigned ,
Exchange-place, Exchange-street East..

:10SEPH.S. RUSHTON, Secretary.
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