The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

Some of the members of St. Jude's Church, Liverpool,
have remitted, by the hands of the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, the
sum of £137 14s. to the fund now raising for the endowment
of the protestant bishopric of Jerusalem.—London Record.

The Nottingham Journal, of last titer-giving an
abstract of the sermons preached by Mr. M`Neile, at the
opening of the new church in that town, on the preceding Tues-
day, e ,nrluL!es with the followicg observations :--" Mr.
11• Neile is, unquestionably, one of the most accomplished
orators of the day ; he has the advantages of a commanding
figure, a finely expressive countenance, and a voice capable
of the most eloquent modulations ; his action is graceful,
dignified, and impressive ; his sermons are delivered extem-
poraneously, but his language is admirably chosen, tree from
all turgid bombast, and his sentences as perfectly constructed
as in a written composition ; his mind is richly stored with
general knowledge, as his apt and beautiful illustrations,
drawn from natural history, the researches of philosophy,
and the discoveries of mechanical science abundantly prove ;
while, like some we read of in the days of the apostles, he is
" mighty in the Scriptures ", and adddresses himself to his
hearers with the earnestness and fervour of s man who speaks
as if eternity, with all its awful and sublime realities, hung
on his message. The collections on Tuesday morning
amounted to £99 Bs. Gd., and in the evening of that day to
£Bl Bs. Gd., making, with the Sunday collections, the libe-
ral sum of £228 13s. 2d.

CONCERT AT THE ADELPHI.—Mrs. Palmer, a very ac-
complished musician and talented singer, announces a concert
to take place this evening, at the Adelphi. It is anticipated
that the room will be well and fashionably attended.

MRS. ST. ALEIN.—We understand this talented pianiste
is about to have a farewell concert in Chester, previous to her
taking up her permanent residence in this town.
CHESTER THEATRE.--Mr. Raymond has opened the
Theatre Royal, Chester, for a short season. The Liver
season commences on the 24th December. The interior is
undergoing a decorative process, which will render it a perfect
bijou of a theatre.

SERIOUS AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Saturday night,
Nov. 27th, as two of the gamekeepers, in the employ of Sir
Wm. Stanley on his estate at Stourton, were taking their
nightly roundsg they discerned several persons near the
preserves, and with great courage instantly seized two of
them, the others making their escape ; a desperate struggle
ensued, in which the keepers got severely wounded ; they
were at once taken to Mr. Gorst's surgery, New Ferry, where
every assistance was rendered them, and we were glad to find
them sufficiently recovered to attend before the Rev. R. M.
Fielden and J. D. Case, Esq., at Birkenhead, on Friday
last, when they identified two of the men who had been taken
up on suspicion. The culprits were tined £5 each, and, in
default of payment, were committed for two months to hard
labour.

THE NEW CHURCH IN WARWICK-STREET.—In our
last we noticed the consecration by the Lord Bishop of
Chester, of the new church in Warwick-street, erected and
endowed by the munificence of Mr. John Gladstone. We
have now the pleasure to state that on Sunday divine service
was celebrated, for the first time on the Sabbath, by the
Incumbent, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, a gentleman whose zeal
in his sacred calling is calculated to extend the blessings of
religion among the poor of that destitute neighbourhood.
The sermon of the rev. gentleman, in the forenoon, was a
rapid sketch of the nature and duties of the Christian minis-
try, illustrated by the character and labours of St. Paul. The
text was selected from the Second Epistle to the Corinthians,
4th chapter and sth verse :—" We preach not ourselves but
Christ Jesus the Locd, and ourselves your servants for Jesus'
sake." From these words he established two propositions—
first, that Christ Jesus must be affectionately set forth as the
cause of our receiving forgiveness at the hands of Almighty
God ; and next as the cause of all the holiness and good
works which we possess, the cause of that holiness without
which no one shall see the Lord. Having amplified and
proved these propositions, the rev. gentleman magnified his
calling, at the same time showing that the ministers of the
church of Christ are servants for Jesus' sake, in offering up
prayer and praise, in administering the rite of baptism, in
the preparation for confirmation, in the solemnization of holy
matrimony, in the visitation of the sick, and in the adminis-
tration of the sacrament. In conclusion, he supplicated the
prayers of the congregation in his behalf, to perform these
services to their edification. There was an excellent atten-
dance on both the services of the day. The church is a hand-
some structure, very commodious, and contains an excellent

