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who found her on the floor,

literally be
quite cooll

waten to death. Edwards took the matter
tint when his 'son was desired tossend for a

doctor, he 'threatened that, if he went, he would kill him !
Again, when he was told that his wife was dead, he made
use of the brutal language, " Let her die, and to h— with

her." Edwards was imineallmely taken into custody.
On Tuesday last, an inquest was held on the body, when
the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against
Richard Edwards," who was accordingly committed to
Chester Castle.—Chester Chronicle.
ALLEGED DEATH FROM STARVATION.—IRISH FRAUD.
On Saturday, the neighbourhood of Ordsal-lane and
Regent-road, Salford, was in a state of considerable ex-

citement, in consequence of a rumour that an Irishman,
lodging in Union-street, there, had died from hunger and
starvation. Deceased's name was Thomas Roach, a tailor,
aged 35 years, and a native of Roscommon, Ireland. An
inquest was held on the body on M6nday last, before Mr.
Rutter, when Dr. Creighton declared that the deceased
died from inflammation of the lungs, and not from a want
of food. But the most curious circumstance of the case
was the conduct and testimony of his wife at the inquest.

She stated that her husbani

eeture(

f came to lodge in

hat low

Christ

Children, and that they hid all landed in Liverpool on
that day fortnight, having been sent over from Ireland.
At this stage of her evidence she appeared to recollect
herself, and began to prevaricate a little, stating that they
had not been sent over, but had come of their own accord.
After giving an account of the manner in which her hus-
band and herself came from Ireland, in reply to a question
put •by one of the jury, she declared that the deceased had

never been a soldier, and was not in the receipt of a pen-
'ion, and when requested to tell the truth, pertinaciously

......
before the coroner; some of the ;ittry requested that a wit=
ness, named Nicholas Hannan, might be examined:

he knew

ing lived with him three months,' when in this country
before Christmas, and during the whole of that time he did
no work. except make witness a waistcoat, ' At.that time

„--
at home, in addition to three acres of land
rump nit

and he 'said

Ile uluu nb ne SII(JUIU seu uN atika k,sysm, - ---
He had been a soldieri n the 87th Regiment of Foot, in
which he was a tailor, and he had left his discharge and
some other papers with witness, which he (witness) had
since given up to Captain Bond, the officer in command of
the enrolled pensioners here. He had a pension of one
shilling a-day, which he received during the three months
he was here, and the amount, since due to him he had re-
ceived the day before he died I—The deceased's wife was
then sent for, and the evidence of the last witness was

knees. and most hypocritically begged pardon for the lies
of which site had been guilty. She pleaded, " that she
thought their honours would not buy her husband a coffin,
if she said she had a pension." She was strongly cen-
• .

hut thejury, who had intended to originate a subscription
for her, exhibited little sympathy towards her, after such
baseness. Verdict accordingly.—Manchester Times.

CORRESPONDENCE

CIIURCH AND STATI

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—It was tauntingly said by the gentleman who

his town

and state question, that if the Church of England wer
dissevered from the state, it would be as a cedar in Leba
non. and not. as it is now, the poor hyssop on the wall-

id creeping t

sir, we were tx

The Church of England i; a firmly-rooted and aged

have di:

only the unclerwooa, squattea amuna ner auction uauger
of being trodden down by the feet of the passer by, ox
rooted up by the bulls of Rome."
The church, sir, of which it is ou

privilege to be mem-

been planted, as. there is good reason to.believe, by the

Apostle Paul himself. And though the tempestuous
storms of false doctrine and heresy have beat upon her ;
and the blightine blast of many an inhospitable winter of

and worldlines

ha; threatened to

_ e for ever hen .energies ;
yet she stands the beauteous witness for the truth of God
in this land, against the soul-blighting heresies of Rome,
and the'ehildlike innovation.s of (
She has shone most brightly

never-to
litht wit

since the time of the
a ; and not covered her
s, but has spread it into

f our land

mnded

Intri es

the people who on

Lth have, by

ht to sit at the foot of the

iken in every kind of

vice, have been led to live

as becometh the Gospel of

And, sir, our scriptural church, moreover, is both cha-
riot and horsemen to Erigland—her defence against the
attacks of foreign foes, and her barrier against the ag-
gressions of aggrandising Rome. Through being con-
nected with so pure a church, England has been success-
ful in war, kleslpd in her commerce, and happy in herself.
Through England's church we breathe the pure air of
liberty, which was denied our forefathers when the " man
of sin " set his iron heel upon our shores, and contami-
nated the ambient air with his noisorn,-. breath. Effect
the dissolution between the church and the state, and
England will sink into disrepute, and be reckoned least
among the nations : her glory will be for ever eclipsed,
and her sons the slaves of some unprincipled despot.
Our church, too, in the plenitude of her mercy, sir,
casts her arms around the dissenter, and her shield over
the seceder. She, in the amplitude of her liberality,
stretches her branches over the otherwise defenceless

he sweeping

been effected under the fostering care of our established
church, considered as a second cause. Of this care and
motherly tenderness, dissenters are most ungratefully
w 1•1 • •C _1 • • re.;1,04. 11.1.

as ihough she were

Let the church be separated from
the state, according to the warmest desire of her enemies,
and presently steps in the great corruption of 1200 years'
accumulation, and fixes its firm grasp upon the state ;
which thing it can easily accomplish, for there is in the
minds of our legislators a manifest leaning towards Rome.
And if this come to pass, sir, where will the toleration be

nations of the earth

which is now shewn to .dis,

Not,. a
_vestige of it

will be seen remaining. The preaching of the pure word
of God will be forbidden, and its preachers anathematised
as in former days when Romanism flourished in this

But suppose, sir, we were to grant that the connection
between the church and the state is an evil, which we are
far from allowing, still it would be infinitely better to
advocate its continuance in such position, to act as it has
hitherto done, like a great shield, large and strong, to

And now to bring this communication to a close.
When we consider the antiquity, purity, and extensive
usefulness of our much-beloved church ; when we consi-
der the protection she afforda, to the preaching of the
cross of Christ in this country_ from the despotism of
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/tome; when we eonsicie_ oat her formularies ann
des are quite in harmony with the oracles of God ; and
that by hundreds of her preachers, both at home and
abroad, the banner of the cross is unfolded, day by day,
and Sabbath after Sabbath, to the view of perishing sin-
ners ; and lastly, when we consider that the children of
God within her pale are well fed from the storehouse of

van's Land, and which h

and buoyant

as are