organ.
COMMITMENTS.—At the Police-court yesterday, a woman
named Eliza Smith was placed at the bar, charged with
robbing Daniel Jones, of two half-crowns. The complain-
ant said he was talking to the prisoner in Tithebarn-street,
when he missed a half-crown from out of his waistcoat
pockets. He felt the other pocket, in which he had placed
another half-crown, but thought he felt it safe. A police-
officer came up, and apprehended the prisoner, in whose
possession he found two bad penny pieces. On asking the
complainant to look at his remaining half-crown, he took
out a bad penny, similar to those found in the prisoner's
hand, and which he had mistaken for his half-crdwn. The
prisoner afterwards dropped a half-crown in the street, which
the officer picked up. She was committed for trial.—
Dorothy Owens was charged with stealing three shawls,
&c., from the shop of Mr. Theodore Clarke. The prisoner
had been in the service of the complainant, and being sus-
pected by him ; he had her box searched, when he dis-
covered some of the property. It was also proved that she
had pledged two shawls with one pawnbroker, and one with
another. She was committed for trial.—Alice Irvin was
charged with receiving a dozen of articles of wearing apparel,
the property of Mary Ann Park, knowing them to be stolen.
The complainant had sent a little girl with the things to be
mangled in Comer-street. The prisoner's daughter met the
girl, gave her a halfpenny to go on a pretended errand for
her, and meantime made off with the articles. From the de-
scription given of her she was traced to Preston-street, and
t :he articles were found concealed under the bed, It ap-
t eared that the prisoner must have been cognizant of their
t eing in the house, bat she denied all knowledge of them.
S he was committed for trial. Her two daughters, who had
al 'so been taken into custody, were discharged.
CAPTURE OF JAMES KIRKIIAM.—Our readers will recol-
let I that a short time ago James Roberts and James Kirk-
ha m were charged before
to Sir E. S. Walker, with stealing
soi ne poultry belonging Mr. John Snelson, of Poulton.
Th ey were detected by some watchers belonging to the Mar-
qui a of Westminster, when after a desp rate
struggle they
sue seeded in securing Roberts, hut Kit ham eluded their
vig (lance. Since then the police have be actively engaged
on the look out for him, and we are happy to say that
thr. 'ugh the vigilance of our special h h constable, Mr.
Pal mer, assisted by Douglas and Grov , he was taken at
Tra nmere, and from thence sent to the safe keeping of Go-
ver. ttor.Dunstan, to take his trial with his worthy partner.

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THE EUTEILPEON.—A very fine euterpeon is to be disposed
of at the Belvidere Hotel very shortly. It is one of the finest
We have heard for some time. Those who are lucky should
try for it.
DEAFNESS.—Mrs. Gardner has effected some very re-
markable cures since her sojourn here this season, and we
have been assured by those who have been under her care,
that her mode of treatment is not only very efficacious, but
does not entail pain upon the patient. Mrs. Gardner has
been highly spoken of at several of the London institutions.
DANCING.—Mr. Harwood's petits soirees dansantes are
now commencing. They afford a most agreeable mode of
Passing an evening. Mr. Harwood, as a teacher of the art
of dancing, may be considered as inferior to none in this
town.

SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.—We beg to call attention to
an advertisement in our columns of this day, respecting
scriptural education in a densely populated and depraved
district. The plan therein proposed to raise the sum required,
aPpears to us so excellent and simple a one, that we sincerely
trust it will speedily be taken in hand, and completed before
the expiration of 1841.

DEAD BODY OF A FEMALE FOUND IN THE CANAL.—
On Thursday morning last one of the porters of the Leeds
and Liverpool Canal Company found the dead body of a
woman floating in the canal, opposite to the wharf in Great
Howard-street. It turned out to be the body of Catharine
Mitchell, who had been on Wednesday relieved by the Board
of Guardians, and who was to have gone on Friday to prove
her settlement.

, ACCIDENT AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.—On Tuesday even-
as Mr. Wells, the equestrian, was delineating the
Homeward-bound ;Sailor, the horse accidentally fell upon its
head, and such was the force of the concussion that he died
almost instantly. It was ascertained that the neck was dis-
located. Fortunately, Mr. Wells was uninjured, indeed his
escape was miraculous.

THE PRINCE Of WALES is to be "THE PET OF THE
PETTICOATS," according to His Royal Highness's Nativity,
by Raphael in the Prophetic Altnanack, in which little work
for 1842 it appears at full length, together with 108 pages of
Useful and very amusing articles, illustrated with a large Co-
loured Hieroglyphic on Zinc, and an exquisite Steel Plate
Called " The Magic Mirror." The succesful position of
Itaphael's Almanack has enabled the proprietor so to improve
it as to merit the appellation of being " the best" of the
smaller annuals. On Winter evenings, " the LAUGHABLE
WHEEL of PYTHAGORAS" and the CABILISTIC NUMBERS ;
and, in leisure moments, the poetical extracts afforded light
and gratification. (See Advt.)

AN OLD OFFENDER.-At the Police-court yesterday, a
Young man named Robert Simpson, (before known as an
Offender,) was charged by a respectable-looking female, with
having on Sunday morning, while she was going along
llotham-street, torn a shawl from her back, which he threw
into a cellar hole, where it was afterwards found by a police-
officer. The case was proved, and he was committed to gaol
for three months.

, SMITH'S ALMANACS.—Mr. Smith, of South Castle-street,
has just published two very neat little almanacs for Liver-
Pool. One is termed the " Miniature edition," the other
the " Commercial Almanac' These useful little works
contain all the local information usually conveyed in such
Publications. They are very neatly printed, and of a most
convenient size either for the desk, the office, or the pocket.
Amongst the contents are bankers' lists, the corporation
lists, lists of committees, fairs, railway time tables, the mi-
nistry, town council, &c. &c., besides the calendar. The
large: edition is very full of information.
THEATRE-ROYAL.--II will be remembered, we hope, that
Mr. Lynne's farewell benefit will take place to-morrow even-
ing. His bill is attractive. Besides the comedy of "The
Poor Gentleman," the interlude of " The King's Gardener,"
and the afterpiece of "The Robber's Wife," an Address on
the Drama, written by a gentleman of Liverpool for the occa-
sion, will be spoken.—Mr. Holl and Miss tionner make their
,appeal together on Friday night. We perceive a piece written
by Mr. Holl will be played for the first time, called " Wap-
Ping Old Stairs," founded on the favourite ballad of that
name.

HEARNE tl. STOWELL.—The statement which we gave as
to the effect of the decision in this case on the costs of the
action, we find is not strictly correct, though we gave it upon
good authority. The following remarks are from the Man-
chester Courier of Saturday last, and are probably grounded
on information furnished by Mr. Stowell's solicitor :—" The
effect of the decision is, that on the first count of the declara-
tion, both parties will have to pay their own costs ; whilst on
the second count, the plaintiff will have to pay the costs on
both sides. A contemporary—learned in every point of law
that could possibly arise—in commenting upon the decision,
says, with something like a sneer, by it indeed Mr. Stowell
escapes the payment of his opponent's costs. Mr. Stowell
we apprehend escapes more than this. He also escapes pay-
ing a part of his own costs, for, as we have said, whilst on
the first count—setting forth the witten statement—the ver-
dict was for the plaintiff, both sides pay their own costs in
consequence of the arrest of judgement; on the second count
—setting for the words spoken—the verdict was for the de-
fendant, and consequently the plaintiff is saddled with the
costs on both sides. We may observe also, in reply to our
learned contemporary, that although the court has not de-
cided that there was nothing libellous in the attack upon Mr.
Hearne,' the counsel for Mr. Hearne failed to satisfy the
court that there was anything libellous !"
THE ALBION'S EXCLUSIVE CLAIM TO " SKETCH" THE
TOWN-COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.—The " person" who "does
the paragraphs " in the Albion conceives, it would appear,
that he is entitled to enjoy a monopoly of the privilege of
sketching the sayings and doings of the council ; and that
ice, who are not blessed with so lofty an opinion of our
humble selves, are not entitled to look in even through the
keyhole, and especially if we take liberties with such lumi-
"us individuals as Mr. Gibraltar Bright and Mr. Alderman
Evans. Really this is anything but " liberal" on the part
of the Albion, or the " person " who did the paragraph to
which we allude. We are not at all aware that we have
Poached upon what was his exclusive manor. We have ap-
propriated none of his deities, or imitated very closely his
mode of paving them worship ; and although it is quite pos-
sible that he and they would gladly have this particular
mode of noticing their sayings and doings all upon their own
side, we are not satisfied that there is any. necessity that we
should indulge them. We shall be as faithful chroniclers,
shall Albion; always be very cautious in handling such delicate and
Precious wares as Mr. Gibraltar Bright abtl-Mr.•Evans;who
is brighter still, and for whose safety our contemporary ma-
nifests so tender and motherly a care.

ADELPHI CONCERT.—Mrs. Palmer, a very accomplished
musician and singer, gives a concert this evening in the
Adelphi concert-room. The following is the programme.
It will be seen that it is a judicious selection :—Part 1. Duet,
" Le rant des Vaches," Mrs. J. Palmer and Miss Cecilia
Palmer. Song, " Sweetly o'er my senses stealing," Mrs. J.
Palmer. Song, "The Night," Mr. Davies. Variations bril-
lantes sur le Trio Favori du Pre aut Clercs, Mr. E. F. Smith.
Duet, " When thy bosom," Mrs. J. Palmer and Mr. T.
Higgins. •Song, " I'll be no submissive wife," Miss Cecilia
Palmer. Song, " Tell me my heart," Mrs. J. Palmer, ac-
companied on the guitar by Signor M. Parayso. Glee,
" Hark ! 'tis the Indian drum." Part 2. Duet, " Giorno
D'Orrore," Mrs. J. Palmer and Signor M. Parayso. Song,
" Woman," Mr. Davies. Brilliant fantasia on favourite
subjects, from " Les Huguenots," Mr. E. F. Smith. Song,
Tyrant, soon burst thy chains," Mrs. J. Palmer. Song,
" Wind of the Winter Night,'; Mr. W. Holden, accompa-
nied by himself on the piano-forte. Duet, " The meeting,"
Mrs. J. Palmer and Miss Cecilia Palmer. Song, " Come
Where the splendid harvest moon," Miss Foster, pupil of
Mr. G. Eyton. Glee, " The Watchman."
INQUEST.—An inquest was held yesterday, before P. F.
Curry, Esq., on view of the body of James Rice, where
death, according to the statement of his brother, had been
hastened by his treatment on board ship, and hence the in-
quiry. Direm Cook, captain of the schooner• Cornelia'', of
Glasgow, said that tire deceased was one of the hands. They
sailed from Glasgow on Saturday week, and arrived here on
Friday morning, at three o'clock. The deceased was well
when he came on board, but in about seven hours after leav-
ing port, complained of tooth-ache, and afterwards of a sore
throat, so that he was not able to swallow. He was given
up on Friday morning, to his brother, who took him to his
lodgings in Jamaica-street. Daniel Rice, tire brother of the
deceased, said, that he found his brother, who was 29 years
of age, in the forecastle of the vessel, in a state of insensibi-
lity. Be assisted him on shore, and took him home in a
coach. Mr. Leech, surgeon, of tire dispensary, said, he was
called in, and found the deceased at eleven o'clock , in a
state of great exhaustion, as he conjectured, from a want of
food. His throat was swelled externally. He (witness) ad-
ministered such remedies as he deemed proper, and called on
him several times throughout the day, but he became much
worse, and died soon after nine o'clock the same night.
Witness could not account for death. On a postmortem ex-
amination, he found a large deep-seated abscessin the throat,
on both sides of the windpipe, extending to the chest, and
pressing on the gullet. He ascribed his death to the general
irritation of the system, caused by the abscess, and which
was the result of natural causes. The mate of tire vessel
was called at the request of the deceased's brother, to speak
as to his treatment; but said that the deceased could swallow
nothing but water. with which molasses was mixed for him ;
that he was offered everything in the vessel, including broth,
&c., but could not touch it. The deceased's brother com-
plained that the captain left him so long in the wet forecastle
after his arrival in the riven—The jury returned a verdict to
the effect that the deceased died from natural causes.
LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.

Last evening the half-yearly meeting of the members and
friends of the Rodney-street and Abercromby wards branch
of the Operative Protestant Association was held in the
school-room adjoining St. Mark's church, and was nume-
rously attended. The Rev. B. A. Marshall took the chair,
and the proceedings were opened with prayer. He com-
menced by observing that the meetings of this association
were held too seldom, but he hoped soon after the commence-
ment of the new year to be able to remedy that defect by
Twine lectures on Protestantism every month or six weeks.
his announcement elicited loud applause. He next ob-
served that we had much reason to be thankful for the
changes that had recently taken place in public affairs, both
as respected the administration of the country and that of
our local municipal council. It should be recollected that
power always brought with it great responsibility; and he
could not understand why men who loudly professed to hold
fast ky principle should consent to fritter it away by yielding
to the doctrine of expediency. When a man had a duty to
perform, it was not for him to stop to calculate the conse-
quences. This remark had been suggested to him by reading
the debate which took place in the town council on Wednes-
day last upon the education question. The reverend gentle-
man then earnestly contended against the doctrine of expe-
diency on this_ question. " Principle and duty," he ob-

served, say, " I know no law of God, therefore I will not
allow any law of man, that tells me to inculcate error,
directly or indirectly. He then glanced at the evils of Pusey-
ism as opposed to evangelical and protestant truth, ;and pow—
erfully described the efforts making by that body to disse-
minate their sentiments through the press since the discon-
tinuance of their " Tracts for the times ". They bad bought
over the Times, the Morning Post, the British Critic, the
British Magazine, the Church Intelligencer, the Irish Ec-
clesiastical Gazette, the Anglo-Catholic Library, the
Quarterly Review, and they had even attempted to buy the
London Standard ; they had thus a most powerful agency
in their behalf, and great efforts were requisite to counteract
the evil tendency of such principles.—Lieut. Tracey, R.N.,
next addressed the meeting in a long and energetic speech,
and expressed the disappointment felt by the protestant ope-
ratives at the delay which bad taken place in placing the cor-
poration schools upon a sound Scriptural basis. He trusted,
however, that the Bible would speedily be found there, and
that the conservatives would thus vindicate their principles.
The gallant officer also entered upon a review of the debate
of Wdnesday last, in the course of which he exposed the
hollow pretences of the liberals, and refuted the positions
advanced by Mr. Aikin, with great effect. He concluded
with some general observations upon the protestant cause,
Urging its claims upon all classes by a great variety of con-
siderations which we have not space to enumerate. Several
other gentlemen subsequently addressed the meeting ; and
after the transaction of the ordinary business of the associa-
tion, the proceedings terminated.
MARRIAGE IN A WRONG NAME.—Dr. Lushington has
lately decided that a marriage, in pursuance of bans, in
which a wrong Christian name was given to the husband,
with the knowledge of the wife, was void, and must be en-
tirely annulled. The fact of there being no children was
alluded to, as if the court would not have so decreed had
there been issue.

VINE CULTURE IN AUSTRALIA.—In Australia the vine-
culture produces wines of the finest flavour. The champagne
grape, and fifty other species of vines from the districts of
Prance, flourish luxuriantly.

LAMB' CHARITY,

A general meeting of the trustees and subscribers to the
Ladies' Charity was held in the Blue-coat Hospital on Fri-
day, for the purpose of considering the expediency of adding
wards to the charity for the reception of difficult and danger-
ous cases of parturition. Several ladies and gentlemen at-
tended.

The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS, M.A., took the chair
shortly after two o'clock, and explained at some length the
causes which had led to the holding of the meeting. An in-
stitution had, he said, been proposed to be erected in Caz-
neau-street, the object of which was to take into wards built
for the purpose those cases which were peculiar to married
women at the time of their confinement. The same object
had been proposed and treated of among the ladies of the
charity some time before. It was suggested to them by the
medical gentlemen who attended the charity, and who had
published, in the form of a pamphlet, their reasons for think-
ing it a desirable measure. At that time several ladies had
done him (the chairman) the honour of consulting him on
the subject, and he then thought that the object was to have
a regular lying-in hospital. To any such measure as this he
was both then as well as now, equally inclined to object, be-
cause he thought there were some powerful reasons for ob-
jecting to a regular lying-in hospital. It was unnecessary for
him to go into those reasons upon the present occasion, in-
asmuch as no such proposal was before the meeting ; but
there having been a great deal of lukewarmness at the time,
the matter was never brought before the subscribers at large.
It was merely brought before the committee, by whom it
was left in abeyance. It was neither determined on nor was
it positively put aside. It was under these circumstances
that certain gentlemen, with the best possible motives, wish-
ing, no doubt, to provide for what they considered a neces-
sary want among the lower orders, thought of bringing for-
ward a new institution for receiving cases of parturition.
Two of those gentlemen, Mr. Cropper and Mr. Battie, had
waited on him, and when they stated what their object was,
he certainly replied at once that he thought it a very injudi-
cious thing to establish a new institution, by which money
would necessarily have to be wasted, when what was wanted
might so easily be created in the present institution ; and,
in consequence of what had since taken place, the matter had
been brought before the present meeting for discussion and
determination. It no longer seemed to be a question whe-
ther there should be any wards for the reception of the cases
in question, but whether it should be taken up by the Ladies'
Charity or by others. The chairman went on to give his rea-
sons for thinking a multiplication of charities a great evil,
and concluded by saying that if the meeting should ;resolve
upon adding wards to the charity for the reception of the
cases in question, they would have taken away the excuse
and necessity for establishing another institution.

Mr. MARRIOT proposed the first resolution, to the effect
that it was desirable that the wards should be added.
Mr. HEYWORTH seconded it in a speech of some length,
and after some observations from Mr. JOSEPH B. YATES, it
was carried unanimously.

Mr. ADAM HODGSON proposed the second resolution, to
the effect that provision be made at present for six patients,
and that they be admitted.
Mr. THOMPSON seconded it.—Carried.

Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE proposed the third resolu-
tion, that it was necessary to obtain an additional amount of
subscriptions. He said he had been given to understand
that the accommodation proposed for six patients would incur
an increased expenditure of about £2OO a-year.
Mr. ROBINSON seconded the third resclution.

Mr. M ARRYAT proposed that a communication be sent to
the secretary of the new institution, stating that the present
meeting had adopted the plan of having additional wards for
the reception of cases of parturition.
Mr. A. HODGSON seconded the proposition.

Mr. HEYWORTH proposed the Thanks of the meeting to
the medical gentlemen of the charity, for the able report they
had published, showing the necessity that existed for having
additional wards for the treatment of cases of parturition.

Mr. THOMPSON seconded it.
Mr. BMNBRIGGE, M.D., returned thanks for the vote on
his own behalf, and that of his medical colleagues.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting
separated.

NEW ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD IN HONOUR
OF CAMBRIA AND TWO WELSH PROFESSOR.
SHIPS AT THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES.

On Friday evening :ast a meeting of the Welsh inhabitants
of Liverpool was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street, for
the purpose of presenting congratulatory addresses to the
Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, on the birth
of a Prince of Wales ; immediately after which another
meeting of the same parties was held, for the purpose of
petitioninr, the Queea to institute a new order of knighthood,
to be called " The Royal Order of St. David," and to found
two Welsh and Celtic professorships at the English univer-
sities.

John Richards, Esq., was voted to the chair.
The first resolution, embodying the main object of the
meeting, was moved by Mr. John Roberts, of Bedford-
street, :and seconded by Mr. David Lewis, of the Branch
Bank of England ; and carried unanimously.
The second resolution was moved by the Rev. D. James,
of Kirkdale, and seconded by Mr. Alderman Griffiths.
And it was unanimously resolved,—that the following peti-
tion to the Queen be adopted. and signed on behalf of the
meeting and the Welsh inhabitants of Liverpool, by the
chairman and an enlarged committee .
"To HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, VICTORIA, QUEEN
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN
IRELAND

" MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,—We, your Ma-
jesty's most loyal and devoted subjects, natives of the princi-
pality of Wales, resident in Liverpool and its vicinity, in
public meeting assembled, having already expressed our
ardent attachment to your Majesty's person and throne, in
our united address of sincere congratulation on the birth of
a Prince of Wales, venture now most respectfully to approach
your Majesty with our national petition.
We desire most dutifully to submit to your Majesty, that
the birth of a Prince and heir apparent to the Crown, uniting
in himself the royal blood of England, Scotland, and Wales,
is an event so pregnant with beneficial issues to the British
empire as to deserve to be especially marked in the annals of
our country by the institution of a new order of knighthood.
"The Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order having with the
independent sceptre reverted from the British throne to the
independent Sovereign of Hanover, makes the present a
most fitting opportunity for the institution of a new order of
knighthood in Britain. And as there exist the noble Orders
of the Garter and the Bath for England, the Ancient Order
of the Thistle for Scotland, the Distinguished Order of St.
Patrick for Ireland, the Order of St. Michael and St.
George for the United States of the lonian Islands and
Malta, we feel assured that your Majesty will see fit, in
gracious consideration of the just, but long-neglected, claims
of the principality, that the new order shall be designated
the Royal Order of St. David.'
" And we humbly pray, that a new order of knighthood,
bearing this name, in commemoration of the birth of your
Majesty's illustrious son, the Prince of Wales, may at this
time be instituted. _ _

"AND MAY IT LIKEWISE PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,—
We, your Majesty's petitioners beg further to represent,
that, as by the birth of this Prince his august parents are
become peculiarly endeared to the Welsh nation, it is our
anxious wish that some appropriate memorials of their illus-
trious names may be identified with the future history and
literary advantages of our native land.
" It is with deep regret we observe that the want of some
provision for the cultivation of Welsh literature at the
English universities has been long felt by the Principality as
a serious evil. The Welshmen who resort to those semina-
ries for their education are left without the means of con-
tinuing their acquaintance with their native tongue ; and
destined as most of them are to fill important stations in
their own country, either in the magistracy, in the law, or in
the church, their imperfect knowledge of the vernacular
language renders them, through life, less efficient than it is
desirable they should be, and operates very prejudicially
against the administration of justice on the one hand, and
the interests of true religion on the other. - . .

" But, irrespective of this, we are deliberately of opinion,
that if the Welsh language had long ceased to be spoken in
the Principality, its cultivation as a dead language would be
deemed indispensable to the successful prosecution and ad-
vancement of national literature in Britain. As an impor-
tant branch and pure representative of the ancient Celtic,
the original language of Europe, it supplies the key to the
import of the names originally given to mountains, plains,
rivers, and cities on the Continent and in the British Isles;
and proffers to the student of antiquities, and to the writer
of history, advantages the want of which no other acquire-
ments could possibly supply.
" In confirmation of this opinion, we beg to quote the fol-
lowing passage from a speech delivered by the late lamented
Bishop Heber, at a congress of Welsh bards at Wrexham :
' Though not myself a Welshman, and though I have not the
good fortune to be able to appreciate any otherwise than
through the medium of a translation, the treasures of your
elder bards, I cannot at all forget that it is from them Gray
and Southey have borrowed some of the most striking poetry
which my own language contains. Nor can I forget that in
the pedigree of almost all existing tongues, and in the his-
tory of all civilised nations, a knowledge of your antiquities
is necessary to a certain extent, whether to the philologist or
the antiquary, inasmuch as they were your ancestors who
first colonised the widest and fairest regions of Europe;
and who have left behind them, intermixed with the lan-
guages of their successors, and impressed on the most stri-
king features of nature from Caucasus to Denmark, the
traces of their previous occupancy. Saxon as lam myself.
and proud of my nation, I am certainly very far from bla-
ming—l am naturally disposed to rejoice in—the pains which
we have taken to preserve and illustrate the most remote
and barren of the Gothic dialects. But I cannot perceive
why the Mabinogion and the Gododin do not call for editions
equally splendid with those of the Icelandic sages, and why
there should not be a WELSH as well as an Anglo-Saxon
professor at ONE OR BOTH OF THE UNIVERSITIES.'
" The desideratum so disinterestedly expressed in behalf
of our country at the close of the above passage, by the dis-
tinguished Bishop Heber, is that for which we at present
humbly petition,—convinced that the foundation of two
Welsh professorships at the English Universities, to be
called respectively The Victoria Professorship of Welsh
and Celtic Literature at Oxford,' and The Albert Pro-
fessorship of Welsh and Celtic Literature at Cambridge,'
will best associate the name of your Majesty, and that of
your royal consort, with the future welfare of the country
from which the Prince, your son, derives his highest title.
" We feel less diffident in submitting this request as re•
garde the University of Oxford inasmuch as your Majesty
has graciously intimated to parliament your royal will and
intention to found two new professorships at that university,
to be competently endowed by the annexation of two canon-
ries in the chapter of Christ Church, when such canonries
shall become vacant. And your Majesty will be aware, that
the deanery and chapter of Christ Church derive £2,500
annually from rectorial tithes in Welsh parishes ; so that
one of the new professorships may well be spared, as it is
justly claimed by your Majesty's petitioners, for the benefit
of the principality of Wales.
" But with respect to the endowment of a Welsh and Cel-
tic professorship at Cambridge, we beg to throw ourselves
on your Majesty's royal bounty, in the assurance that, as
the name of Albert cannot be less dear to your Majesty than
to your Majesty's devoted subjects of Cambrian blood, it
will please your Majesty to order that such a monument as
we have indicated shall be erected, to transmit his name to
posterity as the benefactor of that people whose national at-
tachment to his illustrious son, the Prince of Wales, defies
all description.
" And your Majesty's petitioners will ever pray, that Al-
mighty God may vouchsafe to your Majesty a long and pros-
perous reign, accompanied by every domestic comfort—may
bless your royal consort with health and grace—and continue
to spare and protect the infant Prince, until he shall ascend
the throne of his ancestors, amidst the undivided loyalty and
enthusiastic acclamations of the millions of his subjects."
Signed, on behalf of the meeting and the Welsh people
in Liverpool, by the chairman and committee.

NARROW ESCAPE OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER AVON.
—Her Majesty's steamer Avon, was nearly lost on the rocks
under Steel Point, near Flamborough Lighthouse, on Sunday
night week, during the dreadful hurricane from the south.
The steamer got on the rocks in the early part of the evening.
As soon as she struck signal guns were fired for assistance,
as well as blue lights exhibited, which being perceived by the
Manchester steamer, Captain Polwart, and the captain of
another large steam-ship, belonging to the London and Leith
trade, they bore down, and on coming up to the Avon attempts
were made to tow her off, but in consequence of the danger-
ous condition of the rocks it was impossible to get ropes on
board. At length, after heaving the guns overboard, and
also part of the provisions, she got off, but it is supposed her
bottom sustained much damage.

INVITATION TO UNITED PRAYER, FOR THE
OUTPOURING OP THE HOLY SPIRIT,
OY SkTURDAY, Ist JANUARY, 1842,
Being the First Day of the New Year.

DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD,-

The kind Providence of God has bro.ught us to that inte-
resting season at which, for some years past, I have had the
privilege of inviting you to unite ON THE FIRST DAY OF
THE NEW YEAR, IN A GENERAL CONCERT FOR PRAYER,
FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

The New Year commences on SATURDAY, JANUARY Ist,
1842, and will thus afford the opportunity of engaging with
increased fervour in this devotional service : for, the follow-
ing day being the Holy Sabbath, the spirit of prayer granted
on the Saturday, we may trust, will be still more abundantly
given on the Lord's Day, and thus a double blessing be ob-
tained. May the Lord of his great goodness and tender
mercy thus favour us. May He make it a Season of great
refreshment to every one who engages in this concert ; and
of joy in Heaven over many, many sinners, brought to re-
pentance. _ _

We may be the more encouraged to expect a great blessing
from the very gracious answer given to the united prayers
His people offered on the first day of the present year.
It may be in your recollection that in my last Invitation,
exclusively of those reasons which had shown to all who
united in this concert, the unspeakable blessings connected
with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, three special calls for
fervent prayer for " the promise of the Father," were then
presented to us. Ist, The state of the Jews ; 2d, The condi-
tion of the Eastern Churches, and 3d, The Great Enterprise
then just going forth for the extinction of the Slave Trade,
and for the general Civilization of Africa.
Each of these important subjects were commended to the
earnest prayers of those Christians who assembled on Janu-
ary Ist, 1811.

We have only to refer to those delightful events which
have since taken place to be convinced that our God does
indeed hear and answer prayer.
Instead of the scattered remnant of Judah being as they
were last year at Damascus and Rhodes, subject to the most
grievous persecutions, the Lord has so inclined the hearts of
his people towards them, that Jerusalem is becoming the
centre of union, in which Protestant states, holding the same
faith, though varying in their modes of worship, may act
together in harmonious concord. The King of Prussia, with
that Christian liberality which does his Majesty so much ho-
nour, has given a considerable sum towards the endowment
of a Protestant Church in Jerusalem ; whilst our Gracious
Queen has used her influence with the Ottoman Porte to ob-
tain an official promise that the Turkish authorities in Jeru-
salem shall not oppose the erection of this church although it
be built on mount Zion itself! In connexion with this royal
movement, the Spiritual Heads of our Church have conse-
crated the Rev. M. S. Alexander, a converted Israelite, and
an ordained minister of our Church, to be the Bishop of the
United Church of England and Ireland, In Jerusalem, with
an episcopal jurisdiction, extending to Egypt, Abyssinia,
Chaldea, and Syria. Surely these events may remind us at
least, of those animating predictions, " I have set Watchmen
upon thy walls, 0 Jerusalem, which shall never hold their
peace day nor night." " Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers,
and Queens thy nursing Mothers." "The sons of strangers
shall build up thy walls, and their Kings shall minister unto
thee."

Whilst these pleasing occurrences regarding the Jews have
taken place, the following answers to the prayers offered for
the revival of the Eastern Churches have been vouchsafed :
A society has been formed for the endowment of Colonial
Bishoprics, and, amongst others, for a Bishop of Malta,
who is to have the oversight of the Lord's cause on the coasts
of the Mediterranean. Five Oriental Prelates, namely, one
Patriarch and four Metropolitans, have written to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, requesting
protection and assistance. The Druses of Mount Lebanon
have applied to her Majesty's government to obtain, under
their sanction, such means of instruction and civilization
as In:ty also best secure their becoming sincere christians.
Ile Coptic Patriarch has consecrated as Abuna, or Bishop
of Abyssinia, an Egyptian youth, who was educated by a
Missionary of our Church; and several of the Coptic clergy
have applied to our Missionaries for the Holy Scriptures,
and other religious books, and have held friendly communi-
cations with them upon spiritual subjects.
The expedition to the River Niger has since sailed, and by
the divine blessing has reached the shores of Africa, after so
prosperous a voyage, that not one case of severe illness oc-
curred. After spending the Sabbath at Sierra Leone, and
taking with them several persons as interpreters, they pro-
ceeded to the Niger, accompanied by the prayers of a very
numerous congregation of converted Africans, who assem-
bled at Free Town for this purpose.
These great blessings the God of all goodness has bestowed
since our last concert. Nor can it be forgotten that among
many other tokens of divine mercy in this year, our Arch-
bishops and several of our Bishops have voluntarily become
the Patron, and Vice-Patrons, of our Church Missionary
and Jews Societies; thus removing whatever scruples any
persons might have had in assisting those excellent institu-
tions in fulfilling the command of our blessed Saviour, " that
repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his
name among all nations, BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM."
It is thus encouraged, my beloved Christian friends, that
I am once more privileged to invite you to join this union
for Prayer on the first day of the New Year ;—a year which
opens upon us as no previous year has done since the destruc-
tion of the second temple—A year in which a converted
Israelite will probably have arrived in the holy city, as the
spiritual representative of the United Protestant Church of
England and Ireland, and it may be, ere it closes, have con-
secrated the building in which prayers will be offered accord-
ing to the Liturgy of the Church of England ; the pure
word of God will be preached, and the Sacraments be duly
administered, according to Christ's ordinances ;—A year
also, when the nations who profess the faith of Christ are all
in amity with each other ; indeed, when the only part of the
world in which the sound of war is heard, is on the distant
coasts of China ; A year, still further marked by this
favourable circumstance, that God in his providence has
granted to her Majesty so strong a government, that what-
ever plans, dependent upon legislative enactment, they may
propose, for promoting the spiritual benefit of our own
country or the general good of mankind, they will, if the
Lord permit, have the power to carry their measures.
At such a crisis, what language can express the vast im-
portance of her Majcsty's counsellors being under the special
-guidance and direction of the God of all grace ?—of His
granting to them the spirit of wisdom and godly fear—that
heavenly wisdom which will enable them to see the high po-
sition in which He who is " King of Kings and Lord of
Lords" has placed our country ? That such is the powerful
influence the Almighty has granted to our Protestant Queen,
who, and her infant son, our Protestant Prince of Wales,
may God long preserve ! that through the instrumentality of
her Majesty's government, the most distant regions may re-
ceive unspeakable blessings.
Surely the sincere followers of our Lord, in whatever land
they may at present sojourn, bearing this in mind, will entreat
the outpouring of the Spirit upon our Rulers in Church and
State.

This earnest prayer is more loudly called for from the pe-
culiar activity of the church of Rome at this moment. For,
laying aside all disguise, we behold a prelate of that church
publicly advocating a union between the church of England
and the church of Rome, and using this as one of his strong-
est reasons, that such a union is mach desired by many of
our clergy. Alas ! that there should be even one amongst us
who should have given the least countenance to such a charge,
or one who should have so lamentably departed from his
ordination vows, as a minister of our Protestant church.
Let, however, these unhappy delusions, and the artful so-
phistries used to entrap the younger clergy and other mem-
bers of our church, rouse us from our slumbers ; make us
more earnest in prayer that the Lord would in his tender
mercy restore those who have fallen, preserve the simple
from being taken in the snare, keep us stedfast in the faith
of our Protestant forefathers, and make us willing rather to
lose the last drop of our blood, than neglect the solemn warn-
ing given to us from Heaven, " Come out of her my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not
of her plagues : ' above all, that " The Mighty God" would
grant that when " the enemy shall come in like a flood, the
Spirit of the Lord may lift up a standard against him."
There are other very important subjects which I would
gladly notice, as calling for special prayer ; but this address
!Noires brevity. Referring, therefore, to invitations given

n former years, in which many of these subjects are set

forth, and requesting you still to bear upon your hearts the
state of the Jews ; the condition of the eastern churches ; the
expedition to Africa ; the crisis in which Christendom is now
placed ; and the extention of the kingdom of our Lord, both
among ourselves and the unconverted Heathen.—Entreating
you to bear these and other interesting topics in remem-
brance, I would now affectionately invite all who love our
Lord Jesus Christ, in sincerity, TO COMMENCE THE NEW
YEAR BY UNITING IN THE GENERAL CONCERT FOR PRAYER
FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, ON SATUR-
DAY, THE IST OF JANUARY.

The following suggestions are respectfully offered to assist
those who are desirous of doing this.
Ist.—Let Christians follow the example of our blessed
Lord (Mark i. 35), who rose up a great while before day for
secret prayer. Let them thus secure the blessing of Him
who says, " pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy
Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
2d.—Let them call upon the Lord in their families, for his
Spirit to be poured upon themselves and their households,
their neighbours, their country, the ministers of the Lord,
the Churches of Christ, the remnant of scattered Judah, and
outcast Israel, and upon the gentile world.

3d.—Let the ministers of Lord afterwards privately
meet with their brethren of their own communion, in earnest
prayer for themselves, their flocks, the whole body of Christ,
and the world at large ; and then specially consult together
upon the most effectual means for hastening the coming of
the Lord's kingdom, and particularly for the continuance of
such a general concert for prayer, that the year may proceed
according to this devout commencement.
4th.—Where circumstances will admit of a morning ser-
vice, let the congregation be assembled, and in addition to
the appointed prayers and a suitable sermon, let all who are
devoutly disposed partake together of the supper of the
Lord ; or, _ _

sth.—As may be more convenient, let the whole congrega-
tion meet in the evening for public worship, and let an appro-
priate discourse be preached.
May the Lord accompany these means of grace, or such
others as may be adopted, with his abundant blessing. Oh !
may it indeed be a season of special refreshment from the
presence of the Lord.
Let this be the prayer of all who read this paper, and, as
the new year is now approaching, it would be a great kind-
ness if those who approve the object, and have influence
over the press, WOULD REPUBLISH AND CIRCULATE THIS
INVITATION, which any one, into whose hands it may fall,
has full permission to do.
Peace be with all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sin-
cerity.
Thus prays their affectionate brother and servant in the Lord,
JAMES HALDANE STEWART.
St. Bride's, Liverpool.

DARING ROBBERY.—Great sensation has been created in
Myerscough and the neighbourhood, in consequence of a
most daring and violent robbery having been committed in
Fencefoot-house, Myerscough, in the occupation of Mr.
Cottam, (a farmer,) his sister, a lad, (a farm servant,) who
having been more or less seriously injured, were bound hand
and foot and fastened into their chairs. The house stands
in a very lonely situation, at least three or four hundred yards
from any other. Mr. Cottam is an elderly man, of perhaps
65 years of age. On Saturday evening last, at about eight
o'clock, as he was just opening his door, intending to go out
to fodder the cattle, a body of eight men presented them-
selves before him. One Of them seized him by the breast
and thrust him back from the lobby, which was in darkness,
into the kitchen, others of the party telling him that if he
did not be quiet they would blow his brains out. The robbers
were armed. Mr. Cottam says he saw a double barrelled
blunderbuss, or large pistol, and also some smaller fire arms
amongst them. Considerable violence was used towards him,
and a great scuffle ensued. Mr. Cottam fought the men for
a full half hour before he was overpowered ; the flag flooring
of the kitchen was covered with blood. He was, however,
at last, fastened into a chair, after having been much cut and
otherwise injured by his ruffianly assailants. Mr. Cottam's
sister was also treated very roughly. The robbers having
left nothing unturned in their search after money tied the
hands of Mr. Cottam, his sister, and a boy, who lives with
them with catgut cord which they had taken with them and
fastened them into their chairs with halters and ropes. They
then decamped with money to the amount of about £lOO.
The boy after the robbers had left succeeded in gnawing the
catgut in two, and then released the old man and woman,
when information was immediately given of the robbery.
Six men had been taken into custody on suspicion of being
concerned in the robbery, but the case at present made out
is very slight indeed.